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The UK riots showed that verifying sources can be a tricky job. The OU's Tony Hirst asks how can we make effective use of social media as a reliable news... Read more Riot mapping and social media

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Happy birthday Linux! Creative Commons Image By keela84 via Flickr under Creative Commons license

By Andrew Smith (The Open University)

22 August 2011

As the 20th anniversary of the Linux approaches, the OU's Andrew Smith looks at how the operating system has very much come of age.  Read more : Happy birthday Linux!

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Mike Lynch on spotting transformative technology Featuring: video,audio, Copyrighted Image The Open University

By Mike Lynch (Guest), Dr Matthew Hinton (The Open University)

15 July 2011

Mike Lynch uses an example from the legal system to explain how to spot the technology that can change your business.  Read more : Mike Lynch on spotting transformative technology

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A domain of one's own: Will non-Latin web addresses make the internet less Western facing? Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image John Kannenberg under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Gareth Mitchell (Guest), George Victor (Guest)

23 June 2011

Egypt was one of the first countries to roll out web URLs which used local characters - an online revolution which coincided with a social...  Read more : A domain of one's own: Will non-Latin web addresses make the internet less Western facing?

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By Dr Tony Hirst (The Open University)

16 December 2010

Following the recent spates of denial of service attacks by hackers supporting Wikileaks, Tony Hirst offers some insight into what's involved  Read more : Source of denial

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Tantrums in the internet playground Creative Commons Image biatch0r under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Tony Hirst (The Open University)

10 December 2010

When the Wikileaks website appeared to disappear off the internet, a few net-savvy people knew just where to find it. Tony Hirst explains why a...  Read more : Tantrums in the internet playground

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A fatal bug? Did computers cause the Air France disaster?Creative Commons Image by Abdallahh, some rights reserved

By Mike Richards (The Open University)

06 July 2009

We may never know why did the Air France Airbus A330 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean. Here we take a look at the interim report...  Read more : A fatal bug? Did computers cause the Air France disaster?

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Antarctic adventuresUsed with permission

By Snapshots team (The Open University)

09 May 2007

As a software engineer, Miles is designing programs that will guide a robt sub under the Antarctic ice.  Read more : Antarctic adventures

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What is broadband?Jupiter Images

19 June 2006

 Connecting to the internet is easy, right? You're doing it right now. But why does everyone dream of a broadband connection?  Read more : What is broadband?

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Systemic InquiryEurofighter Typhoon

By Dr Simon Bell (The Open University)

19 October 2005

Simon Bell, senior lecturer at the Open University, looks at why this multi-national design and construction project is a textbook case in Systems Thinking and...  Read more : Systemic Inquiry

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