Live Coverage: Apple “Let’s Rock” Event: (UPDATE 14)

Mike is at the London end of the Apple announcement today, bashing away LIVE as things happen.

Live Coverage: Apple Started early by the looks of it.

[17:55:26] Bloke currently waffling on about their 500 resellers in EMEA
[17:55:37] big crowd too
[17:56:21] loads of “we’re great” blather going on
[17:56:38] Right: it’s started
[17:57:56] showing footage from Apple borg crowds around the world
[17:58:12] actually it’s just SF
[17:58:38] got to be around 700peeps here
[18:00:44] whooping from SF
[18:01:37] Jobs on screen – makes joke about rumours of his death being exagerated: cue more whooping
[18:02:11] 8.5m songs now on iTunes, 2600 Hollywood movies
[18:02:41] 65m user accounts shopping
[18:03:03] now #1 music distributor in US
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Palm Treo Pro UK Launch: Near Live Report

Mike has forgone the usual drinks and random chatter that you get at a launch and replaced it with writing you all this report – What a lovely fellow. Coming to you … near live from the Treo Pro launch …

Palm Treo Pro UK Launch: Near Live ReportThis afternoon the Digi- Lifestyles crew and assorted hacks, freeloaders and blaggers shimmied into the comfortable surrounds of The Hospital Club in Covent Garden, London for the UK launch of Palm’s new Treo Pro phone, a Windows Mobile device designed to let “mobile workers to stay on top of both their professional and personal lives.”

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Gary McKinnon: All Legal Routes Exhausted: Extradition To US Likely

Gary McKinnon: All Legal Routes Exhausted: Extradition To US LikelyWe heard news from Gary McKinnon’s law firm, Kaim Todner, that the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) has ruled against their recent application to have Gary’s extradition to the US halted.

The temporary prohibition of McKinnon’s extradition, as granted by the ECtHR on 12 August, is now effectively lifted and the authorities of the United Kingdom are now free to extradite our client to the United States.

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All 84,000 UK Prisoner’s Details Lost On Data Stick

All 84,000 UK Prisoner's Details Lost On Data StickYet another UK Government data loss story today.

Today’s is the loss of the names, dates of birth and, in some cases, the expected prison release dates of all 84,000 prisoners in the UK.

As well as this shocking amount of data, there was more held on the memory stick that it’s reported that PA Consulting lost.

PA Consulting have also worked on the proposed ID Card project.

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Digital Design Day Details: 17 September, London

Digital Design Day Details: 17 September, LondonWe know that lots of you, dear reader, are into Digital Design. Well, NMK have brought an event to our attention that we think you could well enjoy.

Digital Design Day is part of the London Design Festival and will be running the full day of 17th September 2008 at the Southbank Centre in London.

Scheduled to run between 9am and 11:30pm. The breakdown of the free and pay-for events is below.

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Does Downing Street Website Take Without Credit? Details

Does Downing Street Website Take Without Credit?There’s a big potential of this story being such a classic own goal by the UK Government, it’s hilarious – what’s not been clear are the facts.

Downing Street, the UK Prime Minister’s official office has launched a new Website based on WordPress.

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Rock The Net CD: UK Release 25 August

Rock The Net CD: UK Release 25 AugustIndi Music Worldwide Fights For Net Neutrality. UK release of Rock The Net CD designed to bring attention to the cause.

Net Neutrality
We’ve been covering Net Neutrality for over two years now.

We think it’s essential that the Internet is free and open. It’s vital that the speed of arrival of each data-packet that travels over the Internet is not dependant on if the ISP makes the decision to slow down its arrival.

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