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I've noticed, or at least on the technology front that they tend to offer discounted end of lines, so I suspect this is why they are so cheap. But there is definitely loyalty. When the Mother in law was pricing up a lappie, after giving her a rough spec, she found one at Argos. I pointed out she could have the exact same one from Amazon, for

Oh dear, poor old Sony.

It looks like their online gaming network got hacked, putting thousands of gamers confidential information at risk:

"We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network...

we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity passwords and login and handle/PSN online ID.

It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained.

...While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility.
PlayStation News Articles: - PSN/Qriocity Service Update

An interesting security dilemma as more people, young and old start taking part in online gaming activities, and providers just love to store your credit card information!

There's been talk for years on different SEO forums and blogs, about how Google ignores Meta Tags, or at least keywords, and can pull descriptions from your site, and you often hear so called experts saying don't worry about meta tags

I think this has been answered to death! Closing thread

Key UK economic growth figures are published later that will show whether the economy has rebounded from the contraction at the end of last year or fallen into a double-dip recession.

The economy shrank by 0.5% in the final three months of last year due to heavy snow, taking most analysts by surprise.

The market expects GDP to have returned to growth between January and March.

Chancellor George Osborne, who has already seen the figures, said the economy was "on the right track".

But he also told cabinet colleagues on Tuesday: "Clearly it is still difficult"
BBC News - Key UK economic growth figures to be published

I wish they would stop using that double dip phrase, it seems they want to scare us back into recession