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Air travel just got a whole lot worse! Telecom NZ XT customers were told today that they now have access to in-flight mobile services en-route to selected international destinations around the world. That includes making and receiving calls, SMS and email access. As if air travel wasn’t impersonal enough, now we will have to listen to phones ringing and people talking loudly all the way there and back. We have barely established mobile phone etiquette in public places who knows what will happen on...

Heard the one about Britain’s Prime minister, Gordon Brown, beating up his staff? (allegedly!). Apparently he flew into a rage and grabbed some hapless official by the lapels when told that one of his equally hapless departments had lost a disc containing the personal information of 20 million British subjects. Poor Gordon – it’s very frustrating being responsible for something but having little actual visibility or control over it. So spare a though for the Telecom New Zealand CEO, Paul Reynolds...