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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

A week in Tech: Solar power, Leopard and paying for games

Each week we're trying to give you a taste of what other people are reading on Guardian's technology pages. Last time out the most popular story was Palestinian militants using Google Earth; this week it was one of the biggest subjects in technology and science: the future of power.

James Bloom's story - which led this week's printed Technology Guardian - examines US government predictions satellites in space collecting solar energy and beaming it back to the earth. Apparently it's closer than you might think.

Elsewhere, our review of Leopard the new Apple operating system, proved popular reading - interesting since it was written not by a flaky journalist but a developer who knows Apple software inside out.

And you also enjoyed finding about Saga's new social network for people over 50, 3's deal to launch a Skype phone, and our Q&A with Digg co-founder Jay Adelson.

On the blogs, several of the same subjects popped up again.

A blog post covering some problems in upgrading to Leopard, while the amount that Apple receives from phone companies for the iPhone came in for some discussion.

But one of the most interesting posts of the week came on Gamesblog, which quoted EA boss John Riccitello (pictured) suggesting that in the future, all games could be free.

Perhaps it's something we may see come to pass sooner than we imagine.

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