Apple refreshes iPods, shrinks AppleTV into streaming terminal

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The buzz and buildup leading to yesterday's Apple event was apparently justified. Announcements on the continuing iOS strategy, iPad software updates and the usual sales figures were quickly obscured by a series of big announcements in the personal media player space.

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Motoring: Michelin launches BlackBerry app for truck drivers, Android and iPhone coming soon

Michelin Americas Truck Tires is rolling out a mobile dealer-locator application for Blackberry smart phones used in the U.S. and Canada. As the first truly mobile tire-related application in the trucking industry, the new MICHELIN Blackberry application joins the existing MICHELIN ONCall^™ emergency road service (ERS) and online dealer and service locator in Michelin's "Wherever You Go" offering.

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Apple's App Store celebrates 250,000 apps

Apple has recently hit a milestone of selling 250,000 apps in its ever expanding iOS ecosystem. While most of these are iPhone and iPod Touch apps, a growing number are iPad specific. Apple is maintaining a strangehold on the smartphone app market for smartphones and tablet devices. Google's Android OS is second and while it has recently sold more smartphones its selection rings in about 100,000 apps.

Future Shop launches iPhone app

Future Shop iPhone and iPod Touch App now available

 Future Shop, Canada’s largest retailer and etailer of consumer electronics, today announced the release of their mobile app available now for free download onto iPhone and iPod Touch devices. One of the first retailers in Canada offering an app of this kind, Future Shop is allowing customers the freedom to browse, accurately search entire catalogue of products, securely purchase on the move and much more, such as viewing ratings, reviews and browsing the award-winningCommunity Forum social media site.

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