If you fancy buying yourself a little slice of photographic history, now's your chance. Because the Leica IIIa rangefinder used by Alfred Eisenstaedt to capture the iconic V-J day photo Kiss in Times Squareis up for sale. Read More >>
The National Audit Office, which is like the nagging voice that keeps track of the government's spending and receipts, is to investigate the results of the recent 4G auction -- which saw the mobile networks paying £1.2bn less than anticipated. Read More >>
Bonhams auction house is hosting a space history sale tomorrow. They've done similar things in the past, but this one is more fun because it's NOW, and Buzz Aldrin is opposed to it. Controversy and memorabilia, in one package. Read More >>
Clearly forgetting that his company is currently bidding for an enormous chunk of 4G spectrum in the UK, Vodafone's chief exec Vittorio Colao has described 4G as being for "freaks" and claims he's not yet seeing any impact from EE's early doors launch. Colao said: "I haven't got reports of customers flying away to 4G," adding "The kind of people who are going for it are technology freaks." [Guardian] Read More >>
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"I did mean switching providers but I was pointing out that there was never going to be a sudden exodus, people were always Going to move providers slo..." More »
Hooray, the official UK 4G auction bidding war is finally underway. Bidders are now free to throw their cash at Ofcom, using what basically sounds like Ofcom's own version of a top-secret eBay. Read More >>
The action involving Ofcom and its shortlist of 4G bidders is about to get underway, with the spectrum divvying process set to start two weeks from now. On January 23rd the process to formally allocate the 4G spectrum inside the UK starts, with the bidding process expected to take two months. The government is expecting to pocket a £3.5bn lump sum from selling off these invisible airwaves. [Guardian] Read More >>
Our cash-strapped MoD is about to receive a bit of a windfall, thanks to plans to sell off a chunk of radio spectrum it currently uses for emergency services. Read More >>
It seems like we've been waiting forever for this damned 4G spectrum auction to happen so that everyone else, other than EE, can get on and offer the sweet, blazing speeds that only 4G can deliver. Finally, after delays, re-assessments, and legal threats, the rest of the networks can now shove their applications in and get the ball rolling, if they have £100,000 lying around that is. Read More >>
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"They seem to be taking ages to sort this out!
To be honest I think I would have a bigger smile on my face if I could get 3g coverage all over the U..." More »
If you have 15 grand lying around and gathering dust, why not spend it on buying every single Super Nintendo game ever? YES. DO IT. Also, why not hang out with me after you buy it so we can play all 721 SNES games you just bought? Sounds like a plan! Read More >>
Deep-pocketed Apple enthusiasts have a big chance to buy themselves a bit of history in October, thanks to an incredibly rare Apple-1 going up for auction. Read More >>
Once gifted to Sir Winston Churchill as a 80th birthday present, the Series 1 Land Rover is set to be auctioned for an estimated £60,000 after spending the last 35 years in a shed. Rover gave the prime minister the classic car as a present back in November 1954, complete with registration number UKE 80. Read More >>
That's how much an original Apple I just sold for at Sotheby's in New York. The colossal sum was literally just for the naked board too -- the ancient, yet still working computer had no case, monitor, or keyboard -- simply a piece of junk to the untrained eye. Read More >>
Vodafone has once again launched a broadside against UK telecomms watchdog Ofcom, claiming that the decision to let Everything Everywhere launch a 4G network at the end of this year gives "an unjustifiable head start to the largest player which could seriously undermine competition in the UK market for many years to come." Read More >>
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Given that Everything Everywhere is attempting to swap 3G for 4G services on its 1800MHz band, you’d be forgiven for thinking that selling off a chunk of it wouldn’t be the best move in the world. It’s being forced to sell it off as a condition of the merger between Orange and T-Mobile that created the super-network. Could this provide a small chunk of 4G-capable spectrum to one of its competitors? Read More >>
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