Ordnance Survey, the UK government department responsible for mapping, has launched its first official mobile application for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
OS MapFinder is free and includes a basic overview of Great Britain; customers can then add the same level of detail as printed OS maps by buying 10km x 10km ‘tiles’ from 69p each.
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NTT Docomo says it’s working on a mobile phone that’s aimed specifically at pre-teen children and teenagers who are upper elementary and junior high school students in Japan.
The Smartphone for Juniors SH-05E is being manufactured by Sharp and will go on sale in early February.
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UK pub company Punch Taverns has arranged a deal with The Cloud to install free WiFi into its pubs.
A number of its properties already have WiFi; they will now be transferred onto the new arrangement, which includes Punch covering the landlord’s running costs for two years.
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Nokia is the latest mobile manufacturer to release preliminary quarterly results, which come just a fortnight ahead of the company’s formal full-year announcement on 24th January.
It estimated that 86.3 million mobile devices were shipped in the quarter, including 9.3 million touch-screen Asha handsets, 4.4 million Lumia smartphones and 2.2 million Symbian smartphones.
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Over one billion people will have used their mobile devices for banking by the end of 2017, according to a new
Juniper Research report. That’s more than 15% of the global subscriber base - and is a substantial increase from this year’s expected total of just over 590 million mobile banking users.
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