OK - so this week I've tried to make it harder....

This company has a seventh floor office in this town. When I was growing up in England, I lived in a small village in beautiful countryside, but just a few miles down the road was this ugly town. It was so bad then (not sure if it still is) that a poem was written about it by a very famous poet.

This is one line from the poem

"It isn't fit for humans now"

So which company and which poet?

Is the company Vertex in Berkshire? Is the poet John Beteman?

Correct poet - John Betjeman.

Wrong company. Berkshire is the correct county - but I'm looking for the town (in the U.S. this would be a city)

So, the town is Slough - I got that straight away.

The only major player that I can think of is, BT?

Slough is correct - the company is definitely a major player in the Windows Mobile world - they make the device that I would so love to have next.

So I've just found that it is HTC.

HTC strengthened its European handle with a multi-million pound investment to build a senior sales and marketing team based in Slough back in November 2005.

Biomehanika - that's correct !

HTC Corp,  produces powerful handsets that continually push the boundaries of innovation to provide true mobile freedom.

Founded in 1997 by Cher Wang, Chairwoman, HT Cho, Director of the Board & Chairman of HTC Foundation, and Peter Chou, President and CEO, HTC made its name as the company behind many of the most popular operator-branded devices on the market. It has established unique partnerships with key mobile brands, including the leading five operators in Europe, the top four in the US, and many fast-growing Asian operators. It has also brought products to market with industry leading OEM partners and, since June 2006, under its own HTC brand.

HTC is one of the fastest-growing companies in the mobile sector and has achieved remarkable recognition over the past couple of years. Business Week ranked HTC as the second best performing technology company in Asia in 2007 as well as giving the company the number 3 spot in its Global listing in 2006.

Since launching its own brand 18 months ago the company has introduced dozens of HTC-branded products around the world.

Products & Innovation

HTC is known for its innovation. It is constantly broadening the range of devices it offers – introducing devices to support specific applications and new form factors that meet the increasingly diverse needs of its customers and partners.

HTC's product portfolio offers easy-to-use solutions that embrace the full range of mobile multimedia resources, wireless anytime and Internet on the go.

It has a rich heritage of device 'firsts':

	First color palm-size PC (1999)
	First Microsoft Pocket PC (2000)
	First Microsoft wireless Pocket PC (2002)
	First Microsoft powered Smartphone (2002)
	First Microsoft Smart Music Phone (2004)
	Large 2.8" TFT touch-screen LCD display
	First Microsoft 3G Phone (2005)
	First Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Platform Phone (2005)
	First tri-band UMTS 3G device on the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform (2006)
	First Microsoft Windows 5.0 Smartphone (2006)
	First Tri-band UMTS PDA
	First intuitive touch screen to allow finger tip navigation (June 2007)

"Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough,
It isn't fit for humans now"

 Good old Sir John :)