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		<title>Drop in worldwide spam following Russian crackdown</title>
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Source: TODAYonline
You may not have noticed but the world supply of Viagra ads and other email spam has dropped by an estimated one-fifth since last month.
On Tuesday, Moscow police officials announced a criminal investigation of a suspected spam kingpin, Igor Gusev, who is believed to have fled the country.
The police said Gusev, 31, was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ministers to shelve 50p broadband tax</title>
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It has been rumoured that the 50p per month telephone line tax has been shelved, at least until after the election.  I have long preferred the option of opening up the BT infrastructure to competition rather than using taxation to fund the expansion of broadband into rural areas.  I guess there is not enough cross [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebusinesstechie.co.uk/2010/04/ministers-to-shelve-50p-broadband-tax/</link>
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		<title>A High-Tech Economy?</title>
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This weekend Gordon Brown launched his key election pledges. One of these pledges shouted out to me &#8211; &#8220;to build a high-tech economy&#8221;.
Now,  I got quite interested in this  as I work in the IT industry.  But let&#8217;s stop and think about this for a minute.

What does he mean when he says build a high-tech [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebusinesstechie.co.uk/2010/03/a-high-tech-economy/</link>
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		<title>Finally&#8230;</title>
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So, I have finally got the blog up and running.
At the request of a number of clients and colleagues I have set up this blog with the idea of writing about business, technology and pretty much anything else that springs to mind. It might even wander into politics every now and then!
Genuine comments will always [...]]]></description>
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