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New LG Mini GD880 lives up to its name

LG Electronics says it's developed its newest touch-screen phone – the LG GD880, also known as the LG Mini – because consumers were unhappy with touch-screen phones that were too bulky, too clunky and too expensive. Those were the words of Dr Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG's Mobile business.

The LG Mini is currently the smallest and slimmest 3.2-inch full touch-screen phone on the market. It includes a social network aggregator, which is rapidly becoming a favourite feature for manufacturers, and has a 5-megapixel camera.

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A billion minutes of Skype calls have been made via 3

Over a billion minutes of Skype calls have been made on the UK's 3 mobile network since the service was introduced. 3 originally launched Skype on its UK network in October 2007, making it free for all customers in May 2009. And each day, around three million minutes of free Skype-to-Skype calls are made using mobile phones on the 3 network.

In the kind of coincidence reserved for PR events, the call including the billionth minute was made by Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Digital Britain, when talking to the CEO of medical aid charity Merlin. 3 recently donated five Skypephones to Merlin so that UK-based staff could stay in touch with colleagues on the ground in Haiti.

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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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