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Tablet-based magazines, digital TV and the uniqueness of the Web

Mar 20, 2011 - 4 min read

The Family Guide to Digital Freedom (2007 edition) is now online

Today, our rights and the overall quality of our life heavily depend on how software is used around us. This is true also for people (including children) who don’t care much about computers, or don’t even have one. This is why

Mar 12, 2011 - 3 min read

Saab IQon and Linux: when Open Source isn't Open, and your car isn't really yours

Mar 8, 2011 - 3 min read

Is Linus' Law still valid?

Mar 2, 2011 - 5 min read

Groupon saves money... but only when you need something!

Mar 1, 2011 - 2 min read

Why is it so difficult to know how long Italians really live?

The healthy life expectancy is the average number of years that one can statistically expect to leave before falling sick because of some serious, chronical disease. Professor Ugo Bardi, teacher of Physical Chemistry at the University of Florence, recently noted an impressive decrease, starting in 2003, in the healthy life expectancy of Italians and therefore asked: how long do Italians really live? Personally, I have no specific competence to answer this question, or to validate the correctness of Bardi's starting thesis.

Feb 28, 2011 - 4 min read