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Is eBay fed up with the auction business?
By: Davey Winder

eBay is cutting the costs of fixed-price sales and giving buyers additional financial protection. Does this signal the end of the online auction site and a drive to become the shop window of the web instead?


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Rhapsody DRM-free MP3 store takes on iTunes' dominance
By: Stephen Withers

A full range of unprotected MP3 tracks, full-length previews, competitive prices - will the Rhapsody music store from RealNetworks be the one that finally puts the squeeze on Apple's iTunes Store?


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Five billion iTunes served
By: Stephen Withers

Apple's market-leading iTunes Store has hit a new milestone: over five billion songs have now been purchased.


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USA: Jobs, jobs, jobs and too few candidates to fill them
By: Lia Timson

“Google Pittsburgh is looking for engineers with great aspirations”, says the advertisement. While only talented software developers and visionary computer scientists anxious to work on the next big thing in the new office need apply, the lack of suitable candidates may be an issue.


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Brazil tribe photographed: No contact with outside world
By: William Atkins

Researchers have discovered (and photographed) what they say is a tribe of people in the Amazonian rainforest that have never had contact with any facet of modern society.

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Napster nails DRM with largest MP3 catalogue
By: Stephen Withers

Napster has driven another nail into the coffin of DRM-protected music sales with a new and well-stocked online store offering MP3 downloads.


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OpenSolaris opens for business
By: Stephen Withers

The first supported release of the OpenSolaris operating system has arrived.


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iTunes gets movies on DVD release day
By: Stephen Withers

Major studios have allowed Apple and other movie download companies to begin offering movie purchases at the iTunes Store on the same day the title goes on sale on DVD - but only if you live in the US.


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"Would you buy..?" Maybe!
By: Stephen Withers

Stuart Corner posed the question "Would you buy the DVD if you could watch a movie free online?" My answer is that there's no simple answer.


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Podcaster gets publishing contract
By: Stephen Withers

An author that has been publishing his novels via podcast and recently put his first book out through a small press has been signed by a major publisher.


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Amazon's Kindle vision: every book, in any language in 60 seconds
By: Stuart Corner

Six months after being embarrassed by inability to meet demand for the newly launched e-book, the Kindle, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been talking up the product and says his company's vision is for readers to download "every book ever printed in any language...in less than 60 seconds."


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Amazon squeezes on-demand publishers
By: Stephen Withers

New terms imposed by Amazon appear to be aimed at pushing publishers towards Amazon's BookSurge subsidiary in place of competing print-on-demand services.


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iTunes Store takes number two spot in US
By: Stephen Withers

The iTunes Store has taken less than five years to become the second-biggest music retailer in the US.


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Amazon announces obvious: backs Blu-ray but will still sell HD DVD
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Amazon has announced it will support ‘Blu-ray as the digital format of choice for customers’, promising ‘Earth’s Largest Selection’ – while promising to continue selling HD DVD products and the ‘broadest selection of HD DVD titles’.


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Play.com launches DRM-free music in the UK before Amazon
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Although Apple already offers some DRM-free music through iTunes in the UK, Play.com has joined the DRM-free rush before US based online retailer Amazon has had a chance to blitz the UK market.


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Amazon to buy audiobook seller
By: Stephen Withers

Amazon is set to absorb Audible in a $US300 million deal.


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DRM-free Amazon MP3 to take on iTunes globally in 2008
By: Stan Beer

Armed with DRM-free MP3 downloads from all four major music labels, Amazon MP3 the digital music store of Amazon.com has announced that it will take its store international this year. Currently, Amazon MP3, which was launched on Amazon.com in September 2007, is only available to US residents and the announcement to go international puts further pressure on Apple's dominant iTunes store.


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