Who 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 [...]
Couple save cash by marrying at fast food joint
The credit crunch is affecting people in many different ways, but one thing that is really feeling the pinch has to be weddings; there was a time when the spending of thousands of pounds seemed to be the norm.
However, with cash being so tight the wedding has to be scaled down in order not to [...]
iFart makes big bucks for developer
it is always the simple things that seem to make the most money these days, take a relatively new application from the iPhone/iTouch app store, as the name suggests this is a application that will allow the user to left off a variety of sounds in an attempt to break the silence so to speak.
For [...]
The end of the VHS
For a lot of people the video recorder is something that could be found in the technology museum, but surprisingly there are a lot of VHS players out there being used every day but not for long as the last producer of VHS equipment is finally throwing in the towel.
So finally the format that killed [...]
Olympics is the most viewed event in the USA
The Olympic Games is always a big draw in the US, this probably has something to do with the amount of medals they always win, and they walked away with a hundred and ten this time, more than anyone else did.
However, surprisingly the Beijing Olympics has been drawing an extra ordinary amount of viewers. [...]
The pirates of Downing St
As the government presses the internet services providers to act hard and fats against those ordinary people who like to share files over internet, it turns out that the Prime Minister’s office in Downing St have a little piracy matter of their own to deal with.
It seems that the website of the Prime Minister has [...]
Business can learn from sport
There is some things that business people can learn from sports people, as they both have similar goals and need the same qualities but that is where the similarities end. Therefore, there are some things that sports and business people have in common.
However, are there any tips that the business world could learn from the [...]
The plan to save Battersea power station
A £4 billion plan to save Battersea power station before it falls down has been unveiled, but I order to save the power stations which is one of the most easily recognisable sights on the London skyline the sight is going to have to change dramatically.
The project will include an underground link, three thousand homes, [...]
IBM actually encourages employees to social network
Social networks and business are not very compatible, at least when companies find out that their staff are spending too much work time on their own social networking site. But some companies have seen the light and social networking could soon become cool at work again.
IBM have been experimenting with social networking and encouraging their [...]
Could search be finished?
For some people search is probably already finished, ever since the introduction of social networking it would seem that many people who just lurked around the internet searching for something interesting, would have used a search engine to find what they were looking for.
But ever since the likes of FaceBook, MySpace and Second Life took [...]
Space tourism by 2010
Another space plane has been announced which could start operating within two years, with the first flights in the Lynx craft taking a single passenger up into space for thirty seven miles sometime during 2010.
The cost for this fantastic voyage will be something in the region of £50,000; the trip will be very similar to [...]
Microsoft is about to get heavy with Yahoo
When Microsoft begin saying that they mean business, it is normally an advance warning that you are going to be crushed. So when an offer of nearly $45 billion is turned down, it can go one of two ways.
They walk away from the deal and let the company struggle until they are taken over [...]
A real challenge to Office
It would seem that for the first time in around ten years Microsoft’s Office Suite could have a real challenger for supremacy of the desktop. The challenge is coming from Open Office who has been in the ball park for some years, but never really in the game.
When Open Office version 2.4 emerged, it was [...]
The McCartney’s get down to business
The business of divorce is one that can cost millions of pounds for celebrities, the recent court appearance of the McCartney’s has shown us all that it makes no difference who is right or wrong the bottom line is all that matters and this case had a large bottom line.
The media had stood guard outside [...]
AOL to buy BeBo
America’s favourite internet service provider AOL is looking to buy the social networking site, Bebo for a figure of $850 million. This will give AOL access to the forty million or so members of the site. But Bebo is one of the largest social networking sites in the UK and will offer a buyer a [...]
March 12, 2008Google’s and Doubleclick get Euro approval
The merger between Google and the online advertising business Double Click has been given the all clear by the European regulators, stating that there would be no harmful effects on consumers. Originally the proposed merger had been opposed by Google’s rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, as they were concerned about the advertising.
However it was decided that [...]
The business of junk mail
Virtually everyone connected to the internet receives a little bit of junk mail, this is different to spam as these messages are sent to you because you have at some stage subscribed to the company’s list, this authorises them to send you adverts and offers.
Sometimes when you have had enough of them all you need [...]
Haggling good for business and life
Being in business doe not mean that you need to pay the first price for everything, indeed being in business means that people expect you to be hard to deal with; it is all part of the game. Of course it is embarrassing to start with, but this is money and the less you spend [...]
January 24, 2008Do Google and FaceBook have too much data?
It is a frustrating fact that whenever a person wants to sign up for an account with almost any social networking site or even an email account these days, that the information required by the service varies from the simple username and password to your entire life story. But should you decide to leave the [...]