The only conditions for this to work are that the software must be up and running and the wireless objects have to be sufficiently close to each other to connect. In Netsukuku there is no difference between private and public networks, because whenever the software is active, computers are automatically connected with their peers. Anyway, here’s a summary: - cloud services as offered today (including Gmail, Netsukuku is a p2p based new routing protocol that could - for the purpose of linking users’ computers in a p2p cloud - replace the IP numbers-based addressing and routing that is the system currently in use to link servers to users in the internet.

The State of Free Software in Mobile Devices * In The State of Free Software in Mobile Devices , Bradley M. Kuhn reviews the state of the art of free software in mobile telephony. He writes and concludes: - “Based on this analysis, it appears that the HTC Dream currently gives the most software freedom based on the Android/Linux platform . What’s often missed in open source discussions is how open source licenses tell only half the story. The governance model, the implicit rules defining transparency and influence into an open source project, is the

Still no sign, seven long weeks after Google’s Chinese flounce, that it does actually plan on, like, leaving China. Google claims still to be investigating the ‘massive’ cyber-attack that precipitated the breach – but intriguingly, Forbes reports a claim by cybersecurity firm Damballa that, contrary to the picture painted by Google, the attacks were unsophisticated assaults orchestrated by out-of-date, ‘old school’ botnets, using ‘amateur’ techniques. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams.