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In the last year I've written what some might have felt were rather too many thousand words about ACTA. But I'd argue that it wa...

Police and security forces around the world -- and that includes in the West -- hate being recorded when they're overstepping the mark...

Techflaws alerts us to an announcement by ZPÜ, the organization responsible for setting the levy on storage media in Germany, that fees ...

YouTube has announced that 72 hours of video is now being uploaded to its service every minute . Earlier this year, the statistic was tha...

Ten years ago, people were saying that open source would never be able to best proprietary software. But what they overlooked was the fa...

Videos are proving to be a key element in ensuring that policing is fair and honest, as recent events in the UK have demonstrated. But ther...

...nor any stop to think. Software patents are an issue that crops up fairly often on this blog, since they represent one of the principal t...

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I write a lot about software patents. The reason is simple: they represent probably the g...

One of the miracles of free software is that it always begins with one or two people saying: “hey, how hard can it be?” The miracle is that ...

I had an interesting chat this morning with Mike Shaver, VP, Engineering at Mozilla, about the imminent Firefox 3.5. Its launch takes place ...

Good analysis - and don't miss that embedded video : Twenty world Internet citizens met in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in O...

... real life goes on.

So now there's a Web site with some details . Also worth taking a look at is this BBC video . One thing I noticed was the little sta...

One of the surprising - and heartening - recent developments in the environmental world has been the transformation of Australia into a real...

In a move that seems like a great model of public and private cooperation, the National Archives and Amazon.com have reached a pact under wh...

Alas, not many people care enough about the threat posed by DRM. But I suspect that quite a few care about their TV viewing, and the tradit...

Well, not quite, alas, but certainly an interesting shift : We think we know that the professional news media, especially newspapers, are ob...

I've written before about open fabbers - effectively 3D printers that can make anything - and how it's crucial for there to be ope...

How could anyone fail to love a project called Dirac ? It's named after one of the most modest of quantum mechanics' pioneers. He...

I've not read the article (which is hidden behind a paywall ), but judging by this choice quotation video will become the dominant way p...