East London to receive double-speed 4G service from today
UK 4G mobile network EE has announced a partnership with East London tech hub Tech City.
It says this partnership will enable Tech City to become the best-connected tech hub in the world.
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More of the same
Mark Bridge writes:
Another week, another couple of product announcements from Samsung. There appears to be no stopping them, despite a recent drop in the company’s share price.
This time it’s a couple of tablets – one of which runs both Android and Windows 8 – and a 20 megapixel camera that’s got a 4G-enabled Android device built in.
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Mobile instant messaging app WhatsApp has more than 250 million monthly active users, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The company, which launched in 2009, recently confirmed a new daily record of 27 billion messages handled.
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A new survey has listed the UK’s most popular online retailers according to the amount of visits from mobile devices.
The IMRG-Experian Hitwise Mobile Hot Shops List puts Amazon UK in first place and Amazon.com third, giving them over 10% of all mobile visits to retail sites in April 2013. Argos was in second place with 2.3% of visits.
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A report from Juniper Research expects the worldwide value of mobile commerce transactions to exceed $3.2 trillion (£2.1 trillion) by 2017, up from $1.5 trillion this year.
The banking sector is expected to account for the majority of this value, thanks to the increasing use of mobile devices to pay bills online.
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