This email I received recommends me to download the “security update” http://downloads-microsoft.de/MS_bugfix_270509.exe from an alleged Microsoft website downloads-microsoft.de, according to denic the domain is owned by a German citizen from Riedering who put his contact data online.
It is much more professional than those spoof scam attacks I am used to, despite the link to the [...]
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downloads-microsoft.de
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged security on May 31 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Twitterverse
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged twitter on May 30 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A map of services around twitter.
Filtered Internet
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These days there are strong public discussions about the good old free flow of information principle. Often overlooked is that a filtered internet is a reality in parts of the world. From my daily mail communication:
Mist, ich kann dein Blog in China nicht erreichen. Hab grad keinen
passenden Proxy konfiguriert.
(translated: What a pity, I cannot read [...]
Record fines against Intel
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged antitrust, competition, EC, intel on May 13 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Record fines against the chip maker Intel. The European Commission DG competition imposed a fine of 1.06 billion Euro.
Commissioner Kroes: “Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for computer chips for many years”.
Press release of DG Competition
Bill against ‘hostile behaviour’
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wired about a Cyberbullying law proposal in the land of Free Speech.
(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not [...]
Telecommunication package carried with 138
Posted in European Union, Uncategorized, tagged Europarl, tcp, telecom package, trautmann on May 6 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who did expect that for the second reading in the European Parliament? 2:0 for the internet community. The Trautmann report was carried with the famous amendment know as “138″ which had been retabled to plenary by Greens, ALDE,… which is the following:
(fb) applying the principle that no restriction maybe imposed on the fundamental rights [...]
Vint Cerf and the cloud buzz
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cloud, google, internet, OFE, tcp/ip, vint cerf on April 25 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Google Vice-President Vint Cerf, an architect of the internet, came to Brussels yesterday for an Open Forum Europe conference.
In this interview with Euraktiv from yesterday the great net strategist speaks about Cloud computing and other trends.
Robin Gross on the Pirate Bay case
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged copyright, piracy, pirate, rgross, sweden, torrent on April 19 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Robin Gross on Canadian Radio about the Pirate Bay copyright piracy vercict. CBC Radio’s “As it Happens”. Very interesting how the legal case is perceived outside Sweden and Europe.
ECHR and the public access to information
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged echr, transparency on April 14 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A press release of access-info I reproduce here for your interest:
European Court of Human Rights takes a huge step
towards recognising Right of Access to Information
Madrid, 14 April 2009: Access Info Europe welcomes today’s ruling by the
European Court of Human Rights in which it recognises that when public
bodies already hold information that is needed for public [...]
Business Plan and our precious time
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged business plan on April 12 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stephane Fermigier posted this link on facebook and expressed his disagreement with it: Business plans a waste of time finds a study. Sure: Whenever external documentation becomes useless and formal exercise it is also a waste of your time. But: Writing a document helps you to realise the problem and demonstrate more discipline in your [...]
