Musings on Nokia’s acquisition of the remaining shares in the Symbian operating system

For the second time in the space of a year, Apple and its iPhone have hit the headlines.

This week, BackSlap was ready to complain to Trading Standards after taking delivery of, and promptly dropping, a shiny new ‘Secret’ phone from LG.

Dispatches: The Mobile Phone Rip-Off graced our television screens last Monday to expose “one of the biggest consumer scandals of recent times” but could the misrepresentation of these issues to audiences at home cause more unwarranted damage within the industry than anticipated?

Along with a few other heretics such as The Daily Mail’s Andrew Alexander and ex-chancellor Lord Lawson, Ian White suspects so-called Global Warming is the biggest con since the “45-minute” dossier that led us into a useless war about fictitious WMD.

Since leaving University in 2002, Michael Garwood’s life has been a bit of a rollercoaster, full of ups and downs twists and turns but with no real satisfaction at the end

It’s like winning the lottery. Not

So, what does the annual Mobile Industry Customer Satisfaction Survey (MICS) tell us, apart from the fact Orange appears to be on the slide?

In the last few weeks, a new tool for unlocking the Apple iPhone has come to market.

It’s Dongle Central over at 3, according to Kevin Russell. The network’s UK chief executive says wireless modems (aka dongles) have been selling like the proverbial.