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It’s happened!

10,000,000,000 songs have been sold through iTunes.

So, who’s top of the iPops then?

Guitarists, look away now as there’s not much evidence of axe-weilding amongst the 20 most-downloaded iTunes songs of all time.

The only ‘real’ bands spotted in the charts are Coldplay (in at 5 with Vida la Vida) and Plain White Ts (in at 18 with Hey There Delilah). No, Subset aren’t there quite yet ;)

The Black Eyed Peas top the iTunes most downloaded song chart with ‘I Gotta Feeling’ – quite remarkable for a track that only hit iTunes on March 30 2009. The quartet also Boom Boom Powed to the number 3 spot.

Unsurprisingly, if you keep an eye on the charts, Lady Gaga also grabbed a pair of spots with ‘Poker Face’ at number 2 and ‘Just Dance’ getting number 6.

I’d like to think that bands aren’t out of fashion rather that their fans would rather own CD’s or even vinyl.

Am I right or just holding onto a mistaken notion that bands can still be of worth in these technologically advanced times?

Here’s the list:

1) “I Gotta Feeling,” Black Eyed Peas
2) “Poker Face,” Lady GaGa
3) “Boom Boom Pow,” Black Eyed Peas
4) “I’m Yours,” Jason Mraz
5) “Viva la Vida,” Coldplay
6) “Just Dance,” Lady GaGa featuring Colby O’Donis
7) “Low,” Flo Rida (featuring T-Pain)
8 ) “Love Story,” Taylor Swift
9) “Bleeding Love,” Leona Lewis
10) “TiK ToK,” Ke$ha
11) “Disturbia,” Rihanna
12) “So What,” Pink
13) “I Kissed a Girl,” Katy Perry
14) “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” Beyoncé
15) “Hot N Cold,” Katy Perry
16) “Stronger,” Kanye West
17) “Live Your Life,” T.I. (featuring Rihanna)
18) “Hey There Delilah,” Plain White T’s
19) “Right Round,” Flo Rida
20) “Party in the U.S.A.,” Miley Cyrus

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Every hardware tweaker will know about BUGLabs‘ build-a-phone, kinda like a Modu self-build, but now it’s had a refresh.

BUG 2.0 is now faster and Android ready.

The latest BUGBase, which is essentially the brain and nerve center, has been upgraded to TI’s OMAP 3 platform.

Before I get “huh?” from you – this actually brings the base up to spec with the likes of Motorola’s Droid and the Palm Pre.

Because it now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with top-end smartphones it’s only reasonable that it should support Android – thankfully it does. This also gives the new BUGBase tastey access to the Android App Market.

Worry not gadget builders! Although the BUGBase is new and sparkly it will still play nice with all those other bits you’ve been using to create your frankengadgets with – whether they be WI-Fi radios, GPS receivers, speakers or the BUGMotion accelerometer.

As yet there’s no price or release date for the new BUGbase.

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TC Electronic RH450 and RS210 – Bass Amp 2.0 User Review

January 3, 2010 Click to read more →
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The time had arrived. One of my bands, Subset, is getting busier and busier and the fact that I no longer have my ’71 Karmann Ghia Coupe to transport me and my bass rig about meant that I had to look at a more portable solution than my Hartke and SansAmp rig. I [...]

JO-ZERO Robot Has a Manga Designed Head and a Bendy Back – Impressive Agility

December 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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Little robots are just getting better – every week it seems!
From one that can attack its roomies with various weapons to the really cool 1.26M NIT ZMP collaberation.
But none of them can really be described as being nimble, agile or elegant can they?
Japan-based Himeji Softworks looks like they’re on the right track with their funky [...]

Watch Google Eclair in Video Action – Android 2.0

October 28, 2009 Click to read more →
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We all know about Donut and most of us will have heard about Eclair (Google could hardly hide the huge Eclair you see in the picture could they?).
Nah – I haven’t changed GadgetyNews into a bakery blog: I’m chatting bout Google’s Android versions of course!
Android 2.0 (Eclair) has been flashed on a video so that [...]

LG BL20 Coming to UK – Funsized Chocolate Mobile Phone

September 28, 2009 Click to read more →
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Exactly a week a go I shared some video footage of the widescreened BL40’s smaller sibling – the LG BL20.
As I said before it’s a scaled-down version of the premium 21:9 handset and may only have GPRS connectivity, Bluetooth, microSD card slot, an FM radio and a 2.4 inch QVGA screen it manages to stay [...]

Twitter to Become Shopping Network

June 21, 2009 Click to read more →
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It sounds like Twitter has plans to turn its addictive mircoblogging sensation into a cash making machine via that other addiction:  Shopping.
Plans are underway to convert the Web 2.0 phenomenon into an e-commerce network where mentions of products and recommendations from tweets can be linked to product purchasing pages directly on the site.
Millions of Tweeple already use the [...]

BigFoot and Spica – Latest Android Donut Phones Revealed

May 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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And so it continues.
We got a glimpse of  T-Mobile’s release schedule for the year that pointed at the release of the BigFoot Android handset but now Unwired View has published details of  another Android handset.
So – say hi to BigFoot and Spica!
It turns our that these aint just new lumps of hardware – they’ll be using an [...]

Trent Reznor to Release Free NIN iPhone Application Very Soon

April 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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I’ve been a huge fan of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails ever since I heard the single, ‘Down In It’ from Pretty Hate Machine.
I actually have everything released in order of the single’s or albums’s Halo number – FACT!
Trent has lead the crowd in releasing albums via Torrents and now, even though he’s not [...]

LEGO Brings Out Mindstorms NXT 2.0

January 28, 2009 Click to read more →

Lego has announced that there is to be an update to its rather fabby Lego Mindstorms set this year – a mere trio of years since the last version graced robot clubs around the world.
So, what does NXT 2.0 bring?
Well, there’s the Colour sensor that can be used to let the robot you build [...]

Asus Eee Top. All-in-one Gets More Inches

November 21, 2008 Click to read more →

Well, the first lot of Asus Eee Top’s have hit the UK and even though I’m digging it at the mo I’m gonna hang on a while longer.
I’ve chatted about the 15.6-inch Eee Top before and, as far as I can tell, the touchscreen PC looks a decent bit of kit. 
You get a budget PC-based [...]

20 Megapixel HD High Speed Broadband Mobile Phone

November 7, 2008 Click to read more →

This is a glimpse into the mobile handset future through Sony Ericsson’s eyes – date: 2012.
Ignore todays cutbacks to R&D budgets and the global economy shuddering to a halt
Whilst LTE and fast CPUs are no real surprise and Japanese superphones are already not to far from that 1,024 x 768 XGA screen resolution.
What is most interesting [...]

Capital One Card Lab – What Design Is In Your Wallet?

June 23, 2008 Click to read more →

Credit cards are boring looking but still can manage to lead you astray.
How about making them more appealing, visually?
Capital One have decided that you should be the one to chose what design your card sports.
Capital One has gone all web 2.0 and is promoting the new customisation option and getting people to use images from their [...]

It’s Official! 3G iPhone is Go in 25 Countries from July 11th

June 9, 2008 Click to read more →

Well, the moment we’ve all been waiting for:
19:30
First some stats were announced: the iPhone has 90% customer satisfaction, 98% of people are browsing, 94% are using email, 90% are text messaging, and 80% are using 10 features or more.
19:31
3G.  It has been mentioned - Now everything kicks off!
So what’s it like?
It has a black back, is thinner [...]

Free v2.0 in July for iPhone Owners. iPod Touch For $9.95

June 9, 2008 Click to read more →

Stevie J has gone through some features of iPhone v2.0.
Some of which we’ve all been aware of but some of them were new – the ability to draw in Chinese characters for instance.
There’s also new support for iWork documents and better Office doc support, as well as new abilities to save images from email to [...]

Apple WWDC 2008 Times and Places To Be At: Spy Pics

June 6, 2008 Click to read more →

Photos: Gernot Poetsch
Alrighty!!
It’s time to synchronise your timepieces people!  If, like me, you wont be over in the states on Monday Enadget will be feeding us the good stuff.
If you (possibly) want to get all the juice about the:

3G iPhone
Mid-range Mac desktop
Tablet MacBook
Tablet iPod touch
New MacBook Pros

Hang on though.  This is the WWDC (World Wide Developer [...]

New 3G iPhone Will Be Thinner!

June 3, 2008 Click to read more →

It’s hard to decide what to report on as the 3G iPhone release date gets supposedly closer….
Contrary to the “the new iPhone will be thicker” rumours CultofMac are saying that it will actually be 22% thinner!!
Other specs from the informer include the long-awaited 3G, GPS, an improved battery life (surly not when the GPS and 3G modes are used???) and will [...]