technology

Who actually owned the copyright to a picture

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Above is a fabulous picture of a grinning female macaque – so who actually owns the copyright for this? Is it the person who owns the camera, or the person who borrowed the camera and took the picture? In this case, because it is in dispute … the answer is supposedly nobody and so it is claimed … Read more

Turkey Unblocks twitter

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Turkey is back on the map once again. Officials there have now announced that the country has lifted the ban on Twitter on Thursday – see news reports – and yes, their Government  does confirm that they have lifted the ban a day after the country’s highest court ruled that the Twitter ban was illegal, ordering the government to unblock … Read more

Social media can be a weapon of destruction or even self-destruction

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Social media can be quite destructive to those that attempt to utilize it as a weapon and can often have unintended consequences. Wired has a very interesting article that gives a great example of this. It opens by explaining a sequence of events that took place at a conference … Earlier this year, at a … Read more

Electronic intercepts and law enforcement – mining Big Data

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As I watch the rising tide of rage being directed against the authorities because of their use of electronic intercepts, I cannot help but wonder if there is some form of social alzheimer’s at work. Glenn Greenwald, writes in the Guardian … “Who is actually bringing ‘injury to America’: those who are secretly building a massive surveillance system or … Read more

How fast can wireless data get?

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I’d love to be able to go totally wireless, but the data speed I get is simply way too slow when compared with a wire to the house … or is it? Apparently some researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved a wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s over … Read more

Increasing the flow of information – the rise of new forms of education on a new scale

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The printing press dramatically transformed our world, and so now the Internet is doing the same right across many industries. Information that was once locked away is starting to flow out to all of us. Today’s example of this is an educational one. MIT-Harvard was once the exclusive preserve of those rich enough to gain entry, … Read more