Spotify silently launches in its 16th territory, Ireland, as it looks to South America & Eastern Europe
Spotify has officially launched in its 16th country, Ireland; binging the service to over 661 million users around the world.
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Megaupload will be reborn next January as Mega
Megaupload, a file sharing website that was famously shut-down at the start of this year, will be reborn in January 2013 as Mega.
Which country’s citizens benefit the most from the web? #infographic
Is your country winning at the web? This infographic describes The Web Foundation's latest Web Index report which looked at the impact of the web on social, political and economic issues.
Report: The West benefits most from the web but more data is needed
In spite of the Arab Spring and other factors the web is having the greatest impact in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, according to data released by The Web Foundation.
iTunes Match now available in Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom and others
A little over one month since launching initially in the United States, and Brazil a few days ago, iTunes Match is now available in a number of new countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and possibly unconfirmed others.
An “extremely small” safety risk to the public from plummeting NASA satellite
NASA has warned that one of its defunct satellites will crash into the Earth's atmosphere sometime over the next six weeks but it doesn't know when or where.
Around the world in 80MB with The Great Global Treasure Hunt on Google Earth
Somewhere in the world, in a plot of ground less than two meters squared, there hides €50,000. And it's your if you can find it in the Great Global Treasure Hunt on Google Earth.
How to destroy a spaceship: The ESA live tweets the destruction of its Kepler craft
The European Space Agency live tweeted a dramatic space craft re-entry sequence which saw its ATV-2 Space Freighter, Johannes Kepler, plunge in to the Pacific Ocean.
NASA satellite imagery captures Chilean volcanic ash plume over Australia and New Zealand
As a huge ash plume from the Puyehue volcano in southern Chile continues to cause travel chaos in many countries, NASA have captured satellite imagery of the ash cloud as it travels above Australia and New Zealand - over half a world away.
NASA shows location & intensity of Japanese earthquakes, aftershocks and foreshocks
NASA’s Earth Observatory has issued a map documenting the number of earthquakes, foreshocks and aftershocks that have rocked Japan this week. According to NASA the tsunami that resulted from the 8.9 magnitude quake occurred 24.4 kilometers (15.2 miles) below the seabed, 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Sendai. The earthquake was preceded by a number of smaller foreshocks which began on March 9, including one that measured 7.2 on the Richter scale.
