Apple is to pay $113m (£85m) to put an end to the 'Batterygate' scandal, where the company was accused of deliberately slowing down iPhone batteries to prompt users into buying a new iPhone. What Happened? Back in 2017, some iPhone users were sharing concerns online that their iPhone’s performance had...
Featured Article – The Difference Between Cloud Backup and Cloud Storage
This article looks at the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage and how each contributes to daily business life; business continuity and disaster recovery. The Need For Storage Businesses not only have limited hard drive space, plus they are having to deal with an increasing amount of data (primary...
Carbon Pollution From Your Emails
A Financial Times report based on work by Tim Berners-Lee has highlighted how sending fewer emails could help tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions. Emails and Carbon Production The idea from Tim Berners-Lee, referenced also by Ovo Energy, is that although emails appear to be more environmentally friendly than...
Google Accused of ‘Stealing’ Android Data
Google is being sued for (allegedly) secretly using Android users? cellular data allowances without user consent, to perform ?passive? information transfers. Passive Information Transfers The lawsuit was filed by Taylor et al v. Google in a US federal district court in San Jose.? The group of Plaintiffs have filed a...
Featured Article – Data Breaches: The Fallout
In this article, we look not just at data breaches but also at the impact of data breaches on business and organisations. Data Breaches A personal data breach, as defined by the UK’s data watchdog and regulator, The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is “a breach of security leading to the accidental...
Retail Adapting To Pandemic Christmas and Beyond
With the UK facing different rules and lockdowns, there?s evidence that retailers are trying to overcome their significant challenges by becoming more agile and adapting where possible. High Street Decline Prior to the pandemic, those with bricks and mortar shops in UK high streets were already facing challenges.? Research from...
Vanish Mode For Messenger and Instagram Chats
Only a week after its WhatsApp announcement for the ?disappearing messages? feature, Facebook has announced ?Vanish Mode? for Messenger and Instagram to allow the sending of messages that disappear automatically. Privacy and Secrecy Facebook says that the Vanishing Messages feature is particularly useful if there is??something you want to say...
Tech Tip – Sending Delayed Emails
In Microsoft Outlook you can delay the delivery of?an individual message or you can use rules to delay the delivery of all messages by having them held in the?Outbox?for a specified time after you click?Send.? Here?s how: To Delay the delivery of a message: - When composing the message, select...
Scammer Accidentally Calls Cyber-Crime Squad
A hapless scammer pretending to be from a broadband network got more than he bargained for when he accidentally called (and tried to work his scam) on the cyber-crime squad of an Australian police force. Claimed To Be From Broadband Network The scammer, claiming to be from Australia?s National Broadband...
WhatsApp Launches Self-Destruct Messages
From the end of November, Facebook?s WhatsApp users will have the option to automatically delete chats between the sender and recipient after 7 days. Disappearing Messages The new ?disappearing messages? feature is not going to be the default setting and needs to be switched on by the user in the...