No more Microsoft death marches, Ordnance Survey costs, cutting roaming costs, 2 billion GSM phones, US smart cards, and much more

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• The end of the death march
  Microsoft is bloated, bureaucratic and bogged down by the Windows update. But just when it is time for a change of direction, Bill Gates is bowing out. Jack Schofield reports.
• Time to account for travel maps' costs
  Ordnance Survey's accounts show a fat profit, but it may be costing customers and the Treasury dear.
• Free Our Data: have your say in the debate
  Come to the public debate on July 17 in London
• Newly Asked Questions
  • Who benefits from the death of mycokemusic.com?
    A few sites such as Wippit, but not Microsoft and probably not consumers.
  • How can I get Google to index the billions of pages I've created?
    Start off with some rat-like cunning, a big server, a domain you've registered, some articles you've stolen or bought, and then create or buy a computer "script" to create content for subdomains.
• Gadgets
  • Sony Location Free TV
    Sony has for the past few years offered a solution for piping TV shows wirelessly to PCs around the home. Now the company is taking that concept further with the launch of Location Free TV (£230).
  • BenQ e600 camera
    Taiwanese company BenQ has been a major player in the LCD screen and mobile phone markets and is extending its portfolio to include lifestyle goodies such as this six megapixel camera.
  • SynCh recharger
    Have gadgets, will travel. But where to recharge? And, more important, how?
• All human relationships are on the servers
  Keith Stuart: I've started playing online shooters again. I'm addicted to Battlefield 2 on Xbox 360, which has reminded me that beyond the hype surrounding social networking sites and MMORPGs, the most diverse, fascinating and impulsive relationships play out in multiplayer blast-'em-ups.
• Healthy respect for smart cards
  Electronic storage is helping to track the medical records of patients in New York, who belong to 100 different nationalities.
• Revolutionary calling
  A Swedish firm is about to dramatically reduce the cost of international calls made from mobile phones.
• Python: the full monty for mobile applications
  Victor Keegan: Even to those of us who get weary of official statistics, the latest ones about mobile phones are astonishing. The two billionth GSM phone (Global System for Mobile Communications) has just been connected.
• Technobile
  Charles Arthur: Voicemail is spectacularly inefficient and I hate it, so please don't leave me a message when you call.
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