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  • Ofcom Threaten O2 Over 3G

    Ofcom Threaten O2 Over 3GMobile operator O2 have attracted the attention of uber-regulator Ofcom, with accusations that O2 haven’t adhered to their 3G rollout obligations.

    The ruck between the two of them has come to light as part of the 3G licence obligations that the five operators of 3G licences entered into when they won the 150 round auction back in 2000.

    Under those terms, the licence operators committed to providing 3G coverage for at least 80% of the UK population by the end of 2007. Ofcom say that O2 has only achieved 75.69 percent, equating to them missing 2.5 million people. The other four 3G holders have hit the requirement.
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  • Workbook Controls Company Facebook Use

    Workbook Controls Company Facebook UseWe’ve heard of many companies cutting off people’s access to Facebook and other social networks – primary reason? Just too much time spent on them – frittered in the eyes of the company

    Companies, being companies, also have other concerns, like their confidential data flying out of the company via postings to Facebook.

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  • BBC iPlayer: Making the unmissable, unaffordable?

    BBC iPlayer: Making the unmissable, unaffordable?We and other publications have been reporting that the BBC iPlayer has been taken up in large numbers by UK TV License payers.

    We’ve experienced something that other individuals might, one that will have serious implications for the long term success of BBC’s heavily-promoted service.

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  • Daily Mail Launches Free SMS Service

    Daily Mail Launches Free SMS ServiceWhining middle-Englanders, polyester slack-wearing Conservatives, nostalgic old duffers and social climbing Home Counties types will soon be able to send outraged texts for free, thanks to a new service from Associated Newspapers’ Daily Mail.
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  • Elonex Unveil £99 Laptop

    Elonex Unveil £99 LaptopMover over Asus and tell Eee the news – there’s a new bargain basement laptop in town, in the shape of the Elonex One, set to retail for under a hundred quid.

    The super, nay ultralow cost laptop is set to be wowing Brummies when it’s introduced at The Education Show in Birmingham on 28th February.
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  • Guardian Savaged By Blog Comments

    Guardian Savaged By Blog Comments

    We’ve been passed over a link (thanks Mike) to a travel piece published today on the Guardian Web site.

    The article — the first blog post of a 19 year old student, Max Gogarty, in his gap year, who ‘just happened’ to be the son of the travel editor freelance travel writer, Paul Gogarty — itself isn’t the main source of interest, but the masses of comments that followed it that are.

    Clearly commenters are keen to share the love on this, Valentines day.
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  • Nokia Store Regent Street, London: Opening

    PLEASE NOTE:We don’t have the phone number for the Nokia Store – Sorry

    Nokia Flagship Store Opening: Regent Street, LondonLast week saw the opening of the Nokia Flagship Store in Regent Street, London.

    It’s their first in the UK and eighth in the world, all following on from the December 2005 opening of their first in Moscow.

    Opening night
    The pre-opening night party was crammed with all sorts of funky music types, mobile world people and journos swigging the plentiful champagne and yummy nibbles.
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  • Green Paper: Ban UK Illegal Downloaders

    Green Paper: Ban UK Illegal DownloadersThe government is scheming new plans to slap down illegal music downloaders hard, with the ultimate threat of having their Internet access cut.

    Under a leaked Green Paper draft consultation, it’s been mooted that Internet service providers should be obliged to take action over users downloading pirated material, with a “three strikes” rule giving them an e-mail warning, followed by suspension, and then termination of their contract.
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  • Sky Files First Loss for Six Years

    Sky Files First Loss for Six YearsThe interim results for UK satellite broadcaster Sky have been announced, with a £36 million pre-tax loss showing for the six-month
    period ending 31 December – its first loss for six years.

    Balanced against the financial loss was otherwise positive news, like their ARPU raising to a record £421 per subscriber, an increase in subscribers and a lowering of the customer churn to 10%. (more…)

  • BBC iPlayer Soars In Popularity

    BBC iPlayer Soars In PopularityMedia analyst spods Screen Digest have released updated usage data and forecasts for the online TV market in the UK.

    The company say that a “surge” in punters feeling the downloading love for the BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service has sent them scurrying back to their labs and adding some more 0s on the end of estimates for free-to-view (FTV) TV consumption in the UK.
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