Telecoms
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Are you an iconoclastic Lumia owner? Try out these shortcuts for smooth operation
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Plans to permit a range of businesses to operate as payment banks could revitalise the mobile money industry
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Janus Friis is backing a communications startup that claims to solve ‘nagging problems’ in messaging, voice and file sharing. Can it really be the ‘ground up reimagination’ he claims?
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The City is alive with speculation that BT’s attempts to buy its way back into the mobile phone market could spark a series of takeovers in a sector where converging technology is changing the rules of the game. By Juliette Garside
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Social network stresses that its new data collection initiative can be turned off by people who feel uneasy about it
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Top five most risky items for Christmas shoppers has Ugg boots and Barbour jackets in third and fourth, with iPads fifth
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David Prowse: I’d rather help children than scare them – which is why I’m returning to my passion for road safety to combat the menace of smartphones and headphones
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Shares in British telecoms company leap after it confirms talks with O2 owner and also with EE
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Nils Pratley: An outright purchase of 02 or EE would change the script radically. BT would pitch itself into the frontline of the mobile battle
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Investors hoping for the next WhatsApp are piling in to US startup despite criticism over cyberbullying
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‘Nation state’ most likely behind development of stealth malware Regin, say antivirus experts
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Callers to 111 and 101 numbers had been unable to get through for several hours on Saturday due to technical difficulties
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Originally published in the Guardian on 21 November 1966: Downing Street is swamped by telephone calls when a London newspaper prints the phone number in a cartoon
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Security boost initially available within WhatsApp’s Android app, but will also come to iOS version. By Tom Fox-Brewster
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USA Freedom Act faces tough path to 60 votes despite ‘strong support’ of White House, but privacy advocates believe bill lacks the teeth to end dragnet surveillance
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The most valuable corporation on Earth has the power to make or break a company through its supplier relationships. By Charles Arthur
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Human rights committee finds the plan to retain data for two years could have a ‘chilling effect’ on journalists
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Major telecoms, lobbyist groups and politicians sharply respond to president’s call for greater regulation of internet as utility
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End of the road for the Finnish brand as it retains the Lumia tag for a new series of affordable but well-specified mobile devices. By Chris Johnston
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David Mitchell: The home secretary’s argument that not being able to get a phone signal is in the interests of national security is truly disturbing
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The problematic process of upgrading operating systems. Daniel Tomlinson addresses readers’ concerns
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Government agencies will not be given easier access to Australians’ phone and web data
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Company to issue shares to help buy Columbus, giving billionaire John Malone 13%
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Have your say on the EFF’s latest research, plus iOS malware, streaming music royalties, Will.i.am’s smartwatch and more. By Stuart Dredge
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Patrick Barkham: Culture secretary Sajid Javid wants mobile networks to share their services to stop mobile calls from losing reception – but communication experts are sceptical
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As how we communicate constantly expands companies are creating new systems for old. (But you could still be talking to a robot)
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Protests planned outside White House and in other cities in ongoing battle over creation of internet ‘fast lanes’ by cable and telecoms companies
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Rupert Myers: I hope Theresa May wins her fight with Sajid Javid on coverage because the first world, at least, needs oases of digital peace
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Culture secretary says he could force firms to end ‘not-spots’ despite concerns it could make it harder to track terrorists
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May warns the culture secretary’s project to end mobile ‘not-spots’ may have a negative impact on law enforcement
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Collaboration between NGOs, banks and mobile operators can help get remote communities access to bank accounts, writes Christine Svarer
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Both my original and my new EE number belonged to someone called ‘Denise’
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The budget provider’s above inflation price hike will come into force on 1 December
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Proposed data retention regime will force internet and phone companies to store web, call and location data for two years – and government agencies won’t need a warrant to access it
Topics
- Mobile phones (Technology)
- Telecommunications industry
- Internet
- Smartphones
- Apps
- Social networking
- Consumer affairs
- Sajid Javid
- Data and computer security
- Theresa May
- Surveillance
- Apple
- Privacy
- Digital media
- iPhone
- O2
- Australian politics
- Mobile phones (Money)
- Australian security and counter-terrorism
- Australian intelligence agencies
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