With tech companies abandoning Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight media players for HTML5, the question of digital rights management over entertainment on the web is beginning to surface. Microsoft, Google and Netflix have offered a copy protection proposal that’s been branded “unethical” by the author leading the industry’s work on HTML5. You can read more [...]
Amazon’s cloud has achieved success by being present – always there and relatively easy to access for those on the front line of software development. Now, a rival project building a “Linux for the cloud” that’s backed by Dell, HP, AT&T and others hopes to siphon off potential cloud jumpers with a new, free intro [...]
Firefox shop Mozilla Foundation is reacting against the trend among tech companies of throwing up proprietary app stores that fence off the web, with a store and architecture serving webbified apps to devices regardless of maker or operating system. It might win the approval of a worried Tim Berners-Lee, but Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft [...]
Sparks have flown between aging pioneers and big-data hipsters as NoSQL databases have dumped feature and language properties found in relational forerunners from companies like Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, deemed unsuited to Facebook, Twitter, Google and others. The pendulum is starting to swing back, though, with MongoDB going SQLish here.
They’ve been rebooted, re-imagined and uncut, but now Space: 1999 is getting its own on-screen revival next to sci-fi classics Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and Star Wars. “We are indeed re-imagining the franchise and bringing something new and relevant to today’s audiences,” said Jace Hall of the re-write – Hall’s company was behind ABC’s 2009 [...]
With the Freedom of Information Act up for review after seven years of exposing public servants, the UK’s information commissioner has called for sanity not folklore to rule proceedings. Based on experience, those reviewing the law should clarify the rules and introduce greater accountability. You can read my article here.
Ex-Sun chief Scott McNealy told us in 2006 we have no privacy on the web and to “get over it.” With it’s IPO fling published, Facebook shows Silicon Valley continues to treat privacy as an afterthought but with a sky-high valuation in the balance Mark Zuckerberg’s social network follows Google in trying to convince us [...]
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