Shazam for iPhone

When you hear a song and wonder what it is, Shazam is there with the answer. Hold the iPhone to the music and within seconds Shazam will tell you the artist and the track name. You can use Shazam to identify music anywhere (from radio, TV, movies, or stores), save your tag history, build your own soundtrack, buy music that you hear from iTunes, watch related music videos from YouTube, personalize your tags with photos, and share your tags with friends via Mail.
Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where you must continue the download process. You must have iTunes installed in order to open the link, and you must have an active iTunes account to download the application. This download may not be available in some countries."



Editor's review of Shazam for iPhone
4.0 stars
"Name that tune"
Reviewed by: CBS Interactive staff
Reviewed on: November 6, 2008
Version reviewed: Shazam for iPhone 1.7

Shazam is an ingenious and free application that can identify the name, album, and artist of a song just by hearing it over your iPhone's microphone. That means you can hold up your iPhone to a song that's playing--on the radio, in a coffeeshop, at a party--and in a matter of seconds, Shazam can often tell you what song you're hearing, along with (if available) the album art, related YouTube videos, and iTunes purchase links. Shazam is surprisingly fast and accurate, but it works best in fairly quiet environments and/or with fairly loud music, and the closer you can get your microphone (on the bottom of your iPhone) towards the source the better. Shazam also doesn't do well with more obscure music, and it only helps with recorded music (i.e., you can't hum a few bars). Shazam keeps track of your "tags" (the songs that you've asked about) and lets you add photos and share your tags via e-mail.

Housewives‘ Dina: I Had Everything to Do with Exposing Danielle’s Past

The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Housewives‘ Dina: I Had Everything to Do with Exposing Danielle’s Past
June 17, 2009

On the explosive season finale of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Dina Manzo found herself in the middle of a melee after her costar, Danielle Staub, accused her of unearthing an embarrassing book and her sister, Caroline Manzo, took the blame for it. Now, Dina tells PEOPLE that she never denied talking about Staub’s past with friends and family and admits she was part of bringing the book to light. She also talks about what it was like having kids in the room during the fight and how she gets along with her nemesis now — as well as her sister-in-law Jacqueline Laurita. – Brian Orloff




Were you surprised when Danielle brought the book to dinner?Nothing surprises me from her. It was in poor taste. Our kids were there. I guess in watching the show now, I didn’t know how much she exposed her kids to and now I see it. So, it’s not shocking at all that she’d do that in front of her kids. Although it did seem like [my daughter] Lexi was in the room, Lexi was not in the room. I asked her to leave when Teresa asked her children to leave. Whenever I look at that footage and I see her daughters in the background, I just cringe.
What is the root of the tension between the two of you?I’m watching the show now [and] I’m starting to put some pieces together. My thing is right now I’m trying to move forward from it, and I don’t want to rehash anything. It’s hard to watch something that happened a year ago. All the emotions start coming up and everything, and I think I make it very clear in the show that I really run from drama. All I ever wanted was for this girl to leave me alone. I meant no malice toward her. I never wanted to hurt her. I never did anything really to hurt her other than respond to her remarks. And things just got out of control.
At dinner Jacqueline said that you were lying — and that you, not your sister, exposed the book. What did you think of that remark and Caroline taking the blame?I felt bad because it wasn’t like I didn’t do it but [Caroline] did. In hindsight, when I look at the footage, I wish I would have said, “Say what you want, I really don’t care,” because that’s how I felt. I never denied anything. That’s what’s making me mad right now is that it seems like I was lying. I never denied talking about [Danielle] with friends and family. I never denied that I was part of [exposing] the book. I just literally never had the book in my hands. Literally. Like, I never had possession of the book. So how can I go around showing something that was never in my hands? So Jacqueline misunderstood what I was saying. She thought I was saying I never had anything to do with it. But, no, I had everything to do with it.
Are you and Jacqueline talking again?Oh yeah, everything’s cool now. We were at a bad place [during filming] and it wasn’t totally Danielle’s fault. Of course the situation had a lot to do with it. We’re fine now. That’s the most important thing.
You mentioned that Danielle was gossiping about you. What was she saying?Vicious lies. I never wanted to comment on it because it just feeds that bulls–. But let’s think about this for a second: Here’s this woman who obviously holds nothing back. If there was any truth to anything she was thinking or spreading, don’t you think she would have come out with it on the show? It was all mean, untrue gossip that I will never start repeating.
What is your relationship with Danielle like now?Like a business arrangement. We’re civil. And that’s all I ever wanted. There’s no reason for us to love or hate each other. We treat each other like grown women — adults — should treat each other. There’s no reason for hugs or kisses and there’s no reason for backstabbing.
Are you happy with the editing and how you were portrayed on the show?A lot of people who know me are like, “That’s not the Dina I know.” Usually I’m very laid back and I don’t get annoyed but the entire time during filming I was pissed off. It was just an annoying thorn in my side that wouldn’t go away — this Danielle situation. So is that me angry and annoyed? Yeah. But most people never get to see that side of me because I hardly ever get mad.

First summit for emerging giants

The world's newest economic grouping is to hold its first summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on Tuesday.
Bric is named after its four member states - emerging giants Brazil, Russia, India and China.
They are expected to put efforts to improve the global economy at the top of the agenda.



The BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes, in Russia, says Bric's main goal is to force the West to give greater recognition to the developing giants.

China is now the world's third biggest economy, while Russia, India and Brazil are catching up with many key European economies.
The term Bric was coined by US investment bank Goldman Sachs which used it to describe the growing power of emerging market economies in 2001.
Its research suggested that the four developing economies could be amongst the world's strongest by 2050.
The meeting in Yekaterinburg, a city some 1,420km (880 miles) east of Moscow, will include presidents Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, Hu Jintao of China, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Working together
Analysts say that as the global recession bites, the four Bric nations are showing a growing willingness to work together.
Rory MacFarquhar, a Moscow-based economist at Goldman Sachs, said the significance of the summit would be political rather than economic.

China is now the world's third largest economy
"There is considerable interest, you could say from all (the Bric) countries but Russia in particular, in creating an alternative" to established international organisations, he said.
Both Russia and China have questioned the role of the dollar in the world's economy, leading to speculation that Bric might be considering the creation of a new global reserve currency.



However, on Sunday a Kremlin spokesman said that would not be on the agenda.
Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Tuesday's meeting would focus more on ways to reform international financial institutions.
His remarks led to a rise in the value of the dollar on international markets.
However, the BBC's business reporter Katie Hunt says that fears that such big holders of dollar assets may be looking to switch from the US currency have unsettled financial markets and US politicians.

EU deal is reached on Guantanamo detainees

The agreement does not specify which nations will take former inmates or how many. It leaves the decision up to each nation. Italy will accept three detainees.
By Sebastian Rotella 6:56 PM PDT, June 15, 2009
Reporting from Madrid -- European Union and U.S. representatives reached an agreement Monday in which European nations can receive inmates cleared for release from the prison at Guantanamo Bay.Separately, President Obama said in Washington that Italy would accept three detainees. He made the announcement after meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the Oval Office.

The EU agreement, announced after a meeting of the 27 European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, repeats previous statements about how Europe and the United States will work together to close Guantanamo. The announcement did not specify which nations would take former inmates or how many. It left the decision up to each nation, many of which oppose taking former prisoners -- especially because of U.S. reluctance to do the same.But European officials said Monday's move is positive because of a U.S. pledge to share all intelligence, including confidential information, on each potential transfer. The United States also has agreed to consider compensating governments for the expense incurred in housing and monitoring former inmates.Intensified talks are expected as U.S diplomats visit nations that are open to helping resettle about 60 detainees who are cleared for release but cannot return to their homelands because of human rights issues.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said he looked forward to working "in a positive sense" with Washington to craft a plan specifying how many inmates Spain would be asked to take, Spanish news reports said.Other nations were more reserved. The British government, which has already accepted 14 returnees, repeated its stance that it would not take more.

At the White House, a Blend of Jazz Greats and Hopefuls

At the White House, a Blend of Jazz Greats and Hopefuls

On Monday afternoon, Michelle Obama invited about 150 high school jazz students to the White House for a program called Jazz Studio. There was a student clinic including five members of the Marsalis family and the clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera, and then a short concert introduced by the first lady.
Before some readers begin feeling too righteous, it’s important to know that the event wasn’t a pure, stand-alone expression of love for jazz; it was the first in a series of three very different musical events in the White House this year.

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So if the short afternoon event was largely symbolic for those on the sidelines, quickly and easily establishing the notion that the new administration is interested in musical genres other than country, it was a useful, practical event for the students.
The young musicians were divided into three groups of 50, and the workshop themes were “American History and Jazz,” “Syntax of Jazz,” “The Blues Experience and Jazz” and “Duke Ellington and Swing.” Other workshop leaders included the saxophonist Todd Williams, the trumpeter Sean Jones and the pianist Eli Yamin.
The event was organized in conjunction with the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival in Washington, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and several other institutions.
The Marsalises — especially Wynton and his father, Ellis — are born teachers, and, at least during the part of their hourlong clinic that journalists were allowed to watch, they packed important, basic lessons about jazz history and practice into short spaces. The students drank it in, and the teachers beamed.
After the elder Mr. Marsalis talked for a while about individual expression in jazz and the birth of swing rhythm, the students traded 12-bar improvisations with the master musicians on a blues tune. And then Wynton Marsalis doled out bits of advice, without aiming them at particular players. The advice: never slink off looking mad at yourself after your solo, don’t abuse the rhythm section and play shorter.
“The blues forces us to feel vocal elements in our playing,” Mr. Marsalis said, “and it keeps us from going” — here he played a fast, ripping, show-off improvisation that wasn’t vocal at all. “Now, I’m going to play, and Branford is going to imitate.”
The students quickly jumped in. None were virtuosos; some, including a trumpeter from New York, Ivan Rosenberg, were quite good. Perhaps sensing a competitive spirit, Mr. Marsalis pushed Mr. Rosenberg into smeared, highly expressive whines; finally he played a whinnying phrase that trailed into fast, articulated notes. “I can’t do that, man,” Mr. Rosenberg said, laughing and backing off.
Sharing a stage with Wynton Marsalis, who teaches constantly on the road, is not out of the realm of possibility for a gifted young jazz musician. But doing it at the White House can make you starry-eyed.
“That was crazy,” said Phillip Slyde, an able 17-year-old alto saxophonist who played question-and-answer with Mr. D’Rivera. He came up from New Orleans the day before, he said. He was recuperating from nerves, in the expectant hush before Mrs. Obama’s arrival.
Kyle Wedberg, the president of his school, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, appeared behind him. “This says that normal, everyday Americans have a place in this White House, versus people that have some leverage to get in here,” Mr. Wedberg said, breathlessly. “We changed 14 lives today. That’s amazing: it’s a great use of this public facility.”
In her four-minute speech, Mrs. Obama brushed across two well-known thoughts about jazz — that it “may be America’s greatest gift to the world” and that “there is no better example of democracy than a jazz ensemble” — but she basically made way for the closing concert, which put Mr. D’Rivera and Mr. Marsalis in front of a young band, including the pianist Tony Madruga and the saxophonist Elijah Easton.
Mr. D’Rivera played embroidered versions of famous jazz melodies on the clarinet, encouraging the student audience to guess their titles and composers. When he played a famous Dizzy Gillespie phrase, the audience — including Mrs. Obama, seated in the front row with her daughters — answered promptly with the correct response: “Salt peanuts, salt peanuts.” “Ahhh!” Mr. D’Rivera shouted, looking extremely pleased. “Michelle knows it!”
The next event in the White House music series, with details to be announced later in the summer, will focus on country music.
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Kendra Wilkinson is pregnant!

Kendra Wilkinson of “The Girls Next Door” and “Kendra” fame is preggers! “Hank (Baskett) and I are thrilled to announce that we are expecting our first child together. We are touched by the outpouring of support by our family, friends and fans,” the reality star told E! News. “So the rumors are true. . . .I am pregnant! Hank and I were beyond excited when we found out the news and I’ve been dying to tell all of you but we were waiting for the perfect time to do it,” she wrote on her own blog yesterday. Baskett, 26, and Wilkinson, 23, have been engaged since November and plan to wed June 27th at the Playboy mansion.

US envoy sees Pakistan backlash

The envoy said that problems facing displaced people were 'overwhelming'
US envoy Richard Holbrooke has said that the public mood in Pakistan is swinging against the militants towards the government.
Mr Holbrooke, who recently returned to the US from Pakistan, told reporters about the "growing consensus" of the need to face down insurgents.
But he also said that Pakistan was in the throes of a major refugee crisis.
More than two million people have been displaced because of the army's offensive in Pakistan's Swat valley.
Mr Holbrooke, who toured refugee camps in the north-west of the country, called the situation there a "major, major crisis" and said people should be allowed return home as soon as possible.
He added that the camps should not be allowed to become permanent.
But he insisted that the army's offensive had the support of the Pakistani public.
Mr Holbrooke said that "outrages perpetrated by the Taliban" such as Tuesday's bombing of the Pearl Hotel in Peshawar which killed at least 18 people, were resulting in a dramatic change in attitudes.
Letter to India
The BBC's Adam Brookes in Washington said that US officials and politicians have long expressed the concern that the fight against extremism in the region does not have whole-hearted support of Pakistan's government and people.
However Mr Holbrooke said his conversations with senior Pakistani military officers had assured him of their clear strategy in the battle against the militants.
In recent days the Pakistani army has been targeting militants on a variety of fronts in the north-west of the country. Apart from the ongoing offensive in the Swat valley, the army has been bombarding positions in the semi-tribal areas around North Waziristan.
Separately, Mr Holbrooke said that the US Undersecretary of State William Burns had handed India a letter from President Barack Obama.
"This administration believes that what happens in Afghanistan and Pakistan is of vital interest to our national security, and .. that India is a country that we must keep in closest consultation with," he said.
He declined to divulge the contents of the letter.