Industry News & Chat
All our records are safe - honest!
Human error is the "official" reason for a two-day outage of a web-based customer account management system used by America's second-largest long-distance phone company.…
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Orange to bundle free Eee with HSDPA modem, airtime
SCC subsidised
Orange will tomorrow offer Brits Asus' newly announced Eee PC 900 16G for... well... nothing at all. Orange will expect however, punters to sign up for a two-year, £25-a-month airtime contract.…
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BT seals free Digital Vault
Download or pay £4.99
BT will shutter its free 2GB online storage service and press users to take a £4.99 per month 50GB package, it said today.…
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Be Unlimited pulls plug on home CCTV service
Disabled customer marooned by sudden withdrawal
A wheelchair user faces losing vital security and independence because his broadband provider Be Unlimited is withdrawing a recently launched network CCTV service.…
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Palm lets slip Treo Pro piccies
HSDPA version of Treo 800w?
Palm's upcoming Treo Pro, the smartphone formerly assumed to be the Treo 850, has made an early appearance on the web - courtesy of the manufacturer itself.…
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Ofcom knocks back spectrum auction
T-Mobile and O2 still fighting their corner
Ofcom has admitted it will not start the auction of three chunks of 2GHz spectrum in October as promised, pushing the date back as litigation from T-Mobile and O2 drags on.…
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Virgin Media ADSL punters suffer 2-day email meltdown
Tucows: Silly name, silly systems
Virgin Media says engineers are working to restore full email service to its ADSL subscribers after a hardware failure at partner Tucows downed the system.…
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Yahoo! knows! where! you! are!
Fire Eagle takes off
Yahoo's punter-locating database officially launched yesterday and already has privacy advocates in a flap, despite offering users complete control as well as expecting them to lie every now and then.…
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Samsung builds phone from corn
A-maize-ing
A mobile phone with a case made entirely from an eco-friendly material has been unveiled by Samsung.…
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Twitter falls silent in the UK
Free service cuts off SMS delivery
Twitter has stopped sending SMS updates to UK customers, thus leaving them unaware of the latest important updates on what their friends had for breakfast.…
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