Birmingham and Solihull Together is a council-funded scheme to help people switch energy suppliers and save money.

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It's a messy situation that isn't going to get solved any time soon, especially given how much money's at stake, so maybe we should all just switch to Ogg Vorbis and save ourselves a lot of trouble?

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Once the car is parked, the app will automatically save its position and switch into pedestrian mode to provide walking directions.

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Whereas Zhang's family used to spend hours seeking, chopping and carrying firewood, the switch to alternative energy has enabled them to save the equivalent of 100 working days, he estimated.

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Licensing fees are significant and Vanguard expects to save investors hundreds of millions of dollars by making the switch.

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And he does not think the deal to switch to phones based on the Microsoft Phone 7 OS will save them.

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