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justice4all writes:
Social networking giant Facebook has brought its new geolocation feature to the UK
Facebook has turned on its controversial “Places” feature in the UK only a month after the service launched in the US, encouraging mobile users to share their current location with friends on the social network.
The service comes in the form of a smartphone application that allows users to “check-in” via GPS at whatever restaurant, event or place of interest they happen to be visiting at the time. The app posts an update in their friends’ Facebook news feeds, as well as showing up in the recent activity section on the page for that place. Users can also view friends that have checked in nearby.
The Places feature is available as an iPhone application or via Facebook’s smartphone site, for users whose mobile browser supports HTML 5 and geolocation.
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justice4all writes:
Canvas, the BBC-backed free-to-air digital TV box will arrive next year under the name YouView
Project Canvas, the UK-based free-to-air digital set-top-box project backed by the BBC and other broadcasters, was formally launched today as YouView.
In 2011, the company plans to deliver set-top boxes that will combine digital broadcasting with catch-up TV in the manner of the BBC’s popular iPlayer. The company, backed by the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, TalkTalk, Arqiva and Five, announced a chief executive Richard Halton, and set out its plans under its new YouView identity.
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justice4all writes:
Tesco has triggered a price war for Nokia's long-anticipated answer to the Apple iPhone, the N8, by undercutting the Finnish vendor's official online price
Last week Nokia confirmed rumours that its forthcoming flagship smartphone, the N8, will arrive at the end of this month. But now it has been revealed that UK supermarket Tesco will significantly undercut Nokia’s online pricing for the desirable handset.
Nokia has already announced that its online shop will sell the N8 for £429 SIM-free. Indeed, it is taking pre-orders for the phone which will arrive in the last week of September.
Meanwhile, the N8 handset will also be available from UK operators (O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Three Mobile and Virgin Mobile), as well as high street retailers (the Carphone Warehouse, Phones4u and Tesco Phone Shops) from 1st October.
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justice4all writes:
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Advisory Body (WAB) is set to go the same way as Becta, after the government announced plans to disband it
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justice4all writes:
Despite cutting a tax break for game developers in the emergency budget, the coalition government says it is committed to supporting the industry.
Speaking this week at the Develop games developers’ conference, minister for communications Ed Vaizey re-announced £2 million of funding — already announced by the Labour government — to help small companies to create game prototypes. The fund is being managed by the University of Abertay in Dundee, where an undergraduate founded the company which created the Grand Theft Auto game
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justice4all writes:
Supporters of Symbian have responded quickly to a Gartner analyst who has said the mobile operating system is doomed without a new user interface.
“I think the Symbian foundation is just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and ignoring the Android iceberg ahead,” said Gartner vice president Nick Jones in a blog post last week.
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justice4all writes:
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is poised to offer consumers several features that until now have been extended only to its enterprise customers.
RIM introduced BlackBerry Protect on the company’s Inside BlackBerry blog on 12 July, announcing that the software is currently being beta tested and will launch later the same week as a limited beta to certain members of the BlackBerry Beta Zone programme.
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justice4all writes:
Orange has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority to pull an advert which claimed it had a bigger 3G network than its rivals
Orange has become the latest mobile operator to incur the wrath of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), after it ordered Orange to pull an advert that claimed its 3G network had a better reach than its rivals.
Rival operator 3UK complained after a regional press advert for Orange mobile broadband showed an image of a dongle on top of a prize podium, with the title “top dongle”.
What raised 3’s hackles was the claim which said that “The Orange 3G network covers more people in the UK than any other operator. And, from under £5 a month, you could be one of them.”
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justice4all writes:
The WiMAX licence held by Freedom4 was sold last week in a deal that leaves PCCW with all the UK's WiMAX licences
The WiMAX spectrum licence in Great Britain, that was held by Freedom4 (now owned by Daisy Group), has been sold to UK Broadband for £12.5 million in a cash deal.
Freedom4 used to be known as Pipex Wireless, and was created back in 2006 by the ISP Pipex Communications and Intel Capital in order to develop and roll out WiMAX-based networks in the UK. However, the Pipex ISP business was sold off to Tiscali in 2007 and, for the next two years, Freedom4 went it alone as the principle driver of WiMAX in the UK.
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justice4all writes:
Neon Enterprise Software, already suing IBM in the US, says it will file a similar complaint in Europe accusing IBM of anti-competitive practices
Neon Enterprise Software, which already is in a legal dispute with IBM over the tech giant’s business practices surrounding its mainframe business, will now file a complaint with European regulators.
In a brief statement released on 24 June, Neon officials said the company will file the complaint with the European Commission—the antitrust arm of the European Union—alleging “ongoing anti-competitive and abusive conduct” by IBM to do with its Series z mainframe business.
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justice4all writes:
British company claims to have solved the problem of delivering a reliable broadband connection to people in rural communities.
Deltenna has developed a small, self installable gadget called the WiBE (Wireless Broadband Enabler), which uses the 3G mobile network to create a 2Mbps web hotspot. The device sounds similar in concept to devices like Novatel’s MiFi — but Deltenna claims it works even in places where a 3G mobile phone wouldn’t register a signal. The WiBE has five-times the range of a 3G dongle, and can deliver 30-times data throughput as well compared to a 3G USB modem dongle, Deltenna believes
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justice4all writes:
The Symbian 3 operating system is ready but Nokia's N8 smartphone will be a bit late to take on Apple's iPhone 4
The Symbian Foundation has said version 3 of the Symbian open source mobile phone operating system is finished and ready for use by device makers and developers.
The new version will run on the Nokia N8 phone due to appear shortly, and improves the Symbian operating system — the most widespread smartphone OS in the world — in various ways. Symbian 3 (also called Symbian^3 or S^3) was demonstrated at Mobile World Congress in February, when the second version of Symbian was released as open source.
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eldavojohn writes:
Frontier Communications Corp is claiming that a Google Voice feature that connects a user's home, work and cell phone numbers into one number is infringing on one of Frontier's patents.
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geek4 writes:
Intel and the Federal Trade Commission have suspended legal proceedings related to the lawsuit filed by the federal regulators against the chip maker while the two sides try to negotiate a settlement.
In a statement released on 21 June, Intel officials said the two sides agreed to file a joint motion to suspend the administrative trial proceedings to give the parties time to negotiate. According to Intel, the motion calls for suspending the proceedings until 22 July.
