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 >
Featured comment by AaronBooth:
""Orange and T-Mobile's parent company has said a lack of action by rival operators is part of the reason the UK lags other countries in the rollout of..." More »
Three's pretty tetchy over the whole 4G auction in the UK, fearing the "big" guys could muscle it out of decent spectrum. Now, according to the Times on Sunday, Three's parent company has thrown its toys out of the pram and threatened to pull out of the UK unless it gets a decent chunk of LTE-capable spectrum. Or has it? Read More >
Featured comment by flynndean:
"Absolutely there should be coverage. But having lived in the South West for over 3 years, and working in a job that requires me to travel a lot for wo..." More »
With all this rain we've had in the last month or so you'd be forgiven for thinking we're no longer in a drought. And you'd be right. According to the Environment Agency, we're undergoing "Environmental Stress due to Rainfall Deficit," or ESRD -- it's a new (cough marketing buzzword, cough) term for when it's bucketing down, but the country still doesn't have any water. Read More >
Okay everyone -- the summer is finally here at last. Time to take action and make the most of it before it ends sometime early next week. Let's get out the PADDLING POOL! Read More >
Featured comment by Michael Pegg:
"It's until at least December. A few wet weeks haven't filled the underground water tables. I wonder when they will think it would be a good idea to ha..." More »
There's not long to wait now to get your mitts on Android's new Emperor, but for those looking to jump on the Galaxy S III bandwagon we have some good news for you. It's not quite 4G-fast, but it'll still be blazing compared to your standard 3G phone thanks to a 42Mbps DC-HSPA boost. Read More >
Featured comment by scaramoosh:
"You cannot get that on O2...
What you will get is a contract with a 500mb limit so you'll go through it at them speeds in 12 seconds and you wont h..." More »
In need of a new computer and broadband connection? Can't stomach the hefty prices of fibre? How about the whole lot for just £159 for a year then? That's what Martha Lane Fox's new Get Online @ Home initiative is offering in an attempt to cut the cost of internet access across Britain. Read More >
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"It's aimed at getting the elderly, charities and small businesses online, it's not meant to be a cheap way for you to get you hands on decent kit. The..." More »
Apparently Britain is positively overflowing with owls that have been turfed out of their homes. Potter fans that fell in love with the wizard's mail-delivering pet owl, Hedwig, all went out and bought one. Now that Potter's all done and dusted the poor owls are getting dumped too. Read More >
Featured comment by darkly:
"You should sue. I think you'd have a really good case. I'm thinking of suing Spielberg due to his negligence in releasing 'Jurassic Park'. I hold him ..." More »
The legend that is Sir David Attenborough is a pioneering soul, and he believes that nature in 3D is the future. To start, he's just given a bunch of plants the 3D treatment, because it's a heck of a lot easier to film plants than it is animals with a hulking great 3D camera set-up. With the magic of timelapse, you'll apparently get to see mice eating plants and all manner of strange going-ons, but there's a catch. Read More >
T-Mobile inadvertently provided 1,099 customers with a whole bunch of new friends by emailing customers' email addresses to each other. The gaff saw everyone on T-Mobile's Hothouse mailing list get acquainted whether they liked it or not, followed by several attempted email recalls and finally, a sheepish apology. Read More >
Featured comment by Sam Gibbs:
"I've seen some systems where there's actually a limit to how many people you can shove in the to: box -- not that that stops the CC box from over flow..." More »
Just for a while, what's say we forget about all the evil and sickness that infects Mother Earth, transporting ourselves instead to a quieter, happier place where the only peril is of the mild variety -- the world of Disney movies. Read More >
Waterstones is about to bet big on Kindle and undertake a huge shift in its business, announcing plans to sell both the Kindle hardware and Amazon's e-books across its chain of UK shops. Read More >
Featured comment by chootastic:
"Thing is, i wont go there, because they sell books at the RRP. Whereas i will go into a book shop where i can buy at a discount. Once you take postage..." More »
The entire software set that powers Samsung's about-to-launch Galaxy S III has been dumped online, with users able to grab the 800MB file and enjoy Samsung's latest Touchwiz tools and see if its many piles of new stuff are actually of any use. Read More >
We've been waiting long enough, fuelled by teasers, behind the scenes sneak peeks and a couple of photos from the sets, but now we've finally got a full-blooded trailer to sate our Bond cravings. Read More >
When the Raspberry Pi was first released, and the board spec was shown off, there were a couple of interesting non-working expansion slots that sent our imaginations wild. Now it seems there's a snazzy new camera module on its way to take up one of those slots and turn the Pi into the ultimate low cost spy gadget. Read More >
It's always going to be a little bit awkward when you don't get invited to your own building that you designed. As Zaha Hadid describes as being just plain "rude," the Olympic Games failed to give her an invitation to the £269-million Aquatics Centre that she painstakingly designed and built over eight years. Read More >
Featured comment by Sabashe_to_the_MAX:
"What about the engineers who are responsible for actually making this thing work/not fall down? Do they all get an invite to the opening and the event..." More »
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