Rupert Goodwins' Diary 30.11.2001
Blog And, of course, there is no free speech when it comes to discussing security issues, even if you do it in another county -- as Dmitry Sklyarov has found. So, the hackers are being given a free ride onto our computers courtesy of the spies.
[November 30, 2001, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog NASA, whose PR awareness has been running at a very high level ever since Kennedy roused the whole of the free world to back the Apollo mission through a stonker of a speech, now wants to put high-bandwidth Internet access into space probes and...
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Microsoft, never a company lacking in hubris, decided to mock the gods of demo and committed the number one sin — showing off speech recognition to an important audience. Lesson one: never show off speech recognition to an important audience.
[August 7, 2006, 13:40]
Mobile apps to get pushy, have presence on BlackBerry
Blog There aren’t many handset companies who remind developers in a keynote speech that the carrier network is a scarce resource and it’s really important that applications be architected to protect those networks from excessive traffic (which senior...
[November 12, 2009, 9:17]
Twitter, Trafigura, trends and treason
Blog That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;" Information wants to be free, said Stuart Brand, adding in a less well reported codicil that it...
[October 13, 2009, 14:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It was a very jolly affair, with John Perry Barlow giving a rousing speech about free creativity being a duty, almost an essential attribute, of being human. Wednesday 16/3/2005 Off to the October Gallery in Holborn for the launch of the Creative...
[March 18, 2005, 17:00]
Reding: Help tech firms not help repressive regimes
Blog Viviane Reding, the European commissioner on techie stuff, has given a very interesting speech to a plenary session of the European Parliament, in which she discussed how best to get European companies to avoid helping repressive regimes censor...
[February 5, 2009, 16:00]
Tiscali's 'sell-off' plans and the media
Blog Now, in that FT piece there were these bits of reported speech: "Mr Pompei said he did not see many opportunities for Tiscali to buy rivals, and therefore it was more likely that the company’s UK and Italian broadband operations would be sold.
[January 24, 2008, 16:01]
Outlook must move to cloud, says Qualys CEO
Blog Philippe Courtot, the chief executive of Qualys, has just given a speech. It costs $84bn a year to maintain Outlook, even if it's given free. The internet was close to being free, so the only costs reside in servers and storage, said Courtot.
[December 4, 2008, 12:05]
Removing comments at Experts-Exchange Part 3
Blog Obviously the moderators don't respect the freedom of speech and are trying to keep their cleanup volunteers dumb. So these cleanup volunteers aren't aware of the fact that the site is generating lots of $$'s and instead of helping questioners...
[June 28, 2008, 10:03]
BT's Wi-Fi voucher strangeness
Blog It may offer relatively cheap surfing minutes (especially when compared with data roaming charges over the 3G networks) but I have to confess I find it roughly as straightforward as a John Prescott speech.
[October 31, 2007, 8:56]
A professional comment at Experts Exchange. . .
Blog As I do stand for quality and freedom of speech, I'll consider to make a weekly blog with some improvements of given "answers" by this "would be" expert. Now happy helping people at the free site bytes.com !
[September 23, 2008, 8:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's horribly plausible: there have been reports of mysterious voices, picked up by radio mic receivers, apparently prompting the Prez; times when Dubya has broken off in mid-speech and snapped at an invisible someone; even rumours that in the...
[October 8, 2004, 18:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In particular, it continues, we're handing out copies of Dragon Naturally Speaking speech recognition software. But there is a free text box where we can make our opinions clear, together with a tick box to certify that we've provided truthful...
[September 16, 2005, 19:15]
Social Networking - the downside
Blog LiveJournal has long been the home of various thriving, creative communities - many of which take advantage of the Internet's noted freedoms concerning anonymity, freedom of speech and ability to bring like-minded types together from around the...
[August 24, 2007, 13:49]
The 21 hour night
Blog The shift was changing at the Crystal Chill-Out: it's rather disconcerting to see the staff (young women in pink kilts and white berets, young men in white shirts, black trousers and trendy haircuts) standing at attention in a line while their...
[November 23, 2007, 8:36]
What to expect from Sybase TechWave 2008
Blog But what I am hoping this time is that we hear CEO and chairman John Chen move on a little from his, ‘my vision of the unwired enterprise’ speech he gives every year at the keynote. I’ll post this when I land at McCarren International Airport with...
[August 4, 2008, 18:51]
Avaya announces speech to text
Blog Try the SpinVox website (www.spinvox.com) for a free trial with consumer pricing starting from 20p in the UK with commercial options available by request.and no I am not on commission ;) Avaya has announced a new feature to convert voicemails to...
[November 18, 2008, 9:03]
