Governments want to assist broadband development, but lavishing taxpayers’ money on high-speed networks is not the answer.
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Smarter Phones: new challenges for the mobile industry
The $200 billion mobile phone industry has reached a watershed moment. The rise of the smartphone—iPhone, Droid, Galaxy—has pushed some handset makers to find new ways to build sustainable margins.
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Greece pharma: Averting crisis
Drugmakers are making emergency plans to secure medicine supplies to Greece if the country abandons the euro.
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Supermarket own labels: going back to basics
With the UK back in recession, supermarket chains are reviewing their own-label strategies in an effort to avoid the problems of their French counterparts.
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Bank investors getting bad returns
World Banks – The Not-for-profit Sector?
Nary a cucumber sandwich was thrown and the heckling was rather subdued. But the genteel rebellion over executive pay at the Barclays shareholders’ meeting in London last month, an echo of similar disquiet at annual meetings in America, shows how fed up bank investors have become with their returns.
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Telecoms and telecommunications report
Like other industries, the information technology (IT) and telecommunications sector faces a tough operating environment against a backdrop of subdued economic activity and investor uncertainty, although it has appeared less vulnerable to economic weakness than some other sectors.
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The real environmental impact of the electric car
A new report tries to calculate the real environmental benefits of driving an electric car rather than a petrol one.
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