The Symbian Foundation says its Web Runtime Tools help Web developers become mobile phone application developers.
– The Symbian Foundation’s Web
Runtime Tools help turn Web developers into mobile phone application
developers.
quot;Symbian Foundation’s open-source Web Development Toolkit IDE
(integrated development environment) enables developers to develop and deploy
Web applications to mobile devices, quot…
Starting today, you can buy the magical and revolutionary iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G at your favorite Apple Retail Store or from the Apple Online Store with free delivery to your door.
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The Avett Brothers and Truth & Salvage Co. :: 04.21.10 :: Boulder Theater :: Boulder, CO
 The Avett Brothers :: 04.21.10 :: Boulder, CO |
I walked into the Boulder Theater a curious music seeker, having dabbled in the music of The Avett Brothers and openers Truth & Salvage Co. but not knowing what to expect from the live show. I walked out four hours later a newly converted fan and loyalist of both groups, and the next day bought tickets to see them reprise their double-bill (along with Gov’t Mule) at Red Rocks in September.
The show opened with a rousing set by Truth & Salvage Co. Their reputation as “show stealers” (quoting friends who became fans after seeing the six-member band open for The Black Crowes last fall) proved true. Their sound is defined by rich, layered harmonies, floating blues riffs, and hammering ivory currents. Four of the band members claim the title “lead singer,” allowing each song to present a different tone and character.
“We all grew up in different parts of the country, so we each bring different inspirations,” said singer-guitarist Scott Kinnebrew in the lobby after their set. “There’s New Orleans funk, country, indie rock. We like all kinds of music; they all contribute to our sound.”
As does the vivid storytelling nature of their songs. The camaraderie onstage seeped into the audience as we swayed to new rock anthems including the bluesy “Call Back” and the gritty country “Heart Like a Wheel.” At the end of the set, the Boulder Theater was alive with electricity and anticipation.
I’m often smitten after a live music experience. Awed by what I’ve seen, enchanted by the creative process, exhilarated by the energy shared. But I’m seldom surprised.
The Avett Brothers, with their completely singular sound, moving lyrics and raw, emotional connection with the audience took me entirely off guard. At the guidance of a good friend, I’d begun listening to their music a few months before the show. Their indefinable mix of folk, bluegrass, rock, Americana and a touch of punk captivated my interest. But experiencing this eclectic musical amalgamation in person brought my appreciation to a new level.
Listening to a song while driving, trying to follow the lyrics and capture the message is not always easy. Often, music becomes a backdrop for me, but when confronted by an artist opening his soul and his words to a crowd of hungry fans, the entire process bears a different significance. This truth was readily apparent in the stripped down performance of the touching “January Wedding” and “The Ballad of Love and Hate,” lyrical tale of love’s challenges. These deeply connective moments were balanced with fervent tunes that brought both the band and the appreciative crowd to crescendo after crescendo of emphatic dancing and cheering. “Paranoia in B Major” was perhaps the fever pitch of the night, the band surging across the stage with the momentum of the beat. Watching Joe Kwon sway with his cello, lifting it off the stage and swinging it in his arms like a dancing partner, was alone worth the price of admission.
I approached the evening with a curious open mind and left a devout fan. It’s impossible to treat The Avett Brothers’ music as background noise anymore. I now listen with rapt attention, soaking in the words, the lush string sounds and the impeccable melodies. My mind wanders dreamily to the date just four-and-a-half months from now when I will see it all again.
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A federal jury convicts the son of a prominent Tennessee Democrat of illegally accessing the e-mail account of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign.
– The son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker was convicted April 30 for
hacking the e-mail account of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin during the 2008
presidential campaign.
According to authorities, a federal jury convicted 22-year-old David
Kernell, son of Rep. Mike Kernell, of obstruction of just…
ALICE IN CHAINS ANNOUNCE BLACKDIAMONDSKYE TOUR FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS
DEFTONES AND MASTODON; MEGA-TOUR LAUNCHES THIS FALL
 Alice in Chains |
This fall, Alice In
Chains will be joined by special guests Deftones and Mastodon on “Blackdiamondskye.” The rollicking roadshow, produced by Live Nation, launches September 16
at the Charter One Pavilion in Chicago, IL. Tickets go on sale in select markets beginning May 15 at www.blackdiamondskye.com and LiveNation.com. Fan club pre-sale
begins May 10 for select dates. Check blackdiamondskye.com for more info.
Over the course of the past week, message boards across the Internet have been buzzing about the tour following a
countdown posted on the recently launched blackdiamondskye.com site and a series of mysterious videos seen
here:
“We’re really looking forward to touring with our friends, Deftones and Mastodon,” says Alice In Chains
guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell. “Each band has its own unique flavor and the combination of all three will
make for a great show and a good time on the road.”
All dates for the “Blackdiamondskye” Tour are available below.
Alice in Chains Tour Dates :: Alice in Chains News :: Alice in Chains Concert Reviews
TWO NIGHT FAMILY FRIENDLY MUSIC FESTIVAL FEATURES LIVE PERFORMANCES AND DJ
SETS
 The Entrance Band |
The Nacarubi Music Fest is a two-night party and music festival being held June 25 & 26 2010 in Big Sur as part of a benefit for Big Sur schools. The festival is family friendly and open to all ages. There are 300 tickets
available
by donation in advance.
The festival will feature live sets by Lateef the Truthspeaker, Gift of Gab, Entrance Band, Mariee Sioux, Nico’s House,
Matt Baldwin, and more.
There will also be DJ sets by Jeremy
Sole, Little John,
and others. A full list of performers is available on the Nacarubi Music Fest website.
Opera announces the acquisition of FastMail.fm, a cloud-based e-mail provider, which it will use to extend its messaging portfolio to devices such as phones, televisions and gaming consoles. Opera has been expanding into the phone space, with its Opera Mini for the iPhone mobile browser being downloaded onto more than 1 million Apple devices within two days. According to analytics company StatCounter, Opera Mini is the most-used smartphone browser, with 24.6 percent of the market, followed by Apple’s Safari browser for the iPhone with 22.3 percent.
– Opera Software announced the acquisition April 30 of FastMail.fm, a
cloud-based e-mail provider. While Opera has offered an e-mail client with its
desktop browser for a number of years, the new acquisition will expand the
company’s messaging-product portfolio to devices such as phones, television…
EMPIRE OF THE SUN ANNOUNCE THREE EXCLUSIVE TOUR DATES FOR THE WALKING ON A
DREAM TOUR; NORTH AMERICAN LIVE DEBUT
 Empire of the Sun |
In support of their album Walking On A Dream, Empire Of The Sun has announced three exclusive North American tour dates in August including Lollapalooza. Released just last year on
Astralwerks, Walking On A Dream‘s success has remained unstoppable. 7 ARIA Award wins in Australia including Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Best Group and Best Pop Release, Two Brit Award nominations in February, An appearance on Jay-Z‘s latest album, double-platinum status at home in Australia, and Gold status in the U.K.
The electro-psychedelic project is led by Luke Steele, the enigmatic artist behind Australia’s The Sleepy Jackson.
.
Empire Of The Sun US Tour Dates:
August 7 Chicago Lollapalooza – Grant Park- Perry’s World Stage-currently on sale
August 8 Toronto Sound Academy – on sale 4/30 @ 10am
August 9 New York, NY Terminal 5 – on sale 4/30 @ 12pm
August 11 Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theatre – on sale 5/1 @ 10am
Empire of the Sun Tour
Dates :: Empire of the Sun
News :: Empire of the Sun
Concert
Reviews
Words by: Tom Speed | Images by: Dino Perrucci & Chad Smith
Jazz Fest – Weekend 2 – Day 1 :: 04.29.10 :: Thursday :: New Orleans, LA
 Dave Schools – WSP :: 04.29.10 :: Jazz Fest |
The opening day of Jazz Fest‘s second weekend brought with it clear skies, temperatures in the mid 70s and a slight breeze – ideal weather for an outdoor music festival. After severe rain and mud stained the first weekend, the sunshine was a welcome respite for festival faithful.
The day’s aural, gustatory and otherwise indescribable cultural delights provided a banquet of sensory inputs for the incessantly insatiable. The following is a brief but faithful recounting of some of the highlights.
Tom’s Top Three Aural
#1 Elvis Costello and The Sugarcanes (Gentilly Stage)
Every day of Jazz Fest is marked by that intangible Jazz Fest magic – a single set or experience that makes the spine tingle. Sometimes it comes as planned, but usually it comes unexpectedly. Thursday it came in the form of Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes, his top-flight acoustic band that includes Jerry Douglas on dobro and Jim Lauderdale on guitar, along with mandolin, fiddle and bass instrumentation.
The group worked their way through a stellar set of roots rock renditions from Costello’s catalog and some choice cover selections. They nimbly navigated their way through the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of The Devil” and the Stones’ “Happy.” They breathed new life into Costello stalwarts like “Allison,” “Peace, Love and Understanding,” and a down-tempo reboot of “Every Day I Write The Book.” Costello brought out New Orleans legend and collaborator Allen Toussaint for a rousing “encore” that consisted of five songs and left the crowd in bliss. Magic.
#2 Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk (Acura Stage)
With a double bass assault, Dumpstaphunk harnesses the runaway power of decades of incessant, ferocious chugging. They serve as the torchbearers of that delightful slice of American music known as New Orleans funk. In a city and festival full of contenders to the throne, they are the kings of the hill. By the time they launched into the now-anthemic thrust of “Put It In The Dumpster” their harnessed momentum had exploded into a full-blown frenzy.
#3 Sunpie Barnes & The Louisiana Sunspots (Congo Stage)
The warm weather was the perfect backdrop for Sunpie Barnes’ soulful set of swinging zydeco.
Tom’s Top Three Gustatory
#1 Crawfish Pie
From the people that bring you the Natchitoches meat pie, this particular crawfish pie was fluffy on the outside, creamy on the inside and possessed just the right amount of spice to become a new favorite.
#2 The Ruby Slipper
Though it’s often inadvisable to eat before entering the Fairgrounds racetrack, an early breakfast at this local mid-city joint provided a much needed and well-spiced Bloody Mary, not to mention a delicious take on Eggs Benedict that incorporated a grilled tomato. It was the perfect prelude to a great day at the fest.
#3 Coors
Because the banquet beer will do in a pinch.
Tom’s Top Three Lagniappe
#1 Field Trips
The sight of numerous middle school groups roaming the festival grounds on field trips gave reason to believe in an oft-maligned local school system that was imparting an undeniably unique life lesson on regional heritage and a serious steeping in the arts.
#2 Funny Hats
Big, small, wide, pointy, colorful, floppy, majestic, droopy. You gotta love a hat party, and Jazz Fest is among the biggest and best in the world.
#3 Chance Encounters
You know those people that you only kinda know, and if you’re bad with names (raise your hands!) you know them only by face and not necessarily by name, but it doesn’t matter. They’re at Jazz Fest, and it’s great to see them.
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Check out First Weekend Sunday coverage of Jazz Fest here.
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Imation, one of the world’s most diverse data storage providers, unveils new security for products ranging from external hard drives and flash drives to DVDs and Blu-ray discs to tape storage.
– Imation, best known for its economical consumer-oriented optical and flash
products for offline storage, has reinforced the security apparatus for most of its product line.
The Oakdale, Minn.-based company, one of the world’s most diverse data storage providers,
unveiled on April 30 a set of se…
Today, the Apple iPad with both WiFi and 3G is being released and stocked on store shelves.
The WiFi + 3G model has a few more bells and whistles than the regular iPad. Well tell you what to expect and how much it will cost you; According to MSNBC, Microsoft has canceled its work on producing its double-screen tablet prototype, the Courier; IBM scientists have created a 3D map of the earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt. The scientists accomplished this through a new, breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex – 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil – to create patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity. We talk about what this means for future chip technology; Facebook has redesigned the Facebook Platform to offer a simple set of tools that sites around the web can use to personalize experiences and build out the graph of connections people are making. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg discusses the changes.
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Economy Minister MlaÄ‘an Dinkić says it was decided that the Belgrade-based pharmaceutical company Galenika will not be sold. This came since, according to him, none of the bidders who wished to buy the state-owned firm were “world known companiesâ€.
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. However, since then, the language has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular amongst programmers. Perl reached version 5.12 on April 13, and the core Perl development team is working on the next major revision of the language, Perl 6. The technology is being used increasingly in the enterprise for Web application development, for financial and bioinformatics applications, and by IT administrators for system and network management programming.
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KINGS OF LEON ANNOUNCE OPENERS ON SUMMER TOUR
 Kings of Leon |
Kings of Leon have announced that special guests The
Black Keys, Built To
Spill, The
Features, The
Stills and The
Whigs will join them for
their upcoming 2010 Live Nation produced tour. Special guests will appear on select dates.
Tickets are on sale now at LiveNation.com. A limited number of 4-Pack ticket packages will be offered for $99* that
includes 4 lawn tickets to participating venues, while supplies last.
Kings of Leon Tour Dates :: Kings of Leon News :: Kings of Leon Concert Reviews
As everyone from Paul Krugman to Simon Johnson has noted, the banks are so big and politically powerful that they have bought the politicians and captured the regulators.But the giant banks are not only dangerous because they skew the political system….
RONI SIZE MAKES FIRST NYC APPEARANCE IN MORE THAN SIX YEARS
CATCH THE LEGEND DJING “LOVE” ON MAY 6 WITH DYNAMITE MC ON THE MIC
 Roni Size |
Roni Size will be making a rare NYC appearance, his first in more than six years, when he DJs LOVE on Thursday May 6 with Dynamite MC on the mic. This NYC
gig will be followed by a pit stop to DJ Revolution in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on May 7 before heading to Puerto Rico to
spin at El Tunel de Guajataca on Saturday May 8.
Bristol native Roni Size is one of the U.K. music scene’s most respected names, with production credits spanning
dozens of labels, projects, and releases. A drum ‘n’ bass pioneer, Roni started his nearly 20 year music career in the
early ’90s and took the world by storm in 1997 when New Forms – his debut album with Roni Size &
Reprazent – won the prestigious Mercury Prize beating out Radiohead, Primal
Scream, Chemical Brothers and
The Prodigy. The breakthrough
release brought drum ‘n’ bass to a whole new audience and subsequently went platinum thanks to such modern day
classics as “Brown Paper Bag,” “Watching Windows,” and “Heroes.”
Currently in the studio producing the next Roni Size album, whilst also working with the band on a new Reprazent album, he’s taken a little time out of his
hectic studio schedule to do some dates. So don’t miss Roni Size and Dynamite MC on Thursday, May 6 at LOVE.
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SUMMER TOUR BEGINS MAY 28 IN SANTA CRUZ; VOLUME TWO OUT NOW
 She & Him |
After making acclaimed stops at Coachella, SXSW and more this spring, She & Him will be returning to the
road this summer in support of their critically acclaimed sophomore album, Volume Two, out now
on Merge Records. In addition to appearances at the Sasquatch! and Bonnaroo festivals, the
band will be playing a free show in Chicago at Millennium Park on June 7, and one in New York City at Governor’s
Island on July 4. They will also be performing at the legendary Hollywood Bowl on July 19, along with The Swell Season and The Bird and the Bee.
She & Him, the musical duo comprised of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel, released Volume
Two at the end of March to rave reviews. The album, which debuted at Number 6 on the Billboard Top 200 and
has already sold 100,000 copies, simply bursts with infectious choruses and sunny harmonies. Live, these songs
take on amazing new dimensions, and these shows are destined to be highlights of the summer concert season.
Tour Dates:
5/28 Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre
5/29 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre
5/30 Bend, OR @ Le Schwab Amphitheatre*
5/31 George, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
6/4 Milwaukee, WI @ Verge Music Festival 2010
6/5 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
6/6 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Theatre
6/7 Chicago, IL @ Millennium Park – Downtown Sound Series
6/9 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy (Venue Change)
6/10 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
6/11 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
7/1 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
7/2 Philadelphia, PA @ Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing
7/3 Oxford, ME @ Nateva Music Festival
7/4 New York, NY @ The Beach at Governors Island
7/6 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
7/7 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
7/9 Atlanta, GA Atlanta @ Botanical Gardens
7/10 Birmingham, AL @ Sloss Furnaces
7/11 Louisville, KY @ TBD
7/18 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl**
08/29 St. Louis, MO @ LouFest
* w/ BAND OF HORSES & DAWES
** w/ The Swell Season & Bird and the Bee
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Tangoe says its mobile device management software will now support smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system Version 2.0 or higher, including the Motorola Droid, Google Nexus One and HTC Incredible, which Verizon Wireless began selling April 29. What’s interesting is that Tangoe chose to support Android before supporting its rival Apple iPhone smartphone platform. Companies such as BoxTone handled the iPhone first.
– Tangoe, which makes software used by more than 400 companies around the
world to manage expenses related to their mobile communication assets, on April
27 said its mobile device management software will now support smartphones
based on Google’s Android operating system.
Tangoe’s MDM Version 5.0 …
It’s a big Friday for new music: Check out Miley Cyrus’ new single “Can’t Be Tamed,” the title track from her upcoming album — set for release on June 22.CLICK HERE to listen on MySpace!This is definitely a different sound than we’re used to hearing from Miley, and according to insiders close to the Teen [...]
While tech workers have always been used to having to gain new skills to stay marketable, the rapid pace of change and business priorities are causing workers to stay on top of trends like never before. Companies are readily adopting more flexible staffing models with contract work and managed services with an emphasis on skills.
– The technology job market is rife with enigmas in 2010.
The recession had most companies cost-cutting last year and no department in
corporate America was spared. It was
unavoidable. Yet, as the dust settled on budgets for 2010, companies were
shifting the way they hired technology workers a…
