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Why do sheep need Twitter?
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Spot the broadband user in this picture A House of Lords committee this week declared that British taxpayers must foot the bill for an internet that nobody wants – unless perhaps they have a second home in the country. Some observations by the committee may be accurate: Britain’s broadband is slower than its rivals. But…
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How to fix the broken internet economy
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How can we begin to unpick the tangled mess that the technology and creative industries have created? There’s certainly no shortage of blame to go around. In the past every new wave of technology has delivered healthy creative markets – but today this is no longer happening. Just 20 years since the birth of the…
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The Open Rights Group gets rights wrong. Again
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When Open Rights Group executive director Jim Killock opens his mouth, his foot soon disappears inside. The UK’s leading digital rights advocate has just demonstrated still more difficulty understanding the “rights” the group campaigns about. At a Citizen 2012 data conference in London yesterday, where he was introduced as “the infamous Jim Killock”, Citizen Jim…
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Windows Metro Maoist cadres reach the desktop, and pound it flat
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The revolutionary dogma of Metro is sweeping through the old Windows desktop, too, a new leak of Window 8 confirms. The leaked build, newer than the public release of a fortnight ago, abandons the 3D design elements introduced into Windows in 1990 for a resolutely two-dimensional world. The ‘legacy’ desktop in Windows 8 is denuded…
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The IPO Enquiry
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Sketches from the three hearings held by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Intellectual Property’s enquiry into the IPO in April and May 2012 …
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Orphans, giants, and your disappearing digital rights
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They’re at it again. Who? Take a guess: if it’s not the Daily Mail, then it’s probably the BBC. The corporation has once again been caught pinching photos, wrongly attributing them, and pretending nothing ever happened – in a triumph of crowd-sourced “citizen journalism”. But this incident of photo-lifting is slightly more noteworthy than…