In 1993, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's principal mobile-phone carrier, opted for a technical standard called Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), which was incompatible with the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the standard adopted by most of the rest of the world.

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The two key witnesses, Angie Peppiatt, formerly Lord Archer's personal secretary, and Michael Stacpoole, who acted as a friend and bag-carrier, are both co-operating with the police.

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There are quite a few new features included in 4.3: personal hotspot is indeed included on the iPhone, although it needs to be enabled on the carrier side to work, and the iPad's side switch can now be set back to being an orientation lock, which should make a lot of people very happy.

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Kagan says one alternative would be for a carrier or handset maker to pre-populate your phone with a group of apps based on your personal interests.

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