Apple's New iPad Tablet Computer to be Available on April 3

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Mark Hefflinger
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Cupertino,
Calif. – The iPad, Apple’s (NASD:  AAPL) highly
anticipated new tablet computer, will officially hit store shelves next month,
the company announced on Friday. The company said that basic Wi-Fi models will
be available on April 3, while enhanced Wi-Fi and 3G models will be available
in late April. Customers will be able to pre-order both versions from Apple’s
website beginning next Friday.

The news comes five weeks after Apple first
unveiled the product, which resembles a larger version of the iPod touch, featuring
a 9.7-inch touch screen and an iPhone operating system.

The device, which will
sell for $499-$829, allows users to wirelessly browse the Web, download apps,
watch video and, in a step up from Amazon’s Kindle, download and view print
publications in full color.

The half-inch thick device, which weighs 1.5
pounds, also boasts a 10-hour battery and up to 64 GB of storage.

 

Related Links:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05ipad.html

http://www.apple.com/ipad

Mobile Marketing Firm Cardagin Networks Raises $1 Million

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Mark Hefflinger
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0

Charlottesville,
Va. – Cardagin Networks, the
developer of a mobile marketing platform, has raised $1 million in its first
round of funding, from private investors.

Virginia-based Cardagin’s mobile
platform digitizes the loyalty card programs of local businesses, giving them
tools to push mobile ads directly to customers.

The company first presented its
technology during DEMOfall09.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/unj57

http://www.cardagin.com

Kwedit Lands $3.3 Million for Virtual Payment Platform

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Mark Hefflinger
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Mountain View,
Calif. – Kwedit, the developer of
a payment platform for virtual goods and social games, has raised $3.3 million
in a new round of funding led by Maveron, TechCrunch reported.

Mountain
View, Calif.-based Kwedit launched its service a month ago, and was
this week featured during a segment on Comedy Central’s "The Colbert
Report."

The company offers a credit system with no credit or debit card, where
users are given virtual currency and promise to pay back the Kwedit; failure to
pay does not incur any penalties, other than making it harder to acquire more
Kwedit.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/unixh
(TechCrunch)

http://snipurl.com/uniy4
(Colbert Report)

http://www.kwedit.com

Google Releases Experimental Android "Gesture Search" App

By
Mark Hefflinger
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0

Mountain View,
Calif. – Google (NASD: GOOG) has released an
experimental application for its Android mobile device platform, which allows
users to perform "Gesture Search" on the devices by drawing letters
of the alphabet on the screen with a finger. For example, if a user drew the
letter "A" on the phone, Android would return generate a list of
contacts and other items in the phone beginning with that letter.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/umxx1
(Google blog)

MTV Games Launches Rock Band Network Music Store

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Mark Hefflinger
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0

New York
– Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) MTV Games and developer Harmonix on Thursday launched the Rock Band
Network Music Store, an online store featuring user-created tracks that can be
downloaded for play along with the "Rock Band" music karaoke game. More
than 100 songs are available at launch, from bands including the Shins and Of
Montreal; an additional 300 tracks are also in the works. Billboard reports
that licensing terms will see MTV retain 70% of all sales from the Rock Band
Network Music Store.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/umy0i
(Billboard)

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=176177

YouTube to Automatically Add Closed-Captioning to Videos

By
Mark Hefflinger
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0

San Bruno,
Calif. – Google’s (NASD: GOOG) YouTube on
Thursday announced that it will begin automatically adding closed-captioning to
all English-language videos on its site, in a bid to improve accessibility. The
company’s auto-caption technology, which was introduced in November, combines
some of the speech-to-text algorithms from Google Voice Search to automatically
generated video captions when requested by a viewer.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/umy0v
(YouTube blog)

MTV Taps OurStage to Promote Emerging Artists

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Mark Hefflinger
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0

New York
– Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) MTV Networks Music Group announced on Thursday that it has partnered
with OurStage, an artist discovery site, to develop promotional activities for
emerging talent. MTV will launch "Needle in the Haystack" to promote
one new OurStage artist each week, as well as provide OurStage artists with
opportunities to license music for use in MTV on-air programming. MTV will also
utilize OurStage to source artists for the next installment of CMT’s Music City
Madness Competition, as well as for a new iteration of MTV’s "$5
Cover."


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/umy6f

http://www.ourstage.com

Adconion Launches Joost Video Advertising Network

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Mark Hefflinger
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0

Adconion Media Group, the
new owner of the assets of video service Joost, on Thursday launched the Joost
Video Network, an online ad network. The network will serve ads both to users
watching Joost videos, as well as to Adconion’s 2,000 publishing partners in
more than 70 markets worldwide.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/umy9s

http://www.joost.com

BMW, RadioTime Offer First In-car Web Radio

By
Mark Hefflinger
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4

Dallas – RadioTime, the provider of a guide to Web radio
stations and the streams of terrestrial stations, announced that it has
partnered with BMW on what they companies are calling the first implementation
of in-car Web radio. On BMW’s MINI, the MINI Connected option will use a
USB-connected iPhone to access RadioTime’s streaming channels, which may be changed
via buttons on the steering wheel, and viewed on the in-dash display.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/umyge

http://snipurl.com/umyio
(Wired.com)

http://inside.radiotime.com/bmw

Slacker to Power Web Radio for The Source Magazine

By
Mark Hefflinger
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0

San Diego
– Slacker, the provider of a personalized Web radio service, announced on
Thursday that it will power a free streaming hip-hop station for The Source
magazine. Programmed by publication’s editorial team, The Source Digital Radio
will be available on mobile phones and on the Web through Slacker Radio.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/umyfd

http://www.thesource.com

http://www.slacker.com/thesource

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