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Archive - 11 May 2006

T-Mobile 'banned VoIP because of poor quality'

News Analysts are split over T-Mobile’s claim that it has blocked voice-over-internet because it is too patchy for its customers. Other mobile operators, though, are forging ahead with the service

Shakeup of 'absurd' copyright law demanded

News More than 50 percent of Britons are infringing UK copyright laws by copying CDs for private use, the National Consumer Council has warned

BT to sell Wi-Fi mobiles for business

News Under an alliance with Alcatel the telco will launch a converged phone that operates on both GSM and local wireless networks, but there are questions about call charges

Email bomber faces retrial

News The Court of Appeal has ruled that a judge was wrong to throw out the case of a teenager accused of crashing a mail server with millions of emails

Origami? We'll fold

Leader The good thing about first impressions is that they save so much time

China Mobile CEO's rules of thumb

Feature Wang Jianzhou runs the largest mobile phone subscriber base in the world -- around 250 million customers and growing.

NASA hacker to fight extradition

News After being forced on Wednesday to listen to detailed reasons why his extradition should go ahead, Gary McKinnon is still hoping to avoid judgement in the US

ICANN rejects .XXX domain

News Update: There will be no dedicated domain suffix for adult sites, although the regulator of the Internet's naming system denies it caved in to conservative lobbying

HP: We're hurting Dell

News HP claims to be winning orders from big businesses at its rival's expense

DNA: the wild west of online tests

Feature "Just send a saliva sample and we'll predict your chances of breast cancer." More and more Americans are using DNA kits bought on the Web, but medical experts are alarmed the companies behind them...

Treo gets Palm OS and fast wireless

News After flirting with Windows Mobile, the cult handheld maker goes back to its native environment to link up with the EV-DO network

Charities a soft target for hackers

News More than a third have been hit by viruses and a similar number view hackers as a direct threat, but few have the resources for proper security

Windows CE 6 released to beta

News The new kernel expands simultaneous processes from 32 to 32,000; and a plug-in for Visual Studio will make it easier for developers to program for embedded devices running the OS

'Microsoft won't make a Netscape of us'

News Google's founders say Microsoft is up to its old anti-competitive tricks but they are defending their own patch through innovation

New tools for Google Desktop

News 'Deeper' search capabilities, social networking and mini-applications headline a suite of products unveiled to the press

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