Computing.co.uk – Report suggests multi-tasking ahead for iPhone

Apple may be preparing to allow multi-tasking on the iPhone, according to media reports. Apple news site AppleInsider cited anonymous sources in reporting that the iPhone OS 4.0 release will allow users to launch and access multiple applications at once, including those from third-party developers.

BBC – Dotcom web address celebrates silver anniversary

The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March 2010, the twenty-fitth birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered.

The Register – Google ’99.9 per cent’ certain to pull China search plug

Google is now “99.9 per cent” certain it will shut down its Chinese search engine, according to a report citing “a person familiar with the company’s thinking”.

Computerworld UK – Humans continue to be ‘weak link’ in data security

Nearly 90 percent of IT workers in the UK have said a laptop in their organisation has been reported lost or stolen, new research has found.

Computerworld UK – Virgin runs fibre broadband via telegraph poles

Virgin Media will use telegraph poles to extend the reach of fibre-to-the-home in a test in the UK village of Woolhampton, it said today.

The Daily Telegraph – Man fined over Facebook insult to ex-girlfriend

A man has been ordered to pay £165 for calling his ex-girlfriend an offensive name on Facebook, in one of the first cases of its kind.

SC Magazine – Former Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Ian Blair speaks on the danger cyber terrorism could have on the UK, along with organised hackers and the insider threat.

Sir Ian Blair speaks of how information communication technology security was potentially the greatest threat to the UK by the end of this decade.