Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

We can’t pay $1 million for books anymore. Amazon coul... to lose $20 million/year in their publishing arm just to... publishers out of business. I think that’s what they‮.. do–throw money around in an industry that doesn’t ha... Amazon beco

Docracy is a social repository of legal documents. Our m... useful legal documents freely available to the public. W... them easier to find, customize and sign. No more crappy ... paywall that you download hoping everything will be alright.
Instead: re

Most of us don't even realise it, but the home pages for... heavyweights such as Amazon, Facebook and YouTube have c... recognition since they launched.
Likewise, most of us don't remember that Google once had ...
With their plain colour schemes and emp

Foxconn, a Chinese company that assembles Apple products... employees to sign a pledge promising that they won't com... according to the Daily Mail.

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

Charlie Brown Wah Wah Wah
I used to read a woman’s blog, everyday. It was amazin ...
I can only guess that the last entry, before the blog go ...

Cyber criminals who are alleged to have made $14m (£9m)... fraud have been arrested in Estonia.
The FBI alleged that the gang infected more then four mi ...

The Twitter users "voluntarily" turned over the internet... when they signed up for an account and relinquished an e...
"Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP inf ...
The fight comes amid widening concerns about online priv ...
"I want eve

HG Wells addresses the British Association Conference on... 'Science and the Citizen'. In typical provocative style,... medium of the newspaper as dead and the art of journalis... He claims that reports in newspapers are unreliable and ... people migh

A new iPad app from Yahoo can recognize any TV show by l... audio, and automatically serve up related Web content, s... related to a news broadcast or play-by-play stats for a ...

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Ha...
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Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous who threa ...
... ves would almost certainly be targeted by rival cartels.

Green shoots of linked (open) data around news
Friday, October 28, 2011 at 5:31PM
Based on Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyg ...
A couple of weeks ago Justin and I attended an event hos ...
... Matthew Shorter

DEATH IS A PART OF LIFE AND LIFE HAS (TO AN EXTENT) BECO...
Our increasing digitality means that we will increasingl ...
Held in the inspiring setting of the Tropenmuseum’s ex ...
Thus stimulating a reconsideration of how death, mournin ...

Last summer, I deleted my Dropbox account after the comp... horrifying security breach. This week, I reluctantly ope... account. Within minutes, I received a message from Dropb... their back-end processes are still problematic. Here’s... concerned.

Visualizing the "super entity." Courtesy: New Scientist
Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute o ...
They discovered that global corporate control has a dist ...

A newly discovered piece of malicious code dubbed Duqu i... to the notorious Stuxnet worm that damaged Iran's nuclea... centrifuges last year. Although it has no known target o... the stage for more industrial and cyberwar attacks, expe...

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea...
We have already successfully pressed for inaccurate clai ...
Since its c

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass.
And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ...
But this could change if a new 4G m

In the future, I wonder if it'll be common for people in... that to stop trying to scrub information from the Web, p... strategically add more content to the cloud as an elabor...

If you were expecting some kind warning when computers f... than us, then think again.
There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing ...
In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking ...
Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

GOOGLE'S $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility ...
How might Google, a company famously fond of numbers and ...
"Motorola has a portfolio of 24,500 patents and pate ...
Using one of the industries recent patent auctions a ...
... lio and

MUMBAI, India - It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th ... unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet... which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux ope ...

Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to th... if properly requested, even if that data is stored somew... the U.S.

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

Two months ago, Baja announced it would be the first nig... to offer their VIPs something more than a gold-plated en... wanted it could have a microchip implanted under their s... only guarantees entry but provides access to a debit acc... they can pa