A big announcement from BSkyB HQ this week, with big numbers attached: Sky now has 10 million subscribers, hitting its long-term target set back in August 2004. According to the figures, Sky is installed in 36% of UK and Irish households, and reaches 25 million people. So there’s a good chance that you’ve got a Sky box sitting under your telly – but how much do you pay for it..?
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Ever posted a bad review on TripAdvisor? It’s a pretty satisfying way to blow off steam after a rotten experience, but, while carefully crafting your missive about unidentified stains on the bedding and £25-a-night Wi-Fi, did you consider the possible consequences..?
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Consumer
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Nuisance calls are a right pain in the earhole, aren’t they? Us long-suffering Brits receive more than 1.5 billion of them every year. That’s around 75 nuisance calls per household. We’re all much too busy with our crushingly demanding lives to be bothering with some marketing drone wanting to know whether we need loft insulation or own a conservatory…
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Consumer
Bitterwallet
I have a Facebook account, obviously, but I very rarely use it. (Yes, that’s why you never got a response to that friend request…) And when I heard they were making a Facebook movie I was less than enthused. The story of a privileged geek inventing a website that I don’t really use? No, I thought, no thanks.
But then I found out that Aaron Sorkin had written the script, and that David Fincher had directed it. The West Wing was one of my favourite TV shows, and Fight Club one of my favourite movies. So, it transpired, I had to make a date to see The Social Network. I wasn’t entirely disappointed. Read more…
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