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#in Mobile phone firms are losing $58bn (£36bn) a year worldwide to billing errors and fraud, a report says. Juniper Research found operators were “leaking” revenue because the complexity of networks made fraud and errors harder to spot. The problem is worst in Africa and the Middle East, where 15% of revenue is lost annually, compared with 1% in Europe and about 2.8% in North America. The mobile industry is estimated to have generated $920bn in 2011. Click top link to read more.

NEWS: £36bn lost by mobile firms per year globally due to billing errors

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#in All the latest re the latest in the Galaxy S series – follow the link

INSIGHT: Latest on Galaxy S3

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So, your iPhone can pretty much handle everything accept bringing you your slippers and fetching a stick…but wait! Bandai are trying to change that by turning your iPhone into man’s best friend.  Click the link to see more…

NEWS: Turn your iPhone into a dog – Click Here

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cnet: Study: Siri is just all right with most iPhone users (Image Credit: Parks Associates) Article What do you think of Siri? A useful tool or novelty toy?

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INSIGHT: Text to 911 is coming – a sign of things to come in the UK?

cnnmoneytech: The FCC is in the midst of a Text-to-911 exhibition fair this week. I fully expect us to see this in the next few years: –David

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toptumbles: Elephant plays with a Galaxy Note Love it! 

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“I have just been through a week of utter tech hell,” says Hamish Thompson, managing director of Twelve Thirty Eight, a small public relations firm that he founded in 2007. “At one point I experienced something akin to Stockholm Syndrome, having finally got through to someone at a call centre for one of our ‘service providers’,” he says. “I’m actively searching for an affordable external support option, having naively assumed that I could do it all myself and with some support from colleagues.” Thompson’s experience is typical of that of many small firms who know what they need in terms of technology, but are struggling to work out where to turn to get it. Click the link to read on…

NEWS: Who should small businesses choose to run their IT? – Click Here

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Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft has begun to bear fruit as sales of its devices running on the WP7 platform have outstripped Nokia’s Symbian handsets in Great Britain. The Lumia 800 handset accounted for 87 per cent of WP7 sales in the market, according to latest data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, while Germany remains the strongest market for WP7, with market share for the OS now up to 3.1 per cent.

NEWS: Windows Phone overtakes Symbian

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An end is in sight to the problem of people who have had their mobile phones stolen being landed with enormous bills – an issue repeatedly highlighted by Guardian Money over the past four years. The telecoms regulator has given mobile phone companies until the summer to come up with plans to introduce caps on their customers’ monthly bills to prevent what has been dubbed “bill shock”.

NEWS: Mobile bill shock – Click Here

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From Norwich to New York, hotspots are pulsing on every street. A messy urban patchwork of Wi-Fi signals is being gradually woven into a blanket of coverage which may soon be equal to the signals pumped out by mobile phone masts. Wireless Fidelity (a non-scientific term invented by marketing people) is considered easy to hack, and the signals can often be weak, or password protected. But they are usually free and once in, they work at speeds well above the average mobile connection. Even for phone users, Wi-Fi has become the most popular way of accessing the internet. So why are mobile phone companies planning to spend billions connecting us to the internet via 4G phone masts? Click the link to read more…

NEWS: Wi-Fi is drawing power from the mobile phone mast – Click Here

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