Ofcom has decreed that December 11 shall be the Government’s auction day for distributing 4G spectrum to the UK’s mobile network operators. Ofcom, the UK’s telecommunications regulator has published its list of final regulations for the long awaiting 4G mobile spectrum auctions, which it claims will be the largest ever sale of mobile airwaves in […]

Nokia might like to have us believe there’s still a future for Symbian and MeeGo, but this is probably little more than a move to reassure existing customers that they should still buy an C7, N8 or E7.

Leaking information ahead of a big announcement always makes us wonder how many are really leaks, as against meticulously arrange feeds to blogs, forums and Twitter in order to generate hype.

Today I did not buy an iPhone 4.

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Everyone is talking about the new iPhone. Some people are filling their backpacks ready to spend the next week queuing outside their nearest O2 store. Others are sitting back and thinking, ‘is that it?’

Back in the 1980s every home computer had its own operating system. Going from a Commodore 64 to a BBC Micro was stepping into a very different world. The keys and graphics were all different and programs had to be written from scratch for each machine. There had been general computer operating systems before, like CP/M, but it was the arrival of Microsoft – first with MSDOS and then Windows – which established a standard. It meant that every program had the same type of menus and

We’ve moved from the days of highly insecure analogue communication to GSM and 3G, but where do things go next? 4G of course! Michael Garwood goes to Germany to find out more.