Filed under: Portable Audio

It looks like Apple waited ’till the last minute to respond to the EU’s latest demand for answers in its longstanding investigation into the company’s iTunes pricing practices, coming in just under an already extended midnight deadline yesterday. Of course, nobody’s saying exactly what Apple’s response entailed, with the EU only going so far as to say that they are “carefully” studying it. The EU’s prime concern here is Apple’s practice of preventing users in one country from downloading music intended for another which, in some cases, results in some users paying more for music than others. No word on what’ll happen next, although we somehow doubt this latest response will suddenly put the EU at ease.

[Via MacNN]

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Filed under: Cellphones

The beauty of the messaging beast known as the BlackBerry, is, of course, the lovely QWERTY pad layout and giant luscious screen. We have seen a goodly pile of patent applications from RIM in an effort to preserve said keyboard while potentially supplying a new twist on a fairly utilitarian (and a bit long in the tooth) design. This latest application sees your favorite handset fitted with keys in a “garage door” type layout, so if you only need a few keys for watching a video or wandering the interwebs, the extra keys just roll back into the handset’s body. Apparently RIM may already know what Apple could discover next week: on screen keyboards can be pretty weak affairs, albeit much easier to keep clean.

[Via Unwired View]

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Filed under: Digital Cameras

What’s a Thursday in June without nine new boringcams from HP to be totally underwhelmed by? We can’t think of a better way to spend our morning than to sort through all these mundane Photosmart models, and if you have the patience feel free to join in on the fun. The cameras range from the $80 E337, which features a 5 megapixel sensor and a 1.5-inch LCD, all the way up to the R937 (pictured), sporting a 3.6-inch touchscreen and an 8 megapixel resolution, which goes for $300. In between is a vast wasteland of minor feature bumps and teensy aesthetic tweaks, but we’ve gotta hand it to HP for packing good amount of features into some fairly well priced cameras. Keep reading and all will be revealed.

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Robert Sollis wrote Google over and over again, attempting to have an address changed for a major event. When nothing happened, he took the matter into his own hands.

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

As we’ve reported before, tasers might not be as safe as their makers like to claim. Juan Flores Lopez, a Texas man who had doused himself in gasoline, became the latest unfortunate taser-related casuality when police used the stun device (which sometimes emit sparks) during his arrest. “We don’t know what ignited the fire,” perplexed officers admitted. The case is currently being investigated by the Texas Rangers.

[Via Digg]

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