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Photos: The best of Google Sky
Photo First catalogued more than 200 years ago by French astronomer Charles Messier, the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured the sharpest view yet of the nebula. The Google Sky application lets users navigate space in a similar way to Google Earth... [28 Nov 2007]
Apple "fiasco" leaves customers out of pocket
News Angry customers have rounded on Apple over its handling of cancelled sales of a digital camera bought on the company's website, as exposed by silicon.com. While Apple remains tight-lipped on the debacle, aggrieved customers have been quick to speak... [06 Jan 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: The stories of the year
News UK spam scandal deeper and messier than feared Here we bring you a snapshot of just some of the highlights from the past year on silicon.com including our best-read stories, top interviews, biggest scoops and more not-to-be-missed content. [22 Dec 2005]
Microsoft patch fiasco gets messier
News Microsoft's latest batch of security fixes keeps causing trouble for some users. A "critical" patch for a problem in a Windows component for streaming media, called DirectShow, apparently isn't as straightforward as Microsoft thought. [21 Oct 2005]
UK spam scandal update: Deeper and messier than feared
News Last month silicon.com published a series of articles detailing an apparently bungled consultation by the Department of Trade and Industry which lumbered the UK with flawed laws that effectively legitimised the sending of spam. [06 Jul 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Biometrics offer false hope
Comment Yet the reality is always more complex and a lot messier. Banks may talk of using biometrics but doing so would hardly be a foolproof means of providing secure transactions, says Martin Brampton. There seems to be as much window dressing as there... [03 May 2005]
5 years ago... Vivendi confirms bid for One2One
News Vivendi chairman Jean-Marie Messier said the move would only happen if it created value for the company. Don't talk to Jean-Marie Messier about '5 years ago.things have certainly changed a lot since the heady days of 1999. [12 May 2004]
One in five Brits not learning ID theft lessons
News It isn't the end of the world if it happens but it gets messier and messier the longer you leave it or aren't aware that it's happening," she told silicon.com. When it comes to identity theft, it seems that fat-walleted Brits couldn't care less... [19 Mar 2004]
AS03: Media barons' influence wanes
Comment In silicon.com's last poll the chief executives of Vivendi and Bertelsmann, the controversial Jean-Marie Messier and Thomas Middelhoff, placed at 4 and 7 respectively. Last year it looked like what you do with technology rather than the technology... [10 Oct 2003]
Fat cat payout blocked in Vivendi court case
News The latest instalment in the Vivendi versus Jean Marie Messier saga has swung in the French company's favour, with a Paris court putting a freeze on the €20m pay-off previously awarded to the company's former CEO. [13 Aug 2003]
File sharing crackdown: Justice for the lazy?
Comment The whole file sharing debacle gets messier by the day - and for every twist and turn it appears those in the 'right' - legally speaking - become even more unpopular. Stelios Haji-Ioannou - everybody's favourite Greek entrepreneur - is not happy. [30 Jan 2003]
Farewell Steve Case
Comment Michel Bon, Thomas Middelhoff, Ron Sommer, Jean-Marie Messier, Chris Gent and Shaun Fanning - all were the heart and soul of high-profile technology/media/telecoms companies, and where are they now? So farewell Steve Case, Hawaiian, one-time Pizza... [13 Jan 2003]
More scandals revealed at fraud-mired firms
News Shareholders lodged a complaint against the accounting practices of Vivendi under former boss Jean-Marie Messier who was shown the door earlier this year. Messier's successor Jean-Rene Fourtou is now in the unenviable position of steadying the... [29 Oct 2002]
Breton the new boss at France Telecom
News The Agenda Setter 'curse' has so far befallen executives including Thomas Middelhoff (ex of Bertelsmann), Jean-Marie Messier (ex Vivendi Universal), and telco heads Ron Sommer and Michel Bon, France Telecom's previous boss. [03 Oct 2002]
High-tech VIPs and the silicon.com curse
Comment The past few months have already seen the demise of Jean-Marie Messier, ex of Vivendi Universal (our number four), Thomas Middelhoff, ex of Bertelsmann (seven), Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom (28) and now Shaun Fanning, the creator of Napster (39). [04 Sep 2002]
