‘LOVE’ an album and a feature film by Angels And Airwaves

•January 31, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Eagerly waiting February 14! coz a brand new album and a feature film is waiting to be primer  that day. Its “LOVE” by Angels and Airwaves [AVA]. Both the album and the movie is entitled “LOVE”.

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Love is the third studio album by Angels & Airwaves, which will be officially released worldwide on February 14, 2010 after being delayed fromChristmas 2009. It will be released free of charge due to “corporate underwriting”. They began producing it in January 2009 but progress was slow due to Tom Delonge’s original band Blink-182 reuniting and going on tour. On February 10, Tom DeLonge posted a blog on Modlife stating that, “Angels and Airwaves is never going to go away”. This brought an end to any lingering rumors of a possible break-up of the band due to the reunion of Blink-182. In April 2009, Atom Willard joined Social Distortion.

On July 31, Angels & Airwaves uploaded a new video to their website, giving people the first official glimpse of their new album Love. Seen in the video was a piece of artwork that contained a new Angels and Airwaves logo, which has similarities to the Masonic Square and Compasses. This new logo also contains the Latin words “Et ducit mundum per luce.” Which translates to “Lead the world by light”.

The first official trailer for the band’s feature film Love was released on October 29 on the band’s website. The film is directed by William Eubank. The trailer appeared on Apple Trailers on October 30, 2009.

On December 14th, Tom posted a blog where he previewed a new song entitled “Sole Survivor” and stated that half of the songs on the album are finished mixing.

The first single from the album, “Hallucinations,” was made available for free through the band’s website, Modlife, on December 23, 2009. The band is currently shooting the music video for “Hallucinations”.

LOVE

Love is the third upcoming studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It is set to be released on iTunes on February 14, 2010. The album will be released free of charge due to “corporate underwriting“.

Production

The album began production in January 2009, after touring with Weezer in the fall of 2008. Production went very slowly as DeLonge was away on tour with Blink-182. DeLonge has compared the album’s space rock influenced sound to that of U2 and Pink Floyd.

Tom DeLonge has said that there is a video in the works for the newest single “Hallucinations”

On their Facebook page, the band stated that on the 4th of January they returned to the studio to put the finishing touches to the LOVE album in time for the February 14th release.

On January 12th, 2010, the band released a promotional video entitled “C:\Transmission_Love”, which contained a short preview of an upcoming song.

Release date

In May 2009, it was announced that the album would be released on Christmas Day. However, on July 19, 2009, DeLonge announced viaModlife that the album will not be released on Christmas day as previously planned, and instead will be released on Valentine’s Day. The album will be released free of charge on iTunes on Valentine’s Day 2010. The free download of the album will be eleven tracks, but a physical copy of the album is also going to be released which will contain the same eleven tracks along with 30 minutes of extra music from the Love movie. The extra music will all flow together. Tom Delonge has also indicated that there will be a deluxe edition of the album with even more bonus material, it has not been given a release date as of yet.

Track listing

  1. “The Flight of Apollo”
  2. “Young London”
  3. “Hallucinations”
  4. “Shove”
  5. “Epic Holiday”
  6. “Et Ducit Mundum Per Luce”
  7. “Soul Survivor (2012)”
  8. “Clever Love”
  9. “Letters to God Pt. 2″
  10. “Fragments and Fictions”
  11. “Some Origins of Fire”

This track listing has been officially confirmed by the band on their Modlife page.

Sound and preview

The music of Love, DeLonge says, will have a progressive rock kind of flavor. “It’s like blending Radiohead and U2 together with these kind ofPink Floyd movements”, he explains. “Things happen unpredictably and take you to these epic soundscapes. It’s very much in the spirit of Angels & Airwaves, but it sounds way, way more thought-out and way more ambitious.” In 2008, Tom DeLonge had fun with a new acoustic song, along with various other demos from I-Empire, he later suggested that he would make this into a song. David Kennedy previewed two new songs from the Love album via Modlife in July 2009 with the working titles “Triumphant” and “Epic Holiday”. David Kennedy also played a clip of another song in August, The song’s title was confirmed to be ‘Sole Survivor’ by Tom DeLonge in a blog on the band’s own Modlife site. In September 2009, a new video was posted on Modlife showing a man in a suit drawing the new Angels & Airwaves logo, this featured a new song clip. Recently Angels & Airwaves have released yet another short video entitled “Elektrogeräte” (German for “electrical devices”) on theirFacebook page and on YouTube, featuring bizarre electronic sounds combined with various vintage sci-fi iconography from brain washing imagery to rockets in flight. It is unknown whether “Elektrogeräte” is a song title or just the title of the short film. ”The Architect” is the latest promotional video by the band, it depicts a character (referred to by both the band and fans as “The Architect”) opening a briefcase and taking out a ruler, pencil and compass and begins to draw the new AVA logo on a blank canvas. This video and also the Love feature film trailer feature parts of a new song which DeLonge recently revealed in a chat is tentatively called “Dear God”.

On December 14th, Tom posted a blog where he previewed a new song entitled “Sole Survivor” and stated that half of the songs on the album are finished mixing.

The new single “Hallucinations” can now be heard on their Myspace page and downloaded for free on Modlife.

Tom Delonge recently previewed another [then tentatively titled] song, “She Said” in a Modlife Premium blog. Given the official track listing, it is uncertain what the song has been renamed. This is also the case for the previously titled song, “Triumphant.”

Film

A movie with the same title Love will also be released. It, “tells a story of human life and destiny but at the same time really makes usual moments of life extraordinary. It’s a circular narrative in many ways, where it kind of sums up the human race in a time capsule”. A 3-minute trailer was released on Friday July 31 2009 their website featuring explosions, heavy artillery and civil-war soldiers. Part of the song “Dear God” was featured during the video. The movie also appears to involve scenes aboard the International Space Station, keeping true to Tom’s apparent interest in space as seen in many Angels & Airwaves music videos. The official movie trailer was released on Apple Trailers on Friday, October 30 2009, and is available on Modlife. The film has no relation to the 2008 film, Start the Machine, which was a documentary that followed the making of the first album.

On January 7, Tom shared a bit of the plot of the movie on ModCam, saying that the astronaut goes through a wormhole and meets God.

More was released on the plot of the movie when Tom Delonge was interviewed by ABC. He said, on January 22, that the movie “centers on an astronaut who is stranded in a space station as the Earth collapses.”

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•January 30, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Apple Nokia – Battle

•January 18, 2010 • Leave a Comment

The two phone giants are in the midst of a major legal battle, which started last October when Nokia charged Apple for using its patented technologies without paying for them.

Apple filed the new ITC complaint on Friday.

“Nokia will study the complaint when it is received and continue to defend itself vigorously,” said a company spokesman.Apple Nokia - Battle

“However, this does not alter the fact that Apple has failed to agree appropriate terms for using Nokia technology and has been seeking a free ride on Nokia’s innovation since it shipped the first iPhone in 2007,” he said.

In late December Nokia also filed a claim with the ITC, alleging Apple infringed seven of its patents in “virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers” sold.

“The fact that two such prominent companies have now filed complaints will likely mean the ITC will seek to deal with this as a matter of urgency,” said Ben Wood, head of research at British consultancy CCS Insight.

“That said, a lengthy legal battle is almost inevitable irrespective of a decision from the trade commission,” he said.

The ITC can ban selling products in the United States — a market crucial for Apple, but Nokia makes only a fraction of its sales there.

Analysts say it could take years to solve the legal battle.

“This dispute is still in its infancy. I don’t think Nokia is finished with evaluating the infringements by Apple, it might be just the surface,” said Steven Nathasingh, chief executive of U.S. research firm Vaxa Inc.

Nokia, along with Ericsson and Qualcomm, holds many key patents for making mobile phones.

Nokia has stumbled badly in the fast-growing smartphone sector and relative newcomer Apple has gained ground against the market leader thanks to the iPhone, but still trails Nokia in smartphones sales.

The legal dispute, potentially involving hundreds of millions of dollars in annual royalties, reflects the shifting balance of power in the mobile industry as cellphones morph into handheld computers that can play video games and surf the Web.

Apple, which entered the industry in mid-2007, overtook Nokia in the September quarter as the cellphone maker generating the highest total operating profit.

Source : reuters.com - Apple turns up heat in Nokia battle


The ongoing patent battle between Apple and Nokia escalated Friday, when Apple moved to block imports of Nokia cell phones to the U.S.

Apple made its request in a complaint filed with the International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency that examines issues including unfair trade practices involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement.

Nokia device

In December, Nokia filed its own complaint with the USITC in Washington. In it, the Finnish company alleged that Apple infringes seven Nokia patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers” and sought to ban imports of Apple’s iPhoneiPod, and MacBook products.

Responding to Apple’s latest move, Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant told Bloomberg that “Nokia will study the complaint when it is received and continue to defend itself vigorously. However this does not alter the fact that Apple has failed to agree to appropriate terms for using Nokia technology and has been seeking a free ride on Nokia’s innovation since it shipped the first iPhone in 2007.”

Apple has not yet responded to a request for comment on the filing.

Back in October, before the patent debate between the two companies moved to the trade commission, Nokia filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Delaware regarding 10 patents related to wireless handsets, which Nokia says Apple has refused to license. Every iPhone model since the original, introduced in 2007, infringes on those patents, Nokia has charged.

The 10 patents it accuses Apple of violating are related to making phones able to run on GSM, 3G, and Wi-Fi networks. They include patents on wireless data, speech coding, security, and encryption, according to Nokia.

Apple then filed a countersuit accusing Nokia of copying technology inside the iPhone. Apple said Nokia is violating a range of patents, from real-time signal processing methods to list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display.

In November, research firm Strategy Analytics reported that Apple had surpassed Nokia in quarterly mobile phone profits, bringing in $1.6 billion from the iPhone, compared with Nokia’s $1.1 billion in cell phone profits.

Nokia’s new mobile chief, Rick Simonson, acknowledged in an interview earlier this month that 2009 had been a difficult year for the company.

“Yes, we have lost ground in the smartphone space over the past 18 months, but the decline has stopped and stablized in the second and third quarters of 2009,” Simonson told the India Times.

“The new year will see [our] recovery in smartphones with the introduction of Maemo and the stabilization of the Symbian operating system, which by the way, continues to be the platform for the largest number of smartphones, globally,” Simonson added.

Source : cnet.com


The ongoing patent battle between Apple and Nokia escalated Friday, when Apple moved to block imports of Nokia cell phones to the U.S.

Apple made its request in a complaint filed with the International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency that examines issues including unfair trade practices involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement.

Nokia device

Will Nokia devices be blocked from the U.S.?

(Credit: Nokia)

In December, Nokia filed its own complaint with the USITC in Washington. In it, the Finnish company alleged that Apple infringes seven Nokia patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers” and sought to ban imports of Apple’s iPhoneiPod, and MacBook products.

Responding to Apple’s latest move, Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant told Bloomberg that “Nokia will study the complaint when it is received and continue to defend itself vigorously. However this does not alter the fact that Apple has failed to agree to appropriate terms for using Nokia technology and has been seeking a free ride on Nokia’s innovation since it shipped the first iPhone in 2007.”

Apple has not yet responded to a request for comment on the filing.

Back in October, before the patent debate between the two companies moved to the trade commission, Nokia filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Delaware regarding 10 patents related to wireless handsets, which Nokia says Apple has refused to license. Every iPhone model since the original, introduced in 2007, infringes on those patents, Nokia has charged.

The 10 patents it accuses Apple of violating are related to making phones able to run on GSM, 3G, and Wi-Fi networks. They include patents on wireless data, speech coding, security, and encryption, according to Nokia.

Apple then filed a countersuit accusing Nokia of copying technology inside the iPhone. Apple said Nokia is violating a range of patents, from real-time signal processing methods to list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display.

In November, research firm Strategy Analytics reported that Apple had surpassed Nokia in quarterly mobile phone profits, bringing in $1.6 billion from the iPhone, compared with Nokia’s $1.1 billion in cell phone profits.

Nokia’s new mobile chief, Rick Simonson, acknowledged in an interview earlier this month that 2009 had been a difficult year for the company.

“Yes, we have lost ground in the smartphone space over the past 18 months, but the decline has stopped and stablized in the second and third quarters of 2009,” Simonson told the India Times.

“The new year will see [our] recovery in smartphones with the introduction of Maemo and the stabilization of the Symbian operating system, which by the way, continues to be the platform for the largest number of smartphones, globally,” Simonson added.

Nothing Izz Well

•January 6, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Happy New Year

•January 1, 2010 • Leave a Comment

I just write this post to wish Happy New Year 2010