Mobile Matrix of Pain »

1 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Some app developers call the iPhone “The Jesus Phone.". Yes, it may be sort of an exaggeration, but when the iPhone launched five years ago, it solved many issues that mobile software had struggled wi... »

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Uninventing the Computer »

31 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Should every possibility that technology provides also be realized? This is the question I touched upon in a previous post about Barnaby Jack’s (RIP) pacemaker hack. Put like this, most would say not ... »

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From Atoms to Bits – and back! »

29 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Nicholas Negroponte famously articulated the vision in the Nineties that digital technology translates atoms into bits, relieving information from its physical vessels—good point, now most media is di... »

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The World in Numbers »

28 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Nothing spells objectivity like numbers – if you can make your case in numbers it becomes something greater than your personal view, it becomes fact. The idea that facts are neutral is very strong in ... »

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Internet.org – ok, great but what about democracy? »

27 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

A handful of prominent tech companies come together to form Internet.org, an initiative to bring internet service to the two-thirds of the global population that are not yet online. Mobile access is k... »

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Anonymity Not Most Important Driver for Online Hate »

25 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Anita Sarkeesian is a US media critic and feminist, currently visiting Europe. She spoke this week at the Media Evolution Conference. Sarkeesian was the victim of an especially vicious example of onli... »

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In Cloud we Trust »

18 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Cloud services ask us to trust them with plenty of personal information, but they often fail to respect that trust. The most recent example is that Google confirms what many have long suspected: that ... »

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We are data – who needs PRISM? »

9 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Online privacy hits big politics as US president Obama cancels his bilateral meeting with Russia’s Putin in September, in favour of a visit to my native Sweden. Clearly this is about Russia’s isupport... »

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Pacemaker-hacker Dies Young »

31 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Barnaby Jack was scheduled to talk about hacking pacemakers at the Black Hat convention in Vegas tomorrow, but was found dead last week in an apartment in San Francisco (police suspects no crime). Jac... »

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Cameron’s war on porn: right action, wrong reason »

25 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech on Monday sounded almost like Netopia’s manifesto in its call for a functioning, regulated internet. While moral indignation may not be the best driving force ... »

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