Apr 302012
 
This well considered response to issues raised by Google critics needs to be considered – Tony.
Stop the Google Drive Terms of Service Bogeyman hunt
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Stop-the-Google-Drive-Terms-of-Service-Bogey…

Everyone loves to stir the pot and engage in some solid fear-mongering whenever it comes to privacy on the Internet, especially when it comes to Google products and services, but it needs to stop, because all we’re getting are biased voices…

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Apr 262012
 
Free Software Directory
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page

What is free software? Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

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Apr 192012
 
What Happens in an Internet Minute?
http://scoop.intel.com/what-happens-in-an-internet-minute/

Posted By on Do you know what happens in one minute on the Internet? In just one minute, more than 204 million emails are sent. Amazon rings up about $83,000 in sales. Around 20 million photos are viewed and 3,000 uploaded on Flickr. At least 6 million Facebook pages are viewed around the world.

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Apr 132012
 

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing – Boing Boing

Interesting article !

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

By Cory Doctorow – Share this article This article is based on a keynote speech to the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, Dec. 2011. General-purpose computers are astounding. They’re so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they’re for, how to accommodate them, and how to cope with them.

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