IPR Wars – will Patent Trolls cost the US its poll position?
The current US dominance of the software and content industries is critically dependent on acceptance, however reluctant, of its global enforcement of domestic Patent and Copyright Laws - despite their known weaknesses and abuse. Three years ago I 
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Internet censorship trial brings London to a halt?
This morning I thought my router had failed set about installing the new one I bought some time ago - only to run into "error 651". Only then did I think to use the Vodafone...
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Lessons for UK PLC from the loss of Autonomy
The purchase of Autonomy by HP shows breathtaking vision but the impact of Government tax policies (both US and UK)...
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RIPA and the Riots: Give the Police the same rights as the Press
I have just received a comment which links my recent posts on the need to review RIPA and PACE (to remove the paralysis by paperwork that led to police being overwhelmed on...
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Is the missing BDUK £100 million for the Enterprise Zones?
Yesterday I gave a cautious welcome to the announcement of the BDUK funding for Local Authorities. Almost immediately I received an e-mail from a conspiracy theorist...
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Will Councils have to choose between PSN Compliance and BDUK Funding?
The announcement today of the £360 million of funding towards rural broadband is welcome news. Whether that funding really will acheive the supposed objectives depends, however, on the small print. The covering letter from the...
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RIPA and the Riots – is an emergency review needed?
We have had facile suggestions about blocking and monitoring the mobile communications services used by the rioters and looters and equally facile responses that these are unthinkable or unworkable. The...
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Do the recent riots make a new business case for Cloud computing
In his blog on the impact or otherwise of the recent Cloud outages caused by lightning strikes in...
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Blackberry (not Twitter) versus Airwave for control of the streets
I have been correctly criticized for failing to point out that the Blackberry has been the fashion accessary of choice for "rappers", "elders" and their followers ever since it was used by Obama as his communications device of choice. Twitter is used...
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The Twitter Riots put the Surveillance Society on trial
The time lines for the Tottenham Riots and subsequent assaults on Enfield, Walthamstow and Brixton show clearly how Twitter enabled small groups to rapidly develop tactics for distracting the police while their elders looted the local trading park. Now we will...
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