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  • Book Prices

    Book Prices

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe default action for many is to think "I want to buy this book" and they automatically either buy a physical copy because they love physical books, or they buy an e-book. The default is almost always Kindle and Amazon because of its market dominance. I was shopping for The Night Train…

  • On AI and Corporate Social Responsibility

    On AI and Corporate Social Responsibility

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I went for a run. During this run I listened to Systems Crash and the discussion about AI, about the US attitude, and the European/International attitude and it convinced me that I much prefer to use EU/International projects rather than American ones for a simple reason. Corporate Social Responsibility. The…

  • Digital Sovereignty and I

    Digital Sovereignty and I

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI want to start by saying that I hate using the word sovereignty because I think it has right wing baggage. Having said this it is the term often used by Infomaniak and others and it helps shorten the explanation. Infomaniak, like Proton, and many other European solutions provide us with the…

  • Threads in Europe

    Threads in Europe

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesA few weeks ago Facebook (I refuse to whitewash that company by calling it Meta) decided to blackmail European users. The deal was simple. We were coerced. “Accept to pay for Facebook or we will force you to see ads. This was a lose lose situation that the European Union is now…

  • Call of the Re-Wild

    Call of the Re-Wild

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope wants to bring back top predators like lynx, bears and wolves. In the US national parks brought back certain wild animals and it helped to control the population of elk and other herbivores, and to control the biosphere.  The challenge, with Europe, is that it is tiny, compared to the wide…

  • The COVID-19 Dynamic European Restriction Map

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteCOVID-19 rules, restrictions and regulations are dynamic and changing much like drone rules. In Europe before you fly you should visit the local flight rule maps, to see where current restrictions are. Information ranges from “You need third party insurance with coverage for up to two million in damages” or “In…

  • European Identity and Free Roaming

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesEuropean Identity will benefit greatly from free-roaming. Today roaming fees between European countries have been scrapped. This means that your mobile phone is the same whatever country you go to. It means that you will have the same access to minutes and data. When you travel you will no longer need to…

  • Vancouver live in Europe – Streaming

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe European Broadcasting union are providing live coverage of the Vancouver Olympic games to Eurovision member states. There are 6 live channels in Standard definition as well as a channel for certain events in high definition. Also available are the live broadcasts that members of the European broadcasting Union are making…

  • Twitter are stopping SMS

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitter are stopping all SMS for many territories due to cost. They don’t need to send sms. If they had an s60 application similar to that by Jaiku they would incur no extra costs. We would simply take advantage of our dataplans to download the messages at any time that the…

  • Euro 2008, the victorious nation of Spain Celebrate

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s a sunday night in Switzerland and I’m with some friends. Spain were playing Germany and won 1-0, a respectable score. I was there with the phone streaming the celebrations at the Geneva Fanzone in Plainpalais. Here are the clips Ten seconds from the end. Spanish Fans celebrate. Drumming atmosphere. Happy…