A convicted VAT fraudster has been sentenced to an extra nine years in jail for failing to repay £40 million of his criminal profits. Emmanuel Hening, a dual French/Belgian national, was jailed for 15 years in 2006 for masterminding a £54 million ‘missing trader’ or ‘carousel’ mobile phone fraud.
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O2 UK has launched a ‘live’ network status checker that lets customers see the current status of the network in their area and check for planned maintenance. It also shows O2 network coverage based on computer predictions.
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Orange has confirmed it’ll be the first major UK mobile network to offer the Apple iPad at a subsidised price when purchased with a data plan. In a brief statement it said these purchase options for Wi-Fi + 3G iPad models would be available “in the coming months”.
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Telefónica and Nokia have launched what they describe as ‘the first totally green mobile phone offer’. It’s being launched in Spain and will later be introduced into the UK.
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Applitalism.com, the combination of social network and application store that launched in September and ‘went global’ a few weeks ago, says it now has more than 10 million music downloads in its catalogue for US and Canadian visitors. UK users can browse through more than 5 million tracks.
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