BT has gone ahead and announced the results of its "Best of the Decade" music video vote.

The poll, by BT Vision Music, collated 200,000 votes from music fans across the globe for their favourite rock and pop video.

Rhianna has been crowned queen of the video charts with her 2007 hit, "Umbrella", voted the best music video of the decade.

Here's the top 20 videos, for your derision:

1 Rihanna feat Jay-Z? - Umbrella (2007)
2 t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said (2003)
3 Avril Lavigne - Sk8r Boi (2002)???? ?
4 Britney Spears - Everytime (2004)?? ?
5 Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle (2005) ?
6 Will Young - Leave Right Now (2003) ?
7 Katy Perry - Hot N Cold (2008)????? ?
8 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2007)
9 Madonna - Hung Up (2005)??? ?
10 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (2001)
11 Coldplay - The Scientist (2002)??? ?
12 Pink - So What (2008)????? ?
13 Dido - White Flag (2003)?? ?
14 Lady GaGa - Poker Face (2009)????? ?
15 Christina Aguilera - Candyman (2007)
16 No Doubt - It's My Life (2003)???? ?
17 Linkin Park - In The End (2001)??? ?
18 Outkast - Hey Ya (2003)??? ?
19 Beyonce - Crazy In Love (2003)???? ?
20 Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way(2002)??????

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BT Vision names best music video of the decade originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:10:32 +0000

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 Vision package available with ?90 cashback. There's also 3 months free broadband to be had when switching you phone line or calls to BT.

In order to take advantage of the offer click through on this link that will take you to the Quidco offer, from then on it's all pretty self-explanatory and as long as you go to the BT site via Quidco you'll be entitled to the cashback.

Of course this will mean signing up to Quidco, but from what we can make out this is a relatively painless exercise and once completed you have until the 11 December to advantage of the offer.

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Daily Tech Deal: Quidco offers cashback on BT Total Broadband originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

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 come onboard the BT scheme, bringing the Openzone sites to a grand total of 65,000.

The new spots are as far afield as Greenland, Russia, South Africa and Taiwan, as well as a little closer to home in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

Chris Bruce, general manager, BT Openzone, said: "We're bringing wireless internet access to even more people travelling the globe in high demand locations including airports, hotels and cafes. This is great news for business and leisure travellers looking to stay in touch overseas".

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BT Openzone adds 11,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the globe originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:10:01 +0000

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.

BT Business got a Ribbit for Salesforce app back in April, but this is the first time consumers have had access to the technology being offered by the cloud computing startup. It'll enable users to get a virtual, online, version of their phone to reply to emails and texts, read voicemail messages and make and receive calls from.

Ted Griggs, founder of Ribbit, said: "There are more than 60 million mobile phones in the UK today, and the Ribbit Mobile service works with most of them. You don’t need a new number or a new device, and you don’t have to download software or sign a contract. You simply activate Ribbit on your phone and go".

Interested mobile users should head over to the Ribbit Mobile site and fill in their details, though don't expect to be allocated an account until early 2010. That's when the beta test is due to start.

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BT begins Ribbit cloud phone beta trial originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:12:50 +0000

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 to 1 million homes, including some where copper wire is already available. Previously BT was only installing fibre to the premises in new build situations.

In some cases, BT will be installing fibre-optics only as far as your local telecoms cabinet, and then the signal has to travel through ageing copper wire to your house - which more than halves the available speeds. But in fibre-to-the-premises situations, there's hardly any copper involved so you get rates upto four times faster than current speeds.

The reason for the expansion is that BT is ahead of its targets for the roll-out of the fibre program. 1.5 million homes will have access by next summer, the company says, and 10 million should receive the service by 2012 - one in six of the population.

Recently, BT also announced that it'll be trialling fibre-to-the-premises for Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes and Highams Park in North-East London. 100Mbps speeds will be arriving in both those locations by March 2010.

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100Mbps broadband rollout widens originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:40:04 +0100

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 buffer race game or experience stuttering playback.

With so many ISPs touting their services as the best, how do you know what really is the best one to sign up for? We sat down with Tom Leathes, director at top10-broadband.co.uk to get his opinion on who are the best performers right now.

The best ISP for video

Top choice for watching any video content on the internet is Virgin Media's XXL Cable package that runs on a fibre-optic cable and delivers a 50MB/sec connection into your home. Currently available in about 70% of the UK, there are no load sharing issues associated with ADSL (ie you get all 50MB rather than sharing it with others on your street) and the 50MB/sec speed is fast, damn fast. The catch is that you'll have to pay for it, prices start at around ?18 a month plus your phone line bring it up to around the ?30 a month marker.

A good ISP for video

If you can't get Virgin's top of the range package, Leathes suggests another, the slower Virgin Media Cable offering. It offers connections speeds of 20MB/sec and has the benefit of being available in 80% of UK homes. It won't help you, however, if you're not in a Virgin Media area at all.

A good ISP that isn't Virgin Media then, is ADSL. Decent performers, says Leathes, are BT, Be and O2 in that order, offering a range of packages that will all be fast enough to stream football, concerts and anything else for that matter into your house (read porn).

Broadband on a budget

Of course we haven't all got ?360 for a year's subscription for the best package available, but that doesn't mean you've got to suffer. Those on a budget should look at Plusnet's 8MB/sec offering. It will give you an average speed of around 3 to 4MB/sec download speeds and cost ?5.99 a month. At the moment Plusnet are also offering the first 3 months free making the first year a rather more price friendly ?53.91.

Look for triple play deals

"When looking for value, a triple play package that bundles broadband with TV and telephony will always provide the best value at whatever speed you opt for", recommends Julian Clover at Broadbandtv.com

One final tip

A word of warning though, if you are looking to stream HD, this package isn't cut out for it. For that you will need a download speed of at least 8MB/sec to be comfortable. You can do it for less of course, but you won't get the best experience.?

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Watching video online? Which ISP should you use originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:06:53 +0100

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.

The trials will be taking place in Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes and Highams Park in North-East London. The trial products should see speeds of up to 100Mbps delivered to 20,000 homes and businesses in each area by around March 2010.

Fibre-to-the-cabinet services, which can deliver up to 40Mbps, have been in testing for some time and should be available to 1.5 million homes by next summer and 10 million by 2012. BT says that speeds on those connections could rise to more than 60Mbps in the near future. Upstream connections should reach upto 10Mbps.

David Campbell, Managing Director of Next Generation Access at Openreach, told Pocket-lint: "This trial is crucial for informing our plans to consider deploying FTTP alongside FTTC. Our FTTP deployment in Ebbsfleet has allowed us to learn a great deal about rolling out fibre directly to homes in greenfield areas and we believe that the technology has huge potential for brownfield areas too".

"We've worked closely with communications providers and regional development authorities in selecting these sites for the FTTP brownfield trial, and I'd like to encourage as many communications providers as possible to get involved in the trial".

Related links:

• News - BT's billion pound fibre-based broadband plans at risk

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BT trials fibre-to-the-premesis in London and Milton Keynes originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:31:27 +0100