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Spotify - great music player

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Yesterday I got my hands on an early beta of the music player Spotify. Spotify aims to be an an ad-financed iTunes-like client connected to a large archive of songs that are streamed via encrypted P2P technology. The client and streaming technology is great and once/if the rights issues are solved Spotify is the program […]

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Games industry reached all time high U.S. sales in 2005

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

MSNBC: “Overall, sales of console and portable hardware, software and accessories reached $10.5bn, 6 per cent higher than the $9.9bn generated in 2004 and beating the record of $10.3bn achieved in 2002.”
Games are probably the form of entertainment most suitable for the connected and interactive world we are living in. It is especially notable to […]

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