Showing posts with label bt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bt. Show all posts
27 October 2013

Massive Overblocking Hits Hundreds Of UK Sites

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Two years ago, Techdirt reported on a very troubling ruling in the UK courts that BT had to block access to the Usenet service provider...
30 June 2012

UK's 3-Strikes Plan Continues To Grind Through The System; Still Not In Force, Still Awful

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As Techdirt reported in 2010, the passage of the Digital Economy Act was one of the most disgraceful travesties of the UK parliamentary ...
27 December 2011

How Even Highly-Targeted Censorship Can Lead To Overblocking

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As the battle rages over SOPA and PIPA, censorship is very much on people's minds. But there are many different kinds of censorship, ...
21 December 2011

BT Joins the Patent Hall of Shame

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Those with good memories may recall the following amusing episode when BT wanted to sue people for daring to use its super-duper patented h...
06 October 2009

Open Source and the Fear of Failure

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Yesterday I took part in an interesting event organised by BT called " Accelerating Enterprise adoption of Open Source Software " ...
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28 August 2009

Fon and Games with "Three Strikes"

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Interesting : BT’s wifi network has reached half a million hotspots. Fon has made a major contribution toward its growth, since about 90% of...
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02 June 2009

Why Open Source isn't Tiddly for BT

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I'd come across TiddlyWiki before, but never really got what it was about.... On Open Enterprise blog .
24 January 2009

Seven things people didn't know about me...

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...And probably didn't want to. Thanks to that nice Mr Mark Surman, I have been not only tagged but also subjected to fiendishly-cleve...
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11 December 2008

Open Me Kangaroo Up, Sport

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Having had their plan to combine their broadband TV services kyboshed by the Competition Commmission, the BBC and ITV today said they plan t...
06 October 2008

Having Lots of Fon

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One of the blogs I really enjoy reading is that of Fon's founder, Martin Varsavsky. What I love about his writing is his candour: he ...
25 July 2008

BT Calls on Open Source

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On Open Enterprise blog .
13 February 2008

Striking Back Against the Three-Strikes Rule

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As I noted yesterday, the idea of banning people from the Internet after "three strikes" is both outrageous and unworkable. One ...
19 November 2007

Das ist Ja Doof!

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Many years ago the last major British computer manufacturer ICL launched One Per Desk , one of the craziest early computers ever. It was ba...
05 October 2007

BT Learns It's Fun to Share with Fon

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Interesting : BT and FON have joined forces to create a Wi-Fi community that allows its members to connect for free in thousands of places a...
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22 January 2007

GPL > BT?

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As an ex-victim of British Telecom, I have to say that to see it apparently humbled by the forces of light in this way is doubly delicious :...
25 October 2006

Bruce Schneier, the Man from BT???

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Say it ain't true , Bruce: Britain's BT Group has snapped up United States-based Counterpane Internet Security for a sum of more tha...