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Soon u’ll b able to pay by txt 2!
18 Feb 2011 | Filed under: Industry CommentO2, Britain’s largest single mobile phone operator, is applying for a financial services licence to allow its customers to text each other money. The move means that O2 has become the first UK mobile operator to prepare an application for the new e-money licence. Matthew Key, chief executive of Telefonica Europe, the Spanish owner of [...]
BT profits soar as broadband business takes off – but it takes 7 weeks to get a telephone line installed!
04 Feb 2011 | Filed under: Industry CommentBBC News reports that BT has said that it attracted 53% of all new broadband customers to its services in the last three months of 2010, the highest since 2003. Its broadband TV service, BT Vision, won 40,000 new customers, compared with 24,000 in the previous three months. The numbers were released with BT’s third-quarter [...]
New plug will save you £1 a day
26 Jan 2011 | Filed under: Efficiency savingsA new energy saving product has been tested on the UK market in the hope that it can help consumers reduce the energy use of their home appliances. Researchers at Imperial College have conducted trials into a new green plug, which can cut the energy consumption of consumer electronics by 41 per cent on average. For IT [...]
Is this energy solution really as good as it seems?
17 Jan 2011 | Filed under: Compliance, Industry Comment, SustainabilityShale gas has been hailed as the solution to declining world energy resources with enough reserves to last into the next century. Shale gas has become an energy phenomenon since firms in the US found economic ways of extracting gas previously trapped in shale rocks, which have metamorphosed from clay deposits under pressure and heat. The process [...]
Power used by mobile chargers left plugged into the wall equals the output of a large power plant
10 Jan 2011 | Filed under: Efficiency savings, Industry CommentAt the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, chip manufacturer Freescale announced the availability in the USA of Watt Saver, a system that eliminates the “vampire” power draw of wall chargers for mobile phones and other small electronics. Even when wall chargers are no longer plugged into phones, the chargers still draw a small trickle [...]
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