The latest trends suggest that at least among the younger generation, people are starting to move away from Facebook and onto other social platforms. Facebook is of course still extremely popular but there’s no doubt that it’s demographics are changing. Your much more likely to see your parents and grandparents on Facebook than children, […]
Lots of us probably have used a proxy server in all sorts of environments. If you use the internet at work or college, there’s a strong likelihood that you access it through a proxy server. They are commonly deployed to control access inwards and outwards to a company network from the internet. The […]
In many ways, and in many countries police investigation has struggled to keep up with the rise of cyber crime. There are numerous issues and challenges and it’s not surprising that most authorities have been under sever pressure to cope with even investigating many of the crimes. Cyber criminals are of course spread all over […]
For many years, computing lessons in schools certainly in the UK where linked directly with the mathematics departments. Indeed I was among the first to experience a UK computer curriculum and this was pretty much dumped on our unsuspecting maths tutors who could barely turn on the console linked to our central mainframe. Obviously there’s […]
There are lots of reasons why the world wide web has developed so quickly from it’s early origins in CERN at the beginning of the 1980s. Of course, there are many reasons why it has become so popular but arguably at the core is the transport protocol called HTTP. This is the reason why different […]
Whether you need to use something like a VPN or proxy server depends on a whole range of factors. However they are certainly becoming much more popular among average users throughout the world. There are probably two main justifications, concerns about online and privacy and being able to bypass the myriad region blocks that are […]
Anyone who has ever seen a piece of code accidentally released into a production environment will appreciate the value of a strong testing regime. Obviously if the code is 100% correct and contains no errors then the effect will be negligible, however that rarely happens. Untested code can create huge problems and create very expensive […]
At the core of this particular service-oriented economy are truly network-based, automatic transactions. Automated transactions are actually basically different than the transactions in which occur within the physical realm. The minute I stop by the corner store to purchase a snack, I can easily barter money for peanuts. Unless the clerk happens in order to […]
Kids were once taught the ABCs through chalkboards and the 123s through an abacus. Today, kids are luckier to experience a whole new world of technology-based education system. Due to easy accessibility and popularity, children are more inclined to gadgets and computer games rather than street games. You would see a very young child favoring […]
Twenty years ago the concept of cybercrime was virtually unknown, yet today it’s one of the biggest criminal sectors across the globe. The advantages to criminals are fairly obvious, high reward and often extremely low risk. Often these crimes cross international borders and hence jurisdiction can often be a real problem for prosecutions and investigations. […]