Some foods could die out without bees
It is estimated that the humble bee could be responsible for as much as thirty per cent of the vegetables and fruit that we eat, yet as recent studies have found the bee population has fallen by around fifty per cent over the last fifty years.
Suddenly we find that something that we have taken for [...]
Ryan Air could charge for going to the loo
The budget airline Ryan Airline may not have been joking about thinking about charging their customers for using the loo on board the plane.
Idea behind this plan is not to make money from desperate travellers, but it is thought that buy introducing the charge less travellers will use the loos and therefore Ryan Air will [...]
Ballmer will move Microsoft staff if US taxes rise
The ceo of the world’s biggest software development company Microsoft, has indicated that he would be considering moving some of the firms employees outside of the US should plans go ahead to impose a higher tax on companies foreign profits.
Steve Ballmer has said that if the plan to restrict the tax breaks for offshore companies [...]
Workers at Canon cannot sit down or walk slow
A lot of people do not like their jobs; this can be for many reasons but spare a thought for the employees of Canon the electrical giant.
They have found that all chairs have been removed from the plants and a sophisticated alarm system has been installed that goes off should an employee not be walking [...]
Apple building a $1 billion server farm
Sometimes governments and regional authorities will do almost anything to get a big name employer to set up on their patch. This is what the North Carolina government are considering in order to get Apple to move in.
The rules are simple, States can do virtually anything to get a larger company to move in, providing [...]
Google looking for answers
The current financial situation has seen many changes in the way that people and businesses are run, no longer is there the long term security of a job for life.
For businesses, it has been an exercise in cost cutting and trimming down. However, as a business attempts to save cash and create a [...]
The gold rush is back
There is rush on gold, it’s not that rich veins of the yellow metal are being found in peoples gardens, but it is the ordinary person in the street who appears to be cashing in the 21st century version of the gold rush.
Under normal circumstances, it is gold jewellery that people sell to make some [...]
YouTube to turn a profit with Googles help
Google have insisted that they will make YouTube into a profitable enterprise, although the CEO Eric Schmidt was careful enough to keep clear of saying exactly when and how this is likely to happen, although it was suggested that it would be losing hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
In fact, the current estimates [...]
Shop buys bad stock
It looks as if the term quality control went out of the window at supermarket chain Morrison’s when they ordered ABC building blocks intended to educate, stimulate and make learning fun, unfortunately some of the words appeared to have been lost in translation.
It is a classic mistake to make for example on brick with the [...]
Do pirates buy more music?
There have been many studies into the piracy issues that plague the internet, where consumers are able to get their hands on music, film and even games for free. The studies seem to say that although there may be a huge market in pirated material the people that use it are also big money spending [...]
April 24, 2009Who owns rainwater?
You would have thought that something that falls from the sky is free, but this would depend on where you live.
In some parts of the US, setting up a rain barrel or some other way of collecting rainwater could be illegal, which may sound outrageous but it’s true, take the state of Colorado, the law [...]
Vatican set to create solar power plant
The Vatican are looking to go green, but this is not some small turbine or a couple of solar panels they are going green in seriously big way.
Vatican City is the smallest nation in the world it covers a small area and there are around forty thousand households within the site. It is the intention [...]
Space suit for sale, one careful owner
It was in 1957 when the Russians launched the first spacecraft and started the space race that is over fifty years worth of space equipment and there is a big business building in the selling of used space equipment to enthusiastic collectors.
Each year there are several auctions that have developed regular sales of this equipment. [...]
Will there be one world currency
The value of currencies have had a serious knock on effect on commerce throughout the world and indeed have to take part of the blame for the current financial crisis that still effects a great deal of the world.
However, if there were a world currency would things have been different?
Surprisingly it is the Chinese who [...]
Church uses coke for baptisms
In the freezing north life still goes on, countries like Norway are experiencing a severe cold spell at the moment and yet life still goes for the people as they go about their daily lives and celebrate all of the normal family events such as a baptism.
Unfortunately, some things do have to suffer, like the [...]
£4,500 per month to live in tube
It may sound like the latest in a long line of reality TV programmes where contestants are put through embarrassing and yet strangely entertaining tasks. However, this is no TV show it is a step forward to the first manned mission to Mars.
Six volunteers will be sealed into the metal containers that are located inside [...]
The return of Dads Army
The government are once more training a “Dads Army” but this time instead of defending our shores against invasion, these part timers will be spying on the general public.
Sixty thousand new recruits have been chosen by the police and Mi5 to act as sleepers in their normal jobs which could be working on the railway, [...]
After sixteen years, Sci-Fi changes name
Not wanting to be limited to providing just sci-fi the most famous genre based channel in the world is about to change its name.
The Sci-Fi Channel has been responsible for providing some the most popular TV sci-fi shows around for as long as satellite TV has been around, but programming has changed over the years [...]
Letting Twitter do the work
There was a time when Twitter was considered a stupid idea, after all who wants to know want people are doing in their lives? Well it would seem quite a lot of people do and that is why the numbers of people who Twitter is growing.
However, it is not just individuals that have the Twitterbug [...]
Twitters get Twitterfall
Twitterfall has been described as one of the most useful Twitter tools on the market, and by accounts that statement could be right. The great thing about this tool is that it has been developed by two students from the University of York.
The growth in the use of Twitter has highlighted that news stories can [...]