On June 6, World IPv6 Launch Day, some of the biggest sites on the internet – including Facebook, Google – permanently enable IPv6 – but what is it and how will it affect us? Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is the next generation of the Internet Protocol that is currently in various stages of deployment [...]

The website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) website has been taken offline following a DDoS attack yesterday. The British equivalent of the FBI, SOCA opted to take the site down itself at around 10pm on Wednesday to prevent the repercussions of the distributed denial of service attack affecting other websites within the network. [...]

Registry manager Nominet has announced that domains can now be registered for up to 10 years at a time, as opposed to the previous maximum term of 2 years. The announcement was made today and can be found on the Nominet site. The statement read: “It is possible to register domain names with registration periods [...]

What’s it all about? The Government is expected to announce plans to grant police and security agencies immediate access to email, web and phone communications that will map out a detailed portrait of our everyday lives. This would mean that ISPs and mobile phone providers would have to store users’ data and make it accessible [...]

Remember when there were high streets full of local shops, butchers and greengrocers. Then along came the supermarket giants who pushed them out of the water. This could be the future of the social media world. Already dominated by social behemoths Facebook, Twitter and Google+, ‘soc-med’ is a big players’ game but there are still [...]

What’s changing? Google will now have one single privacy policy encompassing all sections of the Google empire; YouTube, GoogleMaps and search included. It’s designed to be simpler to understand and enable the integration of each of Google’s sites in the aim of building a bigger picture of who you are…  and how to personalise adverts [...]

By tapping ‘accept and download’ to add new apps onto  your Android you could be giving the app-makers access to your camera, the calls you make, your texts and emails and your full contact list. The media has been all abuzz with the ‘shocking revelation’ that some apps on the Android platform – including the [...]

With mobile now not only a viable, but an expected marketing channel, businesses are flocking to build a presence on the mobile web. Desktop sites may load on most modern mobile devices but is this the best way to make your company known? Where do apps fit in? Here are our top tips for businesses [...]

The High Court is to serve a claim via Facebook in what is believed to be the first time a social network has been used by an English High Court. The case involves a $2.1m (£1.3m) claim brought by the investment manager AKO Capital LLP and AKO Capital Fund Ltd against their broker – who [...]

Google Wallet can be broken into without having to hack into it or decrypt the user’s PIN. The Smartphone Champ spotted the flaw which enables access to Google Wallet simply by resetting the application data on the phone – this reset wipes the stored PIN but saved the card details, meaning a new PIN can [...]