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Yesterday I wrote about one particular issue with standards: the fact that the associated patent licensing (if applicable) can shut out fre...

And a pretty important one : The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s p...

Now that open source has largely overcome its earlier problems with limited application availability – there's practically no area today...

Open what ? A "spime" (the word -- a contraction of "space" and "time" -- was coined by sci-fi writer Bruce St...

Here's a neat device : With Exbiblio, you have seamless, direct access to digital information and the world of the Internet. Imagine onc...

Wow, a new one on me: SquidBee is an Open Hardware and Source wireless sensor device. The goal of SquidBee is getting an "open mote...

You probably don't realise it, but the Internet is a dinosaur. More specially, the Internet numbering system is palaeolithic, and needs...

Some say that 2007 is the year GNU/Linux is going to make its breakthrough on the desktop - just like last year, and the year before that. ...

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...

I'm a big fan of open source meshes, with their potential to offer alternative ways of accessing the Internet. I'd not heard of the...