Phones that nag you, a missed chance to free our data, Ofcom to zap FM?, Apple and the 'iPhone' and much more

This week's print edition of the Technology supplement is online too.. with phones that tell you about where you are, analysis on Apple and the iPhone, how Europe missed its chance to give us all free data, Ofcom's public consultation - should it get rid of FM and AM for DAB (have your say) - plus Second Life creator Philip Rosedale's reaction to the "Copybot" that threatens to undermine his virtual world and much more.

• Tell me when I get there
  Software that nags you to buy milk at the supermarket or can search for local Italian restaurants - and user reviews of them - is the next big thing, says Ronan Fitzgerald.
• Britain poised for victory in Brussels
  A compromise on EU rules to harmonise geographic details would let Ordnance Survey continue charging for its information.
• The future of UK radio is now in your hands
  The industry regulator Ofcom is throwing the debate on British radio formats over to the public.
• Gadgets:
  • Samsung SGH-D830
    Samsung has produced what might be its most impressive ultra-slim mobile yet in the D830. The handset is less than 1cm thick, which makes it even slimmer than the latest Motorola RAZRs - and, at the time of writing at least, the thinnest in the world.
  • Vodafone Mobile Connect modem
    Until now, mobile cards for laptop PCs have been designed to fit into a PCMCIA card slot. But there is a growing number of notebooks that don't have this slot.
  • Canon Digital Ixus 900Ti
    Not that long ago Canon hinted it was dropping out of the race to squeeze as many pixels as possible on to its cameras. So it is surprising to see the arrival of the 900Ti, a robust titanium-finished compact snapper that is capable of talking 10 megapixel images.
• Geeks and commanders meet on the battlefield
  Keith Stuart: Last week a discussion took place in London concerning the future of war. It wasn't organised by some shadowy government agency or by a big news media outlet. It was organised by EA Games.
• Newly Asked Questions
  • Can you say anything nice about Universal Music?
    Why, will they sue us if we don't? Hang on, though - the record label does seem to have acquired a habit of late of firing off lawsuits in every direction.
  • Just how much pornography is there online?
    Not so much as some people might want you to think. According to a study carried out for the US Department of Justice, about 1.1% of the sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are "sexually explicit".
• Apple ready to rock the phone world
  Victor Keegan: Renewed reports that Apple is to launch its long awaited iPhone in the first half of next year may prompt a lot of people to delay the purchase of their next phone or music player until then, if only because there is no point in buying two devices when one will do.
• Technobile
  Mat Smith: Too many buttons on peripherals is not a good thing. Unpimp my keyboard and mouse.
• The duplicitous inhabitants of Second Life
  Rogue software that lets objects be duplicated freely threatens the very nature of the online world.
• What else can we do to stop the spammers?
• How engineers tamed the internet's Tower of Babel
  New standards mean that all the world's languages can now finally be used on the world wide web.
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