O2 to lose iPhone deal as its network crashes
On the day that O2’s data network crashed for the third time in a month, it was reported that the Spanish-owned carrier is on the point of losing its exclusive …
Faster Broadband for free?
BT has started handing out Broadband Accelerators to customers prepared to stump up £1.20 in postage, and promises an average speed increase of half a megabit.
Emails ‘sent by dead’
A messaging service to send emails from beyond the grave has been launched called the Last Messages Club
Twitter now blocking bad URLs, but imperfectly
Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to malicious Web sites. But security experts say that it can …
Twitter at the heart of new, cheap smartphones
The INQ Chat 3G and Mini 3G contain a Twitter client that will always be on after the initial log-in. Consumers can send Twitter messages, and updates are delivered straight …
iPhone grabs 32% of global handset profits
Apple’s iPhone now accounts for 8% of all mobile phone revenue and a whopping 32% of the industry’s handset profits, according to figures published by Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi.
One third of Europeans have never used the internet
A third of people in the European Union say they have never used the internet, according to an EU study published today.
Social Media can open our eyes to the value of physical life
Joining such powerful critics of the social media revolution as Oxford neuroscientist Baroness Lady Susan Greenfield, Archbishop Nichols noted the “transiency” and dehumanisation of social life on community networks like …