Early this week, Google [GOOG] announced Gmail Priority Inbox. The service is designed to prioritise your inbox to give you the emails that are most important at the top with the less important ones being left below.

After checking today we now see that the service is active. When you log in you’ll see a message about priority inbox at the top right of the screen. Click on it and at this point you can start to train the rule system that lets it work. To do this, Gmail shows a few messages which you click on + or – to determine the priority of the messages. [Read more…]

Royal Mail has created the worlds first Intelligent Stamp. The new stamp is capable of working with image recognition technology.

The intelligent stamp works with an augmented reality app called Junaio. When receiving a letter with a new stamp attached you can hold the camera of an iPhone or Android phone over the stamp. The software recognises the stamp and is able to pull up information, video clips and other details about what is on the stamp and play back the information to you. [Read more…]

Google [GOOG] is looking to employ somebody to head up it’s music launch this year.

As well as looking for someone to lead the project, it appears that Andy Rubin (Android guy) is in talks with record labels to get them signed up.

Reuters is reporting that Google has yet to sign up any labels to the service which indicates they need to work rather quick if they plan to launch by the end of this year. [Read more…]

Recently, Google [GOOG] rolled out a new feature to Gmail users called Gmail Calls. The service allows those in the US to make calls to any phone direct from the Gmail interface.

We reported last week that within the first day of Gmail Calls going live that there were 1 million calls made.

In the first full week of being live, 10 million Google Gmail Calls have been made which is a very impressive number. The first 1 million was thought to be high due to many people testing the new service out. However, the number per day continues to grow as even more people find out about the service. [Read more…]

When iTunes 10 with Ping was demonstrated at the Apple [AAPL] special event a few days ago Facebook integration was included. Steve Jobs could be seen on stage demonstrating it.

However, it has now disappeared. All Things D has reported that the reason for it missing is that Facebook has blocked Apple from using the API that was used to interact with Facebook. [Read more…]

Sony has announced Music Unlimited. Music Unlimited is a music streaming service that allows users to stream music to various devices.

The service gives access to millions of tracks on the internet and has been designed to work on Sony’s existing products. It allows users to listen to music wherever they are all based around the cloud so that everything is always available wherever you are. [Read more…]

At the Apple special event yesterday, Apple [AAPL] announced that TV show rentals will be coming in at 99 cents. Amazon has now responded by also dropping the price of many TV shows on it’s service down to 99 cents.

A big difference between the two still remains though in that rentals from Apple are just rentals whereas paying 99 cents for a TV show at Amazon lets you keep the content to watch over again. [Read more…]

The iTunes 10 download is now active allowing you to make use of the latest Ping features unveiled at yesterdays Apple [AAPL] event.

For Windows based computers there are two options available for download, either the 32-bit or 64-bit.

Windows iTunes 10 Download

* A PC with a 1GHz Intel or AMD processor
* Intel Pentium D or faster processor is required to play Standard Definition video from the iTunes Store
* 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor is required to play HD video, an iTunes LP, or iTunes Extras from the iTunes Store
* 512MB of RAM; 1GB is required to play HD video, an iTunes LP, or iTunes Extras
* Screen resolution of 1024×768 or greater; 1280×800 or greater is required to play an iTunes LP or iTunes Extras
* DirectX 9.0-compatible video card with 32MB of video RAM; 64MB recommended
* QuickTime-compatible audio card
* Broadband Internet connection to use the iTunes Store
* iTunes-compatible CD or DVD recorder to create audio CDs, MP3 CDs, or back-up CDs or DVDs

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Apple AirPlay is a service that lets you stream music around your home over wireless networks. The technology will be integrated in to a number of devices such as speaker docks, AV receivers and stereo systems.

Say you have one set of speakers in your bedroom, one in the office, and one in the living room. For the ultimate sonic panorama, you can stream your tunes to more than one room simultaneously, so you’ll never lose the beat, no matter where you are in the house. Just select “Multiple Speakers” from the speaker pulldown menu in iTunes. AirPlay works over Wi-Fi or an Ethernet connection, or a combination of both. So you can stream music directly from your home network if you’re near an Ethernet port or connect wirelessly if you’re not.

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Today, Apple [AAPL] announced some statistics about the company. Number included the amount of iOS devices being shipped, activated as well as details about the app store and iTunes.

The numbers are quite impressive and show where Apple is as a company and how they have changed over the last 10 years or so since the original iPod launched. [Read more…]

Sky is increasing the subscription cost of Sky Movies and Sky Sports shortly. Prices will rise £3/month for Sports and £2.50 for Movies.

This increase is happening just after Sky has made Sky Sports News an exclusive channel to their broadcasting network and having removed it from the other platforms such as Freeview.

Some premium content is also moving to Sky Sports News which will prevent those without a Sky subscription from watching it on other services. [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] is holding an event today at 10am PDT. For the many people who cannot make it, but would like to watch events as they happen, Apple will be broadcasting the event over a Live Stream.

The live stream from what we understand, will only work on Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad or a Mac running Safari and OS X 10.6. It “might” work on Windows based computers, but for some reason Apple do mention specifics in their press release. [Read more…]