Tag: growth

Disturbing rise in PR fluff around cyber attacks in the UK

So what is a “disturbing rise” in cyber attacks? Is it more than four? Is it thirty-seven million bots attacking the BBC News website as a random bit of background noise instead of the twenty-four million bot attacks that happened last year? Perhaps it’s the rise in American viewers hitting the iPlayer website to try to watch the geo-locked version of Doctor Who? Until GCHQ provides some raw data so this can be quantified by a third-party, I’ll file it in the tray marked “give us more money, it’s a really dangerous world but we can’t tell you because it’s

Ballmer knows exactly where Windows Phone has gone in twelve months

In a year, we’ve gone from very small to … very small. Like many mobile operating systems, Windows Phone needs a beach-head. Unlike WebOS and RIM though, it’s not just a carrier partner in the US, it’s the global distribution and manufacturing resources of Nokia. Which gives it a better shot than most and should provide many more digital column inches as the new devices arrive. But will it be Gallipoli or Overlord?