This story is not strictly Mobile or Business but it is mobile broadband – in a way – and it amused us greatly, and we know how they feel, sometimes our mobile broadband is so slow you’d have thought it was going via carrier pigeon. A South African business Unlimited IT based in Durban decided…
Day: 16 September 2010
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comScore – Android sees significant growth in US
comScore has released data from latest July survey of key trends in the US mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending July 2010. The big change is the increase in the Smartphone market share for Android. It produced a staggering 5% growth for the quarter. Elsewhere not much changed, which is surprising…
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WeTab to launch the first MeeGo tablet
WeTab*, a German tablet computer start-up, is set to launch “the first shipped MeeGo-based tablet in the world” next week, offering the WeTab product initially in its home market, with availability through retailer Media Markt. The company is a partner of Intel, one of the main proponents of the platform, and the planned shipping was…
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Apple iOS 4.2 beta released to developers
The beta version of Apple’s iOS 4.2 has been released to developers At the last Apple press conference, Steve Jobs said that iPhone iOS 4.2 would arrive in November, but it seems quite a long lead time from Beta to final version so we suspect that it might be launched a little earlier. The focus…
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Corrie Nation – ITV bases social networking game on Coronation Street
Game will launch on Facebook and ITV.com on 1 November – a month before soap celebrates its 50th birthday
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Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 finalists
Vodafone has announced the four finalists of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 competition and you’ve now got until September 24 to vote for finalist that you think should be the winner. The annual competition is designed to identify and develop the best, most innovative mobile internet start-ups. The four finalists represent companies working on field-worker…
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Three get aggressive on data PAYG pricing
Three announced some quite aggressive Pay As You Go (PAYG) pricing to add to its All In One product, you can now get 500Mb for £5 per month which must be one the cheapest rates around. Three announced that from yesterday it would be updating it’s PAYG pricing and instead of the normal texts and…
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Vogue slims down for iPad edition
Conde Nast is launching iPad apps for Vogue and Wired
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Tesco creating an Android grocery app
In an amusing post on his blog Tesco’s head of R&D Nick Lansley has promised users that Tesco will be producing an Android app and providing a barcode update to their current iPhone app. Lansley quotes a post from reader B0lty on his site: Why haven’t you included a barcode scanner? More like why haven’t…
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Ofcom to test mobile broadband speeds
The UK telecom regulator, Ofcom has decided to compile its own mobile broadband coverage data maps and has contracted an outside company, Epitiro to analyse the performance of the networks. Ofcom has previously relied on operator provided statistics when compiling its coverage maps, but after the findings in the recently published Communications Market Report which…
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the power of the mobile phone
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was speaking at Nokia World conference and as you would expect from the man who invented the web he had a few pithy things to say about the future of the web, and the importance of mobile to that future. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has always been an advocate of information freedom. It…