Tag: data
Euro operators cut roaming data charges. Well, some of them…
I’m off to Barcelona next week for the Mobile World Congress trade show, but I certainly won’t be firing up my mobile web browser while I’m there. Even small data consumption when overseas is outrageously expensive under current tariffs. Thankfully, the European Commission is on the case, pressuring operators to cut data roaming costs.
UK government contractor loses loads of personal data – again
More private details lost – this time the data of most of the UK’s learner drivers. But it’s OK – only three million people have had their personal details misplaced this time.
Bizarrely, the UK driving test data was being stored on a hard drive in the offices of a contractor based in Iowa, in the United States – and contained the names and addresses of three million…
ThinkGeek solves your lost mobile phone worries, with the SIM card back-up machine
Groups are springing up across Facebook asking for friends’ phone numbers faster than you exit the site when your boss walks past – all because people foolishly lose all their contacts’ details when they lose their phones on a boozy night out. You know what I’m talking about.
Thankfully this device will help cleanse Facebook of all those ubiquitous groups, courtesy of those brain-champs, ThinkGeek. It…
Flickr hits two billion photo uploads – Australian gum tree immortalised
Flickr’s been doing quite well. It’s now officially more than a bit popular, with the photo sharing mega-site revealing it now hosts a staggering two billion photos.
We have no idea whether this is impressive or not, but if Flickr’s sending out a press release about it and bragging about it on its blog it’s obviously pretty pleased with itself.
The PDA is dead – and an N95 is laughing by its grave
Analyst IDC says the shipment numbers of PDAs has dropped by 43% over last year, making a sensationally poor 15th consecutive period of decline for the once-futuristic pocket computers.
Clearly it’s because phones have stolen their thunder. With iPhone, Nokia’s N95, the lovely LG Viewty and numerous…
Koreans lining up 3.6gbps "4G" mobile data format
The Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute is finalising the spec of its fourth-gen mobile data format, with a ludicrously fast 3.6 gigabits-per-second protocol favourite to become its entry in the upcoming 4G format wars.
Not that anyone really cares about 3G yet, but still…
