Reading about the Tower of London GPS game has got me thinking about the future of role-playing gaming, gadgets, and some potentially interesting legal issues (this is a technology law blog after all, despite my efforts to forget that fact from time to time). The growth of ubiquitous smart phones Read more
Interesting article from the always relevant John Naughton at The Observer. Much has been written about the iPhone’s sleek design, it should be flying off the stalls and become the mobile industry’s equivalent of the Wii. Yet, it has not, it is selling well, but not as well as some Read more
I have been meaning to to write about this column by Marina Hyde in The Guardian, but I wanted to keep some distance from it. While I welcome all sorts of articles that criticise technologies, I have been distraught by certain tone emerging in the supposedly more progressive sectors of Read more
I have been a long-time critic of electronic money. We’ve been hearing about how we’ll all be ditching our banknotes and coins within “the next two years” since 1998. Similarly, we’ve had a regulatory response to the subject which has been particularly inadequate, as it was drafted with specific technologies Read more
The BBC Technology News and the Today programme have been talking today about the great robot debate. Experts, academics and other assorted folk will discuss tonight about the potential threats arising from increasing numbers of robots, a discussion organised by the Dana Centre and the Science Museum. While at first Read more
The world of classical music has been shaken by the Joyce Hatto scandal. For those unaware of the affair, Joyce Hatto was a pianist whose career was cut short in the 1970’s due to cancer. However, in 1989 she started recording again and producing CDs with her husband’s independent record Read more
Finally! Looking for UK legislation? The Department of Constitutional Affairs has released its Statute Law Database. No longer will you have to guess the legislation’s name to find it in Google, everything is now available in one place. I’ve been browsing it (as you do), and I think that it Read more
Creative Commons blog and even Eben Moglen are all talking about this video explaining Web 2.0, the hyper-web, or however you want to call it. It was quite an amazing display, really well done. Web 2.0 is one of those terms that I see defined in different ways. Originally, it Read more
So, as part of my research into software and operating systems, I purchased a cheap OEM version of Vista and installed it on my new and shiny Core 2 Duo system. I also installed OpenSUSE 10.2 as a dual boot to test comparative installation times and ease of use. Vista Read more
(via Colin Miller. This post is best enjoyed while listening to either Iron Maiden’s “The Number of The Beast”, or R.E.M.’s “The End of The World As We Know It”) . Windows Vista is nearly upon us. Woe unto us, et cetera, et cetera. The Internet is abuzz with stories Read more