This week's edition of The Fonecast starts with an Olympic theme.
We talk about mobile phone coverage at the London 2012 games - and then move on to mobile payments for Olympic visitors. In the middle of the show you'll find a handful of takeovers, Facebook's website and some wireless patents… before we end with a newspaper being fooled by a ghostly iPhone application.
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Three UK is changing the way it blocks age-sensitive content accessed via its mobile network.
Previously it's followed a similar policy to the UK’s other major networks, filtering websites to protect users who may be under 18. Commercial web content that would be classified as '18+' in other formats (e.g. magazines, films and games) has been restricted until the customer provides proof they're at least 18 years old.
Not content with its efforts to put television on mobile phones, Vodafone has now launched a plug-in keyboard that turns your TV into a mobile phone.
The ‘Webbox’ is aimed at emerging markets rather than the UK, with Vodacom in South Africa preparing to start selling the Webbox next week.
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Research from GfK Retail and Technology shows that more than 7% of all mobile phones bought in Europe last year were purchased online.
Smartphone sales are a particularly popular choice for online shoppers, with approaching one in five sold via the web.
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Back in 2000, Vodafone and Vivendi created what they called a 'multi-access portal' that would offer internet services across TVs, PCs and mobile phones. It was named Vizzavi and was chaired by Vivendi's Jean-Marie Messier for the first couple of years.
In recent days Jean-Marie Messier has been hitting the headlines again.
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