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James Temperton

James Temperton
James has a beard and writes about technology. He is far from unique. At work he writes news and features with a particular interest in online privacy and security. Outside the office James likes reading about long train journeys and then taking long train journeys. He hates writing about himself in the third person.

Recent articles by James Temperton

Mobile signal on commuter lines into London
O2 is worst mobile network for London's squashed commuters
Mobile phones

Paying thousands of pounds a year to crawl into London on an overcrowded train? Hopefully you don't use O2

Woman using a phone
Revenge porn will be criminal offence with two-year sentence
Software

New legislation will make it a criminal offence to distribute sexually explicit images and video online or offline without consent

Google logo
Over 170,000 Google searches altered in attempt to 'forget'
Internet security

Google gives full details of 'right to be forgotten' requests, with 41.8 per cent of removal requests approved across the EU

Snapchat logo
Snapchat hackers leak thousands of explicit teen pictures
Mobile phones

Hackers targetting third-party Snapchat apps and websites post 13.6GB file containing approximately 100,000 images and videos

Nominet plans public debate on criminal website closure
Canny thieves remotely wipe phones in police custody
Mobile phones Tablets

UK police forces say that data is being deleted from seized phones and tablets using remote access features

Here's what Nadella actually said about women and raises
PCs

Satya Nadella gave a rambling, nonsensical reply to a question about women asking for pay rises. Here's exactly what he said

Tesco Hudl
You can now buy the original Hudl for just £79
Tablets

Original Hudl gets a £40 price cut as the Hudl 2 goes on sale

Ello beta
What is Ello? How to get invites, beta and login
Technology

There's a lot of fuss about a new social network, but what is Ello, how do you get an invite and should you really ditch Facebook?

EE TV EPG
EE TV doesn't have 4oD, ITV Player or Netflix
PVRs

EE TV will only be available to EE customers as the company takes on BT, Sky and Virgin media with 'free' service

Old phones
Mobile phones now outnumber humans, because rich nerds
Mobile phones

Number of mobile phone SIMs outnumbers world population for the first time, but less than half of us have access to a handset