John Lewis touts own-brand broadband ISP for the middle classes

The British middle classes’ favourite high street retailer, John Lewis, is renowned for its customer service.…

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Apple claims Aussie 3G is so good it’s 4G Novel defence for Australian iPad 4G connection claims

Apple has hit back at claims it misled Australian buyers of “the new iPad” with the unusual defense that Australia’s 3G networks are so fast they are in fact 4G in all but name.…

Nokia’s older mobes infringe IPCom patent – court Firm: New ones are fine so we don’t care

Nokia has lost a patent dispute with intellectual property firm IPCom in the Mannheim regional court in Germany.…

Rapidshare tells world+dog: Stop PIRACY now! Cyberlocker says it’s on the straight and narrow

Rapidshare wants to lose its notoriety as a haven for copyright infringement – and become a legitimate cloud service. The cyberlocker’s chief lawyer …

Metallic Glass iPhone 5 to battle pottery Samsung Galaxy S3 Rumours from Korean tech industry

The next iPhone will be cased in “Liquidmetal” says a Korean news outlet quoting “industry sources”.…

India’s new Atom-powered Xolo X900 ISN’T Intel’s first smartphone Despite the hype, Lava’s Android offering ain’t Chipzilla’s mobile debut

Intel is providing the Medfield Atom processor for the Xolo X900, an Android phone being launched in India – but despite the headlines it’s a long way from the Intel’s first smartphone.…

Mayor Boris’ Chinese vote master stroke backfires on twit clone Making as much sense on Weibo as he does in Blighty

Bouffant-topped bigwig Boris Johnson hopes to ingratiate himself with the capital’s Chinese community by climbing aboard Twitter-clone Sina Weibo …

NBNCo shoots down Turnbull’s satellite argument Quotes ITU to prove all’s well

Refutes Turnbull’s assertion of unusual risk NBNCo has moved to extinguish Malcolm Turnbull’s argument, raised at a Public Hearing of the Joint Committee into the National Broadband Network, that its decision to commission satellites before securing an orbit for them represents an unconventional and risky practice.…

O2 declares 4G trial success… with 1000 users Rhetoric ramp-up ahead of Ofcom auction

London is switching off analogue TV today, so O2 is crowing about how marvellously its 4G trials have gone, despite the two things being at opposite ends of the spectrum.…

Tunbridge Wells’ car park bonking offered new NFC logo N-Marks the spot

The NFC Forum is hoping a more laid-back …

Intel boss turns earnings call into iPhone flirt fest Apple leaves better ‘taste in mouth’ than Qualcomm

Intel boss Paul Otellini used its Q1 earnings call today to continue the chip giant’s flirty pitch to build chips for Apple’s iOS devices.…

Appcelerator ties on cloudy back-end for Titanium devs Waves $5,000 at Titanium 2.0 launch

Appcelerator has updated its Titanium mobile developer platform to add scalable cloud service integration to the back-end of applications following its acquisition of Cocoafish in February.…

BT wants to poke fingers in EVERY broadband cash pie Minister grilled as telco bids for all eight cabling gigs

Broadband minister Ed Vaizey confirmed to MPs yesterday that BT was bidding for all eight cabling projects currently in procurement.…

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ATA CEO resigns Call centre body to look for replacement

The ATA, the peak body for call centre industry, has lost its CEO Michael Meredith, who held the position for 12 years, has resigned to pursue other business activities.…

Telstra to launch MOG streaming music service Launch timed to beat Spotify?

Telstra has announced it will soon launch the MOG streaming music service on antipodean shores.…

Pew study finds one in five Americans still won’t go online Luddite fringe exposed as internet use plateaus

A hardcore 20 per cent of Americans ain’t using the internet and don’t want to neither, according to the latest survey data from the Pew Internet and American Life project.…

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Telstra says it could work with Libs NBN FTTN policy Turnbull fierce on home networking costs

Telstra could work to implement a policy change to the federal opposition’s current alternative NBN plan, a fibre-to-the-node network, representatives of the carrier today told a public hearing of the Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network.…

NBN essential for faster mobility: Vodafone Confident Huawei meets trust requirements

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) believes the NBN’s fibre to the premises is essential if mobile networks are to meet mobile device owners’ expectations.…

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Balsillie planned to bust open BlackBerry network before leaving Board rejected scheme to focus on new handsets

Ousted RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie spent his last few months at the helm developing a radical strategy to transform the fortunes of the trouble Canadian company by opening up its network to provide basic data plans to non-smartphone users.…

Fate of punters’ Megaupload files to be thrashed out in court 25PB of data could head to The Great Recycling Bin In The Sky

A court in the US could decide today whether or not to dump the files of Megaupload users, seized in the case against founder Kim Dotcom.…

ICANN: Privates leaked in top-level domain land grab blunder gTLD applications viewable by rival web biz barons

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ICANN top shelf domain rush derailed by tech glitch Not too late to register your dot brand

The closing submission to register for ICANN’s elite and pricey brand-centric generic top level domains (gTLDs ) has been extended, due to a software snafu.…

Boeing plans super-secure Android smartphone for top echelons Stealth phone due to take off later this year

Boeing is planning to launch an own-brand super secure Android smartphone for military, government, and high-level commercial users by the end of the year.…

Nokia on ‘brink of failure’, warns analyst Prepare Plan B

Nokia’s comeback will fail unless Microsoft pulls its finger out, according to one analyst. Ian Fogg of IHS isn’t isn’t optimistic, however, and recommends the Finns develop a Plan ‘B’ …