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Twitter CEO Evan Williams steps down
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams’s move sees Dick Costolo promoted to CEO amid speculation over site’s future ownership
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LG delays launch of Android 2.2 tablet – software update on the horizon?
Google’s head of mobile Hugo Berra was said to have spooked many a manufacturer last month when he openly noted that Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) is “not optimised for use on tablets”
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Mobile payments – the new technology coming to the UK
Forget cash and cards. In the Spanish town of Sitges you can go shopping with nothing but your mobile phone
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What happens to the iPad if nobody else’s tablets are any good?
Have you handled any tablet computers (excluding the iPad)? Of course not – they’re still not in the shops, and in the case of RIM’s PlayBook, there’s doubt about whether it even exists
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RIM announces Playbook tablet device
Newest rival to Apple’s iPad gets regal launch in San Francisco, but won’t be on general sale until next year
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Zuckerberg: Facebook’s mobile strategy is breadth not depth. Got that?
Co-founder of social network with more than 500 million users speaks about mobile phone plans
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Microsoft to launch Zune store for WP7
Tech giant to launch store and subscription service for Xbox 360, Windows PCs and Windows Phone 7 phones within weeks
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Another Nokia exec out: UK head jumps to Pace as president
The music hasn’t stopped at the top levels of the Finnish mobile phone maker, which is losing a fourth top-level executive
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In Nokia World, the future’s bright – or so it seems
The mobile giant is a master of hardware. But software is more important now
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Why you won’t see smaller iPads next year – though you will see revised iPads
The rumour mill is working overtime to suggest that Apple is going to try to compete with Samsung and others in offering a 7-inch tablet early in 2011. Here’s why that’s misguided – and what Apple will actually do
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Facebook Places checks in to UK
Facebook Places, the location-sharing service launched in the US last month is now available in the UK
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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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Vogue slims down for iPad edition
Conde Nast is launching iPad apps for Vogue and Wired
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Condé Nast chief: up to 40% of sales could be on iPad
Nicholas Coleridge reveals publisher will launch paid-for applications for December issues of UK Wired and Vogue
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At Nokia World, developers ask: ‘Where’s MeeGo?’
Nokia World: Nokia is showing off its new phones based on its Symbian^3 operating system at Nokia World – but some are wondering how quickly its much-vaunted MeeGo project will bear fruit
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Nokia World 2010: Mobile giant will look to recapture greatness
The Finnish manufacturer is the embattled beast of the mobile market, today it must throw down the gauntlet to rivals
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Nokia’s revenue and profit trends point to its key problem: commoditisation
Analysis of the troubled mobile company’s financial results shows that its principal problem is that though it is selling more phones, the profit and price it gets are falling
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Nokia replaces Kallasvuo with Microsoft’s Elop
Nokia ousts chief executive and brings in Microsoft business head Stephen Elop as mobile phone maker struggles to compete with Apple iPhone and Google Android handsets
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Apple opens App Store to programs written in Adobe Flash – and more
Flash developers stand to benefit as app review guidelines are also published – but Apple will do well as more apps can be developed for iPhone and iPad