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I think you have a point there - countries with poor infrastructure and/or high cost of access to the Internet probably will wind up with WiMAX. Europe, though? I think we may already be ahead of what WiMAX can offer.

WiMAX, too little too late? An interesting thought there Ben. One has to wonder if the world is ready for yet another wireless data interface standard. That Intel are incorporating WiMAX into their chipsets is all very well. But what of all the manufacturers who are not Intel? Taking your very point about 3G, and of course its global availability (mostly), it seems that the new breed of sub-£300 laptops could have a bright future with 3G. Especially in the developing nations which are becoming utterly reliant upon their mobile networks for voice and data. I do believe that a new paradigm will form in such places as the Africas and other third world nations. One that does not suffer from the legacy of aging copper buried deep in the ground or suspended from wooden poles.

Can Intel really take on 3G (in all of its forms)? I rather doubt it. And so maybe WiMAX will be the next Betamax.

Yesterday HBOS shares took a massive hammering due to the, wait for it, speculation that Halifax might go under. Yeah, right, the UK's largest mortgage lender is going to go under just like that... despite the fact that nothing even remotely similar to the US sub-prime situation is happening here.

Most of the losses recovered once it was found out that the rumour was fraud, but come on - billions of pounds can be erased from the value of our stock market on the back of hearsay? What a pathetic system.

It is my belief that Capitalism as we know it is completely unsustainable. The money supply is controlled by too few for detriment of the many. How, for example, can we in the 21st century have global poverty and status that goes back more than 2,000 years.

Nationally one can see the obscenity of the situation where the masses are controlled and influenced by the wealthy few. A whole society of these exist, almost like some kind of super Masonic Lodge and with increasing brazenness. We see these people in influence in Government, we see them in financial circles. They talk the talk, but everything is for their own benefit and to hell with the masses that actually fund their lifestyle.

Revolution? I don't believe it, not in the wealthy nations which are havens of relative peace. When is the last time, for example, that the Britons ever took up revolutionary arms like the French did? Not since the Romans, and then we fell under their influence in no time at all.

Compliance is not always willing. Witness China where it is ordered and enforced, and the very same separation between obscene wealth and abject poverty exists.

Zeitgeist is a warning, a cry for help, a call to arms. But until we are globally shaken out of our complacency - and what would that take? - we are likely to continue as ever. All the while we will be told how wealthy and healthy we are, where the truth is anything but.

How much is that £1 in your pocket worth today in comparison to 10 years, 5 years, even 2 years ago? Yet we are told that we are living in the time lowest inflation ever. But the truth is that we are facing between 40% and 60% inflation in food, fuel and other essentials.

As a good friend of mine is oft to say "Don't piss on my back and tell me it is raining". That is precisely what we are faced with by our great and powerful on a daily basis.

Cor Ben! Don't get me going, I'll start swearing

......I don't have an iPhone, but I'm going to hazard a guess......

And you would be entirely correct But I know where you're coming from. I have become utterly dependent upon Active Standby on S60 - its the only way to get anything done with that handset.