News In Brief: Sony Ericsson W175, Unhappy Broadband Customers + MySpace Sinking?

News BriefThere have been a few bits of interesting news today, so thought a quick round-up instead of going into full-depth would be ideal.

42% Of Broadband Customers Unhappy
I posted recently about Virgin’s 100MBit Broadband by 2012, and now a survey by uSwitch has been published showing 42% of UK customers are not happy with the level of service they are receiving. Once again confirming ISP’s need to look at their customer service before banging on about how fast they are going to be in a few years time. Read more on vnunet.

Sony Ericsson Profit Warning
Sony Ericsson have said the number of handsets they expect to will sell in the Q1 of 2009 will be 37% lower compared to last year. This has lead the whole mobile phone industry to brace itself for more bad figures. Read more at marketingmagazine. Meanwhile a nice review of the newly released Sony Ericsson W175 (has A-GPS satellite location finding) has been done, read the full review at techradar.

Myspace Sinking?
The latest figures from comScore show Myspace is losing popularity, whilst facebook continues to grow nicely. The rumors of the Myspace co-founders possibly leaving continue to circle. Is this the beginning of the Myspace sinking ship? Read full details at the Guardian website.

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Published 29 March 2009, written by Chris Satchwell, © owned by digitpedia.com.