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T-Mobile, subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and one of the world's largest mobile operators, has started offering a new Instant Messaging solution for its subscribers in Germany and the UK. The solution is provided together with OZ, a Canadian company said to cater to about 85 million users with its mobile IM clien... |
30 September 2008
03:59 GMT |
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British prisoners are not the only ones affected by personal information loss. The News of the World tabloid claims that prison workers are in the same situation of having their personal data in the open, technically at anyone's disposal, once a portable hard-drive disk got lost. Names, birthday dates, ins... |
8 September 2008
04:35 GMT |
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Although it's not yet commercially available, Palm's new and fashionable Treo Pro smartphone can be pre-ordered by mobile users from across the UK, and all those who sign up for it will receive the handset starting September 15. The only thing that can now stop British customers from getting a Treo Pro... |
5 September 2008
05:48 GMT |
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Vodafone UK has announced that its customers can now buy RIM's new high-end BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone. The Bold is offered by the V carrier even for free, for those who also want a contract agreement for two years and an Anytime 600 data plan that costs 35 GBP (43 Euros or 62 USD) per month. The new s... |
5 September 2008
03:03 GMT |
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Nokia has just announced that its Comes With Music service will first be launched in the UK, in a collaboration with Carphone Warehouse, the giant mobile phone retailer. The new service will be embedded in a special version of the 5310 candybar, awkwardly named "Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Comes With Music Edition." ... |
2 September 2008
10:30 GMT |
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This Thursday at 10:00 am, Apple will be celebrating the Grand Opening of the Apple Store, Highcross (Leicester). The Grand Opening will feature a sweepstake and a variety of presentations and workshops, all free of charge. As usual, the first 1,000 people through the doors on September 4 will receive a free Apple T-... |
2 September 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Europe's very first mobile phone equipped with an 8 Megapixel camera, the Samsung i8510 Innov8 slider, is now available in the UK, exclusively offered by Carphone Warehouse. The handset is sold, for the moment, only together with a contract from Orange, UK's fourth largest mobile operator, but it will soon ... |
2 September 2008
04:23 GMT |
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Vodafone announced that, starting the 1st of September, it would be offering a new pay as you talk (PAYT) price plan called Text Unlimited and targeted towards UK users who can't live without sending lots of SMS messages everyday. The new price plan can be chosen for free by Vodafone's new and existing... |
29 August 2008
12:38 GMT |
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Michael Coyle, owner of Lawdit Solicitors, a company that offers legal advice in matters of intellectual property and copyright infringement, has decided to lend a helping hand to those who illegally share copyrighted files. The lawyer announced his intention to fight back at Davenport Lyons, a law firm that was assi... |
26 August 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Skype and 3 UK have recently announced the release of Skypephone S2, the second mobile phone that can offer Skype calling and messaging free of charge. Users can pre-order a Skypephone S2 as of now, but the handset will only be available starting 27 August online and September 1 in 3's stores across the UK. Tog... |
21 August 2008
06:22 GMT |
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The UK is among the first countries to get an official release date for the latest high-end Samsung smartphone, the i8510 Innov8 slider. The South Korean company has announced that the handset would be on sale starting "early September", via Carphone Warehouse, under the simple name of Samsung i8510 (the Innov8 was d... |
14 August 2008
05:26 GMT |
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T-Mobile UK has recently announced the future availability of RIM's latest flagship smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9000. The carrier said that the new handset would be on sale, both online and in its shops, starting September; hence, its subscribers will have to wait a bit longer than the ones of T-Mobile Germa... |
11 August 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Vodafone will soon offer a new high-end Pocket PC to its subscribers across the UK, and we're talking about HTC Touch Pro, the handset announced by the Taiwan-based manufacturer at about the same time with the Touch Diamond.The Touch Pro has recently appeared on Vodafone UK's Business Shop website, with the... |
7 August 2008
12:15 GMT |
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A recent comScore study showed that the popularity that Yahoo! is enjoying in the UK is growing smaller with each month. The websites of the search engine were used by merely 4.3% of the Britons in June. The stats from May showed that Yahoo!'s share of the search market had risen to 4.7% of the audience. Neverth... |
6 August 2008
12:22 GMT |
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Nokia announced that its super-mega-hyped N96 smartphone will be available across the UK starting the 1st of October. While this is a bit later than mobile users might have expected, it's still a good thing that the Finnish manufacturer has finally announced an official release date for the new Nseries handset. ... |
31 July 2008
11:25 GMT |
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After less than one year since the release of the first-ever Skypephone, 3 UK in collaboration with the eBay-owned Skype are preparing to launch a new handset, apparently named Skypephone S2. Skypephone S2 comes in a candybar form factor and it doesn't look too different from the first Skype cell phone. However... |
23 July 2008
09:24 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson has been very quiet lately in regard to the Xperia X1 high-end smartphone, although its release date is getting closer and closer. Said to hit the market in September, Xperia X1 might actually be delayed a month or two. According to TechDigest, the new Sony Ericsson smartphone will be offered by 3 UK st... |
22 July 2008
10:15 GMT |
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Alcatel-Lucent, the French giant telecoms company, has recently released a new mobile phone for the UK market, named Alcatel OT-S520. The OT-S520 is an entry-level device that comes in a pretty good-looking candybar form factor and has a price of only 19.99 GBP (about 40 USD or 25 Euros). Obviously, in this price us... |
14 July 2008
05:38 GMT |
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LG will soon offer a new handset for UK's mobile users: the weird KS360, which was first seen last month, during the CommunicAsia fair from Singapore. LG KS360 is targeted towards youngsters who mostly use their mobile phones for texting, emailing and social networking. Thus, LG has packed in the handset a full ... |
11 July 2008
04:50 GMT |
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T-Mobile UK has added to its line-up of handsets the Nokia 6650 (no, not the old one), a phone first announced back in March, during CeBIT 2008. Following an exclusive partnership with Nokia, T-Mobile is the only carrier that gets the 6650 and it will soon release it in other countries besides the UK. Nokia 6650 is ... |
9 July 2008
21:02 GMT |
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The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) supports the Pan European Games Ratings Information (PEGI) rating systems and not the homebrew British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), as some might think should be the case. Thus, since two companies with different opinions on how things shou... |
8 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Besides being an ordinary summer day, July 11 will also be the best day of the year for lots of iPhone fans, as the new iPhone 3G is set to be released on this date in 23 markets around the world. While in the US AT&T is offering the iPhone 3G starting 8 AM, local time, on the other side of the Atlantic, in the UK, u... |
3 July 2008
05:49 GMT |
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The MSI Wind has been declared a most suitable competitor for ASUS' own Eee PC in the battle of the best netbook on the market, especially since both the Eee PC 1000 and the MSI Wind come with a similar specification list, 10-inch display and the computing power of Intel's Atom processor. But even so, MSI d... |
3 July 2008
03:06 GMT |
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The first-generation iPhone was not exactly the success that Apple had hoped for in the UK. But now, with the announcement of the iPhone 3G, it seems that British users are much more interested in Apple's handset, as no less than 130,000 people have expressed their desire to buy an iPhone 3G. According to the on... |
19 June 2008
08:10 GMT |
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Vodafone, the second largest mobile operator in the world, will soon offer HTC's Touch Diamond Pocket PC to its subscribers. Not in all the countries where the giant operator activates though (not for now at least), but only in the UK, its home country. Although the Touch Diamond is already available from severa... |
18 June 2008
09:42 GMT |
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A new study claims that if climate change continues at this rate, then by 2080 areas such as the Thames Valley, some areas in Hampshire and the Severn valley would ultimately become too hot to be able to continue wine production. The study was published today in a book written by Emeritus Professor Richard Selley fro... |
26 May 2008
10:09 GMT |
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The UK will be getting official Hello Kitty mobile phones this summer, as Times Online reports that Comment Retail Service partnered with Sanrio, the company that created the famous (among little girls) Hello Kitty character, in order to distribute the new handsets. Although the pink kitty is worshiped mainly by ... |
20 May 2008
08:30 GMT |
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Apple's iPhone developer website reveals that the Cupertino-based electronics and software giant has seemingly extended the availability of its iPhone Dev Program to some 26 other countries outside the US and UK, AppleInsider is reporting. That's right, UK folks have already been accepted, according to anot... |
6 May 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Fameo, a well-known jewelry retailer from the UK, launched a new "mobile jewelry catalogue", allowing mobile users to visit its shop via their Web-enabled handset. Available for both GPRS and 3G phones, the mobile Fameo portal enables visitors to easily browse jewelry offers, search for detailed info or check their o... |
25 April 2008
04:51 GMT |
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People like broadband connections for the simple reason that they're faster than other types of connections and very often, they're quite cheap. However, a broadband connection allows users to do lots of web activities which would be impossible without a high-speed connection, including here playing games o... |
24 April 2008
16:31 GMT |
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It was last month when ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) noted the fact that European and especially UK game designers and developers are migrating to Canada, where they get better salaries and pay less taxes. Back then, ELSPA demanded that the government should offer more support to t... |
22 April 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Fly Mobile recently unveiled a new mobile phone, the Fly SX200, which comes to enlarge its line-up of entry-level handsets. Fly SX200 is a slider that measures 95 x 50 x 13.9 millimeters, when closed, and brings a set of normal features for an affordable device. We have tri-band GSM connectivity, MP3 player, stere... |
12 April 2008
03:41 GMT |
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O2, the largest mobile operator in the UK, came up with a rather unusual "contest" that will offer 1,500 music fans the occasion to participate at a forthcoming Moby concert held at The O2 arena, in London, on the 9th of May. To enter the competition, you have to "start a guest list" on the O2 Blueroom website (fo... |
11 April 2008
08:58 GMT |
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To be honest, I had no idea that Eidos keeps advertising for Kane & Lynch since the public was kind of against the game following the Gerstman scandal last year. It seems that I was wrong and a serious ad campaign started to be held in the UK - however, not for a long time, since the Advertising Standards Authority (... |
9 April 2008
04:55 GMT |
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G810, Samsung's 5 Megapixel flagship slider first announced at the beginning of the year, will be commercially available starting the 14th of April, according to Carphone Warehouse, a leading European mobile retailer. Of course, this release date is not official, and some delays might appear, but it's obvio... |
9 April 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Yesterday we brought you the news of a Swedish website offering a GTA IV bundle for PlayStation 3, even though a Sony rep has said that it is nothing but "rumor or speculation". Still, more rumors and speculations can be seen today (and probably even more will follow), since a new GTA IV bundle showed up on UK websit... |
9 April 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Samsung F490, one of the latest high-end touchscreen phones released by the South Korean company, is now available at Vodafone UK. The handset is offered only with contract agreements, for prices starting from free, with some expensive data plans for several years, to £200 (about 260 Euro or $400). Samsung F490 is sl... |
8 April 2008
12:02 GMT |
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The thing many people were expecting and, at the same time, wondering why it hadn't already happened, was finally and officially confirmed: Rock Band, the super hit game from Harmonix, would be released in the United Kingdom this year, on the 23rd of May, when the Xbox 360 version is launched. "Additional platfo... |
8 April 2008
05:44 GMT |
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A continuously and rapidly expanding company such as Apple needs to open as many retail outlets as fast as it can to keep a streamlined business. While UK residents have 18 such outlets to brag about, folks living in the area between Birmingham, Exeter and Southampton, have none. That's why Apple's official... |
8 April 2008
03:22 GMT |
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No, the reason why European game developers are leaving European countries and move to Canada is not the latest Byron Review - that might be a reason for the more sensitive gamers to leave. No, the actual reason why game developers prefer Canada is represented by the tax incentives received by the Canadian companies.... |
31 March 2008
20:06 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV is not only the most anticipated video game of 2008, but it is also used as a weapon - a very powerful one - in the never-ending console war. We already know that Microsoft payed Rockstar some $50 million dollars for the downloadable content and it also seems they are going to offer promotional Xb... |
25 March 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Right, if you're a cybercriminal that wants to make some cash on the side, you're not a stranger to the way 'install' selling works. It's really not that difficult, come to think of it. The big time spyware authors are willing to pay scores of dough for having their malicious code spread to P... |
20 March 2008
14:51 GMT |
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After Rockstar secured a court ruling last week, that said that its Manhunt 2 game could be sold legally in the UK, the government has stated today that it will in no way try and overturn the legal decision. More important than that, the government of the United Kingdom is showing some common sense in the issue of vi... |
17 March 2008
11:54 GMT |
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UK life has not been easy on Manhunt 2. It's a positively violent game and the Brits tend to frown upon the kind of gratuitous violence Manhunt prides upon. And the BBFC, the British Board of Film Classification, has initially ruled that the game posed "a significant risk of harm" that made it unsuitable for sal... |
14 March 2008
13:06 GMT |
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In a move that will surely make lots of O2 UK subscribers happy, Ericsson and Napster today unveiled the availability of Napster Mobile for the largest UK mobile carrier. From now on, the British subscribers of O2 can access Napster's huge catalog that contains more than 5 million tracks, and search, preview and... |
14 March 2008
07:48 GMT |
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Why would the British, Swedish, German and Norwegian Apple stores be down? Wait, let me rephrase that: why would "only" the British, Swedish, German and Norwegian Apple stores be down? After all, if Apple is prepping something big for Mac/iPhone/iPod users, everyone on the globe deserves it. Looks like the Cupertino ... |
14 March 2008
04:23 GMT |
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3, the largest 3G mobile network in the UK, announced that as of today, the 13th of March, it reintroduces Motorola mobile phones in its products line-up, starting with the popular RAZR2 V9. No Motorola handsets were offered by 3 in the last 18 months, as the carrier preferred other brands like Sony Ericsson and Noki... |
13 March 2008
04:04 GMT |
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The conservative Brits are big time spenders on the Internet, as study of YouGov said, conducted on 1,942 surfers. Each had an average of £10,077 easily accessible to online fraudsters, and that is only via the typical schemes used by the cyber criminals, no further work on coming up with something new required.The c... |
7 March 2008
15:36 GMT |
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Palm Centro is the latest smartphone created by Palm Inc. and first released in the fall of 2007 in the US. At the beginning of 2008 the handset made it to Europe too, and as of yesterday, the 6th of March, it is also available for UK mobile users. The smartphone was described in December 2007 as having the "most a... |
7 March 2008
04:14 GMT |
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Debate in the United Kingdom's Parliament has again touched the issue of the games industry. Detractors of the industry lost no opportunity to launch obviously false accusations of videogames. The newest of them is that they are "rape simulators".The debate occurred because of a law referring to the accountabili... |
5 March 2008
04:51 GMT |
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