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Broadband Britain loves to talk

News On average, Britons spend a total of 7 hours and 9 minutes per day surfing the Net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio, up from an average of just six minutes back in 2002.

Tags: cent, broadband, connections, communications

15 August 2008, 8:13

Sony Ericsson cuts 2,000 jobs as profits dive

News Listening to the call today, it's as if [the Sony Ericsson management team] have already given up on the rest of 2008. On Friday, the handset manufacturer announced a quarterly net profit of just £4.8m, down from £174.6m in the same quarter last year.

Tags: ericsson, sales, ultra, sony ericsson

21 July 2008, 8:56

ID cards delayed until 2012

News He said: "Clearly the home office has been listening to sensible advice for a change and decided that many of the original elements were unworkable by deciding on gradated introduction and with far fewer aspirations for the technology itself.

Tags: government, plan, office, scheme

24 January 2008, 8:30

Photos: A winner's preview of CES

News It also uses dual-mic noise-suppression technology for better listening and clearer talking. At an event in New York on Tuesday night, the Consumer Electronics Association announced its innovation and design award winners for the upcoming Consumer...

Tags: speech, hands, bluetooth, electronics

15 November 2007, 9:29

Apple calms the iPhone storm with $100 credit offer

News Scott McNulty, on The Unofficial Apple Weblog, wrote "While I still think the reaction to the price reduction was way overblown, this is a great example of Apple listening to their customers and trying to make the situation right.

7 September 2007, 9:30

BBC's iPlayer gets the green light

News Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of future media and technology, said the iPlayer is a critical part of Auntie's strategy to "maintain impact and relevance in a world where viewing and listening habits are shifting from linear to on-demand".

1 May 2007, 8:57

Top 10 alternative uses for an iPod

News But the rise of the iPod has prompted generations of developers -- and creative end-users -- to exploit possibilities other than simply listening to music or watching videos. You may be used to seeing people listen to iPods on the train.

20 March 2007, 10:33

Dell takes baby steps towards Linux

News We are listening, and as a result, we are working with Novell to certify corporate client products for Linux, including our OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks and Dell Precision workstations. Dell has acknowledged that 83,000 users have urged it...

27 February 2007, 8:40

AMD selling graphics to the masses

News Sure, it matters, but you're talking to people who are already listening to you," he said. Things have changed somewhat in the ongoing tussle between Intel and AMD. After a three-year hiatus, the Core 2 Duo brought Intel back into the good graces...

24 January 2007, 10:21

Apple finally answers call for iPhone

News Wouldn't it be great if you had six voicemails, and you didn't have to listen to five first before listening to the sixth? In one of the most anticipated gadget announcements in recent years, Apple at Macworld on Tuesday introduced the iPhone, a...

10 January 2007, 10:27

Teens have a full-time job in media

News Harrison estimates that 75 per cent of teens spend two or three hours a day downloading or listening to music online. For teens, consuming media is a full-time job. According to a study released in the US this week, Americans aged 13 to 18 spend...

8 December 2006, 9:51

Mobile music plays a new wireless tune

News Phling users can also browse the music libraries of anyone within the Phling network and see what they are listening to, and also how they rate the songs in their music library. A start-up called Oxy Systems announced on Monday new software that...

28 November 2006, 9:37

Bosses get into Bond gadgets

News They want to make sure they aren't being bugged and that the competition isn't listening. It's not just James Bond that gets to play with all the cool gadgets. More and more business executives are investing in secret agent-style hardware to make...

20 November 2006, 9:49

News.blog: Apple reviews album pricing

News After listening to them a few times, you think you might want the album. It's one of the problems of the digital-music era. You buy a couple of songs from an album at 79 pence each. Trouble is, you've either got to buy the other nine tracks...

13 November 2006, 9:52

Microsoft U-turns on Vista transfer limits

News At the same time, after listening to the feedback that came in, we felt that we needed to make this change. We'll keep listening to people's feedback. Reversing a licensing change announced two weeks ago, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not...

3 November 2006, 10:22