Would Bill Gates have aired Laptop Hunters?
Would Bill Gates have aired Laptop Hunters? – Apple 2.0: “‘Anyone who has taken time to dissect the Microsoft ads (as so many have), knows they’re full of holes big enough to drive a truck through.
‘Microsoft clearly knows this. The ads didn’t just accidentally end up being crafted in a way that’s quite misleading. The [...]
The Great Fen Project
The Great Fen Project is an internationally important habitat restoration scheme, aiming to recreate 37 square kilometres of wetland between Peterborough and Huntingdon by reconnecting Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen National Nature Reserves.
Funded partly by sponsorship and a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund it aims to combine nature conservation and management with tourism. By [...]
Monkshouse Primary School, Spalding. Summer Fair
I am reminded that Monkshouse Primary School annual summer fair is on Saturday 13th June 2009 starting at 12.00pm.
Everyone is welcome and there will be all the usual Summer Fair fun and games plus stalls to see.
Monkshouse Primary School is in Pennygate, Spalding. If you have any enquiries their telephone number is 01775 722006.
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News Web sites to charge for content. Good luck with that.
Murdoch: Web sites to charge for content: “”
I recently cancelled our Sky satellite subscription (Sky is owned by News Corporation) because I didn’t see the wisdom of paying for a TV service and then having to sit through some 15 – 20 minutes of adverts in every hour.
Now Murdoch is saying he expects News Corporation [...]
The DOJ looks into whether Google is a monopoly
Is Google a monopoly
Some interesting points are raised in this article, one being that Google is a natural monopoly. It got where it is by being skilful and downright good at providing an easy to use search tool. Users are not coerced into using Google, there is no charge for using it’s search engine. [...]
Conficker hype obscures sneaky botnet growth
Conficker hype obscures sneaky botnet growth • The Register: “”
The cyber bad guys have taken control of 12 million new IP addresses in the first quarter of 2009. That’s 12 million compromised Windows PC’s that can be corralled into a worldwide botnet to send out spam.
Some of that junk mail will be punting the usual [...]
Is there such a thing as a safe web browser?
The Time of Alternative Browser Innocence is Over:
Simply switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox or some other web browser may not be the panacea for all web based attacks it once was.
Keeping your web browser up to date is however the best form of defence.
“An interesting new paper on how different web browsers do security [...]
Read moreWindows usage down, OSX, iPhone and Linux up.
Windows’ continuing loss of web share is primarily to the benefit of Mac OS X, though Linux and mobile platforms are also picking up share.
Almost 88 percent of web users use Windows, as measured by Net Applications, but it’s on a steady downward trend.
In April 2008, Windows’ share was 91.58 percent. By April 2009, that [...]