Mobile tone tunes withdrawn
Hundreds of mobile phone ring tones are being scrapped after their composers got fed up of having their tunes reduced...
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4th December 2001
28th November 2001
Japan targets China’s 3G market
Japan's leading handset makers, NEC and Matsushita, are working on a joint venture to cash in on China's future market...
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6th September 2001
Vodafone fails 3G test
Vodafone has admitted that its third-generation (3G) mobile phone networks will not be fast enough initially to offer full...
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24th July 2001
Cadbury targets mobile marketing
As the confectionery giant Cadbury prepares to launch the UK's biggest ever text messaging marketing campaign, our e-commerce reporter John...
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19th July 2001
Vodafone backtracks on 3G
Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile phone firm, has admitted that the launch of its third-generation (3G) phone services could well...
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10th June 2001
BBC ‘breaks txt record’
A BBC television-meets-telephone text messaging experiment has been hailed a record-breaking success. The Joy of Text show, screened on BBC...
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14th May 2001
BT delays first 3G mobile launch
The launch of the world's first third generation mobile phone service on the Isle of Man has been delayed by...
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14th May 2001
Waterman slams ‘rip-off’ ring tones
Veteran songwriter and producer Pete Waterman has criticised musical mobile phone ring tones as a "waste of money". Waterman airs...
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11th May 2001
Text me a soap
You can get sports updates, bank balances and stock prices via the short message service (SMS) on your mobile phone...
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25th April 2001
How do 3G phones work?
As technology develops it gets harder and harder to work out what has changed when a new gadget or widget...
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