Skill Zone News issue 80
A report from the OECD reveals that seven nations, headed by Finland, and including Australia, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Korea and the USA, now have more mobile broadband devices than people. The UK is still a little way off saturation point, down in 12th place behind Estonia, Norway, Luxembourg and New Zealand. Football fans will be delighted to know we beat Germany, which is down in 27th place, behind Greece.
27th August 2014
Who owns the Internet?
Does anyone own the Internet? There was a time when many people thought Bill Gates invented and owned it. This generation may well think Google owns it. But a US court has now been posed that question, albeit indirectly.
Making a monkey of copyright?
"Selfies" have become all the rage over the past year, and even politicians on the world stage have been spotted taking the selfie, but a selfie taken by a monkey is being used by the five hundred pound gorilla of Wikipedia to attack another aspect of copyright protection.
Yet another Universal USB
USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, but if you have cameras, tablets and sat-navs, each with not quite interchangeable USB leads, you will know that USB isn't quite the single universal standard that it should be.
Who you gonna call?
At the end of July, Facebook servers nose-dived and there was a major outage of service across the USA and Europe. Being without Facebook for a couple of hours isn't the end of the world, but police in Los Angeles had to issue a plea to the public to stop calling 911 about it and face real life instead.