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28 February 2007
Firewalls in Meatspace
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Hmm, disturbing .
Patent Abuse
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Oh, look. Here's yet another reason to get rid of patents: Guess what? Radio frequency identification tags are insecure. But don't ...
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Vietnam Eyes Open Source
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It seems that the WTO's demands are starting to bite in Vietnam : Though copyright sale isn’t very common on the Vietnamese market, at t...
How Openness Prevents Plagiarism
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Here's an important conclusion drawn from the rather sad Joyce Hatto saga : It's a perfect example of what we've been saying ab...
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Forking Xara LX
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It is a truism in the open source world that the threat of a fork keeps code honest. When contributors who disagree with the way a project ...
A Brace of Virtual Worlds
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I'm not quite sure what the collective noun for virtual worlds is, but here's a couple of new entrants to the world of worlds. First...
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27 February 2007
Softly, Softly on Software Patents
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This response to an e-petition "to make software patents clearly unenforcible" is interesting: The Government remains committed t...
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Second Life Gains a New Voice
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This is something that many people have been waiting for: Linden Lab, creator of virtual world Second Life, has announced that it will be ad...
When the Tardis Connects to the Dilithium Crystals
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Chris Long tells it as it is: my concern about all this is the ignorance of the technical thinking behind these ideas; ideas that have appa...
Virtually Patent
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Here's a fascinating question : how would you feel as a Second Life resident if a real world company stepped into Second Life and starte...
3D Viewer for Second Life
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Sounds cool : The University of Michigan 3D Lab has brought Second Life one step closer to real life by developing stereoscopic support for ...
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The EU Thinks it Can Pwn You
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Sigh . EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini has assured Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble (Christian Democ...
Crying into Our Beer
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At first blush, this sounds good: The University of Manchester has secured a £8.4 million deal to become one of the country's largest r...
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The Enclosure of the Starbucks Experience
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Here's an insightful piece : Let’s face it: a brand is all about creating a monoculture. It is all about efficiencies, bureaucratization...
26 February 2007
Happy Birthday Browser
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Or so it seems : 1991: Tim Berners-Lee, the acknowledged inventor of the World Wide Web, introduces WorldWideWeb, the first practical web br...
25 February 2007
A Crack in the Windows Tax?
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One of the worst abuses of Microsoft's desktop power is that it is often very hard to buy a PC without being forced to pay for Windows, ...
Calling Ballmer's Bluff
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This was something I was going to write about, but someone has gone one better and come up with an entire site devoted to the idea: Open Le...
Someting is Open in the State of Denmark
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Good news from Denmark: On Friday, the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Helge Sander, made a press announcement (Dani...
Hope for WIPO?
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OK, I admit it: I've been a teensy bit negative about WIPO in the past. In part, this was because I thought there was precious little h...
DRM Causes Piracy
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So far from being an impediment to so-called "online piracy," it's DRM itself that keeps fueling it and driving it forward. Yu...
23 February 2007
The Biter Bit - by Bits
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Now that the flow of highly-personal "security" information between the US and other countries is a two-way thing , I predict peop...
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Renew for Freedom: Use It or Lose It
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Brits, awake ! Why you should renew your passport, or apply for one IMMEDIATELY if you are aged 16 or over. The Identity Cards Act 2006 turn...
Commons Sense from the EU Parliament
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There's a lot wrong with EU Parliament (the small matter of expenses, for a start), but it does seem to have its heart in the right plac...
Alfresco Sees the (GPL) Light
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So, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company Alfresco has moved from the Mozilla Public Licence to the GNU General Public Licence (with ...
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Fake Steve Jobs: Suck 2.0?
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I was heartened to see that the future of the Fake Steve Jobs blog now seems assured, following a deal with Wired (kudos). God knows we ...
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