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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Sony PSP, NGP to get Music Unlimited]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Music Unlimited is on its way to the Sony NGP, a new report claims.(Credit:Sony)Sony plans to expand its Music Unlimited streaming service to more of its gaming hardware, the company reportedly told Eurogamer in an interview published yesterday.Speaking to the gaming publication, Shawn Layden, executive vice president and CEO of Sony Network Entertainment, said that Music Unlimited would be made available on thePlayStation Portable &quot;in a matter of weeks.&quot; He then turned his attention to Sony's upcoming gaming device, codenamed the Next Generation Portable (NGP), which the company plans to release at the end of 2011.&quot;We will make it happen,&quot; Layden said to Eurogamer in reference to bringing Music Unlimited to the NGP. He went on to tell the publication that he believes his company's services need to be available on that device.Music Unlimited, which came to the U.S. earlier this year, allows users to stream millions of songs on a slew of the company's devices, including its Bravia TVs, Blu-ray players, and the PlayStation 3. The company's $3.99 per month basic plan includes access to the service on those devices, as well as the ability to sync existing music playlists with the user's computer. It also provides full access to the service's personalization offering.Music Unlimited's premium option, priced at $9.99 per month, comes with all the features available in its basic plan, plus the ability to access so-called &quot;premium channels.&quot; Most importantly, it allows for unlimited playback of the available tracks.Sony's long-term plans with Music Unlimited have been speculated about for quite some time, due mainly to the company's own comments about its future.Speaking earlier this year with Australia's The Age, Michael Ephraim, head of Sony Computer Entertainment in Australia, said that Music Unlimited might eventually cause his company to think twice about its partnership with Apple and iTunes.&quot;If we do [get mass take-up] then does Sony Music need to provide content to iTunes'' Ephraim asked during his interview with The Age. ''Currently we do. We have to provide it to iTunes as that's the format right now.&quot;But over the next several years, Sony doesn't seem so convinced of the importance of Apple's iTunes.&quot;Publishers are being held to ransom by Apple and they are looking for other delivery systems, and we are waiting to see what the next three to five years will hold,&quot; Ephraim said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bing now aggregates, recommends local deals]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is trying to make it easier to find nearby deals, and today has launched a deals service that aggregates them from around the Web.Bing Deals, which will show up for both desktop and m.bing.com users, aggregates deals from a number of deal providers, including LivingSocial, Groupon, and Restaurant.com. On the mobile side, when combined with a phone's real-time location, this lets users see which of the deals from those services are nearby. The technology itself is a partnership with deals aggregation site The Dealmap. All told, Microsoft says Bing Deals adds up to more than 200,000 offers at launch. In a phone interview with CNET last week, Bing director Stefan Weitz described the new feature as a better way to find money-saving deals.&quot;People are not as good about finding deals as we think they are,&quot; Weitz said. &quot;The coolest thing about this is that when you pop into the m.bing experience and hit that deals button, the first thing we show you are what some of the hottest deals are for you.&quot; Bing&amp;39's new deal finder can narrow down its list of deals by user location, taken from a mobile phone.(Credit:Microsoft)Those picks are based on Bing's algorithms, Weitz explained. That means the system will also take into account if a deal is more than half off, and if it's been shared by a number of people. In the move to add deals, Weitz said Microsoft was not trying to build its own deals system, or to compete with some of the existing deals businesses.&quot;It got me thinking back to the earlier premise of Bing, which from the get-go was really about partnerships,&quot; Weitz said. &quot;We can build a lot of this stuff ourselves...but if you look at how Bing generally has grown successfully it's been because we're almost recognizing where we can tap into those who have already come before us and done a really good job.&quot;Weitz said that same approach would continue with some future additions to the service. &quot;You'll see more and more of these things over the next several months here, about how we're trying to expand the scope of Bing, but doing in a way that encourages independent innovation in the industry--doesn't try to quash it, but actually encourages it--but allows us to offer it to a very broad audience,&quot; Weitz said. &quot;Broader than likely a lot of these smaller sites are having access to.&quot;Weitz and Bing mobile program manager Tom Marsh demo the new deal finder in the video below:Video: Bing Launches Deals<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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