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60-year prison sentence for mobile phone possession

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A change of focus for Blyk

Mobile virtual network operator Blyk says it won’t be launching any more advertising-funded MVNOs. Instead it plans to work in partnership with mobile networks to offers its expertise and to increase the scale of its operation. Although the UK’s Blyk operation won’t be affected immediately, the decision has caused speculation about Blyk UK’s future as an independent venture – and the possibility of selling the customer base of 16-24-year-olds to Orange, upon whose network the UK service runs.

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Mobile search becoming more like PC search

A study released during the WWW 2009 Madrid conference, which debates the evolution of the web, looked at the ways mobile search users differed from computer-based search users. By comparing Google searches on computers, iPhones and conventional mobile phones, the researchers found that the average mobile user was much more focussed than the average computer user and was more likely to search for the same type of information repeatedly, while users of high-spec devices (such as the iPhone) searched in a similar way to computer users.

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