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ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News You do not know which shops are owned by the Mafia but if you end up having to put your fingerprint on the glass every time that you buy a can of Coke, sooner or later the Mafia will have the biometrics of millions of people. [09 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.06.07
Round-Up YouTube went offline to Moroccans on 25 May, meaning anybody in Fez or Casablanca looking for footage of Mentos being dropped into bottles of Diet Coke will have been out of luck. In life it's important to know who you are and how other people see... [01 Jun 2007]
HP developing shopping kiosks of the future
News There will also be special offers tailored to your shopping habits - your club card already keeps track of the fact you prefer Diet Pepsi to Coke, and that you buy a carton of eggs every other week. HP is developing a technology aimed at bringing... [30 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.05.07
Round-Up Next he'll be filming himself dropping packets of Mentos into bottles of Diet Coke. Isn't that Tony Blair brilliant. The Round-Up thinks he's going to make a great Prime Minister. Oh, hang on.he's done what? [11 May 2007]
Blair goes YouTube to toast Sarkozy
News YouTube's not just for clips of Diet Coke and Mentos: Tony Blair has used the video-sharing site to offer his congratulations to new French president Nicholas Sarkozy. The video, which has been watched over 100,000 times, shows Blair praising his... [09 May 2007]
Cisco: Businesses must learn from social networks
News For example, though many consumers have the power to skip past a Coke commercial, the unexpected success of the Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment video made popular on YouTube affords Coca-Cola a whole new way of advertising products in a user... [03 May 2007]
CIO Essentials: Web 2.0 hype, Google and wi-fi risks
News Google beats Microsoft, Coke in brand stakes Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past week and explains why they matter. [01 May 2007]
Stories of the month - April 2007
News Google beats Microsoft, Coke in brand stakes Good news for Google as ever - the search giant is now a bigger name than the likes of Coke, Marlboro and Toyota after being crowned the most powerful global brand of 2007. [30 Apr 2007]
Google beats Microsoft, Coke in brand stakes
News Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007. It's the second year in a row a tech brand has beaten household names such as Coca-Cola, Marlboro and Toyota. [23 Apr 2007]
Google: 'We won't ruin YouTube'
News Google began sharing advertising revenue with the makers of the popular Coke-and-Mentos video that appeared on YouTube last year. Google has said it will protect the YouTube brand and aim not to "break the bond" the video-sharing site has with its... [08 Feb 2007]
ITU 06 diary - Wi-fi on 'the beach', what's hot in mobile search and a long tail with legs
Comment One Microsoft exec comes up with the term "15 megabytes of fame" for those fleeting YouTube stars whose efforts - like dropping Mentos into Coke - sees them becoming virally famous. In between running to catch up with the great and the good of... [06 Dec 2006]
Cisco: Businesses will adopt YouTube model
News Video sharing site YouTube may have a more profound effect on commerce than just boosting sales of Diet Coke and Mentos. Business will soon come to see user generated content as an unavoidable part of everyday business, according to Cisco CEO John... [04 Dec 2006]
Pick up the tab with your mobile
News In Japan, mobiles with embedded computer chips allow people to hold up their phone to a sensor to buy everything from a train ticket to a bottle of Coke. A US company has launched a service that lets customers pay restaurant bills by text. [30 Nov 2006]
Coke-and-Mentos video makers get Google's ad dollar
News The search company has agreed to turn over most advertising revenue generated by the latest video from Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, creators of "The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment", according to Peter Chane, a senior product manager for Google... [31 Oct 2006]
Leader: YouTube and the grey suit brigade
Leader The videos are considerably less entertaining (and less frivolous) than the majority of YouTube clips - which in the main are focused on providing evidence of what happens when you drop a tube of Mentos into a bottle of Diet Coke, or what happens... [22 Aug 2006]
