Even if you are not of a supersitious bent, you might think that calling a company Pandora is asking for trouble.  As soon as the company or its products hit trouble, there are going to be heavy jokes about the Pandora of Greek myth, who was created by the gods as a punishment for the theft by Prometheus of the secret of fire. You will recall that she unleashed all the evils of the world when she opened a forbidden box.

Like many of these old stories it has a powerful resonance today, and it shows there is nothing new about  fears that the use of technology is dangerously out of control. The troubles of Pandora the company are rather more prosaic, as we report today. It is having difficulty opening its media-streaming 'box' to the wider world. We trust that, when it succeeds, it won't make things worse.