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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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? Will mobile devices trigger the year of the Linux desktop?
The enterprise IT world is coming to grips with a new buzz-TLA; “BYOD”. It stands for Bring Your Own Device and considers the way employees are bringing their own...
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7 Google+ Tips
I’ve expanded my earlier posting about Google+ and you’ll find not five but
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? New OSI Directors
The OSI Board held a meeting on Friday to fill three vacancies on the Board. This was the first time we have had Affiliate Members, so we decided to ask them to...
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? Making Google+ Work
I sometimes see complaints by people that Google+ is not as exciting and/or useful as a social media service they are already using, like Twitter or Facebook. They...
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Why Cuban Hates Patents
Why does a successful entrepreneur like Mark Cuban hate software patents so much? Surely they are just the sort of business tool he would value? I explain why in...
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? Not So Shire
The Hobbit is one of our local pubs. It’s a rather seedy student-focussed music venue that serves cheap booze under fanciful names taken from Tolkein’s books. I...
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Worsening Patent Wars
Yahoo’s litigation against Facebook is one more example in an unending sequence that demonstrates patents are now primarily a weapon to chill competition rather...
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? Writing For InfoWorld
You may have spotted two posts by me on InfoWorld in the US recently (one about LibreOffice and one about OIN). I’m pleased to say that I was approached by them...
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Free Money!
Kiva are giving away $25 to anyone who asks today. It’s true. The catch? You have to loan the money to someone who has far, far less money than you do and who will...
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? Sunday Cabbage
Close-Up Cabbage, originally uploaded by webmink. I was cooking for 10 today, so decided to saut
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? A Day At The Races
As a child, my parents used to regularly take me point-to-point racing. I wasn’t very interested in the horses, but there were often trees to climb and always a...
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? OIN
Are you safer from software patents today, or more at risk? The news that the Open Invention Network (OIN) has extended the definition of “Linux” so that more software...
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? Lessig! Doctorow! London!
The Open Rights Conference is coming up in London on March 24 and has a glittering array of speakers including Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow. Read all about...
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Leaving Room For Mystery
This post is a bit unusual for me – apologies if it offends you –
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? Hollow Point
Each time I am told I should unreservedly respect decisions made by authorities in secret, I remember this song by Chris Wood. I always cry. Folk music is still...
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A Bright Future For LibreOffice
Following on from my blog post at ComputerWorldUK, InfoWorld in the US asked me if I would write a column for them about LibreOffice. I gathered together the rather...
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? Why I Want My Pi
The Raspberry Pi reminds me of my youth – it’s a gadget like that which got me interested in technology in the first place. I hope the Pi will tempt today’s generation...
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? Scutter Prototypes
In the humourous cult sci-fi TV series Red Dwarf, which is set aboard a space ship far in the future, the ship is cleaned and maintained by odd-job-robots called...
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