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Gr8 news: Mobile phone text message celebrates 20th birthday

SMS message

LOL! The first ever text message, wishing someone (a very early) Merry Christmas was sent 20 years ago today. And we're all still hapilly texting one another 2 decades l8r.

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Just how fast is EE's 4G network? We find out

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EE's 4G network is now live in 11 UK cities, but just how quick is it? We put it to the test in locations across London.

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O2 causes outrage by doubling roaming costs – or does it?

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‘Price gouge' is an evocative term. Earlier this week a press release did the rounds explaining how O2 had just announced huge increases in its roaming costs outside the EU - naturally, we were meant to be outraged.

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Nobody cares that there's Intel inside a mobile phone

Intel Medfield reference smartphone

Intel is living in wonderland if it thinks people are going to buy a mobile phone based on the chip it uses.

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7.5 features the Apple iPhone 5 definitely won’t have

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As speculation atop speculation about the iPhone 5 whirrs into excess, we ponder the key features that Apple will inevitably leave out of its latest wonder-phone.

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Why I disabled the Facebook app on my phone

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One of the frustrations with the Android phone that I share with my wife is getting notifications of Facebook updates and emails telling me about those same updates. I tried disabling Facebook notifications but that didn't really work. I was resigned to just clearing the notifications every so often. Then an update for the Facebook app appeared; before installing it I read through the permissions and as a result promptly disabled the app.

It's not that I distrust Facebook, but the app wants an awful lot of control over my phone. Click on the Read more link for full details but suffice it to say that I just copied and pasted the full list from the Google Play website. I'd have spent all afternoon writing them out otherwise.

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