TripAdvisor has been ordered to rewrite some of its marketing claims by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.

the social and ethical issue here is reliability. No one can be completely confident that what they see online is true whether it is with traveling companies or something mr brooke showed us in class: http://www.familywatchdog.us/search.asp in this website for example, we can not be sure that the people registered really are sex offenders.

Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned.

I agree with Jorge. There are various ways in which hackers can obtain personal information by the internet. One way by which hackers can do this is by phishing. In this article, account holders are being tricked by the offer of training in a new "upgraded security system", meaning that account holders click on the link and their money is moved out of their account without them even noticing! This is a big problem, and as this article says "Online banking fraud losses totalled £16.9 million in the first six months of 2011, according to Financial Fraud Action UK" therefore in only 6 months, millions of pounds were gone! Phishing is increasing more and more, some day we can't even click a link because we're scared it could be something similar!

Here is a website which is explaining how China is trying to combat hi-tech spyware! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16357238

Interactive whiteboards have been heralded as devices that will enhance education and be a major plank in the government's drive for new technology in schools. But the BBC has learnt that while millions of pounds have been spent on them, very little attention has been paid to a potential threat to the eyesight of teachers and children

That's a very good point. Most teachers never think about that.

I had better wear some shades in future.

"With streaming services now established and a number of web-first companies investing heavily in bespoke and exclusive content, is it time we started speaking of YouTube or Netflix in the same breath as the BBC or Sky?"

The arrest of Megaupload's founders has led to other file storage sites taking action in an apparent attempt to protect themselves from legal action. The following is a link to a news story describing the disciplinary action taken against the founder of Megaupload: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16711416

How online storage works Online storage in websites such as Megaupload, upload.to and Rapidshare work using cloud storage. This is similar to the storage used in Gmail, Youtube and Facebook Essentially this is how it works: 1. User accesses websites and selects file he/she wants to upload 2. File is uploaded to the cloud storage server, which is located in the house cloud storage systems called data centers. 3. Usually the files are then copied to other servers around the world in case one of them goes down or needs repairing, this is known as redundancy. Without redundancy cloud storage cannot guarantee that the user will be ble to access his files. Servers are also powered by multiple power supplies in case one of them fails. 4. When the user wants to access the files he uploaded he may do so through a web-based interface. For more information on how cloud storage systems work http://computer.howstuffworks.com/cloud-computing/cloud-storage1.htm

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120121/16551717500/jonathan-coulton-destroys-rationale-behind-megaupload-seizure-with-single-tweet-follows-up-with-epic-blog-post.shtml In the article above Jonathon Coultron makes a good point. Although there might be a lot of illegal activity on MegaUpload such as: sharing DVDs and CDs, there are also a large group of people that use MegaUpload as a tool to legally upload data that they wish to share with others or keep a backup for themselves. Furthermore, I think his tweet says it all in regards to the millions of dollars the music and film industry will gain from the death of MegaUpload.

25 January 2012 Last updated at 12:23 ET O2 has apologised for a technical problem which caused users' phone numbers to be disclosed when using its mobile data. The company said it normally only passed numbers to "trusted partners". A problem during routine maintenance meant that from 10 January numbers could have been seen by other websites.

As mentioned above the the issue concerned about in this article is privacy as peoples information (mobile phone numbers) are displayed on websites without their consent. Obviously the fact of having others know personal information may leave people concerned, however they must be aware that their personal information is spread all over the internet. From pictures on facebook to a gmail/youtube accounts peoples names, adresses and surnames are most likely known by some companies. Google and Facebook holds personal information that belongs to each one of us. What companies like such do to profit from this is sell a list of names, adresses and emails to third party which will then have means of communication with us to advertise their products and this is responsible for some of the spam we receive. The solution for this specific scenario of mobile phones isn't very clear, although it has been fixed no way of how it could of been prevented was suggested. Perhaps a the server could be shut down while it was under maintenance and another one should've been running in the meanwhile. Clearly the issue here had nothing to do with the mobile phone users and there was nothing they could have done as they were unnaware of the situation. I personally believe that privacy does not exist on the internet. It someone wishes to have privacy then the safest way to go do so is to not use/be connected to the internet. http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/09/30/when-it-comes-to-cell-phone-privacy-youre-an-open-book/ Shows how mobile phones can cause privacy issues and how police officers now have gadgets that allows then to see everything that a person has done in their mobile phone, this clearly violates peoples privacy.

I would just like to mention that I posted this, not fiche galinha -.- diigo is trolling me.

I agree with the fact that Apple factories are going to face independent inspections. Everyone deserves a good to work at a safe environment, just like Apple's chief executive stated "Workers everywhere have the right to a safe and fair work environment.". I think it is a good idea to do so since suicides have occurred in the past and also because "137 workers in eastern China were injured after they used a poisonous chemical - n-hexane - to clean iPhone screens". This shows that the work environment isn't completely safe therefore I agree that Apple factories should be independently inspected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16832106 This link is explaining that factory conditions for Apple are poor

As Ines pointed out there are some issues with the use of chemicals in Apple factories which make the work environment unsafe to work in however, I believe that if Apple's factories are independently inspected then all other factories should also go through the same process to ensure other factories aren't making employees work in unsafe environments.

interesting!

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more updates on; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11858895

issues about iPhone

Good article Jorge F1. Maybe better to use the original article. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12121999 The Red Ring of Death has been responsible for a lot of upset gamers in the past....

"ith Topcoder you are basically paid to get something done rather than to sit somewhere for eight hours a day," he said."

"now this. Good stuff. The thing about all totalitarian regimes is that eventually they do get overthrown, especially the ones that panic and switch off the internet completely. I know that a certain copyright trolling industry would like to"

A solution to the problem associated to IP security cameras. as seen in: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16919664