Archive for November, 2009
Waving or drowning?
Earlier this year I gave a talk on cloud security at the e-Crime congress. One of the other speakers was John Suffolk, who when he wasn’t struggling with some very badly formatted PowerPoint [1] asked the audience ‘who in this room thinks they are keeping up with technology?’. I think I ruined his script a [...]
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Tags: Classen's law, keeping up, Moore's law, technology
It’s not just about the money
Hopefully we’re seeing the beginning of the end rather than the end of the beginning as media companies align themselves with incumbent politics to suppress the new freedoms of the Internet in order to maintain their outdated business models. Locally we have the Digital Economy bill, full of dreadful stuff that has emerged in the wake of [...]
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Tags: acta, digital Britain, digital economy, three strikes
The network isn’t ubiquitous
and probably never will be. My brother has been moving house this week, which has caused him to spend a certain amount of time off net, and to get very angry with BT (though it all got sorted out in the end [1]). Sadly my suggestion to get a Vodafone 3G dongle doesn’t seem to [...]
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Tags: 3G, BT, economics, network, network fallacies, telco, three strikes, wifi
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