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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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Apple Announcement
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Apple Event Confirmed for 27th
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iLife 10?
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iPhone OS 4 - multitasking, revamped interface
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Some gaming sites get invites - IGN, Kotaku
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Chris Predictions
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Name? Slate
Docking Station? Nope
Mobile phone contract required? Same split as iPhone/iPod Touch. So yes - or pay less for only WiFi connectivity.
Verizon/ AT&T / T-Mobile or some combination? Exclusive
Yahoo! Google or Microsoft? Google for points
I/O connections? Would like to see HDMI. Mic in + Headphones out, BlueTooth, 3G (Optional), WiFi
Screen - size and type - LCD or OLED? 10" OLED (possibly just LED on lower spec version.)
Memory? 2gb
On-board storage? Needs 500Gig HD. Want to see Solid State.
Unibody or not? Definitely
Battery life? Has to be 8hrs
Ship date? June (Part of me thinks it could be launched at show as has been the trend recently.)
Killer Apps? iTunes on the cloud?
Apple will announce iTunes.com at event.
Newspaper / Magazine / Book integration will be slick as you like and very compelling.
Will run all iPhone apps.
New app store for dedicated apps.
Price? £700 - But will have subsidy packages from mobile providers? £900 - full spec.
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Ian Predictions
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Name? Canvas
Docking station? No, wouldn't want one
Mobile phone contract required? Like the kindle, always on, part of the upfront cost
Verizon/ AT&T / T-Mobile or some combination? Combination
Yahoo! Google or Microsoft? Google
I/O connections? dock connector, headphones, power, bluetooth, wifi, 3g
Screen - size and type - LCD or OLED? OLED, 10
Memory? 1 gb
Storage? 64 gb
Unibody or not? yes
Battery life? 10 hours
Ship date - us, uk? March us, Sep uk
Killer Apps? iTunes on the cloud, convergence, that one device. proper e-book, video, magazine, movie, music, app platform
Cost - £799
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Henry Predictions
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Name? iPad
Docking station? Yes, optional extra
Mobile phone contract required? Yes
Verizon/ AT&T / T-Mobile or some combination? Exclusive in States, not AT&T but non exclusive in Europle and the rest of the world
Yahoo! Google or Microsoft? Google
I/O connections? dock connector, headphones, bluetooth, wifi, 3g
Screen - size and type - LCD or OLED? LCD, 10
Memory? 1 gb
Storage? 8, 16, 64 gb
Unibody or not? yes
Battery life? 6 hours
Ship date - us, uk? March us, uk, available to order from next week
Killer Apps? iTunes on the cloud, serve up paid music from the cloud, won't run iPhone app's, will have an app store, separate SDK
Cost - £600
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Amazon Running Scared?
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Increases royalty options for publishers, turns books into apps
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Gives away kindle for free
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Specific accounts, heavy readers. Buy a kindle, if you don't like it ask for refund
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They'll refund the money but let you keep the kindle
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Developers, developers, developers
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Kindle Development Kit
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Already made available to select partners - EA for example
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Limited beta starts next month
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NY Times Paid Model
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From 2011, pay to access NYT
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Free access to set number of articles per month
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After that, time to pay
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Is that it? Is that what all the fuss was about?
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CHINA FALLOUT
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Germany Warns Against IE Usage
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The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security.
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Microsoft rejected the warning, saying that the risk to users was low and that the browsers increased security setting would prevent any serious risk.
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However, German authorities say that even this would not make IE fully safe.
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France warns too
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Last week was Google vs China, this week Microsoft vs EU
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Certa, a government agency that oversees cyber threats, warned against using all versions of the web browser.
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UK Govt Response
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Government departments have been issued an alert on how to deal with this particular incident and to mitigate against vulnerabilities in relation to particular versions of IE.
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A government user, operating on government systems, such as the GSi (Government Secure Intranet), will benefit from additional security measures, unlikely to be available to the average home computer user. These include tools which actively monitor for evidence of any malicious attacks
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Even though MS declared their browser secure (enough), they patch it anyway...
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"Out-of-band" update (update issued outside of normal schedule) issued to patch IE.
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MS say only exploits were made on IE6 and urge users to upgrade.
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In the mean time, web analytics company StatCounter say the Germany/France warnings and the news around this story has seen Firefox grab 40% market share to IE's 45% and even overtake in certain regions (e.g. Germany and Austria)
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Google postpone phone launches in China
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2 Android phones, due to launch with China Unicom, have been postponed following the hacking of human rights activists GMail accounts.
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Strained Relations between US and China
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Hillary Clinton's speech calling for China to investigate the attacks and make the results open has not been received well in China...
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China saying it could harm ties between the two countries
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YouTube moving into pay-per-view and movie rentals
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Only US to start with towards end of Jan.
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Users will be able to pay (around £2.50) to give themselves a 48hr period in which to watch the movie stream
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This is likely to expand to include pay-per-view events etc going forward.
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Trialling HTML5 too
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Today, YouTube is taking steps to let users work it into their everyday browsing experience: you’ll now be able to watch some of the site’s videos without a plugin, using the video and audio playback support included with HTML5
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Activate in Youtubes testtube
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Unfortunately, this isn’t being rolled out to all videos. You can only watch videos that aren’t being monetized and that haven’t been annotated (obviously YouTube hasn’t implemented overlays in its HTML5 player)
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Also cleaner new look - nice
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Also Indian Cricket to be streamed live, worldwide (except USA) on YouTube
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YouTube has bought the rights to the IPL and will stream live games to a world-wide audience (Apart from USA).
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Advertising and sponsorship revenue generated will be split between YouTube (Google) and IPL.
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UK Govt - Open Data
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Just under 3000 datasets available
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People who have seen early versions of data.gov.uk say that it contains tools that make it "much easier for [government] departments to produce structured, linked data".
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The UK has become a world showcase for open government data, with the launch today of a government website hosting 2,500 public data sets – more than the best-known rival, data.gov in the US.
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Don't Joke on Twitter
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Robin Hood airport is closed, You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!
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A week after posting the message above on the social networking site, he was arrested under the Terrorism Act and questioned for almost seven hours by detectives who interpreted his post as a security threat.
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After he was released on bail, he was suspended from work pending an internal investigation
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He has been banned from the Doncaster airport for life.
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The civil libertarian Tessa Mayes, an expert on privacy law and free speech issues, said: "Making jokes about terrorism is considered a thought crime, mistakenly seen as a real act of harm or intention to commit harm.
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"The police's actions seem laughable and suggest desperation in their efforts to combat terrorism, yet they have serious repercussions for all of us. In a democracy, our right to say what we please to each other should be non-negotiable, even on Twitter."
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BT Fibre to Cabinet Pricing
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There will be a £50 connection charge for the basic package, which will upload at up to 2Mbit/s and a 20GB per month usage allowance.
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The other package, costing £24.99 per month, will be connected for free, upload at up to 10Mbit/s and have no data cap.
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Both require an 18-month contract and come with a free Home Hub.
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In reality, because it uses existing copper and aluminium wires into premises, BT's service is typically likely to offer 20 to 30Mbit/s downstream. For most its performance is likely to rank between to Virgin Media's 20Mbit/s "XL" package, which costs £20 per month, and the 50Mbit/s "XXL" at £28 per month.
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But it will be throttled
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P2P will still be throttled - BT has now also conceded that its traffic management equipment will restrict the bandwidth available to peer-to-peer protocols on both Infinity packages, as on its existing ADSL services.
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4pm to 00:00 weekdays, 9am to 00:00 weekends - OUCH
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Nokia announces Ovi Maps
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Free turn-by-turn navigation is now available for roughly 20 million Nokia handsets around the world.
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Maps are stored locally, and no continuous data connection is needed
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Traffic Information in 10 countries
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Lane assistance, speed trap warnings
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Pedestrian mode, including shortcuts only possible on foot
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Free Lonely Planet/Michelin travel guides
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Smart. Nokia in catchup mode.
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GTA Chinatown Wars hits the iPhone
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Plays well
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Touchscreen controls a bit fiddly
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Bargain at £5.99 for the size and depth
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Sony Delays Motion Controller Release
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The wand is now looking for an "Autumn" release date.
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Jump lost on Netal? Certainly looks interesting for Christmas 2010
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Even now, the PS3 appears to suffer it's own design. The PS4 HAS to address development issues?
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Spotify tries viral marketing in France
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Launches competition where you record a 30 second advert for Spotify and email it
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5 best ads get free premium subscription for 3 months
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Comments suggest some users think the prize isn't very generous.
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(but all the blurb is in French so I could just be making this up!)
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Picks
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Ian
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HuffDuffer
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podcast aggregator
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bookmarklet to add new podcasts
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Popular RSS feed, tag driven with search
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add rss of stuff you've huffduffed to itunes
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find new content that previously you'd miss or wouldn't know was out there
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Henry
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Smack Talk
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iphone app
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59p
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You too can talk like a hamster or anything else for that matter
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Great 5 min fun app
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Chris
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Acer Aspire Timeline 1810TZ
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Netbook form factor but with good power under bonnet
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11.3" Screen
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Windows 7 Home Premium
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HDMI out
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Good keyboard.
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Ultra Low Voltage Dual Core processor
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8 Hours battery life (6 full on media - 10 wi-fi/internet)
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Olympic edition due to have 4Gig RAM, 500Gig HD, Blue Tooth (64Bit) £550
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Standard edition 3Gig RAM, 250Gig HD £450
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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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Henry
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Henry's personal blog
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Follow Henry on Twitter
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