Jan
21

MobiTV nominated for Global Mobile Award

MobiTV has been nominated by the GSMA for an award in the Best Mobile TV Service category at the Global Mobile Awards. The awards will be held at the Palau Nacional.. more
Jan
21

Ericsson to axe 5,000 jobs

Sweden-based telecoms giant, Ericsson, announced plans today to axe 5,000 jobs as part of a new cost cutting strategy. The announcement came as the company reported a 31% fall in fourth.. more
Jan
21

Wi-Fi first for Manchester

A new and exciting Wi-Fi project has been deployed in Manchester, which will allow businesses and individuals to be connected without the need for a telephone line or mobile broadband service... more
Jan
21

Isle of Man offers unlimited downloads

Located in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man, which has a population of just eighty thousand, is about to introduce a blanket tax, or licence if you look at it that way, which will allow the residents to download as much.. more
Jan
21

M&S vouchers for new Sky customers

The Marks and Spencer voucher scheme is becoming a standard reward for new customers to Sky. New customers who sign up to the satellite provider will be given £50 worth of vouchers to M&S providing that they do so online before the 27th January. This.. more
Jan
21

Sky set top boxes go green

Sky is hoping that its latest set top box update is going to make customers greener because the software, which has already been downloaded to some boxes, will make the box capable of switching itself off during day to save power. Currently some digiboxes can.. more
Jan
21

More Plusnet customers to test 24 Mbps

When internet service provider Plusnet first announced that it was going to be trialling its latest high speed broadband service, offering connection speeds of up to 24 Mbps, a limited amount of customers were invited to try the service. But now that part of the.. more
Jan
21

Retail benefiting from broadband

The success of online retailing has been put down to the take up of broadband in the UK by Richard Dodd, head of media campaigns at the British Retail Consortium. This was noticeable over the recent holiday period when online retailers reported rises in the.. more
Jan
20

Fujitsu ships waterproof phone with fingertip sensor

The Fujitsu F-01A, available from NTT DoCoMo, is the world’s first fingerprint-enabled waterproof cell phone. Apparently it can be submerged underwater for half an hour without coming to any harm. The AuthenTec AES1711 fingerprint sensor helps to ensure data security and features AuthenTec’s new TouchStone.. more
Jan
20

LG takes third place in handset wars

South Korea-based LG Electronics (LGE) shipped over 100 million handsets in 2008, edging ahead of Motorola and Sony Ericsson to take third place in the global handset market for the first time in its history. This represents a 25% increase compared to the 80.7 million.. more