Britain’s most popular touchscreen phone is now free on a 12 month contract with 10 months free line rental. The discount needs to be claimed by sending off your bills at months 6, 8, 10 and 12, saving you a total of £350. Line rental is £35 per month on Vodafone and you get 300 anytime minutes to any network and unlimited texts. Compared to the original Samsung F480 Tocco, the Tocco LIte... 

April 1, 2010 by Rapid TV News Website: Rapid TV News Kuwait’s KIPCO owns and finances the Orbit-Showtime pay-TV operation in the Middle East. It has just suffered its second downgrade from the Standard & Poor’s ratings agency in a week. KIPCO is connected to Kuwait’s ruling Al Sabah family. KIPCO saw its long-term and short-term credit ratings was marked down yesterday, and last... 

April 1, 2010 by Rapid TV News Website: Rapid TV News Electronics giant Sony is selling its LCD production facility in Yasu, Japan to arch-rival Kyocera. Sony will suffer a significant loss on the Y18,5bn that it paid just 5 years ago to buy the factory. Yasu makes smaller LCD displays, mostly used in mobile phones and similar-sized devices. Sony bought the factory from Taiwan’s Chi Mei Optoelectronics... 

April 1, 2010 by Rapid TV News Website: Rapid TV News Bosnian TV station Studio 99 has been bought by Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera says it intends to establish a regional TV centre for the Balkans based in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Al Jazeera will take over the radio and television channel from the Sarajevo city government, which acquired it several months ago under a plan to establish a public... 

April 1, 2010 by Rapid TV News Website: Rapid TV News Pinewood Shepperton Teddington is the UK’s largest film and television studio operator, and provided the sound stages for the James Bond series and recent hits like Nanny McPhee, saw its profits fall last year. Pinewood Shepperton posted a 24% fall in full-year (pre-tax) profits, but said its contracted revenues for 2010 to date was ahead... 

Instant messaging is something that mobile phones have almost offered for many years, as texting friends rather than calling them has become standard practice amongst people of all ages. The Samsung C3510 messaging functions are extensive and it is instant messaging that it performs with aplomb. Samsung realises that in the modern world there is no single instant messaging platform that is more important... 

In theory a modern mobile phone should be able to provide the user with masses of onboard storage space and most manufacturers will boast that their latest handsets can hold 4, 8, 16 or 32 gigabytes of data. In reality, this is only possible if the user is willing to go out and buy a microSD card, as keeping costs and size down usually means that phones are given a minimal allocation of internal... 

The HTC Tattoo is a mobile that aims to make smartphone technology far more accessible. Hardware is no longer the central part of any mobile phone’s selling points, as the rise in popularity of applications and excellent download platforms has overtaken the physical components powering mobiles. As a result most people will choose the Tattoo because of its Android operating system and the Android... 

If you’ve ever tried switching network provider (and I suspect that’s the majority), then I suspect you’ll have encountered the unimaginable horror of trying to get your mobile phone number transferred. Well fear no longer… On the same day at it announced sweeping cuts to Mobile Termination Rates Ofcom has further gone up in our estimation by enforcing a ‘one working... 

Yes, we’ve heard about the ferrets powering Virgin Media, the literal wave notifications for Google Wave, circle line planned for the LHC II, YouTube TEXTp compression system, Google Translate for animals, Toshiba 4D TV with ‘ScentVision’ and – my personal favourite – Apple admitting the “iPad is a massive joke” (via CNet). On the other hand, this ruling...