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Posts Tagged ‘Trista Orchard’

Protesters Turn To Web 2.0 To Effect Summer Of Rage

Protesters Turn To Web 2.0 To Effect Summer Of Rage

We saw recently how students are getting all riled up like never before by tuition fees and non-specific warring, but activism is also…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | April 16, 2009 12:04PM | 1 Comment »


Yahoo and Microsoft Potentially Forming Adorable Little Search Alliance Against Google

Yahoo and Microsoft Potentially Forming Adorable Little Search Alliance Against Google

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…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | April 14, 2009 3:43PM | No Comments »


Barnes And Noble To Enter eBook Market?

Barnes And Noble To Enter eBook Market?

Musing on the future of ebooks is something of a BAD IDEA office obession, and recently the format has been gaining ever more traction. The…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | April 9, 2009 1:57PM | 2 Comments »


Spotify - The Story So Far

Spotify – The Story So Far

Spotify, the revolutionary force providing our ears with free tuneage, is about to step up its potential reach. It’s creating an API – basically…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | April 8, 2009 2:14PM | No Comments »


Schools Plan To Use Twitter And Wii To Educate Inevitably Overweight Future Generations

Schools Plan To Use Twitter And Wii To Educate Inevitably Overweight Future Generations

Bebee_grrl: Omgz Skins last night was mad crazy, I couldn’t believe Naomi made out with JJ…
@Bebee_grrl: I know WTF, that tramp, Emily’s gonna…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | March 26, 2009 4:02PM | No Comments »


DMGT Slashes 1000 Jobs As Local News Continues To Choke

DMGT Slashes 1000 Jobs As Local News Continues To Choke

In a desperate attempt to stay afloat the Daily Mail and General Trust is slashing a whopping 1,000 jobs across its regional

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | March 24, 2009 1:47PM | No Comments »


Vodafone and O2 Buddy Up To Cut Costs - Is A Merger In The Works?

Vodafone and O2 Buddy Up To Cut Costs – Is A Merger In The Works?

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…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 23, 2009 1:52PM | No Comments »


Google Street View Launches In UK, Creates Privacy Storm In A Teacup

Google Street View Launches In UK, Creates Privacy Storm In A Teacup

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,…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 20, 2009 2:39PM | 2 Comments »


"Econocide": The Most Depressing Meme Of The Recession

“Econocide”: The Most Depressing Meme Of The Recession

Words are being created to articulate the terror known as the economy, as some American psychologists have coined the not-at-all sensational term ECONOCIDE to describe…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Hot Money | March 12, 2009 2:17PM | No Comments »


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 | 3 Comments »


Milan Fashion Week Haunted By Size-Zero Spectre Of Recession

Milan Fashion Week Haunted by Size-Zero Spectre of Recession

This season’s Milan Fashion Week was overshadowed by the recession, from the mood of the designs to the actual financial troubles of the designers;…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | March 6, 2009 12:23PM | No Comments »


Magazine Industry Whores Itself Out In Various Ways To Try And Stay Alive