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BBC loses £200,000 of laptops and phones, Crave sympathises

Absent-minded staff of the BBC and its subsidiaries lost 146 laptops, 65 mobile phones and 17 BlackBerrys in the last two years. The losses were revealed in a Freedom of Information request by the curious Georges at IT security firm Absolute Software. The Beeb’s bean-counters valued the laptops at £219,000 (that’s £1,500 each, amazingly), the mobile phones at £12,913 and …

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iTunes adds try before you buy App Store, but still no Beatles

Yoko Ono and the surviving Beatles have yet again ruled out the band’s arrival on iTunes. In better news, Apple has introduced a section of the iTunes App Store that kind of, sort of, lets you try out apps for free before you buy them. It collects together ‘lite’ versions of apps — that is, free sample versions of paid-for …

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