In the second quarter of 2007 there is a rumored Digg clone that should be launching and although this has been done many times before by other sites and failed many times, this time it’s the BIG social networking site MySpace who is going to have a go under the name MySpace News (read more…)

Google’s open source team is working on ways to physically transfer huge data sets around the world (up to 120 terabytes in size).
What Google has been doing is sending a hard drive system to scientists but before they pass it to researchers they copy the data.
The program they are developing will help academics around the world exchange huge amounts of data.
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Zero-gravity airplane flight that Stephen Hawking will take in April could set the stage for space trip to come (read more…)

In a world where the people and press are talking about global warming and the environment we would think every industry would be looked at hard if it could help the environment.
So we would like to highlight some news about how around 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas are burned off or simply vented at remote oil rigs and refineries that are not connected by pipelines (read more…)

Although Broadband Britain is speeding up their are many people who have been sold “up to 8Mbps” services and are still getting substantially slower connections.
I can comment on this first hand as many of my family have very slow connections on broadband for many different reasons (read more…)

On display again this week for Google is the fragile status of its YouTube unit, many companies are pulling the plug.
The National Hockey League is yanking videos from YouTube, Viacom (VIA) said they will zap their videos over startup rival Joost and to TOP ALL THIS OF the deal between Google and CBS seems to be falling apart (so it says in today’s Wall Street Journal).
Things are not looking good for Google’s YouTube.