Google’s Android problems with Microsoft and GNU might seem bad enough. But they are chickenfeed compared to the trouble they are in with Oracle… In the prior post on this subject, I covered Google’s troubles with Microsoft and the Linux license. I described these as relatively benign, although the problems may have seemed (and are) quite severe. …
Stride piano. Something that you don’t hear every decade. The second album I ever bought, (after Astral Weeks), was called ‘The Jazz Piano’, and featured Willie ‘the Lion’ Smith, as well as Art Tatum, Earl Hines and many others. All those three were great exponents of stride piano, a genre that is almost never now…
Google is in real trouble with patents, and it could threaten the whole company. This has been viewed as a background issue which they can make disappear, but after looking at the suits in detail, I don’t think they can. It’s a giant problem – largely of their own making. In a number of previous posts I have written…
In a previous post I reviewed the Google Maps app for Android and iPhone, and lamented that the brilliant Android-exclusive ‘3D view’ was not yet available for London. In the last few days however, my London Google map app has suddenly sprung into 3D. Watching all the London landmarks pop up on the map, in…
In all the middle-class hand-wringing about the riots, the universal refrain is that the looters are not like us. We look at them as though they are from a different planet. I wonder how true that is. Thinking about this lately, it’s occurred to me that absolute honesty, or even morality, is not a given…
In the 20 years before the first world war, Hungary produced an extraordinarily high proportion of the worlds greatest ever photographers. Robert Capa, Brassaï, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, and Martin Munkácsi, were all Hungarian, and all born between 1894 and 1913. Their work and history is shown in a seminal exhibition at the Royal Academy, which I urge…
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