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13 December 2012 by Simon
Finally, iOS 6 users can breathe a sigh of relief. Google has been hard at work revamping its Maps app and it has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store. The new Google Maps includes voice controlled turn-by-turn navigation, Street View, public transport and traffic information...
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Finally, iOS 6 users can breathe a sigh of relief. Google has been hard at work revamping its Maps app and it has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store. The new Google Maps includes voice controlled turn-by-turn navigation, Street View, public transport and traffic information...
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05 December 2012 by Simon
This week has seen the 20th anniversary of the text message. Text messages have become so ubiquitous that it is now hard to imagine that there was once a point in time when all a phone was capable of doing was making and receiving calls. Text messages have contributed to a decrease in the popularity...
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This week has seen the 20th anniversary of the text message. Text messages have become so ubiquitous that it is now hard to imagine that there was once a point in time when all a phone was capable of doing was making and receiving calls. Text messages have contributed to a decrease in the popularity...
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28 November 2012 by Simon
These days you hear about a new phone being launched onto the market nearly every week, and phones are getting a lot smarter compared to ten, even five years ago. Maybe you have an eye on one for this Christmas? After all we have seen the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S3, the Apple iPhone 5 and als...
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These days you hear about a new phone being launched onto the market nearly every week, and phones are getting a lot smarter compared to ten, even five years ago. Maybe you have an eye on one for this Christmas? After all we have seen the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S3, the Apple iPhone 5 and als...
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13 November 2012 by Simon
RIM has announced that it will launch its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and a number of BB10 handsets on January 30th 2013. The launch has been postponed twice and could be a make or break for RIM, which has seen its older BlackBerry phones rapidly decline in market share over the past couple o...
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RIM has announced that it will launch its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and a number of BB10 handsets on January 30th 2013. The launch has been postponed twice and could be a make or break for RIM, which has seen its older BlackBerry phones rapidly decline in market share over the past couple o...
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12 November 2012 by Simon
This week the Court of Appeal of England and Wales ordered Apple to pay Samsung's legal fees in the earlier design patent infringement case regarding Samsung products, as Apple had failed to comply with the ruling of that case. The earlier court ruling had ordered Apple to place a notice on its UK w...
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This week the Court of Appeal of England and Wales ordered Apple to pay Samsung's legal fees in the earlier design patent infringement case regarding Samsung products, as Apple had failed to comply with the ruling of that case. The earlier court ruling had ordered Apple to place a notice on its UK w...
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08 November 2012 by Simon
Samsung's Galaxy S III has overtaken the iPhone 4S to become the biggest selling smartphone of Q3 2012, selling 18 million compared to 16.2 million iPhones. Samsung has sold more than 30 million Galaxy S IIIs since it first went on sale at the start of the summer. The high sales of the Galaxy S III ...
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Samsung's Galaxy S III has overtaken the iPhone 4S to become the biggest selling smartphone of Q3 2012, selling 18 million compared to 16.2 million iPhones. Samsung has sold more than 30 million Galaxy S IIIs since it first went on sale at the start of the summer. The high sales of the Galaxy S III ...
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08 November 2012 by Simon
Apple has been granted a patent by the US Patents and Trademark Office USPTO which effectively grants the company unique rights to any electronic device that is rectangular with rounded corners. Apple had attempted to use an earlier patent to argue the same thing in its recent Californian patent dis...
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Apple has been granted a patent by the US Patents and Trademark Office USPTO which effectively grants the company unique rights to any electronic device that is rectangular with rounded corners. Apple had attempted to use an earlier patent to argue the same thing in its recent Californian patent dis...
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07 November 2012 by Simon
Terry Gou, Chairman of Foxconn, the company that assembles many Apple products such as the iPhone and iPad, has said that his company is struggling to keep up with the high level of demand for iPhone production. He was quoted as saying recently, "It's not easy to make the iPhones. We are falling sho...
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Terry Gou, Chairman of Foxconn, the company that assembles many Apple products such as the iPhone and iPad, has said that his company is struggling to keep up with the high level of demand for iPhone production. He was quoted as saying recently, "It's not easy to make the iPhones. We are falling sho...
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05 November 2012 by Simon
The Galaxy SIII has been the most preordered gadget in history and recently passed the 30 million sales mark, but a new version is soon to be available in the UK with a larger 64GB on-board storage. The 64GB Galaxy SIII can be preordered for around £600, although the phone is not likely to be on s...
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The Galaxy SIII has been the most preordered gadget in history and recently passed the 30 million sales mark, but a new version is soon to be available in the UK with a larger 64GB on-board storage. The 64GB Galaxy SIII can be preordered for around £600, although the phone is not likely to be on s...
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05 November 2012 by Simon
Recent months have seen Starbucks get a lot of flak for operating tax schemes that allow the company to pay a minimal amount of tax in the United Kingdom, and now The Guardian is reporting that tech giant Apple is also paying far less tax than it should be. While the UK's corporation tax is 24%, tax...
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Recent months have seen Starbucks get a lot of flak for operating tax schemes that allow the company to pay a minimal amount of tax in the United Kingdom, and now The Guardian is reporting that tech giant Apple is also paying far less tax than it should be. While the UK's corporation tax is 24%, tax...
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25 October 2012 by Simon
Google is due to launch three new Nexus devices on October 30th, a new 3G enabled Nexus 7 tablet, a Samsung produced Nexus 10 tablet, and the LG produced Nexus 4 phone. The latter has since prematurely appeared on the Carphone Warehouse pre-order page, where the retailer has inadvertently revealed f...
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Google is due to launch three new Nexus devices on October 30th, a new 3G enabled Nexus 7 tablet, a Samsung produced Nexus 10 tablet, and the LG produced Nexus 4 phone. The latter has since prematurely appeared on the Carphone Warehouse pre-order page, where the retailer has inadvertently revealed f...
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24 October 2012 by Simon
Recent reports suggest that LG Electronics has sold seven million smartphones in the third quarter of 2012, putting the Korean company firmly back in the running after a significant sales slump at the start of 2011 that left its phone business in the lurch. The recent sales figures are a 59% increas...
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Recent reports suggest that LG Electronics has sold seven million smartphones in the third quarter of 2012, putting the Korean company firmly back in the running after a significant sales slump at the start of 2011 that left its phone business in the lurch. The recent sales figures are a 59% increas...
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23 October 2012 by Simon
EE is due to start offering 4G in the UK next week and has just released pricing details for contracts for the small number of LTE phones it will have available when it goes live. At launch, EE will be offering the Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 LTE, HTC One XL, Huawei Ascend P1 LTE,...
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EE is due to start offering 4G in the UK next week and has just released pricing details for contracts for the small number of LTE phones it will have available when it goes live. At launch, EE will be offering the Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 LTE, HTC One XL, Huawei Ascend P1 LTE,...
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22 October 2012 by Simon
Google has sent press invites for an event to be held on October 29th, where it is thought to company will launch an updated 3G Nexus 7, Samsung produced Nexus 10 tablet, and the rumoured Nexus 4 from LG. The three new Nexus devices will also be launched alongside a new Android update which will int...
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Google has sent press invites for an event to be held on October 29th, where it is thought to company will launch an updated 3G Nexus 7, Samsung produced Nexus 10 tablet, and the rumoured Nexus 4 from LG. The three new Nexus devices will also be launched alongside a new Android update which will int...
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18 October 2012 by Simon
After receiving thousands of complaints from consumers the communications watchdog Ofcom has decided to impose strict rules on UK phone networks regarding the pricing of their mobile phone contracts, according to The Telegraph. Currently, many networks include "price variation clauses" in the small ...
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After receiving thousands of complaints from consumers the communications watchdog Ofcom has decided to impose strict rules on UK phone networks regarding the pricing of their mobile phone contracts, according to The Telegraph. Currently, many networks include "price variation clauses" in the small ...
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18 October 2012 by Simon
Google is currently rolling out some updates to its Google Play store, among them the addition of a "wishlist" feature that had been speculated a few months back. In its current form, Google Play wishlists effectively work like bookmarks, allowing you to return to content at a later date to purchase...
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Google is currently rolling out some updates to its Google Play store, among them the addition of a "wishlist" feature that had been speculated a few months back. In its current form, Google Play wishlists effectively work like bookmarks, allowing you to return to content at a later date to purchase...
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18 October 2012 by Simon
As if Apple weren't experiencing enough problems with the iPhone 5 and iOS 6. Some iPhone owners who have updated to the latest software or purchased the latest iPhone are now complaining that they have been faced with expensive phone bills due to excessive 3G use possibly caused by a bug in iOS 6, ...
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As if Apple weren't experiencing enough problems with the iPhone 5 and iOS 6. Some iPhone owners who have updated to the latest software or purchased the latest iPhone are now complaining that they have been faced with expensive phone bills due to excessive 3G use possibly caused by a bug in iOS 6, ...
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18 October 2012 by Simon
Apple is rumoured to be in talks to purchase a photo and video sharing social network called Color Labs, for an undisclosed sum in the tens of millions of dollars. Earlier this week, it was reported that Color Labs would be shutting down after its business had failed to take off, although the compan...
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Apple is rumoured to be in talks to purchase a photo and video sharing social network called Color Labs, for an undisclosed sum in the tens of millions of dollars. Earlier this week, it was reported that Color Labs would be shutting down after its business had failed to take off, although the compan...
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17 October 2012 by Simon
There are now one billion smartphone owners across the planet according to Strategy Analytics, a research firm that measures smartphone uptake on a quarterly basis. The first mobile phone that was widely recognised as a "smartphone" was the Ericsson GS88 Penelope launched 15 years ago. While it h...
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There are now one billion smartphone owners across the planet according to Strategy Analytics, a research firm that measures smartphone uptake on a quarterly basis. The first mobile phone that was widely recognised as a "smartphone" was the Ericsson GS88 Penelope launched 15 years ago. While it h...
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16 October 2012 by Simon
For many of us, travelling across borders means having to keep track of a multitude of tiny but vital bits of paper, or risk being turned back and stranded. Passports, tickets, boarding passes, purchase receipts – the list is almost endless. Sadly, this makes it all too easy to forget some small det...
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For many of us, travelling across borders means having to keep track of a multitude of tiny but vital bits of paper, or risk being turned back and stranded. Passports, tickets, boarding passes, purchase receipts – the list is almost endless. Sadly, this makes it all too easy to forget some small det...
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