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 [...]
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 [...]
Apple payout for scratched iPods
Apple have settled a class action law suit where customers who bought an iPod were disappointed to find that there were quality issues with the product, this was brought about because how easily it was for the devices surfaces to become scratched.
The law suit argued that Apple was aware that the high gloss surface could [...]
UK to back old music rules
At the moment, any song published in the UK has a shelf life of fifty years; this is where the owners of the copyrights can claim royalties on the songs for fifty years. In the long term this would appear to be fine, but tell that the Sir Cliff Richard whose music is about to [...]
December 5, 2008Google nearly charged as a monopoly
Some people are still wondering why on earth Google stopped at the last minute from completing an advertising deal with another search engine, Yahoo.
The very thought of a partnership between Google and Yahoo makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.
This is exactly what the Justice Department thought too and in order [...]
Dollar still struggles against the Peso
As oil prices begin to slow down, in fact, there has been a slight decrease in the price of a barrel of crude, however the US Dollar is still struggling against most international currencies but what is truly painful for the American is that the Mexican Peso is continuing to get stronger against the Dollar.
At [...]
The real price of oil
Nobody can escape the talk of oil these days, no matter where you are located, oil and the price of oil has an impact on virtually everyone’s lives in one way or another and yet there is talk that the price of a barrel of oil could be as much as sixty per cent of [...]
April 21, 2008Skype to be sold by eBay
Although the VOIP phone service is a great idea, for the company that own it eBay, there are not many opportunities for company to any money out the system, or that is what is being perceived from the comments of top executive John Donahoe.
They need to find ways of exploiting the system, so that they [...]
Google’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 [...]
Disney restaurant bans kids
Considering that Disney has been built up on the dreams of children, it would seem very strange for the company to ban kids from one of its restaurants, but as from this week anyone under the age of ten will not be allowed in the Victoria and Albert’s in the Grand Floridian Resort and spa, [...]
December 28, 2007Amazon has a good Christmas
Considering that there has been much talk about the slow lead up to the Christmas rush, but that must have just been one side of the story, for despite the talking down of sales, some businesses have actually thrived and it is the online retailers who have done very well for themselves.
Amazon has announced that [...]
Sony to offer trade in on TV’s
Don’t throw that old TV away because it could worth a little bit of cash. This is being rolled out across the States at the moment, but don’t think that it’s going to be like trading your old car in for part exchange, because this scheme does not work like that.
People with an old TV [...]
The £10 million tip
Owners of a Chinese restaurant who were left a £10 million in the will of one their customers have a legal battle to keep the money.
Golda Bechal befriended Kin Sing Man and his wife over a period of more than ten years, after the deaths of her son and husband. They went on holidays and [...]
Social networks help borrowers
As the banks tighten up their lending principles and the interest on loans and credit cards begin to bite hard where else can someone go to borrow that much needed cash?
There is a growing trend called peer to peer lending, where people borrow money from other members of certain sites, these may be Virgin Money, [...]
Man who likes Guinness
They say that the most famous Irish export Guinness is good for you, but one man has taken this to the extreme, when he helped himself to a container sitting outside of the Guinness brewery on Victoria Quay in Dublin.
However there is a moral to this story and that is if you intend to steal [...]
Microsoft sued over passwords
The software giant Microsoft, has been sued over requesting a couple of passwords! And they have had to fork out over $140 million for the privilege.
In order to stop piracy Microsoft had developed a system that would mean that by asking for an extra password, they will be able to offer a better level of [...]
IBM to force adds on DVD’s
This new idea is everyone’s nightmare, imagine you are watching a great film on DVD, it gets to a really exciting bit and all of sudden there is and advert that pops up, and what’s more to make it even worse the remote has been jammed so that you cannot fast forward it.
Sounds weird? Well [...]
Mini Nukes could power towns
In this day an age, you would have thought that the idea of a mini nuclear reactor that could be built, encased in a block of concrete, transported to the site, where it will be buried in the ground and will be able to provided enough power for a 25,000 homes for at least five [...]
November 9, 2007Business target Facebook users
From now on businesses will be on Facebook in a big way, and some major companies like, Coca Cola, Blockbuster, CBS, Sony and Verizon have already been looking into how they can take advantage of this new and exciting advertising opportunity.
Advertising on Facebook will take the form of custom pages, marketing messages across the network [...]