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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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Facebook to tweak privacy settings
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Facebook is to revise its privacy settings within weeks to make it simpler for people to keep their information private, according to Mark Zuckerberg, its founder and chief executive of the giant social network
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Admits they missed the mark in trying to provide a lot of granularity
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But Zuckerberg insisted that concerns that Facebook is selling personal data to advertisers were misplaced. "We do not give advertisers access to your personal information," he said. "We do not and never will sell any of your information to anyone."
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May 26th - new features demo’d, goes live over the coming weeks
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Guide
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Reclaim Privacy bookmarklet
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Dell Streak comes to O2
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Dell Streak to launch on the UK in June on O2
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5in tablet device
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Android powered, 3G and wi-fi connectivity, 16GB of storage, GPS and two cameras; one on the front and one on the back.
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Unlike many other Android tablets, owners will be able to download applications from the Android Marketplace. Google has blocked some tablet makers from installing the marketplace app on many devices larger than a mobile phone.
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Hello Dell, hello competition
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Xbox Management Changes
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The two men primarily responsible for Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division are leaving the company.
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J Allard, a senior VP of design and development who worked on the Xbox and Zune, and Robbie Bach, the division’s president, will both be stepping aside as CEO Steve Ballmer takes more direct control of the department. Remaining execs in the division will report directly to Ballmer.
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Doesn’t sound good
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Surely hurts the Xbox platform
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J Allards leaving letter - great read
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BBC iPlayer Updates
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updated site is certainly much cleaner, with TV and radio separated. For new users, the site is divided into two categories: Featured and Most Popular.
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iPlayer will make recommendations, stored in local cookies or via BBC ID. If you use the latter option (BBC ID is currently used to make comments on the 606 message boards and has 1m+ users), you can access these recommendations from any of the 25 devices supported by iPlayer. So if you bookmark a programme at work, your iPlayer at home will remember to download it after broadcast.
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The BBC ID is key to a couple of other new features. Once you're logged in, you can recommend content to your friends on Facebook and Twitter without leaving the site. The My Friends category that appears alongside Featured and Most Popular displays which programmes your friends are recommending
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integrated Windows Live Messenger function. This allows you to see what your friends are watching right now, jump in on their viewing experience and start a conversations, so you can OMG over The Apprentice in real time, together.
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TV Channels menu will soon include non-BBC offerings such as ITV Player and 4oD. Searching iPlayer for any programme, broadcast on any channel, will take you to the relevant site. Sky is noticeable by its omission; Huggers said that they would "welcome the participation of Sky" but that the BBC hadn't heard back from the Murdoch-controlled broadcaster
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No dedicated iPhone or iPad app but anew mobile version will appear in a few weeks
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iPlayer will work on the iPad from Friday 28th - it does and it’s wonderful. Full screen, great quality - all from a web app
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Apple finally bigger than Microsoft
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(if measured by Market cap. - profits and revenues still less)
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But is it as evil?
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Cheap, Cloud based Apple TV?
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The new architecture of the device will be based directly on the iPhone 4, meaning it will get the same internals, down to that A4 CPU and a limited amount of flash storage -- 16GB to be exact -- though it will be capable of full 1080p HD (!).
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The device is said to be quite small with a scarce amount of ports (only the power socket and video out), and has been described to some as "an iPhone without a screen."
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the price-point for the device will be $99.
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Apple is moving away from the model of local storage, and will be focusing the new ATV on cloud-based storage (not unlike Amazon's streaming scheme, though we're talking instant-on 1080p, a la Microsoft)
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For those still interested in keeping their content close, there will be an option to utilize a Time Capsule as an external storage component, but the main course will be all about streaming
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Surely app store will feature too
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Bing Search on the iPhone
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Multiple sources at Google tell us that in informal discussions with Apple over the last few months Apple expressed dismay at the number of core iPhone apps that are powered by Google. Search, maps, YouTube, and other key popular apps are powered by Google. Other than the browser, Apple has little else to call its own other than the core phone, contacts and calendar features.
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Interesting – new sources are saying “It’s more complicated than this” and not to expect Google search to be removed from the iPhone next month. Also hearing that Google isn’t paying anything like $100 million/year to Apple for the search rights to the iPhone.
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Skype finally allows calls over 3G
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Skype 2.0 launched yesterday and allows calls over 3G
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Finally
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The catch?
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After August 2010, Skype will start charging a “small monthly fee” for use of the 3G calling feature
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iPad
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48 hour verdict - great device
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For more, listen to the podcast
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Woman suing Google over walking directions
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Lauren Rosenberg walked onto a highway because Google told her to and got hit by a car.
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Rosenberg, who apparently takes things very literally, was reading the directions on her Blackberry and thus wasn't privy to the warning that shows up when you access walking directions on a computer:
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Deer Valley Drive, also known as Utah State Route 224, was one such route, and following Google's instructions to brave it on foot, Rosenberg was hit by a car and is now suing the company for $100,000
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Picks
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Shakeel
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iPad - shocker of a cheap pick!
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Ian
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FT Mobile Edition
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Great example of whats possible on the iPad
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Access to only 10 articles a month
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Cost - £4 a week which is a bit steep, or £170 over the year
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Henry
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Rework- Change the way you work forever
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A book by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson- creators of 37signals
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(Basecamp - online project management software). Short pithy chapters. Interesting read.
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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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