BT scoops WCA gongs for best carrier

BT has been named Best Global Carrier at the World Communication Awards in London, considered to be the leading global industry awards event of its kind. The company's chief executive, Ben Verwaayen, walked off with the award for Most Influential Person in Communications, and the company was also highly commended in the Best Brand category and a finalist in Best Customer Care and Best Managed Service. The judges said that BT has had an outstanding year. ...more

Travel Inn unveils hotspot plan

The UK's largest hotel chain is to offer WiFi access in every property within nine months. Susan Thomas, systems director of Travel Inn, said: 'The majority of our guests are business travellers and the demand for new technology is ever increasing. This will undoubtedly give us an edge over our competitors. ...more

Yahoo! blamed for another Chinese detention

The moral dilemma of doing business in China has been brought to the fore with the news that information from Yahoo! was used to jail a pro-democracy campaigner. Reporters without Borders says it has a copy of the verdict that put Jiang Lijun behind bars for four years in 2003 because of a series of online pro-democracy articles, and that evidence leading to conviction was provided by Yahoo!, through its Chinese partner Alibaba. The verdict claims that Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) confirmed that the email account ZYMZd2002 had been used jointly by Jiang Lijun and another pro-democracy activist, Li Yibing. ...more

High-end headphones for iPod aficionados

Sennheiser has launched what it calls 'the world's best noise-canceling headphones'. The ?299 high-end set delivers a 'portable cloak of silence' for travelers. Traveling companions will be relieved to hear that the soundproofing works both ways, so tinny tunes won't leak out. ...more

The plagiarist's friend

The C-Pen 600C is a pen-like digital reader pen that scans, processes and transfers printed text. You simply move the pen over printed text and its built-in digital camera captures the text and saves it in the pen's memory as a document. This material can then be transferred to a PDA or a PC by cable or by infrared. ...more