The RAC has reported an increase in the number of people accessing the internet behind the wheel using their mobile phones.

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VIDEO: Rise in drivers using mobiles

Standard & Poor’s dropped the company’s bond rating to junk status and lowered its outlook for the Finnish handset maker following low sales of its smartphones.

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Bits Blog: S.&P. Downgrades Nokia’s Bonds to ‘Junk’

Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of the mobile start-up Instagram is motivating the tech world to shift its focus to mobile from computers, with some asking: Who needs the Web?

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Instagram Deal Is Billion-Dollar Move Toward Cellphone From PC

Facebook said it would make its largest acquisition yet, buying Instagram, a social network built around photography and an out-of-nowhere Internet hit.

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The National Audit Office criticises an £80m Home Office programme to equip police forces with Blackberrys and other mobile devices.

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The National Audit Office criticises an £80m Home Office programme to equip police forces with Blackberrys and other mobile devices.

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Blackberrys for police criticised

Prince Harry drove to try to find a friend who was mugged while speaking to the royal on his mobile phone, according to a source.

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Sweden’s Ericsson has agreed to sell its stake in the struggling cellphone maker Sony Ericsson to Sony for $1.5 billion in a final retreat from the mobile handset business.

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DealBook: Sony to Buy Ericsson’s Stake in Handset Venture for $1.5 Billion

The Coast Guard and BP have returned to the scene of last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster after a newspaper reported numerous oily blobs rising to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico a mile from the site. BP is sending a robotic submersible to examine the blown-out well that was cemented last August and declared dead a month later. An initial search turned up no sign of oil at the surface, and BP said in a statement late Thursday that there is no indication that its Macondo well is leaking. But the report by the Press-Register in Mobile, Ala., has incited a flurry of investigatory activity around the well, which blew out on April 20, 2010, in what became the worst oil spill in U.S. history . Read full article > >

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The Coast Guard and BP have returned to the scene of last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster after a newspaper reported numerous oily blobs rising to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico a mile from the site. BP is sending a robotic submersible to examine the blown-out well that was cemented last August and declared dead a month later. An initial search turned up no sign of oil at the surface, and BP said in a statement late Thursday that there is no indication that its Macondo well is leaking. But the report by the Press-Register in Mobile, Ala., has incited a flurry of investigatory activity around the well, which blew out on April 20, 2010, in what became the worst oil spill in U.S. history . Read full article > >

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Coast Guard, BP return to scene of Gulf of Mexico spill after reports of oil blobs

Taking a stroll may soon be enough to re-charge your mobile phone, after US researchers developed a way to capture energy from human motion.

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Smartphones ‘could be powered by walking’

A man accused of threatening to post a video of him having sex with his ex-partner on Facebook is to hand over his mobile phone for forensic analysis.

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Sex video accused provides phone

The baby chicks arrive by mail in spring, 50 to a box, no bigger than the eggs they will later lay. We gently lift them out, one by one, let them take a sip of water from a paper cup to make sure they know how, then put them under a heat lamp in their mobile field house. Waiting for them is a tray of freshly chopped dandelion greens, their first hit of calcium, chlorophyll and Vitamin C. That’s the first step in an often strange food partnership in which they get the best fare we can conjure up, and we eat the best eggs that ever graced our table. Read full article > >

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A chicken farmer learns to eat like a bird

For many, young people playing tinny music to each other on public transport on their mobile phones can be intensely irritating. Why do they do it?

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Why do people play music in public through a phone?

The News of the World owner formally apologises in court to the actress Sienna Miller for hacking into several of her mobile phones.

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