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Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s consumer space flight program, is epic enough to make even the biggest cosmo-sceptic start pointing their finger and jump up and…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | July 29, 2009 1:30PM | No Comments »
It looks like the privacy mob has spoken, because Phorm, the potentially revenue-generating but rather queasily invasive internet advertising technology, has been given…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | July 7, 2009 11:10AM | 2 Comments »
Ok, we take it all back. Yesterday it looked like the Digital Britain paper would just lamely hope that the private sector would…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | June 17, 2009 11:21AM | 1 Comment »
Lord Carter’s Digital Britain paper is getting slagged off even before it’s been published – the Times attacks both the paper and Gordon…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | June 16, 2009 11:03AM | No Comments »
The ongoing dispute about how to implement the Digital Britain plan of having 2Mb broadband countrywide by 2012 has got a…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | May 14, 2009 11:10AM | 2 Comments »
Since buying Skype for $2.6bn, plus $530m in performance-based payments, eBay hasn’t found a way to make the free-phone-calls company fit…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | April 15, 2009 11:53AM | No Comments »
Although Bill Gates failed at his attempts to buy Yahoo in 2008 with a £21.3bn bid, the two could be putting the past behind them…
Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | April 14, 2009 3:43PM | No Comments »
Spotify, the revolutionary force providing our ears with free tuneage, is about to step up its potential reach. It’s creating an API – basically…
Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | April 8, 2009 2:14PM | No Comments »
Theodor Reppe, who owns the server owns the German domain name of document-leak site Wikileaks, has had his home raided by German police,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | March 26, 2009 3:20PM | 6 Comments »
Vodafone and Telefónica (O2’s owner), two of the biggest mobile service providers, have come together in a marriage of convenience, pooling their accumulated mobile networks…
Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 23, 2009 1:52PM | No Comments »
Google can’t stop creating these Will-Smith-in-Enemy-of-the-State-type paranoia situations. Fresh from social awkwardness nexus Google Latitude, yesterday they launched their UK version of Google’s Street View,…
Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 20, 2009 2:39PM | 4 Comments »
As if it isn’t bad enough to know that at the moment every job you are applying for in the UK, ten other…
Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 17, 2009 2:43PM | 4 Comments »
