Web darling and social media service-de-jour Twitter was wiped off of the net temporarily today. Probably not in a response to Twitter CEO Evan Williams‘ appearance on BBC’s newsnight last night, where he pronounced London as Twitter’s top city in his first interview on UK Television.
The micro-blogging site was brought to a stand-still by  a [...]

One of the downsides of cloud-based applications is an even greater need to watch the security of the network protocols in use. Traffic going outside the private network (and potentially traffic on it) needs to be securely encrypted between the user and servers, if it contains sensitive information. If passwords are compromised, users need to [...]

While business IT staff are sometimes criticised for excessive surveillance of staff, it was Networked CCTV and government databases that came under scrutiny with today’s publishing of Surveillance: Citizens and the State (pdf file). The House of Lords Constitution Committee has warned that increasing use of surveillance by the government and private companies is a serious threat to freedoms and constitutional [...]

OK, not really big name awards, but rather John Willis’s personal suggestions: The 2008 Cloudies Awards. I mention it because a) it is a rather useful who’s who of cloud computing and b) it is a reminder of how nascent the space is. So far there are very few ‘big names’ in cloud computing. That is [...]

Microsoft’s forays into the data centre space are attracting more interest with their Azure cloud play in full effect. There is a detailed post about their architecture on their Microsoft Data Center  Technet blog: “Microsoft’s Generation 4 Data Center Vision - the Architects’ Perspective” something that caught my eye, and no doubt the eyes of others, has [...]