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Ofcom says mobile contracts should ditch inflation-related price rises

Ofcom says mobile contracts should ditch inflation-related price rises

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Global smartphone market is set for recovery, says new forecast

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Vodafone and Three plan to merge their UK businesses

Vodafone and Three plan to merge their UK businesses

New Hutchison/Vodafone network would be biggest UK operator

Vodafone Group plc and CK Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings Limited have agreed to combine their UK telecommunication businesses, respectively Vodafone UK and Three UK. The merger will create a large new network operator to compete with Virgin Media O2 and EE.
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UK mobile payment service Paym to close in March 2023

UK mobile payment service Paym will close on 7th March 2023. The service, which allowed users to make and receive payments using their mobile phone numbers, was launched in 2014.
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Qualcomm legal action moves forward in the UK

Qualcomm legal action moves forward in the UK

Which? seeks payout for Samsung and Apple smartphone owners

Consumer protection organisation Which? has been given permission by the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal to represent Apple and Samsung smartphone buyers in a legal case against chip manufacturer Qualcomm.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Over The Air 2012 preview

The fifth annual Over The Air event - a combination of 36-hour mobile hack day and conference - takes place at Bletchley Park on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd June. This year’s event is also honouring the contributions of mathematician Alan Turing to the invention of the programmable computer, code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War 2 and developments in other scientific fields.

As well as presenting a session entitled ‘Adaptive Mobile Web Design with a Server Side Flavour’ for 51Degrees.mobi, James Rosewell will be recording interviews with other participants for a special podcast feature we’ll be broadcasting in June.

The full OTA12 schedule is available at lanyrd.com


James Rosewell reports from Over The Air 2010, where he talks to Matthew Cashmore, Daniel Appelquist, Jo Rabin, Helen Keegan and Anthony Hicks.


Mark Bridge visits Over The Air 2011 and talks to Dr Sue Black, Daniel Appelquist and Paul Johnston.

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