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Morning all,

Another blustery, snowy day outside signals the official end of a lovely President's Day weekend...we hope you had a great one. Saturday saw the end of this year's MacWorld Expo and today we'll take a quick look back at our favorite tidbits as well as Google's latest statement and DRM for e-books--in the iBookstore!

MacWorld Expo
Lots of big stuff happened at the show but, as usual, it's the little things that made us happy. Like Parrot's AR Drone, a Wi-Fi controlled quadricopter you can fly with your iPhone. Now that's cool enough ( we mean, LOOK at the thing, it's awesome) but Parrot is opening up the 'copter so developers can make games for it. It generates its own Wi-Fi, has an autopilot function to help with take off and landing and generally looks like it could provide hours of entertainment even without game play.

Check out the Drone page here.

Fans of MacTribe's video podcast will remember our (perhaps out of proportion) excitement when we first came across Joby's GorrillaPod stand for cameras, iPhones and accessories...well, they've done it again. We don't know exactly what it is about these cute and functional stands but now that the company has come out with a magnetic version for point and shoots we're even more sold...maybe it's the way they pose the cameras in the promo shots, tilted to the side, but they have a special place in our hearts whether their feet are stuck to the fridge or wrapped around a tree limb helping us get that special shot.

DRM Again?
Yes, a year after we enjoyed the removal of DRM from our iTunes music we're looking at their reinstatement in the new iBookstore...at the book publisher's requests of course. The L.A. Times has quoted super secret sources in the publishing world implying that all of the top five houses already contracting with Apple have opted to use FairPlay software to limit the number of times their titles can be copied onto consumer's devices. Some publishers will certainly opt not to use the software because it can limit sales, but right now at least, these houses are all about increasing their bottom line. Boo.

Google Hearts Apple
At the Mobile World Congress, Vic Gundotra (Google's mobile engineering chief) has responded to recent rumors of a rift between the two companies by saying: “Apple is a very close and valuable partner and we’re very excited about the relationship we have with them today. We have no reason to believe that’s going to change.”

And confronted with the Bing rumor: “We don’t want to comment on those rumors. We think that relationship is stable.”

Only time will tell, ja?

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Till tomorrow, Newsies...