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29th January 2013

MWC 2013: The hard truth of wireless innovation

In his blog on this year’s CES, our own @benfieldtown surmised that too much emphasis is being placed on the importance of software, and suggestions of

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28th January 2013

Engineering is becoming sexy…

It was great to hear last week that Prince Charles is backing the manufacturing and engineering industry by encouraging youngsters to pursue a career in

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25th January 2013

Where is Twitter going with Vine?

Yesterday, Twitter launched Vine, a new (currently iPhone only) app for sharing six second long videos. The idea, one supposes, is to bring the same

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25th January 2013

Wi-Fi offloading – A quick introduction

Doubtless most people not in the industry have probably never heard of Wi-Fi offloading. Actually, the concept is pretty simple. Rack ’em up, stack ’em

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24th January 2013

Access control, or turning your kids off at night.

If you have children and home network do you ever check the activity light on your wireless router after lights-out?  Here’s how you can restrict

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23rd January 2013

Six tips for handling MWC PR, part one

As the date for MWC looms PRs up and down the land can feel the veins in their neck getting that *little bit tighter*. Still,

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22nd January 2013

NFC and the big red payment herring

Could MWC 2013 finally be the year for NFC? This year’s MWC has a big focus on NFC, with attendees able to store tickets on

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21st January 2013

CES 2013: The Good, the bad and the ugly

In my previous blog post about CES I wrote about a number of journalists who claimed that this year’s CES didn’t deliver anything new. To refute

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18th January 2013

CES 2013: The reports of hardware’s death are greatly exaggerated

At CES last week we saw the usual trail of news stories about the latest technology and gadgets. All very exciting of course. Indeed, you

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17th January 2013

HMV becomes the latest casualty of high street slump

HMV has plunged into administration, joining the likes of Jessops, Comet and GAME as more high-street retailers fail to adapt to a world dominated by

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16th January 2013

The Facebook Graph Search cheat sheet

The logo might look a bit sect-like and Zuck still needs to work on his facial expressions but, apart from these two insightful observations, the

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Danny Whatmough
15th January 2013

Healthy new kids on the block at CES 2013

CES 2013 was naturally billed to be about phones, cameras, computers, tablets, TVs and gaming. Sure enough, consumer electronics will be grabbing the vast majority

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