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LONDON (Reuters) – Internet prompts the publishing itch in over-60s

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Daisy purchases data networks provider Managed Communications for £6.3million

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A computer reseller has been jailed for 2.5 years after an investigation by
the FBI into counterfeit computer equipment.

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LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone Group Plc, the world’s largest mobile phone operator by revenue, has secured a four-year deal to provide Oracle Corp with voice, data and management services to employees in the EMEA region.

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I like your fork!

Linus Torvalds hates cell phones. But that doesn’t include the Googlephone.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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BT has said it will open up its cable ducts, allowing rivals to run their own
high-speed broadband networks through the former incumbents infrastructure.

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BT has said it will open up its cable ducts, allowing rivals to run their own
high-speed broadband networks through the former incumbents infrastructure.

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BT has said it will open up its cable ducts, allowing rivals to run their own
high-speed broadband networks through the former incumbents infrastructure.

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BT has said it will open up its cable ducts, allowing rivals to run their own
high-speed broadband networks through the former incumbents infrastructure.

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BT has said it will open up its cable ducts, allowing rivals to run their own
high-speed broadband networks through the former incumbents infrastructure.

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The company plans to demonstrate an HSPA+ network providing download speeds of 84Mbps, a new record, at Mobile World Congress next week

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The Samsung Genio Qwerty B3210 is a fun and simple messaging phone in a lightweight BlackBerry-style handset. This entry level phone from Samsung’s Genio range is aimed at people who love to text. The QWERTY keyboard is great for super fast typing. The 2.2 inch screen is basic but practical with it’s landscape aspect. The Genio Qwerty is supplied with two back covers, one brightly coloured and one plain black one.

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Dev Team tool tweaked

Owners of unlocked iPhones who want to upgrade to the recently released OS 3.1.3 and want to retain the ability to use whatever Sim meets their needs can now do so. The iPhone Dev Team have released a suitable version of its PwnageTool utility.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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A new set of audited figures for mobile internet use, the GSMA Mobile Media Metrics, reveal a landscape with one very tall peak

More than 25% of UK’s population – some 16 million people – accessed the Internet from mobile phones in December. And what were they looking for? The GSMA Mobile Media Metrics, published for the first time on Friday, provide an insight: on the mobile internet, people want to know what their friends are up to – and perhaps do a bit of flirting.

Facebook has a clearly lead in GSMA’s top 10 UK mobile internet sites, with 5 million unique users against 4.5 million for all of Google’s sites. (Mobile internet users want answers, too.)

And the domination is much greater in terms of times spend online and page views. Facebook had 2.6bn page impressions – nearly three times as many as Google, and more than a third of the 6.7bn total. Nearly half the total minutes online in December were spent at Facebook Mobile – 2.2bn minutes out of 4.8bn, with Google on 400m in a very distant second place.

One fifth of UK mobile subscribers now tote smartphones, which is driving a rise in mobile interent use. In December, already 25% of UK’s population or 16 million people accessed the internet from their mobile phones and viewed a total of 6.7bn pages.

Besides Facebook and Google, the sites of the mobile phone operators scored well, with spots three to five going to Telefonica Mobile Networks (owners of O2, with all those iPhone users), Orange Sites and Vodafone Group.

Finally, the BBC site on the seventh spot indicates that people are reading the news on the go. Breaking news is also available on the mobile networks’ sites, and those of Microsoft and Yahoo at spots six and eight.

Regarding unique users, Apple’s and Nokia’s site come in last in the top 10 UK mobile internet sites in December. Once you look at page views and time spent online, Flirtomatic – which is integrated into most mobile operator portals – also comes into the picture.

Mobile minutes spent online:

1 Facebook 2.2 bn
2 Google 396m
3 Microsoft Sites 166m
4 Orange Sites 139m
5 AOL (and Bebo) 106m
6 Apple 104m
7 Vodafone 89m
8 BBC sites 84m
9 Flirtomatic 55m
10 Yahoo 49m

The GSMA Mobile Media Metrics report was commissioned by GSMA and comScore in partnership with five UK mobile operators: O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and 3UK. It is being audited by ABCe.

Richard Foan, managing director of ABCe, who also chairs the web media standards committee JICWEBS, called the new metrics “a great step forward for mobile media”.

The figures are based on irreversibly anonymised mobile Internet usage data from all five UK mobile operators, collected with consent from a representative sample of mobile users. In addition, Wi-Fi traffic, not seen in the mobile network traffic, is captured in the server-side logs of media owners and ad networks.

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Nokia has said that it will fight an action filed against the company by US
investors in the company’s American Depository Receipts (ADRs).

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Nokia has said that it will fight an action filed against the company by US
investors in the company’s American Depository Receipts (ADRs).

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has successfully applied for the so-called ‘373 patent to be reviewed by the US Patent and Trademark Office

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has successfully applied for the so-called ‘373 patent to be reviewed by the US Patent and Trademark Office

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Want to know what your local MP is doing? There’s an app for that.

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Radio listening figures for London are a good example of how misleading a snapshot can be

In the court of Rajar, no one radio station reigns forever, and the nature of the data means that a service demonstrably failing can also be heralded a success. More important than a snapshot is a con­sideration for trends displayed over time.

The radio listening figures released last week are a good example. In London’s commercial marketplace, Global Radio’s Heart 106.2 and 95.8 Capital FM claimed first and second prize in terms of reach – the number of listeners aged 15+ tuning in every week. The same figures, however, showed that while Magic 105.4 had fewer listeners, they listened to the station for longer – an average of 6.8 hours a week, compared to Heart’s 5.7 hours and just 5.5 hours for Capital. Consequently, Magic recorded a market share of 6.1%, ahead of Heart’s 5.3% and well in front of Capital on 4.9%.

Furthermore, neither Heart nor Capital was Global Radio’s top dog in London – the all-speech service LBC 97.3 recorded a modest weekly reach of 841,000 listeners but impressive average hours of 13.6, resulting in a market share of 5.7%.

Speech radio outside the BBC is rarely celebrated, but the new listening figures proved that commercial radio is providing a popular alternative. TalkSport posted a formidable set of results – a weekly reach of 2.5 million listeners and total hours of 20.44m – the station’s highest in five years.

The headlines on Absolute Radio have concentrated on its continued loss of audience, which has been significant – from 2.4 million in September 2008, to 1.5 million – although losing a brand such as Virgin from the Rajar diaries was always going to have a big impact. However, Absolute has already posted noticeably higher average hours than Virgin managed in recent years, and the latest figure of 7.6 hours is the highest in the service’s 16-year history.

Absolute has built on Virgin’s innovative approach with the extensive use of podcasts, mobile applications and new radio services such as Dabbl. This allows sampling but also builds loyalty, which is critical as data streaming to smartphones becomes prevalent. Perhaps this trend suggests Absolute is getting it right after all, despite the headlines.

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