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Beady Eye in a Jam

The News of The World launched mens magazine JAM this week and includes a five-track sample covermount of "Different Gear, Still Speeding" by Liam Gallagher's new band, Beady Eye.

The mag also includes a feature on Gallagher with an exclusive photo shot from iconic British photographer David Bailey.

The magazine is launching as a one off, but News International will commission research that studies the viability of turning the magazine into a regular monthly, or even weekly, addition to the newspaper.

The magazine launches at a difficult time for the men's sector.

Steve's Job

It's here ... Apple today announce the launch of the iPad 2 prsented by tech messiah Steve Jobs who received a standing ovation at the event in San Francisco.

With 15 million iPads sold since 2010 Apple hope to take advantage of the growing market, its predicted that 64 million tablet computers will be sold globally in 2011, and their new thinner, faster, lighter model could well set the pace for the rest to follow.

Check out this review on TechRadar .... its time to get saving!

REM to premiere album on Spotify

Spotify has signed a deal with REM to premier the band's latest album Collapse into Now.

It’s giving its premium subscribers in the UK, Sweden, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands and Finland exclusive access to the album a week ahead of its wider European release.

This is exactly the sort of approach the online music service needs to apply as it looks to drive users away from its standard offering and onto its premium service. Alongside the release, Spotify is running a competition giving users the chance to win prizes such as guitars, signed merchandise and music sound systems. Entering the competition automatically adds to a user’s account a playlist specially compiled by the band.

This follows on from last weeks news that Spotify received a$100m investment valuing the company at around £618m.

Long Live the King

So, the Academy Awards come and go for another year and as predictable as a Charlie Sheen relapse Harvey Weintstein turns hype into Oscar glory as The King's Speech cleans up at the 83rd Awards.

In my humble opinion The King's Speech was a long way short of the Best Picture of the Year, which, if your asking, I think should have gone to The Social Network, but as with many things in life Academy Awards success is about timing, just ask Christopher Nolan who was shockingly overlooked for Best Director in what was a mamouth feet of filmmaking with Inception.

But did The Kings Speech really win? Was it the most talked about more Tweeted about topic ... the answer NO! As with most real-time events Twitter was the prime outlet for Oscar chat with reports suggesting between 400,000 and 1.26million tweets recorded during the event.

What The Trend who analyzed the data from the Twitter Worldwide Trending Topics list found their winner to be David O. Russell's bruising bio pic The Fighter which beat of Pixar's Toy Story 3 to earn the most "trending points".

The data combined all mentions of the film, cast or crew members or award category won by the film. Tweetbeat on the other hand tracked all mentions of the film and reported the winner of the most tweeted film to be Inception.

During the show their were a number of key moments which generated high levels of twitter action including Melissa Leo's use of the f word in her acceptance speech but most notably Oprah Winfrey's appearance presenting the Best Documentary Feature (which went to Inside Job) which resulted in the most sustained tweets of the night (over 11,000).