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Teach Your Granny to Text & Other Ways to Change the World

By Ewan on September 23, 2008 in Services

Teach Your Granny to Text & Other Ways to Change the World is a new book available for £6.60 on Amazon. Here’s the background: In a unique collaboration between the social change organisation We Are What We Do and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), thousands of children were invited to come up [...]

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AQL launches developer competition – £3,000 up for grabs

By Ewan on September 17, 2008 in Services

Voice and messaging provider, AQL, are staging a developer competition to both celebrate their 10th anniversary and to stimulate development across the industry. Always good news. Dr Adam Beaumont, top chap at AQL, comments: We’re seeing a host of applications crop up start to use our interfaces, from twitter-like applications and facebook plug-ins through to [...]

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Watchdog promises to clean up dodgy downloads

By Julia on May 2, 2008 in News

Apparently, the UK’s premium downloads market is in need of a clean-up. The regulator formerly known as ICSTIS – PhonepayPlus – is launching a probe of mobile premium services including ringtones and games, saying there’s “evidence of significant consumer harm”. Such evidence includes 4,500 complaints made in the first three months of this year, up [...]

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