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07 August 2008
Why DNA Databases Are Doomed
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I've been against DNA databases for years, but I've always felt that the generic arguments I've been using were a little pallid,...
Cloud Computing on a Stick
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On Open Enterprise blog .
06 August 2008
Morphic Resonance?
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My thoughts , precisely.
I'm Touched
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GigaOM has a post about touch-based computers, noting that the pioneer in this field was HP. Accompanying the article is a pic of HP's...
Solving the Mono Problem
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Alan Lord grapples manfully with Mono: The nasty taste which has always ‘ever-so-slightly’ tainted my use of Ubuntu is that Mono is there o...
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ACTA's Unspeakable Acts
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Since neither the EU nor the UK government has deigned to let us peasants know anything about the current ACTA negotations, I was interested...
Big Blue is Back
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On Open Enterprise blog .
The Trouble with Clouds....
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Suddenly, Nick can’t access his Gmail account, can’t open Google Talk (our office IM app), can’t open Picasa where his family pictures are, ...
Blogging and "Sharism"
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An interesting perspective from Chinese blogger Isaac Mao: It's a different mindset that one can feel after blogging for a period of ti...
05 August 2008
Free Software Adds Some Polish (Schools)
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The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the ...
What's in a Number?
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One of the long-standing jokes has been about GNU/Linux's imminent breakthrough on the desktop. Against that background, this is intere...
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04 August 2008
The LiMo Has Arrived
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Recently I interviewed Wind River's John Bruggeman, who filled me on the intricacies of the mobile Linux market. At that time, he ment...
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Open Source and UK Politics
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The new dividing line between Labour and the Tories is less about a left-right split than about an authoritarian approach on one side and a ...
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Coming Down Hard - in Favour of Downloads
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A study about downloading finds : Music companies need to stop resisting and accept that illegal downloading is a fact of 21st-century life ...
Welcome to the Open Grid
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On Open Enterprise blog .
Mapping the (Open) Future
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OpenStreetMap goes from strength to strength : Earlier this week the project surpassed 50,000 registered users with over 5,000 actively cont...
Why Software Patents Are Harmful
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Recently I've pointed to a couple of classic texts about the general undesirability of intellectual monopolies. Here's an interest...
03 August 2008
Bananas About London Bananas
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Whoever thinks blogging is a sad, soulless activity is clearly bananas . (Via Boing Boing .)
A Sad Day for Copyright
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In the dark, twisted world of copyright, one ray of light has been William Patry's blog . No more : I have decided to end the blog, aft...
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Dell Trademarks "Cloud Computing"?
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If this is true, it's outrageous : Dell has applied for a trademark on the term cloud computing. The opposition period has already passe...
02 August 2008
Against Intellectual Property
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Regular readers of this blog will know that one of my favourite riffs is the non-existence of "intellectual property", since what ...
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01 August 2008
The Real Silicon Valley
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Mike Masnick gets it again: many folks look at Silicon Valley and try to replicate the outward manifestations (a good university, some vent...
Saint Firefox, Defender of the Weak
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News that Firefox 3.x will be adding support for Ogg Theora and Vorbis is welcome, since the latter find themselves in a typical Catch-22 s...
Alfresco: the Samba of Enterprise Content Management
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On Open Enterprise blog .
BL = Betrayed Library
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This kind of naive adulation is beginning to stick in my craw: The British Library is bringing some of the world's rarest books online,...
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