BT offers to ‘rip customers off some more’


As part of its ongoing drive to cut services and improve profit margins, BT has announced a new service costing just under £100. It isn’t telling anyone what that service is, but the company promises complete dissatisfaction and an inability to reach English-speaking operatives when in need of help, ‘or your money back some time before 2020′.

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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End of another era in photography


Polaroid, the company behind the instant camera, is to stop making the film used in its iconic technology. The firm is closing factories in the US, Mexico and the Netherlands, and stopped making the instant cameras themselves about a year ago. It now focuses on other ventures which include a portable printer for mobile phone images, and Polaroid-branded digital cameras.

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

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