Briefly: HP iPod leftovers; Bangkok iPod skytrain

In brief: HPshopping.com is now allowing APO/FPO shipping via ShipitAPO, and still reportedly has a limited number of iPods from its now-defunct with Apple.... Photographs of the Bangkok Skytrain have surfaced (shown at right), depicting its large iPod advertisements.... Apple's South African website had, for a few hours last night, two new advertisements for iPod video which surfaced and then quickly disappeared.... Vertus is reducing the cost of its Photoshop plug-in tool, Fluid Mask, to $250.... Seven-Eleven stores in Japan will soon begin selling iPods, greatly increasing Apple's reach in the Japanese market.... Japanese record companies are lobbying for a new tax to be added to the retail price of portable digital music players such as Apple's iPod, likely to be two to five percent.

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