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NASA hit the headlines with a raft of security woes, social networking fills the headlines again, and finally a totally bizarre new craze . . .

• Twitter could be liable for users’ unlawful posts, says expert
• The dark side of Facebook
• Hackers had ‘full functional control’ of NASA computers
• Social networks worse than porn sites for malicious links
• Survey: UK Lags US in Using the Cloud to Combat Spam
• Demand for Raspberry Pi, the British £22 computer, crashes website
• The latest Internet craze: Pet cats with a slice of bread on their heads !!

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As technology continues to shrink with desktop computers turning into laptops and laptops turning into tablets and phones the idea that that the desktop is “dead” is often a hot topic. (more…)

Here is our weekly round-up of the industry news for the week ending February 24th:

• Malvern ‘dirty lab’ to tackle cyber crime
• New survey reveals “a profound change in the way charities manage IT”
• HP, Dell warn of price hikes after Foxconn wage rise
• Employees have no protection from snooping bosses
• Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End

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Imagine that you had a bunch of files that you wanted to get from you to a customer.  With the speed of Internet connections evolving 3 times slower than storage media, are there faster alternatives than the Internet for moving files around?
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It all seems to be about the Internet this week. Here is our weekly round-up of the industry news for the week ending February 17th:

• The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
• The internet is broken – we need to start over
• Alleged file-sharing websites disappear or change
• Mobile internet devices will outnumber people in 2016
• Rise in nomophobia: fear of being without a phone

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