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Watchdog sets 4G auction for next year
The communications watchdog has fired the starting pistol for next-generation internet services on mobile phones, with operators set to battle it out for licences at an auction in 2012.
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Amazon fires its first salvo at Apple in war of the phone apps
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Amazon launched its "Appstore for Android" selling software and games for download to smartphones yesterday, defying a lawsuit from Apple which claims it infringes the trademark of its own three-year-old App Store
10 million hits on YouTube for 'worst pop song of all time'
Friday, 18 March 2011
It could be the robotic vocal delivery. Or the inane chorus of "tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday comes afterwards". But "the worst pop song of all time" has become a global sensation, catapulting its 13 year-old performer to stardom.
Ofcom orders mobile networks to cut charges
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Mobile phone operators could lose out on billions of pounds after the communications watchdog ordered them to slash the fees they charge for connecting calls from rival networks and landlines.
Smartphone rings the changes in official price basket
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Last year the changing British way of life was reflected by the inclusion of shop-bought cooked chickens to the "inflation basket"; this year it is the turn of the apps that run on smartphones, and smartphones themselves, now a separate category to mobile phones, to make their mark.
Hewlett-Packard stakes its future on the 'cloud'
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Leo Apotheker, the German software executive parachuted in to run Hewlett-Packard (HP) after the traumatic ousting of Mark Hurd last year, has adopted "cloud computing" as a unifying theme for the troubled IT giant.
Video: Phone apps in inflation basket
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Philip Gooding of the Office for National Statistics says smartphones, apps and online dating services are being used to measure inflation.
Apple rejects 'wave and pay' for new iPhone
Monday, 14 March 2011
Apple will not include "wave and pay" chips in the new iPhone to be released later this year, dashing industry hopes that a universal standard for the technology would be adopted in 2011.
Activists hijack Vodafone site over 'unpaid tax'
Friday, 11 March 2011
The relentless pursuit of the mobile phone company Vodafone turned to cyber warfare yesterday when protesters hijacked one of its websites.
Fast-mover Kinect breaks record
Friday, 11 March 2011
The Microsoft Kinect has overtaken the iPhone and iPad to become the fastest selling consumer electronics device on record.
Groupola censured over £99 iPhone deal
Friday, 11 March 2011
The office of Fair Trading has censured an online discountcompany after thousands signed up for a "misleading" iPhone promotion when it had just eight handsets to offer.