Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app. It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages, videos and other media and updates. It’s also usable even for those who don’t have Twitter  accounts. Twitter for iPad [iTunes link] has a few new UI touches that you haven’t seen elsewhere. These features are custom-designed for the larger screen and touch capabilities of the iPad. It also caters to what the iPad was made for: media consumption rather than creation. Twitter’s Leland Rechis, a mobile UX designer, writes on the Twitter blog

During its music-centric event in San Francisco, California on Wednesday morning, Apple announced its plans to enter the social networking realm as an effort to democratize the process of discovering and sharing music with friends over iTunes. The new service, named Ping, is a proprietary web service bundled within the new iTunes 10 software update that allows a user to follow both friends and artists to find new music and concert tours. Apple CEO Steve Jobs remarked during the 10am live conference that the new service “is sort of like Facebook and Twitter meeting iTunes. It is not Facebook. It is not Twitter. It is something else we’ve come up with. It’s all about

Handset maker Motorola has launched the successor to its Milestone high-end smartphone – appropriately named the Milestone 2. The Milestone is essentially the same as the Droid in the US, but this one is analogous to to the Droid 2, not the Droid X. We hope that’s clear now. One thing they all have in common is an SoC upgrade. While Motorola hasn’t named the chip, it has revealed it clocks at 1 GHz and we understand that to mean it’s a TI OMAP 3640. Despite being almost twice the speed of the OMAP 3430 in the original Milestone, the 3640 still uses ARM’s Cortex A8 and Imagination Technologies’ SGX 530 designs. We have to wait until the OMAP 4 SoC fin

Apple unveiled the new iPod touch today at their special event, along with several other music- and media-related devices. Of course, we’ve been hearing murmurs and leaks about it for some time now, and the new device pretty much tallies with our expectations. The two big improvements are the Retina screen and the dual cameras. The screen is the same found in the iPhone 4: 960×640, 3.5″, all as expected. The cameras are also the same as the iPhone; I’m thinking they got a bulk deal on the 5-megapixel sensors The rear camera does 720p, but only takes pictures at 960×720 (?!); the front-facing VGA camera is the same. Steve went so far as calling the iPod touch the “iPhone witho

Apple will broadcast its highly anticipated media event today in a live video stream, but in a decision sure to divide consumers, only owners of the latest Apple kit will be able to watch it. Commentators expect Apple CEO Steve Jobs to unveil a refreshed iPod family plus confirm whether iTunes is headed online as well as lifting the lid on TV show streaming rumours. However, not everyone will be able to watch the event live as Apple has made a divisive move to broadcast its conference using HTTP Live Streaming, which only runs on the latest Apple products, perhaps risking alienating would-be Apple customers. Viewers will need a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopa

Google has acquired a mobile social gaming company called SocialDeck, in what is just its latest addition to a shopping spree of social media startups. This latest acquisition comes just three days after its last one, the purchase of Angstro, was confirmed. The rapid and mass buyouts of so many social companies highly suggest Google is working feverishly behind the scenes to bring a brand new kind of social experience to users. This latest purchase is a company that makes mobile games playable across different platforms like Blackberry and the iPhone . Those games are also connectable to services like Facebook. Google is most certainly going to be bringing out some sort of social gami

Palm has finally released a beta version of its webOS 2.0 SDK. The latest iteration of the operating system boasts some really sweet features, so come on in and check them out! Yes, we’re talking advanced multi-tasking, universal search, Synergy and (seriously) slick HTML 5 enhancements. Although its too early to say for certain, it certainly seems as if Palm is gearing up to seriously challenge Apple (iOs), Google (Android) and RIM (Blackberry) with a really tricked-out OS and accompanying UI. Interested? Check out some of these highlights, you won’t be disappointed. Stacks: Next-gen multi-tasking WebOS 2.0 takes multi-tasking to the next level by grouping related “c

Microsoft will release a redesigned wireless controller for its Xbox 360 console which will feature a transforming directional pad. The silver controller includes a “transforming D-pad” that allows players to alter the way the directional pad is used. Players can use the standard plus format as they would with any Xbox 360 controller, or twist the D-pad into a disc format so it almost resembles a fatter thumbstick. In a statement, Microsoft says the disc format is ideal for “sweeping movements.” The controller will also include concave analog sticks and grey buttons on the face of the device. It hits stores November 9 for $64.99. For a closer look at the new

For those of you out there with a Samsung 3D TV but are still frustrated with the lack of 3D content, there’s a new app that will solve your worries. Owners of a Samsung 3D TV, which is the majority of 3D TV owners in the US, can go to the Internet @ TV menu to find the new “Explore 3D” app available from Samsung. It’s a free download. The app currently only has three pieces of content – trailers for Shrek Forever After, Megamind, and How to Train Your Dragon. The trailers are streamed in real-time in full 3D resolution. 3D glasses are, of course, required. However, there are other tabs for video clips and premium video, though nothing is available in thos

China Unicom is providing Jailbreaked iPhone 4 and iPad 3G, Along with free cases which are provided on the purchase of every iPhone 4 and iPad 3G. Not Enough? Well they are also providing free services which include SIM Card to Micro-SIM converting and 10 most popular apps from Cydia to the buyers. According to a Chinese netizen, he saw these posters at a China Unicom store located in Dongguan. He was shocked to see that Unicom is providing the jailbreak service to their customers, and at the same time, he asked the staff for the prices of the iPhone 4. The 32GB model with no contract will be selling at $6980 yuan (about $1025 USD), while the 16GB is unknown yet. We think it’s o