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Oceans could see next gold rush

News The next gold rush might take place at the bottom of the sea. Commercial mining companies are studying the possibility of extracting silver, gold, copper and other valuable metals from the volcanic vents found in the world's ocean floors.

7 December 2005, 9:38

Xbox Live Gold free this weekend

News Microsoft will offer free access to its Xbox Live gold service from 31 March to 2 April, the company said on Thursday. Gold-level users, who usually pay £39.99 a year, get all those features, plus enhanced gamer feedback, better friends list...

31 March 2006, 10:15

News.blog: Trapped gold miners kill time with iPods

News Rescuers are making sure two trapped gold miners in Tasmania, Australia are well equipped with the basic necessities -- food, water and iPods. The men have been trapped in a tiny cage more than half a mile underground since 25 April, when a small...

4 May 2006, 9:50

Banks to quest for virtual gold?

News For example the site is currently offering 250 WoW gold for £5.95, and IGE notes on its site: "This secondary market represents one of the most successful forms of emergent behaviour ever seen in entertainment.

24 May 2006, 11:38

Geek bling: a gold-plated USB stick

News A USB memory stick coated in gold and studded with five diamonds has been launched. The glitzy memory stick, shown at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover last week, comes with up to 2GB of memory and can be coated in either 14-carat or 18-carat gold.

13 March 2006, 9:39

Indie record labels seeing gold

News When Don Rose stood to speak on Monday night to the 75 independent record label executives gathered at Los Angeles' Knitting Factory club, he had almost an embarrassment of good news. Earlier that day, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had...

27 July 2005, 11:16

Nanocars ready to roll

News There is a nanocar that drives across a thin gold film, as well as a nanotruck that can carry a payload. They are made of carbon, drive on roads of solid gold, and are made from a relatively small number of atoms.

24 October 2005, 10:52

Photos: The Dolce&Gabbana Razr

News Motorola and designer Dolce&Gabbana have released a new Razr V3i in gold and silver. The phone comes with a complimentary gold D&G pendant. These include a gold leather D&G phone case, a gold H700 Bluetooth headset and gold wired stereo headphones...

2 June 2006, 11:06

DVR forcing TV advertising to get creative

News This September, AOL and Mark Burnett Productions will launch Gold Rush, an interactive game that asks players to monitor CBS television programmes and commercials for clues to find $2m (£1.1m) in gold.

24 May 2006, 13:06

Dell to make smart phones?

News Wireless market analyst Jack Gold, of J Gold Associates, also suggested that this might best be achieved by buying an "established player" such as Palm and jettisoning "the non-strategic components of Palm's business".

1 March 2007, 10:43

3 reveals low pricing for X-Series

News The low pricing of operator 3's mobile Internet package makes it a litmus test for whether consumers really want such a service, a senior analyst has predicted.announced the pricing for X-Series services on Friday, placing the basic Silver package...

4 December 2006, 9:13

Organised crime targets 'Warcraft'

News Popular massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, such as World of Warcraft, have created a market for valuable game identities loaded with gold or other hard-earned forms of in-game currency that can be used to buy new weapons, magic spells or...

15 August 2006, 10:54

Microsoft unveils new Xbox Live pricing

News For Xbox 360 players willing to shell out $50 (£27), Microsoft will offer a year's subscription to Xbox Live Gold. This upgrade allows users to access 'premium' multiplayer games made specifically for gold members, including some that are online...

12 September 2005, 11:01

IBM's single molecule stores data

News The experiment itself mounted the molecule between two gold electrodes that could be adjusted to sub-picometre accuracy. Although most of the testing took place under extremely cold conditions, some results showed that the molecule continued to...

11 August 2006, 10:24

Virtual gaming's elusive exchange rates

News There are simply too many different marketplaces for the gold pieces and other currencies, they said. If you happen to find yourself short of fantasy gold pieces for the purchase of a scary-looking battle hammer in the game World of Warcraft, for...

8 August 2005, 10:25

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