Happy Fathers Day 2008
Fathers’ Day 2008 is the 100th time this day has been celebrated in the United States. The first celebration was held on July 5, 1908, and is now celebrated on the third Sunday in June. The first Fathers’ day celebrated…
Cyber Bullying On Bebo Blamed For Boys Death
A grieving family is blaming the social networking website Bebo for a 13-year-old boy’s suicide. Sam Leeson, a 13 year old student from Gloucestershire hanged himself. After his death, his family found evidence of bullying on his Bebo page, and…
Ebay Fails To Force Users To Use PayPal
ONLINE auction site eBay has failed in its bid to force Australian customers to use PayPal to pay for items on the auction website. The move by Ebay would have meant that users would have had just two payment alternatives:…
And The Most Secure IM Network Is…
I made a post here the other day about a recent Cnet survey which was conducted to see which Instant Message Service available was the most secure. Services surveyed included AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, IBM’s Lotus Sametime, Facebook Chat,…
How Secure Is Your Instant Message Service
One of the easiest ways of staying in touch online for almost twelve years has been via Instant Message Services. ICQ became the first Internet-wide instant messaging service, being released in November 1996. How secure are IM services though? With…
Back To The Future With Firefox And Google
After all the battles that Google had in forcing Microsoft to allow freedom of choice when it came to search providers, it would make sense that they would uphold the same standards, right? According to Search Engine Land, Google is…