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The big headlines were on the web today, with Spotify threatening to completely overhaul how the Top 40 music chart is calculated, and Google giving Maps a new option to bring up local info around a selection with just a click.

In gaming, rumours are doing the rounds that the PS3 may not be getting a whole group of big name titles, and BioWare hinted at a Mass Effect expansion.

Finally, the festival season is upon on us. Orange has launched its updated GlastoNav app to navigate the musical marshes, and we’ve come up with the top 5 gadgets you’ll need to take with you on your travels.

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  • Poppa_P

    If you watched Top Gear last night did you notice old Jezza Clarkson was using a new white iphone when he was on the train?
    also Apple fanboy Stephen Fry is giving the new iphone 3Gs the big thumbs up in his review of said phone in The Guardian.
    is this just blatent Apple product placement?

  • Ben Sillis

    Don’t ask me how I know, but one of Clarkson’s recent newspaper columns mentions he actually bought an iPhone himself so I don’t think it is in that case. As for Stephen Fry, I read the review and it was glowing, but it’s not really product placement, just a review. Every reviewer has their likes and dislikes, it just so happens that Stephen Fry is a notorious Apple addict, though I’d be interested to know if he had the new iPhone before it was unveiled.

  • Poppa_P

    When you say Clarkson bought an iphone did he really pay for it with his own cash,what I mean is big company’s give away their product free to high profile celebrity’s to get them noticed by joe public,for example Chris Moyles said he got the Xbox360 free when it first came out and blabbed on about how good it was on the radio.isn’t this a type of product placement advertising?.

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