O2 UK launches new wallet service, helps you empty yours (video)

April 28, 2012
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This may not be the UK operators first attempt at dipping its ~~fingers~~ logo into your pockets, but O2′s new mobile wallet does bring with it some de rigeur functionality. Taking a leaf out of Barclays‘ book, the new app lets you send “Money Messages,” essentially text-driven money transfers to any phone number. There’s smart-shopping features, too, such as a barcode reader for price comparisons, and daily discount deals to stop the well from going dry too soon. Interestingly, you can also apply for a physical companion card, based on Visa’s pre-pay service to bring your virtual wallet into the real world. Not an O2 customer? Doesn’t matter, apparently, and the app is “compatible with the majority of smartphones as well as iPads” which we guess means iOS at least, and Android, too, judging by the phones shown in the video after the break.

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PSA: HTC One S arrives today at T-Mobile, $199 on-contract after $50 rebate

April 27, 2012
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If you haven’t already smuggled a carrier-free version of HTC’s One S into the US, you can now sign up two years of your wireless life for T-Mobile’s flavor. Largely undiluted by the Big Magenta, the dual-core phone arrives today for a single dollar shy of 200 — after a $50 mail-in rebate. The online store at the source below is waiting for your order, or you could hit up your local bricks-and-mortar for some instant retail gratification.

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London Olympics To Visitors: Don?t Share What You See

April 27, 2012
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Don’t copy that pole vault! According to the London 2012 Olympic “conditions for ticket holders,” you are not allowed to take pictures or video of the events nor are you allowed to “exploit” any video on social networks.

Images, video and sound recordings of the Games taken by a Ticket Holder cannot be used for any purpose other than for private and domestic purposes and a Ticket Holder may not license, broadcast or publish video and/or sound recordings, including on social networking websites and the internet more generally, and may not exploit images, video and/or sound recordings for commercial purposes under any circumstances, whether on the internet or otherwise, or make them available to third parties for commercial purposes.

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Can ‘NSYNC, Backstreet Boys Make Battle Of The Boy Bands Comeback?

April 27, 2012
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Westlife and 5ive could upset two of the biggest boy bands of all time in the first round. Vote now!
By Christina Garibaldi

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We are still in the first round of voting in MTV’s Battle of the Boy Bands, and already we are seeing some big surprises. Backstreet Boys are finding themselves behind Irish boy band Westlife, ‘NSYNC are trailing former boy band 5ive and New Kids on the Block are neck-and-neck with British boy band Take That.

It seems like fans are rallying behind their favorites and battling it out to make sure they move on to the next round.

“I don’t see how BSB and ‘NSYNC are losing?!?!” MTV News reader Britney commented. Another fan, nickestlife, wrote, “Please VOTE WESTLIFE!!!! Don’t let them LOSE!!!”

But the question on a lot of minds is: Why aren’t the boy bands that dominated the U.S. pop charts not easily moving on to the next round?

“Remember that in America, while Westlife and Take That and 5ive were all a blip on the radar in the U.S., in the U.K. Take That and Westlife are enormous,” Keith Caulfield, associate director of charts/retail at Billboard told MTV News. “Westlife, for example, has had 14 #1 singles on the U.K. singles chart, the second most only behind the Beatles, so they’re kind of big.”

According to Melissa Maerz, senior writer for Entertainment Weekly, the fact that these older boy bands are British may work in their favor, especially with the emergence of One Direction and the Wanted.

“I think probably what’s happening is a combination of things. I think the fact that One Direction is in the news for having the biggest debut of a British band of all time, including the Beatles, has really made everyone pay attention to them and everyone is talking about One Direction,” Maerz said. “And because they and the Wanted are coming at the same time, people are starting to pay attention to British boy bands, and the kids who are just discovering One Direction and the Wanted probably have parents who can say to them, ‘Oh, this is kind of the same thing that happened when Westlife and Take That came to our shores.”

But no matter what their chart performance may be, or where they come from, their advancement in the next round depends on only one thing: the fans.

“It frankly just comes down to: Are there passionate fans that are going to bother to spend the time on voting?” Caulfied said. “I think, generally speaking, when you have two acts going against one another, whoever has the most motivated, contemporary, engaged fanbase on the Web will win.”

Voting is under way in round one of MTV’s Battle of the Boy Bands and closes at noon ET on Thursday, April 26. Winners are determined by fan ballots, so if your favorite band made the cut, keep voting. Tune in to AMTV and MTV Hits daily for boy-band video takeovers. And don’t forget to spread the word on Twitter using the hashtag #BBB and like us on Facebook for updates!

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With $1.5M From Adecco, Path.To Wants To Be The EHarmony For Jobs In Silicon Valley And Beyond

April 26, 2012
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The job-hunting market today is getting a little more social: Path.to, a kind of About.me-meets-LinkedIn service that lets people create image-filled, sleek professional profiles for themselves online, is today relaunching itself as a network to connect those professionals with job openings. And taking a pro-tip from the matchmaking site eHarmony, Path.to has developed an algorithm to create “compatibility” scores between job seekers and job vacancies. It says it is the first online job service to offer this feature. It is also today announcing a $1.5 million round of strategic funding from HR giant Adecco to help it along the way.

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Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second, if you can find the video

April 26, 2012
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Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View’s head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks you through it in the above YouTube video. The short answer? Lots of backend firepower and, you know, a few years in the search game. If you remember the Google dance, Cutts explains what caused that, before going on to give a good idea about how today’s version of the site does what it does. If you’re thinking this all sounds a bit too much like SEO 101, you’d be half-way right, but as Matt’s delivery is so engaging, we’re def hoping there’ll be a follow up.

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Space Shuttle Discovery arrives at its new home (+video)

April 24, 2012
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In a public ceremony, NASA officially delivered the Space Shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Thursday.

NASA officially delivered the space shuttle Discovery, its longest serving crewed spacecraft, to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on Thursday (April 19) during a public ceremony to hand over the iconic winged spacecraft.

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The title transfer, which was witnessed by more than two dozen astronauts who flew on Discovery over the course of its 39 missions and more than 365 days in space,?kicked off a four-day festival?celebrating the retired orbiter’s induction into the national aerospace collection at the space museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

“NASA and the Smithsonian signed an agreement in 1967 that has enabled the National Air and Space Museum topreserve and display the greatest icons?of our nation’s space history,” said Gen. J.R. “Jack” Dailey, director of the museum, in a statement released Monday. “At the Udvar-Hazy Center, Discovery will be seen by millions of people in the coming years, especially children, who will become the next generation of scientists, engineers, researchers and explorers.”

Discovery came to the Udvar-Hazy Center by the way of a ferry flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (April 17). The?winged orbiter landed?at Washington Dulles International Airport mounted atop NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Before touching down, the air- and spacecraft duo performed an historic flyover of Washington, D.C. and many of its landmarks. [Photos: Shuttle Discovery Flies to Smithsonian]

Rolling up to the Udvar-Hazy Center on Thursday morning, Discovery was parked for the ceremony opposite the orbiter that made its own spaceflights possible.

Enterprise, a prototype shuttle?that never flew in space but completed a series of critical approach and landing test flights in the late 1970s, had been part of the National Air and Space Museum’s collection since 1985. In December 2003, it went on display inside the Udvar-Hazy Center’s McDonnell Space Hangar as its centerpiece.

To make room for Discovery, the Smithsonian returned ownership of Enterprise to NASA in 2011. The space agency, in turn, awarded the test orbiter to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, a converted World War II aircraft carrier berthed along the Hudson River in New York City.

On Thursday, Enterprise was rolled out of the museum’s hangar and displayed with Discovery nose-to-nose.

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Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux: Planning Summer Wedding in Crete?

April 24, 2012
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Looks like Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are planning a wedding thousands of miles away from Tinseltown, possibly this summer, according to reports.

No, this is not just some made-up tabloid story in response to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie getting engaged. Jen really was seen recently scouting places in Crete.

Sources connected with the Elounda Beach Hotel in Crete, an island south of Greece (where Jen’s dad was born) say she was there to check the place out.

She also mentioned a possible July wedding, apparently.

The hotel website boasts a wedding package that includes a dedicated consultant, a civil or religious ceremony and various decorations for just $2,300!

Somehow we’re guessing Jen would add more extravagant touches … if she even has it there. One hotel employee says she hasn’t settled on his hotel.

At least not yet. Jen is still considering other places on the island as well. As he put it, “She has connections on the other side of the island as well.”

It pays to have those for possible wedding venues in Crete.

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Target Assembles Everyday Stuff For These Awesome Avengers Ads [Avengers]

April 24, 2012
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Check out these slick ads from Target featuring weapons, costumes, and symbols from the upcoming Avengers movie made entirely from things you can buy in its stores. When even the movie tie-in ads for a big box chain store are jaw-droppingly amazing, you know you’ve got a blockbuster hit on your hands. More »