May 7th, 2013

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Britain’s smartphones are at risk of becoming “app graveyards” according to uSwitch, which claims that 29% of Britons use less than a quarter of the apps they have downloaded regularly. The company...

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April 25th, 2013

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Smartphone penetration among UK teenagers is well ahead of that of their US counterparts, eMarketer claims. According to the company’s report, UK Teens: Pocketable PCs Empowering a Generation, about...

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April 3rd, 2013

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The British games industry is “young, independent and mobile” according to research from UK games body TIGA, which highlighted the importance of mobile and tablets. The survey found that 37% of all...

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March 26th, 2013

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The arrival of universal 4G in the UK could lead to a 113% rise in mobile shopping, eBay has claimed, theoretically boosting the retail economy by around £1.8bn a year. These figures, which are based...

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January 21st, 2013

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For anyone in the UK who has ever pondered the relative merits of Netflix and LoveFilm, help is at hand thanks to a new survey from Oric, which found that Netflix offers more TV titles, while LoveFilm...

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November 27th, 2012

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Some £3.5bn of festive shopping in the UK will be “influenced” by smartphones this year, according to Deloitte. This total includes £330m of actual sales by smartphones and £500m via tablets, triple...

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November 23rd, 2012

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Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD and HD+ devices go on sale in the UK this week, arriving at a heavyweight line up of retailers that includes John Lewis, Argos, Asda, Dixons, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Blackwell’s...

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November 22nd, 2012

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Almost half of the UK’s online population has played games in the last year according to a new survey from the Interactive Software Federation of Europe, although app games still lag behind packaged...

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October 25th, 2012

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite tablets are now on sale to British consumers, marking the first time any Kindle Fire device has come to the UK. The Kindle Fire HD, which launched...

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