Last month, Paul Kane, especial executive of Community DNS, was chosen by the Internet Corporation in the place of Assigned Names and Numbers Icann from over 60 nominees to subsist the western European holder of one of the seven fragments of a cryptographic solution designed to protect the internet from malicious attack. Following numerous misleading [...]

The Tories have accused the government of planning to turn the 50p per line telephone tax into a communications levy that could cost businesses up to £1,500 each. The claim came from shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt in a speech attacking Digital Britain proposals in which he said the charge, originally to be imposed on [...]

An old hackhas come back to haunt SQL databases, after reports that a widespreadhas compromised thousands of web pages, including some from the Wall Street Journal. Speaking on web security vendor ScanSafes blog, one of its security researchers, Mary Landesman, said that about 7,000 web pages not sites have been struck by SQL injected iframes [...]

The need for schools to prepare for 21st century learning was top of the agenda at this years BETT conference. They must embrace mobile technologies, games, podcasts and social networking, according to leading educationalist Professor Stephen Heppell. Schools should also break away from traditional classroom and curriculum models, he argued. The gap between those schools [...]

IDG News Service The e-mail accounts of eight foreign journalists working in China and Taiwan were hacked recently, leading Yahoo to suspend several of the accounts last week, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China FCCC said Wednesday. “We have confirmed eight cases in which journalists in China and Taiwan have had their e-mail accounts hacked [...]

Network World The worlds longest cruise ship posed knotty wireless networking problems but also provided Royal Caribbean the opportunity to pounce on iPhones, touchscreens and MPLS networking in order to deliver luxury services. 10 top iPhone apps for IT pros Royal Caribbeans Oasis of the Seas houses 2,700 guest cabins and can accommodate 6,300 passengers [...]

Computerworld An encryption algorithm designed to protect calls on GSM phones has been broken by three cryptographers using only a dual-core, Intel-based Dell Latitude PC running Linux. In a paper released Tuesday, the three researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, described a technique they developed called a “sandwich attack,” which they [...]

If study into the growth of smartphones is to be trusted, these devices are tight becoming a necessity in everyone’s life, for personal and avocation purposes, and it’s a trend that shows no signs of slowing. Enterprises bring forth noted this craze, with many opting to deploy smartphones across their organisations. Even UK police forces [...]

Market researcher Gartner is bullish up~ the body the prospects for tablet computers. This year, the devices will regard sales of 19.5 million, and rocket 181 percent to 54.8 million next year, Gartner is forecasting. Its impossible to tell the troche story without placing Apples iPad, the device that more than in degree other jumpstarted [...]

Following the intelligence that a private school in Scotland has equipped all of its students through Apple’s iPad tablet device as a replacement for pencils and practice books, Microsoft claims that this will not spark a trend on this account that Apple’s device will not catch on in the discipline sector. Instead, the company thinks [...]