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Spotify Mini Review: (91%): Public Launch of Serious iTunes Competitor
For a long time, one option for the music business to save themselves has been to offer an ‘all you can eat’ option for music – pay a monthly fee and listen to all of the music you fancy.
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RealDVD Brings Lawsuit From Hollywood
A strong sense of Deja Vu is flowing thick around the Digital-Lifestyles offices today as we hear that ‘Hollywood’ is to take legal action against Real Network for their DVD copying software, RealDVD.
Five years ago last month, the collected legal might of the Hollywood studios took a disliking to 321 Studios as they too had the temerity to create and sell software that allowed people to copy their DVDs.
Best Free Software Apps: Lifehacker
We’ve long been fans of tech tips website Lifehacker, and they’ve just announced their ‘Best of the Best’ listings, detailing what they – and their readers – feel are the best software applications for the job.
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.
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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Google Chrome Attacks Browser Market With Its Own Browser
In a fascinating development, search engine kings Google have released a new browser to take on Firefox and Internet Explorer.
The tabbed browser, known as Chrome, promises superior memory handling, a more stable environment and faster downloading of complex pages.
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Adobe Launches Cloud Services, Updates to Elements And Premiere Elements
Graphics software giants Adobe are set to get into ‘the cloud’ with their new Photoshop.com service, due to launch in October.
The online service will offer two levels of membership: a free, basic membership which offers 5GB of storage and automatic backup of images to Adobe’s servers, with the Plus membership upping the storage to 20GB of storage, with options to get regular design advice, new tutorials, tips and seasonal artwork.
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Grand Design 3D Software Announced
If you’re a company making software that lets people design their own houses, getting a tie up with a widely-watched TV programme that monitors the development of self-designed houses is pretty exciting.
Directory Opus v9.1 File manager For Windows: Review (91%)
If you’re getting frustrated by the limitations of the Windows Explorer interface and fancy something a bit more geared towards the power user, it may be worth taking a look at the feature-stuffed Directory Opus, a commercial file manager that offers more bells and whistles than Santa’s float at Carnival.
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Twitter Cuts UK SMS Service
Twitter has decided to drop the distribution of outgoing SMS in the UK, citing escalating cost.
While UK users will still be able to update Twitter using their mobiles, those updates will not be distributed via SMS to their ‘followers.’ Updates will still be visible over the Web, as previously, as well as other, third-party services.