The phablet - larger than a phone, smaller than a tablet - will see global shipments increase by a factor of 10 in 2012 from last year, according to ABI Research.
The company, which defines these devices as having a touchscreen size between 4.6 and 5.5 inches, expects more than 208 million phablets to be shipped globally in 2015.
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New research from eDigitalResearch and Portaltech Reply shows that 64% of UK smartphone owners are now using their mobile devices to shop online, a number that has quadrupled since June 2010.
44% of smartphone owners said they’d use their devices to browse even more in the coming months.
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The latest move in the battle for indoor internet coverage has seen pub group Greene King signing a deal with WiFi provider The Cloud.
The two companies already had a deal to offer WiFi in 300 pubs; this new agreement will see free WiFi available in 1,000 managed premises - including the Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne brands - and also offered to 1,400 leased and tenanted premises.
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HP, the world’s largest technology company, has announced what it’s calling a ‘multi-year productivity initiative’.
The restructuring scheme is expected to save up to $3.5 billion by the end of the 2014 financial year and will see around 27,000 employees leaving.
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Everything Everywhere has completed the final stage of the ‘big switch-on’ integration project it started in October 2010.
Orange and T-Mobile customers will now be able to use the other network automatically if they start to lose their 3G signal; a service the company is calling ‘Smart Signal Sharing’.
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