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Ah, Houston? We have an iPhone
Mobile phones do tend to wind upin odd places. I suppose it's down to their small size. Take the example of a Ukrainian named Rimma Golovko, who while taking a photo of a crocodile at at a Dnipropetrovsk zoo, had her device ripped from her grasp by t... Opinion
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Is The Cloud floating into BSkyB's sights?
A nod to Richard Holway at TechMarketView this morning, who has delved deep behind the formidable Times paywall to bring us news thatNews International'sbrother BSkyB is planning to spend an as-yet undisclosedamount of pocket moneyto buypublic wi-fi ... Opinion
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3 wins out in broadband sales race
An uncomonnlyreasonable approach to mobile broadband usage has helped mobile network3book the mostbroadband sales in 2010, according to figures gathered by broadband comparison website Broadbandgenie. Last year Hutchison Whampoa-owned 3- whichis admi... Opinion
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'Bring your own IT' is a great idea, but can you trust your kids?
A particularly enlightened CIO might be willing to risk his network and let employees bring their own devices to work, but how would you feel about trying the same exercise with a classroom of 14-year old kids? A survey conducted by analysts at Intel... Opinion
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Will a little wi-fi help Tesco shoppers?
MicroScope's sister publication ComputerWeekly.com reports today that supermarket leviathan Tesco is planning to put free customer wi-fi in its stores. The firm's chief executive of retailing services, Andy Higginson, let the cat out of the bag at a ... Opinion
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iPhone shortages are the tip of a larger iceberg
Buried within Apple's otherwise excellent results, released yesterday, came the admission that the vendoris seeing shortages of iPhonesand doesn't know when it willretake control of the situation. As the recovery began in 2010, component makers in th... Opinion
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Mobile ringtone advertising sounds like a nightmare
The world of Minority Report is moving closer... New research from the industry soothsayers at Juniper Researchsuggests that the ringback tone advertising market is set to increase in value to $780m per annum by 2015. Ringback tone advertising is a f... Opinion
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Tesco Mobile had a bumper Xmas - how much tax will they pay on that?
Tesco Mobile reached the milestone of 2.5 million customers on Christmas Day this year after experiencing its best ever Christmas sales. Tens of thousands of Tesco Mobile handsets were activated on Christmas Day with the iPhone proving the most popul... Opinion
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A spoonful of Baggs
Have you too have been left idle on a Wednesday night since The Apprentice finished? If, like me, you've been itching for morepearls of wisdomfrom our favourite contestantoff last year's show, one Stuart Baggs, then itch no more, for help is at hand.... Opinion
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A hundred per cent market growth? Plenty would kill for that
If I was told that a particular market was set to grow by 100% between now and 2014, I'd regard that as pretty positive news. Maybe I'm misinformed.According to IDC, 100% growth only represents a"moderate" gain. The analysts'latest report o... Opinion