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27 October 2013
British Library Network Blocks 'Hamlet' For 'Violent Content'
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The use of Web blocks -- usually " for the children " -- is becoming depressingly common these days. So much so, that many ...
29 September 2012
First HADOPI Victim Convicted, Not For His Own Infringement, But Because His Wife Downloaded Songs
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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...
10 August 2012
Consumer Focus and the Digital Economy Act
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I've written a couple of articles recently about Ofcom's consultation on the implementation of the Digital Economy Act. That c...
09 January 2009
Watch Out, There's a Meme About
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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...
02 September 2008
How Low Can They Go?
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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...
27 August 2008
Linux-Powered Radios
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Linux is already widely-used for embedded systems. Here's another interesting application , from a UK company, too: EVOKE Flow brings y...
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 ...
03 November 2007
Open Source Hardware: A Meme That Won't Die
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Open source hardware is nice in theory, but currently self-contradictory in practice. The key thing about open source is that it's gene...
01 November 2007
Wireless Memory Card
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Although this isn't directly concerned with open source, I predict a lot of clever open source coders will start hacking this system and...
11 January 2007
Drawing Closer: Location Awareness
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I'm afraid this is proprietary for the moment, but the idea's clearly generalisable : Skyhook Wireless Inc....today announced at the...
28 December 2006
Why Wireless is Hopeless: Manufacturers are Clueless
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Here's a thorough journalistic investigation into why manufacturers of wireless hardware have been less than helpful to the free softwa...
19 September 2006
Not My Idea of FON
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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...
27 July 2006
Why WiFi Sharing is Good for You
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One idea gaining currency is that of creating a patchwork of free wireless Internet access points by leaving your WiFi network open for anyo...
17 July 2006
If Not Net Neutrality - What?
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That old contrarian curmudgeon, Andrew Orlowski, has found a soul-mate in Richard Bennett : "[t]he veteran engineer played a role in th...
05 July 2006
From the Commons to...Managed Parks?
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One of the areas where the commons is being increasingly invoked is that of radio spectrum, the idea being that there can be frequencies &qu...
31 May 2006
Hats Off for Ofcom
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Ofcom (Office for Communications), the regulator for UK communications industries, is a grey and rather amorphous body . So it comes as so...
17 May 2006
Boingo Goes Open Source
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Wow. Here's Boingo , which provides software technology and roaming services that help bring the wireless Internet to the masses. The co...
29 April 2006
Mum Was Right: It's Good to Share
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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...
22 January 2006
VIIV, DRM, and Fair Use: the Big One
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The ever-acute Doc Searls reports on the CES keynote from Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Given Searls' position as an alpha blogger, it was...
18 January 2006
Real-time, voice-activated blogging
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By their very nature, blogs have a real-time element (the "log" in "weblog"). The reverse chronological nature of them ...
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