Consensual Acts
Canadian legislators have been working on new anti-spam regulations, enforced by CRTC (http://www.crtc.gc.ca) that will also include restrictions on software that installs without consent. ...
Why a business competitor could be a great ally
On several occasions in the past, I’ve avoided contact with a business competitor if I thought it would give them an advantage. Maybe they will analyse the way we do things, sell a product we sell or ...
Not So Cloudy
I read with interest an article proclaiming in its headline that “Startups Move away from the cloud”. In reality however the item should have had the less eye-catching, but more factually correct h ...
Rotten to the core
We are all used to getting hoax emails, also known as “phishing”, but their sophistication and relevance to newsworthy events continues to increase. With Apple and iTunes in the news over ...
Broadband priority leaves small businesses in the slow lane
A recent paper published by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is damning in its finding that not only are broadband speeds and availability for small businesses poor but also that the commonly ...
Broken Heart
Over the last few days, one of the world’s worst computer security issues has come to light – a bug in the open-version of the technology that encrypts and verifies websites. Whether it is your online ...
Password (almost) Perfect
It’s a sad fact that many of the worlds passwords are “password”, “secret”, “123456” and in the western world, “QWERTY”. Luckily for us, many of the most critical sites we use won’t allow simple pass ...
Net Neutrality
Last week celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the World Wide Web, the system designed by Tim Berners-Lee to share information - but that system has is under threat. Sir Tim Berners-Lee's s ...
You Have Mail!
Clients keep asking about "spam emails" that are really malware in disguise, so this is the first of a few guides that hopefully you'll all find useful. Many of you will have been aware o ...