Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko: a good thing done too late or too early?

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In a market owned jointly by Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, Mozilla plans to take centre-stage with their latest in­nov­a­tion, Boot to Gecko: a free-for-all mo­bile OS prom­ising bound­less, in­teg­rated, web de­vel­op­ment pos­sib­il­ities. But will it work?

Refreshed: Bloggers, reporters, journalists and the fine line in-between

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The ques­tion as to whether blog­gers are journ­al­ists is a much-debated and in­deed over-blogged one. Try ‘Googling’ the phrase are blog­gers journ­al­ists and you will quickly find that al­most all of the res­ults at the top have the same title and all lead to art­icles where an ex­tensive ex­am­in­a­tion is car­ried out on the topic. It […]

On Google+ Netiquette

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Having re­cently de­leted my Facebook ac­count, I hardly took time to realise how most of my net­working would now take place on Google+ — which is how I pre­ferred it in the first place. And the main reason I chose to switch, is ex­actly for reasons I have ex­plained be­fore in my four-part series of art­icles on Google+. oday, though, […]

10 people to follow on Twitter and add value to your stream

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Twitter is here to stay. Many spoke of how Google+ may be a threat to Twitter–or words to that effect–but my own be­lief is that Twitter is some­thing along en­tirely dif­ferent lines and Google+ has nothing to do with it. With this in mind, I can safely state that Twitter is the only other so­cial net­work I am […]

Why SOPA may be America’s worst mistake

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America seems to have come out with a new (al­though hardly an in­nov­ative) way to censor links it feels vi­ol­ates copyrights–although the fact that they do not have to jus­tify them­selves makes one wonder if they will not also ban le­git­imate links that work against them, as many have begun to see. The Stop Online Piracy […]

Google+ vs Facebook: 10 reasons why Google+ is far better

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As PCWorld rightly pointed some­time out last year, the com­par­ison of Google+ vs Facebook (which the masses gen­er­ally draw) is an un­even one. Google+ is a far bigger pic­ture for Google than one might ima­gine: my own way of put­ting it, as I have said to many of my ac­quaint­ances, is that Google is on its way […]

On why I think it is too early for biometric identification

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Passwords have be­come ob­solete’ was what IBM Speech CTO, David Nahamoo, said–at least effectively–in IBM’s Research News blog. His main point was that our cur­rent use of iden­ti­fic­a­tion and se­curity, our trusty pass­words, were a) really in­suf­fi­cient se­curity b) hard to re­member. (Incidentally, I sus­pect Mr Nahamoo has over 50 log-ins to re­member.) IBM 5 in 5 Security […]

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