<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Posts by Dave Birch</title><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/people/dave.birch</link><description>Posts made by Dave Birch on Convergence Conversation</description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:08:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) 2009 Convergence Conversation and contributing authors.  For full copyright info and terms of use visit http://www.convergenceconversation.com/</copyright><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>Convergence Conversation</title><url>http://www.convergenceconversation.com//lib/img/rssimg.png</url><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/people/dave.birch</link></image>	<item><title>Where will the NFC magic come from?</title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;I wouldn&#39;t say that I&#39;m particularly interested in what noted brainbox and multi-millionaire media personality Stephen Fry says about things, but I have to applaud his attitude and turn of phrase in this commentDon&rsquo;t you sometimes long to be CEO of a company like Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia or Microsoft? So that you can say to your coders, your designers, your development teams and your software architects: &ldquo;Not ******* Good Enough... Start again. Not ******* Good Enough.&rdquo;[From]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/where-will-the-nfc-magic-come-from</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/where-will-the-nfc-magic-come-from</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:45:13 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Anyone remember faxes?</title><description><![CDATA[Well that was exciting.&nbsp; I got a fax today.&nbsp; About a month ago I was wondering whether to renew my eFax account because I was pretty sure that I hadn&#39;t received a fax for the entire year just gone, and it seemed like a bit of a waste of money.&nbsp; I decided to give it one more year for old times&#39; sake, which was just as well otherwise I would not have received this important message from a conference producer about a conference that I am not in least bit interested in (it was something to do with telco services).We do still send faxes from the office from time to time, but I can&#39;t remember when I sent the last fax for personal reasons.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/anyone-remember-faxes</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/anyone-remember-faxes</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:31:02 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Who is actually at the broadband frontier?</title><description><![CDATA[There was a great story in the paper that I was reading on the train a few days ago. Not the one about the couple arrested for having sex on a train into Euston.&nbsp; The typically English commuters ignored them and carried on reading their papers or working on their laptops (honestly, in this day and age -- didn&#39;t any of them have cameraphones?). The newspaper I saw rather quaintly reported that the woman involved was &quot;from Essex&quot;.No, not that one, the one about the couple getting divorced because a virtual private detective in Second Life caught the husband&#39;s avatar fondling a call girl&#39;s avatar.I just couldn&#39;t believe what he&#39;d done,&#39;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/who-is-actually-at-the-broadband-frontier</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/who-is-actually-at-the-broadband-frontier</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:06:22 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>When are we going to do something about spam?</title><description><![CDATA[Charles Arthur wrote a nice piece in The Guardian about e-mail that, once again, makes the point that there is (and has been for a decade) a rather straightforward way to reduce spam: digitally sign all e-mail.Email as presently constituted is insecure and so prone to spoofing that a 10-year-old can do it. If - and it&#39;s a huge if - we had had S/MIME or PGP implemented everywhere by default from the outset of the net&#39;s arrival in the wider world, then we&#39;d be used to the idea of checking]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/when-are-we-going-to-do-something-about-spam</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/when-are-we-going-to-do-something-about-spam</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:37:33 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>We're looking for needles, so get more hay!</title><description><![CDATA[That seems to be the government&#39;s &quot;plan&quot;, as far as I can tell from the story in the newspapers.Every call you make, every e-mail you send, every website you visit - I&rsquo;ll be watching you. That is the hope of Sir David Pepper who, as the director of GCHQ, the government&rsquo;s secret eavesdropping agency in Cheltenham, is plotting the biggest surveillance system ever created in Britain.[From There&rsquo;s no hiding place as spy HQ plans to see all - Times Online]Remember also that&nbsp;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/were-looking-for-needles-so-get-more-hay</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/were-looking-for-needles-so-get-more-hay</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:23:32 +0000</pubDate></item>
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