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Battersea Power Station in London at the launch of EE, Britain’s first 4G mobile network, last November

Battle of the bands: how the new 4G networks will differ

Mobile companies will use different airwave frequencies to offer 4G and this will impact on their service

David Cameron: I will allow my children to have Facebook accounts - but only if I can monitor them

Prime Minister David Cameron has said he will allow his children to have Facebook accounts - but only if he is able to monitor them.

Sky launches £10 on-demand box to battle rival services

New Now TV box gets streaming service into the living room, but consumers will still need to pay for subscriptions

BT customers flock to sign up to TV football challenge to Sky

BT has signed up more than half a million customers for its BT Sport channels in two months, giving a boost to the telecoms giant as it prepares to go head to head with BSkyB over football coverage.

Carsten Schloter felt guilt over not seeing his children enough

Swisscom chief executive Carsten Schloter who committed ‘suicide’ could not stop looking at his smartphone

Stressed by work and life, Swisscom CEO failed to follow advice about switching off

Tough times taking their toll on Vodafone

World’s second-biggest mobile operator is feeling pinch as punters tighten belts

We are rarely satisfied with the speed at which we access the internet at home

Cyber Culture: Want to know how fast your broadband really is? Join the queue...

My internet is slow. And yes, I know that sentence is a grammatical and syntactical horror show, but it's one that's generally understood.

It's fine to use your mobile at the checkout, and pretty much anywhere else for that matter

You want the UK to win the future? Then let’s not constrict our use of this generation’s most empowering tools with Victorian ideas of manners

Fibre optic broadband is now widely available in the UK

Superfast broadband scheme two years behind schedule and £207m over budget

The National Audit Office reports that projects in Merseyside, Oxfordshire, Derbyshire and elsewhere will be delayed until 2017 

Fibre-optic cables - the way to super-fast broadband

Ofcom proposes changes to superfast broadband to promote competition

New regulations would make it easier and cheaper for consumers to switch between providers

Apple has been criticised for shipping jobs abroad, to companies such as Foxconn in China

Worldwide tech spending set to hit $3.7 trillion by end of 2013

Latest industry figures from Gartner show only 2% on 2012

Ban on internet porn in public places

Internet pornography will no longer be accessible in public across the UK under plans by internet providers to place an automatic block on such sites.

Danny Alexander announcing the new spending to the House of Commons

Spending Review: The five-year plan for infrastructure with shaky foundations

Ministers have said they will spend £100bn on projects – but how much of that is new? Oliver Wright gets digging

Mobile phone giant Vodafone was today poised to buy Germany's biggest cable operator in a deal worth £9.1 billion.

Vodafone to buy Germany's biggest cable operator Kabel Deutschland in £6.6bn deal

Deal positions the mobile phone giant to become a 'triple play' provider

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