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…
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:…
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,…
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…
