Informer is not usually one to moan - but at an event recently a senior figure from a well known software vendor made an interesting observation about members of the fairer sex.  Apparently housewives more than ever know the virtues of buying GPRS style devices for their children because once they have dropped the kids off from school, they go straight to the supermarket and log on to check where their children are.

"Because that is what housewives do - shopping," said the exec. After the cleaning, washing and ironing, obviously.