Mac's Horizon Blog

Fund raising the Digital Economy way

2012-01-03T15:12:00.003Z

Like the approach of Raspberry Pi foundation - auctioning off their first 10 boards on ebay. Board 10 is leading the race with £2050 bid so far, not bad for a £25 retail ARM box and 4 days to go :-)

Someone surely is thinking these will be collectors items...

Postscript 10/1/2012: BBC now on the case - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16424990

Gas and tea tariffs

2011-11-24T13:14:00.000Z

Simple lessons for the energy industry and us researchers - simply put, if customers don't get it, you've got a problem; and you'll be eating humble pie.

At a time when we looking ahead to the smart meters and smart grids, time of day metering and demand side management, perhaps British Gas' acknowledgement (see BBC article) that they "had not made it easy for customers" in their pricing is a salutory lesson - we had better put the people at the centre of the problem and work back to the engineering.

What we need is more pricing plan information presented like this gem from confused.com:

Why Johnny Can’t Opt Out...

2011-11-09T14:45:00.001Z

Why Johnny Can’t Opt Out: A Usability Evaluation of Tools to Limit Online Behavioral Advertising.

A great tech report from CMU CyLabs on issues in self-regulation and opt-out mechanisms in online advertising. Conclusion - "fundamentally flawed".

No browser should be without it!

Yup - even as a technologist with Ghostery, AdBlocker Plus, rather obsessive browser settings and as of a few minutes ago having opted out of the 52 companies that target ads at Chrome according the Digital Advertising Alliance (curiously hard to find online!) - I still find it all disconcerting.

I have for years been registered with the Telephone and Mail Preference Services in the UK - this is not self regulation, this is legislation, and it works pretty well and cuts out most of the junk - the remaining junk in the McAuley household is blow-ins through magazine subscriptions - New Scientist can I sign out of this please? However, I still get telephone direct marketing from folks outside the UK; interestingly when I ask which UK company they are working on behalf of, the phone goes dead. Unfortunately I can't report them because the caller-id is always blocked, but companies (and you know who you are) are clearly trying to bypass the legislation. So would you now trust them to self-regulate online?

Thanks to Gilad for pointing me at the original article.

P.S. At 14:38 today, just as I finalised this, I had an international telesales call in broken english asking for Mr Needham or Mrs Needham (previous residents at this address from 14 years ago!). Good friends, long may they be remembered, the operator received some ripe anglo-saxon they may have difficulty translating.

The data is out there; the episode of the nibbled chainsaw

2011-10-15T17:45:00.001+01:00

So; this is the sorry sight that greeted me as I deployed the tools for some light hedge trimming this morning. For those unversed in garden machinery lore and wizardry, what you see here is the result of a rodent nibbling on the carburettor primer pump of a chainsaw. Since integrity of this small plastic component is vital for it's correct operation - Mr Rat has quite effectively, and probably most efficiently, sabotaged my weekend's "hedge trimming"; however, he's not that smart as we can narrow down the suspects - this guy is clearly into solvent abuse.

How to find a replacement part? Of course "to the Internet" and surely the trusty search engines will pop up a suitable supplier. So I did learn there is a forum for "International Chainsaw Collectors", whether you are expected to have chainsaws from two or more countries to join in is unclear, but there I did find the user manual (scanned by some kind soul) although sadly not a parts list. Search did find several plausible components that "looked similar" but at no point could I verify that the offered parts would do the job. The manufacturers website grudgingly started to appear in the lower ranking of the searches and with sinking heart I thought I might as well try the manufacturers website...

The reason for my (soon to be justified) gloom was that this has been a recurring pattern; it's been a bad year for domestic appliances in the McAuley household (probably due to climate change) but from memory so far: boiler, cooker, fridge, washing machine, lawnmower, laptop, vivarium thermostat, camera, and now chainsaw - each time I have gone to find information about a product at the manufacturer's website I have found nothing - lots of their new products, often animated with the latest and greatest web technology, but if it is not on sale anymore, it's pretty much invisible.

I exited the digital and went old-school - trip to the local garden centre and associated lawnmower maintenance facility. A brief check in their stores turned up about 5 close candidates but not an exact match, so, much to my amazement, with oil under fingers and pencil behind ear, lawnmower-repair-man jumps on his rather grimy PC and pulls up a vector graphic exploded view schematic of carburettor assembly for the chainsaw in question, zooms in, clicks on the part, clicks on "add to shopping basket" and reports to me that I can collect Tuesday. Beautiful manufacturer supplied data integrated into a purchasing system.

I returned home and having clocked the name of the supplier went to their website; why had they not shown up on the search engines? Was it the deep web? No - in large friendly letters it says "trade only" and "login required". So it's a supply chain conspiracy; a classic closed v. open argument to protect existing business relationships.

So the hedge is still 9ft tall but at least I've got another supply chain anecdote.

Don't let the energy company kill my pet

2011-09-23T10:39:00.000+01:00

There's an intersting article on the privacy issues present in much of the current thinking on smart grids over on Miller-McCune's blog.

There is indeed a fundamental problem with the model that energy companies are going to be poking around in our homes switching things on and off - the problem I refer to as "don't let the energy companies kill my pet".

Here's Frankie; he's a bearded dragon and likes a daytime temperature of about 33C; he also likes to bask - this is done by placing a 150W light bulb in his vivarium housed in child no. 1's bedroom. Last thing I need is the energy company switching off the lights in my house because it's daytime and the fools have left their bedroom lights on (*). They simply cannot know that Frankie will die and I, and more importantly my kids, will be somewhat annoyed. We need to move beyond this omniscient energy company model to understand what information the energy company needs to supply to each property where local decisions can be made by my personal energy agent - the pure economists would say this could be simply price. Maybe; although perhaps with something a bit richer than simply current price, for example a pricing plan for the next 24 hours, we might get there.

In electrical theory, we can figure out the the voltages and currents flowing in a network of resistors by using Kirchoff's laws, or, by applying Maxwell's equations. The former is a global solution (and simple - GCSE physics) whereas the other can be calculated locally (and is gnarly for most - undergraduate physics...); however, they result in the same solution; indeed Kirchoff's law can be derived from Maxwell's equations.

So rather than trying to solve the "simple" global problem let's set to figuring out how to get the same solution with local (and hence private) optimisations (+)... we'd better expect it's not going to be easy, we can only hope it is as beautiful and powerful as Maxwell's work, but it is certainly seems like a fit topic for research.

Think global act local!

---- 8< ----

(*) Other examples include:

don't discharge my electric car when my wife is 8 months pregnant and I may urgently need to get her to the hospital
it a dialysis machine not a TV you buffoons
etc

(+) This insight was used in telecommunications call routing (Dynamic Alternative Routing) - perhaps the review article in +plus magazine is an easier read! In any case I am indebted to Frank for sharing this insight many years ago.

The unsung social nets

2011-08-09T09:57:00.000+01:00

From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-facebook-twitter-blackberry

Scotland Yard warned on Monday afternoon that those "inciting violence" on the 140-character social network would not go unpunished. Deputy assistant commissioner Stephen Kavanagh confirmed that officers were looking at the website as part of investigations into widespread looting and rioting.However, the most powerful and up-to-the-minute rallying appears to have taken place on a more covert social network: BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).Using BlackBerry handsets – the smartphone of choice for the majority (37%) of British teens, according to last week's Ofcom study – BBM allows users to send one-to-many messages to their network of contacts, who are connected by "BBM PINs". For many teens armed with a BlackBerry, BBM has replaced text messaging because it is free, instant and more part of a much larger community than regular SMS.

Seems the tech has raced ahead of the authorities yet again - although not as if equipment manufacturers and operators don't know that there is such a thing as lawful intercept...

Cloud security fears exaggerated, says federal CIO

2011-08-01T10:10:00.013+01:00

An interesting read over at Computer World:

"A lot of people are sort of driving this notion of fear around security," Kundra said. "And the reason I think that's been amplified, frankly, is because it preserves the status quo."

Talking to the folks from The Portal recently and starting to appreciate the levels of automation and small number of folks who are actually needed to manage the automation in these data centres, the issues of "who has the time?" and "wouldn't even know where to look" provided a lively topic of discussion; however, still think I'd like a smattering of "encryption at rest". Belt and braces don't you know.

A view from ARTICLE 29 Data Protection Working Party on location privacy

2011-07-26T12:47:00.003+01:00

Hardly lightweight reading, but the recent report by:

THE WORKING PARTY ON THE PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH REGARD TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

start with an introduction to location based services :

Geographical information plays an important role in our society. Almost all human activities and decisions have a geographical component. In general, the value of information increases when it is connected to a location. All kinds of information can be connected to a geographic location, such as financial data, health data and other consumer behavioural data. With the rapid technological development and wide uptake of smart mobile devices, a whole new category of location based services is developing.

and ends with some interesting recommendations:

Because location data from smart mobile devices reveal intimate details about the private life of their owner, the main applicable legitimate ground is prior informed consent.
Consent cannot be obtained through general terms and conditions.
Consent must be specific, for the different purposes that data are being processed for, including for example profiling and or behavioural targeting purposes from the controller. If the purposes of the processing change in a material way, the controller must seek renewed specific consent.
By default, location services must be switched off. A possible opt-out mechanism does not constitute an adequate mechanism to obtain informed user consent.

Still not convinced that the average man on the Clapham Omnibus will ever achieve "informed consent" with the 80+ pages of Ts & Cs we get confronted with today...

Is the Future of Patient-Managed Health Records Now a Thing of the Past?

2011-07-10T19:07:00.001+01:00

RIP Google Health and Powermeter (see here); and MSFT Hohm at the same time. In the immortal words of Half Man Half Biscuit "A million housewives every day pick up a tin of beans and say, 'what an amazing example of synchronisation'".

And so as they ask over at BioPoliticalTimes are we done with patient managed records?

I think the thing here is not to loose track of the fact that patient access to records rather than holding them is a key service we want to see...

RIP Google PowerMeter

2011-06-25T08:15:00.000+01:00

Begin forwarded message:

From: Google PowerMeter <powermeter-noreply@google.com>
Date: 24 June 2011 22:20:24 GMT+01:00
To: me@email
Subject: Update on Google PowerMeter
Reply-To: powermeter-noreply@google.com

Dear PowerMeter User,
We first launched Google PowerMeter as a Google.org project to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information. Since our launch, there's been more attention brought to this issue, and we're excited that PowerMeter has helped demonstrate the importance of access to energy data. However, our efforts have not scaled as quickly as we would have liked, so we have decided to retire PowerMeter.
You will continue to have access to the product until September 16, 2011, after which time you will no longer be able to access your PowerMeter account. We know that having access to your energy information has helped you save energy and money. There are many options available for you from our device and utility partners. Please visit this page to learn more: http://www.google.com/support/powermeter/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1342532
We also understand that having your historical energy data is important to you. We've made it easy for you to download your data. To export your PowerMeter data to a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file, log in to your account and go to "Account Settings." More information can be found here:http://www.google.com/support/powermeter/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164264
We appreciate your understanding and hope that you've enjoyed using Google PowerMeter. If you have questions about this announcement, please visit our FAQ pages at http://www.google.com/powermeter/about/faqs.html
Thank you,
Google PowerMeter team
© 2011 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you about important changes to your Google PowerMeter account.

Whole Cloud Thing Currently a big waste of time for everybody

2011-06-22T13:22:00.001+01:00

Best wishes to my old friend Simon as he heads off for a new startup Bromium with this parting piece from GigaOM:

Crosby said the threat it [sic] to everything under the umbrella of the public web. “[U]nless we solve some of these problems,” he said, “the whole cloud thing is just a big waste of time for everybody."

Big Data

2011-05-20T12:14:00.000+01:00

"Analyzing large data sets—so called big data—will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus as long as the right policies and enablers are in place."

So say McKinsey...

http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/index.asp

"Right policies and enablers" - yup - since Informed Consent has failed in the web maybe we just need "some good old consumer protection". I would credit that quote but the relevant privacy lawyer is a very private person :-)

LIve Mesh

2011-05-16T12:09:00.000+01:00

After burying FolderShare for several years in MSFT development, and then giving us a crufty Office add on, MSFT seem to have sorted themselves out with Windows Live Mesh, which has recently come out of beta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Mesh

Note an important aspect of this service is that the data does not necessarily have to reside in the cloud (c.f. dropbox) but the service offers to merely sync it across your devices - for those concerned about people looking at your content "at rest" in the cloud it's quite sensible. There's a REST API for access to the service - perscon sync service courtesy MSFT?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger_Connect

Right now in terms of apps Windows and Mac supported for syncing. Should imagine Windows for Mobile coming soon. No sync app for iPhone and IPad; web browsing gives "not available on mobile" so you need something like AtomicWebBrowser that can lie for you.

National Trust go Digital Economy

2011-05-04T09:44:00.001+01:00

Think you can help manage these sheep at Wimpole Hall Farm? (Why are these lambs heading to that phone box with such purpose?)

http://www.my-farm.org.uk/ - Great to see such a grand institution as the National Trust "getting it".... FaceBook and mobile apps next?

Interesting CHI workshop

2011-03-30T12:05:00.001+01:00

Interesting crew presenting - coolio graphic :-)

http://crowdresearch.org/chi2011-workshop/

Pocket Social from Ericsson Research

2011-03-28T11:51:00.002+01:00

This was a poster at last weeks PerCom 2011 conference in Seattle.

Very related our work on dataware - it's nice to see a growing community looking at these issues

(download)

Internet Buttons

2011-02-03T11:49:00.000Z

Must get this installed on my mum's PC :-)

We've hit Pandemonium

2010-12-01T14:28:00.000Z

I like this site derived from online open data...

Bridging the rural digital divide in Borth and Ynyslas

2010-11-19T08:49:00.001Z

And here's the guys telling me it's a long way to go - however, think I'll leave a visit to this offsite research until the weather improves....

Policy for meta data about policy on open data

2010-10-31T11:13:00.001Z

So writing an article for a conference and I was trying to find how I can cite the UK Power of Information Task Force report.

Change in government and the website is gone. DOI anyone?

Required reading

2010-08-16T12:56:00.000+01:00

In the article by Jeffrey Rosen, "The Web Means the End of Forgetting", he talks about many fine ways to deal with the issue of the web having a habit of remembering things; from online hygiene to social and technical take downs. I do hope the next round of digital economy start ups realise that the sensitive stewardship of its subscribers or customers privacy is a major selling point!

Who's looking at your data

2010-07-30T14:48:00.000+01:00

Nice visualization from Forrester Research - cloud privacy heat map. I think I want mine in Germany.

"Instant Personalization" the ICO speaks

2010-07-20T16:49:00.000+01:00

So, annoyed with facebook's recent introduction of Instant Personalization I thought to complain to the ICO. I received the response below.

Caveat surfer.

I do wonder if in future we might not seek to understand how local legislation, enacted at the wishes the citizens of a country, might be brought to bear on an every growing global digital economy.

Mac.

From:
Date: 13 July 2010 10:00:38 GMT+01:00
To:
Subject: RE: FaceBook and "Instant Personlization"[Ref. ENQ0309115]

13th July 2010

Case Reference Number ENQ0309115

Dear Prof McAuley

Thank you for your correspondence regarding the „Instant Personalization‰ function on the website Facebook. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you; this is due to the large caseload we are currently experiencing. Unfortunately, this has meant that we have been unable to deal with incoming correspondence as promptly as we would like.

As you may be aware, the Information Commissioner‚s Office is the UK‚s independent authority tasked with overseeing and enforcing the Data Protection Act 1998 (the „DPA‰). The DPA covers the processing of personal data (i.e. data which relates to a living individual) within the UK.

Unfortunately, as Facebook is based and operated from the United States, it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the DPA. We are therefore unable to pursue this matter.

You may find useful information in our guidance note „Using social networking sites safely‰

I am sorry that we cannot be of assistance on this occasion. If you have any further queries, please contact our Helpline on 08456 306060, or 01625 545745 if you would prefer to call a national rate number, quoting your case reference number.

Yours sincerely

Case Officer

Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
T. 01625 545745 F. 01625 524510 www.ico.gov.uk
Please consider the environment before printing this email

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If you are not the intended recipient of this email (and any attachment), please inform the sender by return email and destroy all copies. Unauthorised access, use, disclosure, storage or copying is not permitted.
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^mydex - doin' it right

2010-06-29T19:14:00.001+01:00

Getting back control of the information beast is critical and while it's not going to be business as usual for governments and business the interesting challenge is to understand how personal data done right will actually drive a whole new wave of personal applications - while we're figuring that lot out, great to see social enterprise ^mydex leading the way on this personal data.... read and learn.

Concerns about trickcyclists use of google

2010-03-29T09:58:00.001+01:00

..or indeed your doctor.

"Most psychiatrists have engaged in "patient-targeted Googling", say the authors, and find personal information ranging from criminal records, details of substance use, sexual activity, finances and suicide plans."

Surely the issue here really why on earth would they believe what they find?

Sounds like a quick way to get someone committed just got added to the evil uses of the Internet.

German court orders stored telecoms data deletion

2010-03-02T16:11:00.000Z

From the BBC:

"Having been spied on for decades, first by the Nazis and then by the Stasi, the notorious communist secret police, Germans take their privacy seriously, our correspondent says." more here...

Glad to see the gradual and invidious peering into our lives by corporates and government is being fought off somewhere.

Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking

2010-03-02T12:54:00.000Z

Very interesting keynote "Mobile Phone Sensing is the Next Big Thing!" at this conference from Andrew Campbell - couldn't agree more :-) PDF slides online.

Streuth - Pass the Duck

2010-02-08T10:27:00.001Z

"We believe it's a good idea for parents to monitor their teens' on-line activities. In the same way that parents might ask their teens to "friend" them on social networks such as Facebook, teens can let their parents see their balances via Pass the Duck."

http://www.kwedit.com

"Kwedit Scores do NOT impact credit scores or FICO scores in the real world." - not yet....

New facebook features causing concern...

2010-02-04T13:44:00.002Z

"Facebook is rolling out two new features with privacy implications, an;app dashboard;and a gaming dashboard. Take a 30 second look at the beta versions which are already live (with real user data) and see if you spot any likely problems." ...more at LightBlueTouchpaper...

The poster child for scalable cloud computing

2010-02-04T13:32:00.002Z

I was giving a talk recently at a BIS and was in need of an example showing the shift from capital to operational costs for businesses in the era of cloud computing. Who better than Animoto to use as an example - especially once I found this fine graphic showing the 3 day growth curve.

And what better way to liven up the powerpoint than to "eat the dogfood". If the embedded JavaScript has been stripped by the Horizon webserver, just go here.

Pictures courtesy of Helen's project 365.

ACM HotPlanet 2010

2010-01-18T09:42:00.000Z

Possible venue:

"It is well-known that successfully researching, designing and building new mobile, ad hoc, mesh and opportunistic networking systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale data on human mobility, encounter, and social network patterns. ..."

http://www.hotplanetconf.net/

Bring back Common Carriers....

2009-12-07T10:27:00.003Z

Fun to seedeep packet inspection (DPI) becoming a topic of everyday conversation as it gets applied to survey, and possibly in the future shut down, file sharers - a service of Detica coming to a Virgin ISP near you....

A major challenge for the commercial sector for years has been the growth in SSL traffic crossing firewalls being annoyingly opaque to deep packet inspection. (The only real solution is one that cracks open the packets by decrypting using "SSL Inspection Appliances" from the likes of Netronome, Blue Coat, et al.)

So on the one hand DPI is a tool for surveillance of unencrypted just as the amount of encrypted traffic is growing; and how long before those file sharers adopt it - oh they have already since 2005. On the other hand maybe if we all adopted encryption for all traffic, perhaps service providers in future might avoid £8000 fines - could it possibly reinstate them as "common carriers" if they require users to encrypt all traffic.

"Dear Blogspot, can I please be accessible as https://machorizon.blogspot.com ..."

Progress on open data

2009-11-19T11:43:00.000Z

Good to see that Tim and Nigel have been making the most of the opportunity offered to open up the govt data - very useful for Horizon we should be watching these data sources eagerly as they come online to see what new and interesting applications they might enable. They have a column in the Times Online "Put in your postcode, out comes the data".

Right now I'd appreciate a map that allowed me to click on the street lamp outside my house and sent off email to whoever is responsible for fixing it :-)

Can Information be Personal? & Ad-hoc networks

2009-11-12T12:42:00.000Z

Some very interesting thoughts on information privacy and the Data Protection Act from a lecture at the Caledonian Research Foundation (RSE) by Baroness Onora O'Neill - "Can Information be Personal".

"The definition [of ‘processing’] in the Act is a compendious definition and it is difficult to envisage any action involving data which does not amount to processing within this definition"

I was amused reading this lecture this week as it co-incided with finding an example not covered by the Act - from the ICO we find a press release from 2007!

"However, the Regulations only apply to messages sent over a public electronic communications network and we have concluded that Bluetooth messages are not in fact sent using such a network."

Nor a lot of research networks of the last number of years! (e.g. Haggle...)

I am told this loophole is to close.

Vint Cerf: 'Google doesn't know who you are'

2009-11-08T21:40:00.001Z

No no no no no; we are in a terrible place and it is getting worse; Vint please don't do this.....

S3MR - Spring School on Social Media Retrieval

2009-11-06T13:21:00.000Z

S3MR will be held during February 22-25, 2010 in beautiful city of Interlaken, Switzerland.

DEADLINE: November 17, 2009.

Multimedia content has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval. At the same time, much of this content is made available on content sharing websites like YouTube or Flickr, or shared on social networks like Facebook. In such environments, the content is usually accompanied with metadata, tags, ratings, comments, information about the uploader and their social network, etc.

Analysis of these "social media" shows a great potential in improving the performance of traditional multimedia information analysis/retrieval approaches by bridging the semantic gap between the "objective" multimedia content analysis and "subjective" users' needs and impressions. The integration of these aspects however is non-trivial and has created a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of research.

The Spring School on Social Media Retrieval aims at bringing together young researchers from neighboring disciplines, offering

(1) lectures delivered by experts from academy and industry providing a clear and in-depth summary of state-of-the-art research in social media retrieval,

(2) collaborative projects in small groups providing hands-on experience on integrative work on selected problems from the field.

Scope

   * Content distribution over social/peer-to-peer networks
   * Multimedia content analysis
   * Automatic multimedia annotation/tagging
   * Multimedia indexing/search/retrieval
   * Implicit media tagging
   * Social data analysis
   * Collaborative tagging

Confirmed lecturers:
-Susanne Boll, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany ,       http://medien.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/personen/susanne_boll/
-Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo Research, Barcelona, Spain,       http://research.yahoo.com/Roelof_van_Zwol
-Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation, Turino, Italy,      http://isiosf.isi.it/~cattuto/

for more information and also for subscription please visit our webpage:
http://www.petamedia.eu/s3mr/

Internet of Things CFP

2009-11-04T12:16:00.000Z

Interesting conference for that mixed physical and virtual world..... http://www.iot2010.org/

The "Internet of Things (IoT)" disrupts with the today's Internet
limitations of human-entered data: technologies like RFID, short-range
wireless communications, real-time localization, and sensor networks
empower computers to perceive the world for themselves. Standardized
infrastructures capable of managing, sharing and processing this
captured data will be necessary in order to bring the Internet of Things
into commercial use. This interlinking of physical world and cyberspace
foreshadows an exciting endeavor that is highly relevant to
researchers, corporations, and individuals.

Random links

2009-11-02T17:56:00.000Z

By way of a start a random selection of links and stories that have piled up in my intray...

What platform shall we use - iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile? Interesting stuff from buru on brails Android v. Maemo.

Avego - the video is cool if somewhat culturally mid-Atlantic!

Research Councils UK have recently announced a new fund to support researchers who want to develop a business plan. Must be worth a punt surely...