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Swedes insure against P2P crackdown

News Magnus Braath, a 29-year-old architecture student, is offering to pay fines for any Swede convicted of the country's new antipiracy law. Some Swedes consider their country's antipiracy law a threat to freedom of information.

3 July 2006, 9:47

Korea, China, Japan start open-source collaboration

News The meeting on Saturday will be the first of three -- one held in each participating country -- planned for this year. The country's trade minister, Takeo Hirunama, speaking at the ASEAN economics ministers meeting in the Cambodian capital Phnom...

1 April 2004, 11:30

Romania leads outsourcing charge

News Romania led the charge this year at London's second OutsourceWorld conference, as it seeks to find more UK businesses willing to take advantage of its IT expertise which, in 1962, was responsible for building the first computer in a Communist-bloc...

16 June 2004, 16:25

Nintendo sells a million Wiis in the UK

News It has been 38 weeks since the Wii launch in the UK on 8 December, which makes it the fastest-selling console in the country's history. In home country Japan, the console recently celebrated reaching the three-million-unit mark, seven months from...

31 August 2007, 8:37

File sharing legal - Canada

News Canada's debate over file swapping flared last December, when the country's Copyright Board, which regulates intellectual property issues, ruled that downloading songs from a peer-to-peer network for personal use -- but not necessarily uploading...

1 April 2004, 7:40

Internet TV driving broadband uptake

News The UK is the seventh ranked country by total DSL subscribers, and is tenth in terms of market penetration, with 18 per cent of all phone lines delivering DSL services. But this growth is dwarfed by China, the country with the most DSL subscribers...

20 December 2005, 9:52

OS is key to smart phone choice

News Results were broken out by country, carrier, platform and device. Usage also differed by country. With smart phones, happiness all comes down to the operating system, according to a new survey from IDC.

29 November 2006, 9:35

'Robo-legs' help amputees get around

News He walked confidently, flashing the megawatt smile that brightens his Web site and various photographs in newspapers and magazines that have chronicled his story as he travels the country. But body image for women in this country is model-thin and...

27 June 2005, 10:13

Biometrics land at Gatwick

News Home Office spokeswoman explained that Sierra Leone was chosen because the main flight into Gatwick from the country arrives at a quiet time with a low number of passengers. Byrne added biometrics are part of a triple ring of security for the...

10 October 2007, 9:48

Meet Maxthon, China's hip browser

News The search giants' practices in the country have come under fire by everyone from free-speech advocates to the US government. Maxthon, a browser made by a tiny Beijing company of the same name, has attracted millions of users in China for...

23 June 2006, 10:05

Orange cuts voice and data roaming costs

News For voice roaming, Orange is launching an offer called 'Favourite Countries' -- which it says will deliver savings of between 18 and 60 per cent off the regulated 'Eurotariff', depending on which European country a customer lives in.

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21 May 2008, 9:45

Google: Have a free book on us

News A book's availability depends on the country from which the user is accessing the site. Google blocks users from works that are not yet in the public domain for their country, Lamb said. A carefully worded note on usage from Google, included as the...

31 August 2006, 9:37

PartyGaming leading online casino charge

News Such a complementary relationship is certainly aided by the fact PartyGaming boasts more customers from the US than any other country. PartyGaming and its directors rely on the apparent unwillingness or inability of regulators generally to bring...

4 July 2005, 9:33

Britain still playing broadband catch-up

News The South Korean government invested heavily in a ground-breaking policy to promote high-speed networks in the 1990s, and the country is still reaping the benefits. This shows that broadband take-up is now closely linked to a country's overall GDP.

25 March 2004, 14:55

Broadband divide widens in UK

News Point Topic's figures, though, show some significant differences around the country, especially now that BT's DSL is proving more popular than cable broadband. Most important of all, the publication of DSL numbers for different regions by BT has...

23 January 2006, 9:17