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Julian and I had lunch with Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing and EFF and author the SciFi novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. He's a nice guy and very knowledgable, especially on issues of intellectual property right, DRM and copyright law. We had a great chat over
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OK, So Reboot was friday, and between then and now I've been stoned once, seriously drunk once, and had a great day yesterday with Signe (it was her birthday), and our families. It's monday now, and i'm not sure exactly how much my memory
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Ben Hammersley
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There seem to be a lot of people here at Reboot who are blogging the speakers live. Since this event is the testrun of using only my Palm to connect, and my blogtools are giving me some issues, I won't really be bothered with live blogging. instead i&
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So i got my Palm Tungsten C last week after long deliberationson whether to get a Sharp Zaurus or the Palm. SO Far so good. I think Palms great disadvantge wheb compared to a pocket pc or linux based handheld is that the OS is rather limited. There's
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so i'm lounging around the apartment testing out my newest gadget/toy. a brabd new tungsten C, fully wifi equipped and hence on-line. wow! what a tool. but this thumbboard is simply too small for me to bother with linking and stuff, so that'll all have
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Rowing Upstream A book about the first steps of the Internet in Africa. Someone mentioned this book at a recent meeting, and I was very pleased to find it on-line in full (Or at least I assume it was the book he mentioned).
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BBC NEWS | Business | Ghana trumps mighty Microsoft A nice story on BBC News about Ghanaian software company S.O.F.T. and its founder Hermann. I actually had the pleasure of meeting Hermann while in Ghana, as S.O.F.T. is a GeekCorps partner company. And yes, it'
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CSR - Altruism or Business Necessity? Digital Divide issues are becoming ore and more mainstream. This week, Nokia's on-line magazine, The Feature has a special on what they call Corporate Social Responsibility. I'm not sure wether to consider that a contradiction in terms, but i'
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The Digital Divide Network: Over 200 rural villages in India's Maharashtra state have formed a wireless Internet cooperative, establishing 50 wi-fi "hotspots" in their communities. The co-op has managed to raise more than $400,000 (RS20 million) to expand the reach of wireless Internet locally. Maharashtra
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I've finally decided to go to this years Reboot conference. Last year was dissappointing, but then I didn't actually pay, opting instead to help Thomas set up a wireless network at the event. However this years event includes people I know, such as Cory Doctorow (I
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Brighthand : Palm Brings VoIP to Tungsten C And in a bit of already outdated news. In case you hadn't heard yet, Palm has announced that it will join forces with VLI to offer a software phone (Gphone) for their WiFi enabled Tungsten C. The system will base itself