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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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Google Wave
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Biggest news of the week - trending topic on twitter for a couple of days
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We didn't get any invites
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IM crossed with e-mail crossed with collaborative working
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EBay auction for an invite going for £20-£60! Madness!
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Feedback form users
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America loosens ICANN grip
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The US Government has relaxed its hands on control of the internet
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Specifically giving ICANN - the body responsible for regulating the internet - autonomy and opening it up to global comment.
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The move recognises the global nature of the Internet and eases worries about impartiality in the EU and other regions.
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UK broadband ranked 25th out of 66 in recent study
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Fit for current requirements / not fit for future
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Report by Cisco - say UK set to see big changes over next year or so with Digital Britain / Cable / Fibre development - so ranking not the whole story.
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50p on phone bills seems necessary...
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Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK
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The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on internet advertising than on television advertising, with a record £1.75bn online spend in the first six months of the year.
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4.6% year-on-year increase
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The internet now accounts for 23.5% of all advertising money spent in the UK, while TV ad spend accounts for 21.9% of marketing budgets.
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TV advertising fell about 17% year on year in the first half, to about £1.6bn
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Freeview Retune
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The freeview retune has meant that more people can now receive channel 5 - but many have lost ITV 3 and 4...
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20,000 or so older boxes expected to break completely.
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Retune needed to enable Freeview HD.
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Advice is for people to try and re-tune again to see if the channels come back.
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Microsoft Security Essentials
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Guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software
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Free as long as you've bought Windows
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XP, Vista, Windows 7
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Good move from Microsoft
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Bing Bust
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Search market share slipped in September in USA and Globally - now 3.3%
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Google - Gained 2% to 80% of US market, 90.5% of global market
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Competition is good - look at the products and innovations from Google in the last 1-2 months
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Better search options in Google
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Spotify launches offline listening for premium users
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Download playlists for offline listening
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Will they be DRM'd?
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Is this really needed?
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Works well and add's to attractiveness of Spotify
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Music discovery is untapped in Spotify right now - huge opportunity
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Apple
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Apple buy Placebase
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Is this as protection against Google?
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Will future iPhone OS replace Google maps?
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Whats about the app's that have been developed using Google Map's through API's?
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Orange, Vodafone to sell iPhone 3G and 3GS
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No tariff, price or dates yet
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Orange say they will be cheaper than O2, not sure if that's handset or monthly tariff though
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Orange, which has had 65,000 reservations for the handset in just a couple of days, claims wider, faster 3G coverage than O2, with 93% of the population, compared with O2’s 80%.
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Vodafone say early 2010 for them to start selling 3G and 3GS
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Virgin Media want iPhone too
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Apple warns of near-term iMac, Mac mini constraints
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New iMac's and Mini's all but confirmed?
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Further orders of iMacs and low cost Mini will go unhonoured
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Plus, new keyboard and touch based mighty mouse???????
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Adverts released early point to new hardware
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John Gruber bets on new keyboard/mouse showing alongside blu-ray imacs
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More Tablet Rumours
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Will be announced on or before Jan 19th, released May-Jun 2010
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Currently a 10.7inch screen - 2 models, one with 3g, one without
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Display around 720p
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Still has to receive final approval from Steve Jobs, something the source claims only has about an 80 percent chance of right now.
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Apple in discussions with print publications
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Possible new use/reason for the Tablet
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Apple reaching out to print publications about releasing content on iTunes
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Tablet been through several iterations and project reset by SJ while Apple decided how people would use the tablet - as we've discussed many times
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Eventual goal - possibly hybrid content drawing from audio, video, interactive graphics - the next gen of print content??
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Apple TV Update
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According to Boy Genius Report's tipster thinks an updated Apple TV could be in development accompanied by a touch screen remote control.
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Same tipster who correctly reported on iPhone homescreen organisation and social networking components in iTunes 9
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AppStore - 2 Billion App downloads
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9 months to hit 1 billion - number of downloads accelerating
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Just over a year to deliver 1.5 billion, 76 days for the next 1/2 billion
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Issue now is discovery and breaking your app in the store - difficult
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DropBox for iPhone
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Gives access to your Dropbox account
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Fast, can browse folders, open files, images, music, video
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Can fav files to access them offline
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Can share a file from the app - generate an e-mail to send to friends
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Take photo's and video's and store in dropbox
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PCalc Profanity Filter
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Great calculator app for the iPhone
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No more boobies
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From TLA Systems and James Thomson, Glasgow based iphone developer
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Gadgets n Games
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Palm Web OS 1.2
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No iTunes syncing
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Solid update - search in email, web browser cut, copy paste, download
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But wait.......
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Web OS 1.2.1 - iTunes syncing with iTunes 9.0.1
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Game on...again
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Is Palm Pre Tanking?
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Palm claim 810k units sold, but that includes units to resellers not just activated handsets
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Light Peak
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Intel reveals new optical interconnect for mobile devices with speeds of 10Gbps!!!!
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Speeds can be maintained over 100-meter runs of cables (test rig running OS X)
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Demo showed single cable running a massive HD display while simultaneously transferring files to a drive
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Smaller connectors (USB like)
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Smaller connectors (USB like)
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Hopefully this doesn't break into a standards war between Light Peak and USB 3
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Fifa 10
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Great game
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Plays well online
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In game store is a disgrace - buying upgrades to your players that last for x amount of games - not a great way of promoting online play
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Supermarket wars - £25 at Tesco and Morrisons - why buy online and then wait for Royal Mail to deliver
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Left 4 Dead
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Crash Course downloadable content - disgrace. Fulle of bugs
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Best to avoid
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Picks
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Shakeel
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Droplitz
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59p on the App Store
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Great puzzle game
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Ian
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Canabalt
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iPhone game - £1.79
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Based on flash game of same name
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Simple, stylish with great music - perfect
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Chris
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Xtranormal
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Make movies just by typing in a script. Virtual actors / scenes.
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Seen some great funny vids already.
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Save / share / upload to youtube.
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Feedback
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E-Mails
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Twitter
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Follow us on Twitter
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Facebook
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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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