Welcome to dot.Rory - these are my thoughts about how technology is changing the world and shaping our lives
10 hours ago
It has been a momentous year, with riots, revolutions, natural disasters and economic crises.
And looking back month by month, technology has played a big part in many of those stories, while making plenty of its own headlines.
2 hours ago
Audioboo: Radio 3 is testing Surround Sound over IP using Festival of 9 Lessons & Carols http://t.co/lwrNXYm3 #audiobbcrd”
10 hours ago
Luxembourg slashes VAT on ebooks - bad news for UK high street booksellers and a headache for the Treasury http://t.co/FtO6qriC”
15:12 UK time, Wednesday, 21 December 2011
http://t.co/jeixhNAW Here's the BBC story on Ireland's call for changes in Facebook privacy policies
15:00 UK time, Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Irish regulator orders upgrade to Facebook privacy settings - important as Ireland is HQ for all Facebook data outside US and Canada
11:28 UK time, Wednesday, 21 December 2011
2011 has seen some big tech IPOs - Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga. Are any of them above the offer price?
07:02 UK time, Tuesday, 20 December 2011
http://t.co/1iqvvqgx Apple wins latest patent battle with HTC, forcing ban on some phones. But HTC happy as it won on 9 of 10 patents cited
09:30 UK time, Monday, 19 December 2011
BT says patents lawsuit against Google over Android is "a well-considered claim", says it's about protecting its investment in innovation
08:18 UK time, Monday, 19 December 2011
BT sues Google over Android - latest battle in the fast spreading patent wars
17:44 UK time, Thursday, 15 December 2011
http://t.co/trqGTuSc New video - the Trumpton restoration. BBC Post Production have remastered the 1960s Trumptonshire trilogy for Blu-Ray
11:42 UK time, Thursday, 15 December 2011
http://t.co/BnneNtdh Government sets deadline for local council fast broadband. Must have plan in place by April 2012 to access £530m funds
09:50 UK time, Thursday, 15 December 2011
In rural Britain there is a growing impatience about the wait for superfast broadband. The Countryside Alliance voiced that last week with its revelations that work had yet to start on the government's fast broadband pilots.
But some people aren't sitting back and waiting - they're doing it themselves. Today comes news of an initiative from one of the more remote parts of the countryside, where people are clubbing together to give themselves the kind of broadband connections that would look respectable in South Korea, never mind South London.
17:12 UK time, Wednesday, 14 December 2011
We've heard it from games companies and Google, from pupils and teachers - and now we are hearing it from Ofsted. ICT teaching in schools just isn't up to scratch.
This morning Ofsted has published a report into ICT in schools in England over the last three years. It's couched in fairly bland language but the conclusion is clear - young people are being failed by the standard of teaching and the content of the curriculum when it comes to learning about technology which will be essential to their personal and professional lives.
06:53 UK time, Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Ofsted report says ICT not sufficiently challenging, only a third of schools good or outstanding, ICT GCSE entries down 64% since 2007
16:35 UK time, Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Sick of Spotify, weary of We7, feeling negative about Napster? Well, today there is yet another new digital music service to choose from.
From a base in the UK, Rara is launching in 23 countries and claiming that it will introduce a new audience to digital music. It looks impressive but there are two big questions. Do millions more consumers really want to pay for digital music and will the terms on which the music labels have signed up to Rara allow it to survive?
14:13 UK time, Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Good news if you access BBC news site from iPhone or iPad - from today most videos will play. So here's @declancurry http://t.co/glfjUdRA
18:14 UK time, Monday, 12 December 2011
Three weeks after problems started, Royal Mail smartstamp and online postage services still not back to normal.
14:55 UK time, Monday, 12 December 2011
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 earns $1bn in 16 days, beating earnings record set by Avatar which hit $1bn in 17 days
10:53 UK time, Friday, 9 December 2011
http://t.co/dZqXoZ4E BBC to show Strictly final in 3D - and put it on iPlayer
06:31 UK time, Friday, 9 December 2011
http://t.co/UoLrwDk6 Countryside Alliance says rural broadband has stalled - I'll be talking about this on @BBCr4today in a minute...
Rory has been watching the technology scene like a hawk for the last 15 years.
From the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s to the rise of Google and Facebook, from the Psion organiser to the iPad, he's covered all the big gadget and business stories, and interviewed just about everyone who's played a part in the story of the web.
Dot.Rory, his previous blog, was named among the Top 100 blogs by the Sunday Times
He aims to look at the impact of the internet and digital technology on our lives and businesses. Rory has been described as "the non-geek's geek", and freely admits that he came late to technology - but he aims to explain its significance to anyone with an interest in the subject.
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