V9 Design & Build

The bitter friction between Apple and Google following the release of its Android operating system was one thing, but sour relations between the two companies has reached a new stage of intensity following Google's announcement of its own Tablet.

Google has invested nearly $40 million in two North Dakota wind farms. China has invested nearly $35 billion in clean energy. But, according to Der Spiegel, Obama continues to fail the world on climate change.

There seems to be a proliferation of Q&A sites, which assume to offer "answers" to anyone who poses a question. Aardvark, WikiAnswers and Mahalo are three new services that purport to deliver education on demand. But it's not quite feasible, is it?

With the growth of developing economies and the vast amounts of energy needed for cloud computing, publicity-conscious Greenpeace has criticised the ICT industry's data centers, where utility power comes primarily from coal.

In TechCrunch's “The Madness of King Rupert” by Paul Carr he reports, incredulously, that News International is to install a turnstile on its websites this June and wonders whether Murdoch is simply a barking latter-day George III or visionary.

Accommodation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, due to be held from June 2010 in South Africa, is expensive. But 3 Lions Football Village provide no-frills, basic accommodation in simple dormitory-style units, from just £39 per person a night!

Handset manufacturers and software providers are all champing at the bit in carving out market share for projected mobile apps sales to reach $17bn by 2012. The global appetite for mobile apps will explode over this decade, but what about mobile SEO?

Photographer Brian Moore's humanistic narrative of India and Nepal, told through the lens of a digital Nikon, carries with it the seduction of difference; it is almost impossible to know unless you stand amidst it. You will, when reading his book.

The four titans of social interaction seem to have a distorted vision of common sense. They appear to pounce on mere twists of innovation, which seeps down into messy duplicates of themselves that may turn out to have enormous social utility.

China's data mining activities last month provoked fierce opposition from Google executives. Since then there has been silence, but China's banning of Western social media whilst pursuing its own, is an isolated agenda that is hopelessly inadequate.