Posted: 27 Sep 2010 08:10 PM PDT

At the TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco HP Executive Vice President Todd Bradley just said that they "won't license WebOS" to other companies.Bradley also said when questioned about whether HP is trying to be like Apple by offering a single closed platform across multiple devices: "emulating Apple or Dell is not part of our strategy," for what he believes will be a $40 billion tablet market.

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Bradley also said that HP is innovating both through internal research and acquisitions, and that the company grew the last five years, "HP has dramatically transformed as a company," said Bradley. Bradley finished up saying that HP has, "become a big services company as well as a product company."

By Blogsdna

iTunes 10.0.1 update out improves Ping performance

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:20 PM PDT

Apple released an update to its iTunes 10 software for Macs and PCs last night. The new version (10.0.1) mostly adds bug fixes, but the most prominent addition is an overhaul of how you share your music with friends on Ping, the musical social network that Apple released alongside the new iPods a few weeks ago.

Now you can "Like" or "Post" a song from your library or playlists with a menu that appears next to the title of whichever song is playing, as seen in the picture below. The original version of Ping lived in its own world apart from your music library, making it kind of a pain to use.

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There's also a Ping sidebar that lets you view updates from artists and friends you're following without leaving your library. A button has been placed in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window that expands or contracts the sidebar.

No significant changes were made to Ping itself — only to the ways you can access it from the application's main interface. That's a huge improvement; Ping's features were previously so far detached from the normal iTunes listening experience that you'd have to want to use it pretty badly to bother opening it up.

Ping still has a ways to go. The lack of Facebook or Twitter integration is a huge barrier to drawing new users. The service still doesn't "scrobble" the songs you listen to like Last.fm does,and we hope this might come soon with Twitter and Facebook.

Some other changes:

Apple fixed a number of bugs, including a crash bug and two visual performance glitches. Other than those and the Ping changes, we've only found one useful addition: Apps that support Apple's Xbox Live-like social gaming service Game Center now have a badge in the App Store to indicate as much.Small as they are, these are welcome changes. The Game Center badge wasn't mentioned in Apple's update notes, so let us know if you find anything else on your own.

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By Blogsdna

Windows phone 7 not to support tethering

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 10:46 PM PDT

Are you excited enough to buy a Windows Phone 7 and would love to tether it i.e use the phone as a means to access internet then you might need to think again before buying it. Why ? coz Microsoft announced that the new smart phones will not support tethering at all.You can add this feature in this list of ones which(including copy and paste) are not there on the Windows phone 7.To be fair, though, the iPhone didn't officially do tethering either until very recently, but the feature is well-supported by many Android phones.

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The Boy Genius Report says that it heard directly from a Microsoft spokesperson, who said that the company's official statement is this: "Windows Phone 7 does not support tethering." That's going to be a deal breaker for some hardcore techies, but most users won't know the difference. And there are plenty of features left to recommend Windows Phone 7, including Xbox Live integration, the Zune marketplace and some neat Bing Maps features.

Windows Phone 7 hit RTM and would be ready for release, so we're just waiting on manufacturers to start cranking out their handsets based on the platform. Let's just hope it goes over better than the Kin, Microsoft's last big phone launch.