Amazon has come up with an offer which is probably sweeter than Apple’s Back to School offers. However, the deal is available only to the Kindle owners. Amazon is allowing you to rent textbooks, thus saving you up to 80 percent of the retail price you otherwise will have to pay for buying them. The [...]

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O2 has launched its own ‘deals’ program called ‘Priority Moments’ for offering you big discounts on stuff like cinema tickets and books. The service is available on mobile phones and hits you with location based offers. O2 has already tied with 30 big brands in the UK. “Priority Moments” app is available for both Android [...]

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As we all get caught up in the smartphone resolution it’s easy to forget that the technology is recently new and that a sparkling new iPhone or HTC desire is essentially a luxury. There’s, believe it or not, still people walking around with a humble mobile phone (the non-smart variety.) But even the most tech-phobic, [...]

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Things have been getting increasingly difficult for coupon site Groupon. The firm is facing decline in revenue as the rival firms are posing a big challenge. Apart from the several me-too and poorly funded startups, there are some formidable names in the fray too. The latest entrant in the field is Nokia, which rumors suggest [...]

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BT really need a new PR team. Why? Well what do you not say if you’re a telecommunications service? The answer- “We need a communications diet”, note diet not a feast. The British comms giants commissioned an international survey which found that a third of people feel “overwhelmed by communications technology and want to escape [...]

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Ofcom consumer research has come out with its new report which claims that the Orange provides the tardiest mobile internet service in the UK. The company’s 3G service is used by almost 17 percent of UK household, which provides average speed of about 1.4Mbps only. O2, on the other hand, provides the fastest 3G service. [...]

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This week brought lots of new launches, some hotly anticipated, some not so much. Samsung Galaxy II is certainly in the first category though. Vodafone has brought Galaxy II to the market and it is available for free with a two year contract. Though, you will need to pay £40 per month for enjoying the [...]

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It sure must suck to be a Non-Apple tablet. RIM’s PlayBook is out and apparently had not been able to generate even a fraction of the buzz which an iPad creates. The tablet was greeted by almost empty stores in Canada and the US. After witnessing the dismal sales numbers of Samsung Galaxy Tab and [...]

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