This week’s podcast from The Fonecast starts with impressive quarterly results from Apple, along with figures from Samsung, Motorola and Nokia as well. We then move on to some of the other stories that have been hitting the headlines, including O2’s UK privacy problem and a new ‘unlimited internet’ tariff from T-Mobile.
As usual, you can listen to this week’s podcast on our website audio player, via iTunes, by using our RSS feed or by downloading the MP3.
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Carphone Warehouse has published new research into the mobile web behaviour of 8 to 15 year olds in the UK.
The survey, which was compiled by YouGov, revealed that 2.8 million of these children - including almost a quarter of 8 to 12 year olds - had a smartphone.
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Good Technology, which enables the secure use of consumer smartphones within businesses, has released its quarterly information report for the final quarter of 2011.
The report looks at smartphone and tablet devices activated amongst Good Technology customers.
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O2 UK has blamed a technical change for inadvertently making customers’ mobile phone numbers available to website owners.
The issue was reported yesterday by web systems administrator Lewis Peckover, who demonstrated the problem online.
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Finsphere Corporation, a US-based business that uses mobile phones to confirm an individual’s identity, has received $11.3 million from a group of investors.
The investment round was led by Vodafone Ventures, the venture capital arm of Vodafone Group. Tobin Ireland, Group Director of Commercial Development at Vodafone, will join the Finsphere board of directors.
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