New Wacom Graphics Tablet

Wacom have bought out a new graphics tablet aimed at entry level users. The Wacom Bamboo is a great buy at only £69.99.

"You can add handwritten notes, personalise e-mails with your signature, draw sketches or doodles to get your point across. Personalise your e-mails with your signature or an individual sign you design for yourself."

Bamboo is A6 Wide in size with a sleek, contemporary product design that allows for a more easy and versatile way of working with a pen on the computer. Bamboo is targeted at PC and Mac users in non-graphics markets such as home users, office workers and business professionals.

The Wacom Bamboo is available at Pulse Technology, along with other ranges of iPod, Laptop and computer accessories.

The Beatles still not on itunes

It was widely expected that EMI would announce The Beatles back catalgue would be available on iTunes yesterday. EMI did announce DRM-free music so you will be able to download music from itunes and use it on any MP3 player and not just an iPod.



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EMI to offer DRM free music with Apple

EMI will offer DRM free music via iTunes starting in early May.

"DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for just 99 pence per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 20 pence a song."

”We are going to give iTunes customers a choice — the current versions of our songs for the same 79 pence price, or new DRM-free versions of the same songs with even higher audio quality and the security of interoperability for just 20 pence more”, said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think our customers are going to love this, and we expect to offer more than half of the songs on iTunes in DRM-free versions by the end of this year”.

This is great news, as it enables customers to use the downloaded tracks on other music players, other than the iPod.

iTunes starts new ‘Complete My Album’ feature

Apple today stated that it is going to to launch a complete My Album feature on its itunes store. What will happen is when a customer purchases a single Apple will offer them the rest of the album at a reduced rate. This is great for users that want to try one song from an album on their iPod before they commit to a purchase. iTunes and the Appl



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iHome release new set of Pink iPod speakers

iHome has today announced a new set of Pink iPod speakers aimed at Gadget loving ladies. The ih19 is a handbag shaped speaker set that consists of two dynamic stereo strontium speakers on a zippered sports case.

The case is ideal for the beach or in the bathroom, you can also attach it to other things like a bike for example. This set of speakers is set to go down a store with girls who love their iPod.

New Connector for iPod Shuffle

Essential Tech have released the iUSB, which allows you to connect your iPod Shuffle to a USB port without without having to use the Shuffle 2G Dock.

It allows for song transfer and charging and is compatible with both Mac and PC, which is excellent aswell to plug straight into a laptop while travelling. The iUSB also comes with a convenient lanyard loop on the side so you can attach it to backpack or laptop case.

The iUSb is available from iPod Accessory retailer Easyishop for only £5.99.

iPhone presales overstated?

A report published on Forbes.com suggests that Apple has over stated the iPhone, The analyst thinks Apple did not make the right choice when selecting Cingular as exclusive carrier in the United States, because it may lose customers under contract with other major US carriers.

“Worldwide shipments of converged mobile devices (i.e. smartphones) increased 42% year-over-year to 80.5 million units in 2006. It also remains under-penetrated and offers plenty of growth potential. But the bad news is that it currently represents less than 10% of the total number of handsets likely sold last year. This suggests a much smaller market for the iPhone than one might assume. Even if the growth in smart phones could support the sale of 10 million iPhones by 2008, Apple’s own strategic decisions could easily prevent the company from meeting its target. The most limiting of these is its decision to offer the product only through AT&T.”