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...to 42 days . (Via Boing Boing .)

One sign of the health of open source these days is the number of surveys saying how healthy it is. For example, here's one from Actuate...

This is too good an offer to pass up: search through Google's index as it was in January 2001. Spooky . (Via Google Blogoscoped .)

Last week I chatted to the founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale. He was telling me how happy he was that he'd found a new CEO to take...

Most people know that the Estremadura region in Spain is a pacesetter in terms of deploying free software, but here's a handy map that ...

Here's an interesting emergent meme : An incoming Conservative government would decentralise health service computing and extend competi...

As I listen to all this talk of lack of trust in the banking system, of inflated values ungrounded in any reality, of “opacity”, and of “con...

I'd stopped reading Umair Haque's posts on Bubblegen because I was beginning to find them increasingly incomprehensible (probably ol...

Go, RMS , go: "One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control," he said. "It...

As I wrote last week, Android's USP is openness. Although that means open to everyone, there is arguably an advantage to open source cod...

Apparently, Internet Explorer has a market share of around 98.7% in South Korea. As I understand it, this is largely because the South Kore...

There's hope : academic John Daugman, a former member of the Biometrics Assurance Group (BAG), which reviewed the scheme, said its relia...

At first, I thought this Computerworld UK story about software vendors “challenging” proposed EU guidelines was just a typical Microsoft whi...

.... just in case they need reminding: Dominic Grieve has said it is “high time” Labour abandon their "ill-fated" ID cards projec...

I’ve been asked to share a few words about the reported theft of 900,000 records of past and p1resent RAF service personnel, often with bank...

Think about it .

Fishing vessels on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are this week destroying the best hope for years that the region's cod fishery, once ...

A free, online Anglo-Norman dictionary? God , that's cool. (Via languagehat.com )

A fine, impassioned tirade here from Cory Doctorow about ID cards - now being rolled out to people like him - and how Labour has killed lib...

It's easy to be cynical about 10 Downing Street's e-petitions (I should know). But here's a case where it might even have done...

The open source company Ringside had an interesting idea: Ringside enables any website to be a container for OpenSocial applications. Alas,...

Apparently : Ce matin, le Parlement européen a enterré la riposte graduée. En France, et dans les tous les pays membres de l’Union. Une « én...

I'm not the world's biggest fan of Flash, but there's no denying an open version would at least be better than a closed one. He...

So the fabled Googlephone has arrived. It's pretty much as people expected, with tight integration to Google's main services, includ...

...and smoke it: the Department of Justice has limited resources to dedicate to particular issues, and civil enforcement actions would occu...