The Apple iPad 2 has shot its first music video. The new Apple tablet filmed and stars in the promo clip for Need, a perky slice of discobounce by pocket-sized US popstrel Eddy. Four new iPads were used in the video shoot, filming the imaginatively haired Eddy and her friends jigging about and getting ‘down’ …
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame: Steve Jobs gives music a bad name. That’s according to poodle-haired rocker Jon Bon Jovi, who blames the Apple boss personally for “killing the music business”. Describing his average day to The Times (paywall link), 1980s stadium-filler Bon Jovi laments how kids today are missing out on the music-buying experience of his …
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The Apple iPad 2 has hit eBay UK and is already demanding silly money. The new iPad hit US shops on Friday, with profit-minded moneygrubbers and early adopters looking to cash in and show off. The highest we’ve seen comes from some muppet in Chicago who we won’t dignify with the publicity, offering his 16GB model for £124,000. Surely no-one …
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Angry Birds is winging its way to the Amazon Android Appstore. Angry Birds Rio will only be available from amazon.com/angrybirds, a huge boost for the bookselling website’s new rival to Google’s own Android Market. Google’s operating system for mobile phones and tablets allows you to buy apps for your Android device. Amazon is starting a rival app shop, where you’ll …
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Bought an Apple iPad recently? Feeling pretty chuffed with your new purchase? Yeeeahhhh, there’s something you should know: yesterday, Apple went ahead and unveiled the iPad 2. We may have mentioned it. The iPad 2 arrives in the UK on 25 March. Apple has dropped the price of the original iPad in the meantime, so it now starts at £329 …
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The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will come with a built-in 7digital Music Store app when it launches this year. That’s good news for music-lovin’ CrackBerry fans. PlayBook owners will be able to preview and download tunes chosen from the 13 million or so tracks in 7digital’s catalogue. Tracks are 320kbps MP3 files, and are DRM-free so you can transfer them easily to other computers …
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Google is close to revealing a service for storing and streaming music to and from the cloud, if a feature buried in the Android code is any indication. Developers claim to be merrily syncing and streaming their music to and from their devices using Google’s Honeycomb music player, BitterWallet reports. A member of the XDA developers’ forum going by the …
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Bolshie boardroom telly star Alan Sugar has joined YouView. The Apprentice boss is the new non-executive chairman of the BBC-led consortium developing the YouView Internet television portal. YouView announced that peer of the realm Baron Sugar of Clapton replaces former Ofcom exec Kip Meek in the non-exec role at YouView, previously known as Project Canvas. Sirralan has been drafted in …
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Scandinavian posties are using mobile phones to lick the problem of buying stamps. Denmark and Sweden are introducing a system of paying Postman Per via text. Danish service Post Danmark and Swedish postal service Posten AB are adopting the high-tech system to make it easier to post letters, packages and cards. It’ll work by sending you a code to write …
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Vodafone is back up and running after a break-in brought parts of the network to its knees yesterday. Voda admits several thousand customers were affected, so we asked the company how the world’s largest mobile telecommunications outfit could be so severely affected by a couple of burglars — and asked you for your reactions in comments on Facebook and on …
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