Some years ago Web 2.0 was coined as a term for the new Internet. By definition it is not a technological improvement, it was a metaphor for the phenomenom of the web becoming social. Now some of the experiments around the new Web 3.0 are starting to get pretty impressive. Where the Web 2.0 described the Internet as social, the Web 3.0 describes it as semantic. Firstly it needs to be said that Web 3.0 has nothing to do with…
During the last three weeks since the iPad was released, the Technology Press has been flooded by articles about the iPad, Apples newest gadget. The media has been asking questions like, What is iPad going to change? Will it replace the need for a printing press? Which former technology does it compete against? Which applications will be developed? and What will we be able to do with the iPad? It is clear that there are a lot of speculations about…
Har du hentet ned noe musikk fra nettet i det siste, bare for å sjekke om musikken er verdt å kjøpe? Eller har du lastet ned en film, fordi det var for langt å gå til nærmeste videobutikk? Kjenner du deg igjen? Sjansen for at du da har forbrutt deg mot åndsverksloven er da stor. Åndsverksloven vi i dag benytter oss av i Norge ble lagt til lovverket i 1961, men lover som slår fast de immaterielle rettigheten en person…
As the hypervisuality from the 90’s went over in the overflow of information of the 00’s something happend. The traditionaly trend that things changes more often and that things last shorter went into warpdrive. In the 60’s and 70’s the television-planning was buildt into big groups of programs. The variety was limited and so was also the offers of different television channels. In the eighties something happend, the national regulations, controlling the broadcasting sector, were loosened up and more and…
For some time now I´ve been using the new online music service Spotify. The program is to other popular music players. It has a volume controll, possibility for playlists and, a timeline and buttons to change between tracks. So nothing revolutionary about that. The big difference is the music library. Where my others music players are using my local storage to play songs is Spotify connected to a huge internet library. Here is the whole deal about Spotify, its using…
One laptop per Child is a project lead by a coallision of known and unknown computer experts, science labs and companies. Their mission is to provide children with a low-power, low-cost computer to improve the computer knowledge in the third world. Its design for children with simple educational software that should stimulate and getting children familiar with computers. Some of the educational software is a grapical programming interface, in where the children can learn to program snapping together colorful pieces…
Friday two weeks ago, April 17th, the Swedish Stockholm district court decided to sentence the four operators of the site to one year prison and to pay 30 millions SEK in fines and damages. The defendants lawyers have appealed the case to Svea Court of Appeal and at the same time asked for a retrial since there were suspicions to one of the jugdes in the districts court. The accused were found guilty on helping to infrigde the copyright law….