You thought Apple was ripping you off with the price of iTunes songs in the UK? You should see what Sony is doing!

There was heated furor over Apple charging different prices in the UK than elsewhere which got somewhat resolved recently when Apple standardized its iTunes prices across the EU.

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I've been a paid-up subscriber of the much-hyped Mozy remote backup system for about a year now. The only problem is that I haven't really used it in that time and I emailed them a few days ago to ask them to cancel my account (and I haven't heard back yet). The reason: I haven't successfully backed up once on my Mac.

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Doug McCune is reporting that there is a clause in the Widget Design Challenge 2008 contest being run by eBay that bars entrants from using open source libraries in their entries.

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Singularity is sponsoring BarCampBrighton2, a gathering of 150 geeks that is scheduled to take place on March 15th and 16th, 2008 at the University of Sussex in Brighton.

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VectorDesigner, Snapz Pro X, Pixelmator, CSSEdit, AppZapper, Speed Download, 1password, CoverSutra, Cha-Ching, iStopMotion, Awaken, Tiki Magic Mini Golf, Wingnuts 2, and TaskPaper are the 14 applications you get for $49 in this year's Mac Heist. And there's just over 1 day left to take advantage of it.

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