Students (or anyone) moving to a new city after New Year?
Now is the time that many people are looking for rental accommodation to take up for 2012 whether it be for studying at Uni or other reasons.  We have noticed a spate of rental accommodation scams lately where a real bargain [...]

A special guest blog from Jon Duffy, Head of Trust and Safety at Trade Me and NetSafe Board Member.

Trade Me is a great place to find deals on all sorts of odds and ends. I myself recently found a genuine 1980s red and white cricket vest for a staggeringly low $12.00. I am now ready [...]

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss
Or – there is no such thing as a free lunch.
We are all hooked into social networking/media in some way or another (or I doubt you’d be reading this!). We know the advantages it brings us, lots of positives or we wouldn’t bother would we?
What happens when it all [...]

Christmas decorations are up in Newmarket and present lists are being made. (iPad please Santa).
It is really tempting to procure those ‘bargains’ from online websites – but please be very wary. There are lots of legitimate sites for your purchases and also hundreds of scams. For example the website Alibaba.com has thousands [...]

Does the way we make web pages effect the securit of the web? What can HTML5 do to save us from ourselves?

Want to keep a beady eye on burglars (and your dog)? How about tracing a route back to where a a favourite holiday snap was taken? There’s an app for that

2011 is going to be the year of the smartphone for virus writers and cyber criminals. Find out how to protect your shiny new device

It’s so annoying when this happens – you’ve been using your neighbour’s wi-fi free for a year or so and then they move and you’re left with no internet.

What if you could affect the google result when people did a name-search on you? Apparently Google Profiles will give me this option – stay tuned to see if it actually works.

A recent US study has found that 45% of employers research social networking sites for information on prospective employees. Of them, 35% have rejected applicants based on content on a person’s sn page. For those who are concerned about the amount of information available an interesting article to read (and one which gives detailed information [...]