Reuters – iTunes has long been a double-edged sword for the music industry — on one hand, it provided a model for selling digital music. On the other, the dominance of singles sales over album sales leaves a revenue gap that labels are still trying to close.

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Depeche Mode debuts season-pass model on iTunes
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We doubt you need a translation to figure out what’s going on here, but to summarize: the crew at mobile@mail.ru managed to get what they’re saying is an exclusive hands-on with a red Nokia E55. It’s the same compact QWERTY phone you’ve grown to love vicariously through photos and video, only now with a little rouge. Check out the read link for more pics.

[Thanks, Zavackiy]

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Nokia E55 blushes red for the camera originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While affirming its stance on the legality of Kindle 2’s text-to-speech feature — and in fact stating it’ll actually get more customers interested in buying audiobooks — Amazon’s announced that it’ll now let the books’ rights holders decide on a title-by-title basis whether or not they’ll let TTS be enabled. No word on when the update’ll be fed to the devices, but we bet somewhere right now, Paul Aiken’s cracking a tiny smile. Full release after the break.

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Amazon sorta capitulates, will let publishers decide text-to-speech availability originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, it looks like the dust up between Psion and those using the “netbook” name to describe, um, netbooks, isn’t showing any signs of going away anytime soon, with Psion now responding to Intel and Dell’s latest charges by saying that, contrary to their claims, it does indeed still sell its NetBook Pro. According to jkOnTheRun, while Psion says it “can understand why people might have assumed that sales ceased a while back,” it does in fact still sell the device, with the bulk of its sales being in the “highly specialized supply chain logistics area.” As Psion points out, that continuation of sales is key to its argument to keep the trademark from becoming abandoned, and it says it has “all the invoices to prove multi-million dollar sales in the US in 2006 and sales that continue even to this day,” adding that, “just because we’re not selling tens of thousands through Best Buy doesn’t mean we’re not entitled to our trademark.” That said, we’re still a long ways from folks being forced to pay up or stop using the netbook name, although it’s at least becoming clear that Psion isn’t about to just let this one slide.

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Psion responds to “netbook” challengers, says it does so still sell the NetBook Pro originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Macworld.com – Just a small sampling of all the great iPhone and iPod touch games we’ve learned about this week, but we’re willing to bet there are a few items here that might catch your fancy.

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iPhone Game Roundup: ExZeus, Shooter, Tamagotchi
(Macworld.com)