Skill Zone News issue 38
This month the BBC reported that if all the data created by humanity in the last 25 years was put on CDs then the stack of discs would reach beyond the moon. But surely if we had that many of the shiny discs, we could use them to tile Antarctica and create a huge reflector to reduce global warming. Meanwhile, here is my contribution to the 300 Exabytes of data to be found in our electronic scrap book.
28th February 2011
End of days?
On Tuesday the 1st of February, the world officially ran out of four digit IP numbers. This has been predicted for many years and was an inevitability. Now that it has finally happened, will the internet be in crisis?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Android, the mobile phone operating system developed by Google has become the single most popular phone OS on the market.
Cry Freedom!
A freedom of information request has revealed that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) spent £585 on the design of an icon for its website, the tiny square design that appears alongside the website name in your address bar. For the 16x16 pixels in the icon, that works out at £2.28 pence per pixel.
Cool running
Regulators in Finland have objected to a get-out clause in the iPhone warranty contract which allowed sellers to give broken phones the cold shoulder.
The colour of money
Two Cameroonians have recently been cleared by a court in Spain of charges of attempted fraud. But did the court get it right, and is it sending out the right message?
The usual suspects
According to a report issued by the Office of Cyber Security, the overall cost to the UK economy from cyber crime is twenty seven billion pounds per year. Eliminate that crime and we could eliminate our national debt within a matter of years.
Dumber and Dumber
Criminals do some pretty dumb things, but thanks to the Internet they can now post pictures of themselves doing dumb things on Facebook.
This article comes from the SKILLZONE email newsletter, published monthly since January 2008, and covering topics related to technology and the internet. All articles and artwork in the SKILLZONE newsletter are orignal content.