The UK’s Three network have announced that they will be offering unlimited data allowance packages for all new and exisiting contract smartphone customers in the shape of a £3 per month add-on.
Hardcore Euro-travellers should be well acquainted with sky high data bills and the hassle of swapping networks and juggling accounts as they flit through different countries, so Xcom Global’s new Europe-wide data service could prove a lifesaver.
The rather daftly named Data Liberation Front has announced their first service, Google Takeout, offering users a speedy way to cleanly shunt their personal data from Google products.
Three have re-jigged their SIM only deal in the hope of appealing to mobile data hogs, with their new, all-improved One Plan available on a rolling monthly deal for £25 a month.
A suitably contrite Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering & Research at Google, has posted up an ‘umble apology after it was discovered that Google’s Street View cars had been collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks.
Blaming it on a ‘mistake,’ Google have now started to delete the collected data and have decided to stop their Street View cars collecting WiFi network data entirely.
For the millions of ex-Palm OS users, getting data off their old PDAs and Treos and on to their shiny new iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre smartphones – or cast off into online cloud accounts like Google Calendar – can become a fearsomely fiddly task.
Although there’s no end of commercial and free solutions being offered, getting all your data successfully transferred over to your new device can prove a daunting and frustrating prospect, with one person’s success story another’s devastating failure.
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