The Freestyle Application for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch is calling songwriters, MC’s worldwide to enter the new Freestyle App Online Battle for a chance to become the next big recording artist.
MC’s and songwriters are invited to battle it out online for song supremacy in a six week online freestyle competition powered by SoundCloud. Competitors should submit a track created with Freestyle App for a chance to win a professional recording and a commercial release from My Major Company.
The competition sponsored by Freestyle App and My Major Company gives contestants the opportunity to submit their own lyrics recorded over the beats included in the app to win a professional studio track recording, a commercial release, and an opportunity to be signed to the My Major Company record label.
The competition runner up will win a $100 iTunes gift certificate and a Pro Account with SoundCloud.
To enter the Freestyle App Online Battle contestants simply download or update to the latest version of Freestyle app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
The Freestyle App is now available for free for the first 2 weeks of the competition. Get it now.
Each track uploaded to the Freestyle App Online Battle platform will be open to a public voting process for the first four weeks of the competition. The top 10 finalists from this voting process will then be judged by a panel of A&R and industry experts during the final two weeks to reveal the winner and runner up.
About The Freestyle App
The Freestyle App is an industry standard in the Hip Hop community and is used and supported by aspiring and established MCs worldwide.
Designed for songwriters, MCs and poets on the move, the Freestyle App serves as a mobile recording studio, combining a digital notepad, instrumental beat library, rhyming dictionary, and vocal recorder in one application, allowing App users to capture their creativity whenever inspiration strikes. Users can then seamlessly email or upload their recordings to Facebook, Twitter, or SoundCloud directly from the convenience of their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
The updated 2.1 version of Freestyle was launched last year to rave reviews, the App’s original release quickly garnered over 100,000 downloads, becoming a top 5 selling music App in the iTunes App Store in less than 2 months. Heavy new beat bundles are now available for download.
My Major Company is a brand new record label which gives music fans a voice. It allows you to choose which artist to launch, supporting them financially and artistically from the very start. MMC is an online platform which gives Internet users and music fans the ability to invest in the career of the label’s artists, get involved at every stage of their development and retain a share of the profit generated by the release campaign following the bands launch.
Nokia today announced the Nokia N9, built for people who appreciate a stunning blend of design and the latest smartphone technology.
Nokia N9 – One swipe and you’re home
The Nokia N9 introduces an innovative new design where the home key is replaced by a simple gesture: a swipe. Whenever you’re in an application, swiping from the edge of the display takes you home.
The three home views of the user interface are designed to give fast access to the most important things people do with a phone: using apps, staying up to date with notifications and social networks, and switching between activities.
The industrial design of the Nokia N9 is an example of extreme product making and craft. The body is precision-machined from a single piece of polycarbonate and flows seamlessly into beautiful curved glass. The laminated deep black display means that the user interface just floats on the surface of the product.
The Nokia N9 also packs the latest in camera, navigation and audio technology for a great all-round experience.
“With the Nokia N9, we wanted to design a better way to use a phone. To do this we innovated in the design of the hardware and software together. We reinvented the home key with a simple gesture: a swipe from the edge of the screen. The experience sets a new bar for how natural technology can feel,” said Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia’s head of Design. “And this is just the beginning. The details that make the Nokia N9 unique – the industrial design, the all-screen user experience, and the expressive Qt framework for developers – will evolve in future Nokia products.”
Nokia N9 – Innovative all-screen design
With no need for a home key, the all-screen Nokia N9 makes more room for apps to shine. The 3.9-inch AMOLED screen is made from scratch-resistant curved glass. The polycarbonate body enables superior antenna performance. This means better reception, better voice quality and fewer dropped calls.
Camera, maps and multimedia
The 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus sensor, wide-angle lens, HD-quality video capture and large lens aperture enable great camera performance even in lowlighting conditions. This makes the Nokia N9 one of the best camera-phones ever produced.
The Nokia N9 features free turn-by-turn drive and walk navigation with voice guidance in Maps. With the new dedicated Drive app, you can get in your car and start navigating to your destination right away.
You can watch videos in true 16:9 widescreen format. And because the Nokia N9 is also the world’s first smartphone with Dolby® Digital Plus decoding and Dolby Headphone post-processing technology, you get a surround sound experience with any set of headphones.
Touch just got better
Fitted with the latest in wireless technology, Near Field Communication (NFC), the Nokia N9 allows you to easily share images and videos between devices by touching them together. Pair it with Bluetooth accessories like the new NFC-enabled Nokia Play 360° wireless music speaker only once, and you get a great surround sound music experience with just a tap.
Colors and Memory
The Nokia N9 will be available in three colors – black, cyan, and magenta with storage options to accommodate plenty of content: 16GB and 64GB. The Nokia N9 is scheduled to be in stores later this year, with availability and local pricing to be announced closer to the sales start.
Madfinger Games, creators of Samurai II: Vengeance, today announced the beginning of a new action shooting game, Shadowgun.
By focusing on mobile platforms – including smartphones and tablets- Madfinger has created the most advanced handheld game in the market, optimized for superb performance and offering gamers the same quality expected from console gaming systems.
Shadowgun will support Android mobile devices powered by the NVIDIA Tegra super chip, and will be available on the Tegra Zone app and Android Market.
Authored with the Unity development platform, Shadowgun combines tactical combat with third person harrowing action, ushering in a new visual standard for handheld gaming.
Shadowgun puts players into the role of John Slade, a professional bounty hunter in the year 2350. Slade’s mission: hunt down Dr. Edgar Simon, renowned geneticist and former employee of the trans-galactic corporation Toltech Enterprises. Players must lead “shadowgun” John Slade as he infiltrates Dr. Simon’s mountain fortress and fights his personal army of mutants, cyborgs, and genetically-enhanced humanoids. Using state-of-the-art weaponry, ships, and the assistance of S.A.R.A.—Slade’s personal android assistant. The story is written by award winning author Micah Nathan who has joined the MadFinger team as executive creative consultant for Shadowgun.
“Shadowgun is possibly the the best expression of quality production achievable on mobile devices and a great indicator of what consumers can expect from future mobile games,” said Brett Seyler, General Manager of Union. “We’re very proud to see this kind of creative product created with Unity and excited to offer it to our partners through our Union distribution service.”
Rapid Turtle Games have released Charlie In Trouble – Returning Home, the final chapter in the Charlie In Trouble series is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.
The game features 8 huge levels divided into 21 stages, with many new puzzles and arcade platform jumping.
Help Charlie once more to find his way back to home in the final chapter of this adventure game. He has defied the King’s orders, and traveled through a magical portal only to become trapped on the other side. In order to return home, Charlie must make it through 8 levels in this strange new realm filled with puzzles and enemies.
Charlie In Trouble - Returning Home Screenshot
The player must avoid enemies, obstacles and traps while hitting switches and solving puzzles that will allow him or she to move to the next level. The order of puzzles are such that players must travel back and forth between different stages of each level in order to complete them all. Each level can be up to 4 stages in size.
Charlie In Trouble – Returning Home Main Features:
8 huge levels divided into 21 stages
7 hours of adventure fun
More than 120 items (tools, toys…) and other objects to interact with
Cute and lovable main character, levels and enemies
Plenty of arcade platform jumping, puzzle solving and adventure fun
Many different kind of enemies (18 in total)
High variety of traps and other objects like: triggers, lifts, doors, teleports, pillows, lava, water, bounce pads & transporters
Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI) today jointly announced that Nokia Siemens Networks has completed its acquisition of Motorola Solutions’ Networks assets paying US $975 million in cash. As of April 30 2011, responsibility for supporting customers of Motorola Solutions’ GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, WiMAX and LTE products and services transfers to Nokia Siemens Networks.
“The people, customers and technology we’ve acquired greatly complement our existing business by taking us into new markets and broadening our market share,” said Rajeev Suri, Chief Executive Officer, Nokia Siemens Networks. “Our combined knowledge and experience will provide our newly expanded customer base with the means to grow by providing greater value to their subscribers.”
“Motorola Solutions is pleased to complete this transaction to combine our Networks team with an industry leader,” said Greg Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer, Motorola Solutions. “This is great news for our customers, our investors and our people and will allow Motorola Solutions to further sharpen our strategic focus on providing mission-critical solutions for our government and enterprise customers.”
The acquisition strengthens Nokia Siemens Networks’ position in key regions, particularly North America and Japan, as well as with some of the world’s major service providers. Based on revenue, the addition of Motorola Solutions’ Networks assets makes Nokia Siemens Networks the third largest wireless infrastructure vendor in the United States and the leading non-Japanese wireless vendor in Japan. In addition, the acquisition reinforces Nokia Siemens Networks’ position as the world’s second largest wireless infrastructure and services provider.
As part of the deal, responsibility for supporting 50 operators across 52 countries, as well as approximately 6900 employees, will transfer to Nokia Siemens Networks. In addition, Nokia Siemens Networks is acquiring a number of research and development facilities including sites in the United States, China, Russia, India and the UK.
