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Review: BlackBerry Q5
Thursday 18 July 2013
Need a phone with a qwerty keypad but don’t want to spend the earth? David Phelan reviews BlackBerry’s new Q5
Firefox OS kickstarts battle for the bottom with €39 smartphone
Monday 01 July 2013
ZTE Open offers a basic smartphone experience that makers hope will challenge Android & Apple
BlackBerry shares take a dive after surprise loss
Saturday 29 June 2013
Investors punished BlackBerry yesterday, driving its shares down by about 20 per cent even before the US stock market opened after the company posted a surprise quarterly loss.
Blackberry shares tumble 20% after surprise quarterly loss
Friday 28 June 2013
Canadian company blamed part of losses on Venezuelan currency restrictions
What's the point of keeping up with technology?
Friday 28 June 2013
Stop worrying about buying the latest smartphone, says Eleanor Doughty. You're only going to lose it...
The 10 Best new smartphones
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Photos, films, music, apps and browsing - the latest mobiles can do it all
British spies at GCHQ 'spied on foreign politicians at G20 summit meetings in London'
Monday 17 June 2013
An intensive spying operation was mounted by Britain’s secret intelligence agencies on foreign politicians attending two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009, it has been claimed.
Apple WWDC 2013: Is Jony Ive's new iOS 7 an example of style over substance? Maybe, but it does make the iPhone look terrific...
Tuesday 11 June 2013
David Phelan sums up the high points of the Apple World Wide Developers Conference
UPDATE: BBM coming to Android and iOS, but who knows when
Thursday 06 June 2013
BlackBerry says T-mobile leak was incorrect, and that the release date is not yet known
Dogan Ismail stabbing: Boy guilty of murdering teenager
Tuesday 04 June 2013
A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering another teenager by stabbing him to death after he went to a housing estate to try to retrieve a stolen mobile phone.
ARM loses £720m as battle with Intel intensifies
Tuesday 04 June 2013
In reaction to the news that rival Intel would be supplying the processors for Samsung's new Galaxy tablets shares in the Cambridge-based chip-designers ARM Holdings fell by more than 7 per cent yesterday, temporarily knocking £1bn of the group's £13.6bn market capitalisation,.
Destination, destination, destination: The Camerons head off on holiday... again
Monday 27 May 2013
It’s time for the yearly tabloid screaming fit about where (and when) the Prime Minister is off on holiday. So news that David Cameron has “jetted off” to Ibiza only days after the Woolwich stabbing has set off a red-top frenzy and sent Rupert Murdoch scuttling to his smartphone to tweet: “With UK on terror alert, Cameron off on holiday in Ibiza. Unbelievable.”
Blackberry confirms plan to offer BBM app on rival platforms Android and Apple's iOS operating system
Wednesday 15 May 2013
BBM to be available as a free download in the Apple App Store and Google Play store
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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