This morning we launched the Guardian Open Platform at a well attended event in our new offices in Kings Place. This is one of the main projects I’ve been helping out with since joining the Guardian last year, and it’s fantastic to finally have it out in the open. There are two components to the...

My friend Tony Mott, who has died aged 72, was a publisher and a committed Christian. He started at Cassells in 1959, moved on to Collins, and from the late 1960s into the early 80s was variously Penguin's publicity manager, marketing director and then editorial director. He then set up Anthony Mott...

Whitehat hacker. RFID uses radio waves to identify things. Shows much of a promise for breaking (?) into things. Next low-end of computing. You have to bring virtual attacks into the physical domain, when it comes to RFID. Some security problems: Unauthorized tag reading eavesdropping tracking tag c...

A young journalist from Britain writes that the LGBT community needs a stronger and more effective HIV/AIDS prevention program: Craig’s story brings home the reality of barebacking – a reality missed by the glossy HIV prevention adverts and messages aimed at my generation of gay men (I’...

In this behind the scenes video for Ascaron's Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, Blind Guardian vocalist Hansi Kürsch explains how a German heavy metal band gets into a video game. Apparently the answer is to give up hope altogether. Hansi reveals that Blind Guardian had been trying to get into a video game -...

San Fransisco Bay Guardian’s intrepid Juliette Tang continues her journey into the altporn world, to paraphrase their description. In her endeavor to explore the world of AltPorn, she has been conducting a series of profiles and interviews, and we really enjoyed the opportunity to talk with he...

The theatre photographer Douglas H Jeffery, who has died of pneumonia aged 91, supplied this newspaper with pictures for more than 30 years and over 50 years he created one of the most comprehensive libraries of theatre photography in Britain. He would never let the library go to one of the newer pi...

As the recession bites, unemployment soars, and protests against foreign workers proliferate, the publication of Office for National Statistics figures (pdf) showing that the number of foreign-born people in work rose last year would appear to confirm what opponents of immigration have been saying a...

I've seen a terrible thing in the Guardian. Azmi Bishara was a Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament but had to flee because of trumped up charges that he had aided Hizbullah. Well among the many zionist pieces in the Guardian's Comment is free there was one making out that Azmi Bishara was f...

Finalmente oggi sono state date tutte le notizie che volevamo sapere sul Gods Of Metal 2009 - a partire dalla fondamentale location, per arrivare agli headliner e ad un nutrito gruppo di nomi di altro calibro. Di seguito, potete leggere direttamente il comunicato dalla Live In Italy.Che dire. Onesta...