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Continue ReadingBattle over the Internet
IntroductionIt's hard for most of us to imagine life without the Internet, even though it's actually quite a recent development. Although not originally envisioned as the ubiquitous entity it now is, its elegant design of distributed command and control means that its management and future have always been contested and to a large extent, in […]
Continue ReadingApple v Samsung: innovation’s the loser
Originally published on spiked. Last Friday, a federal court in San Jose, California awarded US tech-giant Apple a huge legal victory over its rival Samsung, which has been ordered to pay $1.05 billion in damages. Apple claimed its South Korean rival had copied a number of features from its iPhone, making it one of the […]
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