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RSS moonGoogle archives 200 years of news
News Searching for information about the 1969 moon landing, for example, will show original text from the time as well as more recent coverage over the past four decades. Google is growing its news archive to include stories that go back as far as 200... [07 Sep 2006]
Update: The guide to London's wi-fi pubs
News The Lord Moon of The Mall, Whitehall, SW1 Since launching our guide to London's wi-fi pubs it's proved to be a hugely popular resource - and so we have updated it, included more pubs, maps and the handy list below to help you navigate. [31 Aug 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Why hotel web access should be free
Comment Internet access has become so cheap, so commoditised and so easy to provide, especially as many of these hotels in the normal course of their own communications infrastructure already have enough cable in and out of their buildings to tie a big... [26 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 5
Comment The moon is shining brightly tonight. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive stories, click here. [14 Jun 2006]
JFK files: Presidential archives to be put online
News Some of the papers and images that will be digitised and permanently preserved include records covering the moon landings programme and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The entire collection of papers, documents, photographs and audio recordings of former... [12 Jun 2006]
Ignorance rife among London's wi-fi pubs
News At the Lord Moon of the Mall, part of the Wetherspoon's group, our question was met with a chuckling suggestion that the barman had rarely heard such a stupid question in all his years of pulling pints. [09 Jun 2006]
NTT DoCoMo flirts with mobile WiMax
News Charles Moon, senior analyst in Yankee Group's Asia-Pacific mobile and wireless division, said DoCoMo's interest in WiMax is likely to be an extension of its research into 4G rather than a commitment to rolling out the technology any time soon. [30 Mar 2006]
Satellite tech to map cables under UK roads in 3D
News The pipes and cables buried under the UK's streets would stretch to the moon and back 10 times, according to the researchers. A £2.2m project to create a 3D map of the pipes and cables buried under UK roads is aiming to reduce road works and cut... [22 Mar 2006]
Conserving Government's Most Valuable Resource
White Paper For instance, according to a manager at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, sometime in the 1990s, NASA lost the knowledge it had developed to send astronauts to the moon. When government workers retire, important, sometimes... [30 Aug 2005]
Neil Hammond
Q&A Last CD bought/downloaded: In the Heart of the Moon by Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate. Employer and official job title: British Sugar, head of IT. What do most people call you? Neil. Who do you report to? [26 Aug 2005]
UK firms squander nearly five million tonnes of paper per year
News A spokeswoman for Canon said if all the printer and copier paper which is wasted each year in the UK was laid end to end it would create a paper trail that would stretch 360,000km - a distance that would almost take it to the moon. [24 Jun 2005]
Europe to push ahead with digital snooping law
News The amount of data collected would be 20,000 to 40,000 terabytes or "equivalent to 10 stacks of files each reaching from Earth to the Moon", the report said, and the cost to each affected company would be €180m per year. [09 Jun 2005]
Apple gives mini iPod a maxi 6GB makeover
News NPD Group's Steve Baker said: "If you combine (the $199 iPod Mini) with the Shuffle, it really says Apple is shooting for the moon here. Apple shuffled in new iPod Mini and iPod Photo music players on Wednesday and introduced lower prices for some... [23 Feb 2005]
VoIP primer: How it works - and what the jargon means
Comment If packets are delayed by more than 250 milliseconds from end to end, a conversation can sound slightly unreal, as if the other party is on the moon. Ever wondered how IP telephony actually works? What jitter means or how packet loss is another's... [10 Feb 2005]
Buyouts back in style
News However, this is not a trend that is necessarily going to continue over the next five years, according to Richard Moon, editor of UK private equity journal Unquote and developer of the model used to generate the figures. [08 Dec 2004]
