Apple announced this week the inclusion of an FM receiver in the new iPod Nano range. Of course Apple being Apple they’ve not just included a radio, they’ve enhanced it brilliantly, with “pause/rewind” and something called “tagging”.
Pause/Rewind speaks for itself and is such a simple useful concept.
Tagging is a system where FM broadcasters transmit Apple iTunes Catalogue IDs in spare RDS ODA (Data) groups identifying the song playing. This then displays the Artist/Title information on screen and when the listener hits “tag” the information is stored. When the Nano is …

Just reading an interesting note on DigitalSpy about DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) in France.
The article makes comparative mention of the sales of DTT Freeview boxes in the UK and notes that since October 2002 27m Freeview boxes have been sold there. 27m – that’s a lot. Well after all it is TV and TV always bags the spotlight. That’s why Freeview in the UK is such a stellar success.
However, before we run away with ourselves, here is an interesting note of my own. In roughly the same period, the DAB …