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3 leads the field for 3G coverage

News The mobile operator 3 has announced that its third-generation services now cover 90 per cent of the UK population, giving it a comfortable lead on its rivals. The closest competitor to 3 in terms of 3G coverage is Orange, which covers 85 per cent...

6 February 2007, 8:45

Google buys a slice of AOL

News Google and Time Warner on Tuesday announced that Google will invest $1bn (£568m) for a 5 per cent stake in the media company's America Online unit as part of a partnership that expands their existing search engine deal to include collaboration on...

21 December 2005, 9:13

Sony shares surge after HD DVD's demise

News Sony's shares gained nearly five per cent yesterday on news that Toshiba will be bowing out of the high-definition format war, reports Reuters. Sony's stock in the US hit a high of $47.07 in early trade on the New York Stock Exchange, before...

Tags: ray, sales, war, blu

21 February 2008, 9:19

News.blog: Students rate iPods higher than beer

News Seventy-three per cent of the 1,200 students surveyed by the US college market researcher rated iPods as an 'in' item or activity. Drinking beer and Facebook.com, the social networking site, shared a close second place, each rated as 'in' by 71 per...

9 June 2006, 9:19

Helmet cams target violent crime

News Police have released video footage from helmet cameras that have increased arrests for violent crime by 85 per cent in one area. Violent crime has also fallen by eight per cent and other violent crime (wounding) is down by 18 per cent within the...

5 February 2007, 9:41

AMD ups ante against Intel with new factory

News For years, AMD has dreamed of nabbing 30 per cent of the market share for PC microprocessors. We can get to 30 per cent market share from Chartered and Fab 36," Ostrander said. The 30 per cent mark has been a white whale for the company for years.

14 October 2005, 10:12

London crowned world's Wi-Fi capital

News London has shored up its status as Wi-Fi capital of the world with usage soaring 156 per cent and the average session time lasting 72 minutes. Tokyo racking up an impressive 118 per cent growth -- taking it to within a hair's breadth of its Asian...

Tags: accounting, index, wi fi, enterprise

17 March 2008, 8:58

Firefox gains ground on Internet Explorer

News Mozilla's Web browser, Firefox, is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 per cent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French Web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor.

17 July 2007, 9:04

Big companies ramp up email monitoring

News A new study has found that 63 per cent of US corporations with 1,000 or more employees either employ or plan to employ staff to read or otherwise analyse outbound email. The report, released on Monday by email security specialist Proofpoint, said...

9 June 2005, 9:15

More Brits than ever bank online

News Almost 60 per cent of Britons rely on the internet to do their banking, research commissioned by Alliance and Leicester suggests. One-third (29 per cent) of the 2,395 people surveyed use Internet banking between once and twice per week, and one in...

3 March 2006, 9:14

SLRs drive digital camera sales surge

News Digital camera shipments increased 15 per cent from 2005 to 2006, but the high-end SLR category grew at a much faster 39 per cent clip, according to new statistics from IDC. Samsung and Panasonic also debuted to the tune of 43,000 and 36,000 SLRs...

4 April 2007, 8:42

Online ad spending higher than ever

News The amount of money spent on Internet advertising in the US rose by 30 per cent last year to a record $12.5bn, according to a report released on Thursday by advertising trade group the Interactive Advertising Bureau and independent auditor...

21 April 2006, 8:48

Online spending reaches "all time high"

News The amount of money spent in the UK on Internet shopping last year was more than 50 per cent higher than the year before, the UK e-commerce industry body IMRG has announced. The overall figure for 2007 was £46.6bn, up 54 per cent on the £30.2bn...

Tags: consumer, sales, shopping, cent

21 January 2008, 8:51

LCD TVs fly off the shelves

News Shipments of LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions jumped 135 per cent in the first quarter, compared with the same period last year, and allowed LCD TVs to account for 17 per cent of all TVs shipped, up from 15 per cent three months earlier...

25 May 2006, 9:11

Europe embraces high-speed Web

News More than a quarter of a billion Europeans regularly use the Internet, with around 80 per cent of those people being hooked up to broadband connections. Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using high speed broadband...

Tags: cent, connections, broadband, europe

21 April 2008, 8:52