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Safe Harbour is dead and ubiquitous cloud computing too
The US government is fighting desperately on behalf of the US cloud computing industry with its announcement that US privacy laws will probably be extended to non-US citizens. This is somewhat counter to a
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Do you talk shop at parties? But you’re in IT; boring!
My previous family doctor joked that when attending a party he would never tell anyone else exactly what line of work he was in. If he did, the response more often than not would
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Getting started on StartMail – part two
Email encryption Setting up encryption on a native email application is a bit convoluted and, frankly, beyond the perseverance of the average user. And is it actually possible to do this in a web
Read More »Getting started on StartMail – part one
Six months ago, due to privacy concerns, I migrated my domain’s email hosting from Gmail to MyKolab (you can read about how to do that here) and very happy with the results I’ve been too.
Read More »Getting started on StartMail – part three
This is the third part of a three-part series. Contacts At the time of writing, StartMail’s contacts implementation and contacts import functionality has yet to be completed. However, the following fields are currently shown
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Curse you Google and your excellent Chromecast
If you had suggested to me a couple of weeks ago that I would shortly be engaging in financial intercourse with both notorious tax innovator Amazon and “Don’t Be Evil” privacy-annihilating behemoth Google, I
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Are you the only person who doesn’t read your email?
Which planet does Microsoft’s marketing department live on? Planet “Don’t Know What’s Going On”? Microsoft is still running a campaign that taunts Google over the lack of privacy offered by Gmail. That campaign has
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Google mergers and Facebook acquisitions
When a company you’re involved with talks about mergers and acquisitions, it really is prudent to listen to the alarm bells ringing in your head. It’s a struggle to recall a time when acquisitions,
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IBM makes a Big Data statement with Cloudant purchase
Time was that if you didn’t want to be sacked then you bought IBM. That IT department maxim became anathema in the 1990s when IBM looked like it was going to go the way
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The Great Firewall of Britain
There’s an irony to the introduction of the Great Firewall of Britain that the authorities are indubitably aware of but choose to ignore. China, the 21st century bogeyman of western geo-politics, was roundly condemned
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