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Welcome
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About
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Welcome to DigitalOutbox
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A podcast all about digital technology - computing, gadgets, gaming
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UK based podcast with a real world take on the digital trends
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News
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Android
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Developers struggling with Android development
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Android developments lagging behind iPhones
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Competition is good so hopefully Google can address
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Layar - app for Android, coming soon for iPhone
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Augmented Reality Browser
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Data layered on top of real time video
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Lots of 'layars' available - shopping, house prices, food reviews, find friends, geo tagged images
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Twitter
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Geolocation API in development
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Tweets near you, tweets from a location i.e. trending locations or cities
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Connecting local users
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Reweet rework
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Will display where tweet originated from, do away with VIA or RT
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Is this reworking really needed?
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Business Accounts
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Will contain metrics/analytics
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For business and I guess 'pro' users
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Windows Mobile OS
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2 versions will be running concurrently
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Version 6.5 - incremental upgrade
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Version 7 - radical overhaul moving to touch front end
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MS acknowledge they have been slow to respond
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With hardware development ramping up across the board and with Android / Windows Mobile development being focussed on - can Apple keep up? Do they want/need to?
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Could the same thing happen to phones as happened with MP3 players? I.e. iPod wasn't the best player available but best infrastructure locked people in... This isn't an issue whilst the iPhone remains the best phone on many levels but that's not going to last forever(?!).
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Video Adverts in Print media
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Slim line screens roughly size of mobile screens sat in traditional magazine
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Hold up to 40mins of video
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Pepsi and CBS first to advertise in Entertainment Weekly magazine
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Here comes Minority Report
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Apple
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FCC Inquiry
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AT&T response
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Apple Response
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Googles Response with redacted sections
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Apple have not rejected Google Voice, still considering
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Concerned with change to visual voicemail and texting experience on the iPhone and contacts
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Apple did not consult with AT&T
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AT&T involved with some app removals/restrictions, not all Apple
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Apple has dedicated team of 40 app reviewers and an exec team that weeks meetly on rejections
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Outcome? Google Voice will be approved
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App Store seems to be improving over the last few weeks - rumour from a C64 emulator that 'big news' is coming from Apple. I'd gladly pay for a SNES emulator on the iPhone
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iPhone 3GS best selling phone in japan
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iPhone - most popular camera on Flickr
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Surprising given amount of competition
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However iphone makes it easy to do - easier than competitors
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Tom Tom hardware will help other Sat Nav app's
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Event scheduled for September 9th
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iTunes, iPods and Music - The Beatles rumoured again!
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Twitterific 2.1 launched
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Video recording and Uploading
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Updated contact sheet
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Numerous bug fixes and tweaks
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Shakeel's preferred twitter client on the iPhone
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Gadgets n Games
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PS3 slim unveiled
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Launched September 1st
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£249, $299
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30% Lighter, 32% smaller, 34% less power
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Matte finish - less of a dust magnet
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Hi-res pics here
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Can't stand vertically - need a stand....for $24
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Faster gaming? rumours of improved chip speed
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Supports Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio bitstream output to your receiver
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120 GB HDD is removable
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Current PS3 drops in price to £249
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Bargains to be had - shop.to selling PS3 for £230 incl delivery
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PS3 Video store launches in Europe in November 09
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Rent or Buy SD/HD movies
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PS3 Firmware 3.0 - Spet 1st
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Animated themes
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Whats New section - a bit more intuitive and highlights new content better than XMB
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BBC iPlayer
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Other tweaks
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PS3 Home 1.3 - September
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Universal game launching from Home
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Preview items before buying
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Now has portable objects - bubble machines etc
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Everyone will get a free camera - take pics in 1st or 3rd person, uploaded to photo's in XMB
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More avatar gestures and poses
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Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain and GOW III trailers at Gamescom all looking great
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LBP - water update
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Rumour - GT5 in December?
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Motion controller held back until TGS in September
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PSP
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PSP Go buyers get GT for free if buy hardware within 10 days of release
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PSP Mini games available on PSN from Oct 1st
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Max 100MB in size
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Fieldrunners, Hero of Sparta, Tetris and MiniGore and others successful on the iPhone will appear as mini games
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50 titles by year end
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Xbox
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Fable 3 in 2010
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Fable 2 released as episodic game - first part free, pay for the other episodes - it's a year old game!
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Xbox Arcade to increase in price
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Natal demo's to public - good feedback, some reports of a bit of controller lag
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Logitech G27 steering wheel - amazing but £329.99
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Batman Arkham Asylum - great demo, great reviews
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UK Retailers Limit Game Market
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Exchange rate and pricing structure makes it difficult to break into UK
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Second hand market hurting game companies, restricting innovation
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Madden 10 contains a code to access online franchise. A 2nd hand buyer won't get the code - has to pay $10 or 800points to access mode - trying to make money from 2nd hand market
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Digital distribution the answer? Will Game survive?
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Average gamer is 35, over weight and ...sad.
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Sony delaying OLED production due to cost
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Avatar trailer - looks awesome - roll on Dec 18th
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Shakeel recommends District 9 - great film
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Picks
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Shakeel
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PS3 Media Server
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No nonesense, free, cross platform, easy to use media streamer
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Streams MKV's allowing use of subs and DTS on the fly
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No encoding required
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Ian
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Adobe BrowserLabs
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Compare a web site in a variety of browsers without launching a different OS
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Firefox 2.0 - XP, Firefox 2.0 - OS X, Firefox 3.0 - XP, Firefox 3.0 - OS X, IE6 - XP, IE7 - XP, Safari OS X
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Not extensive and could do with a few extra browsers and Linux support
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Can compare a website side by side or via onion skin
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Chris
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Sumo Paint & Pixlr
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Online alternatives to Photoshop
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Serious piece of Flex coding. These app's make you realise that you could spend your life in the the cloud. One day.
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Feedback
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E-Mails
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Twitter
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Skype
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Leave us feedback or questions via Skype
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Close
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Contact the Contributors
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Ian
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Ian's personal blog
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Follow Ian on Twitter
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Facebook
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Shakeel
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Shakeel's personal blog
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Follow Shakeel on Twitter
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Facebook
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Chris
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Chris's personal blog
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Follow Chris on Twitter
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Next week
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Boxee - we promise!
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