In a ‘that’s so obvious why didn’t we see it coming’ move, Amazon has acquired audio book seller, Audible for $300m. Given that the company sells paper books, and has recently made a huge leap into the eBook market with Kindle, adding the world’s biggest library of audio books to its portfolio would seem like [...]

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Amongst the flurry of publicity surrounding the launch of free, legal, peer-to-peer music service, Qtrax, one or two things were easy to miss.

Such as:
The Mac version won’t be available til March 18
Despite QTrax’s claims, so far the only major label to have actually signed up is Sony BMG.
Tracks feature DRM which limits their usage, specifically, [...]

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Virgin Galactic has launched the final design of the SpaceShipTwo, its passenger carrying rocket spaceliner. The image above shows SpaceShipTwo being carried by White Kinight Two, the plane which will carry it upwards before it is launched into space.
Passengers paying $200,000 a head will be taken to an altitude of 110km where they will be [...]

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Two comments from The Guardian’s Jack Schofield about the MacBook Air that, try as I might, I couldn’t let pass without comment:
‘If you can’t carry a second battery then Apple has screwed up bigtime in the main market for these things, which is people like me’
Er no, Jack. I’m not privy, sadly, to the inner [...]

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Back in August 2005, I wrote in MacUser that
‘Apple has so many of the pieces of the jigsaw already in place – iTunes, QuickTime 7, the Mac – that it would seem almost a no-brainer for it to become the premiere conduit through which Internet TV is delivered to our homes.’
Three announcements this week make [...]

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Guy Kewney likes a punt, or so it seems, as he takes another shot at predicting an announcement of a 3G iPhone in Europe. Kewney says that the reason for the hold up, according to his sources is that Vodafone’s UK lawyers were unhappy with the contract, which had been drawn up under German law. [...]

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There’s nothing I can say that will improve on this. Watch it, watch it again, and then watch it again.

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Guy Kewney, who knows a thing or two about mobile phones and the networks on which they run, has posted a story which claims that Apple will announce a 3G European iPhone on Monday. It will also announce partnerships with Vodafone, T-mobile, and Carphone Warehouse.
Kewney’s only direct source seems to be Bill Condie of the [...]

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BallmerBalls
n: nonsensical, idiotic, and often hilarious expressions uttered by the current Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer.

Steve Ballmer’s comments about the iPhone are just the latest in long line of unbelievably crass and stupid things that have fallen from the mouth of the Microsoft CEO. He said ‘There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get [...]

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I had a chance to play with an Apple TV over the weekend and, much to my surprise, I was impressed. I have been as sceptical as anyone in the weeks since the Apple TV was announced. It just about makes sense in the US where there’s is a reasonable amount of movie and [...]

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