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Daily Tech Deal: Quidco offers cashback on BT Total Broadband

Today's tech deal brings you word of a deal being run by Quidco - apparently the UK's leading cashback website - and BT - the telecommunications behemoth.

Quidco is offering cashback over a wide range of BT's home products, with BT's broadband, phone and BT...

BT Openzone adds 11,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the globe

BT has announced its Openzone customers now have an extra 11,000 Wi-Fi locations to choose from with the addition of a host of new providers to the service across the globe.

Beeline WiFi, ChungHwa, eService Bar, Monzoon, Wireless G and WAYPORT EMEA have all...

BT begins Ribbit cloud phone beta trial

BT has finally begun to make something of its acquisition of Ribbit in 2008. The phone company is taking names for a beta trial of a cloud phone service, which will allow any mobile users (not just BT customers) to get online access to their calls, messages and phones.

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100Mbps broadband rollout widens

BT has announced that its plans to deliver super-fast, fibre-optic broadband all the way to people's houses have been expanded. The company will now be rolling out fibre-to-the-premises...

Watching video online? Which ISP should you use

With more and more "events" from football matches to concerts happening online, and the BBC's iPlayer continually gaining popularity, making sure you have a fast internet connection from your ISP at home is going to be your number one goal if you don't want to play the...

BT trials fibre-to-the-premesis in London and Milton Keynes

BT has announced that it'll be expanding its fibre-optic trials early next year to go all the way direct to the people's homes and businesses - a technology that the company is calling "fibre to the premesis". Currently fibreoptic connections only go through to the cabinet.

BT: Antipiracy efforts will cost £1m per day

BT has warned that the file sharing efforts proposed by the government and Peter Mandelson could cost the industry £1m every day. That would increase each customer's bill by £24 per year, said John Petter, the head of the company's consumer division.

The music...

Starbucks offers free Wi-Fi for card holders

Starbucks has announced that every registered Starbucks Card holder will get free BT Openzone Wi-Fi at Wi-Fi-enabled coffee houses.

There are more than 650 BT Openzone Wi-Fi enabled Starbucks coffee houses throughout the UK and Ireland.

The...

BT pilots "notspot" solution

A limited number of UK "notspots" are about to be connected up to the world of broadband, thanks to a BT pilot of new technology.

"Broadband Enabling Technology" or BET, can offer broadband with speeds of between 1 and 2Mbps to homes currently stuck on dial-up...

BT now operating 500,000 public Wi-Fi hotspots

BT has announced that it's half-way towards its target of putting together a network of 1,000,000 public Wi-Fi hotspots in 2009. 500,000 hotspots are now available at homes, offices and city centres in the UK and Ireland.

That total includes hotspots from the...

BT upgrades broadband speeds for all

BT has pushed the big red "upgrade" button on all its subscribers accounts, pumping up pipes to 20Mb/s in "enabled areas". Those areas cover, according to the company, 40% of the UK's homes and businesses.

Up till now, customers were stuck on 8Mb/s speeds, slower...

BT installs Wi-Fi at campsites

BT has announced that it's going to be installing Wi-Fi across a number of traditional British holiday destinations in a partnership with Wicom. 77 Camping and Caravanning Club sites, three Pontin's holiday parks and a number of Coastfields' Leisure sites will be covered.

BT plans music subscription service

BT is reportedly in early discussions with execs at all four major labels to try and build a legal music subscription service to rival the vague plans that Sky says it has about a similar initiative.

Sky says that it's reached agreements with EMI and Sony Music,...

BT Vision gets Sony movies on-demand

BT has announced that it has signed an agreement with Sony Pictures Television for video-on-demand rights on a range of new and classic movie titles for its digital TV service, BT Vision.

Newly released movies due to be available on demand include "Terminator...

trueCall nuisance call blocker launches

A new device that promises an end to "nuisance" phone calls has launched in the UK, with backing from television's The Dragon's Den.

"trueCall" plugs into your home phone line and, dependent on settings, blocks calls from numbers that have not been registered...

BT Vision adds online dating

BT has announced a partnership with Match.com on its BT Vision service that will mean that singles will be able to find love on their telly.

The company says that finding a partner through online dating is as common as meeting someone through work. If you fancy...

BT names next super-fast broadband locations

BT has revealed the next set of locations where it will make super-fast fibre broadband available.

The new locations cover more than a million homes and businesses across the UK, which means 1.5 million homes will have access by early summer 2010.

Virgin Media's fastest broadband boast okayed by ASA

Virgin Media's advertising campaign for its 50Mb broadband has been okayed by the ASA after rival broadband operator BT logged an official complaint.

Boasting "the fastest broadband in the UK", the campaign has comprised of press ads, posters and Samuel L....

O2 Mobile Broadband users now get Starbucks internet access for free

O2 has announced a deal with BT Openzone, which means its O2 mobile broadband customers will be able to use BT's Wi-Fi hotspots around the country within their tariff.

The deal, which came into effect on Monday for existing customers, will see users getting...

BT calls for BBC to contribute to ISP iPlayer costs

Phone company and ISP BT has called on the BBC to contribute to the costs that ISPs incur due to its iPlayer, saying that the Beeb "can't expect to continue to get a free ride".

Many ISPs have complained in the past about the bandwidth that iPlayer uses. Streaming...

BT announces 20Mbps broadband "boost" for Britain

BT has announced it will more than double the headline speeds for its residential and business customers, as well as increase upload speeds.

BT says over 60,000 consumers are already getting the faster speeds through a BT trial but the upgrade to ADSL 2+ technology...

BT Broadband throttling iPlayer streaming?

BT, Britain's biggest broadband supplier, has been accused of limiting streaming video speeds at peak times, which is having a negative effect on iPlayer viewing for its customers.

A customer on BT's Option 1 deal with an 8Mbps line could have their speed cut...

TalkTalk announces Home Mover deal

Apparently TalkTalk customers used to have to deal with a massive hassle when they moved house.

If they moved into a non-cable area, then they would have had to sign up to BT for a 12-month contract in their new property, and then immediately cancel it to switch...

3 and BT launch campaign to cut mobile call costs

High up at the top of the BT Tower in London, BT's John Petter is upset. He feels that the current system for charging for mobile phone calls is "profoundly unfair and extremely outdated”.

He's annoyed because the costs, he says, are too high for consumers....

BT: 50th anniversary of the "curly cord phone"

BT is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of the "curly cord" telephone in UK homes.

The 700-type telephone was launched in May 1959 to "set off the decor of any room and add a discrete note of good taste and luxury you can afford".