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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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Title Music
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Original music by Paul Fernihough - contact via twittter
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News
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London Datastore
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More than 200 data sets detailing life in London are to be put online by the capital's governing body
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Information about planning decisions, crime rates, abandoned vehicles, house prices, road accidents and many other metrics will form the London datastore
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Those who come up with the most innovative ways to harness the data could get a substantial grant to help them bring their idea to life
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4iP, Channel 4's Innovation for the Public Fund, said it would back the best ideas with a £200,000 cash pot
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Opens on Jan 29th
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Full data list found here
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Sky Roll Out Tweetdeck to Newsroom Staff
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Sky News is installing Twitter software across its journalists' computers, as part of plans to encourage more use of social media for newsgathering and reporting
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On all staff machines within the month
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"The big change for us in 2010 is evolving how social media plays a role in our journalism. We no longer ghettoise it to one person, but are in the process of embedding throughout the whole team," said March, adding that since the appointment of a Twitter correspondent more than 90 Sky staff now have Twitter accounts, from field producers to weather presenters
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Project Canvas Approved
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BBC Trust has given the go-ahead for the corporation to push on with Project Canvas
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Internet access for the TV via set top box
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BBC Trust has given the go-ahead for the corporation to push on
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The consortium of six firms is now looking for "expressions of interest" for other partners to join the platform
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Project Canvas now includes the BBC, ITV, BT, Five, Channel 4 and Talk Talk. Sky is likely to vocally object to the Trust's apparent approval - its press office was unavailable at press time.
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"By seamlessly converging broadband and broadcast content, Project Canvas can help secure the future of free-to-air broadcasting and create an open platform that gives online services a route to the TV set.
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Videogames Bigger Than Film in the UK
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More money was spent on video games than on films – including both trips to the cinema and films on DVD – figures compiled for The Daily Telegraph indicate.
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In the twelve months to the end of September 2009, £1.73 billion was spent on video games, according to the data company GFK Chart-Track.
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According to the UK Film Council exactly £1 billion was spent at the British box office during the same period, with a further £198 million spent on film titles released on DVD and Blu-ray
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Only television – including DVDs of television shows, along with the cost of the license and satellite subscriptions – and music are bigger forms of entertainment.
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Industry figures show there the number of games consoles being used in Britain has shot up from 13.5 million in 2008 ago to well over 25 million earlier this year, with enough consoles for nine out of every ten households in the country to have one.
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Orange brings HD Calls to UK
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Orange will begin trials of the new and improved, 3G-facilitated service early in the new year
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Fully roll it out along with a "range of handsets" before the end of the year
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Nexus One
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The Google phone finally launched
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Jan 5th launch
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3.7-inch OLED display, HVGA (480 x 800) — deep contrast. 1GHz Snapdragon
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Trackball with multi-color notification LED
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Inline noise cancellation: two mics, front and back, which enables nose suppression.
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Live wallpaper - looks pretty junky to be honest
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Google Earth demo
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Voice - any text box - demo - spoken english, server based translation to text - it worked! Voice looked amazing, as do all voice demo's
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Nexus One unlocked and without service: $529. Buy it with service from T-Mobile for $179.
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On Vodafone in the UK in a 'few short weeks'
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Apple Tablet
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Apple has reportedly scheduled a media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Wednesday Jan. 27, 2010, for a major product announcement.
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Selected app developers asked to make sure their app's work...full screen
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10" screen is seemingly the size but lots of sites reporting 7" too
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Apple have owned iSlate domain since 2006/7 - iSlate?
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Is it tablet or high res iPhone?
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This dominated CES
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Microsoft CES Keynote
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Power cut - classy start
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Lame introduction - Crazy Steve Balmer ain't no Steve Jobs
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Xbox - first up and sales looking good
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Bing - good year, growing market share - can't argue
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Car - growing market but it seems more US focussed
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Zune doing well, Windows Mobile - more next month
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Windows 7 - fastest selling OS in history, 94% satisfcation rating, 300M pc's shipped, 4 million windows applications - there's an app for that
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Some of the laptops looked...interesting
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Software - Blio, e-book reader, Office demo - snore, Bing maps again, Recording 4 HD streams - demo, Media everywhere - nice demo of media on tv, comp, phone, xbox - Microsoft Mediaroom - demo'd and talked about IPTV so many times - still not taking off
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Slate pc's - ugggghhhhhhh - would Steve have said slate if the Apple rumours weren't so rabid?
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Touch demo on slate fails :-)
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Xbox - Mass Effect 2 - Jan, Splinter Cell Conviction - Feb, Spring - Mod War 2 expansion packs exclusively first on Xbox, Fable 3, Crackdown 2, Alan Wake - physiological action thriller - episodic with more episodes on Xbox Live, Halo Reach - demo not streamed due to intellectual property - Fall 2010, multiplayer demo in Spring
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Game Room - Personal Arcade, games in original cabinets, 30 original arcade classics from Spring, invite friends to custom arcade and let them try your collection, 1000 games coming!
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Natal - coming this year, holiday 2010, works with current 360, uses 10-15% of 360's processing power
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Sony Keynote
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3D TV's a go-go - top end come with two glasses and transmitter
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Using SD in camera's!
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BDP-S770 - 3D blu-ray player, wi-fi, netflix and a free iphone app controller
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Sony Dash - 7inch, $199 running Chumby OS, not portable
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24.5 inch OLED...getting bigger
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PS3 will play 3D movies through 3D Bravias
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PS3
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Heavy Rain - Feb 26th
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God of War III - March in Japan
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No mention of GT5!
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Skype Brings 720p Calling
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720p from Windows
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HD Camera's coming
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720p calling directly form TV's - LG and Panasonic
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Palm Show New Pre's
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New Pre plus, no button, double the size (16gb)
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App store fully open, 3D games coming
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Opening up app store app itself to developers for innovation.
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Flash 10 support
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Video recording and editing coming to Plus and other Palms via software update
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Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein said that Palm really doesn’t “pay that much attention to Apple” and that he himself has never used an iPhone.
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Boxee Box
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Plays everything the normal Boxee software does
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Under $200
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Powered by the Tegra 2 (T20) — a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU
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NVIDIA Graphicsthat can play 1080p video from locally stored content and stream HD content
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Utilizes Adobe Flash 10.1, meaning HD and web content should play back smoother and require fewer resources
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RF remote (so you can hide the box behind a cabinet)
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802.11n
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No hard drive, no IR
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Remote looks great with chatpad on the back - I want for my Mac Mini
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Boxee Beta software now available to download
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Kindle DX On Sale Worldwide
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On sale on 100 countries
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$489, ships Jan 19th
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Includes wireless deal, get content wirelessly wherever you are
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Chrome OS Netbook Specs Leaked
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According to IBTimes, the Google netbook will house an Nvidia Tegra platform with an ARM CPU. If the rumors hold up, it will also have a 10.1" multi-touch screen that supports HD, come with a 64GB SSD, 2GB of RAM, and other standards like Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, a webcam, and so on. Not surprisingly, the netbook will run Chrome OS and come pre-installed with a suite of Google Apps.
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The rumors also indicate that the netbook will be available by holiday season 2010 for a subsidized price of under $300, which is impressive for the type of hardware they're talking about. It would sold directly from Google's website, and they may partner with a network operator to sell it as a bundled 3G plan
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Apple
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iMac Firmware Update
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Allegedly resolves graphic card flicker
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The 27-inch iMac Graphics Firmware Update applies to the graphics firmware on ATI Radeon HD 4670 and 4850 graphics cards to address issues that may cause image corruption or the display to flicker.
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If your screen remains black after applying the updater or if you continue to experience image corruption or display flickering after successfully completing this update, contact AppleCare or an Apple Authorized Service Provider
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Looks like Apple aren't sure that this will fix the issue
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A few days after update many users still complaining of flickering windows - ouch
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Also many complaints of a yellowing screen and non uniform colour across the whole screen
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Unreal 3 Engine On the iPhone
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It's using a modified Unreal Tournament level previously shown off at GDC. A virtual thumbstick on the left side of the screen controls your movement, while tracking your thumb in the lower right corner of the screen controls the camera. Just tap the screen to shoot. Mark said this is a tech test bed and theyre experimenting with several different control schemes including ones with tilt.
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OpenGL2 only so 3GS or 3rd gen iPod touch
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iPhone needs a controller for this to go anywhere
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AppStore Hits 3 Billion
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From 2-3 billion downloads in 3 months, 1 week
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Apple Store Madness
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Apple stores don’t have “no smoking” signs. Legally they need them but they “ruin the design of the store”, so for every apple store in the UK they pay £50 a day to keep their windows sign free
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Picks
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Ian
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Unison 2
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A great newsreader for Mac's got an update this week
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Makes using newsgroups far more visual
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Groups and directory for finding new content
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Threaded views more customisable
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Unison 2 now will group files together for downloading
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Use search browser to find NZB's
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Add your own NZB search engines
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Built in UnPAR/UnRAR/Join - no need for external tools
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Upgrade from ver 1 for $18, buy new for $29
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Chris
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Beautiful People Axe fat people
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Website axe 5000 members who put on weight over Christmas
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Members were singled out after posting pictures of themselves that reportedly showed they had put on pounds over the holiday period.
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The move was reportedly prompted by members themselves, who police the membership of the site to maintain a high - if highly subjective - standard of attractiveness
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Chris wants to see photo's of the 5000 who were kicked out so that we can all laugh at those that were kicked out
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Contact the Contributors
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Ian
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Ian's personal blog
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Shakeel
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Shakeel's personal blog
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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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Henry
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Henry's personal blog
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Follow Henry on Twitter
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