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Zinio brings iTunes purchasing to updated iPad app
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Zinio, the company which sells a virtual newsagents of digital magazines, has updated its iPad app with a host of new features. The new 2.0 version of the app offers free articles from its catalogue of 4.500 titles and also includes a radical overhaul of the user interface.
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iTunes brings longer music previews to UK
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Apple has extended the length of music previews in its UK iTunes store to 90 seconds, bringing the store into line with its US counterpart. Customers of the US store gained the longer previews back in December but at the time UK and international versions of the store continued to offer only 30 second previews.…
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BBC Two snaps up Pan Am drama
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Pan Am, created by Jack Orman (ER) and directed by Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing), follows the lives of a group of pilots and air hostesses as they take to the skies, crossing the globe in a jet-powered, seductive age, shaped by romance and shifting social values.
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Star Trek PADD for iPad
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Could there be a more perfect app for Apple’s iPad than this official Star Trek database? Taking its cue from the 1995 Star Trek Omnipedia, the Star Trek PADD is packed with pictures, technical specs, episode details and biogs of the various Star Trek characters, casts and production teams. Content is accessed via touch (and…
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Sid Meier's Pirates! for iPad
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He may be best known as the creator of the Civilization franchise, but Sid Meier is also the man behind the best pirate-related computer game ever released and it’s now available on the iPad. The beauty of Pirates! has always been that you get to decide what the game is about. You can choose to…
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TopGear.com and Citroën team-up for World Rally Championship game
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Car makers Citroën have joined forces with the official Top Gear website to develop a new online racing game. The rally racer offers users the opportunity to pit their skills across three surfaces – asphalt, snow and off-road – as they race through in France, Jordan and Sweden. Players can share their score with friends…