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Being away from home for nearly two weeks can be a tough proposition — especially when you leave home intending to work. You’re not packing suntan oil and swimsuits, but power adapters, accessories and other portables. Not that I’m complaining — after reading about Mike’s travels, I have to count my blessings. While he was

After what seems like eons of rumors and speculation, Google Music has finally been released to the masses.  Of course, one of the first questions that pops into anyone’s head is — what could this possibly mean for the giant that is iTunes? For years now, the biggest name in the digital music game has

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said on Wednesday the Finnish-based company plans on undercutting Windows Phone rivals – e.g. Samsung, HTC – to try and gain a foothold in the market. To accomplish this, the company, who just released two Windows Phone models (one of which we reviewed), is pricing their phones lower than the competition.

Google Music is finally out of beta, and free to all (if you live in the U.S.)!  The announcement event has wrapped up, and in case you missed our live coverage, we’ve still got you covered with a brief video recap of everything that was announced today. In short, you can take your music with

How times have changed. A new survey suggests the iPhone has surpassed RIM’s BlackBerry as the go-to device among enterprise users. Back in 2007 when the first iPhone was released, not many people would have predicted such an outcome. The numbers, according to a quarterly iPass Mobile Workforce report, reveal the iPhone’s business use has grown

Samsung has reportedly tweaked its 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab so it can be sold in Germany. Called the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, the tablet was slightly redesigned in order to get around an injunction Apple won earlier this year banning sales of the original in the country. Apple claimed that Samsung had copied the design of the

The new Google Music service is now live at Music.Google.com, and we’ve already got some music uploading to the service.  For those of you haven’t jumped in yet, you’re probably wondering what it’s going to look like, so we’ve gone and done a brief tour for you. Click any of the images for a larger

Perhaps the most intriguing announcement to come out of the Google event this afternoon is its new Artist Hub. The new feature is designed to provide a platform for unsigned artists to self release and promote their music to a wider audience. The playing field is being leveled for the unknowns looking to get exposure. By

Google has finally revealed all the juicy details about Google Music. Starting today, users can upload up to 20,000 songs in the cloud for free. Yes, that’s F-R-E-E. The service will conveniently allow users to stream their music collections via the web or their mobile devices anywhere there’s an internet connection. No wires whatsoever. The platform

Late last week Google sent out invitations to an event scheduled for November 16 at 2 PM PST.  The name of the event was “These go to eleven,” an obvious hat tip to the famous line from the mockumentry, This is Spinal Tap which happened to be all about music.  It looks like the long rumored Google Music service is finally upon us, and so it’s time to sit back and join us for a live blog of the event.

According to a report from EDGE, the next entry in the Xbox brand will be announced at CES in January and, as the publication asserts, will be on sale at retail before the end of 2012. EDGE’s anonymous source indicates the Ubisoft is working with a devkit version of Microsoft’s upcoming follow-up to the Xbox

Sprint is now the first carrier in the U.S. to offer wireless emergency alerts. Customers can now opt to receive SMS alerts from the National Weather Service, the president, and state and local emergency operators based on their location. The idea behind the service is that you could be notified if a serious storm (like

Get ready to take that block-breaking, world building, resource hunting addiction you love so much with you wherever you go, iOS users. Minecraft: Pocket Edition is launching tomorrow for Apple‘s portable platform. It will be available on the App Store for right around $10. Develop is reporting that Mojang has confirmed that iOS Minecraft: Pocket Edition players will be

Make sure to join us later today for the Google Music Live Blog where we’ll be posting updates, images and talking about why this new music service goes to 11!

Both Amazon and Best Buy have dropped the price of the Apple TV by $10, suggesting that a refresh may be on its way. Amazon has also added a “2010” label to product’s listing on its site, which seems to suggest that a 2011 (or 2012) model may be on the horizon. Rumors have been

T-Mobile announced today it is rolling out its high-speed 42Mbps network in 11 new markets, and expanding its HSPA+ 21 network in 9 others. The move makes HSPA+ 42 speeds now available in a total 163 different markets across the country where it can reach 180 million Americans. HSPA+ 21 is now available in 208

Remember getting a game, opening the case and finding an awesomely thick, well-colored and beautifully rendered instruction booklet within. What’s that you say, “barely?” Yeah, that’s my point. Instruction booklets are becoming a thing of the past in the world of video games, and it is one of the silent deaths in this medium that

It can’t be easy coming up with names for phones these days. All the really cool ones were taken pretty early on, and now we’re stuck with weird spellings (we’re looking at you, Rezound), words that don’t even make sense (what exactly is an “Atrix“?) and so on.  The one thing you never want to

Yes, already. Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed: Revelations for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms yesterday. The publisher decided to follow this software’s release with official news of the game’s first round of post-launch DLC. “The Ancestors Character Pack” is a rather small batch of downloadable content, but it comes at a reasonable price. From the

Could Sony be working on its own internet-based television alternative? According to The Wall Street Journal, Sony has approached “several big media companies” including Discovery, NBCUniversal, and News Corp. about potentially streaming their content over the web to Sony devices as a cable television alternative. Television content would play on PlayStation consoles, Sony Blu-ray players,