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PC digital downloads market to hit $1 billion this year?

According to Dorian Bloch of GfK Chart-Track , the market for digital game downloads for PC in 2009 will reach over $1 billion. Bloch estimates that the market will grow to $1 billion from an estimated $600 million last year, driven by digital download services such as Steam , Direct2Drive and Metaboli

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Drake’s So Far Gone Is The Hottest Mixtape Of 2009 (So Far)

The breakthrough tape ‘was an important moment for me,’ Drizzy tells Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid Drake Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images Midseason Salute: Drake’s So Far Gone What can we say about So Far Gone that hasn’t already been written in this very section

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Netbook shipments grow to 33 million

According to new DisplaySearch figures, netbook shipments will jump to 32.7 million worldwide for 2009, a large year-on-year spike. Says John Jacobs, DisplaySearch’s notebook market research director, via TWICE , that if the expected number is hit, the netbook market will have doubled in just one year, strong growth by any stretch

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App Store hits 1.5 billion downloads in first year

Apple has announced today that customers have downloaded over 1.5 billion applications in the first year of the popular App Store . The App Store now also has 65,000 apps and 100,000 developers involved in the iPhone Developer Program. “The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” adds Steve Jobs, via an official press release .

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Stephen Fry defends non-commercial piracy

Stephen Fry, the popular actor, author and current gadget blogger has spoken out about piracy this week, defending non-commercial piracy and berating the media watchdog groups, who he claims are going about it all wrong. The lashing, made at the iTunes festival, started with Fry giving a history of music copyright.

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A national high-speed rail network up and running by 2030 – Yes we can

President Obama strongly supports high-speed rail, environmentalists are behind it (well, at least some of them) and the Federal Railroad Administration is already reaching out to other countries that have had success with it. High-speed rail looks like it’s going to happen.

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