Author Archives: take21

iPhone developer news

By take21 | Published: October 1, 2008

Do the right thing Apple to developers We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software. (Via Daring Fireball) Nobody reads EULAs Flashmagazine reports a Senior Director of Engineering at Adobe confirming that Adobe have a Flash player for iPhone in development. We’ve been here before. In March Sun announced they […]

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Pirates are competitors

By take21 | Published: September 30, 2008

Out-law radio have an interview with Dr David Price of piracy intelligence firm Envisional. He talks about the user experience of P2P networks often being better than the paid-for version, how some companies have adopted P2P for distribution and who content owners should prosecute. Read here and download or subscribe through iTunes. Out-law radio and […]

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Thomas case: ‘damages unprecedented and oppressive’ – Judge

By take21 | Published: September 25, 2008

District Judge sets aside previous $222,000 award in favour of the RIAA  against single parent Jammie Thomas as disproportionate and orders a new trial. Extracts from the judgement: “The Court would be remiss if it did not take this opportunity to implore Congress to amend the Copyright Act to address liability and damages in peer […]

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Coventry University Events

By take21 | Published: September 25, 2008

Coventry Conversations A series of 12 lectures by visiting speakers from the contemporary media world. Foreign correspondent, sports writer, drama writer, editor, investigative journalist, games developer, screen writer, film director … leading figures share their experience. Starting on 25th September talks take place on Thursday lunchtimes. Talks are free and open to the public. Read […]

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Google G1

By take21 | Published: September 22, 2008

Google G1 mobile phone launches. Piece by the Guardian’s Richard Wray gives the background. Open Handset Alliance vs Apple iPhone and Nokia’s newly-free Symbian. And “For many people in the developing world, the only way they are likely to get on the web, for the foreseeable future, is through a mobile device. A quarter of […]

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Filesharing prosecutions

By take21 | Published: September 12, 2008

“Cleveland police have charged Alan Ellis, the former administrator of the defunct BitTorrent tracker site OiNK.cd, with conspiracy to defraud the record industry. Ellis, a 25-year-old IT worker, will face magistrates at a committal hearing on 24 September, a police spokeswoman said today. Five individuals who were arrested in June for uploading music torrents to […]

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The Pirate’s Dilemma

By take21 | Published: September 12, 2008

Matt Mason The Pirate’s Dilemma: How hackers, punk capitalists and graffiti millionaires are remixing our culture and changing our world. Talk at the Royal Society of Arts. Wide-ranging introduction to the view that piracy may have benefits for society and promote innovation. History of pirate radio, Hollywood’s early history of patent evasion, NIke, brands. Video: […]

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Openness in Higher Education

By take21 | Published: September 3, 2008

Presentation on Openness, Localization, and the Future of Learning Objects David Wiley, Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. This  36 minute presentation discusses how tags, blogs, RSS and Google have usurped much of the earlier work  done with repositories. Much of the case he makes about the challenges […]

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Google Chrome

By take21 | Published: September 2, 2008

Google has launched a browser: Google Chrome. Nice documentation. It’s a browser, but it is also a platform for web applications. Uses Webkit (like Safari). Open Source. Maybe you would like to write a blog entry about it. Everyone else will. Update: BBC coverage with a video clip in which Google’s Jessica Powell demonstrates the […]

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Dore on R4, transcripts available

By take21 | Published: August 22, 2008

Face the Facts: The Dore Programme: controversial treatment for dyslexia has gone bust.’ Broadcast on Friday 15th August. In which we learned that: Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at Oxford University has a colleague who uses the Dore Balsall Common study as a training exercise for undergraduate students. This was also the primary purpose […]

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