Vodafone launches signal booster

Vodafone is to start selling hardware that makes it easier to use a mobile in the home. The box known as a femtocell is essentially a tiny base station that boosts mobile signals within the home. The hardware, which Vodafone has dubbed the Access Gateway, routes calls across a broadband connection.
The Access Gateway will go [...]

China accused for unfair trade

The US and European Union (EU) have filed complaints that China is unfairly limiting its raw material exports. In the trade cases filed with the World Trade Organization (WTO) the US and EU said China was giving its domestic industry access to cheap materials. China said it was meeting its WTO obligations and would contest [...]

Recession near bottom

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says the world economy is near the bottom of the worst recession in post-war history.The body that represents the 30 most industrialized nations said that those economies would shrink 4.1% this year. But it adds that recovery is likely to be “weak and fragile” for some time. The [...]