Tech News Today 167
Episode 167 |
Recorded: January 27, 2011 Published: January 27, 2011 Duration: 57:07 |
Contents
Tech News Today 167: It's Gonna Get Dirty
Is Microsoft a gaming company now?, What's really going on at Hulu, Netflix rates the ISPs, and more.
Hosts
- Tom Merritt (@acedtect)
- Jason Howell
- J. Sperling Reich
- Scott Johnson
Top Stories
- Is Microsoft becoming a gaming company?
- Second quarter earnings posted 8.17 billion profit and revenue of 19.95 billion about even with last year. However entertainment and devices revenue rose 55 Percent (thanks Kinect) while Windows and Windows live revenue fell 30 percent. The revenue gap between the two is now just 1.3 billion-- a year ago it was 4.8 billion.
- Sony's NGP announced: stuffed with tech, no price or release date
- Sony's next-gen PSP (NGP) has a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, quad-core GPU as well
- Sony's next PSP (codename NGP): a closer look
- The Sony NGP/PSP2: What we still don't know
- 5" OLED screen, front and rear cameras, touch screen on display and on back of similar size and proportion, may sync gameplay with PS3, built-in 3G connection, game stored on flash memory cards. Uncharted, Wipeout, Killzone, Hot Shots, Resistance, and LittleBigPlanet releases either shown or hinted at. A Call of Duty title was also announced.
- Sony's PlayStation suite brings Sony games to Android phones
- an official PlayStation Store filled with games for your Android tablets and cellphones,starting with an emulator for existing PSOne titles and is promising an Android game store later this year, says it's hardware neutral, Sony controls the marketplace with PlayStation Certified, PlayStation Suite will emulate touchscreen controls,
Discussion Stories
- Hulu looking to become more like cable, at risk of losing some ABC and Fox content?
- Hulu management has discussed recasting Hulu as an online cable operator that would use the Web to send live TV channels and video-on-demand content to subscribers talk that Disney may pull some ABC content and News Corp. may pull some Fox content from Hulu's free offerings, offering it instead on Netflix and other premium competitors.
- Higher Prices Boost Time Warner Cable, But Subscriber Losses Continue
- TWC lost a net 141,000 video subs in the last quarter, added 94,000 Internet customers-- revenues still up thanks to higher rates
News Fuse
Kickers and Weird Science
Calendar
- WikiLeaks alternative OpenLeaks goes live
- With Skype 5.0 out of beta, group video chat becomes a premium feature
- Rupert Murdoch’s Daily for iPad Debuts Feb. 2 at the Guggenheim in New York
- Verizon iPhone Pre-Orders to Start at 3am ET on February 3rd, Offering AT&T iPhone Trade Ins
- Motorola Atrix 4G at the end of February and Xoom tablet too although it might slip to March, Droid Bionic and LTE Xoom in Q2 - all according to Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha during the Motorola earnings call.
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Production Information
- Edited by: Jason
- Notes:
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