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BT hits a million Wi-Fi hotspots
Says traffic peak in the UK due to iPhone 9 February 2010 13:25 GMTBoosted 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...
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Tech Deals: InvisibleHand Firefox plug-in
Deals, offers and innovations 9 February 2010 13:13 GMTInvisibleHand, 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
Best Buy looking into resurrecting brand to cash in on customer nostalgia 9 February 2010 12:04 GMTIt 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...
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VIDEO: Parisian Oops mocks Parisian Love
Google's Superbowl ad gets remixed 9 February 2010 11:49 GMTLess 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...
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Google moves into the clothing market
Offers a t-shirt and a scarf 8 February 2010 12:12 GMTNot 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...
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Sony still losing money on the PS3
WSJ estimates every PlayStation 3 costs Sony $18 8 February 2010 11:25 GMTSome 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...
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Superbowl 2010 tech ads: Google talks love, Motorola puts Megan Fox in the tub
Brands with plenty of money to spend hit Sunday night football 8 February 2010 9:55 GMTThe 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...
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Symbian goes open source ahead of schedule
"Free code to everyone" 4 February 2010 16:14 GMTThe 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...
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O2 says it has sold 2 million iPhones
Sales steady for original operator 4 February 2010 11:45 GMTO2 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"
Rumoured to have acquired touchscreen co 4 February 2010 10:43 GMTAmazon 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
Five Sundance films see just 2684 views 3 February 2010 17:07 GMTYouTube'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...
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New Ovi Maps hits 1.4 million downloads
1.7% of compatible handset owners take Nokia up on something for nothing offer 3 February 2010 10:59 GMTFollowing 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
Deal "threatens significantly to affect competition" 3 February 2010 10:04 GMTThe 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...
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Chinese clone co threatens to sue Apple over iPad
Pot meets kettle as shanzhai firm says it was first with tablet design 1 February 2010 15:58 GMTApple 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
Up 23% on 2008's figures despite the rise of "social messaging" 1 February 2010 9:12 GMTThe 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
"User experience" the focus for 2010 29 January 2010 10:03 GMTNokia'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
Fastest selling OS ever 29 January 2010 9:30 GMTMicrosoft'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
Prototype uses same tech as police speed guns 27 January 2010 12:42 GMTNokia'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
10,000th mast goes in, as 3000 more promised this year 27 January 2010 12:14 GMT3 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
Hits 250,000 paid subscribers 26 January 2010 12:21 GMTAt 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...
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Vodafone claims most paying music subscribers in Europe
450,000 sign up 26 January 2010 9:34 GMTIt 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
Apple COO states Wednesday will bring "joy and surprise" 25 January 2010 23:50 GMTDespite 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....
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VIDEO: Ortery reveals Photosimile 3D photocopier
360-degree product renders now a piece of cake 25 January 2010 12:09 GMTIn 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...
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The Internet in 2009 broken down into numbers
"Prepare for information overload, but in a good way" 25 January 2010 10:40 GMTUptime 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 likes of Doctor Who and Top Gear ripe for multi-platform gaming experiences 22 January 2010 15:11 GMTThe 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...


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