When Nokia made it known that the Meego-running N9 wouldn’t be making any official tour to the US, the sound of crushed dreams could be faintly heard in households across the nation. Would the newly-announced Lumia series suffer the same fate somehow? Might Uncle Sam’s invitation to the family BBQ get lost in the mail a second straight time? Thanks to Nokia’s US website, we know that at least one of the two Windows Phones will leave Espoo and land somewhere between sea and shining sea, as the budget-conscious Lumia 710 appears front and center on the OEM’s home page while the 800 is nowhere to be found. We’re not giving up just yet — if absence makes the heart grow fonder, we don’t want to get enamored with the AWOL phone this fast.

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Piracy may run rampant in China, but that hasn’t stopped Warner Bros. from launching the country’s first national Pay-Per-View and Video on Demand service. Under the program, movies like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 will be broadcast on You On Demand’s platform, and distributed to Chinese living rooms in cooperation with China Home Cinema — a branch of CCTV-6. According to You On Demand’s estimates, the service should be available in about three million homes by the end of this summer, and will have the potential to reach a full 200 million cable-equipped households. That’s certainly a huge market, and one that could provide some serious revenue — assuming, of course, that people are actually willing to pay for movies. Full PR after the break.

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You’ll be forgiven for not being intimately familiar with Californian ISP Sonic.net, though we get the feeling you’ll also wish it operated a little closer to your abode by the time you’re finished reading this. You see, Sonic has always dabbled in the business of high-speed, low-price internet connectivity, and now it’s going for the jugular with a new fiber-to-the-home service, which costs just .95 a month, reaches speeds up to 1Gbps, and bundles in two phone lines and unlimited long distance calling. Just for reference, Comcast’s “Extreme” 105Mbps connection costs 5 a pop when taken as part of a bundle, whereas Sonic’s budget menu option will net you a 100Mbps line for .95 (plus a phone line with unlimited calls). Understandably, Sonic’s grand plan is starting out small, with a trial in Sebastopol spanning 700 households, but provided the company doesn’t go bust by giving people so much for so little, expansion to bigger cities will follow, with San Francisco and Santa Rosa being the prime candidates. And just in case you’re questioning Sonic’s credentials, Google’s chosen the ISP to manage its gigabit fiber network at Stanford University, and who knows ultrafast broadband better than Google?

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Always find a dedicated storage space. Organising your tools, equipment and others items can increase the usable space even further.

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One of the most recognised brands in the UK is Sky. They’re most famous for Sky TV and most households in the UK have a Sky box in their sitting room. The online gambling sector is also something that Sky have been involved in for several years, with bingo being the latest branch of it.

Personally I think that this is the best thing they do, even better than their online casino. The following is going to be a bit of information about Sky Bingo and what you can expect from playing there.

First of all it’s one of the busiest and most visited online bingo sites and this is a good thing. How often games start and prize money is dictated by how many players there are. If you play at a bingo site that doesn’t have many players you’re left waiting for games to start and the prizes are low.

This isn’t a problem at Sky, new games are starting every minute or so. Another thing that’s appealing about Sky is the amount of free bingo that they offer. There are a lot of free games available on a daily, basis and you can win real money at them.

Most bingo sites only offer one or two free games a day so it’s refreshing to find a site that is prepared to offer more. A good offer that they have is buy one get one free. This is when you buy a bingo card and then get another one totally free.

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I definitely think that Sky Bingo is the best around, despite the issue with the bonuses. They have a great customer support team that are really helpful, and you will always get your money with zero messing about.