Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive who was responsible for overseeing the development of iPhone 4 has announced that he will be quitting the company. Papermaster has been head of the iPhone and iPad engineering department since 2009, when he moved across from IBM. Read the rest of this entry »

Craigslist, the highly popular advertising site, has been heavily criticised for its permissive attitude towards the adult market in America. Read the rest of this entry »

A new study undertaken by Nielsen Online, the US company which monitors global Internet activity, suggests that online gaming is the biggest waste of time in the States. Read the rest of this entry »

With the advent of the silver surfer, more and more people of the older generation are learning to navigate their way around the web. It was probably only a matter of time before parents realised the advantages of being friends with their offspring on sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »

Jordan, in a surprise bid to increase the productivity of its public sector workers has prevented them from accessing over fifty websites during office hours. The move comes after research was undertaken which revealed that each individual was wasting up to three hours online, daily. Read the rest of this entry »

Following last week’s announcement that the United Arab Emirates government is planning to ban some Blackberry smartphone services from being used in the country, further regions have voiced concerns about the security of the devices. Read the rest of this entry »

Symantec, the US-based security firm, has issued a warning relating to Apple’s iOS which is designed to support the iPhone, iPad and iPod. According to the firm, there is a vulnerability in the iOS which could lead devices wide open to security attacks by remote operation, as hackers take control of devices through the system. Read the rest of this entry »

Samy Kamkar, a security expert who has been working on hunting out shortcomings in routers, has demonstrated how online attackers can find out someone’s personal address through the net. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows software has been found to have a glitch, which prevents it from managing shortcuts correctly. The bug in the system means that hackers could manufacture shortcuts which would then take over user’s computers through the loophole in security. Read the rest of this entry »

Internet booksellers Amazon have announced that they will be launching a UK version of their own-brand e-reader, the Kindle, specifically for the British market. The new reader will feature an enhanced selection of texts for download, and will be available for purchase from the amazon.co.uk site. Read the rest of this entry »

A Japanese Tweeter has been freaked out by a flurry of attention all over the world, following the landmark posting up of the twenty billionth tweet on the site. Social networking giants Twitter congratulated the user as he published his 140 character tweet to the site. Read the rest of this entry »

In a step to enhance the service it provides to users, Facebook has been trialing a new search feature on its site. Questions is a new service which enables users of the site to post up queries, which can be answered by the five million registered users on the site. Read the rest of this entry »

The UK Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has been investigating Google for claims of illegal ‘snooping’ over wifi networks in the UK. The ‘Street View’ row first came to light in 2006, when Google was asked to share the material they had collected with authorities in Germany. Read the rest of this entry »

You may think that the silver surfer generation is just catching on to the possibilities of online networking, but not all members of the older generation are confused when it comes to harnessing the power of the internet. Read the rest of this entry »