Technology news has been a little scarce of late – but just when you thought it was safe to go out in the woods – some news comes along!

One of the biggest email providers in the world today took a Kit Kat break causing a mass of internet jibber jabber.

GOOGLE’s GMAIL is not only used for personal accounts it is also used by many businesses around the world. Today the downside of what is more commonly know as cloud computing became apparent. As the world becomes ever reliant on the internet – today’s Kit Kat break is a stark warning of how much risk is placed on business in the cloud – however I cannot see past cloud computing in years to come.  How many years depends on technology and possibly a little creative marketing!

Virgin broadband 2mb subscribers amongst you will be happy to know that come May the limit will be increased to 10mb – hopefully GMAIL works at increased speeds by then!

A relatively new kid on the block is a music provider called SPOTIFY.

SPOTIFY is a streaming based music service from those lovable Swede’s that provides an incredible catalogue of FREE music with the occasional advert to justify being FREE. U2’s latest album has just been released to the UK too.

The next step in SPOTIFY’s global domination is a soon to be developed application for mobile devices that will allow offline caching while in areas without a signal.

The big news this week is the collaboration of some of the music industries major heavyweights, EMI, Universal, Sony, Warner with MYSPACE.

The outcome is an offering of free streaming music from the heavyweight’s full catalogue of music, as well as the opportunity for unsigned bands to make their music available too.

The service means that it is possible to watch/listen to free music and if one is a member of MYSPACE, it is possible to create online playlists for free too.

Now, if one wants to purchase the music, it is possible to pay around 79p to download.  Finally iTunes may have a bit of competition.

The only caveat with the above collaboration is that the US has the pleasure of using the ground breaking development.  Other countries are currently in contract negotiations, as there is different rules/legislation to overcome….it is still possible to stream the music though, you just do not have the opportunity to create playlists.

So, if this is what is happening in the music world, is there something similar going on in the film world?  What are the comparisons?

Yes, the Cannonball Run is back in the US of A and it most certainly is going to be controversial to some and pleasurable to others….maybe even Burt himself!

The above amount of CO2 used is based on last year’s event being measured across all participants of the event.  Base that on the average person using around 40,000 per year, then one can see where the controversy may lay.

For those out there interested in Al Gore’s presentation in the ‘Inconvenient Truth’, there seems to be some clips available on You Tube and for the internet pirates the full video is actually online too (of course, I will not be publishing that link), but for now the following trailer seems to be quite powerful:

I thought I would touch briefly on a cause that stuck a cord today.

‘A cancer fighting fund to get a 6 year old girl to the USA for state of the art treatment.’

Click on the following link for more information:

http://www.appeal4jessica.co.uk/

OK, so I have not done too much posting of late….my desk is piled high with work that is my excuse in this area.

One feels that a learning log should be put in place to review how far I have come since this blogs inception.  It should also help in planning for 2008.

I have much to talk about, so keep your eyes peeled and I will update over the next week.

Ever been in a situation where ones phone is lost, stolen or contacts have been left on the phone rather than the SIM?  The answer for a fair proportion of people will be a resounding, “YES”!

With the above in mind, I have started to use a great website called MOBICAL for keeping track of my mobile contacts, as well as being more than happy that all of the contacts are in effect being backed up. The beauty of this website and the service offered, is that it is free, will benefit most people with mobile devices and has a fairly easy to use design i.e. visually friendly without clutter.