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- 07 February 2008
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News: Vodafone offers Facebook mobile in the UK
Vodafone has become the first operator to use the Facebook for Mobile Operators platform and has started services in the UK and Germany. Facebook's platform, which Vodafone will soon offer in Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal, is designed to make its social-networking application work better on portable devices.
- 06 February 2008
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News: BT denies killing BT Fusion
Despite reports to the contrary, BT has not stopped marketing its converged fixed/mobile phone service, BT Fusion.
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News: Nokia relaunches content-sharing service
Nokia has rebranded Twango, the photo- and video-sharing site aimed at mobile users, as Share on Ovi. The service is based on one developed by Twango, a company Nokia acquired in July last year.
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News: Nokia previews N-Gage gaming service
Nokia has invited some Nokia N81 phone users to start playing with its delayed new N-Gage gaming service.
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News: Opera Mobile 9.5 matches desktop web browsing
Opera says the latest version of its Opera Mobile smartphone browser delivers a user experience similar to that of web browsing on a desktop PC.
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News: MMS goes mainstream with 448m messages
Mobile phone picture messaging is on the up. Figures released today show that nearly 448 million photo messages were sent in the UK last year. The Mobile Data Association report says 23 percent of UK mobile phone owners are now using their handsets to access the internet. In December 2007 alone, 17 million handsets were used to get online.
- 05 February 2008
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News: Apple launches 16GB iPhone, 32GB iPod touch
Apple has introduced models of the iPhone and iPod touch that have double the exisiting models' memory. The higher capacity products join the existing models on the iPhone and iPod product lines.
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News: Chip extends mobile phone battery ten-fold
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Instruments have developed a chip that's up to 10 times more energy-efficient than those used in current mobile phones.
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News: Dell to launch Google Android handset?
Dell is planning to launch a smartphone based on Google's Android mobile platform at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, according to reports.
- 04 February 2008
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News: Vodafone offers half-price mobile broadband
Vodafone is slashing its mobile broadband rates, halving its tariff for wireless data cards from £30 to £15 for a promotional period.
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News: How the Microsoft/Yahoo deal would affect you
It's the year 2010. Microsoft owns Yahoo and has just changed the name of Flickr to Microsoft Flickr Live Photo-Sharing Service for Digital Camera Enthusiasts. The service is still free, but Windows Vista users will have to validate their copy of Vista as 'genuine' first to use it. What has Microsoft wrought?
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News: Intel to provide full details of Silverthorne chip
Intel will offer a first look at technical details of its low-power Silverthorne processor during a presentation at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) this week, setting the stage for a concerted push into the market for ultraportable devices.
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News: LiMo ready with Linux phone platform
The LiMo Foundation plans to release the first version of its Linux software platform for mobile phones in March, with handsets running the software due soon.
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News: Intel & Micron launch super-fast NAND flash
Intel and Micron Technology have launched high-speed NAND flash memory technology that they said offers data transfer speeds that are five times faster than conventional NAND technology. IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture of Micron and Intel, developed the new technology.
- 02 February 2008
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News: The top 40 BlackBerry shortcuts
40 nuggets of valuable advice on getting the most from your BlackBerry, including shortcuts, email tips and phone functions.
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News: Low cost flash spurs innovation
Devices that will benefit from cheaper NAND memory include SD cards, which will boast greatly expanded storage capacity, USB flash sticks, internal storage and new, lower-cost SSDs for notebook computers.
- 01 February 2008
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News: PC World offers 'free' laptop deal
PC World will give a free or discounted laptop to every customer that signs up to an 18-month mobile broadband subscription from 3.
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News: Garmin to launch GPS smartphone
Garmin is to launch a touchscreen mobile phone complete with mobile web-browser and satellite navigation software. The Garmin Nüvifone will combine a 3.5G phone capability with an internet browser and GPS navigation capabilities.
- 31 January 2008
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News: Search evolution: new ways to get better results
We've dug out some internet search sites and services that will add voice recognition and results focused on meaning. But it may be that Microsoft's fresh-looking Tafiti engine makes the biggest splash of all.
- 30 January 2008
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News: iPhone & BlackBerry in patent dispute
A US patent-holding firm has sued iPhone maker Apple, BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion, Motorola, Nokia, AT&T Mobility, Alltel, Samsung and others for patent infringement.
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