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BT sent a lovely chap called Dave to my flat last week to install its Vision PVR/on-demand box. Apparently we can’t be trusted to plug them in ourselves, so customers have to pay a £60 installation charge — but considering the 160GB PVR box only costs £30, this isn’t such a bad deal. The box itself, built by Philips but …

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What does CBS want with Last.fm?

CBS has purchased Last.fm, a social-networking site devoted to music. What it plans to do with the site, however, isn’t clear yet. With the $280 million deal, announced Wednesday, CBS has acquired a popular social-media technology: the music “scrobbling” engine developed by Last.fm that analyzes what its members listen to. Based on scrobbling results, Last.fm offers recommendations for members’ playlists, …

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