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Article | 19/01/2010 802.11n Wi-Fi demand skyrockets
In 2009, 802.11n WLAN access point shipments increased by nearly 44 percent over the previous year, according to a market research firm.
Article | 16/01/2010 Smartphone security next big thing
Future smartphones will come pre-loaded with anti-virus software clients to prevent the loss of data and services to malware. And mobile banking and p...
Article | 16/01/2010 Smartphones targeted by porn scams
Cyber criminals have gone back to their old-school tricks to target innocent smartphone users.
Article | 13/01/2010 802.11n in 87% of Wi-Fi smartphones by 2014
Although 802.11n Wi-Fi technology was found in less than 1 percent of Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones last year, in 2014 at least 87 percent of Wi-Fi-capabl...
Article | 12/01/2010 Blade Runner family sues Google over Nexus One, Android
The family of Blade Runner author Philip K. Dick is to sue Google for infringement of intellectual property rights over the name of its recently annou...
Article | 5/01/2010 Stephen Fry quits Twitter ... again
Top British blogger Stephen Fry has quit the micro-blogging service while he writes the second volume of his autobiography.
Article | 1/01/2010 Social media terms are Words Of The Year 2009
Words from the world of technology and social media are among those identified as the "Words of the Year 2009" in a list commissioned by Oxford Univer...
Article | 30/12/2009 Massive web archive planned for libraries
The UK government is fast-tracking new legal powers to allow the British Library to archive millions of websites.
Article | 23/12/2009 Mobile device shipments to double by 2015
2009 will see a total of 1.2 billion mobile devices shipped, including all categories of wireless devices such as mobile phones, MIDs (Mobile Internet...
Article | 22/12/2009 Android eats iPhone market share in five years
Mobile application downloads will reach five billion by 2014, say analysts at ABI Research. This is an increase from an estimated 2.3 billion applicat...
Article | 12/11/2009 Mobile accessories worth $55 billion in 2009
By the end of 2009 the world's mobile handset accessories market will have chalked up a value of nearly $55 billion. That represents a small decrease ...
Article | 12/11/2009 Apple more profitable than Nokia
Apple surpassed Nokia in the third quarter of 2009 as the mobile phone maker with the highest operating profit.
Article | 11/11/2009 Top 10 UK iPhone stats by O2
What were you doing two years ago today? I was queuing outside a Carphone Warehouse (number two in a queue of four) waiting to get my hands on one of ...
Article | 6/11/2009 Touchscreen mobiles see 159% growth
Touchscreen mobile phone adoption in the US has shown a significant 159 percent growth rate during the past year to 23.8 million users in August 2009.
Article | 2/10/2009 30,000 O2 iPhones at risk of return
UK iPhone carrier O2 is bracing itself for thousands of returns as recent customers send back their iPhones to wait for better deals from rivals Orang...

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