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DRM is one of the central themes that has been weaving in and out of many of my posts here; this well-written piece from Sun's Simon Ph...

Amazon is being accused of infringing someone's patents. For inventing a Web registration system. What can you say?

At first sight, the $100 laptop has everything going for it: it is based around open source software, uses renewable energy (you wind it up...

Who would have thought file formats could be such fun? The great battle over whether the OpenDocument format should be adopted in Massachus...

Nicholas Wade in the New York Times has an interesting article about earwax. It seems that there are two types, wet and dry: The wet form...

If you ever wondered why, in the age of the global Internet, local newspapers still existed, read this . It begins as precisely the kind of...

This well-written piece about the current legal tussle between Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the Blackberry, and New Technologies Pro...

First there was Flickr , now there is Flagr (via Jack Schofield ): do I detect a trend here? Is this a new -thon ( telethon , walkathon , ...

A telling story here . A US Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Broadcast Flag - which threatens to close down various kinds of conten...

A new X-prize , this time for exploring inner rather than outer space, has been announced . To win the prize money, all you have to do is s...

Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people know him as one of the world's greatest composers: ...

...but I told you so. In an act of generosity unparalleled in the history of the universe or something, Microsoft has graciously decided t...

Remember when WordPerfect was king of the castle? No, not many people do. But once upon a time, WordPerfect occupied the same position tha...

I wrote below about the escalation of the DRM threat; now it looks like DRM's bigger and even more evil sibling is beginning to stir ag...

After the poetry of spam , the poetry of splogs. Don't ask how, but I ended up here a few minutes ago: They were all old and once beson...

One of the most important facets of the blog world is the rapid and intelligent dialogue it allows. A case in point is the interview that a...

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

Open genomics just goes from strength to strength. As this press release reports, there are now over 100,000,000,000 bases (DNA letters) i...

I must be one of the few people who actually enjoys getting spam. Not, I hasten to add, because I wish to avail myself for any of their ser...

Among the many boons of Firefox and Thunderbird are the powerful keyboard shortcuts; among the banes - trying to remember them. Now you don...

The good news just kept on coming in Steve Jobs's recent MacWorld speech: $5.7 million revenue in the last quarter for Apple; 14 millio...

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

I commented earlier on how Firefox's market share seems to be soaring; clearly the organisation is beginning to gain some serious momen...

This story about the use of free software in Syria pairs up nicely with the one about Nigeria I discussed a few days ago. The difference ...

The National Consumer Council sounds like one of those nebulous bodies full of the occasional sound and fury, but signifying not a lot. To ...