Online parenting site BabyCentre has published a survey that shows over half of all mums considered their smartphone to be an ‘essential tool’ to help with parenting.
Almost three in five said it helped to reduce the isolation of new motherhood, while 40% described their mobile device as a ‘backup brain’.
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Tom Alexander, who co-founded Virgin Mobile in 1999 and was CEO at Everything Everywhere until 2011, has returned to the mobile industry as non-executive chairman of Viacloud UK.
He’ll be working with a recently-appointed management team that includes CEO Emanuele Angelidis, Chief Commercial Officer Tim Stone, Chief Technology Officer Jon Kandiah and Chief Financial Officer Richard Schaefer.
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Online payment provider mopay has announced a carrier billing partnership with Telefónica, giving it direct access to the BlueVia billing platform.
It’ll improve the customer experience when consumers use mopay to buy digital goods and services that are charged to their phone bill.
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Podcast - 2nd October 2013
Today's podcast starts with a gentle warning to app developers from the Office of Fair Trading.
We then move on to Amazon's new tablets, HTC's sale of its Beats Electronics stake, Twitter's emergency alerts, UK government plans to improve mobile broadband on trains, customer complaints and the growth in adult content for mobile devices.
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LG Electronics has launched its LG G2 smartphone in the UK today following a formal announcement in August.
The Android phone, which has control keys on the reverse and a 2.2GHz quad-core processor, offers a 5.2-inch display and a 13 megapixel camera.
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