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InfoTech: India's hundreds of millions of on-line shoppers

News from Central Bank of India (a state-owned commercial bank), REV, a payment services provider and MasterCard raises the intriguing prospect of hundreds of millions of new payment card users.



IT/Comms: iPhone App provides global panic button

The marketing is like a scene from a cheap horror movie. If the term "scareware" had not already been invented, it would be for this product. It's the kind of thing you want to hate, the kind of thing you hope you will never wish you h...



IT: College found running unauthorised copies of software

It's necessary to be careful in describing the "infringing" software that inspectors from a Malaysian ministry found on computers. The simple fact of finding the data may not be quite as clear cut as the representatives of software com...



Internet: Aus test case blames ISP for illegal downloads (part II)

In part II of this article, Nigel Morris-Cotterill looks at file-sharing and attempts to stop it.



Internet: Aus test case blames ISP for illegal downloads

Australia's third largest internet service provider, iiNet, is accused of wilfully facilitating the downloading of copyright material in a case brought in Federal Court by the entertainment industry pressure group Australian Federation Against C...

Internet: UN urges Asia-Pac nations to work harder on cybercrime

The United Nations says that international co-operation is the key to combating "cybercrime." But is it taking the correct approach?



Internet: FCC says ISPs cannot strangle supply

We all suffer from it: when bandwidth is sucked up by those pesky filesharers and people watching broadband TV. And those who want to use the net...



Comms: Eircom saga may soon be over

When Babcock and Brown became one of the highest profile non-bank casualties of the credit crunch, the future of Eircom, the Republic of Ireland'...



Comms: eBay dumps Skype

eBay has sold most of its holding in Skype to a private equity firm, Silver Lake and other investors.



Infotech: first "halal" search engine

In what is being billed as a world first, a Dutch-based company has launched a search engine that allows access only to those sites approved as b...

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