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Kindle app for iOS drops store link
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Amazon’s Kindle app for Apple’s iPad and iPhone is the latest to drop its ‘buy’ button as retailers find themselves faced with complying with Apple’s new rules or evicted from the AppStore. As previously reported, Apple has ceased approving apps which use a link to the retailer’s website to complete purchases unless the app also…
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Warner Bros. to announce Harry Potter studio tour details
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Movie studio Warner Bros. will use Empire Magazine’s forthcoming BIG SCREEN weekend to announce details of a brand new Harry Potter studio tour. Scheduled to open in Spring 2012, The Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter is described as a behind-the-scenes walking tour which will give fans of the young…
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Kobo’s iOS app loses ‘buy’ option
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iPad and iPhone users who buy books from Kobo will no longer be able to purchase titles from within the app as Kobo becomes the latest retailer to fall into line with Apple’s new sales rules. Earlier this year Apple announced it would no longer approve apps which redirected sales out of the app and…
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The Hobbit: Meet the dwarves
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Warner Bros. have released this great composite image of all thirteen dwarves from Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Hobbit two-parter. As announced in May, J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic book is to be released in two parts, subtitled An Unexpected Journey and There and Back Again, with the first instalment hitting the big screen on 14th December 2012.
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Complaints as Virgin Media’s TiVo fails to record
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Users of Virgin Media’s TiVo set to box have been venting their frustration after the company’s shiny new box failed record series links on Saturday.
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The Hunger Games – a savage tale of a nation in collapse
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Set in the not-too-distant future in the United States of America, The Hunger Games tells the tale of a country which has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts.