ITV agrees to invest £3m in fitness app created by Joe Wicks

The Body Coach app, launched during Covid lockdowns, will advertise on ITV’s channels and video platform ITVX as part of finalised deal

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ITV agrees to invest £3m in fitness app created by Joe Wicks

The Body Coach app, launched during Covid lockdowns, will advertise on ITV’s channels and video platform ITVX as part of finalised deal

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Trump family business delays launch of $499 gold smartphone

US-made device planned by end of year hit by recent government shutdown affecting shipments

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Trump family business delays launch of $499 gold smartphone

US-made device planned by end of year hit by recent government shutdown affecting shipments

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Free calls to Santa from payphones are a gift – and a reminder that public goods have a value beyond money | Cressida Gaukroger https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/24/free-calls-to-santa-payphones-australia-a-gift #Telecommunicationsindustry #Telstra
Free calls to Santa from payphones are a gift – and a reminder that public goods have a value beyond money

The cost of making an Australian public good like beaches, museums, transport and phones free or universal is marginal – while the benefits are immense

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‘Cable Cowboy’ John Malone to step down from his media empire

Retirement of billionaire, 84, leaves Rupert Murdoch as last of that generation to be actively involved in media business

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As I prepare for another bushfire season in NSW, I wonder: will triple zero be there if I need it?

It’s up to telcos like Optus to ensure our emergency system works, but so far the only word you could use to describe our mobile signal is ‘intermittent’

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Met police disrupt suspected international smuggling ring in UK’s ‘largest’ phone theft crackdown

The criminal organisation is believed to have smuggled up to 40,000 stolen phones from the UK to China over the past 12 months

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‘It felt like we had gone back centuries’: Afghans express relief after internet restored

For 48 hours Afghanistan had been cut off from mobile and internet services in a Taliban-imposed shutdown

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Optus’s triple zero debacle is further proof of the failure of the neoliberal experiment

Privately owned monopolies always look to increase profits at the expense of consumers. Australia must hasten its return to public ownership of vital infrastructure

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