Technology
Google shows how to trash a business model or three
Yesterday’s launch of the Nexus One, the Googlephone, is the latest move by a company bent on world domination.
Google has become the archetypal smiling assassin, a corporate goody two shoes which can’t stop itself from steamrolling all who stand in its way.
And with its ever expanding portfolio of interests, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to dodge [...]
Amazon to take large-screen Kindle global
Amazon.com is to sell its larger Kindle electronic reader, aimed at students, businesspeople and newspaper readers, in more than 100 countries following the rollout of its original device last year.
Amazon, which introduced the smaller wireless electronic reader last October, said the new Kindle DX would be available for pre-orders now and would ship on January [...]
Five New Planets Found
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered five new planets beyond the solar system, the US space agency says, just 10 months after Kepler launched into space to find Earth-like planets.
The discovery of the five exoplanets “contributes to our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve from the gas and dust disks that give rise [...]
Facebook blocks “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine”
Facebook said on Monday it is blocking a website called “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” that helps users delete their social network profiles.
The number one social network also said it had sent a “cease-and-desist” letter to another website, Seppukoo.com, which also helps you kill off your virtual identity.
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