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Students and business-people alike both need, on occasion, to type up a paper really quick, or to create a quick presentation for their meetings the next day. Up until now, if all you had on you was an iPhone or iPod touch, you were mostly out of luck. Using some free or paid apps, you could type up a few sentences, but adding formatting or pictures was really just not possible. Until now. In a press release earlier this morning, Apple, the makers of the iPhone and iPod touch, announced three new apps for the iPhone, all of which are branded as part of the "iWork Suite". These three apps are Pages, which allows for some heavy word-processing power, Keynote, which allows you to create slick looking presentations, and Numbers, Apple's spreadsheet-creating app. All three of these apps were first available on the Macintosh, then later came to the iPad, and now have finally arrived on the iPhone and iPod touch. Each app is available in the iTunes App Store, and will cost you $

For a few days, there has been some rumors and speculation about ASUS' new tablet device, thought to be called the Padfone. All rumors were wither denied or confirmed at today's official unveiling of the Padfone. The Padfone was announced earlier today during the first day of the Computex exhibition in Taiwan.  The idea of the Padfone is that it will sell as a tablet/phone combo running Android. When one needs a bigger screen, say, for watching a movie or playing a game, you can just slide the phone into a slot in the back of the tablet, and your screen is suddenly magically bigger. The tablet also has a bigger battery in it, so when your phone is low on juice, you can just pop it into the back of the tablet, and it will start charging.  With the Padfone, there is no need to buy a separate data plan for both the phone and tablet, because the tablet can just use the 3G data connection built into the docked phone. Although it is unclear whether the tablet part of the Padfone will

Earlier today, Microsoft held a press event, announcing some of the newest features that will be found in the latest edition of their mobile phone operating system, Windows Phone 7 . This update to the operating system is code-named Mango. Andy Lee, president of Microsoft's mobile division, took the stage today and announced some of the new features that will be found in Mango. To start off, Twitter and LinkedIn will now be integrated into Windows Phone 7. Also, the homescreen will be updated slightly, so that notifications are pushed more. Call history will be sorted by person, and you will be able to see all of the calls, texts, IMs, and visual voicemail (another new feature in Mango) all in one "list". Related to this, a new feature in Mango will be the ability to group friends into groups. Groups will show all of those friend's activity, be it calls, texting, or even social networking activity. One can also communicate with all of the members in a group. Although

Map Showing Where PlayStation Network is Back Up.            Sony's PlayStation Network, Sony's service that allows PlayStation 3 users to play over the internet against each other, had a data breach around April 20th, were an unknown hacker got access to users information, such as address, email address, phone number, username, and possibly passwords. Regarding credit card numbers, Sony said that the data was encrypted, and they do not think that data was stolen. However, Sony has no way of conforming that data was not stolen.      This serious data breach led Sony to take the PlayStation Network, as well as it's media-streaming counterpart Qriocity, offline, so that they could completely revamp the system and ensure complete security.      When Sony first announced the fact that PlayStation Network was going offline, they said it would be down for "A full day or two". That day turned into weeks, and now, about 25 days later, the PlayStation Network go

Blogger , Google's easy blogging service, has been down since about 12:30 Pacific time yesterday. This affected, among many others, Gadgetator. We were not able to report the down-coming of the Blogger service, but fortunately, more than 20 hours later, we are able to report to you that the Blogger service is back up and running, pulling Gadgetator up along with it. Although we do not think that anything on our site was affected from a user's standpoint, we thank you for your patience, as we waited for Google to bring it's Blogger service alive again.

      YouTube , Google's extremely popular video upload and sharing service, has recently added full length movies to it's millions of videos already on the site. However, unlike the other millions of videos, these movies will not be given out for free.      The average movie costs $3.99 for a 24 hour rental. However, some movies cost $2.99, and a sprinkle of the 3000 new movies are actually free, but contain some ads.      This puts YouTube in the same movie-streaming boat as iTunes, Netflix, and even the Gadgetator reviewed Alphaline Entertainment . All of these services stream movies on-demand.      YouTube is different from iTunes, Netflix, and others because, unlike anyone else, YouTube has many free movies. Netflix does not rent movies, but rather uses a subscription model. YouTube also stands out from iTunes, as it doesn't offer downloads of movies, however, rental prices are similar.      Overall, YouTube seems like a great way to view movies, at 3000 movies,

      Pandora , the extremely popular online music streaming service, has recently added comedy tracks to it's library of millions of songs. Comedy Tracks on Pandora      The service analyzed music and artists, and was able to give users more music similar to any music track. With this new update, Pandora now analyzes comedians by their style, and will give you more comedy tracks similar to that style.       This could be a very good decision for Pandora, as it brings them slightly further away from just music, and closer to something which you could actually use to find new comedians and       Also, although you wouldn't think that this would launch with many titles, I had no problem finding everything I wanted. Best of all, all this is %100 free. Can't beat that. View the  Official Press Release .