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The BBC reports that Apple has launcheed its video downloads service in the UK with 28 series available for download with Apple promising more content soon. The launch happened during the same week that Vint Cerf delivered the Alternative McTaggart Lecture at Edinburgh, who “TV was rapidly approaching the same kind of crunch moment that the music industry faced with the arrival of the MP3 player. ‘85% of all video we watch is pre-recorded, so you can set your system to download it all the time,” he said. “You’re still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at later.‘ “(via Bobbie Johnson)
Silicon Republic highlights a new “service that enables users to create and publish personalised newspapers compiled from their favourite blogs and news sites…The software automatically lays out the blog posts, creating a PDF newspaper without the need for designers or sub-editors that can be printed out.“
ElectricNews report that “Over 50,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK will be better off financially after YouTube agreed to a royalty deal for songs used in videos.”
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