David Rowan

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How Orwell would have delighted in satirising today’s tech titans’ perpetual war. Remember when Apple v Microsoft was the defining Oceania v Eurasia battle for supremacy? If so you’re experiencing a doubleplusungood false memory: both are now unimpeachable allies, working to replace Google with Bing as the iPhone’s default search provider. Likewise, you would simply be mistaken to recall Google’s chequebook-wielding flirtation with Facebook three years ago.

Google and Facebook, as every goodthinker knows, are dangerously implacable enemies.

That war entered a venomous new stage last week, when the internet’s biggest search company announced that it had also become a Facebook-style social network.…  Seguir leyendo »

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A funky new boardgame is doing the geek rounds - you can easily find it by Googling. It is called Googolopoly, and, just as with traditional Monopoly, you move round the board in single-minded pursuit of global domination. Land on the Yahoo! or Microsoft squares, for instance, and for just 350 Google shares, each is yours to entrap any subsequent visitors; but find yourself on “Income Tax”, and you'll drop 10 per cent of your entire fortune on government lobbyists to defend your avaricious predations. The winner, of course, is the first player “to organise all the world's information” - everything from personal health records to flirtatious phone messages, all stored for ever in a vast unregulated data bank.…  Seguir leyendo »

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On Friday I was harangued on live television as personally culpable for Israeli “genocide”. On Saturday I was assailed by e-mail missiles for daring to suggest that every civilian death was a human tragedy, when my only concern, apparently, should have been “the spillage of Jewish blood by Arab scum”. Yesterday it was the Jewish anti-Zionists’ turn to launch rhetorical rockets over their presumption that my newspaper considers Israel to have a pre-Messianic right to exist. It hasn’t proved the easiest of weeks to be the new Editor of The Jewish Chronicle.

Since my call-up to the British-Jewish front lines two months ago from the tranquil olive groves of The Times it has become clearer to me than a Maimonidean precept that there is no such thing as a “British Jewish community”.…  Seguir leyendo »