From the band that brought you Stacy’s Mom; the single ‘Someone to Love’ from their latest album Traffic and Weather…. Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood produce pure pop with a rock instrumentation, a fact that has been underscored by Schlesinger’s cinematic music contributions to 1997’s “That Thing You Do” and 2007’s “Music and Lyrics”. If you like pop and you like light rock (think FastBall), this track is the best from the new album, though ‘This Better Be Good’ is also single material.
The band is doing a limited tour in July and August with a number of outdoor venues….
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Tero Ojanpera, Nokia’s CTO, in Singapore ahead of the CommunicAsia telecom fair, declared touch screens and optical sensors the basis for the next major set of innovations in mobile phones. The touch screen comment seems obvious to anyone who has been innundated by iPhone ads and press in the past few months, but the optical sensors’ applications may not be so obvious….
The noise cancelling champion Jawbone bluetooth headset will be offered for sale alongside the iPhone at Apple stores and at Apple’s online store. This is great news for Jawbone, as the high end Jawbone will likely appeal to trendy mobile fashionistas.
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Corporate IT and Telecommunications departments are resisting employees’ attempts to bring the iPhone into the corporate infrastructure. Integration with RIM’s Blackberry enterprise servers and Motorola’s Good servers is one issue. But consumer familiarity with Apple and its hip appeal may still win the day for Apple…or at least a beachhead.
