11 March 2014
Angel Academe: Have you got what it takes to be an entrepreneur?
We’ve all been there. The conversation 30 minutes after last orders on a rainy Thursday night at your local pub where you vow to give up your boring office job and do something exciting with your life. Maybe you’ll start your own business? Being your own boss is the aspect of entrepreneurship which attracts most people. After all, most people’s bosses are just, well, a bit bossy. You would make a much better boss. You are nice and you would never tell yourself off for pressing the snooze button for an extra ten minutes in bed or crawling into work late, smelling like a brewery, in yesterday’s clothes.
27 February 2014
Data Protection Revisited – Hacking, Leaking and Cloud Concerns in 2014
Hardly a day goes by without a new story about another cyber-attack, leaked or hacked passwords or log-ins.
17 January 2014
Don’t shoot the messenger: Internet middlemen on the hook for actions of illegal website operators
Internet Service Providers could find themselves incurring substantial expense in protecting the copyright interests of others. Websites that exist beneath the radar of detection and infringe the copyright of others such as those that offer unlawful music downloads and streaming are likely escape scot free while ISPs are left to pick up the bill.
24 December 2013
Can you afford not to have a new Generic Top Level Domain?
Anyone who has ever tried to buy a house will know that location is everything. In London, house buyers will pay a premium for an average house in a sought-after postcode purely so they can utter those magic 3 words “NW3” or “SW3 at the end of their address. The internet is no different and with the recent launch of the gTLD program (Generic Top Level Domains), a whole raft of domain name suffixes has now become available, indeed Rich Merdinger cannily describes these domain names as “21st century real estate”.
28 October 2013
Misleading advertising: the games people play
If you have young children of your own or nieces or nephews you have probably endured hours of Dora the Explorer, Peppa Pig, In the Night Garden (I could go on) and will have therefore also borne witness to the barrage of advertising for various children’s toys and games and the “hard-sell” techniques targeted at young viewers...