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Council .mobi services. "Newham Borough Council is launching a service that will enable citizens to book GP appointments, report graffiti and access local maps and travel information on ...
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Controversial Phorm advertising trial continues. Computer Weekly reports: BT presses on with Phorm after Orange pulls out. The Phorm ad-serving system generated concerns from privacy groups, and it was privacy ...
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Using SMS for health education. From Texts tackle HIV in South Africa, BBC News: "Project Masiluleke [...] plans to broadcast millions of health messages every month to mobile phones across ...
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Quantitative analysis from mobile phone movements. By tracking the temporary mobile subscriber identity number, Path Intelligence have started to produce analysis of consumer behaviour. As reported by The BBC, their initial ...
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T-Mobile G1 The first Android-based mobile phone is launched by T-Mobile, available in the UK in November on a GBP40/mo contract. Android Market will be the equivalent ...
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Mobile web-browsing grows. Mobile web-browsing is growing, especially in developing countries, and the sites being visited include more elaborate services. "In future, most new internet users will be ...
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"London set to become the mobile internet capital of the world" The Independent on Sunday, 31 Aug 2008: '"There have been a lot of false dawns in this industry and a lot of people have had ...
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US text ads: "It’s one of the hottest new channels available". "The vast majority of people say they are averse to having advertisements text-messaged or otherwise sent to their cellphones. But nearly a quarter of people ...
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Asian iPhone round up. While there seems to be shortages in the U.K and U.S. anecdotal evidence supports existing handset availability in Australia, with a slow but constant flow ...
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WiMax and LTE The Economist, July 19th 2008, pp. 80-81, discusses the two main contenders for the next generation (4G) networks. "Both 4G technologies promise wireless nirvana: fast, ...
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Linux-based open source phone ships. "Openmoko has begun shipping its Linux-based, open source Neo Freerunner phone to five newly announced distributors, in Germany, France, and India". The hardware is open ...
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Symbian becomes more open. Nokia will buy the remaining shares of Symbian Limited and donate the technologies to the new Symbian Foundation: a non-profit that will provide the platform ...
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QR Codes and iPhone in Australia The Sydney Morning Herald has recently had an article discussing how and where QR code could be used and hinted Telstra would soon be making ...
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Apple positions itself between iPhone customers and the networks. From The Register... "we learn that networks who partner with Apple must install Apple gear at the data centre to support its services - specifically, ...
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iPhone 3G subsidized by operators. The Economist notes: "Apple ditches its unusual business model to boost handset sales", commenting "Evidently Mr Jobs hopes to gain more from faster handset sales ...