Further to my posting about AkibaLive, and my comments that it was a marketing tool masquerading as a blog, here’s the owner’s reply (I won’t post his earlier message, since as he says, it was “fired it off in a state of unexpected agitation”): Your blog about AkibaLive has an evident tone that we are somehow… Read More »
A Singapore company has just launched what they say is a technology that will change the way which we compress, store and distribute digital content. MatrixView says that, compared to existing compression solutions such as JPEG and MPEG that are based on complex and predictive techniques to eliminate redundant data (JPEG is a widely used… Read More »
Sydney Low from anti-spam service AlienCamel warns of a new take on the email scam which tries to get you to hand over all your personal details. This one, which has been reported in a couple of places elsewhere, is worth repeating here to show how realistic these things are. Thought you might want to… Read More »
From the About Time Dept comes news that Microsoft realises the whole ‘issue a patch to cover a hole, knowing only a few people actually download it’ approach may be, er, flawed. CNET reports that Microsoft plans next week to outline a new security effort focused on what the company calls “securing the perimeter”. Details… Read More »
Online porn is big. Really big. According to figures collected by CyberAtlas: Growth rate of 1,800% in five years: 14 million pornography-related webpages in 1998 to roughly 260 million in 2003. An additional 28 million pages during the month of July alone. Nearly all (90 percent)… Read More »