A code of conduct for bloggers?
The International Herald Tribune reports that “a few prominent figures in high technology are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse. […] Chief [...]
Groklaw posters tie themselves in knots
I’ve been reading comments here on Groklaw about the great ODF vs. OOXML ‘war’ between IBM and Microsoft. But what really has me scratching my head is how hatred for [...]
More and more countries are censoring the Internet
According to Yahoo!News, Turkey is the latest country to censor the Internet. In a worrying development, “[a] parliamentary commission approved a proposal Thursday allowing Turkey to block Web sites that [...]
Electronic devices under threat from a new class of attack
According to InfoWorld, “[a] security researcher at Juniper Networks says he plans to demonstrate a new class of attack that can be used to compromise electronic devices like routers or [...]
GPLv3 : Welcome to Contract Law
As the tech and business community try to read the tea leaves behind various groups being left out (Apache) and those who just squeezed in (Google), it seemed appropriate to [...]
Europe’s SMEs are hoping that the patent system will get simplified
The Financial Times reports that “[d]efending intellectual property in the EU may get cheaper, quicker and more efficient under plans to streamline the patent regime outlined by the European Commission [...]