Briefly: MacNN review; Beatles music

In brief: MacNN has reviewed "Design Basics for Creative Results, 2nd Edition" ($27) by How Design Books.... The Beatles are preparing to release their tracks via digital music services, with label Apple Corps remastering their catalogue to improve the sound.... Textco BioSoftware today announced that it is offering incentives to molecular biologists for moving to Gene Construction Kit (GCK), which supports Mac OS X 10.4.... The British music trade organization BPI announced that UK consumers purchased a record 27.9 million artist albums in the first three months of 2006 -- up almost 1.5 percent.... Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO) today announced it is shipping the DLO HomeDock Deluxe Home Entertainment Dock for iPod ($150, shown at right) with On-Screen Navigation.

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