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Get off my moonbase

I hope none of you have ever bought a plot on the moon. There’s a number of places online where you can “buy” an acre of moon terrain: MoonEstates.com – one acre for £20 ParamountZone – will sell you an acre for £19.95 So, what do you get for your...

BitTorrent acquires ?Torrent

And in the latest news, BitTorrent has purchased ?Torrent for an undisclosed amount. Apprently the two have a combined userbase of around 135 million, which is not unsubstantial. For all those who have never used BitTorrent, it’s a protocol for efficiently sharing large files in P2P fashion, effectively downloading portions...

Last call for Kempton Fireworks tickets

If you live in the London area and were planning to watch fireworks at Kempton Park this weekend, this is just a warning that online ticket sales will be closing tomorrow. Keep in mind that advance tickets are cheaper than if you had to buy tickets at the gate on...

PayPerPost running on VC Juice

Turns out that PayPerPost had received $3 million in Venture Capital Funding earlier this month. There’s more information about this on the TechCrunch blog which includes a podcast where TechCruch and Rob Hof from BusinessWeek speak to founder Ted Murphy and DFJ?s Josh Stein (one of the Venture Capitalists involved)....

Google buys Youtube

The big news today is that Google has bought YouTube for around 1 billion pounds. YouTube will still maintain it’s brand, so there’s no chance it will be called GooTube. Anyway, it looks like the market thinks this is a wise move, as Google shares went up 2% as the...

Enter GooTube

Looks like there’s talk of Google in possible acquisition talks with YouTube for a rumoured $1.6 billion. Read all about it here. Wow, I didn’t realise that YouTube serves more than 100 million videos a day. I wonder what sort of infrastructure they’re running on...

Free ticket for Digital Life

Has anyone ever been to DigitalLife? It’s a massive show in New York which claims to be the ultimate consumer technology, gaming and entertainment event of the year. I’ve had a look at the website and there some movie clips of last year’s show and I must say, it looks...

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