Techmeme: Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV (Microsoft)

5:30 PM ET, October 5, 2011

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Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV — AT&T, BBC, Comcast, HBO, Rogers, Telefónica, Televisa and Verizon are among providers rolling out new TV entertainment services on Xbox LIVE. — A new era in television begins this holiday where your entertainment …

Ben Rudolph / The Windows Blog:

Control Your Xbox with your Windows Phone Using the Xbox Companion App — Earlier today you probably spotted the big, big news from our pals over on the Xbox team. They're bringing a new world of entertainment to your living room and making it faster, funner (yes, that's right, funner) and easier to find.

Discussion: IntoMobile, GeekWire, TechNet Blogs, LiveSide.net, Engadget, WPCentral.com, Gizmodo, Connected Planet Online, TheUnlockr, MobileBurn.com, Electronista, WinRumors, The Next Web and Neowin.net

Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:

Xbox becomes TV hub with Comcast, FiOS, HBO and more — Microsoft today confirmed the lineup of TV services that will be available this holiday season through the Xbox 360 console. It's a huge step for Microsoft's longtime goal of expanding the console beyond gaming and into an entertainment hub.

Discussion: PC Magazine, BGR, GeekWire, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, Telecompetitor, Joystiq and Electronista

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Xbox Live TV: What's inside? Silverlight

Discussion: Wired

Reuters:

Exclusive: Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo: sources — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Not So Much on a Microsoft Bid for Yahoo (They're Crazy, But Not That Crazy) — Is this investment-banker-hype week and nobody told me? — It certainly seems so from all the almost nearly ridonkulous rumors about everyone and their mother being “imminently poised” to make a bid for Yahoo.

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily and GMSV, more at Mediagazer »

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Oracle vs. Salesforce.com's Benioff goes WWE: We're being played — Summary: Oracle cancels a keynote from Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and the crowd goes wild. Suddenly, this feels more like a pro wrestling match. — Oracle cancels Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's keynote …

Discussion: AllThingsD, Tom Foremski, CNET News, Beagle Research Group, LLC, deal architect, Digits and @benioff

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Marc Benioff Yanked From Oracle OpenWorld Speech

Discussion: Digits, eWeek, Ars Technica, Bits, PR Newswire, @benioff, CNET News, Gawker, The Register, Beagle Research Group, LLC, Venture Capital Dispatch, The Register, ITworld.com and Irregular Enterprise Blog

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Live from a restaurant: Marc Benioff's Oracle OpenWorld keynote

Discussion: Business Insider and @stevenjayl

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Sprint Confirms It Will Offer Unlimited Data Plan for iPhone — Sprint will indeed offer unlimited data plans when it starts taking iPhone orders later this week, AllThingsD has confirmed. — “We will be offering the benefit of our unlimited plans that start at just $69.99,” said spokeswoman Michelle Leff Mermelstein.

Discussion: Phone Scoop, @ldignan, The Next Web and FierceWireless

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Apple will now give you up to $200 for your old iPhone 4

Discussion: Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Gadgetell, App Advice, everythingiCafe and FreakGeeks

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple showcases iPhone 4S camera with high-resolution sample photos

Discussion: Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, Gadget Lab and everythingiCafe

Paul Miller / This is my next:

Why Siri just might work — When I wrote my post on natural user interface a couple months back (described by some as a “real barnstormer"), I glossed over most current forms of voice recognition. The problem as I saw it, and still see it, is that recognizing voice has to be bulletproof for it to be truly useful.

Discussion: Bits, CNET News, 9to5Mac, Gawker, TiPb and Digits

Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
What the iPhone 4S means for the carriers

Discussion: Gizmodo, MediaPost, msnbc.com, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, DSLreports, Between the Lines Blog and LAPTOP Magazine

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Branded iPhone 5 won't arrive until LTE, analysts say

Discussion: techblog.dallasnews.com, AppleInsider, Apple Bitch, ITProPortal, VentureBeat, FreakGeeks, Macworld, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and Business Insider

Zach Epstein / BGR:

Apple's fall from grace — Apple was a company that could do no wrong. Phones that dropped every other call... Location tracking scandals... Antennagate... A CEO who constantly parked his $130,000 sports car diagonally in handicapped spaces... Apple didn't have to roll with the punches …

Discussion: Reuters, Daring Fireball, AllThingsD, @carnage4life and @eldon

MG Siegler / parislemon:
Apple's “Fall From Grace”

Discussion: BGR

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: LinkedIn Has Bought Contact Management Start-Up Connected — LinkedIn has acquired Connected, a small contact management start-up that unifies and dynamically updates users' connections on email, social networks, calendars and phones, according to sources close to the company.

Discussion: Connected Life

Brian McClendon / Google LatLong:

Google Earth downloaded more than one billion times — How large is one billion? One billion hours ago modern humans were living in the Stone Age. One billion minutes ago, the Roman Empire was flourishing. If you traveled from Earth to the Moon three times, your journey would measure one billion meters.

Discussion: Engadget, Digits, 9to5Google, Mashable!, Search Engine Journal, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Softpedia News

DigiTimes:

Apple iPhone 4S announced, ‘5’ likely to arrive in late 2012 or 2013 — Defying some expectations that Apple would introduce the iPhone 5 - an entirely new model supporting 4G - the company instead rolled out the iPhone 4S - an update of the existing iPhone 4.

Discussion: Cult of Mac, PadGadget, Techland, MobileSyrup.com, I4U News, Screenwerk and everythingiCafe

BBC:

India launches Aakash tablet computer priced at $35 — Millions of students will have access to the tablets, officials hope — India has launched what it says is the world's cheapest touch-screen tablet computer, priced at just $35 (£23). — Costing a fraction of Apple's iPad, the subsidised Aakash is aimed at students.

Discussion: Computerworld, Times of India, indiatoday.intoday.in, Hardware 2.0 Blog, VentureBeat, Engadget, Technologizer, India IT Blog, paidContent, Business Insider, Network World, Network World, PE Hub Blog, Electronista, TeleRead, Digits and Liliputing, Thanks:over2venu

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Samsung seeks iPhone 4S sales ban in France and Italy — Samsung will attempt to block iPhone 4S sales in France and Italy, the company has announced, citing two 3G WCDMA patents it claims Apple has infringed. Filing separate preliminary injunction motions in Paris and Milano today …

Samsung Tomorrow Global:
Samsung to request preliminary injunction orders against Apple iPhone 4S

Royal Pingdom:

Facebook now as big as the entire Internet was in 2004 — At the recent F8 conference Facebook revealed that they now have 800 million active users. Europe, with Russia included, has a population of 727 million. We now have a social network that is so large that it could fill …

Discussion: Business Insider and ReadWriteWeb

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Jason Kilar: Hulu Plus is becoming major money maker — Hulu CEO Jason Kilar said today that the company's Hulu Plus paid subscription service is going to bring in more than half of its revenue in within the next 12 months. Kilar made this estimate in a blog post about Hulu's Q3 performance …

Discussion: Hulu Blog, paidContent, Media Decoder and Hollywood Reporter, more at Mediagazer »

Devin Banerjee / Bloomberg:

Akamai Drop Lets IBM, Verizon Vie for Takeover — Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM) may finally be cheap enough to lure International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) or Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) as the most speculated U.S. takeover target since 2005 approaches its lowest valuation on record.

Discussion: DealBook and The Tech Trade

Paul Graham:

Why Startup Hubs Work — If you look at a list of US cities sorted by population, the number of successful startups per capita varies by orders of magnitude. Somehow it's as if most places were sprayed with startupicide. — I wondered about this for years.

Mark Walsh / MediaPost Raw:

comScore: U.S. Android Share Tops 40% — Android maintained a sizeable lead over its rivals for the three months ending in August, with a 43.7% share of the U.S. smartphone market, according to new comScore data. — That level represents a 5.6 percentage point gain from the previous three-month period.

Discussion: comScore, Inc., Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily, mocoNews, GeekWire, Search Engine Land, WMPoweruser and Deal Journal

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