In the New York Times, Robert Cryan and Martin Hutchison of Reuters BreakingViews suggest that Microslft sell its Bing search engine, either outright or in exchange for stock in a company that can do more with it than rank a distant #2 to Google while…
Archives for July 2011
Open, pseudonymised and personal data: what Government should do next
21 July 2011 by
For some weeks we’ve been hearing further around the Public Data Corporation idea: for commercial partnerships to monetise new categories of government data sets, and a possible expo to sell public data this autumn. Sir Bonar even dictated some Tweet…
FTC Chairman Says Passwords For Voice Mail A No-Brainer
21 July 2011 by
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said Thursday that wireless operators should require their customers to use a password to access the voicemail on their mobile phones. The problem for Leibowitz, as he was quick to note, is that his agenc…
Robert Cringley on Personal Data
21 July 2011 by
Cringley writes here in The Decline and Fall of Facebook My interest is in what follows Facebook, which I think must be its disintermediation by all of us reclaiming our personal data, possibly through our embracing the very HTML5 that Roger loves so much. The trend is clear from “the computer is the computer” through […]