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Archive for October, 2010

As Christmas is fast approaching Apple has introduced a fantastic Gift wrapping service for its iPad. The free engraving service for the iPad allows its online Christmas shoppers to adorn their high-end table purchases with a brilliant customised quip of their choice. This will be making the much desired gift unique, offering of heartfelt emotion, the personalised tag on the rear of the gadget will ensure that recipients won’t be pawning off the iPad on eBay to make some extra cash on Boxing Day. Have a look on the internet at where you can purchase this fantastic thoughtful gift.

It seems the Sony Walkman has come to the end of its shelf life. The Walkman will be remembered as the contraption which transformed listening to music from an activity conducted in one’s own living room to a means of irritating other people on the bus. No more carrying a supply of cassettes around with you, MP3’s are taking over. The Sony Walkman first hit our shelves in 1979; an astonishing 220 million were sold. So goodbye to buying in bulk, batteries to power the little cassette working beauty and the bulk pack of blank tapes. Hello pocket sized MP3.

It has been in the news recently that Spotify was going to sell off the business to Apple. Today it has now been announced that there is truth in the rumours- Spotify has no intention at all to sell. Only recently have they launched major changes to move toward social networking, users can now share and swap music tracks as well as being able to see what their friends are listening to. Friends can be imported from Facebook and their songs from iTunes. Spotify is available across most parts of Europe but hasn’t launched yet in the United States.

There has been a lot of rumors and speculation surrounding the IPhone 5 which has not yet been released. This handset is said it will include an integrated SIM card. This be to allow Apple to assign networks to individual handsets at the customer’s request. This SIM card is to come in the form of an integrated chip which will carry subscriber identification information, ultimately seeing the end of those little plastic cards that are currently issued directly from network service providers. The release date for the IPhone 5 is June 2011. This integrated chip is aimed to save customers time when they purchase their phone, not having to wait or contact the service provider to activate the phone.

It seems that after a long four-year legal battle with the United States music industry, LimeWire one of the world’s most popular file sharing websites has been shut down. New York federal court issues a permanent injunction against LimeWire, Stating that the website caused a massive scale of infringement, by permitting people to share thousands of copyrighted works, by its massive 50 million monthly users. LimeWire is now restricted from allowing searching and the sharing of copyrighted material. Due to LimeWire being a massive sharing site music sales fell to $7.7bn in 2009 from a staggering $14.5bn in 1999.