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BBC iPlayer Beta now available for iPhone

Remember the recent unconfirmed quotes from the BBC that a version of the iPlayer was coming for the hallowed iPhone? Well in a surprise move, no doubt trying to gain a little momentum with today’s SDK furore, a limited selection of shows from the iPlayer have been made available to UK residents on their iPhones. It’s worth noting, however, that the service makes use of existing technologies on the iPhone — not anything announced today.

At the moment only the BBC-produced ‘Whistleblower’ documentary seems to be working from the iPlayer website, with content being streamed-only via the iPhone’s built-in QuickTime player — quite the surprise given the heavy use of Windows-only technologies until fairly recently — although we’d guess there’s more shows on the way.

Of course, it’s a beta service (when aren’t they?) so you may not be able to access all the content and the usual caveats apply. As ever, the iPlayer is only for UK residents.

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March 10th, 2008
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7digital.com to offer DRM-free MP3s from Warner Music International

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If you abhor the fact that most of the mp3s being sold online have DRM, well then this tidbit of news might be able to make you guys smile. 7digital.com has just announced that they will be offering DRM-free MP3s from Warner Music International, a division of the Warner Music Group.

In fact, 7digital.com is the first major European download store to offer people in UK, Ireland, Spain, France, and Germany, mp3 downloads from Warner Music. Eighty percent of the total 3.5 million tracks from 7digital.com is now MP3, alongside formats such as WMA and AAC.

What’s great about this is that these songs that can be downloaded can be readily played in various MP3 players, including the world-famous iPod.

With this latest offering, Ben Drury, CEO of 7digital.com, said

7digital.com is excited to be Warner Music’s first major partner in Europe to bring MP3s to the marketplace. Our 1.2 million registered customer base has proved to us that MP3s sell very well and MP3 is currently the format of choice for digital media consumers.

7digital.com is committed to becoming the destination for MP3s and we plan to make our entire music catalogue available in DRM-free, high-quality MP3 format by summer 2008.

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March 10th, 2008
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Encyclopaedia Britannica now accessible through iPhone

Encyclopaedia Britannica - Image 1It was recently announced that consumers will be able to access Encyclopaedia Britannica through their iPhones. This means that as long as you have your iPhone, you will no longer be caught unaware and can look up pertinent facts about almost any subject quickly and efficiently.

The iPhone-optimized site offers full-text searching, thousands of high-resolution thumbnails that expand to full-size images, and page layouts optimized for cell phone bandwidth. The entire database is said to be fully searchable and hot-linked in a method similar to Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Web editions.

In case you want to find out more about accessing the Encyclopaedia Britannica on your iPhone, feel free to follow our Source Link below.

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March 3rd, 2008
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iTunes now second largest U.S. music retailer

Quite unsurprisingly, Apple’s online music retailer store iTunes ranked as the second biggest music retailer in the U.S., according to NPD Group’s 2007 sales count. iTune’s sales accounted to a six percent increase in digital music sales, aside from the video and movie content available in iTunes.

The sales increase has attributed to a decline in CD sales, however. According to Reuters, about a million audiophiles in the U.S. stopped buying music CDs in favor of digital downloads last year. This change of media preference pulled the music industry’s performance down by 10 percent.

Apple’s popular music retail store currently serves about 50 million customers, and digital music downloads make up about 10 percent of music sales in the United States. Approximately four billion songs were bought and downloaded from iTunes.

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More iPod News

Emory University presents readings from Alice Walker To celebrate the placement of the archive of her life?s work at Emory, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker visited the university in March 2008 to explain her decision and grace those gathered with selected readings from her prose and poetry. A consummate storyteller, Alice Walker has written more than 23 books, including The Color Purple, one of the works she reads from in these episodes on iTunes U.
Coming Attractions: Australia On November 26, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman bring Australia to theaters in the U.S. Directed by Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), Australia tells a sweeping story of war and romance set against the backdrop of the extraordinary Australian landscape.
Games ?come of age on the iPhone 3G? ?Watch out, Nintendo. This game is just getting started,? warns Dean Takahashi (venturebeat.com). ?Thanks to the multi-touch display, great sound, good graphics, and the accelerometer-based tilt feature,? iPhone 3G offers serious competition as a prime gaming device. To wit: Apple has ?had more than 200 million downloads from its App Store since the store debuted in July.?
New iPod touch earns ?a rare perfect score? Sitting ?in a class by itself,? the new iPod touch receives a perfect 5 stars from Cliff Edwards (businessweek.com). ?Apple has managed to make the touch look better, work better, and deliver more features,? Edwards points out. ?No longer simply a high-end iPod, it has become the foundation of what?s sure to be an increasingly important handheld computing platform for Apple.?
App Store Pick of the Week: Google Mobile Available only on iPhone, Google Mobile features Voice Search. Simply speak your query and let Google do what it does best. The free application also offers My Location searches (finding businesses based on your current location), performs contact and history searches, and includes a new Apps tab for rearranging Google Apps. Give it a try. It works, and it?s fun.


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