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Computing In The Real World

26 March
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Dear Charles,

Welcome to the latest PC Pro newsletter

News headlines: Find out if you're next in line for BT's superfast broadband; the Government reveals plan to snoop on social networks; and Steve Ballmer blasts the $500 Apple logo

This week's new reviews: HP delivers the drop-dead gorgeous Compaq Mini 700 netbook; Apple crushes our benchmarks with its latest Mac Pro; and AVG welcomes behavioural analysis to Internet Security 8.5

PC Pro podcast: On this week's show the team discuss the furore around Google Street View; Samsung's assault on the netbook market; and the Hauppauge HD PVR bids to become our Hot Hardware of the Week. Download it now

Best of the blogs: Barry Collins vandalises Street View and is alarmed at how easy it is; Tim Danton takes a first look at the 1970s-loving Samsung NC310 netbook; and David Fearon offers a step-by-step guide to connecting a PC to a hi-fi

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NEWS

BT reveals which towns will get fibre first
29 towns to get 40Mbits/sec broadband by 2010 - we reveal where they are

The Government is... watching you on Facebook
Minister announces plans to monitor our communications on social-networking sites

Ballmer on Macs: why pay $500 more for a logo?
Microsoft boss says buyers are fed up with paying over-the-odds for Apple hardware

Major websites urged to boycott Phorm
Privacy advocates call for leading websites to take the lead in the campaign against Phorm

Vodafone admits over-egging mobile broadband speeds
Mobile giant admits its "7.2Mbits/sec" network actually runs at between 1-5Mbits/sec

Privacy group calls for Street View shut down
Google's privacy safeguards are failing citizens, claims civil liberties group

Quarter of Government databases "illegal"
Campaigners question the legality of 11 Government databases, including the National DNA Database

Google designer quits over (41 shades of) the blues
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REVIEWS

HP Compaq Mini 700
The netbook race welcomes a stylish new contender with the best keyboard we've seen yet

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AVG Internet Security 8.5
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