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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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Webmail security in the headlines again
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Phishing scam used to target Google & Hotmail accounts. Account details leaked online. 30,000 accounts.
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How are people still being soooooo stupid as to give out their details to phishing emails?
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Cloud issues - T-Mobile Microsoft/Danger Data Loss
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Microsoft/Danger loses all T-Mobile Sidekick customer data
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Statement: Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device — such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos — that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger. That said, our teams continue to work around-the-clock in hopes of discovering some way to recover this information. However, the likelihood of a successful outcome is extremely low.
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Where was the backup?
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Shows danger of relying on cloud - what happens if service drops, access restricted, data removed?
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As in local data, you should always have a backup
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Napster evolves again
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Cheaper unlimited download service on offer £5 per month - including 5 permanent downloads every month.
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8 millions songs to choose from.
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Reaction to Spotify threat?
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Windows Mobile 6.5 - Still Sucks
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6.5 brings a handful of great features to the same old mess that was Windows Mobile
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very small amount of system has been converted for 'touch', mainly the home and start screens
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need to use stylus for everything else ie typing, everything other than launching an app etc
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you CAN type with finger but it's "like trying to sew with your feet"
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huge IE overhaul .... but still sucks - pages render incorrectly or stall
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6.5 is nothing but a spit and polish job on 6.1
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Mobile coverage under the microscope
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Ofcom looking at ensuring consumers who don't get the coverage they need are not locked into contracts.
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AT&T Allow VOIP over 3G
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Due to FCC investigation?
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What about O2, Orange, Vodafone?
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Skype likes this, Apple to
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Google Voice rumoured - it's not VOIP
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Adobe Flash on every Mobile Platform apart from one
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Adobe now have, or will have, Flash on every platform apart from the iPhone
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No surprise but is it an issue?
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Adobe do show app's developed via flash and packaged for iPhone
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Could increase the volume of games and fun app's on iPhone
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Does the platform need this?
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BT pushes fibre to 1.5m more homes and businesses
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BT announced one and a half million copper lines into homes and businesses will be joined by optical cables, initially offering broadband at 100Mbit/s downstream and capable of delivering 1Gbit/s.
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BT had previously only publicly committed to one million FTTP installations on building projects where the civil engineering costs of laying fibre would be low.
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The wider deployment means BT plans to run fibre to two and a half million premises by 2012. A further seven and a half million line will be upgraded to fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) services, delivering up to 40Mbit/s downstream.
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Competitors will be able to buy access to the fibre, although BT will have greater control over pricing than it does over ADSL.
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Virgin Media - will it allow access? Does VM want it? Comparitively expensive and it's running its own 50Mbit/s trials with copper from home to new cabinets and new fibre to rest of network
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No news on areas to benefit
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Ian's exchange - FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) should be in service form 04/01/2010
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Up to 40Mb down, up to 10mb up - £88.08 annual rental. What will retail offer? What price?
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O2 Off Net now traffic managed
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introduction of management for peer to peer and newsgroup applications will only affect those O2 broadband customers who are not on the firms own unbundled network.
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Par for the course
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How does broadband payment system work? We've no idea but it's a topic worth researching.
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Apple
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VMWare Fusion 3
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$80, October 27th
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Designed for Snow Leopard, supports 64bit kernel, allows for virtualisation of 64 bit O/S
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Supports Snow Leopard and Windows 7
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Finally add's aero support - first tool to do so
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iPhone 3.1.2 update out
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Aims to resolve some of the recent issues reported by users
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sporadic issue that prevents iphone from waking up from sleep mode
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occasional crashes when streaming video
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intermittent cellular service interruptions
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Tablet will be manufacture by Foxconn
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ships Q1 2010 - 300-400k units
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10.6" panel, not a 10.7" panel
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geared towards e-book functionality
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Gadgets n Games
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Kindle coming to the UK
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As expected, the Amazon Kindle will be coming to Europe, including UK.
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Access via 3G - unspecified carrier at this stage.
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No web browsing but the device should roam happily around 99 countries.
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£175 but need to add on shipping and tax
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Microsoft - Multi touch Mice
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Some real innovation
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Hardly any seem usable though
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Give me my buttons!
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Rock Band for iPhone
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EA confirms it
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15 songs + 5 unlockable, facebook integration
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downloadable tracks, 4-player multi-play via bluetooth
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Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm on Xbox
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Nov 17th for November launch
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Should be nice to access via 360
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Some doubts as to whether it will replace computer or phone usage
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Eigenharp
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Sci-fi bassoon
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It's a Theremin as used by Bill Bailey crossed with a Tenori-on as used by Little Boots
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Much cheaper are the www.smule.com apps on the iphone - leaf trombone and ocarina, plus numerous Tenori-on wannabee apps.
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Never been a better time to inflict your musical talent on the world through digital instruments. We're a long way from Rolf Harris's Stylophone www.stylophone.com
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Picks
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Henry
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Fission for Mac
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Lossless Audio editing
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Split and join files with ease
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Export to mp3, AAC
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Create iPhone ringtones without paying for the Apple tax
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Can also edit iTunes Plus file
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Quick and a really good audio editing tool
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Ian
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Tweetie 2
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Great update to the iPhone Twitter client
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Controversial - £1.79 for a new version - a lot of people don't want to pay for upgrades no matter what the improvements
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Apple need to provide way for developers to charge for upgrades
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New version is quicker and let's you see mentions and DM's far more easily than before
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Great usability tweaks - drag down and release to refresh, swipe left to right on title bar to move back to timeline
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Can pick from list who to reply to, attach Twitter users to Address Book and also saves drafts
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Great update - in my view easily the best Twitter client for the iPhone
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Chris
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Portal t-shirts!
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Hopelessly / tragically /desperately geeky but just brilliant!
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T-shirts with in-built cameras and TFT screens come in Portal Orange and Blue pairs and transmit your cameras picture onto the other persons t-shirt - so creating the look of portals!
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Ian thinks this is an April Fools but that will just ruin the weekend for Chris!
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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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Henry
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Henry's personal blog
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Follow Henry on Twitter
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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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