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February 5th, 2010 16:37 by Nick Rawlings

PlusnetHello,
I would like to introduce a new regular blog. It is about things we’ve found online which we think may make your life a little bit easier or just put a smile on your face. We are interested to hear about your experiences of using these apps and services. This makes for good chat, will help us better understand what you find useful on the web, and therefore design better products and services in the future. More…

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“I’m Checking In”

foursquare

FourSquare is a mobile application that is getting a lot of buzz at the moment. The basic premise of the service is to use the application to ‘check in’ when you are at restaurants / pubs / shops etc and share this information with your friends Facebook / Twitter. The application is clever as it looks up where you are using the technology in your Smartphone (GPS / Wi-Fi triangulation) and will give you a list of nearby locations to choose from. Once you have ‘checked in’ to a location you can see who else has visited there recently and be pushed location specific offers. More…

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End of Week - 5th February

February 5th, 2010 at 04:49 pm by Dave Tomlinson

Bonjour mes amis, welcome to another end of week. Seems such a long time since I’ve done one of these, but I can’t be bothered to look back when the last one was as it’s hometime now and the final series of Lost starts tonight so I want to get home. More…

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End of Week 29th January 2010

January 29th, 2010 at 05:32 pm by Andrew B

Eeeeeeeeh, it’s been a week since I last wrote one of these.. More…

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Apple tablet slated for iPad Wednesday

January 26th, 2010 at 03:29 pm by Peter Jackson

No-one yet knows what it’s going to be called*.  A lot of people think they know what it’s going to look like though bit.ly/apple-tablet-mockup. Media interest in tablets / slates / whatever-you-want-to-call-them is running high in the run up to tomorrow’s Apple media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Fransico. More…

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End of Week: 22nd January 2010

January 22nd, 2010 at 08:27 pm by Andrew B

Hello!

It’s been long tiring five days lots of work done (the fruits of which i hope you’ll see next week) and I’m absolutely shattered.  Don’t worry, it won’t stop me completing the final task before the weekend!  Here’s another brief peek into the internal goings on here at Plusnet Towers. More…

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End of Week: 15th January

January 15th, 2010 at 08:18 pm by AliMcGowan

Good evening from a thawed-out Manchester (and from being in Sheffield yesterday, the streets of brown Slush Puppy are once again back to being Tarmac as well). The weather has been so glorious in Manchester today More…

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Friends on Tiscali? Recommend Plusnet and save

January 14th, 2010 at 06:02 pm by Andrew Clayton

RIP-TISCALI

Just a few days ago we heard of the demise of the Tiscali brand, after TalkTalk finally killed it off. Trouble is, there are still plenty of people stuck on Tiscali packages and TalkTalk is increasing the prices of their packages by £5 a month if they don’t take a TalkTalk phone line. More…

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End of Week: 8th January

January 8th, 2010 at 06:41 pm by Kelly Dorset

Why hello my internet friends!

It’s been aaaages since I did a Plusnet End Of Week. We all went a bit quiet during the Christmas period, but I promised we’ll be writing home more often from now on!

Now, on with the entries!
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Money Saving Expert recommends Plusnet on Radio 2

January 8th, 2010 at 04:40 pm by Peter Jackson

radio2_200Phone lines to Plusnet’s sales team suddenly got busier this afternoon when Martin Lewis made an appearance on BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show. The ‘Money Saving Expert’ explained how, if you’re paying £10 a month for your broadband with another provider, you could save over £50 a year by moving to Plusnet.

You can listen to the show in iPlayer.
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Are People Working from Home?

January 6th, 2010 at 01:42 pm by Dave Tomlinson

The snow has ground the country to a halt, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is having a day off. For a lot of people now, me included, being at home means that they can still do a day’s work. More…

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