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Google Docs Privacy Infringement Continues Their Run Of Dropping The Ball

Google holds our lives in its primary-coloured hands, but it’s not until they do things like accidentally letting loose a few personal documents to people…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 10, 2009 2:45PM | 4 Comments »


Rats Are Better Futures Traders Than Humans, Says Possibly Mental Artist Michael Marcovici

Rats Are Better Futures Traders Than Humans, Says Possibly Mental Artist Michael Marcovici

Michael Marcovici, a Vienna-based artist, has devised a rather amusing and convoluted method of proving that your average futures trader has less nous…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | February 19, 2009 3:24PM | 1 Comment »


Microsoft Plays Catch Up With Apple's App Store, Retail Chain

Microsoft Plays Catch-up with Apple’s App Store, Retail Chain

Fed up of being cast as the geeky older brother of Mac, Microsoft is taking a few initiatives to step up their cool cred, announcing…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 18, 2009 12:46PM | 2 Comments »


Mobile Phone Providers Scrap Politely Over Bits Of Spectrum To Enable Lord Carter's "Digital Britain"

Mobile Phone Providers Scrap Politely Over Bits of Spectrum to Enable Lord Carter’s “Digital Britain”

Lord Carter’s “Digital Britain” paper, with its promise of 2Mb broadband for all by 2012, looks pretty lame when South Korea are going

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | February 16, 2009 1:45PM | 1 Comment »


Google Ends Radio-Ad Venture, Layoffs to Follow

Google’s torrid affair with radio advertising ended in tears and broken promises yesterday when they broke off their rocky three-year engagement. This loss follows last…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 13, 2009 4:58PM | 1 Comment »


Twitter Rumours False, It Will Not Start Charging For Services

The rumours of Twitter having actually come up with a revenue model have turned out to be nothing more than a game of Chinese whispers…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 11, 2009 2:43PM | 1 Comment »


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LeapFrog Helps Toddlers Go Digital With New ‘BlackBerry’ Device

A father pushes his child on a park swing, as the three year old obsessively checks a Blackberry-like device for texts…

That’s the vision…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 6, 2009 3:48PM | 5 Comments »


"PMS Buddy": The iPhone App For Shiftless Boyfriends

“PMS Buddy”: The iPhone App For Shiftless Boyfriends

Desperate times call for desperate measures, right? Well, the mobile phone companies certainly seem to think so, and are proving it by creating increasingly ridiculous…

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Posted by Ruth Stokes in Sci-tech | February 6, 2009 10:19AM | 3 Comments »


iPhone Believed Powerful Enough To Topple Entire Network Providers

iPhone Believed Powerful Enough To Topple Entire Network Providers

The all-conquering power of the iPhone was further proved yesterday, as the French court of appeal upheld a complaint from mobile operator Bouygues

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | February 5, 2009 1:32PM | 1 Comment »


Google Latitude - The Stalker's Friend

Google Latitude to Bring Your Boring Friends Closer and Take Social Networking to the Streets

You know when you’re in the neighbourhood of one of your bottom tier friends and you’re thinking – ‘Jeeze I hope I don’t run into…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 5, 2009 11:10AM | 7 Comments »


Is Ray Kurzweil The L Ron Hubbard Of Silicon Valley?

Is Ray Kurzweil The L Ron Hubbard Of Silicon Valley?

Nasa and Google are backing a college in Silicon Valley along with maverick/eccentric  Ray Kurzweil, it’s been announced this week. Not one that…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Sci-tech | February 4, 2009 10:58AM | 12 Comments »


Jeff Bezos Keeps UK Kindle-Lovers In the Wilderness

Another Amazon quarterly earnings call today, and another big puff of smoke in the face of UK readers waiting for the wazzo Kindle…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Sci-tech | January 30, 2009 7:41PM | 4 Comments »