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The use of Web blocks -- usually " for the children " -- is becoming depressingly common these days. So much so, that many ...

Well, here's a nice contrast: just when a judge in the US has ruled that users there have no obligation to lock down their wifi conn...

I've written a couple of articles recently about Ofcom's consultation on the implementation of the Digital Economy Act. That c...

There's a nasty rash of congruent memes going around government circles: they're all coming up with fiendish new ways to wage the no...

How about $98 low ? HiVision CO., LTD makes one of the worlds cheapest Linux laptops at $98 using a new cheaper chipset, WiFi, 1GB flash sto...

Linux is already widely-used for embedded systems. Here's another interesting application , from a UK company, too: EVOKE Flow brings y...

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

Open source hardware is nice in theory, but currently self-contradictory in practice. The key thing about open source is that it's gene...

Although this isn't directly concerned with open source, I predict a lot of clever open source coders will start hacking this system and...

I'm afraid this is proprietary for the moment, but the idea's clearly generalisable : Skyhook Wireless Inc....today announced at the...

Here's a thorough journalistic investigation into why manufacturers of wireless hardware have been less than helpful to the free softwa...

FON is such an obviously clever and right-on idea that I have struggled to articulate exactly why it is I have been reluctant to write abou...

One idea gaining currency is that of creating a patchwork of free wireless Internet access points by leaving your WiFi network open for anyo...

That old contrarian curmudgeon, Andrew Orlowski, has found a soul-mate in Richard Bennett : "[t]he veteran engineer played a role in th...

One of the areas where the commons is being increasingly invoked is that of radio spectrum, the idea being that there can be frequencies ...

Ofcom (Office for Communications), the regulator for UK communications industries, is a grey and rather amorphous body . So it comes as so...

Wow. Here's Boingo , which provides software technology and roaming services that help bring the wireless Internet to the masses. The co...

A nice story in PC World (via Engadget ) about a way to pool WiFi connections with a neighbour so as to boost throughput for both. Now, i...

The ever-acute Doc Searls reports on the CES keynote from Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Given Searls' position as an alpha blogger, it was...

By their very nature, blogs have a real-time element (the "log" in "weblog"). The reverse chronological nature of them ...