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Neelie Kroes and Werner Vogels honored with lifetime achievement awards at TNW Europe Conference

Apr23
by on April 23, 2015 at 9:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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The Next Web’s Europe Conference kicked off today in Amsterdam, starting with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and The Netherlands’ Special Startup Envoy Neelie Kroes being honored at the event. The Next Web’s first annual Technology Lifetime Achievement Awards were conferred on Vogels and Kroes for their contributions to the industry in The Netherlands by Amsterdam’s Deputy Mayor Kajsa Ollongren. Vogels has been responsible for realizing Amazon’s vision of delivering innovative products and services to its customers across the globe. His background in computer science research informs his ability to bring academic work into the technology industry at scale. After an illustrious…

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Carphone Warehouse is launching its own mobile service in the UK next month

Apr23
by on April 23, 2015 at 8:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile, Product Launches, UK

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Carphone Warehouse has today confirmed that it will be launching its own operator service in May, called iD. The service will be underpinned by Three’s network infrastructure, and looks to differentiate itself from national rivals like EE or Vodafone with its data roaming plans, just like Three does. The company says that iD customers will get access to their regular data allowances in 22 different countries: Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the US. While it’s not saying much about the actual plans it…

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Facebook video is on course to steal YouTube’s video sharing crown

Apr23
by on April 23, 2015 at 8:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion

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Facebook video is big and it’s getting bigger. For the first time, YouTube really needs to worry about losing its position as the king of online video. Facebook video, which is relatively young in comparison to YouTube which launched in 2005, is now delivering 4 billion daily viewers. That’s up from 3 billion views every day, which was announced in January 2015. Facebook has had the ability to upload video for a number of years, but didn’t get serious about it until 2014 when it adjusted its algorithms to weight video more heavily. By contrast, YouTube reached the 4 billion video…

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EE introduces new own-brand devices, including £200 5.2″ full HD ‘Harrier’ smartphone

Apr23
by on April 23, 2015 at 8:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Launches

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EE has introduced a new range of own-brand 4G-capable devices in a bid to capitalize on any remaining momentum it has from the launch of devices like the Kestrel and Eagle almost one year ago. First up is the 5.2-inch full HD display-equipped Harrier, which also has an 1.5Ghz octa-core processor and 13-megapixel camera. It also supports EE’s recently introduced Wi-Fi calling feature that allows you to route voice and SMS via Wi-Fi if you have no cellular coverage. The Harrier will be priced at £199.99 on pay-as-you-go (PAYG) or free on 4GEE plans costing from £21.99 when it arrives on April 28. Alongside…

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