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The Daily Engadget: 'Amazon Ate My Homework,' iPhone's iDisk App

by Tim Stevens on July 31, 2009 at 09:31 AM

The Daily Engadget: Student Sues Amazon for Missing Kindle Homework, and Apple's MobileMe iDisk App
Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff (or, at least, what we think is tops). For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below.

Student Sues Amazon for Missing Homework
You know all the fuss about Amazon pulling all copies of George Orwell's '1984' from Kindle readers across the country? Well, imagine how you'd feel if you'd been taking notes on the book for homework all summer long -- and suddenly they were all gone. You might even be angry enough to call up a lawyer and commence suing the pants off of Amazon.

Apple Allows Mobile iDisk File Viewing on iPhone
Need an easy way to view your files when you're detached from your precious workstation? If you're on an iPhone, it doesn't get much easier than Apple's new MobileMe iDisk app for the iPhone (finally...). One downside: each file must be less than 20 megabytes.

RIAA Tells Consumers to Expect DRM Files to Stop Playing
If you've bought music legally from a download service that's gone bankrupt, don't expect that music to play forever. In fact, it may already be unplayable -- and the RIAA says that's totally fine.

David Pogue Hates Pre-Recorded Voicemail Messages
Chances are you hate wasting time as much as we do, but probably not as much as David Pogue does. The New York Times tech columnist is launching an attack on wireless carriers to get them to stop those annoying (and time consuming) messages that tell us all how to use voicemail.

DARPA Boosts Clippy's AI
Clippy is the dearly departed talking paperclip who, for 10 years, was perhaps the most annoying part of Microsoft Office. Now, the U.S. government's DARPA program is resurrecting the little guy (in spirit) with the CALO digital assistant.

Panasonic's Nano Hydration Machine
Need a more complicated and scientific (but probably no more effective) way to do the same thing a humidifier does? Try one of Panasonic's new Nanocare devices.

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