On 21 February the Cuba St Carnival will mark its 10th year of celebrating the distinctive culture of Wellington’s much loved street. Each year the Carnival continues to grow and this year will be no different, with crowds of 150,000 people expected. The iconic and quirky shopping street will be filled with music and dancing [...]

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Over Christmas there was some intense negotiations between the various record companies and Apple over the removal of Digital Rights Management and Variable Pricing for music. The primary issue was that Apple wanted to get music distribution onto the iPhone because they felt that impulse buying on the iPhone was an important component to growth. [...]

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Uploaded on November 11, 2006 by penmachine
Victor Godinez of the Dallas Morning News comments today about the fate of the Zune and indeed why iPod users should care.
But anyone who plans to buy an iPod should hope that Microsoft is able to turn the Zune into at least a modest success.
His basic argument is [...]

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Windows Mobile was originally launched as Pocket PC in April 2000. It was born in an age when Microsoft was busy trying to tie everything to the Windows Desktop and cast a long shadow over every part of the IT industry. It was not long after that that the Windows wheels fell [...]

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The upgrades to 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch has arrived. If any one has tried to install upgrades and new applications in other smartphones then they will appreciate just how good iTunes + iPhone/iPod integration is.
I upgraded my iPod touch to 2.0 and added in Ebay app, AOL Radio (with NPR goodness on [...]

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[Uploaded on August 31, 2007 by nobihaya]
The Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spilled the beans over progress made on getting Flash working on the iphone yesterday:
MACMILLAN: And then just to follow-up was on the Apple iPhone 3G — any update on Flash support within that device? Thanks.

NARAYEN: With respect to the iPhone, we are working on [...]

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The big numbers story this January is that General Motors has held on to it’s spot as number one car manufacturer in the US over Toyota who has beaten Ford for the first time:
Toyota sold 48,226 more cars and trucks than Ford, according to sales figures released today. Toyota’s sales were up 3 percent for [...]

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I don’t know if anyone noticed but this week Hewlett Packard announced 5 new PDAs based on the Windows PDA OS:
The new iPAQ 210 Enterprise Handheld, iPAQ 110 Classic Handheld, iPAQ 910 Business Messenger, iPAQ 610 Business Navigator, and the iPAQ 310 Travel Companion are HP’s ammunition in what appears to be a serious go [...]

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Whilst Apple’s iPod and iPhone products continue to create new sales records, Microsoft’s Zune player pricing continues to slide with discounts ranging from 17 to 20% off retail according to Amazon.

Whereas the iPod at the retail level is sold at list price, online it attracts only a 5% discount at most.
The dramatic discounting for the [...]

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The folks at hideapod.com have released the ultimate anti theft device for your ipod, an iPod cover that is shaped like a brown Zune player.
It’s really very simple. Just tell us what iPod model you want to protect and we provide a gutted and hinged Zune with our custom molded iPod casing adapter. We also [...]

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