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<title><![CDATA[This Day in Tech: First look at new Nook, Windows Phone update]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Too busy to keep up with the tech news Here are some of the more interesting stories from CNET for Tuesday, May 24.Exclusive hands-on: Windows Phone update to integrate apps into hubsCNET gets a close look at four big changes that pertain to apps inWindows Phone 7's next update, code-named Mango. MoreB&amp;N's new Nook: Better than KindleBarnes &amp; Noble has officially unveiled the second-generation Nook, a touch-screen e-ink e-reader that the company is branding as the &quot;Simple Touch eReader.&quot; CNET's David Carnoy gets up close and personal with it. MoreTablet games for cats are touch-screen catnipFriskies' three newtablet games just for cats greatly widen the feline sphere of influence over technology. MoreNew Nook (photos) Estimates peg App Store at 500,000 appsApple's App Store has hit half a million applications, a milestone that's been reached in just under three years. MoreDrive safely with Vlingo InCarVlingo InCar forAndroid 2.2+ does your texting and dialing for you while you keep your eyes on the road. Just say, &quot;Hey Vlingo!&quot; More Bite this! Handheld device sniffs out bedbugsBed Bug Detective works like a dog's nose to find the hidden creepy pests and their eggs so you can toss your sheets in the drier--or run screaming out of the house. More Mitsubishi's 360-degree video of Bolivia's Death RoadTo prove the ruggedness and driving capabilities, Mitsubishi recorded its drive down Yungas Road in Bolivia using 360-degree cameras. More Video: Crave, Ep 43: Meeting the MakersEric and Donald reflect on their time at Maker Faire 2011 and encounters with robots, propane, and high-voltage sculpture, and wacky automobiles. More Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS3GPS and fast shooting performance make the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS3 a worthy rugged point-and-shoot even if its photos and videos aren't the sharpest. More <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony's Qriocity aims to put Connect, iTunes behind]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rasresterfemme</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Screen shot of Sony&amp;39's Qriocity(Credit:Sony)Sony wants to take back digital music from Apple. The creator of the Walkman says it is ready to challenge iTunes, forge ahead into music streaming, and also put its doomed prior attempts to build iTunes-killers behind it. Today, Sony unveiled a new cloud music service in the United States that will play songs on a mix of Sony devices, such as thePlayStation3, Bravia TVs, and Blu-ray Disc Home Theater system, as well as a range of Sony's portable devices. The service is called &quot;Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity,&quot; and hopefully the service is less clunky than the name. Qriocity will piggyback on PlayStation Network. (Credit:Sony)For $10 a month, Qriocity subscribers get access to music from fall four record labels and 6 million tracks. Music will be streamed from Sony's servers to devices so users don't have to worry about clogging hard drives and Sony won't have to worry about building any complicated software platforms (we'll get back to that). Qriocity scans a user's hard drive and then provides access to songs from their media libraries, including Apple's iTunes. Qriocity, which Sony first touted at the IFA electronics show in September, has all the standard bells and whistles for music services today, such as a song recommendation engine. What it doesn't have is the ability to enable users to listen while unconnected from the Web. How could the maker of the Walkman, one of the great portable music devices of all time, disregard mobile like that Sony's answer to that is &quot;wait and see.&quot; Qriocity is just the start. This time around, Sony's strategy to taking on iTunes is to first focus on the home. When it comes to music, that is an underserved area, Tim Schaaff, president of Sony Network entertainment told CNET. In addition to relying on a streaming service, a feature that Apple hasn't offered yet but is expected to get into, Sony has built Qriocity on the PlayStation Network, an established digital marketplace. &quot;The PlayStation Network has been in the marketplace since 2006,&quot; Schaaff said,&quot; and has been growing customers for four years. There are 70 million accounts worldwide... It is has gaming, music, movies and all kinds of e-commerce. It is a stable business, and rather than starting from scratch, we decided to leverage that.&quot; Is iTunes vulnerableThat's a much different direction than the one Sony chose for the doomed music service, Connect. In that case, Sony tried to go toe-to-toe with Apple by creating an iTunes-like media hub, and Connect became one of digital music's all-time great Titanic stories (Read John Borland's superb narrative for CNET about what went wrong with Connect). The effort was marked by internal bickering and turf battles, the kind of dysfunction between Sony's content, hardware and software divisions that the company has been noted for in the Internet age. Connect was stillborn on release, brought down by software glitches. To learn how tough it was to compete with iTunes, click the image and read an insider's tale from 2006. (Credit:Screen shot by Greg Sandoval/CNET)Sony tried to save face by keeping the service around a couple more years, before finally shutting it down. How will Sony fare better this time against iTunes Apple's music service now has an almost decade-long record of thumping challengers, including MTV, Virgin, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, MySpace.For starters, Qriocity is a service closely linked to Sony's hardware, and the company has 350 million Internet-connected devices out in the wild now, Schaaff said. That means the company can enlist a legion of merchants, who sell Sony products, to help Qriocity &quot;tell its story,&quot; he said. Another important factor is Sony's timing, which, Schaaff argues, is spot on. iTunes has never appeared more vulnerable than now, said Schaaff, who once ran Apple's QuickTime division. The iTunes software has become an almost unbearable drain on computer power. More importantly, the public seems to have lost interest in buying downloads. Schaaff also thinks Sony is a different company than it was in 2005 when the Connect program was begun. &quot;I think the conditions here today are extremely different,&quot; said Schaaff who wasn't at Sony during the Connect debacle. &quot;We all have the same goal and we have the full support of [Sony CEO Howard Stringer], who has given us the resources we need.&quot;&quot;Maybe,&quot; Schaaff added, &quot;Connect taught us some important lessons.&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP to focus on cloud, connectivity and software]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Leo Apotheker, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, said that his company will focus on three areas of leadership in the future: cloud computing, connectivity, and software.HP is the world&amp;'s biggest technology company, but it hasn&amp;'t necessarily been the leader in those areas in the past. But Apotheker, speaking today about company strategy in San Francisco to analysts and press for the first time since he became CEO in November, said HP will build and operate its own &amp;''public cloud,&amp;'' or a platform to deliver all kinds of services to businesses and consumers.That cloud will interact with its customers&amp;' own private clouds and provide the kind of high-interaction services that consumers have come to expect in the age of the internet for transactions such as e-commerce or digital distribution.Apotheker said HP is prepared to securely deliver end-to-end services and technologies to make this happen. The public cloud platform will be interoperable, trusted, have its own app store, and work with the 100 million-plus WebOS devices that HP plans to ship in the coming years via its PCs, smartphones, tablets and printers.&amp;''To be clear, we don&amp;'t need to own the big transactional platform,&amp;'' he said, noting HP can partner to do that.HP&amp;'s acquisition of Vertica Systems is an indication of where HP is going, and the company will have a new appliance on the market when that deal closes. HP announced the deal on Feb. 14, and it will provide HP with real-time analytics for &amp;''big data,&amp;'' or huge databases for handling interactions with large numbers of consumers.As for software, HP will offer software over the cloud in the form of software-as-a-service, as provided by rivals such as Salesforce.com. As an example, HP said it could apply all of the real-time analytics and customer information at hand to figure out the exact rate that a rental car company should apply to a customer who wants to rent a car.Apotheker said that security is the key to ensuring cloud computing is safe. HP is the fifth-largest security information technology company in the world, and its focus is to provide a security backbone across a distributed infrastructure.He said HP can handle operations for small, medium and large businesses itself. Or it can offer them components that they can mix and match together in a heterogenous environment. Or it can offer services and hardware that the businesses can operate.&amp;''No company is better positioned than HP,&amp;'' Apotheker said.In a Q&amp;amp'A with reporters, Apotheker said elements of the cloud infrastructure are in place now and more will roll out during 2011 and 2012. The same goes for HP&amp;'s own app store. I asked Apotheker if HP will now compete with its own cloud-computing customers. He said the company will continue to partner with its current customers and will roll out the public cloud for those customers who are asking for that and will not do it themselves.HP is playing catch-up in a big way in the cloud compared to rivals such as Rackspace and Amazon. But, he said, &amp;''We will catch up and we will talk to you about it when we do.&amp;''Next Story: Web star Felicia Day speaks up for online anonymity Previous Story: Introducing Alicia Saribalis, publisher and president of VentureBeatPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: public cloud, software as a service, webOSCompanies: Hewlett Packard, HPPeople: Lo Apotheker          Tags: public cloud, software as a service, webOSCompanies: Hewlett Packard, HPPeople: Lo ApothekerDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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