Guest comment: Is mobile broadband strangling mobile commerce?
Shopping online, on your mobile. Total breeze or complete nightmare? Neil Hawkins, contributing editor at Chooseisp.co.uk takes a closer look…
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WiFi rental service Tep aims to cut international roaming charges
Smartphone and pocket WiFi rental service Tep has launched, claiming to save consumers up to 90 percent on their mobile phone roaming charges and WiFi usage.
Italy tackles ‘digital divide’
Italy has significantly lowed “digital divide” over the past year and a half, – the number of citizens not connected to the broadband network has fallen from 7.8 million to 5 million.
Internet ‘hero and villain’ nominations announced
Piracy, copyright and free speech are the key issues reflected in ‘Internet Heroes and Villians award nominations for this year’s ISPAs awards.
Rural broadband boost? Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale test UK’s first 4G broadband
Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale have joined forces to test next generation 4G ‘LTE’ high speed broadband to customers. If successful, the trial will see mobile and fixed broadband coming together for the first time in the UK, providing a significant boost to rural Britain’s access to high speed internet services.
Brits spent £300bn since 2000- IMRG
Another major milestone has been reached in the growth of online shopping: £300bn has been spent online since the launch of the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index in April 2000.
Right to reply: UK superfast broadband faces setback
Britain’s ambitions to have the best superfast broadband in Europe have been hit by a double blow over the past six months according to leading broadband analysts Point Topic. The roll-out of next-generation broadband technology by BT and alternative networks has lagged a long way behind plans and take-up of the services where they are … [Read more…]
Research round-up: 23rd May 2011
This month’s top trends in digital: App-based texts on the rise | Coupon usage soars- even among the wealthy | iPad 2 | Smartphones with NFC | Public security online | Mobile sites | Broadband quality | Company phone bills | Domain Sales | Augmented reality and terrorism
British small businesses generating £36bn online annually
British small businesses are now generating online revenues in excess of £36bn a year, according to new independent research However, this only makes up 2.4% of small business turnover, where larger enterprises attribute up to 18.7% of their turnover to online channels.
Govt. campaign puts ‘£100 PCs’ on sale this week
Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox has launched the next phase of the Government-backed ‘Race Online Camapign’ with low price recycled PC products launched nationally today with prices starting from £92.