AS THE knock-out stage of World Cup 2006 fast approaches, some of the game’s heavyweights are already on the ropes, hoping the bell will give them a reprieve.

A fierce public debate about journalistic ethics has begun in Iceland after a newspaper reported that a former school teacher was being investigated for sexually abusing two boys, and the man committed suicide.

Network 365 an Irish provider of secure personalised payments, identity and service delivery platform has said that TOD01 an online banking and e-services company based in Miami, Florida, has chosen mzone SSM Banking as its core platform to offer mobile banking services in the Andean Region.

Applications platforms provider Network 365 has launched pre-paid top-up with mzone avatar, which allows call credit accounts to be topped up using the mobile phone.