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BT has revealed plans to offer new ultra-fast “on demand” broadband to businesses and homes next year, and will also double the speed of its Infinity service earlier than expected.

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BT sues Google: Is Apple next?

BT has opened up a lawsuit against Google in the US over several patents that it claims Android is infringing. The nature of the patents in question means that BT’s unlikely to stop there, however, and that Apple could be next in line. Read more

Why do you have a games console? I don’t mean ‘why do you like games?’ – I mean to ask what the reason is for the actual physical console. Simple: it whirs away under your TV spinning discs. But it’s days are numbered, due solely to that thing in your pocket. Read more

“Sign here, please” – we scrawl our name and look shiftily around. We’re in one of Britain’s most secure technology centres. Sky‘s broadband SNS centre is so secret, we’re not allowed to tell you where it is, in case it’s targeted by terrorists. We feel like Jack Bauer, with more child-like handwriting and some crumpled Non-Disclosure paperwork stuffed in our back pocket. Step inside with us, and see what Sky’s so desperate to keep secret. Read more

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4G networks are already up and running in the US, chucking data around without wires like there was no tomorrow, or tomorrow is today at any rate. But if you want to be the first Joe Public to try it in the UK, you’ll be able to this year – so long as you live in rural Cornwall.

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Part two of our run down of the worst tech ads ever sees a spooky woman talking about a phone, a comedian getting in on the act, and the most 1980s 40 seconds you’ll ever see in your life. And what’s made it to the coveted number one spot? Read on, and find out.

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Electricpig meets former Radio 1 presenter Colin Murray – and discovers a man who loves to talk tech. When he’s not reading Sports Illustrated on his iPad or hunting down obscure music on his Sonos, the BBC anchorman is streaming baseball to his laptop in the wee hours. Yet despite all that, he can’t stand Twitter. WTF, as they say…

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As team-ups go, this is the type of thing we want to see more: Rightmove is planning to add broadband speed stats in with standard property listings, so there’ll be no more of the compacted fun of moving house, only to find you’re dropping 5Mbps in the process.

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