Andrew Orlowski

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  • On Google and erasing your identity

    I appeared on BBC World Service’s Newshour to discuss Eric Schmidt’s advice to erase your digital identity every few years. Click here to listen. Original story

  • How neutrality locks in the web’s ‘Hyper Giants’

    By the mid 1990s it had become pointless to compete with Microsoft in operating systems and office software – and investment in potential competitors dried up. The best you could hope for as a software company was to carve out a niche as part of the Windows Office system; this was a very small niche…

  • Why has Thunderbird turned into a turkey?

    A while ago I wrote an old bugger’s whinge about the state of email clients in general. I realise this is now a minority interest. Read more at The Register…

  • Hypnotic illusions at the Wikileaks Show

    There’s a theatrical quality to the publication of the Wikileaks Afghan logs that’s quite at odds with what they contain. You’ll recall that Wikileaks obtained a large number of classified field reports from US forces in Afghanistan and gave three media outlets, the New York Times, Der Spiegel and the Guardian, advanced copies of a…