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One of the ways to keep customers happy is to offer them more, preferably without charging too much for it either.

One company that is good at doing this is Dell, and in order to attract new customers the company is offering the new Dell Mini 5 tablet computer with a special deal on content.

Little is known about the Dell Mini 5 as the specs appear to change on a daily basis, but currently it is slightly smaller than the iPad and will offer access to Amazon through a Kindle e reader app, as well as video through the Amazon on demand service.

The Dell Mini 5 will come in several choices of colour as expected. It is just the price we wait for.

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As the time gets closer for the government and the media regulator Ofcom to decide the future of spectrum, it seems that choices could be limited, so much so that a decision that could be considered by the industry as radical may have to be made.

Ofcom has 60 MHz located close to the 800 MHz position and 190 MHz in the 2.6 GHz part of the band to sell.

Naturally the government would like to give it to the highest bidder but there are positioning and legal issues caught up in these bands.

It would seem, from expert recommendations, that the best solution would be to sell the bands off for WiMAX, as this could be used for mobile broadband services.

This will be a recurring issue as the bands have been carved up and sold off in pieces. So who wants the crumbs?

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Recently Virgin Media has had a problem with set-top-boxes being altered so that the user can receive more services without paying for them.

For pay-TV operators this pirating is serious worry, as most of the time they are unaware that it is occurring.

However, STMicroelectronics has come up with a chip for set-top-boxes that prevents signal theft and therefore in the long run will save the pay TV operator a lot of lost revenue.

According to the chip maker millions of pounds are lost every year through pay-TV broadcast signals being decrypted for viewing or even being recorded and distributed.

The most common types of piracy are card cloning and using computers to fool the system.

The new chip can detect and stop this from occurring.

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Microsoft has now launched its own free online video player, after seven months of beta testing.

The ad-funded service is based on Microsoft’s Silverlight development platform.

MSN Video Player follows the launch of Arquiva-owned SeeSaw on 17 February 2010.

However while the content offered by the two services is pretty much the same, SeeSaw has the advantage of offering catch-up TV.

Microsoft sees MSN Video Player as a complement to the web TV services already offered by broadcasters, but what it can offer to attract audiences from services such as the ever popular iPlayer remains to be seen.

Its target audience is young married couples aged 18 to 34, and the service offers around 1,000 hours of clips and full-length programmes, including full series of Peep Show, as well as dramas and documentaries.

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With online banking fraud on the increase, Get Safe Online has called for wireless broadband users to step up their security measures.

The UK Cards Association reported a 14 percent increase in online banking fraud in 2009, with £59.7 million lost as a result.

With cybercrime become more sophisticated, as well as more prevalent, Tony Neate, the managing director of Get Safe Online, emphasised the importance of anti-virus, spyware and operating system updates.

With more and more people using wireless broadband connections, Neate also emphasised that users should make sure that their connections are encrypted.

He also highlighted the danger of using other people’s wireless access points, as these may not be secure.

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