Mega-famous Gorillaz front man and songwriter Damon Albarn has revealed that he has been recording the next Gorillaz album on his iPad. Remember how the iPad is just a device for consumption? Reported in music magazine NME on November 13, Albarn says, “I’ve made it on an iPad–I hope I’ll be making the first record …
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15 November
LG Vortex lands at Verizon Wireless
As Verizon has been known to do, the carrier is ramping up its handset offerings for the holiday shopping season, and the latest smartphone to join the fray is the LG Vortex. Available starting November 18 for $79.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate, the Vortex is designed for first-time smartphone buyers. It will ship running …
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15 November
AT&T offically prices Galaxy Tab
Samsung Galaxy Tab on AT&T. Samsung The Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet will make its way to AT&T November 21, priced at $649. If you’ve been following the Tab’s prolonged multicarrier roll-out this month, you’re probably wondering why AT&T has priced the Tab at a $50 premium over its competitors Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. One answer is that AT&T is …
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15 November
Pulse News Reader app now free for iOS, Android
I’ll admit it: the App Store is home to so many nifty and inventive news readers (Blogshelf, Early Edition, and TheScore, to name just a few), I never got around to Pulse News Reader. My mistake. It’s not just the coolest blog/feed reader for the iPhone and iPad alike, it’s also one of the coolest iOS apps, period. And where …
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15 November
Verizon adds the LG Cosmos Touch
Just as LG brought the touch screen to the LG Rumor line of phones with the LG Rumor Touch, it has introduced the touch screen to the LG Cosmos series with the LG Cosmos Touch. It has a 2.8-inch WQVGA touch screen plus a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Features include three home screens, Bluetooth 2.1, voice commands, GPS with VZ Navigator, …
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15 November
Police ordered to text as radio call charges reach £2 per second
Imagine the scene. A brave copper is chasing down a rural high street after a dastardly criminal, who’s jipped a bag from a little old lady. Because he’s eaten a few too many jam doughnuts, PC Plod realises he’s not going to keep up — he needs backup, so he thumbs his radio mic. Then he pauses, thinks for a …
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15 November
AMD joins MeeGo alliance
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has joined the MeeGo open-source Linux project where it will contribute its expertise to drive the adoption of MeeGo in tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices. Unveiled earlier this year, MeeGo is an open-source operating system created through a merger of Intel’s Moblin OS and Nokia’s Maemo software. The MeeGo OS is designed to run on …
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15 November
Lenovo LePad Android tablet ordinateur coming in 2011
The latest Android tablet is the, ‘ow you say, Lenovo LePad. It’s an Android tablet set to take on the Apple iPad as one half of an innovative double act with the Lenovo IdeaPad U1. The LePad is a 10.1-inch slate that will run Android and be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The gallic-sounding slate is the screen component …
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15 November
Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 handsets? Xperia X7 details leaked
A mysterious YouTube video has been uploaded, showing details of what could be the first Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 mobiles, to come out early next year. There’s no information on where it’s from or who it’s by, so it could be anything between a cooked-up fantasy and a genuine leak. We contacted Sony Ericsson, and we’ll let you know …
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15 November
Feds take initial step in allocating spectrum
The federal government has taken the first step in freeing up more spectrum for wireless broadband services in the United States. On Monday, the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued a report identifying 115MHz of wireless spectrum that can be shared among federal agencies and commercial users. The report proposes that the spectrum be reallocated for commercial wireless broadband …
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