Monday, July 13, 2009

13-Jul-2009 PM clippings

Enjoy:

The Section 92A Copyright Zombie Act is expected to raise its head this week. Very few have had input to it so little is known so far:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2586890/Round-2-in-copyright-fight

Telco insiders say that fibre to nodes is not a step on the way to fibre to the door, and question the NZ government's strategy:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10584025

Matt Hunt discusses the rapid bugfix cycle of Open software in comparison to proprietary fix/release cycles:
http://passthesource.org.nz/2009/07/10/freely-supported/

Orange to launch an LG touchscreen 3G wristphone with a camera, voice recognition, HSPDA, bluetooth and text-to-speech for TXTs:
http://www.gizmag.com/orange-touch-screen-watch-phone/12177/

A nice look at the Eee keyboard computer. Built-in screen where you would expect the numeric pad to be, HDMI output. Article in French:
http://www.blogeee.net/2009/07/08/test-eeekeyboard-fonctionnement-et-composants/

And finally. Happy Birthday to the WWW, which is now 20 years old and over a trillion unique URLs strong. Thank you Tim Berners-Lee:
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/celebrating-20-years-of-the-world-wide-web-615150

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