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More and more businesses are turning to the Internet to do business, and this makes sense considering how much people are spending online. For the 2009 Christmas just gone, the Centre for Retail Research forecast retail sales of £44,700m in the UK and 20% of that done via the Internet.

If you run a business and want to get online, which is very different to selling online, the easiest way is through an ADSL broadband service. This is a simple to use Internet service that can cost from nearly nothing to more than £100 per month if you want bells and whistles.

What business owners don’t realise when buying a broadband service, is that there is no guaranteed fix time if something serious breaks. It is nearly always taken for granted that your broadband will always work, 24 hours a day, rain or shine.

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As we leave 2008 behind us and crash head first in to 2009 it’s worth taking a moment to look back at some of the tech developments last year, as well as some of those to look forward too.  There are simply too many developments from the past year to discuss in detail, some of them are overly complex to explain, and some of them are just not really that interesting from a users perspective (although given time they no doubt will be).  So I’ve taken a selection of what I think are interesting developments that have or will have some impact to you – the reader.

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