Year 2008
Oh the Irony [2]
Myspace sans Indie music? Dead.
Comcast. Greedy. Liars. [Updated]
ePrivacy loopholes.
Earlier today, ten days since my return from Brussels, I received an email from Mr. Lambrinidis regarding a number of amendments on the upcoming e-Privacy directive that he contributed to. An interesting topic that I think merits a short post was that of breach notification. Breach notification refers to the situation when citizens whose personal […]
SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX)
Central planning and Research
Diomidis Spinellis wrote earlier today about the EUs planning priorities for research and how he thinks that’s bad for innovation. I agree with his thesis, but I find his complaint somewhat naïve. Let me explain myself: If I could only give one reason to the question “What’s wrong with EU Funded Research?”, I don’t believe […]
Δημόσια Δεδομένα, Δικά μας Δεδομένα
Chrome. Another piece in the puzzle
Google just announced Chrome, its own browser based on Webkit, Gears, the V8 VM and a host of features inspired by Opera, Safari and Firefox. The move will no doubt be considered ‘controversial’ by some, given Google’s dominance of the market, but the company seems to have taken many steps to avoid this: everything in […]