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  • PANIC! Tax Self Assessment Site Unavailable

    PANIC! Tax Self Assessment Site UnavailableFor those UK tax payers who haven’t filed their Self Assessment tax return before today’s deadline, looks like you’re going to have a pretty stressful day.

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  • Online Shopping: 85% Of Global Web Users Whipping Out Their Wallets

    85% Of Global Web Users Whipping Out Their WalletsThe whole blinkin’ world is going online shopping crazy, with more than 85 per cent of the planet’s online population using the Internet on to make a purchase.

    The figures – which reflect a 40 per cent increase in the market over the past two years – were revealed in the latest Nielsen Global Online Survey on Internet shopping habits.
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  • Mobile Internet: Ad Revenues And Mobile Web Growth

    Ad Revenues And Mobile Web GrowthThere’s still plenty of gold in them thar’ Mobile Advertising hills, with new research from Jupiter predicting revenues to hit 1.3 billion Euros in Europe by 2012.

    Research bods Jupiter say that the growth of free mobile Internet access deals and the ‘limited consumer willingness’ to pay for mobile content coupled will lead to the development of ad-funded business models.
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  • BT Gives Ebbsfleet 100Mbps Broadband

    BT Serves Up 100Mbps Broadband For EbbsfleetWe’re not sure what the residents of humble Ebbsfleet in Kent have done to deserve this, but they’re set to be the first residential location in the UK to be connected to a high speed fibre-optic cable network, serving up the UK’s fastest broadband service.
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  • Apple And China Mobile Fail To Agree iPhone Deal

    Apple may be famous for squeezing tough deals out of network operators, but their attempts to introduce the iPhone to the Chinese market have resulted in another breakdown of negotiations.

    According to vnunet, Apple and China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile operator, couldn’t stop the squabbling over how the revenue should be distributed.
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  • £27,000 Mobile Phone Bill Shock

    £27,000 Mobile Phone Bill ShockA Vodafone customer in Darlington got the shock of his life before new year, when he learned from Vodafone that he’d racked up a huge mobile data bill.

    A ‘friend’ of his had told him that he could wire his mobile phone to his laptop to use it as modem. After signing up for a £41.50/month deal, Ian Simpson from Darlington, thought he could use it without limit.
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  • Moo Cards Working Christmas?

    Moo Cards Working Christmas?You’ll know that we like Moo Cards and since that review we’re orders quite a few more, for various reasons.

    Today we needed to get some more, so thought we’d just as well act, rather than let it drift into the New Year.
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  • The Wired Store, NYC: Gadget Feast: Photo Essay

    Gadget Feast At The Wired Store, NYCWell worth a visit in Manhattan, New York is tech magazine’s Wired’s “pop-up retail store” at 160 Wooster Street, SoHo.

    Opened for the holiday shopping season, the warehouse space stokes gadget lust to the max, letting punters test drive the latest consumer gadgets and gear.
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  • Online Holiday Retail Spending Sails Past $22 Billion In US

    Online Holiday Retail Spending Sails Past $22 Billion In USUS online retailers have had a bumper holiday season, with virtual cash tills rattling to a $22 billion spending bonanza, up a hefty 18% increase from the same period last year.

    The figures come from stat-loving boffins comScore, who recently released updated figures for the holiday e-commerce season spending for the first 44 days of the November – December 2007 holiday season (1 November – 14 December).
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  • Opera Take A Double EU Pop At Internet Explorer

    Opera Take An Double EU Pop At Internet ExplorerMulti-platform Web browser company Opera have filed a complaint with the European Commission citing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

    The approach is two pronged – abuse of Microsoft’s dominant position in tying its browser to the Windows operating system and, second, hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards.
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