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Affordable Data "Sachets" Help Asians Gain Their First Internet Experience At a recent seminar in London, I received an update from Telenor on its ambitious strategy to bring Internet services ...

Is Nuance Neutrality in Danger? This could just be a Monday-afternoon market rumour: Samsung is said to be holding acquisition talks with Nuance Communications, the company that owns input technologies ...

Skype-Based Internet Camera Needs More Polish Having talked about the Amaryllo iCam HD Internet camera as an interesting Internet of things example in presentations for a few months, I recently ...

Consumer Electronics Devices Aren't Medical Devices... Yet Google is expected to introduce Google Fit, a competing service to Apple's recently introduced HealthKit and Samsung's Sami, at the Google I/O developers' ...

To Fill Its Maps Gap, Apple May Need to Go Dutch Apple's recent Beats buy (see Instant Insight: Apple Acquires Beats) forces us to think about other gaps in Apple's ...

As More "Kill Switch" Laws Are Proposed, a PR Disaster Looms The statistics are worrying: in the US, 10 percent of smartphone users have had their devices stolen, in some ...

The Operator Is Enjoying Solid Growth in the Market One market in the Vodafone group stood out for strong performance amid the company's generally downbeat set of financial results for ...

The Finnish Company Hopes to Carve out a Niche among Android Manufacturers and Users I recently had an interesting update on Jolla and its Sailfish OS from its CMO, Sami ...

Proposed Tie-Up Could Usher in the Age of the Connected Toaster After both firms confirmed rumours that they were in talks in February, Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse have finally ...

Start-Ups Must Be Realistic to Preserve Support I've seen many wearable technology start-ups using crowd-funding Web sites to finance their concepts over the past two years. Some have been spectacularly ...