Only a third of participants have bought online. But, until we are shown a live, fully working, fully open marketplace that adds efficiency while reducing costs, potential participants are entitled to remain sceptical.
On the other hand, cheaper beauty contests rely on a selection board choosing winners based on qualitative criteria, commitments and forecasts, which don't always guard against assessors' subjective views creeping in.
For some network operators, implementing Edge will just mean adding a new transceiver unit to the GPRS base stations - although this does depend on which vendor supplied them, and from which generation of infrastructure they are drawn.
In addition, there are mobile telephone base stations capable of providing location estimate through triangulation and waypoint references. In North America this has now started with people using GPS, cameras, PDAs and laptops to take photographs...
While Google Book Search limits the amount of copyright text a person can view in one session, Google has been criticised for the project, which entails scanning entire works, many protected by copyright, in order to make them searchable online.
If you can be jailed for holding a mobile, then you should also be for smoking, changing radio stations and anything else that requires the use of one hand off the wheel. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the...