The military platform, dubbed Sealand, is the base of internet hosting company HavenCo which is bucking the downturn of the dot.com economy.
The company has been exploiting Sealand’s self-proclaimed sovereignty to offer an offshore data haven, free of government interference.
“We believe that people have a right to communicate freely,” said Ryan Lackey, co-founder of [...]

‘Most Wired’ San Francisco and Silicon Valley may pride itself as the US technology capital but an official study of the most connected cities in America has shown that it does not even make the top five.
According to the study cities such as Chicago, Washington DC, Dallas, Atlanta and New York are much better [...]

The OWL (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope) is an awesome project which requires international effort to make it happen.
This huge telescope – its main mirror would be more than 100 metres across – would have a predicted resolution 40 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope and a sensitivity several thousand times greater.
It would be [...]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project’s survey of broadband Internet users shows that broadband users spend more time online, do more things, and do them more often than dial-up Internet users. There are three major ways in which broadband users distinguish themselves from their dial-up counterparts. For high-speed home users, broadband lets them use [...]