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Ofcom publishes complaints data, including pay TV

Ofcom today published its latest complaints data, covering telecoms providers and, for the first time, pay TV services.

The fifth quarterly report shows which providers have generated the most complaints to Ofcom1. The research aims to provide useful information for consumers and also to incentivise operators to improve their performance.

Since the report was first published in April 2011, it has included telecoms companies providing broadband, landline and mobile telephone services. This report, covering the first quarter of 2012, is the first to include complaints relating to the provision of pay TV services.

The data covers telecoms and pay TV providers with a market share greater than 4 per cent2. For pay TV, this accounts for three companies: Sky, Virgin Media and BT Vision.
The telecoms data now covers 18 months, allowing consumers to check providers’ performance over a sustained period of time.

Overall, complaint levels are much lower for pay TV and mobile telephony than for landline telephony and broadband services.

Ofcom publishes complaints data, including pay TV

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Starry Night - Vincent van Dominogh

I recreated Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" from just over 7,000 dominos. The second attempt took about 11 hours total to build.

The first attempt failed, when I dropped a screw from the camera rig onto it. I was able to improve the swirling clouds better in the second attempt as a result though. I do not know how long the first attempt took, but I did not have any accidents building like I did in the second attempt!

There were 2 small breaks in the fall of this project. I did not complete the leading grey line and left out a domino which stopped the reaction in the bottom. The star that is left standing was very close to falling, but the first dominos held in place

Have you seen my Domona Lisa I made in 2007?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6mLPURj3_k

Starry Night – Vincent van Dominogh

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Who owns the media?

Who Owns the News Media is an interactive database of companies that own news properties in the United States. Use the site to compare the companies, explore each media sector or read profiles of individual companies. Learn more about the site. For highlights of a year that included the busiest time in newspaper sales since 2007 and the single largest local TV acquisition in four years, read the summary of major ownership changes in the last year.

Who owns the media?

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PoliticIt provides assessment on political influence of political campaigns.

Track how you are fairing against opponents in real time with the It Score. The It Score measures a politician's digital influence. Digital influence has predicted over 90 election outcomes in 2012 with 87% accuracy indicating that digital influence seems to correlate with election results. The It Score is calculated by collecting massive data on what people do and say in the real world, the internet, and in social networks and processes the "big data" through powerful software. When our software makes a mistake it learns which means the It Score becomes more accurate over time.

PoliticIt provides assessment on political influence of political campaigns.

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Bernanke bails out Europe

Warning that America’s sputtering economic recovery was grinding down, this week the Federal Reserve noted in classic Fed-speak that “strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook.” But the Fed and its soft-spoken chairman Ben Bernanke announced nothing new to fix those strains. And they said even less about the steps they were already taking to prop up the staggering banks in Europe.

Bernanke bails out Europe

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Removing estrogen from drinking water

A biological filter to remove estrogens from waste water and drinking water. The 15 Bielefeld students submitting this project to the 'international Genetically Engineered Machine competition' (iGEM) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA are setting their sights high. They are persuading internationally active companies and associations in the biotechnology and chemistry sector to contribute several ten thousands of Euros to cover the costs of entering this rapidly expanding global competition in synthetic biology. Since May, they have been spending their free time in the laboratory making new DNA building blocks, reproducing them, and producing enzymes. First results give reason for optimism.

Removing estrogen from drinking water

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