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eBay appears to have worked out what everyone else has been saying for months: plans to force people to use PayPal are the dumbest idea ever.

The Ex-MS supremo found Windows “unusable”. But which version?

Yahoo, under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management on Thursday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology, and operational execution, the company said.

Two cards containing microprocessors that generate one-time passwords are being touted to Australian banks as possible replacements for tokens and passwords delivered by SMS — and one is already being trialled by Visa.

Earlier this month, Telstra put out a press release trumpeting that it’s come up with a new phone coaching service to help people who are “bamboozled” by their mobiles. Another excellent example of wrongheaded thinking from the mobile industry.

In its regulatory submission this week, Telstra says the new national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) roll-out should not have to interface with current network technologies such as the copper ADSL2+ network, because of impacts on performance.

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The global markets for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi continue to show strong growth and will remain the leading personal area networking technologies, but analysts believe that prices and market developments are pushing them in new directions..

Social network site Facebook will press members to declare whether they are male or female, seeking to end the grammatical device that leads the site to refer to individual users as “they” or “themself.”

3 Mobile is enlisting legions of its customers to pile Internet pressure on Apple in an attempt to secure the iPhone for its network.