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  • Much ado about iPhone kill switch

    Apple's iPhone "kill switch" has prompted much hand-wringing, despite the fact that no one knows exactly what it does.

  • Microsoft to remove Vista 'kill switch' in SP1

    The controversial "kill switch" function of Windows Vista will be disabled by Microsoft after customer complaints that legitimate copies of the OS were recognised as pirate copies.

  • Don't regulate RFID -- yet

    Not many people may remember this, but Phil Donahue was one of the digital age's first technophobes.

  • Fair Trading minister joins debate over RFID

    The NSW Fair Trading Minister, Reba Meagher, has called on retailers to be upfront with customers on the use of radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) on their products, despite expert claims that the tags are harmless.

  • Radio ID tags get Microsoft backing

    Microsoft is enlisting in a venture designed to help develop standards for radio frequency tags intended for use by retailers and manufacturers to track goods.

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  • Managing your move into mobility

    With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.

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