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Vestax and algoriddim Announce the Launch of the Spin DJ Controller for iTunes

Vestax and algoriddim today announced the release of Spin, a brand new all-in-one bundle of digital DJ hardware and algoriddim’s djay 3 software. The Spin DJ controller was jointly developed for optimal integration with the award-winning djay software, and delivers Mac users of all levels the experience of mixing, scratching and playing their music like a turntable DJ

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November 10th: Orange UK start selling the iPhone

So today was the day – despite all of the new initiatives that O2 ( NYSE: TEF ) rolled out to (arguably) spoil the party, Orange have forged ahead and started ‘punting’ (read: selling) the iPhone in the UK? Wanna know the stats? Good, I’ve just received some, direct from Orange: Orange are delighted to reveal, that as of 4pm today Orange had sold more than 30,000 iPhones across the UK – smashing what we believe is the previously published first day sales records for a handset in the UK At the same time, Orange’s first ever exclusive UK app – Orange Wednesdays – has gone to the top slot in the Entertainment Category, and hit second place in the free apps chart on the Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) App Store

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Free Sky Sports for iPhone customers on O2

Yep, O2 ( NYSE: TEF ) are pulling out all the stops, on the day that Orange launches the iPhone. First of all we had the new internet tethering offer , then we had the offer to unlock the iPhone for free , and now…. we have free Sky Sports for iPhone customers! O2 has announced today that the new Sky Mobile TV app, available to all Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) iPhone customers through the App Store, will be available on Wi-Fi free to the first 150,000 iPhone customers on O2 for the first three months.

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Motorola Droid sales reportedly hit 100,000 since launch

Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) is reportedly doing well with their Motorola Droid . Despite reports from some bitter bloggers about not finding any lines outside their local Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) Wireless store on Droid launch-day , the latest word on the street has Motorola pushing some 100,000 Android-powered Motorola Droid phones into anxious customer hands over the weekend. The estimate comes from an analyst citing Verizon’s nationwide stock of 200,000 Motorola Droid, of which roughly half have already found new homes.

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Bell Slaps Rogers in the Face with Coverage Comparison Maps

Some very interesting coverage maps have leaked out from Bell… They clearly show Bell’s new HSPA+ coverage areas in all of its ‘blue’ glory. While not really coast-to-coast (c’mon Bell, what about Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northern Ontario, and the territories???), check out the dominance Bell appears to have over Rogers ( NYSE: RCI ). I’d love to attest to the fact that these maps are correct, and while I have little doubt that they are, I’d love to hear from folks in the areas shown here to confirm these claims.

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Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 25

Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1 , I explained what RSS is and how to use it. Please read that if you need a refresher on why RSS is awesome and why you should be using it if you take reading news on the internet seriously

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Samsung M3310 and B3410 appear in official photos

We’ve already talked about two upcoming Samsung handsets – M3310 and B3410 . It seems the Korean company is approaching the launch date as we caught the official photos on the Interwebs. As a reminder, the M3310 is a music-centric device sporting a dual-slider form factor and such things as 3.2-megapixel camera, dedicated music control keys, stereo speakers, 3.5mm headset jack, 2.1-inch QVGA screen, Bluetooth and a microSD memory card slot.

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Associated Press and Verve finally show product of their co-operation; Unveil mobile app platform for publishers

Back in July of last year, we talked about Verve which at the moment got $3 million from Associated Press and other investors. Now we’re finally seeing some fruits of the co-operation as the two companies [Verve and AP] have unveiled an initiative to help publishers create white label, branded mobile apps for their content. The idea is to take a piece of the advertising being placed on other publisher’s apps in exchange for the application design.

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Concur extends its travel and expense management service to the iPhone

Concur’s end-to-end travel and expense management service, Concur Travel & Expense, got its iPhone component simply called Concur Mobile. The application, which BTW is already available for BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) and Windows Mobile devices, enables users to manage their itinerary, conduct in-policy business travel transactions, capture T&E expense data and approve expense reports – all while on the go.

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Mobile Spy brings silent monitoring to Android

Retina-X Studios unveiled the Android version of its Mobile Spy application, allowing users to silently monitor GPS locations, incoming and outgoing SMS, and call information of employees or family members. The application, which is also available on other platforms ( iPhone , Windows Mobile , BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) and Symbian), runs in stealth mode and no mentions of the program are shown inside the device. After activities are logged, they will be (again) silently uploaded to the user’s private online account, which is later on accessible from any web browser

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iPhone app success story: Pizza Hut generated $1 million in sales

Remember Pizza Hut’s cool iPhone app ? It proved as a smashing success, generating $1 million in sales! To be fair, we’re not sure whether the company would generate these figures even without the dedicated application, but it certainly helped make the famous pizza maker more cooler in eyes of the iGeeks. What’s more impressive is that the iPhone app has been introduced only three months ago and that’s in the U.S

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AT&T announces 2010 Developer Summit to be held in Las Vegas in conjunction with 2010 CES

AT&T ( NYSE: T ) Developer Summit has been announced recently. The event will be held at the Palms resort in Las Vegas on January 6 in conjunction with the 2010 CES, targeting developers who want to reach AT&T’s 81.6 million customers. Among the AT&T people who will attend the conference are CEO – Ralph De la Vega,  CTO – John Donovan, CMO – David Christopher, and senior VP of Devices at AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets – Jeff Bradley

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Video Preview: Need For Speed Shift shows what OpenGL ES graphics can do on a BlackBerry Storm2

RIM today announced at their BlackBerry Developers Conference in San Francisco that the BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) OS will soon support OpenGL ES for 3D graphics acceleration. The arrival of 3D graphics support should finally bring the BlackBerry platform out of the dark ages, where BrickBreaker and other 2D games reigned supreme.

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Video Preview: Need For Speed Shift shows what OpenGL ES graphics can do on a BlackBerry Storm2


OpenGL ES Arrives on BlackBerry, 3D Gaming in Tow

Gaming on BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) has never been what you would call breathtaking – a few low-key casual games here and there and the preloaded Brickbreaker could handle the lion’s share of twitchy boredom. Well, the platform is taking a big jump as OpenGL ES support has gone official and is currently available in the beta BlackBerry JDE we had mentioned earlier. The in-app purchacing sounded vaguely iPhone OS 3.0, and OpenGL even moreso, but between these multimedia improvements and BlackBerry’s existing expertise in productivity, the whole platform is feeling a lot more balanced

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iPhone App: Shazam Encore: $5 gets you premium features such as recommendations and maps

The good news: Shazam, the popular music service that allows you to identify a song by holding your device up to a speaker for a few seconds, has released a premium version of their iPhone application called “Shazam Encore” [ iTunes link ]. For 5 USD (or 4 EUR or 3 GBP) you get: faster song recognition, the ability to see where you where when you identified a song, music recommendations based on the songs you looked up, find out which songs are being identified the most, and a car mode that helps you identify what’s playing on the radio

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Nokia: Three of our chargers may accidently deliver death by electrocution, please exchange them ASAP

Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) just issued a press release asking you to replace your mobile fone’s charger if it is either the AC-3E and AC-3U models, manufactured between June 15, 2009 and August 9, 2009, or the AC-4U model, manufactured between April 13, 2009 and October 25, 2009.

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RIM Announces Flash Tools for Developers

While Adobe might be taking potshots at Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) for not providing the footholds to get Flash on the iPhone, RIM has announced that upcoming versions of Creative Suite 5 will allow developers to import Flash content in a BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM )-friendly format through the Eclipse JDE plug-in. So, yeah, Flash on BlackBerry. We had heard this was coming, and it’s great to see something good and official, though we’ll only really understand the scope of this announcement once we see developers do something with it (similar to the Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Gears and widget support in OS 5.0).

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Remember The Milk’s Android app updated with customizable widgets and start screen, Quick Search Box, and HTC Tattoo and Motorola Droid support

On the heels of its recent iPhone app update, Remember The Milk updated its Android application adding some cool new features to the mix.

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Remember The Milk’s Android app updated with customizable widgets and start screen, Quick Search Box, and HTC Tattoo and Motorola Droid support


The Unboxing: Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris

We’ve already had a chance to play with the HTC Droid Eris from Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) Wireless, but there’s nothing like a retail package unboxing ceremony to really get up close and personal with a new handset. As the “ying” to the Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) Droid’s “yang,” the HTC Droid Eris offers Verizon customers a fully capable Android smartphone at half the price of Moto’s headlining Droid , and it deserves some of our undivided attention

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Verizon to pick up the iPhone in Q3 2010?

Previously leaked image of a rumored 2.8-inch iPhone touch panel AT&T ( NYSE: T )’s iPhone exclusivity deal, by most accounts, will come to an end in mid-2010 . When that happens, iPhone fans hesitant to leave Verizon ( NYSE: VZ )’s network might finally have a chance to put a Verizon iPhone in their pockets. In fact, according to a new report from OTR Global proves accurate, the iPhone might very well hit the Verizon Wireless network in the third quarter of 2010.

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Google promotes the Moto Droid on its homepage

We do know Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) and Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) have worked together on the Droid, but still we haven’t thought we’ll see the search giant promoting the smartphone on its homepage, which is known for not carrying any ads at all. There are no doubts in my mind, Google bets heavily on Android and I’m guessing this is their way to show the true iPhone killer is now available, sporting the latest version of Google’s mobile OS – Android 2.0.

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Samsung SCH-W920 is yet another DMB-equipped phone for South Korea

Samsung has launched another Korea-only device marked as W920. It’s a decent phone which, as it’s slowly getting a standard there, comes with a S-DMB mobile TV receiver. Rest of the 12.9mm thick phone’s specs include a 3-megapixel camera, front facing camera for video calls, Bluetooth, media player, SOS function, e-dictionary and pre-installed TOEIC/TOEFL test apps for learning English on the go

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