When I pop into my local, I always have the same thing to drink. I don’t go that often (honestly,) but the regular staff see me coming through the door and pour it without even asking. I love cooking and I always use the same, large sauté pan, even if there are only a small […]

Android is now the most popular operating system in the world for mobile devices with well over a billion devices running it. And smart phones are not just phones, they carry so much personal information they’re like digital vaults that need protecting. We provide an insight into the threats currently targeting Android devices and ten […]

Children are naturally curious, mischievous and exasperating, often all in equal measure. It’s part of growing up, learning, developing and maturing. They’ll dive into the cyber world with enthusiasm and innocence and will happily explore until they encounter something dark and disturbing. In a world of ubiquitous Internet access it might seem like an almost […]

Sometimes, my conscience gets the better of me. This time, it’s about social networking. I seem to write so much and so often about the pitfalls of Facebook, Twitter et al that I feel compelled to write something positive about it too, based on an event I witnessed recently and a beneficial new way of […]

Thankfully, many parents these days are aware that cyberbullying is an issue their children will likely face when they’re online. But do they really have a sense how just wild and rabid cyber space can be? The internet provides a sense of anonymity for cyber bullies and this ability to hide unleashes the worst aspects […]

Under our remit as the UK’s independent authority for upholding information rights in the public interest, at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) we have created a series of lesson plans and resources to give teachers the opportunity to inform students of the importance of personal information, privacy, and safety online. Children start using computers from […]

Like the music chart, there’s also a list of the top passwords used every year. Released by password management company SplashData, unlike the music chart it lists not the Top 40 but the Top 25 passwords used in that year. In common with the music chart, however, it compares the position of each respective password […]

Tablets … smartphones … apps. With the PC market in freefall and even laptops being fairly and squarely relegated by tablets and hybrid devices, they seem to be all everyone’s buying these days. And if the news is to be believed, that includes a growing number of youngsters. Recent research from uSwitch.com, for example, shows […]

So now you can buy a tablet in the UK for £30, with the launch of the UbiSlate 7Ci. £30 … and just in time for Christmas! The surge of Low-cost tablets This follows a rash of new launches designed presumably, to get everyone online everywhere. Tesco kicked it off with the launch of 7in […]

Me, I’m not a great lover of I’m a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here any more. I used to be for the first couple of seasons, but like Masterchef and so many other similar programmes that are perenially successful, they become ‘same old, same old’ and I need to move on to something with […]