Microsoft has been showing off the next version of Windows at the Computex technology show in Taiwan. It's codenamed 'Windows 8' and will be designed for touch-centred devices, including tablets, as well as conventional PCs.
The new operating system will work on x86 and ARM-based processors.
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This month's Carnival of the Mobilists is now online. It collects the best mobile blogging for the previous month and is hosted on a different mobile-related site every month.
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The latest Visual Networking Index Forecast from Cisco expects 15 billion network-connected devices by 2015. That's more than two connections for each person on earth.
The study also anticipates global internet traffic quadrupling by 2015 to 966 billion gigabytes per year.
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Chip maker MediaTek has announced a partnership with Yahoo! that'll see Yahoo! services embedded in MediaTek's mobile platform solutions.
It means that Yahoo! Messenger, News, Finance, Weather, Mail and Flickr can all be pre-loaded on new smartphones and feature phones.
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Research from online marketplace eBay reckons that coverage problems, poor connections and slow data speeds are costing UK retailers over £1 billion from mobile shopping.
It's asking UK regulator Ofcom to make sure m-commerce is considered and consumer frustrations are taken into account when 4G licences are auctioned.
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