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Amazon.co.uk: DVD RentalAmazon starts DVD rental – knew this was coming. Looks quite interesting, although I am wary as I trialled the Blockbuster service as a viacom employee, and one of the DVD’s in the very distinctive packaging went missing in the post and they charged me £40.

Mac News: E-Commerce: Apple Goes After iTunes.co.uk Owner

Chancing his arm here I think. He’s the ex “dot com teenage milionaire” I think apple might just win this, myself.

Appl (Nasdaq: AAPL) has accused a small British company of illegally possessing the domain iTunes.co.uk, and is taking on its owner, demanding it be given control of the Web address.

It’s owner plans to vigorously fight the iPod maker, saying it registered the domain a month before Apple was granted a British trademark for the name ‘iTunes’ in December of 2003.

Benjamin Cohen, the CEO of CyberBritain Holdings, told The Mac Observer today he was first contacted by Apple’s legal counsel, Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie, on November 5, demanding the domain name be turned over to Apple.

“They wanted me to simply give it up,” he told TMO. “They basically said it was theirs, I had no right to it, and that they would take further legal action to get it. I told them I wouldn’t give it up.”

Amazon unavailable for holiday shopping madness | The Register

Amazon.com went down just in time for the holidays.
The shopping site was tossing up “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” messages to users in the US throughout Monday.

This happens periodically, but is unusual at christmas time. This will have lost a fortune on the internal graphs, although I expect most users will come back later. Heads will roll

AppleInsider | iPod adoption rate faster than Sony Walkman

In a successive Merrill Lynch report released Monday afternoon, Milunovich fires off what appears to be unsubstantiated rumors of an 200GB Apple entertainment server,”which would compete with multimedia PCs and possibly game consoles to manage family entertainment.”

Rumours are appearing of an apple entertainment hub, managing family entertainment. Its an obvious step on from the ipod – as long as its more ipod than apple pippin. Incedentally, this item is tacked onto an article stating ipod uptake is faster than walkman uptake. And friends thought I was mad to spend that much money on something they couldn’t get their heads round. Told them they’d end up having one too.

Am amazed at the amount of white earbud headphones you see people in London with nowadays. Had to import my Sony buds from Japan a couple of years ago

Marks & Spencer extended its “One Day Christmas Spectacular” offer into a second day after its website went belly up during its pre-Xmas sale.
The struggling high street retailer had tried to drum up trade with a 20 per cent-off bonanza in its stores and on its website yesterday. But so many people responded online yesterday, the M&S site fell over for several hours during the middle of the day.
As a result, the retailer has now extended its offer until this afternoon to appease frustrated shoppers. Not what you want.,