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BT claims cheapest combo broadband deal
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BT has announced a new plan that further signals its intent to get into the mobile broadband space as well as connecting our home PCs to the internet. Users of BTs new Total Broadband package will pay £15.65 per month and get up to 8Mb broadband in the home as well as 1GB of data via a mobile broadband dongle as well. However, this deal is quoted using BT's basic package, which means just 10GB of data at home per month, but also a free Home Hub as well. 6 months for the dongle The USB dongle is a basically an add-on to the package, so you have to pay £49.99 for the dongle and you add another six months to the deal by getting the 1GB of ...
Website lets you rate UK beauty hotspots
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Many an internet user has had their vanity bubble burst by rating sites on the internet, but now it's time for the UK and Ireland to be scrutinised visually. New website ScenicOrNot is relying on the general public to find the best-looking sites in Great Britain. Users are asked to give images a 1-10 rating, with each photo representing 1km of land in the UK. There are over 200,000 images in a database, with both rural and urban locations catered for. Open source According to its makers Mysociety, the website will give users a random picture of the UK, so there can't be any sort of favouritism in the way you rate the ...
Spotify hits a million UK users
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Music-streaming service Spotify has hit a million users, according to its UK Managing Director Paul Brown. Speaking at the MediaGuardian's Radio Reborn conference on Monday, he revealed that the music service has gone from strength to strength since its official invitation-free launch in the UK in February this year. According to the website PaidContent, however, Brown didn't disclose how many of the million UK users actually paid for the music content the service offers. Instead he told audiences that it was "a decent proportion". Multiple models For the uninitiated, Spotify is available in three ways: as an ad-funded service, where you ...
Opinion: Govt database U-Turn is nothing of the sort
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In an unexpected press conference yesterday, Doctor Evil admitted that his unpopular plans for "sharks with frickin' laser beams" were "extreme" and too expensive, so the entire programme is being scrapped. However, when journalists examined the details of the policy, they discovered that Doctor Evil's programme is still going ahead. Sharks are still being fitted with laser beams, but Doctor Evil has renamed the beams as "big torches." While he was doing that, Jacqui Smith announced the end of the super database that would monitor everything we do online. Smith's decision was based on privacy concerns, and she admitted that the plans were "extreme". ...
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 beta
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Mozilla has announced the first official beta of Firefox 3.5 (the other three were for Firefox 3.1) and it's available to download now. The browser update is said to include better performance, improved Private Browsing functionality and a number of new web-programming features. The browser is now faster as it takes advantage of the TraceMonkey engine for running websites' JavaScript programs. Private browsing now leaves no trace on your computer at all, so prying eyes can't see the websites that you look at when you have a bit of, er, 'me time'. Geo-browsing Other improvements include: built-in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) ...
