Mr Salmond's big test will come in 2010, when he hopes to abolish council tax completely and replace it with a local income tax levied at a flat rate of 3p in each pound of basic-rate national income tax due.

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Screenshots in the app supposedly show a mail-in option for plastic that could completely replace credit and debit cards without turning to NFC.

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Computer DVD devices "may never completely replace the disk drive and floppy disks because access time will always be slower on DVD, " he says.

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