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Europe pumps money into space
Ambiguous headline I know -- I couldn't resist, sorry. Member states are going to pour ten billion Euro into the European Space Agency (Esa) funding, the BBC reports. The budget... More
Vodafone Foundation gives £100k to Con...
The Vodafone Foundation has committed £100,000 to the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) for relief efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Fighting in the eastern DRC... More
Mobile broadband is 'the only redundan...
This morning I went to a roundtable hosted by Easynet Connect, the SME-oriented ISP that is part of BSkyB. The topic of conversation was "Achieving Quality Internet Today", and the... More
Microsoft Futures Special Report
Ozzie: Success of Azure comes down to trust
News In an interview, Ray Ozzie says businesses will be taking a risk by placing core operations in Microsoft's datacentre, but that the software giant has more to lose if things go bad
News Microsoft PDC: What to expect
News Microsoft unveils 'Azure' cloud OS
Discussions
Police seize phone-gun
Italian police have seized a gun disguised as a mobile phone, according to a report on Gizmodo. The phone can hold four bullets, and is powerful enough to kill somebody. Gizmodo... More
Gov't loses a PC a week
The government averaged losing one PC per week over the last year, according to figures collated by the Conservatives. A Friday report by the Press Association said that Tory front-bencher... More
The Technological Singularity
Are we approaching a point when machines may wake up and become self or seemingly self aware? Vernor Vinge in 1993 seemed to think so. He refered to this event as the "technological... More
Featured Talkback
Can you imagine what would have happened if the great philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists and writers had patented their ideas so that nobody else could use them without paying. We today wouldn't be able to have a conversation without violating somebodies intellectual property. The arguement of the free software community is that software should be treated in the same manner, copyrightable but not patentable.
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Google Chrome
Roundup: Full coverage of the Google Chrome launch
The search giant has launched a beta of its own open-source browser, sending a clear challenge to Microsoft in the way it lets users work with applications More
Blog: Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
And furthermore, he says, that's a good thing... More
Blog: Google Chrome — nine things we've found since launch
Google must be very happy with the coverage Chrome has gathered. But it's not all good news... More
