Hot on the heels of the Tesco own-brand Android tablet, UK retailer Argos has launched its own tablet device, which goes on sale today.
It’s called MyTablet and is a 7-inch Android tablet priced at £99.99.
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Podcast - 9th October 2013
In today's podcast: Samsung's profit, UK mobile ad spending and Vertu's smartphone range are all increasing.
Meanwhile HTC's profit and the proportion of children with mobile phones are both going down. Discover the background to these news stories - and plenty more - in our regular weekly broadcast.
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UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published a new report entitled ‘Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes’.
It shows how young people are consuming media, which devices they’re using and how their parents are reacting.
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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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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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