After each quake and aftershock? People try and guess what strength it was, and where it occurred, and how deep it was. Some have become frighteningly accurate at this.

Apple filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Forum against the owner of seven domain names last month.

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Thailand makes about a quarter of the world's spindle-based hard-disk drives and the recent floods have impacted production.

Google has began selling digital music in a direct challenge to Apple's iTunes and Amazon's online shop - ten years after the Apple service was launched.

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What has Apple got planned for the post-Jobs future? Solar-powered iPods look to be on the list.

Millions of people own iPhones, iPads, iPod touches, and Macs. Millions of PC people also have iDevices. Many, many of them wanted all this new, free software booty.