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Microsoft ponders its Office options
News Microsoft won't say for sure whether that's where it's heading, though CEO Steve Ballmer did note in his keynote speech earlier this week that Microsoft will soon rebrand its existing small business Office Live tools as... [12 Jul 2007]
Apple's Safari coming to Windows PCs
News A beta version of Safari for Windows is available now, CEO Steve Jobs announced during his keynote speech at the company's 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The software became available yesterday on Apple's... [12 Jun 2007]
'Patents slow innovation' - Red Hat CEO
News In an interview after the speech, Szulik said software patents "absolutely" retard the pace of innovation. Szulik took pains in his speech to argue open source programmers aren't running roughshod over... [23 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?
Comment My first (personal) experience of a NGN came with the arrival of the transistor which immediately reduced equipment sizes and power consumption, and increased the number of speech circuits per pair. Written on the... [02 May 2007]
YouTube vs Viacom: 'It's about free speech' - Google
News Michael Kwun, managing counsel for litigation at Google, said in a briefing with reporters at Google's California headquarters: "We think YouTube offers the world's leading platform for entertainment, education and free... [01 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check
Comment In my view bandwidth and good quality speech and video are an absolute necessity that will transform more than the ICT industry. A further factor in the telecoms industry is the belief that bandwidth costs money, is in... [26 Mar 2007]
Tories broadside Blair over open source
News In response to Osborne's speech, a Microsoft spokesperson said: "The shadow chancellor raises an important issue and we look forward to engaging with him. Functionality, performance, security, value and the cost of... [08 Mar 2007]
Amnesty: ISPs must safeguard free speech
News The human rights group Amnesty International has called on ISPs to do more to protect free speech online. So far, more than 60,000 people have signed the site's pledge to protect freedom of... [20 Feb 2007]
Regulation could choke the net - Google chief
News For instance, aside from privacy and security concerns, "we have to define where free speech begins and ends", he said. In a meandering, conversational speech which lasted about 30... [07 Feb 2007]
Google speaks to the book world
News In a speech describing his experience as a profitable author who has always distributed his books for free online under a Creative Commons licence, in addition to selling them in bookstores and online... [19 Jan 2007]
Dell kicks off trees-for-PCs scheme
News Company chairman Michael Dell used a keynote speech to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday to launch the "Plant a Tree for Me" programme, at the same time as introducing a number of new gaming systems... [10 Jan 2007]
Photos: Top 10 pieces of Linux kit
Photo Free as in speech or free as in beer? While 'free' may be the ethos behind Linux some hardware and software makers have already been turning to Linux to take money from... [22 Nov 2006]
US web stranglehold challenged
News Similarly, Amnesty International has sent a delegation to the Internet Governance Forum in Athens to emphasise the need for protecting free speech. The worry is that if those governments have their way,... [30 Oct 2006]
Web smut labelling plan still on cards
News Leslie Harris, executive director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), said: "There's no way to avoid vagueness, no way to avoid over-breadth and, more importantly, no way to avoid chilling free... [19 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment Before I departed for China I listened to and read the debates about the country's state of freedom of speech, communication and internet traffic voiced in the EU and US. Edited on the London to Ipswich train a week... [07 Aug 2006]
