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For me, one of the most amazing things about our universe is the beauty of the stars and the planets, dispersed around the skies. Perhaps one of the most exciting concepts is that there is still so much that we are yet to see or even know about. What exactly is in the furthest West [...]

Nokia, the largest manufacturer of mobile phones on the planet, has announced that they will be suing software giants Apple for technology used in the Apple iPhone, of which Nokia claim is part of a patent they own.
The iPhone, which has sold millions of handsets, is the world’s most popular smart phone. However, Nokia claim [...]

Yesterday, Brad Stone of The New York Times published a piece on their website. This article said that the booksellers were claiming and presenting data which led them to believe that the mainstream invention and release of the eBook is causing people to read more. Here are some of the figures:
“Amazon for example, says that [...]

Console-giant Nintendo has decided to drop the price of its Nintendo Wii games console in the United States and Japan by 20%, and it has been reported that it hopes this move will spark more interest in the expensive Wii.
The Nintendo Wii was released by Nintendo in 2006 and had sold 52 million by June [...]

The online reception of free-encyclopedia Wikipedia is incredibly mixed. There are different people which use it for different reasons in different ways. Of course, Wikipedia can be edited by absolutely anybody. Some people will go to Wikipedia, research content and then check it with other sources. Others will stupidly go to Wikipedia, research content and, [...]

Google has remained the top of the list for the most used search engine for years now, and now, the American Consumer Satisfaction Index has once again only proved that the majority of the general American public prefer Google and are happier with it than any other popular search engine.
However, the results are questionable, because [...]

Skype, which has forty-million active users and accounts for 8% of the world’s global vocal traffic, may have to be shut down after its original founders consider revoking an agreement licensing the peer-to-peer technology that allows it to do its work. You can read my full story on that here.
As it nows looks likely that [...]

Journalists and online writers have the ability to shine a bright spotlight down onto the hot topics in the news and to easily voice their opinions - not only through printed publication, put also over perhaps one of the most beneficial devices to the modern writer: the Internet. For the most part, the Internet provides [...]

Microsoft have today confirmed that Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer, following legal cases and fines stating that Microsoft is breaking European rules and does not give a fair chance to other browsers available. Although the Public Candidate of Windows 7 did have Internet Explorer installed, the final version will be browserless - but [...]

On Wednesday, June 10 2009 at 5:22am ET, the Internet made real history. It wasn’t an Internet expert developing and launching a Website answering all of the world’s questions, it wasn’t a new search engine going live that will “revolutionize the Internet” and it wasn’t the invent of a new programming language - in fact, [...]