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Recent Blog Articles

• Often we hear that Facebook has been changing users account settings, like the recent default email address change as reported by the BBC. Often the change is one not many users like, but it must be said the majority just don't care. You should care because Facebook often fails on privacy and recently settled with the FTC over privacy violations, and had to agree to 20 years of auditing! (more…)
• There's one area of ICT that still seems to baffle many IT people, managers and directors alike and that's DNS. I must admit that it was one area I struggled with until about 1996 and I'm still no expert but I'm happy giving advice to clients on the basics that they should already know because without the DNS the internet just won't work. It's the phone book of the internet. (more…)
• I see Twitter has started emailing advertisements disguised as Tweets. There are some real tweets at the end of the email... (more…)
• There have been many conversations about 'social federation' over the last couple of years and organisations like Vodafone and Diaspora have tried to push out technology pieces that deliver on this, both using XMPP. (more…)
• As the Software as a Service (SaaS, or cloud as it's called now) market evolves the global financial crisis (GFC) continues to hit company cash flow hard. I'm talking about two types of company, the SaaS provider and the SaaS user, not our company, we're just fine :) (more…)
• Employees of most companies use instant messaging, either at home or at work. These systems are often provided free of charge by companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Google and as such there are a few issues that IT Managers need to be aware of if they are used in the workplace. (more…)