GE Money will refund a $25 establishment fee to approximately 2,500 MasterCard customers following discussions with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
IT: Next generation Windows available on the internet
Ever since the next generation of Microsoft's Windows has a public name - it used to be Longhorn but now it's Vista - there have been copies available on the internet. But the latest availability of the forthcoming software is something of a sur...
Quality: Sony battery debacle worsens
Apple Computer has announced a product withdrawal - approaching two million Sony-built laptop batteries.
Internet: governments and enterprises try to create a degree of control
Petty crime on the internet takes on a huge scale because of the numbers involved. Now some actions are being taken.
Motor Industry: don't ridicule Proton
Top Gear famously joked that Proton "make their cars in the jungle" (actually, Proton have some of the most modern manufacturing plant in the world). The bottom line is that in the year that Rover finally died, Proton made a profit. An...
The UK revenue authorities police payment of the national minimum wage and they have collected some of the most ridiculous excuses for underpayin...
Boeing's Flying Wi Fi's heavy landing
It's just one step too far, perhaps. There is so little passenger demand for in-flight internet that customers aren't ordering it, so Boeing has...
Computing: Dell's la-la laptops
As if the fact that getting onto a plane with a laptop is a nightmare, Dell's recall of more than 4 million of its machines is a true horror stor...
Pollution: Malaysia basks in smoke
The smoke that Malaysians euphemistically call "haze" has shroude...
Interest: topsy turvey world of central bank decisions
The corporate world is in a completely befuddled state as the US Federal Reserve makes a "no change" decision whilst other major econom...
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