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"It's either Segways or Strangeways"
News Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! Mars Phoenix Lander tweets its discovery of water on Mars Ultimately non-biological intelligence will be much more powerful than biological human... [23 Dec 2008]
Happy 10th birthday, silicon.com
News The top film was Six Days and Seven Nights, and the day before silicon.com launched into the unknown, Japan launched a probe to Mars. Happy birthday, silicon.com - your favourite business and technology publication is 10... [07 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News Our analysis also looks at all 50 CIOs' routes to the top to see whether a tech background is a help or hindrance, and why many of the UK's top CIOs have passed through the management training ground at Mars. [11 Jun 2008]
Nasa Mars probe safely touches down
News The first images from the Phoenix Mars Lander have confirmed that the solar panels needed for its energy supply unfolded as planned and that masts for its camera and weather station are in position. A successful... [27 May 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Confectionery company Mars recently launched a Facebook app allowing users to buy chocolate snacks for friends using a combination of PayPal and mobile phone vouchers. Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications... [14 Mar 2008]
BBC signs up with iTunes
News Shows available include Life on Mars, Spooks and Robin Hood. A range of BBC television programmes are now available for download at Apple's UK iTunes store. BBC iPlayer: all the coverage BBC signs up with iTunes ... [19 Feb 2008]
Facebook goes all chocolaty
News The Celebrate platform has been launched by mobile marketing company, The Light Agency, in conjunction with Mars Snackfood UK. Facebook users add the application to their profile then choose the gift - such as a... [14 Feb 2008]
Tesco IT chief steps down
News Cobain started his IT career at the Mars Group after gaining a degree in Computational and Statistical Science at Liverpool University. Group IT director Colin Cobain is leaving at the end of November after leading the... [14 Nov 2007]
Post Office COO moves on
News Francis' previous roles include CIO and member of the executive board at TI Group/Smiths Group, international CIO at PepsiCo in New York and business systems director at Mars. The Post Office director of operations Ric... [05 Nov 2007]
Vint Cerf gazes at interplanetary web
News The search engine has teamed with Nasa Ames Reseach Center on various development programmes, such as making Nasa lunar and Mars data available online. Internet visionary Vint Cerf has predicted that in the coming... [25 Oct 2007]
Royal Mail hires new CIO from Diageo
News His early career includes stints at Mars and Logica Financial Systems and he went on to become IS director at UDV, which became part of Guiness and then part of Diageo. Royal Mail has hired the Diageo CIO to replace the... [11 Oct 2007]
Google Earth takes a dive
News As well as maps of the seabed, Google has produced interactive maps of the moon and Mars in a mash-up with Nasa's images. Google Earth maps of the seabed in UK waters have been released by the Maritime and Coastguard... [29 May 2007]
Virtual moon and Mars flights come to Google
News Want to take a virtual flight over the surface of the moon or through the canyons of Mars? A spokesman from the European Space Agency (ESA) - which also has many high resolution images of Mars and the... [19 Dec 2006]
UK techies want in on Nasa moon plans
News It will co-ordinate worldwide efforts to return to the Moon and to explore the solar system with robots, preparing for the historic first human mission to Mars. The UK wants to play a role in what could be the world's... [01 Dec 2006]
Glitch mars Microsoft patch batch
News Microsoft on Tuesday released a slew of patches for Windows and Office but a glitch prevented the company from pushing the updates out automatically. The patches, which include critical fixes for both Office and Windows, can be manually... [11 Oct 2006]
