The iPhone 2.0 was launched in San Francisco today by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who announced the new device is �??twice as fast at half the price.�?�
This second-generation version of the phone is called the iPhone 3G, and allows connectivity to Wif-Fi, 3G and EDGE networks, automatically switching between them for fastest download speeds.
The new model will be available in more than 70 countries including Ireland, the UK and the US beginning July 11. The 8GB model of the phone will be available from $199 in the US, based on service provider contracts and previous purchase of the 8GB iPhone. A 16GB version will also be available from $299.
Jobs says the latest version of the iPhone makes it easier to multi-task with simultaneous voice and data communications, allowing users to browse the web, get map directions, or check email while on a call.
In addition, the iPhone 2.0 software allows users to do real-time mapping and track progress with GPS technology, mass move and delete multiple email messages, search for contacts, save images directly from a web page or email them to the iPhone and transfer them back to one�??s photo library on a computer.
The talk time on the new iPhone 3G is up to 10 hours on 2G networks and five hours using 3G, with up to five to six hours of web browsing, up to seven hours for video playback, and up to 24 hours for audio playback.
The phone supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync right out of the box, and runs the third party apps created with the iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) which has had over 250,000 downloads worldwide since its launch on March 6.
SDK provides developers with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and tools that Apple uses to create its native applications for iPhone. Apple today also announced that its new App Store will be available in 62 countries allowing developers to wirelessly deliver their applications directly to iPhone and iPod touch users around the world. Users can download applications wirelessly and start using them immediately.
--By our New York staff.
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Edward Norton - Report Norton Refuses To Promote Hulk
Edward Norton has declined to participate in the publicity campaign for The Incredible
Hulk, in which he stars in the title role, according to FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman.
Friedman reported today (Friday) that Norton "has slipped off to a desert island rather
than do publicity" after falling out with Marvel and Universal. (Today's Los
Angeles Times, observing that Norton has "a history of flexing his muscles,"
has "embarked on a monthlong African vacation." Friedman did not indicate what tri
ggered the alleged dispute between the actor and the studios, but earlier reports
had suggested that Norton, who receives credit as a co-writer of the movie, was unhappy
about the studios' final cut.
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Spears Hits London For New Video
Britney Spears' former manager Larry Rudolph has confirmed the star will be hitting the streets of London to shoot the promo for her upcoming single Radar. The Toxic star is set to film the video in the British capital next week (beg09Jun08), and is determined to get her career back on track by taking a director's role on-set. Rudolph tells the New York Post , "The theme is her and her girlfriends are going to be looking all around London trying to find a boy who she met in a club. Every time they think they have him, it's someone else. "She will be behind the camera as much as possible; she wants to make sure it's exactly right." In April Rudolph, who was reportedly dismissed by the singer after he joined her parents in forcing Spears into rehab last year , told reporters how the star is gearing up to make a triumphant return to the charts, saying, "She's in an amazing position for a comeback right now. She could end up being the biggest comeback in history.
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Michael Hurley
Artist: Michael Hurley
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Armchair Boogie
Year: 1970
Tracks: 14
A singer/songwriter in the revolutionist Greenwich Village ethnic music scene of the late '60s and '70s, with respective songs lent to the Holy Modal Rounders, Michael Hurley retained an infrequent solo life history into the '90s just was more than famous for his writing credits. Born on December 20, 1941, in Pennsylvania, he migrated to Greenwich Village by the early '60s and was ready to house a major record deal when he contracted glandular fever; after outgo several age in the infirmary, Hurley returned to music and released a Folkways album in 1964 highborn First Songs. Though he was inactive through the rest of the '60s, respective songs from his first base LP were borrowed by both the Holy Modal Rounders and the Youngbloods, world Health Organization signed Hurley to their Raccoon label in 1970. He delivered deuce albums for Raccoon, Armchair Boogie and Hi-Fi Snock Uptown, only was inactive once more by 1972.
Four age afterward, Holy Modal Rounders' loss leader Peter Stampfel recruited Hurley for a 1976 externalize, Have Moicy. The group's self-titled album was critically praised, landing recommendations for Album of the Year by the Village Voice and Top 20 LPs of the '70s by Rolling Stone. Hurley's large place on the album -- guitar, shrink from, several atomic number 82 vocals -- gave notice that he was ready to resume his solo career, and he signed to the sept label Rounder in 1977. Hurley released only iI LPs for the label (Long Journey and Snockgrass), outgo most of his metre on his farm in Vermont or acting sideman on several albums. He resurfaced occasionally, recording LPs in 1984, 1988, 1995, and 1999.
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Gnarls Barkley, The Roots lead Southern Comfort tour lineup
Gnarls Barkley [ tickets ], The Roots [ tickets ] and The Black Keys [ tickets ] are among the highlights on the remaining dates of the free Southern Comfort Music Experience tour. Organizers of the touring event--which next heads to Denver for a June 18 show featuring Gnarls Barkley and Blonde Redhead--have added several new names to the tour's lineup, which will unveil a different roster of musical talent in each city.Remaining dates on the trek are shown below, along with featured performers at each stop. The tour kicked off last month in Atlanta with a lineup featuring Against Me!, Ghostland Observatory and others."The [Southern Comfort] tour was created to celebrate a growing trend as more and more American music fans plan their summer fun around destination music festivals," said Southern Comfort PR Manager Sean Wachsman in a press release. "At the same time, we recognize that music fans are struggling to find ways to afford enjoying these festivals. We ... thought it would be great to bring people together in a way that allows them to simply show up with proper ID to get in for free."Each of the venues will feature national and local talent performing on two stages in a "festival setting with food, beverage, poster and T-shirt vendors," according to a press release, along with the "SoCo & Lime Dome," featuring a live DJ and interactive exhibits and games."It's a long day at the festival, so we've tried to create a very interactive experience but also allow people to feel like they can just hang out with their friends," said Wachsman. Now in its fourth year of existence, the SoCo Music Experience tour has, in previous years, featured The Flaming Lips, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Spank Rock, Cypress Hill, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Architecture in Helsinki, among other acts.
Dapayk Solo
Artist: Dapayk Solo
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Impulsion Parasite CD2
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Impulsion Parasite CD1
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
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Genre(s):
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Year: 2005
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"Brokeback Mountain" to be turned into an opera
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Opera has commissioned American composer Charles Wuorinen to write an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," a love story about two U.S. ranch-hands that won three Oscars when it was turned into a movie.
The opera house's spokesman Gerard Mortier said in a statement on Sunday that Wuorinen had accepted an invitation to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx's short story. It is slated to premiere during City Opera's 2013 spring season.
This would mark New Yorker Wuorinen's second world premiere at City Opera. He also composed "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," an adaptation of a Salman Rushdie novel which opened in 2004.
"Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so," Wuorinen, 70, said in a statement.
"Brokeback Mountain" is the story of two men who meet and fall in love on the fictional Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963 with their complex relationship lasting 20 years.
The story was made into a film in 2005 which won three Oscars. The late Australian actor Heath Ledger, who died in January this year of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs at the age of 28, was nominated for an Oscar for his role.
Reuters/Nielsen
The opera house's spokesman Gerard Mortier said in a statement on Sunday that Wuorinen had accepted an invitation to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx's short story. It is slated to premiere during City Opera's 2013 spring season.
This would mark New Yorker Wuorinen's second world premiere at City Opera. He also composed "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," an adaptation of a Salman Rushdie novel which opened in 2004.
"Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so," Wuorinen, 70, said in a statement.
"Brokeback Mountain" is the story of two men who meet and fall in love on the fictional Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963 with their complex relationship lasting 20 years.
The story was made into a film in 2005 which won three Oscars. The late Australian actor Heath Ledger, who died in January this year of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs at the age of 28, was nominated for an Oscar for his role.
Reuters/Nielsen
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