From Tech Crime to Big Politics »

5 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

What do Julian Assange, Peter Sunde and Kim Dotcom have in common? Sure, they are famous tech activists slash criminals (depending on where you stand). Assange is a crook according to US security agen... »

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When you have a hammer, everything looks like nails »

4 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Netopia contributor Paul Frigyes reviews an influential book today: "Big Data," by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier. Read it, because big data is a huge topic in tech, business, and policy.... »

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Pockets of resistance »

3 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Not that Netopia believes the conspiracy theories that Microsoft put Elop in Nokia to bring down the share price before the acquisition, but it’s funny how tech business news seems to always inspire s... »

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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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