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23rd November 2002 Archive

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  • iPoints insider slams ‘bloody obsessive’ customers

    Unusual way to run a Web loyalty company

    Posts purporting to come from the head of Web loyalty firm iPoints on a popular online forum describing its customers as "bloody obsessives" did come from the company but not from its managing director, Chris Simpson. Simpson said the offending posts to DVD Forums were made from his PC by a staffer - but not by him. He …

    Music and Media 23 Nov 2002, 00:04

  • Trade Wars II: China shuns Qualcomm – no CDMA tax!

    Can't pay - won't pay

    In what's sure to be a bone of contention in forthcoming Sino-American trade negotiations, China is determined to adopt its home-grown cellular air interface, and the big losers are both Qualcomm and the GSM camp. Despite pressure from the US government, the 3G Planning Group of the State Information Office in the People's …

    Data Networking 23 Nov 2002, 00:54