A survey suggests that almost 97 % British customers show concern about the caring and handling of their personal data by different companies. They think that these companies may leave the data open to identify fraud and theft.

The research from National Identity Fraud Prevention Week (NIFPW) shows that almost everyone is worried about the handling of their personal data.

The thing that is more worrying is that almost 92% people think that their own employers are not able enough to keep personal data of the customers safe.

In the online world, Identity fraud is considered one of the fastest growing dangers and NIFPW is a company that is working to raise awareness of the problem that can occur because of losing personal data. Read the rest of this entry »

Because of the fast growth of broadband, the European Commission has become compelled to bring   forward a review of the basic telecoms services that the people in Europe can anticipate.

According to some statistics, almost 36% households in EU member countries have access to high-speed internet.

If a majority of EU citizen is using a telecoms service, EC rules say that it should be the right of every European to enjoy it. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook is considering taking a big leap into the bigger cyberspace as its Connect service will allow you to log in other websites and go live with your Facebook account.

If you have already logged on to Facebook, you can also log in to online celebrity rag of CBS just with a single click.

Now you can invite your friends to join you browsing stories about fabulous parenting skills of Jada Pinkett Smith or a real scary-looking Gary Colemans’ driving problems. The fun never ends here as you can also easily post any bitchy comments you make on other sites. Read the rest of this entry »

IMDB.com, which is quite well-known as the biggest internet movie site and a haven for movie buffs all around the world, is considering streaming all movies for free to its website.

Things are not being done halves by the company as it offering around 6,000 movies this autumn in which some classics like ‘Some like It Hot’, Raising Arizona, Cult and Fever Pitch have been included.

Heroes, 24, and Family Guy like whole host of TV shows have also been included on the site for free.

Isn’t it sad that the service will be available only in the US and nothing has been told about the UK release date for the free content? Read the rest of this entry »

A research firm reported Wednesday that during the last year, the International Internet traffic continued to grow, but with a slower rate than before.

TeleGeograhpy Research’s findings are quite important as some US Internet service providers are claiming to struggle with the expansion of online traffic and they want to impose monthly download limits on heavy users. These findings do not exactly relate to average Internet use in the U.S households, but they provide an indication of widening trend. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Google Chrome’, Yup! This is what we call Google’s own web browser that has been created in the form of a comic book that highlights the search giant’s plans for its own browser.

Comic artist Scott McCloud has drawn the comic book and has also revealed critical information about the features of Google Chrome. Scott states on his website that he is working on a ‘secret project’.

At the end of the comic, Google summarizes what Chrome means to them: “we live on the Internet and we want to make it better without competition.”

“This is the factor that makes us open sourcing the whole thing. We want internet a smart, fair and safe place.”

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Spammers in search of information to commit ID fraud are invading Facebook and other social networking sites these days. According to some members, their accounts have been hijacked or deactivated and they are receiving much more spam than usual. A source explains that malware abuses were higher in the last month than the same period last year.

Some estimates reveal that Facebook has more than 100 million account holders. Most of these attacks are because of the variants of a worm known as Koobface, which has been slithering around the syberguts of Facebook as well as MySpace during the last month.  But now Facebook is claiming that everything is in control now.

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AP – August 20, 2008

NEW YORK – Popular online auction site eBay has recently been introducing changes to help make the site more attractive.  However, recent changes have had the opposite effect and frustrated those using the site to sell products.

Changes in the fee structure, search results and feedback system are meant to achieve the objective of getting more buyers to use the site.  The compulsion to make these changes was due to a worrying trend showing a slowing in the growth of active users.  Recent quarterly figures indicate that the number of active users increased only 1.4 percent to 84.5 million.

In January, eBay altered its fee structure to get sellers to put more items on sale so it could encourage more activity.  Commission rates were set higher if the auctioned products were sold for less than $1,000.

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