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Microsoft received much Twitter flak after a small PR account for Xbox encouraged followers to remember recently deceased musician Amy Winehouse by buying her last album on the company's entertainment marketplace, Zune. After about an hour of retweets - with comments such as "classy", "crass much?" and "Microsoft – failing at social media" - the account tweeted a follow-up. "Apologies to everyone if our earlier Amy Winehouse 'download' tweet seemed purely commercially motivated," it said. "Far from the case, we assure you." Microsoft is not the only company that has seemingly attempted to capitalise on the star's death. Apple posted an image of Winehouse on the front of the iTunes store with the caption "remembering Amy Winehouse". Her breakout album, the Grammy winning Back to Black, has subsequently become the No.1 album in the store. Amazon also posted a brief obituary that linked to a page where sh...

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.....from "The Telegraph": Phone hacking: David Cameron tries to move on from hacking scandal David Cameron is to attempt to bring an end to the furore over the phone hacking scandal today so that he can address the issues that “really matter” to Britons. Speaking on the final day of a visit to Africa, the Prime Minister indicated that he needed to soon focus on creating jobs, tackling immigration and reforming the welfare system. Mr Cameron will today announce the terms of reference for a judicial-led inquiry into the phone hacking scandal. The inquiry, which will begin work within weeks, will focus on media ethics, and the relationship between the press, politicians and the police. However, the Prime Minister is now understood to believe that the intense furore over the scandal should subside and the inquiry - and police investigation - should work in a less “frenzied” environment. Senior Downing Street sources believe that the coverage of the scandal has lost a “sen...