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We’ve been driven insane by spam calls – usually of the pre-recorded nature – offering ‘urgent and important’ news about PPI accident insurance or some other annoying rubbish.
BT BT6500 landline phone blocks cold callers, sadly unlikely to be very effective Read More
According to data from price comparison website uSwitch, Samsung managed to dominate the UK smartphone market in January, occupying all three top slots.
Samsung smartphones crush iPhone in UK January sales study Read More
The BBC is reporting that DVD rental firm Blockbuster is the latest UK High Street firm to go into administration, introducing the prospect of major job losses ahead.
Blockbuster DVD firm goes into administration Read More
It’s a bad day for photographers – and the British High Street – with the news that all 187 Jessops stores are to close for good this evening.
All Jessops photographic stores to close for good tonight – important customer information posted up Read More
Gor blimey Guv’nor. Would you Adam and Eve it? Free wi-fi in Sherbert Dabs! Lovely jubbly! Or, in other words, a new start up is rolling out a free, advert-supported wi-fi service for passengers using the iconic London …
Free high speed wi-fi coming to London taxi cabs Read More
We thought that The Daily was a crap idea to start off with, and News Corp head honcho Rupert Murdoch has now admitted that iPad-only newspaper is destined for the bin after …
Murdoch’s iPad-only newspaper The Daily shuts down after proving a costly flop Read More
As American shoppers found themselves in the grip of the Black Friday shopping frenzy, there were some sickening sights to be seen at a Walmart store in Moultrie, Georgia, as near-rabid …
Crowds turn feral in disgraceful Black Friday Walmart shopping scramble Read More
Samsung’s dominance of the smartphone market continue to grow, with new research by ABI Research and Strategy Analytics showing the South Korean multinational taking more than a third of the overall …
Samsung smartphones outsell Apple by two to one Read More
The hugely popular crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has announced that UK users will be able to launch their projects on the service starting from October 31st, 2012.
Kickstarter UK launches on October 31st, users invited to building start projects right now Read More
For well over a year now we’ve been subjected to an endless torrent of landline phone spam, and with BT shrugging its shoulders over our growing complaints, we’re getting increasingly …
BT and the curse of phone marketing spam. Not their problem, apparently Read More
It looks like the days of Apple’s iOS being the dominant smartphone operating system are long, long gone, as a new report from IDC sees Android enjoying an almighty 68.1 per cent market share for …
Android wipes out iOS with an immense market share in Q2 2012 Read More
We’ve given up trying to keep up with Apple’s generally dubious claims to get rival products banned off the shelves around the world, but were pleased to discover that their latest attempts …
Apple loses two more dodgy UK court cases against HTC and Samsung Read More
Virgin Media has just hopped on the unlimited bandwidth wagon, serving up a series of competitive ‘Premiere’ tariffs with free insurance included for Virgin customers.
Virgin Media to launch unlimited mobile data tariffs, starting at £21 a month Read More
We’re not a happy bunch at Wirefresh after learning that we may have lost over half a grand courtesy of some shady goings-on at the High Street photo chain Jacobs Digital who …
Jacobs Digital Photos takes our cash, lies and goes into administration. AVOID at all costs Read More
There’s lots of canoodling going on between the gangs at O2 and Vodafone right now, as the big boy networks have announced that they’re teaming up to combine networks and …
O2 and Vodafone cuddle up to provide wider network coverage Read More