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  • ☆ Patents and Innovation
    An interview with a pharmaceutical industry analyst on the BBC today illustrated a key point about patents and reminds us they are about stimulating, not rewarding, innovation. Explaining why AstraZeneca were having difficulties that were making them plan large layoffs, the analyst talked about the patent cliff, and the interviewer insightfully observed that it was [...]



  • ☝ ACTAs Back
    Are the European Commission just trying to provoke us? Having seen the depth of feeling over SOPA and PIPA, you would expect the European Commission to regard ACTA as a hot topic. But not a bit of it  they almost seem to relish the confrontation by getting member states to sign it almost before [...]


  • ☆ ebooks  You Cant Take Them With You&
    Digital books are loaned, not sold, so why arent they described that way? Theres a big market for digital books, but I think theyre being sold badly, almost to the point of dishonesty. I think its time the way their vendors talk about them was changed. First some illustrations: My father just finished reading an [...]


  • ☆ Mozilla peut-elle apporter l’unité à l’open-source ?
    La nouvelle licence open-source de Mozilla est bien plus qu’un simple ravalement de façade. Elle pourrait créer de nouvelles possibilités pour l’unité de la communauté du Libre. La première semaine de janvier 2012 marque un jalon discret mais important dans le mouvement de l’open-source, grâce à la publication d’une deuxième version de la Mozilla Public [...]


  • ☝ Insecurity By Obscurity
    I was so shocked by the way Symantec has left its customers to twist in the wind for five years I had to write down some serious questions about their  pcAnywhere advisory this week.  Read them on ComputerWorldUK.


  • ☆ OSI Reform at FOSDEM
    I was interviewed about my upcoming FOSDEM keynote and gave this concise summary of the background to the changes Im working on with the Board of the Open Source Initiative. Why exactly did OSI decide to reorganize its governance from a board-only organization into a member-based structure? How will this new governance allow OSI to [...]


  • ☝ Back To The Library?
    Theres a big market for digital books, but I think theyre being sold badly. If eBooks were sold as library loans, maybe Id like them more  I explain more in my article today on ComputerWorldUK.


  • ☂ Peoples Choice?
    My postings from here and ComputerWorldUK are often reposted at opensource.com by the folk at Red Hat who run the site. They are once again running a Peoples Choice ballot for all there usual authors, and Id be rather pleased to get a good score so do please go other and vote for me!  Thanks!






  • Links Feed Turned Off
    I've now turned off the automatic posting to this blog from Delicious. Daily links will now only appear over on my new Wild Webmink blog, and I once again encourage you to subscribe to it!



  • links for 2010-02-28
    U.K. bill would 'outlaw open Wi-Fi' At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments designed to ensure citizen rights (as opposed to most terms of the DEB that limit citizen rights in defence on corporate rights) were rejected by the UK governmnet on the basis they would upset the delicate balance of UK law. Yet here we see the very same Bill seriously disrupting the delicate balance of rights voters already enjoy. You'll no longer be able to offer your guests easy wifi access, ruining evolving and desirable modes of work and interaction in order to shore up the 20th century monopolies of Lord Mandelson's media friends.I've not heard nearly enough from the opposition parties on this stuff, making me fear they will just do more of the same - not a surprise, it's advance preparation for ACTA ratification. It's election time; we need to make sure the politicians know we care about this stuff. (tags: Rights Freedom Privacy UK DigitalEconomyBill Policy ACTA WiFi) Petition to: Make public the details and text of the ACTA agreement UK citizens can sign this petition to the UK government calling for transparency. (tags: UK ACTA Transparency Petition) The ACTA Transparency Scorecard Useful summary from Michael Geist - worth asking your representatives why your government hates transparency if you're in one of the countries opposing it. (tags: ACTA Transparency) Opening up some details of OpenSolaris under Oracle Peter Tribble documents some of the comments made by Oracle's representative in theOpenSolaris annual meeting. Net: Oracle intends to keep going with OpenSolaris. (tags: OpenSolaris Oracle Sun FOSS OpenSource)


  • Blog Moved
    A reminder: If you are following me here on blogs.sun.com, please change your bookmarks and feeds to read http://webmink.com instead, as I have moved all my blogging there. I'll be turning of the daily link posts early next week. There are several new posts on the new site, especially on ACTA, so you really do want to move!




  • Blog Move
    With the change from Sun in the UK almost complete, I've decided to move my blog. Please adjust your feed, and read on over at Wild Webmink.



  •  Insider Information
    Time To Change (Or Ditch) The USTR Special 301 Process  Special 301 is a nefarious mechanism that allows US corporations to request diplomatic action against foreign competitors on the flimsiest of grounds. It's anticompetitive, harms the rights of both US and foreign citizens in the digital age and it should go.  (tags: USA Policy Trade)    An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad cant use Flash  Sounds plausible, certainly. What the commentators I've seen so far (including Gruber) are mostly ignoring is that Apple would block Flash even if there were no technical issues (and most of them are probably soluble in some way) since their priority is control of the platform so they can control its monetisation.   It's business, not technology. That means no Flash, no Java, no virtualisation, no interpreted code. The very interesting question will be what they do with HTML5. My prediction: HTML 5 support will be complete but will lag native apps and be poorly integrated with the overall UI.  (tags: Apple Flash Control iPhone Adobe iPad)    National Bullying Helpline patron quits over No 10 row  And quite right too. Whatever the political or news motivation, it was obviously wrong for a confidential helpline to in any way identify its clients or their employers to the news media. Worse, the woman involved is busily justifying herself instead of apologising to avoid damage to the charity she founded.  (tags: UK Politics Ethics Confidentiality Privacy Bullying) 


  •  Keys To Growth
    WhoseTube?  This is an interesting and useful article by a musician (from OK Go) whose work rose to great success through "viral" word-of-mouth video (the one with the people on running machines) but who now can't succeed with the same approach becuase their dinosaur record label EMI insists on "monetising video streams" and thus prevents them letting fans embed their new videos on fan web sites.   The failure of the music industry illustrated in cameo. Why would we want to let people who think like this shape our legislative future around the internet and copyright?  (tags: Music Industry Video Clueless Marketing Greed copyright internet ACTA ThreeStrikes YouTube)    Distributed Filesystem - tahoe-lafs  This is an interesting and promising (and open source) approach to data storage that could be built-in to consumer and SOHO devices to give them automatic data integrity by collaborating with other devices over the home or office LAN. It's still very raw as a technology but I'll be giving it a try at home this month.  (tags: Storage FOSS OpenSource Software Cloud Filesystem)    Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown  I've always treated Myhrvold's company with the greatest scepticism (I call them "Intellectual Vultures") and this report is extremely believable. It fits in with the use of patents - especially software patents - by companies like IBM, who hide their patent shake-downs behind confidentiality, out-of-court settlement and fine language about their community credentials.  (tags: Patents IBM Rights Abuse Extortion Microsoft IntellectualVentures)    Lent Book: The First Paul  It's now Lent, and regardless of religious orientation I know many of us have the habit of reading a book for spiritual nourishment. This book by Marcus Borg casts a new light on the life and teaching of the apostle Paul and I would very much recommend it as a Lent book if you've moved on from evangelical christianity. If you read it and would like to discuss it maybe we can start a Buzz discussion? (This is the Amazon UK link)  (tags: Books Amazon Christianity Religion Spirituality) 





  •  Fact-Based Living
    Music Journalism is the New Piracy  Yet another illustration why the proposed three-strikes laws are unbalanced and unjust. The onus continues to be on the accused to prove innocence, usually at great cost and after summary judgment. This cannot be allowed to stand; we need to educate the general population about why it's their freedoms at risk and not those of anonymous abusers.  (tags: Rights Freedom ThreeStrikes Music Download ACTA DMCA IFPI RIAA copyright)    What happens to Sun's open-source software now?  I've been highlighting this thread of thought (SJVN's post is just an example) to my counterpart at Oracle who tells me the information vacuum is not a guaranteed indicator of bad stuff. Moveover, some of these assertions aren't accurate. For example, Kenai is not being shut down - it is merely being reskinned and rebranded as Java.Net as an act of consolidation. So my advice continues to be to hold on and wait for news rather than assuming the worst.  (tags: Sun Oracle OpenSource FOSS)    Amazon.com: Free MP3 Downloads  Seems Amazon US has started providing a URL for the list of free tracks posted for the week. Very handy. I like all but one of these, well worth a visit.  (tags: Amazon USA Music MP3 Download) 















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    SIMBONSI 2011 : N’KO DOUMBOU commémore le 24ème  anniversaire de la Mort de Solomana Kanté (1922-1987), inventeur de l’Alphabet N’ko : Le dimanche


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    A nos amis d?Unicode-Afrique@... Je vous remercie pour vos efforts et la g?n?rosit? que vous continuez ? donner ? N'Ko et les autres langues




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    ... [PA] Oui, je crois qu'il s'agit de cela. ... [PA] Il n'y a pas beaucoup de détails à donner pour l'instant. L'écriture n'a pas été soumise au


  • Re: Fw: mandombe
    Bonjour. ... C'est sans doute un référence au billet « Le Chercheur Wabeladio Payi David, consacré Docteur Honoris Causa des universités du


  • Clavier Pulaar Fulfulde
    (Vu sur Twitter) @pulaagu_com: SUR LE BLOG DU PULAAGU: TECHNOLOGIE: Le clavier Pulaar Fulfulde s?enrichit et s?adapte aux claviers internationaux



  • Fw: mandombe
    Bonjour, Je viens de recevoir ce couriel qui fait mention du mandombe - ce qui me fait penser qu'il serait un bon moment de soulever encore deux questions


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    Bonjour Mohomodou, Foo nda goy. Cette question a ete le sujet de beaucoup de discussions depuis lontemps, bien sur. On l'a traite sur Unicode-Afrique et en


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    Désolé, j'ai vu Unicode dans le titre et j'ai oublié la langue préférée dans celle-ci (je suis membre de trois autres listes Unicode, principalement en


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    Je vais voir ce qui s'est passé. Mais cette liste est francophone, Philippe. ... [Les parties de ce message comportant autre chose que du texte seul ont été


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    Please report this evident spam, and take action against the following subscriber that posted that... This message should have never passed the filter!




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  • 6 Reasons Why Windows 8 Tablets Are Not A Threat To Android
    Microsoft has lost the mobile war. The disappointing performance of Windows Phone even after two years of its release is evident that the market has moved on. Microsoft's last bet is Nokia which dropped all of its own open source projects and promising OS such as MeeGo to become a hardware delivery truck for Microsoft's Mobile OS.Nokia used to have a very strong position in the Asian market and Microsoft wanted to get a free ride of that popularity. Which again is the indication that people won't go to buy a Windows phone they will be looking for a Nokia Phone. That leaves on to wonder what is going to be the future of Windows 8 Tablet.


  • Automatically Detect File Changes on Your Server
    AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is the Open Source version of Tripwire. AIDE takes a snapshot of every file on your server, records it and then will notify you of any changes. This tutorial will show you how to create a script that will automate this process and send you an email of the outcome.



  • Adventures in Self-Publishing, Ch. 9: How to Price your Book – and Does it Matter?
    [i][I wanted to be sure you saw this, as you've already run the first 8 chapters][/i]This week we’ll talk about how to come up with the “right” price for your book in each of the formats in which you plan to make it available (eBook, soft, and/or hardcover). By “right” price, I mean a price that will make more, rather than fewer, people actually buy your book. My challenge will be to convince you that the title you see above makes sense.


  • How to create facebook application using PHP and graph api
    This tutorial will explain how to create a facebook application using Graph api and PHP.For those who are new to Facebook platform you need to learn the basics of Graph api.We are about to build a facebook application you can see a demo here



  • Is Compiz On Its Deathbed?
    Sparked from a posting earlier this week about Compiz likely being dropped from Fedora 17, some are wondering whether Compiz is effectively dead...


  • The Humble Bundle for Android
    It is time for a brand new "Humble Bundle" release!But this time, it's a bit different... Why? Simple: the games included in this bundle will not just work on Mac (ahem...), Windows (boo this OS), Linux (i shake my own hands) but also on... ANDROID!


  • How to : Download Google Maps for Offline Purpose in Android
    This post will show you how to Precache any area in Google Maps for future use . Let’s assume you are going to a new place as tourist ,where you don’t have any network connection to access internet ;then it’s very difficult for you to find the route .



  • Bordeaux 75% off sale
    The Bordeaux Technology Group is proud to announce a 75% off sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PCBSD and OpenIndiana.


  • Radeon R600 Tiling Patches Are Ready
    Jerome Glisse, the Red Hat developer commonly working on the open-source Radeon graphics driver, has announced that he believes the R600 Gallium3D tiling support is complete...


  • Sprint's seven-inch tablet is just $100 on contract
    Sprint says it will offer a seven-inch tablet featuring a dual-core Snapdragon processor, 3G, and Wi-Fi for just $100 -- with a two-year service agreement priced at $20 to $80 per month. The ZTE Optik includes Android Market support, GPS receiver, Bluetooth, a microSD slot, and a bundled headset, according to the carrier....


  • Bouncing malware from Android Market
    From the description, Bouncer is like a security agent that scans the marketplace for malware, relying on signatures of known malware to do its job. Besides looking for malicious applications, Bouncer also analyzes “new developer accounts to help prevent malicious and repeat-offending developers from coming back.”The idea, as Hiroshi described it, is to provide an “automated scanning of Android Market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the user experience of Android Market or requiring developers to go through an application approval process.” Sounds good to me.


  • LinuxDevices acquired ...
    LinuxDevices' publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, has been acquired by a Californian company -- as yet undisclosed, but rumored to be Foster City-based QuinStreet. Future plans for the site have not yet been announced ......



  • Synergy! as many PCs as you like with just one keyboard and one mouse!
    If your desk is like mine: you have multiple PCs and Laptops spread over two square meters, but do not worry I have the solution for you! Install Synergy and you’ll just say goodbye, once and for all to the mess! This software, which I emphasize is cross-platform, allows you to control multiple PCs or laptops with just one mouse and one keyboard. Basically this software allows you to have two monitors on your desk and allow you to switch from the left monitor, to the second monitor just by moving the mouse out of the right border of the first one and vice versa. This sounds simple … but be aware that we are not talking about two monitors attached to the same PC, but two different PCs even with different OS such as Ubuntu and Windows.


  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released Video, Screenshots
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin alpha 2 is available for download, we'll do a recap of all the changes since the previous milestone (alpha 1). The latest Unity, available in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin alpha 2 feels very smooth and is actually quite stable for an alpha. Besides many bug fixes, there were also many tweaks and changes designed to make Ubuntu 12.04 "pixel perfect" and while we'll obviously not cover all of them, you can read about the most important changes below.


  • Linux 3.3 Will Let You Boot Into Android: Greg-KH
    The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management. The 3.4 kernel release will hopefully have the power management hooks that Android needs in it, along with a few other minor missing infrastructure pieces that didn't make it into the 3.3 kernel release.



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  • 6 Reasons Why Windows 8 Tablets Are Not A Threat To Android
    Microsoft has lost the mobile war. The disappointing performance of Windows Phone even after two years of its release is evident that the market has moved on. Microsoft's last bet is Nokia which dropped all of its own open source projects and promising OS such as MeeGo to become a hardware delivery truck for Microsoft's Mobile OS.Nokia used to have a very strong position in the Asian market and Microsoft wanted to get a free ride of that popularity. Which again is the indication that people won't go to buy a Windows phone they will be looking for a Nokia Phone. That leaves on to wonder what is going to be the future of Windows 8 Tablet.


  • Automatically Detect File Changes on Your Server
    AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is the Open Source version of Tripwire. AIDE takes a snapshot of every file on your server, records it and then will notify you of any changes. This tutorial will show you how to create a script that will automate this process and send you an email of the outcome.



  • Adventures in Self-Publishing, Ch. 9: How to Price your Book – and Does it Matter?
    [i][I wanted to be sure you saw this, as you've already run the first 8 chapters][/i]This week we’ll talk about how to come up with the “right” price for your book in each of the formats in which you plan to make it available (eBook, soft, and/or hardcover). By “right” price, I mean a price that will make more, rather than fewer, people actually buy your book. My challenge will be to convince you that the title you see above makes sense.


  • How to create facebook application using PHP and graph api
    This tutorial will explain how to create a facebook application using Graph api and PHP.For those who are new to Facebook platform you need to learn the basics of Graph api.We are about to build a facebook application you can see a demo here



  • Is Compiz On Its Deathbed?
    Sparked from a posting earlier this week about Compiz likely being dropped from Fedora 17, some are wondering whether Compiz is effectively dead...


  • The Humble Bundle for Android
    It is time for a brand new "Humble Bundle" release!But this time, it's a bit different... Why? Simple: the games included in this bundle will not just work on Mac (ahem...), Windows (boo this OS), Linux (i shake my own hands) but also on... ANDROID!


  • How to : Download Google Maps for Offline Purpose in Android
    This post will show you how to Precache any area in Google Maps for future use . Let’s assume you are going to a new place as tourist ,where you don’t have any network connection to access internet ;then it’s very difficult for you to find the route .



  • Bordeaux 75% off sale
    The Bordeaux Technology Group is proud to announce a 75% off sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PCBSD and OpenIndiana.


  • Radeon R600 Tiling Patches Are Ready
    Jerome Glisse, the Red Hat developer commonly working on the open-source Radeon graphics driver, has announced that he believes the R600 Gallium3D tiling support is complete...


  • Sprint's seven-inch tablet is just $100 on contract
    Sprint says it will offer a seven-inch tablet featuring a dual-core Snapdragon processor, 3G, and Wi-Fi for just $100 -- with a two-year service agreement priced at $20 to $80 per month. The ZTE Optik includes Android Market support, GPS receiver, Bluetooth, a microSD slot, and a bundled headset, according to the carrier....


  • Bouncing malware from Android Market
    From the description, Bouncer is like a security agent that scans the marketplace for malware, relying on signatures of known malware to do its job. Besides looking for malicious applications, Bouncer also analyzes “new developer accounts to help prevent malicious and repeat-offending developers from coming back.”The idea, as Hiroshi described it, is to provide an “automated scanning of Android Market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the user experience of Android Market or requiring developers to go through an application approval process.” Sounds good to me.


  • LinuxDevices acquired ...
    LinuxDevices' publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, has been acquired by a Californian company -- as yet undisclosed, but rumored to be Foster City-based QuinStreet. Future plans for the site have not yet been announced ......



  • Synergy! as many PCs as you like with just one keyboard and one mouse!
    If your desk is like mine: you have multiple PCs and Laptops spread over two square meters, but do not worry I have the solution for you! Install Synergy and you’ll just say goodbye, once and for all to the mess! This software, which I emphasize is cross-platform, allows you to control multiple PCs or laptops with just one mouse and one keyboard. Basically this software allows you to have two monitors on your desk and allow you to switch from the left monitor, to the second monitor just by moving the mouse out of the right border of the first one and vice versa. This sounds simple … but be aware that we are not talking about two monitors attached to the same PC, but two different PCs even with different OS such as Ubuntu and Windows.


  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released Video, Screenshots
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin alpha 2 is available for download, we'll do a recap of all the changes since the previous milestone (alpha 1). The latest Unity, available in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin alpha 2 feels very smooth and is actually quite stable for an alpha. Besides many bug fixes, there were also many tweaks and changes designed to make Ubuntu 12.04 "pixel perfect" and while we'll obviously not cover all of them, you can read about the most important changes below.


  • Linux 3.3 Will Let You Boot Into Android: Greg-KH
    The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management. The 3.4 kernel release will hopefully have the power management hooks that Android needs in it, along with a few other minor missing infrastructure pieces that didn't make it into the 3.3 kernel release.



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The Register

  • Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan
    More performance-tuning for your home and office
    Part 3 I'm pleased to say that what with the relatively warm 2011 and our conservation efforts we had the lowest consumption of electricity and gas at home of any year yet, a bit over 1,500kWh ('units') of electricity and under 4,000kWh of gas. (A typical UK household is nearer 3,300kWh 'leccy and 18,000kWh gas.) With our solar PV exports we were just carbon-negative for power by my calculations.…


  • Eight... HD camera smartphones
    Sharp shooters for parties and protests
    Product round-up You know that really annoying person who is videoing the gig with their camera phone to stick on Facebook when they get home? That's me. These days my TV is HD and my games console is HD, so it only makes sense that my phone – the device I use the most, day in and day out – should be HD too. Luckily, HD on smartphones is becoming more commonplace and so rather than judge these handsets on their mobile merits, this round-up focuses on their HD video camera performance.…



  • Study links dimwits to conservative ideology
    US, UK research: Thick kids more likely to become bigots
    British and American children who are less intelligent are more likely to grow up to be conservative and/or bigots, according to new research published in Physiological Science.…


  • Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash
    Expert pilot, experimental aircraft
    Steven Appleton, the long-time CEO at memory chip maker Micron Technology, died this morning in a crash of an experimental plane in the company's hometown of Boise, Idaho. He was 51 years old and one of the youngest CEOs and chairman in the Fortune 500.…


  • Opinion poll: Anti-regulatory 'hype' unwarranted
    Rival small-business boosters, Obama foes disagree
    One advocacy group has published a survey it says proves that US small-business owners aren't unduly concerned with government regulations. Another group says that the first group's opinion poll is tainted by bogosity.…




  • US adds more jobs than expected in January
    Lots of IT workers get pink slips
    The US economy added 243,000 net new jobs in January and the unemployment rate has ticked down two-tenths of a point, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.…


  • Apple iPhones, iPad back in German online store
    Take 'em down, put 'em back – a busy morning for Apple IT
    A German court has suspended the injunction that required Apple to remove its iPhone 4 and 3Gs, and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G from its online store in that country.…





  • Steve Jobs sighted in Taiwan flogging Android tablets
    Rumours of PlayBook Elvis discounted
    In the cut-throat tablet market, a Taiwanese company has found one way to make its product stand out: paying an actor to dress up as Steve Jobs and make tasteless jokes about how he's dead.…



  • IBM snatches back SPC-1 benchmark crown
    SVC does the business
    IBM's SAN Volume Controller has done the benchmark business, again, and passed the half million SPC-1 IOPS mark using Storwize V7000 storage.…



  • Gun controlled lamp hits the spotlight
    Taking the pistol
    One Taiwanese manufacturer took aim at traditional light switches this week and unveiled a lamp that can be turned on and off with the shot of a gun-shaped remote.…


  • Sysadmins: Don't get in your own way
    Be prepared to try new and irritating things
    Sysadmin blog I remember the first time I saw these automated supermarket tills. They intrigued me. Yet I was also afraid of the things. I was afraid that despite all of my knowledge and training I wouldn't be able to figure it out and I would end up looking like a fool. I avoided them for three years; the basis of this avoidance nothing more than irrational fear of that which I might not understand.…


  • ARM rains on x86 as smartphones outship PCs
    Netbooks cop a hiding
    Netbooks are so yesterday's technology. Shipments of the small, not-so-cheap computers plunged during 2011 by 25 per cent, figures from market watcher Canalys show.…


  • IBM bit-twiddlers want point releases for big iron
    Software gurus to 'refactor' Big Blue's systems
    The bit-twiddlers took over IBM's server business a year and a half ago, and it appears that they are starting to think about systems as if they were code, as if they could do dot releases in a nearly steady stream and keep their revenues from spiking up and crashing down all the time.…


  • Sony throws smartphone party with Billabong
    Blower out the water
    Sony has gone surf-tastic, announcing a partnership with Aussie outdoors outfitter Billabong, which sees its Xperia Active handset branded with the extreme-sports logo and pitched towards the cool-dude generation.…






  • Nokia pours oil on burning Symbian
    Rips up roadmap, axes development
    Exclusive Nokia is said to be hastening the demise of its legacy Symbian platform, cancelling the development of all but one new Symbian-based device. Although Nokia Belle updates will continue to ship to existing customers, only one new model – a successor to the N8 high-end camera phone – will reach the market, the Register understands.…



  • Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit
    Cuts also counter revenue dip in Q3
    BT reported this morning that its sales had fallen 5 per cent for the three months ended 31 December, however earnings and cash generation remained steady, the company added.…



  • Euro watchdog asks Google to HALT privacy tweak
    Take a pause while French DP officers frisk you, Larry
    A European Union watchdog has written to Google boss Larry Page asking him to explain how personal data will be safeguarded when the search giant puts its revised privacy policy into effect on 1 March.…




  • Toshiba Regza 40RL858 40in LED TV
    Smart, but no mortarboard
    Review Toshiba is a bit of a wild card when it comes to TVs. While some of its screens are genuinely exciting, others are merely bargain bin fillers. Buying a cheaper Tosh is a classic case of caveat emptor.…


  • RIM shot at Android: Free PlayBooks for devs
    Knock up an app before Valentine's, get 16GB love-slab
    RIM is offering a free PlayBook tablet to developers who submit an Android application to RIM's App World before Valentine's Day, though the T&Cs have yet to be revealed.…


  • TV tuner maker intros mobile Freeview pick-up
    Streams digital telly over its own Wi-Fi
    TV tuner maker Hauppauge has introduced a mobile gadget that streams Freeview content to you phone, tablet or computer over its own wireless network.…


  • Apple Europe poaches Xbox PR mastermind
    Prepares for battle against Microsoft's 'everything' boxes
    Apple has poached Microsoft's top product marketing bod in the UK to front up its app store in Europe.…


  • Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' pic posted
    Is S III stand-in snap real or Photoshop?
    The Samsung Galaxy S II Plus, the smartphone the South Korean giant is said to be unveiling at this month's Mobile World Congress (MWC) show in place of the Galaxy S III, will be a skinny white boy.…



  • Next-gen Asus Eee Pad Transformer spied
    TF300T snapped
    A previously unseen Asus tablet has surfaced on the web prompting speculation that the Taiwanese company is working on the successor to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.…



  • Brit space agency sends up 1st satellite
    Yes, this is news
    So far, the UK space agency hasn't gone in for any of that headline-grabbing stuff like landing people on the Moon or launching Martian probes that get stranded in orbit before plummeting back to Earth – it leaves that sort of stuff to NASA and Roscosmos.…






  • BT Vision throws Microsoft Mediaroom under a bus for Linux
    Set-top box software to be torn out and replaced over the net
    UK hybrid TV service BT Vision plans to be the first customer to discard Microsoft's Mediaroom software, almost imminently, after at least a year-long effort to put in completely new software building blocks to rejuvenate the service.…


  • Orange San Francisco 2
    More hails of the city
    Review The Orange San Francisco was the smartphone bargain of 2011. For £99 you got a solid little handset with a 3.5in 480 x 800 screen, Android 2.1 and a 3.2Mp camera. The fact it was falling-off-a-wet-log easy to root and change ROMs – even I managed it – was the icing on the cake.…



  • SpaceX successfully tests SuperDraco rescue rockets
    Aims to build the safest spacecraft ever
    SpaceX has confirmed the successful test of its SuperDraco rocket engine, which will form the backbone of safety and landing systems for its Dragon spacecraft.…
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