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/ 30 May 2008

Right place, right time

Although Google’s motto is "don’t be evil", the setting couldn’t more closely resemble a Bond villain’s lair. Amid rolling English countryside in the county of Hertfordshire, a country house hotel is playing host to the company’s Zeitgeist conference.

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/ 30 January 2007

TV prepares to join the peer-to-peer party

Some technology boffins predict that the way we watch television will change irrevocably. Technology has already turned huge international industries upside down. When the peer-to-peer file sharing service Kazaa appeared, it sent music companies into a panic. Kazaa was followed by the internet phone service Skype, which quickly attracted millions of users and was sold to eBay for £1,3-billion.

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/ 2 November 2004

Reaching the parts F1 can’t

Racehorces are the traditional plaything for moneyed royals in the Middle East, but Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum al-Maktoum, the nephew of the crown prince of Dubai, prefers burning rubber. He plans to launch a rival to formula one (F1) grand prix racing.