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07 October 2008
You Can Bank on It
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Interesting : The ease with which technology allows customers to move their money around by internet or phone has introduced a new financial...
You Know You're Getting Old When...
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...you don't recognise half the things these young chaps are talking about... On Open Enterprise blog .
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Aptly Astounded
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Even though it's years since I crawled out of the dark cave of proprietary software, I remain amazed at the unending stream of free apps...
06 October 2008
Having Lots of Fon
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One of the blogs I really enjoy reading is that of Fon's founder, Martin Varsavsky. What I love about his writing is his candour: he ...
In Praise of that Damn' Richard Poynder
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I hate Richard Poynder. Well, not exactly "hate". I'm just continually miffed that he not only keeps interviewing the very ...
Sussing Out Second Life
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Although Second Life has certain lost its cult status - and thank goodness for that - it's still an important laboratory for virtual wor...
The BBC Wants to Open Up
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Apparently : The future for the BBC lies in the technology that can open it up to the world, just as technology gave it life last century. I...
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OpenOffice.org Breaks Records Everywhere
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All around the world, it seems, people just can't get enough of this amazing free office suite, which is now turning in serious market s...
The Marvellous Mr. arXiv
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Paul Ginsparg is one of the key players in the world of open access. Indeed, he was practising it online before it even had a name, when he...
Microsoft's OOXML Endgame Revealed?
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One of the mysteries concerning Microsoft's attempts to deal with the threat ODF poses to its stranglehold on the office suite sector is...
Googling the Genome
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We're getting close : The cost of determining a person’s complete genetic blueprint is about to plummet again — to $5,000. That is the p...
05 October 2008
What a Nasty Piece of Work is...
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...that Sarkozy chap : Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday that he faxed on Friday evening to the President of the Commission (news piece in...
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03 October 2008
Not That Vista Isn't Selling...
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...or anything : "As more customers make the move to Windows Vista, we want to make sure that they are making that transition with conf...
More Feedback from Number 10
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Those e-petition replies just keep on coming. In response to the following: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to not force int...
Haggling in the Bazaar
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As open source becomes more widely used, people have started exploring how and why its approach to developing software works so well. The pi...
02 October 2008
Chinesepod's Milestone
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Today marks a milestone for the innovative language-learning site Chinesepod: it has published its 1000th Mandarin lesson . Those not famil...
High Priority Free Software Projects
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One of the criticisms of free software is that certain classes of applications are missing. Interestingly, the FSF agrees, up to a point, a...
Norwegians Get the Blues
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A little while back I noted a provocative call from IBM for standards bodies to do better – a clear reference to the ISO's handling of O...
Don't "Think of the Children" - Just *Think*
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More insane authoritarian urges from the present UK government: Shortly after the launch meeting of the UKCCIS, Culture and Media Secretary...
01 October 2008
CeBIT Opens Up
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Years ago, when I was a real journalist, I used to dread going to CeBIT. Then, as now, it was an insanely large exhibition that only Euro an...
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Opening OpenPandora's Box of Openness
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After the open source mobile from Android we have the open source game platform from OpenPandora : * ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running...
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Strange News from the New Frontier
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If you're interested in Xinjiang and its uighurs - and everyone should be - don't miss these extraordinary goings-on .
Respect, Nathive
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In the world of closed-source software, it's hard to get a project going in a sector with established players. Since everything must be...
Just Say "No"....
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...to 42 days . (Via Boing Boing .)
A Survey of Open Source Surveys
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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...
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