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		<title>Android V IPad &#8211; Return of the Desktop wars?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading about the latest Kindle and related e-book readers, I was struck by a realisation.  We are about to repeat history and nobody has noticed. Remember when Apple brought out that Mac, and Microsoft were pushing Windows? The war is about to be replayed. These were desktop PC&#8217;s, but for use in a personal capacity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Google Maps a Flop with Estate Agents?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The jury remains out on Google Maps, with property portals around the globe uncertain as to its impact on their businesses. Seventy international delegates at the Property Portal Watch workshop held in San Francisco said that the emergence of Google Maps – so far in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand – had failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers warned about Doorstep Scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oli.Rhys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office of Fair Trading is warning people that the summer is also an opportune time for rogue traders. Last year, advice service Consumer Direct received more than 5,300 complaints about traders offering home maintenance work on the doorstep, a 16 per cent rise from the previous year, with complaints peaking in the summer months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exporting Energy From Wales to Ireland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On display in Flintshire at the moment are plans for connecting an electricity cable between north Wales and Ireland, reports BBC News Online. The East West Interconnector is already being constructed and should be completed within three years. Eirgrid, the power company, is staging the exhibition detailing the plans for the £560m connector. The cable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poorest Customers are Brand Snobs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oli.Rhys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study has revealed that, contrary to popular belief, middle classes are the largest consumers of supermarket &#8216;own brand&#8217; produce; with 48% claiming they will always choose a supermarket label when possible. Website, www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk commissioned a study uncovering the myths surrounding supermarket snobbery. Whilst many stereotypical views would pinpoint &#8216;own brand&#8217; produce as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You like our new Facebook inspired Website?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oli.Rhys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No need to check your URL&#8217;s &#8211; Our website is meant to look like Facebook! We decided that over the summer, we would see it if is possible to get some conversation happening on our site if we make it easier for you to comment. Now the site looks like Facebook, your job is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank admits it isn&#8217;t lending enough cash!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks are not lending enough to households and businesses, the chairman of HSBC has admitted today. Stephen Green (pictured) told an audience of top bankers and regulators assembled at the British Bankers&#8217; Association (BBA) annual banking conference, that there was validity in the argument that banks were not providing enough credit. He said: &#8220;There has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you find your next customer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are looking for answers from you. If you are in business &#8211; how do you find your customers? More importantly, how do you cross the divide between Micro, Small, Medium and large business when you are a different size? There are plenty of networking groups, and the like for similar sized businesses, however, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Prices Mask Huge Difference in Expectations!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oli.Rhys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are now 43% more houses on the market than at the start of the year – but asking prices are still not coming down. According to FindaProperty this morning, the average asking price is £220,231 – compared with the £166,000 actual sales price quoted by Halifax. Stock levels have grown 6% in the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Billion Active Mobile Phones in the World!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oli.Rhys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week marked yet another milestone in the internet becoming mobile when the 5 billionth mobile subscription added to the count, largely thanks to emerging markets like India and China. According to Ericsson, estimates based on industry information, the 5 billionth subscription was added Thursday, July 8. In the year 2000, about 720 million people [...]]]></description>
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