Figures released at the Bluetooth World 2014 conference show that 96% of all mobile phones - not just smartphones - are expected to include Bluetooth wireless technology by 2018.
That compares with 90% in 2013.
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Informa plc says it’s going to merge its two telecoms research businesses into a single company by the end of May.
Ovum will be joining with Informa Telecoms & Media Research in a new company led by current Ovum MD Steve Hotham. The Informa Telecoms & Media brand will then be dropped.
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The number of banking transactions made on mobile phones by British customers has doubled in a single year, according to new figures from a UK banking trade organisation.
Customers of the five biggest retail banks used mobile phones for 18.6 million transactions a week in 2013, according to the BBA. That compares with 9.1 million in 2012.
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HTC goes One better
Mark Bridge writes:
“Hey, everybody, we’re releasing a new flagship smartphone that carries all the hopes of the company with it. If this sells well, we could be saved. If not, it could be disaster.”
“Great. What shall we call our new phone?”
“Oh, we’ll give it the same name as the previous model. That’ll be fine.”
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UK communications regulator Ofcom has published information about the volume of complaints it received between October and December 2013.
It’s the organisation’s twelfth quarterly report and reveals that the number of complaints had fallen quarter-on-quarter across landline telephone, broadband, ‘pay monthly’ mobile and pay TV services.
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