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Office landlines to be extinct in 6 years, claims study

The office landline will become extinct in November 2028, predicts analysis by business communications service Ringover Group. Business landline numbers fell 370,000 in a year to 4.98 million, reveals the latest Ofcom data. As recently as 2013 there were more than eight million in the UK’s office and workplaces. Numbers are predicted to fall below…

29th July 202129th July 2021 Chris Price Business tips

5 million UK homes never use their landline, claims report

The landline is in terminal decline, with five million households never using theirs for phone calls, reveals research by Uswitch.com, the comparison and switching service. The number of homes with a landline has fallen by four million since the year 2000 to about 22 million connections now, down 15% from its peak of being present…

22nd April 202122nd April 2021 Chris Price News

Brits sitting on £16.5 billion in UNUSED gadgets

Brits are sitting on unused gadgets worth £16.5 billion – and it could DROP in value by £3.5 billion over the next year. Researchers found the typical adult has a staggering £598 worth of superfluous gadgets - simply collecting dust and cluttering their homes. But during the past year, smart phones, computers, tablets, games consoles…

26th June 202026th June 2020 Chris Price Gadgets

Public Service Announcement: DO NOT BUY A NEW PHONE (for a week anyway)

If you've come to TechDigest today looking for advice on buying a phone, then we have one message for you: Don't. This isn't because we're anti-progress, or think that mobile phone technology peaked with the Nokia 3310 or something like that... it is out of concern for you wasting your money. Next weekend one of…

23rd February 20151st March 2015 James O'Malley Mobile phones

More signs that Sony is about to dump its phone business: Goodbye Xperia?

Back in November we reported rumours that Sony was thinking of abandoning its phone business. Today more fuel has been poured on that fire. According to Reuters Sony is aiming to boost its operating profits 25-fold over the next few years, and it plans to do it by both boosting the successful Playstation and camera…

19th February 201521st September 2020 James O'Malley Android, Mobile phones

Pope calls smartphones “futile”; takes up residence in a glass house

Pope Francis has been casting the first stone, at least according to the Daily Mail. The, umm, newspaper of record quotes Frankie as saying young people "waste too many hours on futile things" and that it distracts them from "what is really important", with the Mail saying he "added that futile activities include chatting on…

7th August 2014 James O'Malley Mobile phones