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First it was France, described as loopy by the great one. And now Sweden, Denmark, Norway and soon Finland are asking that Apple offer iTunes downloads that can playback on any device, and not just Apple’s iPod. In UK, BPI is making similar noises as well, reports The Financial Times.
An Apple spokesman said on Friday: [...]

30Boxes, the online calendaring company has done it again - come up with a cool new way of doing things, that is. They have just introduced a OS-X styled web top interface which can be used “as a starting point for your web apps and stay up to date on the latest updates (calendar and [...]

A month after it announced a partnership with AT&T, satellite broadband service provider, Wildblue has entered into a partnership with Echostar.
Clearly, the company sees these partnerships as a way to get some traction in a really tough satellite broadband market. [Daily Wireless has an excellent backgrounder on Wildblue's technology.]
The service, dubbed “DISH High-Speed Internet, powered [...]

Here is a synopsis of some important developments in the world of Broadband, Mobile and the Internet.
* The Feds have given the go ahead for Alcatel-Lucent merger. Lucatel, as Light Reading calls it, is getting mo money from Telefonica and will help build out Spanish incumbent’s next gen network.
* KDDI outpaces NTT DoCoMo and adds [...]

GigaOM readers in a poll earlier this month have spoken - Vonage stock is a sucker’s bet and is headed down. The stock market seems to agree. The odds are against the company. Daniel Berninger, senior analyst with Tier 1 Research thinks otherwise, and believes that like MCI that put the squeeze on old AT&T, [...]

Updated: Online spreadsheets seem to be the new black. A couple of days after Google announced its Spreadsheet, hosted wiki company, Socialtext has entered into a partnership with wikiCalc, an online spread sheet developed by Dan Bricklin, president of Software Garden and the inventor of the pioneering PC spreadsheet VisiCalc. As part of this agreement, [...]