A nod and a Winklevoss

The current dispute between Mark Zuckerburg and the Winklevoss twins hinges on one small but crucial question.  What was the correct valuation of Facebook shares at the time the original settlement was struck?
 

Telstra HeroGrams now HeroMessages for Winter Olympics

Remember the old Telstra HeroGrams? They sound so quaint in a world of email and text messages, it’s interesting to see there’s no sign of them as Telstra launches the HeroMessage and urges Australians to send a HeroMessage to support our 2010 Winter Olympians!
 

London tube says no underground mobiles any time soon

You wouldn't think that getting mobile phones to work on an underground transit network would be that difficult in the 21st Century. Try telling that to Transport for London...
 

Bonkers Boris and Gormless Gordon go all Internet on your ass

Boris Johnson is either the Mayor of London or the bumbling oaf from TV quiz shows depending upon who you are talking to. Gordon Brown is the washed up UK Prime Minister according to just about everyone. Neither have taken much of a public nor political interest in the Internet, until now...
 

CGI faked-fireworks feature in Olympics opening ceremony footage

Around 1 billion people around the globe are estimated to have tuned in to watch the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. I wonder how many of them realised that some of those fantastic fireworks they were watching had been created by a computer visual effects team?
 

2012 Olympics travel plans in doubt as Oyster card contract is scrapped

If the Oyster card, a RFID-based fare collection and ticketing system for London buses, tube trains and the Docklands Light Railway, has been such a huge success with 6 million cards in active use and 38 million journeys made every week, then why is Transport for London terminating its £100 million a year Oyster contract?
 

Rustock takes spambot gold with Olympic surge

When it comes to endurance races, the Srizbi spambot takes some beating as far as distributing the most malicious spam across the planet is concerned. Thanks to an Olympic surge from new kid on the bot race blocks, Rustock, has sprinted past the old man of spam to take a dubious gold...
 

China's Bejing Olympics webcaster goes with Adobe Flash

Adobe has scored a major coup with CCTV's choice of Flash and Flex for webcasting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to mainland China and Macau. The arrangement can be seen as a snub for Microsoft's Silverlight.
 

China wins Olympic gold medal for Internet censorship during the XXIX Olympiad

The International Olympic Committee has repeatedly assured the world's media that foreign journalists covering the Olympic Games in Beijing would be able to do so without any restrictions on Internet access. China, when bidding for the Games, stated journalists would be able to freely report. Now it appears that some 'sensitive' websites will be blocked...
 

Microsoft using Beijing Olympics to boost Silverlight takeup

Webcasting of the Bejing 2008 Olympic Games by NBC and MSN could be the Trojan Horse that gets Microsoft's Silverlight 2 onto a large number of PCs in America.