About a week ago Facebook admitted its website was attacked but no data was compromised. Now I would point up they took a month to confess to this which is not acceptable.

We only have Facebook’s word that nothing was stolen but hackers being hackers might have a different story. So this beggars the question just how safe is if to have all your personal data online. In the news one website after another is being targeted. It worries me this might be a unified hack trying to destroy the safety net of the web and our data.

Another account that got hacked was Burger Kings. The hackers rebranded it MacDonalds. Clearly meant to be funny but again shows issues on security.

I really think web based companies need to ensure their security is above the hackers abilities.

But are they? And will this ever be possible ?

Ofcom has announced the winners being Everything Everywhere, Hutchison 3G UK, Niche Spectrum Ventures – a BT subsidiary, Telefonica, and Vodafone.

The winning bidders will pay £2.34bn for the spectrum – less than expected.

Ofcom says 4G will provide UK consumers with £20bn of benefits over the next 10 years.

The Bristol Sound & Vision Show starts this Friday 22nd Feb until Sunday 24th Feb.

There are over 187 brands exhibiting from Sennheiser to Sony to Rega and many more. So if you like music and TV its worth a visit to see what can be achieved! Lots of free competitions too.

Also the shows organisers have an app to help you with the show for both android and ios. Window users are out of luck but they do have a mobile web page. Details of the apps can be found here.

The app is really good and provides details on nearly every exhibitor and anything else you might need for the day. Even if you are not going it is worth downloading the app, searching for the show, install its guide and see the interface.

So yesterday HTC announced the One. Sony are releasing the Xperia Z. Samsung have the S3 and soon the S4 and the Note 2.

Each one of the devices has novel hardware or software. The HTC One is a mind blowing device from the aluminium sexy look, decent stereo speakers, power button that acts as an infra red remote and customised software. The Xperia Z is dust and water resistant and comes packing loads of tweaks from Sony. And then Samsung with the Note 2 and the novel large screen and S Pen software and stylus. The S3 is equally as impressive.

And then you have the iPhone 5. It feels somewhat dull in comparison. There isn’t any hardware feature that’s leader of the pack. iOS is very good with Siri and iMessage and other great software. But now for the very first time I do wonder if Apple can offer something to wow the audience and take them by surprise. Incremental updates don’t wash it anymore. Apps cannot be the excuse either. It time to blow the gates open and give us a dynamic piece of kit.

Just for the record though, the iPhone 5 does work really well. It just doesn’t feel bleeding edge.

Filters will be provided for Freeview televisions which experience reception problems following the roll out of 4G later this year. But that’s only one filter per household. Additional filters will cost £18.

Ofcom estimates that the TV viewing in up to 2.3 million British households could be affected by 4G but only 40% of them have Freeview.

However, around 1% of affected Freeview households 40,000 , will be unable to use them and will be offered an alternative instead. That is if alternatives can be used and then who pays for the cable or satellite?

Some people are going to be really mad at losing Freeview digital TV. Mind you the programmes are so poor, maybe not!

Amazon has announced that it would be making Redshift, its cloud-based data warehousing service, widely available, after first launching the product in November last year, The product, part of Amazon Enterprise Web Services, aimed both at startups who are looking for cost-effective ways of storing data for their new services, as well as larger or more established enterprises that want to cut operational costs, and possibly capex as well.

Amazon also announced a number of third parties — including SAP, Cognizant, IBM, Informatica, Tableau, Attunity, Actuate, Pentaho, Talend, Birst, Roambi and Pervasive.

Amazon seems to have hooks in many fires at present. This seems like a good strategic move