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I'm always amazed when people raise their eyebrows over the money involved in virtual worlds, because it's obviously not "real...

Here's a rum to-do : Controversy followed the release of a Kurdish translation of Ubuntu in Turkey last week. The release was originally...

I've been slightly unkind to OpenSolaris in these parts. This was particularly reprehensible since I've never tried it (but why le...

According to heise online : the [German] Federal Ministry of the Interior declares the ability to search PCs without physical access to them...

Here's an interesting pair of screenshots , that seem to show that Apple has added ODF support to TextEdit tool. It may be a small ston...

According to this story , the Samba project will move to GNU GPLv3 once it's finished. That's a big win for the the FSF, since Sam...

The official Curmudgeon of Computing, Nick Carr, stirred up a little excitement recently by pointing out that Second Life, for all its virt...

The Wayback Machine is one of the Internet's best-kept secrets: A snapshot of the World Wide Web is taken every 2 months and donated to...

Everybody knows about Project Gutenberg , which aims to provide texts of as many public domain books as possible. One freedom that is avail...

If any further proof were needed of the fading line between real and virtual, here comes a story about Google Maps moving beyond the tangib...

The Gowers Review is now out . I've not had time to read it all yet, but there's a good summary in the Treasury's press release...

Today I received an email from a service I signed up to recently. I'd forgotten about it because it dealt with the apparently yawn-wort...

Today's Web user depends on search - well, I do, at least. But search/Google is really only doing words. And, as any fule kno , words ...

If you go to Dell's main site at www.dell.com , you have an unexpected option on the pop-up list of countries and regions at the bottom,...

One of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0 is the ability to combine data from various sources - the mashup. And yet, in a sense, mashu...

Here's an interesting twist on the Digg idea: a site that does not merely vote stories up or down, but which rates them in terms of the...

An interesting story here: Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook compu...

This , surely, is what technology was invented for: Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its he...

I came across this worthy project through an article about Tibet by Paul Jones: The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library project at the...

Yes : The European Union's telecommunications watchdog has called for regulators to take a backseat in setting standards--and allow cons...

A new one for the commons collection: Climate commons is a networked conversation space that creates a cross-disciplinary platform for plan...

Good news , you might think: Novell today announced that the Novell edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite will now support...

In these dark days when everything seems to be getting worse with the environmental commons, it is rare to come across something as positive...

Sad to see the once-rigorous nation of Immanuel Kant falling for the, er, cant of the content industries in the copyright reform discussions...

Here's one that famous blogger Mahmood Ahmadinejad probably prepared earlier : Jalal Haji-Gholam-Ali who is a member of Sharif Technica...