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The battle for cloud-based music services takes a new twist this week with Google’s move to begin testing YouTube as a live video streaming platform.
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Adobe may be fighting for the future of Flash but that hasn’t stopped the company offering up an add-on pack for Adobe Illustrator that turns the software into an HTML5 authoring tool.

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Yet more claims that Apple intends launching the iPhone on T-Mobile and Wind carriers in Canada comes from Canada mobile firm, Videotron, which claims it too will offer a version of the device, specially manufactured with support for the 1700MHz AWS band.

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Apple may abandon use of Infineon baseband solutions in its future iPhone 5 following the latter firm’s acquisition by processor giant, Intel.

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BusinessWeek this morning has an interesting read — a profile of the head of Apple’s main iPhone manufacturing partner, Foxconn’s Terry Gou. Gou notes on Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, “I forced him to give me his business card”.

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Computerworld: Apple is putting up a fight like we’ve never seen before. This is not a repeat of the Apple v. Microsoft battle of yesteryear. This is a new skirmish fought with different rules, in which only one of the combatants truly has a historic understanding of what the stakes are.

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Computerworld: Apple last week helped create a brand-new $15 billion business when it introduced its new AirPlay music streaming system, which it is licensing to third party developers — and which it created with help from BridgeCo, here’s what the BridgeCo people told 9to5Mac’s own Jonny Evans this week.

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Wow! You really can tell you’ve made it when the competition start to trash talk you, and now we’re seeing the biggest compliment ever shot across at Apple, with Acer founder Stan Shih calling Apple’s products a “mutant virus”.
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You want choice? It looks like you may soon have some when it comes to your choice of media player on an iPhone, as software dvelopers, Applidium, have submitted their own VLC app to the iTunes App Store for approval.
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Hackerz, jailbreakerz and all the iBadBoys will be having a little party this morning on news that those iPhone hackers over at the iPhone and Chronic Dev Teams have succeeded in jailbreaking iOS 4.1.
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We’re not saying the iPhone 5 will be this startlingly amazing example of a location-sensing, near field communicating hyper-advanced device that might run at speeds as fast as 2.5GHz — but we are saying it’s possible.
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Perhaps Apple can easily side-step the major labels while also giving them the kind of fractured competitive landscape music industry forces hope for in digital music. Perhaps it has already begun doing it — look at Pandora or Spotify for their all-you-can-eat music services, and, this morning, look at all-new Mac compatible streaming music/locker service, ZumoCast.
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Apple Stores and other brick and mortars like Target have the new iPods today.  Below is a picture of a happy Target customer/9to5mac reader Jay:

Unboxings are coming in from all over.  iLounge have rushed to open up their new music players, publishing (rather nice) unboxing photos of the new products.

The photos include all seven colors of the iPod nano and the new FaceTime-capable fourth-generation iPod touch.  If you can wait a week, Amazon has some significant tax free discounts (up to $15 off).  More images below.
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Computerworld: Introduced last week it seems Apple has built a new class system presently favoring major label artists in its social network for music, Ping. Meanwhile if you’re a music fan and want to contribute to the discussion, bad luck, you have no posting rights beyond comment as Apple’s iTunes thought police do their best to keep control.

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Apple’s iPhone 4 seems set to hit the insanely populous Chinese market as the device has won key approval from government agencies there.

The company has won a China network license for the iPhone 4 from China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center. That’s broadly in line with statements from Apple’s Chinese iPhone carrier, China Unicom, which has previously said it expects to offer the iPhone in China later this year.
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Here’s interesting: aas the above chart shows we’ll soon have downloaded more apps from iTunes than songs. Though to be fair, reading too much into the statistic is unwise, as so many of the apps available in-store are free, while music costs at least 59-cents.
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Plans to extend the song samples made available via iTunes to a more satisfactory minute were shelved in advance of last week’s music product update event because music publishers refused to play ball.
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This is the world’s first intelligent stamp, delivered by the UK Royal Mail. This is an augmented reality experience in partnership withb AR specialist junaio. Point your iPhone (or Android smartphone) with the juniao app running at any of Royal Mail’s Great British Railway Special Stamps and you will launch video footage of Bernard Cribbens reciting the W H Auden poem “Night Mail”.
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iPhone isn’t just playing games, it’s the smartphone for making money, at least that’s how it looks when you ponder PopCap’s boss, Dave Roberts, who points out, “I continue to be amazed at how much business we do on the iPhone.”
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Samsung seems to be emerging as a leading Apple competitor, with its A4-style processor-powered Galaxy smartphone and tablet devices — now news it intends introducing an Android OS-powered range of television sets, even as Apple seems to be foundering slightly with its Apple TV “hobby“.
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