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BT Retail is looking for people to nominate their favourite websites across a number of categories. The incentive to nominate sites is a champagne flight for two for one lucky member of the public.

After years of people switching off the radio to watch music on TV, the rise of streaming radio content has helped to keep radio alive and well.

Mobile phone operators have been launching new Internet services for quite some time with Vodafone recently announcing a reduction in its data tariffs earlier this week, but this increase is causing real problems as the tools are becoming available for users to route their voice calls through the Internet, and thus avoid incurring expensive mobile phone charges. This has resulted in mobile service providers restricting use of 'VoIP' services in a number of ways.

A review of UK Internet activity shows that the UK is the most active online population in Europe with an average of nearly 35 hours of usage a month per user.

BT Wholesale has released some ADSL take-up figures for counties across the UK.

Web-TV on the rise, with ITV soon to launch their on-demand service from ITV.com

Mesh WiFi network on 127 lamp posts covers the City of London.

The BBC is set to open up 1000 hours of archive material to people as part of its trials for the forthcoming on-demand services.

With increasing use of broadband and e-mail in general, inboxes are getting fuller each day with spam e-mails promoting anything from prescription drugs to more legitimate services. If you are tired of getting spammed and wish to help put a stop to it, you could consider taking a spammer to court. This is what Gordon Dick did when he received an unsolicited commercial e-mail from Transcom Internet Services Ltd.

Virgin Media has today stated it plans to take Sky to court unless the issue of fees over 'basic' channels including Sky News and Sky One are resolved within 30 days. The two companies have been going head to head following Sky's move into broadband competing for the triple-play market share.