54 m. ago Incredible moment survivor walks away from Air India plane fireball on mobile phone

Miracle survivor Vishwash Ramesh, 40, emerged from the fireball crash with his phone in his hand - and a wall of choking black smoke behind him after the plane crashed moments into the journey

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45 h. ago Vodafone terminates contracts of 12 franchisees who joined £120m lawsuit

Telecoms group says it strongly refutes claim by 62 franchisees that it ‘unjustly enriched’ itself at their expenseVodafone has terminated the contracts of 12 franchisees who have continued running the brand’s high street stores while also being part of a £120m high court claim against the telecoms group.The legal case was launched in December, when 62 franchisees claimed Vodafone had “unjustly enriched” itself at the expense of scores of vulnerable small business owners by slashing commissions to franchisees operating the mobile phone company’s retail outlets. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago GCHQ intern who downloaded secrets and names of spies onto phone learns fate

Hasaan Arshad, 25, was found to be in 'flagrant breach' of tight security rules when he used his mobile phone to remove material from a computer system during his GCHQ internship

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68 h. ago GCHQ intern who downloaded Britain's secrets including names of spies onto his mobile phone is jailed for more than seven years

Hasaan Arshad, 25, was on secondment to the communications agency when he took his work mobile phone into a top secret area and connected the device to a workstation.

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2 d. ago GCHQ intern risked exposing 17 colleagues when he took data home, court told

Hasaan Arshad used his mobile phone to transfer confidential information to his own computer, the Old Bailey heard

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3 d. ago Millions of mobile phone customers offered better coverage at ‘no extra cost’

Vodafone finalised its £15 billion mega-merger with Three just last week

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4 d. ago Australia mushroom trial live: evidence concludes in Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial after weeks of testimony from witnesses

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow liveWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC turns to evidence about factory resets performed on the mobile referred to as “Phone B”. The court previously heard four resets – one in February 2023 and three in August 2023 – were performed on the phone that Erin Patterson provided to police during the search on 5 August 2023. Rogers says one of these resets were done when she was left alone to call a lawyer while police searched Patterson’s Leongatha home. Patterson rejects this and says she phoned a lawyer at 2pm. Rogers says Patterson performed the three factory resets after the lunch to “conceal” the contents on Phone B. Patterson rejects this. Rogers then turns to her final points in the cross-ex...

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4 d. ago Best Pay By Mobile Casinos UK: Top 5 Pay By Phone Casino Sites Ranked and Reviewed

We pick out the best Pay By Mobile casino sites in the UK and rank them in order

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4 d. ago Shocking moment Bridgerton actress Genevieve Chenneour fights phone thief in Kensington café

The actress, 27, said the attack by a prolific thief in west London left her traumatised

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6 d. ago McDonald’s worker 'slaps' yob as huge brawl breaks out in front of shocked customers

Mobile phone footage captured the moment a gang of youths forced their way into a McDonald's restaurant and attacked a worker who was trying to keep customers safe

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8 d. ago Graduate's life of luxury came crashing down when her mobile phone started pinging

Danielle Stafford is currently serving a jail sentence of more than seven years

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1 week ago Martin Scorsese no longer watches films in cinemas due to audience bad behaviour

Noise of phone conversations and guzzling of snacks have spoiled the experience, veteran director tells critic Peter TraversThe director Martin Scorsese has said that no longer watches films in theatres because he’s so appalled by the behaviour of his fellow cinemagoers.Speaking to US film critic Peter Travers for his blog, The Travers Take, Scorsese reportedly explained that he found himself too distracted by the chat and mobile-phone disturbance from the audience to concentrate on the film. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Voices: The ONS scandal that has made your bills higher than they should be

Two mistakes made by Britain’s national number cruncher, the ONS, affect us all, writes James Moore – from our mobile phone bills to how much we pay for mortgages and other loans

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1 week ago Hybrid working? You need Vodafone’s Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile

It offers one business number that works across all devices

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1 week ago 15 fascinating phone facts from what word means to 1917 'pocket sized' mobile

Here's your wake up call with facts you didn't know about the humble from phone from battle to invent it to Queen Victoria's first call

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1 week ago Watch: Police helicopter chases mobile phone thief through London

A police helicopter and multiple officers on motorcycles chase down a mobile phone snatcher through the streets of London in dramatic helicopter and bodycam footage.

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1 week ago Phone theft: How to protect yourself from having your mobile stolen, according to the police

A phone holds so much of the average person’s life – here’s some top tips to stop yourself becoming a victim

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1 week ago Massive rise in London mobile phone thefts as Met Police admit 'we have a growing and very serious problem'

Some 80,000 devices were stolen in the capital last year - about 16,000 more than in 2023

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1 week ago Apple and Google are 'dragging their feet' over one simple change that would hit mobile phone thieves

The world's biggest tech firms were told 18 months ago by the Metropolitan Police to make a change that could make stolen smartphones worthless to criminals.

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1 week ago The UK's biggest ever £16.5BILLION mobile phone network is born: What it means for YOU as British arms of Three and Vodafone combine to create huge new business

Despite concluding that the merger would lead to higher prices for customers, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approved the deal last December.

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