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Wednesday 30 June 2010
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The Guardian's Activate Summit and Africa Gathering will explore how technology is transforming Africa
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Boris Johnson cycling in London with a mobile phone. Maybe not that sort of app... Photograph: Rex Features/Rex Features
New datasets released to prompt creation of mobile apps that will help people find available cycles when hire scheme starts on 30 July (updated with Layar links)
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Plus Brown U gets Google, rude iPhone videos, postcoding and geocoding in the cloud and more
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Tuesday 29 June 2010
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Though the American company had nothing to do with the industrial espionage in China in 2002 that led to faulty components, it paid the price with millions of faulty PCs
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Nexus One users can today get their hands on the latest Android software update, dubbed Android 2.2 Froyo. The over-the-air update will be restricted to Nexus One handsets initially, and will be gradually rolled out throughout this week.
Six months after the release of Android 2.1, Google says the new software – revealed at the company's annual I/O conference last month – could increase performance speeds by up to five times. Good news, too, for those wanting to use their Android-powered device as a portable WiFi hotspot, as the Froyo software upgrade now allows. Continue reading...
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Putting up posters during the Edinburgh Fringe, 2007. You could look at the website - if you don't mind its contract. Contract? Read on...
The site dates back to 1997, but its terms and conditions to about 1770 - and mobile developers are very frustrated by them
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Plus Cameron chairs open data meeting, iPhone parts, iPad coverage by words and headlines and more
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Monday 28 June 2010
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The company's head of PR has put out a fist-pumping set of figures to reassure its staff. But he seems to have left some analysis out. Never mind - we've put it in
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Friday 25 June 2010
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The underdog Danish voiceover IP (VoIP) company Vopium has received a large cash injection from a prominent Indian telecommunications investor and has declared it is gunning for Skype in a bid to compete with the frontrunning VoIP provider.
Vopium, sometimes dubbed the 'other' VoIP company, today announced that Indian investor Raghuvinder Kataria, an early backer of Bharti Airtel – the third largest in-country mobile operator in the world – would invest $16.5m (£11m) in the Danish internet telecom, making him its largest shareholder.
In a statement, Kataria said: "We believe that the market demands an alternative mobile solution to Skype and the fast market penetration of smartphones opens up new and more intelligent ways of communication."
Kataria's investment significantly increases Vopium's funding as their last posted investment was €4.2m (£3.5m) in 2008 from Enex Group SA, a private Luxembourg-based investment company.
But the little VoIP still has a long way to go before it catches up with Skype, the field's clear leader.
At peak hours, Skype reports 23 million users online and Skype traffic accounts for 12% of global international calling minutes. Its users made 3.1bn minutes of calls to landlines and mobiles, and 36.1bn minutes of calls between Skype users in the third quarter of 2009.
Vopium, on the other hand, has a total of one million users with 10,000 of them online at peak hours. Last year, Vopium reported 40m-50m minutes of calls during the whole of last year.
But at reported growth of 30% every month, Vopium could well be on track to become a real challenge to Skype's hegemony.
Vopium was founded in 2006 by Pakistani entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. Users download software to their mobile phone, which then re-routes calls over the internet. It was initially founded to allow cheap calling to Pakistan, India and Bangladesh but launched throughout the world last year.
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Antenna design on new iPhone is acknowledged as source of poor connectivity - but Apple says problem is inevitable and advises different grip. Or you could try duct tape...
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MPs' expenses full list of claims from July to December 2009. Photograph: Eddie Mulholland/AP
Despite the best efforts of the House of Commons, we've managed to extract every MP expenses claim as a spreadsheet. See how the numbers add up
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Nike's big-budget World Cup 2010 video will long rank among the best in commercial video virals, but there's an independently-produced World Cup-themed video that's touching 2m views.
This week's top viral offering comes in the guise of Lord of the Rings (always a winner). "You have my sword," "You have my bow," "And my axe," "...and my vuvu-". You'll just have to watch it. Also, who knew Europop was more annoying than vuvuzelas? Continue reading...
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Plus open source adoption in private v public sectors, a (just what you need!) HTML5 vuvuzela and more
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