The Washington Post reports that "The increasingly common law enforcement tactic of having adult officers pose as children in Internet chat rooms to arrest potential sex offenders came under legal attack yesterday when Maryland’s highest court ruled that the law… Continue Reading
Am I the only one who has noticedthat Flickr is showing ads from Yahoo, it’s parent company, and Google? It would seem that Flickr is making money off Google’s AdSense programme and Google is making money off of Flickr showing… Continue Reading
London, Tues 20 Sept 2005 Where is mobile technology taking us in the 21st century?…And do we want to go there? With over 75% of the UK population owning a mobile phone, women are a crucial sector of the mobile… Continue Reading
I nearly didn’t hear about Our Social World, a a conference about blogging (and business) being held this Friday (09 Sept) in Cambridge, UK. Speakers include Tom Coates (BBC Radio and Music Interactive), Lee Bryant, Ben Hammersley, Julian Bond, Ross… Continue Reading
At the start of 2005, Wired magazine enthusiastically featured Yahoo [ The Ungoogle (Yes, Yahoo!) 13.03], the forgotten internet powerhouse. Most people think Yahoo is just a big index of the internet but it’s other services, such as YahooGroups (which… Continue Reading
The Mobile Data Association’s website, text.it , is a good source of information on the UK mobile phone industry and includes a brief history of SMS texting in the UK and an index of text messaging in the news .… Continue Reading
Last week I spent a few hours browsing the shelves at the University of Hertfordshire’s law library. Most of the books on Internet Law are heavy on copyright, contract law, malicious hacking and the data protection act. Very few give… Continue Reading