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Phone services of Olympic proportions

July 27, 2012

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By all accounts there are 30 dedicated masts in the 2,000,000 square meter park. Good thing too as there can be up to 300,000 people at peak times. So that will be a lot of phone calls and D text messages. Backing this up will be a wifi zone from BT with over 1000 zones. […]

Samsung Siii sales

July 23, 2012

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There are a lot of folks reporting the fast sales of the Samsung SIII, 10 million in 7 weeks. This year feels like it is the best window for rapid sales of handsets in western Europe and possibly the USA. Soon those that want a smartphone will have one and we will be into the […]

are the scales dropping off the mobile OS world

July 23, 2012

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The new Firefox OS for phones, is, by many accounts brilliant, and I for one am very much for it being based on HTML5. this seems to me like the best of all worlds. Especially if they provide support to all the phones functions, and do it in a device independent manner. And it’s going […]

SMS app for the Illiterate

July 12, 2012

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Saw a post on springwise that is an app to help poor readers or the illiterate better able to use texting. The clever bit is not the text to voice and voice to text,  but that each word is a button so that you can hear that word individually, this seems like a stroke of […]