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For a company that is so big and important, Google is remarkably opaque to the outside world (blogs? - we don't need no stinkin' blo...

Since Solaris is one of my favourite planets, and since I was less than generous the last time I wrote about OpenSolaris, I feel duty-boun...

Here's a fascinating paper : Novel artificial genetic systems with twelve bases instead of four. Bacteria that can be programmed to take...

Here's a fascinating analysis of why Sun went for the GPL and why now: In summary, Sun opensourcing Java is all driven by mobile. The t...

The greed and cynicism of some is simply beyond words: Whatever the cost to the ecosystem, it could be an immensely profitable bet. Company...

This is not good - although it would be interesting to know what exactly went wrong. It may just be that the old GNU/Linux desktop just wa...

Google search is useful - my day revolves around it. But you'd be hard-pushed to claim it was cool anymore. On the contrary, it's ...

Not content with GPL'ing Java (for which they have my unalloyed admiration), Sun has now also given some dosh to Creative Commons. What...

Ha!

Talking of lightning , I can't believe that the curse of Massachusetts has struck twice in the same place, but apparently it has: In (a...

Microfinancing - making small loans to many people, especially those traditionally unable to obtain loans - is about decomposing money: brea...

There's no doubt that the three giants of the online world are Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. What they get up to matters, so tracking wh...

The Top500 Supercomputer list is always fun, not least because it shows us where we will all be in a few years' time. There are all so...

Not very, it seems . This report contrasts the amount of electricity consumed, and carbon dioxide generated, by two approaches to school com...

I've written elsewhere about what I call the FOOGL concept - Firefox, OpenOffice.org and GNU/Linux. Basically, the idea is that once e...

Interesting distinction , fascinating examples.

To late to go to this , of course, but it's interesting to see the science commons meme spreading. And there's always some yummy pa...

Doctors in doubt about a patient's ailment could use Google to help them reach a diagnosis, researchers said today. Two Australian docto...

If you really have absolutely nothing better to do, you could always listen to me wittering on about the opens at the British Computer Soci...

Tags have proved one of the most powerful Web 2.0 ideas. They let everyone add their pebble to the cairn of taxonomy, creating a rich tapes...

I'm a big fan of trees, especially for helping to address the world's environmental problems. So this sounds like a jolly good whee...

A characteristically deep post from Techdirt about the intertwinings of copyright, economics and abundance.

I like Thinkature for four reasons. First, it's about real-time, online, visual collaboration . Second, it doesn't use Flash (unlik...

Nothing new here , but it bears underlining, since it's why collaborative openness will prevail: when news of Donald Rumsfeld's resi...

For some reason, the idea of open source film is one that exerts a strong fascination on people. I've written about it before , and her...