Spotify has been dabbling its toes in the video-music world as of late, but now they're going to be offering exclusive content from singer Amy Macdonald's latest album by showing songs recorded from a recent performance in Berlin in video format within the application.

For the rest of the week, Spotify Free users will be able to access the video content via the company's "video lightbox" on the homepage, featuring 5 tracks from her upcoming album, including; "Don’t Tell Me That It’s Over", "Spark" and "Love, Love".

"Spotify users in the UK, Spain, France, Sweden, Norway and Finland can watch Amy’s performance from today, March 8th through to Sunday, March 14th. Amy will also ‘take over’ the Spotify home page from today to Wednesday 10th March"

Intel had an event late last month where they showed off some of the new technologies that they're working on, with videos of these now being available online, you can get a feel for where computing is going.

The one that took our eye in particular is outlining a new technology that can mash-up your digital photos and convert them into a 3D model which can exported to a 3D-supporting browser or (hopefully) as a stand-alone file for use in a game-world. Imagine being able to take photos of any object and have that appear in a video-game - that's what the future might hold within the next 5 years.



Other videos include;

Ray Tracing

3D Gaming

3D TV

Apple has just loosed details about a slip in the launch date of the iPad (after rumours hit last week that it would) from the previously mentioned March release, to a now firm April 3rd target in the US, with it hitting internationally later that month.

Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek stated earlier in the week that problems at the manufacturer of the device could see it moving to an April release, and although this analysis was widely panned across the net, it turns out he was absolutely spot on.

Those lucky-devils in the US who want to get their name down for a device can pre-order starting from the 12th March (a week today), where they can sit and wait for the launch for either the WiFi or WiFi + 3G device at home, or arrange for a WiFi only device to be reserved at a local store (WiFi + 3G models will be released later down the line).

Still no UK or other international pricing, but at least the delay gives people another month to save up for when it eventually comes out here.

[Apple PR]

Overnight, Twitter, that microblogging site that noone's talking about, crossed a spectacular threshold; 10 billion tweets have now been sent on the service, outlining quite how far it has come in just the past year or so.

Another staggering fact to come from the site monitoring the numbers is that the number of tweets being sent per day has rocketed from 30 million per day in January, to nearly 50 million per day last week.

If the rumours of user-numbers are correct (c. 70-100 million), that means the average user has sent over 100 tweets, and with the majority of new users only picking it up in the pats few months, this number should starting jumping higher and higher, faster and faster.

[Popacular GigaTweet]

It seems that a miscommunication in a Brazilian magazine article has managed to set Twitter alight with inaccurate stories that Zynga were hoarding 50% of the proceeds from their Haiti earthquake relief efforts (an in-game Farmville item) after promising to donate 100%

What really happened? There was a campaign by the social gaming company before the devastating eartquake last month to raise money for farmers in the country where 50% of the proceeds of an in-game item would be turned over to a charity serving the region. The company's later campaign, after the earthquake hit, was the one where 100% of the proceeds would be donated, and the company (as well as other sources), have confirmed this to be so.

Twitter's ability to spread information quickly is it's oft-spoken selling point, but sometimes (and we're surprised it's not more often in fairness) it can get things wrong, and when it does, then boy does it have an effect.

Zynga were in the right completely on this, and it's a shame that the web can explode in this manner which could make the company think twice about philanthropic efforts in the future.

[Giga Om]

Engadget has it that Apple is suing rival phone maker HTC for infringing on 20 of the patents used in the iPhone.

Whilst most American technology companies have dozens of lawsuits going on at any one time, it is interesting to see Apple go after the main proponent and supplier of the majority of Android handsets on the market.

Even Steve Jobs has weighed into this one, stating; "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours." - ouch.

We wont be expecting a quick resolution to this one, and it's only time (if we use previous mobile-related intellectual property lawsuits as examples) before HTC comes back with a counter-claim.

It's game time.

[Apple] (via Engadget)

There's been various rumours and spy-shots flying around the internet in the past few months that Nokia was gearing up to offer a stripped-down, slim and small smartphone, dubbed; the C5. Well, the company has just publicly announced it, and it's packing some heat.

Whilst the company has always been committed to Symbian on their higher-end devices, it looks now to be trickling down to the small ones as the C5 runs the S60 3rd Edition of the mobile OS, meaning it should hook up nicely with the apps available on the platform - including the free GPS software; Ovi Maps (although other Ovi products weren't mentioned in the release).

Plus, it's small. Only 12mm thick, it crams in a 2.2" screen as well as a battery good enough for 26 days of standby and a microSD slot ready for up to 16GB cards. Before all taxes and subsidies, they're hoping to get it out there in Q2 for €135, which could be a tasty proposition.

[Nokia Conversations] (via Electric Pig)