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iPhone 5 and iPads on sale in China in next few days

Apple has announced the iPhone 5, iPad and iPad mini will go on sale in China in just a few days. The tablets will hit the shelves first, with the iPad mini and latest iPad (sporting the Retina display) on sale on 7 December. That’s this Friday. The iPhone 5 will follow a week later, on 14 December. Strangely, it’s …

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Text messages turn 20, but face competition from apps

Texting is 20. The world’s first text message was sent on this day, 3 December, back in 1992 — but as social networking and IM apps take off, is the era of the humble text over? 22-year-old British engineer Neil Papworth sent “Merry Christmas” from his computer to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone on Vodafone two decades ago today. Short Message Service was …

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