iTunes Match seeded to developers, supports streaming playback

Illegal downloading of music is hurting the record industry, but despite the fact that songs are now pretty affordable (about $0.99 per song), nothing trumps free, right. When iTunes Match was announced during WWDC 2011 earlier this year, it looks like Apple may have found a way to fight piracy. The service is now in beta and has been integrated into iTunes 6.1 for developers, but at the moment it appears to be rather buggy.

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Klipsch Image S4A for Android Headphones Will Put Premium Sound in Your Ears

Word around the block is that Klipsch makes some pretty good headphones. The $100 Image S4 series is said to be comparable to top-of-the-line headphones, but previously they only fully supported iOS devices. You could still listen to music, but the in-line controller didn’t work in most cases. Thankfully, they’ve introduced a pair of Image S4 headphones – model number S4A – specifically for Android.  No difference, really – amazing sound, functional inline remote and great design for maximum comfort. Ships sometime soon.

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HTC Omega (with Windows Phone Mango) shows up in hands-on photos

Expected to be announced on September 1 (this Thursday), the HTC Omega will be one of the world's first Windows Phone Mango devices. We've seen the smartphone in a press shot last week, and now it's time to take a look at it in some hands-on photos. These new photos have appeared on an Algerian website, where someone is actually selling an Omega for 42,000 Algerian dinars (about €400).




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HP 635 Cheap Business Laptop with AMD Inside Launched

Hewlett-Packard has rolled out another cheap business 15.6-inch laptop, this time with AMD's technology. The notebooks come with 2 or 3GB of RAM, a 320GB hard disk drive, DVD burner, webcam, HDMI out, and Windows 7 Home or Pro OS. The screen is anti-reflective with a resolution of 1366-by-768.
According to the product page on Newegg, the battery life for the Phenom-powered HP 635 model is five hours, and we assume the Zacate-based model has even longer run time.



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ViewSonic Launches ViewPad 10pro 10.1″ Windows / Android Tablet

ViewSonic US has released the ViewPad 10pro, a 10.1-inch tablet with both Windows and Android operating systems. The default OS is Windows 7 and Android runs inside Windows environment. Users can switch between Android and Windows instantly via Bluestacks software, instead of booting only one of the systems at a time.


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Samsung ChatOn to bring BBM-like experience to Android, iOS, BlackBerry, bada [video]

Samsung is set to make a big splash with new products during the IFA trade show in Berlin, which kicks off later this week, and the phone maker recently announced a new group text application called ChatOn. The application allows Android, iOS, BlackBerry and bada users to create groups to quickly send and receive group text messages. The service will no doubt compete with BBM, Apple's iMessage, Google's Huddle, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and GroupMe, but Samsung is trying to distinguish itself from those other services by offering a more robust feature set.



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SanDisk Sansa c240 1GB MP3 Player On Sale For Just $20.99

Normally priced at $79.99, the SanDisk Sansa c240 is currently on sale over at Amazon for just $20.99, meaning you could save up to $59 (74%). This compact player comes with a small LCD display, a 1GB of storage, a microSD card slot, an FM radio, a voice recorder, a photo viewer, a USB 2.0 port and features a rechargeable, removable lithium-ion battery.

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