Philips GoGear Connect is a legitimate Android-based iPod touch competitor

For all its success, the iPod touch has few dedicated media player competitors capable of matching its big-touchscreen, WiFi, and voluminous App Store. Until today. Philips just went official with its GoGear Connect featuring the full suite of Google Mobile applications pre-installed with access to the Android Market for pretty much everything else. Spec-wize we're looking at a 3.2-inch display, WiFi, sound isolating earphones, built-in camera, and microSD slot. Sorry, no mention of the

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Costco's New Electric Car Opportunity

Costco's New Electric Car Opportunity
Will new legislation get the big box retailer to invest in electric car charging stations again?

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Online Gaming Company Miniclip (Finally) Realizes Potential Of Mobile Games

You might say the company's just a tad late to the party, but Miniclip has finally seen the light and is expanding its casual gaming empire by entering the world of mobile games.

With a self-declared user base of more than 57 million casual gamers worldwide and a library of more than 600 online games, it's a wonder really that the London-based company hasn't made the move sooner.

After all, Apple's App Store for one now offers roughly 250,000 apps, many of which are of course casual games

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You Can Now Watch Netflix Streaming Content on your iPhone or iPod touch!

You Can Now Watch Netflix Streaming Content on your iPhone or iPod touch!
I checked for updates to the apps on my iPad today and saw that I had an update for Netflix. The Netflix app for iPad that lets you access your Netflix account and watch streaming movies and TV shows has been updated to also work on iPhones and iPod touches. The app requires iOS 3.1.3 [...] Filed in categories: Audio, Video, TV Gear , News , iPhone, iPad, iPod related Tagged: Netflix app for ...

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Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.

Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.
For the most part I’ve sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to start companies. What I mean by

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Apple prepping $.99 TV shows for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch

Apple prepping $.99 TV shows for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch
Apple is preparing to begin offering television shows for $0.99, through iTunes, for its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch products, Bloomberg says. Apple's decision to offer shows at a lower cost is a defensive move against Hulu and Netflix, both of which offer shows and movies for subscription prices. Episodes could be available within just 24 hours of their air date, and will be commercial free ...

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Wow. If You Think Quitting Booze Freaks People Out, Wait ‘Til You Quit Twitter

I promise this is my last word on the subject.
I had already promised myself, actually, that I wouldn’t write any more about my decision to quit Facebook, Linkedin, Foursquare, Blippy, Yammer, Dopplr and every other social network other than Twitter. But then I added Twitter to the list – deleting my 10,000+ follower account and returning to more traditional blogging – and suddenly all (social media) hell broke loose.
For reasons I can’t quite understand – it’s not like

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Apple's iPod, iTunes event 1 September

Apple's iPod, iTunes event 1 September
That Apple September music event? It's happening earlier than anyone expected this year.

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Mozilla Introduces Fennec Alpha For Android (2.0 Or Higher), Nokia N900

Mozilla this morning introduced the Alpha release of the next version of its mobile browser Fennec for Android and Nokia N900. Fennec, which serves as the codename for Firefox mobile, comes with add-ons and is also built on the same technology that powers Firefox for the desktop.

An earlier version had surfaced back in April this year.

Fennec Alpha for Android and Nokia N900 comes with Firefox Sync built right into the browser, which means your smartphone browsing experience should closely

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Harry Potter: Spells for iPhone / iPod touch downloads for free

Harry Potter: Spells for iPhone / iPod touch downloads for free
The iTunes App Store offers downloads of Harry Potter: Spells for iPhone / iPod touch for free. That's $3 off and the best deal we've seen for this virtual Harry Potter wand and dueling game.I4U News...

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Netflix adds iPhone and iPod touch compatibility in latest app version

We knew this was coming and here it is: the Netflix application, heretofore reserved only for iPad users, has trickled down to iPhone and iPod touch devices. Version 1.1.0 makes the TV show and movie streaming app universal -- so long as your universe is known as iOS -- and looks to massively expand the available audience for Netflix's mobile effort. What are you waiting for, go get it already.

[Thanks, Michael A.]Continue reading Netflix adds iPhone and iPod touch compatibility in latest app

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Kensington announces range of new iPhone 4 accessories

Kensington announces range of new iPhone 4 accessories
Kensington , the prolific purveyor of portable peripherals, announced on Tuesday that seven more of its iPhone and iPod touch gadgets have emerged victorious from Apple's "Works with iPhone/iPod" certification process.

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Apple holding a media event September 7, says Bloomberg

Not sure how exactly this slipped our neural net, perhaps it was added in a later update, but yesterday's Bloomberg revelation about a potential Apple TV show rental service now also includes the following tip: Steve Jobs et al plan on hosting an event in San Francisco on September 7. This just so happens to be on a Tuesday and meshes perfectly with Apple's annual Mac plus iPod touch promotion (which ends on the same day). Of course, we could've told you Apple would be holding an early

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Possible iPod touch LCD and digitizer assembly compared to older gen, iPhone 4 (video)

Look who's back. The LCD plus digitizer combo that we first laid eyes on last month seems to have leaked out again, still claiming it'll be part of Apple's upcoming (unannounced, but popular knowledge anyway) iPod touch 4th generation refresh. It continues to insist it'll have a front-facing camera, pointing to the rounded hole in its forehead as evidence, and we're now inclined to trust it that little bit more given the leaking site's prior record. A visual inspection reveals it to have the

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Possible iPod touch LCD and digitizer assembly compared to older gen, iPhone 4 (video)

Look who's back. The LCD plus digitizer combo that we first laid eyes on last month seems to have leaked out again, still claiming it'll be part of Apple's upcoming (unannounced, but popular knowledge anyway) iPod touch 4th generation refresh. It continues to insist it'll have a front-facing camera, pointing to the rounded hole in its forehead as evidence, and we're now inclined to trust it that little bit more given the leaking site's prior record. A visual inspection reveals it to have the

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Vulture Contest: Win a Copy of Mockingjay and a Mockingjay iPod Touch

Vulture Contest: Win a Copy of Mockingjay and a Mockingjay iPod Touch
Tonight at midnight, Mockingjay — the much-anticipated third and final book in The Hunger Games trilogy, a YA series set in a dystopian future starring the ass-kicking Katniss Everdeen — goes on sale. (You can read an early review of the heavily embargoed title here .) For those of you as yet unfamiliar with the books, which will soon be turned into a film franchise , remember that not so long ...

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Chatroulette Couldn’t Get It Up

At one point the Chatroulette V.2 anticipation was so thick over at TechCrunch HQ that even we were, how you say, premature. But not as premature as the folks over at Chatroulette themselves, who ominously lured us in yesterday in with, “The experiment #1 is over for now. Thanks for participating – Redesigned and updated version of the website will be launched tomorrow” and then well, nothing.
The silliest part is that I’ve got some kind of update alarm on Chatroulette, so

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Apple's Other Operating System

Apple's Other Operating System
Until a few months ago, I fully expected Apple to announce Mac OS X 10.7 at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. But when I saw that there was no... Apple - Mac OS X - Operating system - OS X - Mac OS

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AngelPad: Seven Ex-Googlers Are About To Launch A New Incubator

The problem is obvious: it’s hard to launch a startup. But one potential solution, great mentorship and support, isn’t so easy to come by. With their own startup of sorts, seven ex-Googlers are going to attempt to solve that.
While there isn’t too much information out there just yet about AngelPad, it should be something very interesting to watch in the next couple of weeks. A tweet today (the first from their account), reveals a launch date of Friday, September 10 and the

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Hunch Tries Local Recommendations

Recommendation site Hunch has been going through a reboot lately. Back in June, it stopped showing results to people who are not signed in, and earlier this month it redesigned its home page to offer personalized taste recommendations across a wide variety of categories such as dog breeds, U.S. national parks, camcorders, soft drinks, luggage, and film directors.
Now it is testing out local recommendations on a map with a sidebar showing restaurants, nightlife, hotels, spas, clothing stores,

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Woman Attacked In Boston's North End

Woman Attacked In Boston's North End
Police are investigating the assault of a woman in the North End early Saturday morning.

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Skype Etiquette

Skype is one of the most important work and social tools I use. It’s nearly perfect. Except that you people are using it to drive me crazy.
It’s made my list of “can’t live without” products for the last five years, and more recently the screen sharing feature has made Skype even more important as a productivity tool.
What I like about Skype is that you can use it for chat, or audio, or video. It’s an extremely versatile tool and most people in the startup

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Free iPhone Game: G5 Releases Virtual City FREE for the iPhone and iPod touch

Free iPhone Game: G5 Releases Virtual City FREE for the iPhone and iPod touch
G5 Entertainment released Virtual City FREE for the iPhone. Virtual City FREE offers four levels, over 30 minutes of game play and supports iPhone 4 Retina Display resolution. Build dwelling houses and industrial buildings, produce goods and deliver them ...

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Free iPhone Game: G5 Releases Virtual City FREE for the iPhone and iPod touch

Free iPhone Game: G5 Releases Virtual City FREE for the iPhone and iPod touch
G5 Entertainment released Virtual City FREE for the iPhone. Virtual City FREE offers four levels, over 30 minutes of game play and supports iPhone 4 Retina Display resolution. Build dwelling houses and industrial buildings, produce goods and deliver them ...

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Lady Java Video Marks Exact Point Where Geek Culture Jumped The Shark

Lady Java, whose whiny drone is making me pretty nostalgic for the days when non-developers thought Java was a kind of coffee, is the creation of the supremely dorky folks over at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway. And while you might argue that the Java developer community is still small and tight knit, that thing is currently rounding out 100,000 views on the originally posted YouTube video and countless others on repost.

“I want to program like they do at Oracle …”
I personally

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Foursquare’s Crowley: The Giants Are “Generic,” We Are Fun. I Wonder Who He’s Referring To…

Foursquare may have a tenuous partnership with Facebook Places— but don’t let the Kumbaya presentation fool you, these frenemies are gunning for the ultimate mayorship and Dennis Crowley is feeling very confident.
On Friday’s taping of Gillmor Gang with former TechCrunchIT Editor Steve Gillmor, Kevin Marks and John Taschek, Crowley discussed the opportunity for places, outlined his plan for the next iteration of Foursquare and knocked Google for its social awkwardness. While

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Apple To Shut Down Quattro's Mobile Ad Network To Focus Entirely On iAd

Apple To Shut Down Quattro's Mobile Ad Network To Focus Entirely On iAd
Apple said today that starting next month it will be funneling all of its mobile advertising efforts into iAd—a mobile ad network that works exclusively for the iPhone and iPod.

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Stalkers. Creeps. Weirdos. Terror. Welcome To Location, Facebook

The countdown is officially on for the big Facebook location backlash. How long will it be? One week? Two weeks? We all know it’s coming, it’s just a matter of when. And that’s too bad because I think Places is actually pretty great — potentially.
The ACLU wasted little time yesterday trying to start such a backlash (their post on the matter came what, a whole 30 seconds after the press conference ended?). Evelyn already did a nice job deconstructing many of their

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iHome releases iHome+Radio Internet radio app

iHome releases iHome+Radio Internet radio app
iHome has released iHome+Radio, an Internet radio app that works in conjunction with the company’s line of “App-Enhanced” iPhone and iPod speakers. The $2 app uses Internet radio site RadioTime’s program guide to deliver tens of thousands of local and international Internet and broadcast radio stations to your iPhone and iPod.

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iLunascape: Free iPad Browser Combines Tab Browsing With iPad-Specific UI

Lunascape, the company behind the eponymous triple-engine browser for desktop PCs, has just released its first browser created specifically for the iPad. Dubbed iLunascape, the browser is available for free in the App Store, and it’s a more than solid alternative to Safari on the iPad.
Most importantly, iLunascape allows for desktop-like tabbed browsing on the iPad (a first for a free app). Up to six tabs can be opened at the same time, and users can switch between them easily via thumb

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The Paranoid Can Relax, Facebook Dials Up Privacy With Places

Less than one hour after Facebook struck the ceremonial gong, signaling the official birth of Places, the ACLU of Northern California was ready to cry foul play.
In a 429-word post titled, “Facebook Places: Check This Out, Before You Check In,” the ACLU branch rips the new feature for a perceived lack of user control, complaining (in dramatically bold font) that “in the world of Facebook Places, “no” is unfortunately not an option.” While this anonymous ACLU member

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New iPad TV spot brings focus down to apps

New iPad TV spot brings focus down to apps
Apple has debuted a new TV ad for the iPad, simply known as "iPad is Delicious," after the first slogan flashed on screen. The spot marks a turn in the emphasis of iPad marketing, as previous ads have typically focused on the overall experience of using the device. The new one concentrates on apps, as Apple has done for some time with the iPhone and iPod touch.... iPhone - Apple - IPad - IPod ...

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New iPad TV spot brings focus down to apps

New iPad TV spot brings focus down to apps
Apple has debuted a new TV ad for the iPad, simply known as "iPad is Delicious," after the first slogan flashed on screen. The spot marks a turn in the emphasis of iPad marketing, as previous ads have typically focused on the overall experience of using the device. The new one concentrates on apps, as Apple has done for some time with the iPhone and iPod touch.... iPhone - Apple - IPad - IPod ...

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6rounds Changes Name To Rounds, Brings Its Video Chat Goodness To Facebook

It’s over a year ago when we covered the launch of 6rounds, a consumer-facing video chat platform with a couple of interesting twists that made it a lot of fun to use.
Henceforth, the startup and service will be called Rounds – they’re now leasing the domain name rounds.com, which is far more memorable.
The company is today also debuting a cool video chat application on the Facebook platform that I’m pretty sure will be appreciated by many.
The app, which is called

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Ebay Takes Down U.S. Access To Loquo Amid Sex Trafficking Allegations

Craigslist, embattled over the most recent allegations of sex trafficking and underage prostitution, pointed their finger at eBay yesterday. Craigslist has put significant efforts into moderating inappropriate listings on their site, says CEO Jim Buckmaster. But eBay continues to accept the worst kind of ads, depicting “young Asian females engaged in unprotected sex” on its Spanish subsidiary Loquo. He points to a number of listings that showed graphic pictures of sexual acts, and

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Apple global supply manager pleads not guilty to bribery charges

Apple global supply manager pleads not guilty to bribery charges
Apple's global supply manager, Paul Shin Devin.e, who has been charged for taking as much as $1 million in kickbacks and bribes from Apple iPhone and iPod accessory suppliers, has pleaded not guilty in San Jose, according to The Wall Street Journal. Another bail hearing has been set for Wednesday. Apple has said it has zero tolerance for dishonest behavior inside and outside the company. Read ...

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Samsung's YP-MB2 Android PMP spotted again in the wild, inches ever closer to release

It ain't the first time this chef-d'oeuvre has been spotted in the wild, but it's the first time that we're confident in believing the YP-MB2 is legitimate. The smoke that leads to fire is getting harder to duck under, and for all intents and purposes, this here device is a Galaxy S sans cellular connectivity. We're told that a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 1GHz processor, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3 megapixel camera and Android OS will be featured, and it sure feels like it'll be released first in

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Apple Japan to replace iPod Nano batteries

Apple Japan to replace iPod Nano batteries
Responding to complaints about hot iPod Nanos that prompted some fires and burns, Apple's Japanese division is promising to replace the batteries in first-generation models sold in 2005 and 2006.

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Overheating iPod delays rush-hour train in Tokyo

Poor Apple. The company just can't catch a break these days. On Wednesday, Apple Japan began offering customers iPod nano replacements, giving in to local government demands to better address an overheating battery issue affecting Apple's first generation iPod nano players. Then Friday morning (making the English-language press only now) a busy rush-hour commuter train was stopped in Tokyo to investigate a smell. According to a spokesman, "When a member of staff went to investigate inside the

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Library ebooks a hot item

Library ebooks a hot item
If you're too rushed to browse the stacks at the public library, there's a nifty alternative -- the ebook or audio book, downloadable to your personal computer, MP3 player, iPod or mobile device.

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If It’s On The Internet, It Must Be True

Editor’s note: Jon Orlin is the Production Director for TechCrunch TV
This past week, formerly unknown actress Elyse Porterfield fooled millions playing Jenny, the fired Dry Erase girl, in a clever hoax. Right now, I guarantee other pranksters are dreaming up new schemes to fool you again. And journalists, who at one time were tasked with protecting the public from such lies, no longer have the same power to block them.
The media has reporters and editors in place to prevent hoaxes from

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Tech For (And By) Africa

This article was written by Leila Janah, the founder and CEO of nonprofit outsourced services firm Samasource. You can watch my recent video interview with Janah here. Also see her recent article The Many Bottom Lines Of Businesses.
This week in Johannesburg I had the pleasure of keynoting Tech4Africa, the first major social web conference in South Africa, alongside crowdsourcing guru Clay Shirky.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the global economy’s last frontier. The majority of people in Africa

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Red-faced Apple to replace overheating iPod Nanos

Red-faced Apple to replace overheating iPod Nanos
The once infallible Apple has assured the Japanese government that it will replace overheating, first-gen iPod Nanos on demand. read more

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Red-faced Apple to replace overheating iPod Nanos

Red-faced Apple to replace overheating iPod Nanos
The once infallible Apple has assured the Japanese government that it will replace overheating, first-gen iPod Nanos on demand. read more

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Bye-Bye Seymour: Like Any Sensible Narcissist, I’m Locking My Twitter Account

I’m hardly the first person to have had the idea: I’m going to shut down my Twitter account.
I’m probably not the first to have decided to delete Facebook, Foursquare, Blippy, Google Buzz, LinkedIn or Delicious either. I may be the only person this year to have deleted my Friendfeed account, but only because I’m probably the only person this year to remember that he has a Friendfeed account.
No, I would hardly be the first person to decide to embark on a Social Shutdown (as

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Hot Forum Topic: Backing Up Your iPad’s Data

Hot Forum Topic: Backing Up Your iPad’s Data
Today TMO readers are talking about how to make sure your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch data is properly backed up and protected. iPhone - IPod Touch - IPad - Apple - Smartphones

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Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already

The past few days I’ve been bookmarking posts about Google, Verizon, and net neutrality to read later. For the past few hours I’ve been doing that — and I’ve barely made a dent. It seems that everyone who has ever written a word on the Internet is up in arms about the situation. And what’s amazing is that nearly all of them are in agreement. There’s no clear consensus as to why Google is selling us out, but the consensus is that they are.
And I have to agree.

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Eastday-'Heated' iPods to be replaced

Eastday-'Heated' iPods to be replaced
Apple Inc's Japan unit will replace any iPod nano portable music players that overheat, it said in an online statement, improving an earlier offer to replace only their faulty batteries.

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Flying Green: The Possibilities And Challenges Of Electric Aircraft

Airplanes release greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere and require enormous amounts of fuel to fly. A Boeing 747 can consume up to five gallons of fuel per mile. But what if planes could be powered by electricity? Though they won’t replace passenger airliners anytime soon, small, zero-emission, electric planes are flying today.
Engineers have been pursing electric flight for decades. In 1979, the Solar Riser became the first manned electric aircraft to fly. It used photovoltaic

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Search What’s Trending On Facebook With Booshaka

Facebook offers a simple search portal that allows you to search a keyword for public mentions on the network. Booshaka is taking Facebook search and adding a few bells and whistles to allow users to segment search by topic and provide trending topics around what people on Facebook are talking about.
So on Booshaka, you can segment search by topics, such as music, sports and politics. For the topics, Booshaks indexes popular Facebook pages, semantically organizes them, and then ranks their

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Apple Japan to improve iPod Nano fire warnings

Apple Japan to improve iPod Nano fire warnings
Apple's Japanese unit has promised to improve website warnings over its first-generation iPod Nano music player after incidents of it overheating and catching fire, a government statement said.

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Apple offers first generation iPod nano replacements in Japan

After two years of pushing and shoving by the Japanese government, Apple has finally relented, agreeing to replace those first generation iPod nano music players sold in Japan at risk of overheating. The player exchange goes beyond the battery replacement program already in effect for consumers concerned enough to complain directly to Apple. According to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, of all the plastic black and white iPod nano players sold between September 2005 and

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A Touchscreen IPod Shuffle Could Be a Cool Innovation

A Touchscreen IPod Shuffle Could Be a Cool Innovation
Is Apple granting touch treatment to the lowliest of iPods, the iPod Shuffle? Maybe, if the rumors are to be believed; and, unlikely as it may seem, a touchscreen iPod Shuffle is actually a good idea.

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Private Buying Club Tagadas Wants To Be The British Vente-Privee For Parents

Tagadas is a newly launched private buying club in the UK. Only unlike the more general designer offerings of Vente-Privee, Brands4friends and their various competitors, the London-based startup is attacking a more specific vertical: baby and children's products from brands such as French Connection and Minihaha.

It could also be seen as a British version of US-based Zulily.com, which like Tagadas is targeting parents. Zulily recently received $6m in investment led by August Capital, with parti

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Apple ordered to publicize iPod fix in Japan

Apple ordered to publicize iPod fix in Japan
Japan’s trade ministry has ordered Apple Inc’s Japan unit to state on its website that users who are concerned about their iPod nano portable music player catching fire can receive a replacement battery.

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