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RIM the company behind Blackerry has introduced Blackberry TAG an application for Blackberry v7 devices with NFC (near field communications) that allows Blackberry users to touch each other’s phones together and they can transfer information (such as Blackberry messenger IDs) to each other.

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BT Wholesale and Everything Everywhere have launched a trial of LTE (long term evolution or 4G) services running in Cornwall.

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Ofcom, the regulator that deals with broadcast, media, telecoms, radio and now the postal service has once again delayed the 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum auctions which now won’t happen until at least the Q4 2012.

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Nuance the company that pretty well dominates the text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) market is now taking over the whole device input market too. It previously acquired Tegic (who produced the T9 text input system from AOL for $265m in 2007.

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Steve Jobs has died at the young age of 56 after years of fighting cancer.

He has affected many people in many ways, mainly good though in the early years at Apple he was thought of as a bully but mellowed after being kicked out and then brought back in.

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Droidcon is the London Android conference and it’s taking place at the Business Design Centre in Islington over 2 days (6th and 7th Oct 2011).

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Intel has decided to drop Meego (the combined efforts of its own Moblin efforts and Nokia’s Maemo) in favour of a new Linux mobile OS known as Tizen which comes out of the Linux Foundation and LiMo Foundation.

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Amazon is expected to release it’s new colour Kindle (Fire) tablet tomorrow (28th Sept 2011).

It’s expected to be a 7″ tablet (similar to the Blackberry Playbook) featuring a dual core Texas Instruments OMAP processor (ARM based). It will run a forked version of Google’s Android operating system that does not come with any of the Google applications installed, including Android Marketplace.

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Ofcom, the regulator that deals with broadcast, telecoms and radio has published a statement that will stop telecoms and broadband providers from automatically renewing contracts for those services.

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Ofcom, the super regulator that looks after broadcast, radio and telecoms has issued a statement about protecting number ranges and intends to charge for their use.

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