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1 Businesses Can Win the Competition Against Open-Source Technology |
 Lenny (8) 716 days ago Comments (0)
business and finance, computers, freedom and privacy, open source |
www.gsb.stanford.edu - Two business professors from Harvard and Stanford have combined to publish 'Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology Under Network Effects‚' a research paper dedicated to helping business executives fight the onslaught of open source software.
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2 The Future of Mobile Phones |
 Biggles (0) 716 days ago Comments (0)
freedom and privacy, lifestyle, science, technology, electronics, mobile phones |
googleblog.blogspot.com - Really interesting article on how mobile phones may be used in the next 10-15 years
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1 The Metagovernment project |
Lenny (8) 764 days ago Comments (0)
freedom and privacy, law and order, politics and government, metagovernment |
metagovernment.org - The Metagovernment project invites all people to participate in governance as much or as little as they wish.
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1 The case for forensic linguistics |
 Hobbit (0) 731 days ago Comments (0)
freedom and privacy, law and order, technology, mobile phones, text messaging |
news.bbc.co.uk - Text message analysis is becoming a powerful tool in solving crime cases.
In February 2008‚ linguistic evidence contributed to the conviction of David Hodgson in the murder of Jenny Nicholl.
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2 More lie detectors to curb fraud |
Lenny (8) 850 days ago Comments (0)
freedom and privacy, law and order, politics and government, technology |
news.bbc.co.uk - The government is to provide funding for 15 more councils to get lie detectors to catch out benefit cheats‚ who cost taxpayers up to £400m a year.
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1 Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop |
Hobbit (0) 759 days ago Comments (0)
computers, freedom and privacy, news, technology, intel, microsoft, olpc |
technology.timesonline.co.uk - Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it...
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1 autonomo.us activist group to focus on freedom in network services |
Hobbit (0) 763 days ago Comments (0)
computers, freedom and privacy, internet, free software foundation |
www.fsf.org - A new activist group called autonomo.us has launched an online presence to focus on issues of software freedom in network services.
Building on its work with the GNU Affero General Public license‚ the FSF convened a meeting to discuss the impact of network services on free software and user freedom on March 16.
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