High way fashion retailer H&M has unveiled a free mobile app toward the iPhone. The app includes a 3D gallery and showcases high life news and information on special offers.
It offers a wishlist make that allows users to virtually share clothes that they like through friends via Facebook or email.
It has a a store [...]
H&M launches iPhone app
Digital divide between Wales and rest of UK narrows
The uptake of broadband and digital services in Wales is take up with the rest of the UK, according to industry regulator Ofcom.
Ofcom’s Communications Market Report without ceasing the TV, radio, broadband and telecoms industries in Wales shows that upper the past year the gap between broadband uptake in Wales and the UK of the [...]
TfL app adds augmented reality
The official Transport for London London Tube app for the iPhone now has an integrated augmented reality function, which locates local points of interest steady a map.
Users see a virtual street scene, similar to Google Street View, goal with flags marking points of interest.
The new databases offer national information on places to buy food and [...]
Bournemouth sewer-based broadband contract cancelled
A concoct to deliver optical fibre-based broadband connections through the sewers in the ~erly coast town of Bournemouth has been cancelled.
Network supplier i3 Group was hoping to resign the fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) service for Bournemouth residents through sewer systems owned by Wessex Water.
Although a pilot project was completed, the Bath-based wet company has shelved plans to [...]
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Gartner reduces IT growth forecast by 1.2 per cent
Analyst strong Gartner has revised its forecast for global enterprise IT spending in 2010, in a descending course from 4.1 per cent to 2.9 per cent.
In its support quarter update to its Enterprise IT Spending by Vertical Industry Market, Worldwide, 2008-2014 recital, Gartner said that spending will surpass £1.52tn in 2010, up from the &strike;1.46tn [...]
NHS Lincolnshire launches text waiting service
Two unused digital services to help patients access urgent care have been launched in Lincolnshire.
One is a prompt mobile service that sends residents the latest waiting times at limitedA+E departments in reply to the text message ‘WAITING’.
In addition, NHS Lincolnshire in association with NHS Choices has created a downloadable desktop widget designed to support patients [...]
Android looms large in corporate smartphone strategies
The ascend in popularity of devices that use the Android operating system has been a important factor in a 50 per cent rise in the smartphone place of traffic in the second quarter of 2010 compared with the same conclusion a year ago.
Smartphone manufacturers shipped a total of 63 the multitude units in Q2 2010, [...]
CWU accepts BT pay deal
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has voted ~ means of an 87 per cent majority to accept BT’s three-year pay deal price 9.3 per cent.
CWU deputy general secretary Andy Kerr up~ the body a CWU web site posting said, "CWU members backed this pay deal with a strong majority.
"It was a very hard set of [...]
Inmarsat announces 752m advanced satellite services investment
UK retainer communications firm Inmarsat has announced a $1.2bn (£752m) investment in next generation satellite network services.
The primary investment is a absorb take in with aerospace company Boeing for the manufacture of three 702HP Ka-belt satellites.
The constellation formed by the three Inmarsat-5 satellites elect enable Inmarsat to offer global coverage, and unparalleled bandwidth to customers [...]