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Global mobile broadband traffic up 72% last year

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Pressure-sensitive navigation pads coming to mobile phones

Yorkshire-based touch technology company Peratech Limited has agreed to license its Quantum Tunnelling Composite technology to Samsung for use in 5-way 'navikeys' on mobile phones. The deal has been done with Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung's component manufacturing business.

QTC switches are force-sensitive, which means the speed of scrolling through a list or playing a game can vary depending on how hard the 5-way switch is pressed.

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Daisy Communications acquires Managed Communications Ltd

Voice and data company Daisy Group plc has acquired Managed Communications Limited in a deal worth £6.3 million. It's the latest in a series of acquisitions that included AT Communications, Eurotel and Redstone plc’s telecoms business last year.

Nottingham-based Managed Communications provides data networks to approximately 800 business customers.

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We've joined this week's Carnival of the Mobilists

The Carnival of the Mobilists collects an assortment of opinions from the mobile industry. It's hosted at a different website every week and is introduced by a variety of contributors.

With Mobile World Congress just around the corner, this week's 'Carnival' – the 210th edition – is a particularly full one. It's hosted by mobile consultants Indigo 102 and includes last week's Opinion piece by Mark Bridge, in which he suggested that Windows Mobile 7 wouldn't be announced at MWC.

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13% of jobs could go at Nokia's Salo plant in Finland

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