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BT hits a million Wi-Fi hotspots

Boosted massively by BT FON home hub hotspots, BT has announced it's reached the million milestone for Wi-Fi hotspots across the UK and Ireland.

The million-strong Wi-Fi estate also comprises hotspots from BT Openzone (3800) and BT Openzone hotspots via the BT...

Tech Deals: InvisibleHand Firefox plug-in

InvisibleHand, if you weren't sure, is a Firefox plug-in that lets you know if the item you are shopping for can be found cheaper elsewhere by way of a handy link - enabling you to hop over to the other shop and buy the item.

Launched into beta back in August...

Rumbelows could return to the high street

It seems US retail giant Best Buy has considered nostalgia as a weapon for its coming-soon attack on the UK high street.

Best Buy has carried out research into resurrecting the "Rumbelows" brand name for shops in order to cash in on the consumer nostalgia associated...

VIDEO: Parisian Oops mocks Parisian Love

Less than 48 hours after Google's Parisian Love advert was shown to more than 106 million people watching the Saints beating the Colts 31 - 17 in the Superbowl, the chaps at the Upright Citizens Brigade Beta Team "The Brig." have already created a video gently mocking...

Google moves into the clothing market

Not content with dominating the online world, it seems Google has ambitions about what you're wearing as it's been revealed the web giant is offering items of clothing for sale.

Consumers can currently pick up a Google t-shirt - for men and women - priced at $85...

Sony still losing money on the PS3

Some clever chaps at the Wall Street Journal have grabbed their calculators and worked out that Sony is still losing money on the PlayStation 3, the first version of which was launched back in 2006.

Despite some recent sales success for the high-end console, it...

Superbowl 2010 tech ads: Google talks love, Motorola puts Megan Fox in the tub

The Superbowl is a launch pad for the biggest new adverts in the US and this year those tech and gaming giants with plenty of money were out in force.

Google who've famously said in the past that brand advertising was a waste of money, seemed to change its tack...

Symbian goes open source ahead of schedule

The Symbian Foundation has announced it has completed the open source release of the source code for the widely-used smartphone platform.

This means the 10-year-old Symbian platform, which has been the OS for over 300 million devices around the world, is now completely...

O2 says it has sold 2 million iPhones

O2 has revealed some interesting sales stats about the Apple iPhone, which it was the first operator in the UK to offer.

The Telefonica-owned company has revealed it has now sold 2 million iPhones in the UK. As the one million milestone mark was reached in...

Amazon to fight iPad with a "super Kindle"

Amazon is not going to take the Apple iPad challenge lying down, suggests the New York Times, as it's reported the etailing giant is prepping a "super Kindle" to compete.

The crux of this suggestion is the rumour that Amazon has snapped up Touchco, a New York...

YouTube's movie rental experiment earns it $10,000

YouTube's recent foray into movie rentals was not a major money-spinner for the world's biggest video site as results of the experiment have been revealed.

The Google-owned company has said the five films, which were available for a period of 10 days, saw 2684...

New Ovi Maps hits 1.4 million downloads

Following the release of a new version of its Ovi Maps, making the mapping and navigation software and service free on certain phones, Nokia has announced it has hit a milestone.

Nokia says over 1.4 million have downloaded the application across the world...

OFT concerned over Orange/T-Mobile merger

The Office of Fair Trading has sounded a note of caution over the proposed merger between Orange and T-Mobile. The agency says that the deal "threatens significantly to affect competition in mobile telecommunications in the UK".

The OFT has asked the European...

Chinese clone co threatens to sue Apple over iPad

Apple is facing a legal threat from more than just Fujitsu over its new iPad as news comes in that a Chinese company is considering a lawsuit.

Rather than the name being the issue, as it is in the Fujitsu case, it's the iPad's design that is causing controversy....

Brits send 96 billion texts in 2009

The UK's love of text messaging is continuing to grow, recent figures from the Mobile Data Association show, despite the rise of "social messaging" via services like Twitter.

The just released stats take into account both text messages and picture and video...

Nokia fights backs with growth in market share

Nokia's recently announced financial results for the last quarter of 2009 show that the Finnish phone maker is clawing its way back in to the market.

With net sales up, Nokia saw a 38% growth in smartphone shipments over the past year, selling over 20 million...

Microsoft reveals 60 million Windows 7 sales

Microsoft's second quarter financial results have revealed just how many copies of Windows 7 the software giant has shifted since it went on sale in October 2009.

While announcing record revenue, sales figures of 60 million Windows 7 licenses from Microsoft...

VIDEO: Nokia reveals radar-based gesture control and speedo concepts

Nokia's research bods have revealed a "Mobile Radar" concept that shows how one day you could measure an object's distance, speed, and direction using a mobile device.

"It's essentially the same technology the police use in their radars", says Nokia, with...

3 boasts better 3G coverage

3 has announced it has activated its 10,000th 3G site this week as a site in Shooters Hill, South East London, went online bringing better 3G coverage and more capacity to the area.

The site was added to the network as part of an expansion drive that 3 says...

Spotify's Premium service growing fast

At the MIDEM conference in Cannes, Spotify has revealed that it's managed to convert more than 250,000 of its total 7 million users to its paid service, which costs £10 per month. If our sums are right, that means revenues of about £2.5 million, before advertising is...

Vodafone claims most paying music subscribers in Europe

It seems Vodafone's DRM-free music is going down well with consumers as it has announced that nearly 450,000 Vodafone customers have signed up to its music subscription services since 2009.

Vodafone is claiming this customer base gives it the largest number...

Apple posts biggest revenue and profit quarter of all time

Despite the global recession, according to Apple's Q4 2009 earnings announcement, the company sold 3.36 million Macs during the last 3 months of 2009. This represents a 33% sales increase over the same quarter back in 2008.

Even more staggering were iPhone sales....

VIDEO: Ortery reveals Photosimile 3D photocopier

In what's being described as a world's first, Ortery Technologies has unveiled the Photosimile 5000 a "solution for creating professional still photos and product animations in spherical, hemispherical and 360-degree formats".

Quite simply, as the video above...

The Internet in 2009 broken down into numbers

Uptime monitoring service Pingdom has posted a fascinating insight into the Internet in 2009, breaking a year in the online world down into a plethora of statistics.

"Prepare for information overload, but in a good way", Pingdom says in a blog post about the...

BBC to get back into games

The BBC's commercial arm is to make a return to the world of games "in a big way" following the closure of its multimedia division in 2005, reports industry news source MCV.

BBC Worldwide is looking for publishers and developers who can turn suitable intellectual...