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Paying the premium for texts
What's the story with premium-rate texts? Some
companies in the premium-rate SMS business like to call themselves
service providers, but they provide nothing of the kind, unless
sending high-cost but ultimately worthless text messages to
unsuspecting mobile-phone users can be classified as a service. p
Bumped out of touch and off an Aer Lingus flight
Cliodhna Geraghty sent us an e-mail after having her booking on an Aer Lingus flight to France for Ireland's rugby World Cup game against Argentina unceremoniously cancelled. p
Edible billboards
Last week chocolate-maker Thornton's unveiled the world's first edible billboard just in time for Easter. It was made from 390 kilos of pure chocolate and was 14.5 feet high. p
Value for money
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