Auctions: Fangio's daily driver can be yours

Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:04
1970 IKA Torino 380S

Sometimes, little pieces of automotive history pop up, that are so rare and eccentric, that they're hard to pass up. This is one of those times. The car shown above is a 1970 IKA Torino 380S, which has had a very special owner. It'll be crossing the block at the Silverstone Auctions NEC Classic Motor Show Sale on November 15 and 16 in Birmingham,

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BT returns to mobile phone business with EE deal

Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:04

More than 10 years after selling off O2 network, BT to offer 4G smartphone connections bundled with broadband, landline calls and pay TV in bid for edge over BSkyB

BT is back in the consumer mobile phone business after signing a partnership deal with EE under which the former national monopoly will return to wireless, more than a decade after it...

Broadband speeds at mercy of postcode lottery

Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:04

Choice of internet provider, price and download speeds vary hugely for users living just yards apart

Britain's broadband users are still suffering from a postcode lottery that sees some households paying twice as much for a slower service than others living less than 100 yards away.

According to a study of more than 1.7m UK postcodes by Broadbandchoi...

Samsung fingerprint scanner hoax leads to suspension of shares

Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:04

False press release said South Korean company had bought Fingerprint Cards, causing Swedish firm's shares to rise 50%

Swedish police have been alerted to a fraudulent press release which claimed Samsung had paid $650m (£407m) to buy a company developing fingerprint scanning technology.

Shares in Fingerprint Cards, a Stockholm based group developing...

Moshi Monsters: 'We're shifting our DNA away from the web to mobile'

Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:04

Mind Candy boss Michael Acton Smith also sees 'an opportunity to do in-app purchases ethically' within children's apps.

Children's virtual world Moshi Monsters has signed up more than 70m children and sold $250m of merchandise since its launch in 2008. In 2013, though, parent company Mind Candy is facing its greatest challenge: going mobile.

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Twitter fiction: Lottie Moggach

Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:04

The journalist and novelist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer

As they took their seats, she thought: at least the kids enjoyed it. As the wheels touched the tarmac at Gatwick, she turned on her phone.

• Lottie Moggach's book Kiss Me First is out now.

  • Original writing
  • Fiction
  • Twitter
  • Internet
  • Blogging

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Day of the girl: innovation through education

Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:04

ICT access alone won't empower girls, unless it is made part of a holistic strategy that tackles gender discrimination, poverty and all barriers that prevent girls from going to school

In rural Cameroon, two teenage girls are doing their best to access a computer in a poorly equipped computer lab in their school. There are 10 computers for 1,000...

Mobile networks face fivefold increase in cost of renting spectrum

Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:04

Ofcom recommends rise in annual licence fees from £64.4m to £309m amid fears that customers will be hit

Mobile networks are facing a fivefold increase in the cost of renting spectrum from the government, amid warnings that the price hikes will be passed on to customers and hamper investment in 4G.

Annual licence fees will be ramped to £309m a year,...

Video: SRT Viper dukes it out with Mercedes SLS Black Series in new Head 2 Head

Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:04
Video: SRT Viper dukes it out with Mercedes SLS Black Series in new Head 2 Head

In Episode 36 of Motor Trend's Head 2 Head, now that the Corvette ZR1 is no more, Jonny Lieberman has to look overseas to the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series for a challenger with similar philosophy to the SRT Viper: long hood hiding a high-horsepower engine set way back, rear-wheel drive, tiny trunks. That puts the Viper's 8.4-liter V10 with

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