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Woods has not been seen in public since the accident on 27 November
Lawyers for US golfer Tiger Woods have obtained a UK injunction preventing certain information purportedly about him being published.
The order was granted by a judge at the High Court in London, and concerns alleged information which cannot be disclosed for legal reasons.
Last week Woods apologised to his family for "transgressions".
Speculation about his private life has been intense since he was involved in a car crash outside his Florida home.
Newspaper allegations followed about extra-marital affairs.
Woods has not been seen in public since the accident, in which his car hit a tree and fire hydrant.
The golfer, who was found bleeding and semi-conscious, was later charged with careless driving, which carries a $164 (£98) fine and four points on his driving record.
Woods has become an international sporting icon since winning his first major in 1997 at the age of 21.
At 33, he is just four short of equalling Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 major victories and is regarded as one of the world's all-time great golfers.
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Tesco sparks iPhone price war with £20 a month contract | Mail Online
Tesco sparks iPhone price war with £20 a month contract
By Sean Poulter
Last updated at 1:21 PM on 10th December 2009
Price war: Tesco will sell the iPhone for £222 with its one-year contract
An iPhone price war has been triggered with news Tesco is to sell the iconic device on a £20 a month contract.
The entry of Tesco into the iPhone market means that the cheapest way of buying and running one amounts to £462 with a one year contract.
This is made up of £222 for one of the original 3G models with an 8GB memory and 12 monthly payments of £20.
Over 18 months, the figure would be £582, which is some £43 cheaper than the equivalent deals from current iPhone providers.
The supermarket is taking on established mobile phone networks, Orange and O2, in the battle for sales in the crucial Christmas trading period.
The pressure to cut prices will be turned up in the new year when Vodafone will also start offering the iPhone.
Currently, both Orange and O2 insist on customers signing up for a minimum 18 months for those who buy the iPhone on a contract basis.
This means the cheapest way of buying and running an iPhone 3G works out at £624.98 with Orange. That is a handset price of £96.50 and a monthly charge of £29.36.
The price with O2, which originally had exclusive rights to sell the iPhone when it was first launched in November 2007, works out at £625.73 for a similar deal.
Mobile phone handset prices and tariffs are notoriously complex, which means making a like for like comparison is virtually impossible for consumers.
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This works to the advantage of the salesmen who routinely blind customers with a myriad of figures in order to push handsets and meet sales targets.
The picture is complicated by the fact that the amount of call minutes, texts and internet minutes included in the monthly charge will vary between the networks.
Another important factor is the geographical coverage of the network linked to the handset. All the major networks have blackspots which can mean a good value phone is useless if one of these falls over your locality.
Tesco will also be offering the iPhone on a pay as you go basis. It will charge £342, which is just £1 less than Orange and O2.
Apple's iPhone has changed the entire mobile phone market. Before it arrived, networks were giving expensive handsets away free of charge as part of their contracts.
Christmas battle: Tesco will offer the iPhone with an 18-month contract for £582, £43 less than equivalent deals from other mobile providers
Today, customers have to pay hundreds of pounds for an iPhone if they want to avoid paying ruinously high contract fees.
At the same time, it sparked a raft of supposed iPhone killers which have copied its touchscreen technology, such as the Palm Pre and LG Cookie.
Today it still leads a host of smart phones that double as music and video players, digital cameras, web browsers and email devices.
Tesco will start offering the range of iPhones from Monday. The higher spec 3GS model with a 16GB memory will cost £320 on a 12-month contract of £20 a month. It will be £440 on a pay-as-you go basis.
Tesco Mobile services operate over the O2 network which is a partner in the business with Tesco.
The firm's chief executive, Lance Batchelor, said: 'iPhone is now available and affordable for all, with the best deals in the UK market.
'This is a fantastic announcement for us and we’re delighted to make iPhone available to our customers. It shows what a serious player in the mobile market Tesco Mobile has become.'
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The iphone like all Apple products is over priced and over hyped. Apple make good products (I own a few including a couple of ipods and a laptop) but you can buy just as good for half the price. Sony are also guilty of this.
Apple products are made in China as well, so with the need to cut CO2 I assume all the liberal elite (who seem to own an iphone) will stop buying them?
- Martin, Ashford, 11/12/2009 12:28
Great phone but too big and expensive, including the Tesco price!!
- K. Walsh-Johnson, Muscat, Oman, 11/12/2009 11:52
There's really no point in buying a 3G when you can get a 3Gs though. New iPhone updates are designed for 3Gs, and will make the 3G phone slow and sluggish.
So yeah, it may be the cheapest option on the market, but it's not really the best deal.
- Sophie, Chelmsford, Essex, 11/12/2009 11:28
Over £400 a year for a sodding phone???
I am 47 and remember when mobile phones were not part of our lives and it was not too long ago - I don't want one and never will. What an utter waste of money...£462!!!!!
Some people have more money than sense.
- MissCulture, belfast, 11/12/2009 11:26
@AM - your figures are ridiculous. you can get unlimited 3g for 6months for just £20 from t-mobile (anyone with a bit of nous can unlock their iphone in a few minutes). so your £150 figure for 20mins a week is in cloud cuckoo land.
why do so many people on here whinge negatively without checking their facts.
- john parsons, cheltenham, uk, 11/12/2009 10:45
@olutec - sorry to disappoint you but 12 months after the launch of the next iphone there will be yet another one. same as buying a pc, its not a game you can ever win by waiting, only by buying when you want/need one.
me? i think the tesco iphone on 12mnths is a great deal, and im off to buy one 1st thing on monday morning.
- john parsons, cheltenham, uk, 11/12/2009 10:42
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Google launches it's own free DNS. Speeding up the internet, or knowing more about where people go?
Google Public DNS, Google's own free Domain Name System, is an attempt to make Web pages load faster at a time when millions of users are accessing the Web several times a day, triggering multiple DNS requests and bogging down the Web page rendering process
I'd say this was almost redundant. How many DNS's today are slow or 'bogged down'? I could never call my own ISPs slow, or my company servers either. So, Google, just be honest and say you want to know more about where people are going.
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