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Archive for 2011/08/22
Starbucks adds apps, books, TV shows to ‘Pick of the Week’
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsiPad sales to hit 22 million over holiday quarter, says analyst
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsThe Cloud, a BSkyB ( Sky Broadband ) owned Wi-Fi Hotspot operator, has announced via Twitter that they’ve teamed up with Caffè Nero, a continental-style Italian Cafè in Great Britain, to begin offering FREE wireless internet access across all 400+ of their nationwide outlets
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsiPhone criminal case gives Apple more options
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, LitigationTablet shipments to near 250 million in 2017
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutioniOS 5 gets Japan earthquake notifications
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, Mobile tech, New Business ModelsWhen questioned about various information stored on social networking sites, forums, groups and other interactive services, 42% admitted to posting their date of birth, 18% their telephone number, 28% opted to have usernames and passwords remembered and 14% did the same for bank details
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reportsEpson Korea says 350,000 customers’ data hacked
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionBlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has successfully completed a $6 million effort to encrypt all at-rest data throughout its enterprise, giving members peace of mind that their personal information is secure
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reportsBlueCross invested more than $6 million and 5,000 man-hours in the data encryption effort, which included:
- 885 Terabytes of mass data storage
- 1,000 Windows, AIX, SQL, VMWare and Xen server hard drives
- 6,000 workstation hard drives and removable media drives
- 25,000 voice call recordings per day
- 136,000 volumes of backup tape
Google is finding that some ISPs in Argentina are blocking access to the outfit’s blog service. The move comes in response to a court ruling which called for some illegal blogs to be banned. The blocked IP address linked to more than one million blogs hosted on Blogger, containing various authors
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Google, JurisprudenceSome ISPs have decided it is easer just to block the entire site rather than try to shut down individual blogs
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/23802-google-blogs-banned-in-argentina
Bundled music newbie Boinc aims for year-end launch
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsDutch public prosecutor’s office: forensic investigation into “lost” pdf can take many months
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionAfter a Dutch person shot 6 people at a shopping mall, a debate sparked as to why he was (or whether he should be) permitted to carry a gun in the first place. Information that could provide an answer was possibly sent to the Dutch police in .pdf format. Unfortunately the .pdf turned out to be “not accessible” anymore according to the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Having investigated these statements, the reporters of online magazine Webwereld.nl discovered that the file was not “inaccessible” but “lost” instead. Internet users called on the Dutch government to have independent forensic investigators locate the .pdf, something which was refused at first.
Finally, the prosecutor’s office asked the Dutch Forensic Lab http://english.forensischinstituut.nl/ to investigate.
No word on whether both the inbox of the receiver and sent box of the sender are being investigated and how long the investigation may take.
Dutch language article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107666/zoektocht-naar-tristan-pdf–kan-nog-maanden-duren-.html
Dutch provider Leaseweb: Just because the police “wants” something, doesn’t mean they can get it all. Dutch police after more than name and address details. Also after phone numbers, login information and payment details
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Legislation, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyDutch language article:
http://webwereld.nl/achtergrond/107649/wanneer-hosters-priv–gegevens-moeten-afgeven.html
Dutch government contacting Saudi government over blocked websites. Internet freedom important to the Dutch
Posted: 2011/08/22 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Public PolicyDutch language article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107671/saudi-arabi—op-matje-voor-blokkade-wereldomroep.html
Previously:
Internet users in Saudi Arabia have been unable to access Radio Netherlands Worldwide websites for the past couple of weeks. People attempting to visit the site are presented with a message stating that the website has been blocked
http://vrritti.com/2011/08/13/internet-users-in-saudi-arabia-have-been-unable-to-access-radio-netherlands-worldwide-websites-for-the-past-couple-of-weeks-people-attempting-to-visit-the-site-are-presented-with-a-message-stating-th/
