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Arrogant Apple lose Amazon App Store argument

Thursday, Jul 7, 2011Thursday, Jul 7, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Here’s one battle the ever-litigious, cash-heavy Apple failed to win, with a federal judge in the US telling them to bog off over a claim that they owned the term, …

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business / mobiles

T-Mobile serves up unlimited summer surfing with sun-sized caveat

Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

T-Mobile is hoping to entice new customers galore and send its current users into data-gorged ecstasy with the promise of unlimited data this summer.

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business / web

Repulsive Beautiful People website stunt backfires fabulously

Monday, Jun 20, 2011Monday, Jun 20, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

The latest publicity stunt by the vile BeautifulPeople.com dating website seems to have backfired rather gloriously, with the site currently being taken down by a denial of service attack.

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Android / business / iPhone / mobiles / Symbian / Windows Mobile

Analyst: Samsung to topple Nokia as king of the smartphones

Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011 - by Lee J.

After a long and seemingly inevitable decline, it looks like the long-reigning, global smartphone champs Nokia are finally set to be unseated by upstarts Samsung.

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Apple / business / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / web

FT web app says ‘no thanks’ to Apple’s fat 30 per cent cut

Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

Finding themselves not mindful to hand over thirty per cent of their revenues to Apple, The Financial Times has launched a sophisticated HTML5 Web app that lets users access and …

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business / mobiles

02 crowned as fastest mobile broadband, Orange squashed

Thursday, May 26, 2011 - by Pete Railton

O2 has romped home to bag the glory of being the fastest network for mobile broadband, according to the results of a new study by telecoms regulator Ofcom.

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business / stuff

Bonkers interactive Star Trek-themed $1bn resort coming to Jordan

Monday, May 23, 2011Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - by Lee J.

This idea sounds so daft, we think we want to go already: Rubicon Group Holding is set to design and produce The Red Sea Astrarium, a Star Trek themed entertainment …

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business / mobiles

Bag a baguette in double quick time with a Quick Tap NFC mobile

Friday, May 20, 2011Friday, May 20, 2011 - by Lee J.

It’s been a while coming, but Orange and Barclaycard have now launched their combined NFC mobile payments system called Quick Tap, which lets users quickly buy stuff from stores just …

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business

The relentless greed of the Winklevoss twins over their Facebook claim

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - by Lee J.

Already stinking rich before they began, Harvard-educated twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss famously claimed that the idea for Facebook was stolen from them by Mark Zuckerberg.

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business / computing / mobiles

Asda Tech Trade In offers greenbacks for old gadgets

Monday, May 16, 2011 - by Pete Railton

UK supermarket Asda has unveiled a new online service that lets their customers trade in their unused and unwanted gadgets and turn them into lovely, lovely lolly.

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Apple / business / computing

Are PC sales being hit by Apple’s iPad? Not at all, says research

Thursday, May 12, 2011 - by Pete Railton

It’s been commonly believed that the massive growth of the iPad has had a detrimental impact on PC sales, but a new study by market research firm NPD Group screams …

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business / Microsoft / video / web

Official: Microsoft scoops up Skype for $8.5 billion

Tuesday, May 10, 2011Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Microsoft has dug deep into its pockets to purchase the internet voice and video chat service Skype for an eye watering $8.5 billion.

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Android / Apple / Blackberry / business / Google / iPhone / mobiles / Palm / Windows Mobile

Android kicks sand in Blackberry’s face as it stays #1 in the US

Monday, May 9, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Google’s Android mobile OS continues to outrun the RIM/Blackberry platform as the number one smartphone OS in the U.S., according to new data from ComScore.

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business / Google / photography

Google offering free photo shoots for businesses [video]

Monday, May 9, 2011Monday, May 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Google is offering to send a photographer along to snap the interiors of businesses like restaurants, hotels and beauty salons with its new free service called Business Photos.

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Apple / business

Apple’s ludicrously long 56-page iTunes legal terms analysed

Monday, May 9, 2011Monday, May 9, 2011 - by Lee J.

Anyone looking to install Apple’s iTunes software on their computer is presented with a request to trawl through a ridiculously hefty 56 pages of fine print, detailing every conceivable term …

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