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South Korean phone-maker Samsung loses another patent fight against rival Apple, in the UK High Court.

Almost half of UK internet users are going online via mobile phone data connections, according to the Office of National Statistics.

Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday condemned the alleged hacking of a slain teenage girl’s cell phone by a British tabloid. Nearly all of Britain’s papers reported Tuesday — citing unnamed sources — that a private investigator hacked into the cellphone of 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002 after she was reported missing. The investigator reportedly worked for News of the World, Britain’s biggest-selling Sunday tabloid.

New rules would oblige financial services firms to record relevant employee communications made on their work cell phones.