Aktuelles 16. Mai 2012

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• Google in Africa: It’s a hit | The Economist "Faster downloading speeds have helped make Google’s YouTube video-viewing more popular. Young urban Africans organise YouTube parties. The company is also trying to help African governments digitise information and make it freely available to their citizens. Many rulings in the higher courts of Ghana, for instance, are going online."
• iZettle Looks For 3,000 Beta Testers In The UK
• Techdirt: If You Meet A Censor, Ask Why They Haven’t Become Moral Degenerates Themselves
• The problem with nerd politics | Technology | guardian.co.uk "So we can design clever, decentralised systems such as BitTorrent all day long, systems that appear to have no convenient entity to sue or arrest or legislate against. But if our inventions rattle enough cages and threaten enough bottom lines, the law will come hunting for them. The law will seek out arbitrary victims – think of how Sopa set out to prohibit hardening DNS against fraud and phishing because it would be convenient to use fake DNS entries to stop people from reaching The Pirate Bay. When it does, technology can't save them. The only defence against a legal attack is the law. If you don't have an organised body for someone else to sue, it means that there will be no organised body to mount a defence in court, either."
• If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright? | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
• Tablets Want To Kill Your Laptop "Tablet sales will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 46% during the same period, Forrester predicts, reaching 375 million in 2016. A third of those sales will be directly to businesses, as tablets become standard tools for executives, sales staff and other information workers.
  China and other emerging markets will drive the fastest tablet growth because they aren’t already saturated with laptops and smartphones, according to Forrester. Emerging markets will account for 40% of tablets sold by 2016."
• heise online | Politiker räumt im Streit übers Urheberrecht Versäumnisse ein "Die jüngste Eskalation im Streit über das Urheberrecht ist nach Einschätzung des SPD-Netzpolitikers Lars Klingbeil auch in Zusammenhang mit Versäumnissen der Politik zu sehen. "Politik kommt zu spät", sagte der netzpolitische Sprecher der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion am Dienstag im Deutschlandradio Kultur. Die Untätigkeit in diesen Fragen dauere nun schon seit drei Jahren an. "Da sind wir unserer Verantwortung nicht nachgekommen", räumte Klingbeil ein."
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