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UK smartphone manufacturer Kazam reveals seven new Android handsets

London-based smartphone manufacturer Kazam, which launched in June this year, has announced its first devices.

There are five smartphones in the Kazam Trooper range and two Kazam Thunder handsets that are expected to be made available across Europe, although specific country availability hasn’t been confirmed yet.

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EE increases its 4G speeds by switching on LTE-Advanced in London

Earlier this year EE introduced its double-speed 4G service to the Tech City area of London, offering mobile data speeds of up to 30Mbps.

It’s now bringing what it describes as the “world’s fastest mobile network” to the East London tech hub. LTE-Advanced technology is expected to deliver up to 300Mbps next year.

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BlackBerry sets up new funding, drops sale plan and replaces CEO

BlackBerry has announced new plans for its future.

Instead of being bought by Fairfax Financial Holdings - a deal that needed to be finalised today - it’s aiming to raise $1 billion (£627 million) from investors, with a quarter of that money coming from Fairfax Financial.

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Half of all Facebook advertising revenue now comes from mobile users

Facebook has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2013, with revenue up 60% year-on-year to $2.02 billion and net income increasing to $425 million.

The social network’s user base is increasing; daily active users for September 2013 were 728 million people (up 25% year-on-year) and monthly active users were up 18% to 1.19 billion.

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Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar

Mark Bridge writes:

The Rockstar Consortium. That name sounds as though it could be promising more than it can deliver, doesn’t it?  Well, it’s not. It’s the group of mobile companies that picked up Nortel’s portfolio of several thousand tech patents for $4.5 billion. And now, its members – including Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson and Sony – have set some of those patents on their biggest competitors.

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