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Today's Technology News: HP provides rosy outlook, no guidance on next CEO BlackBerry maker offers tablet aimed at businesses Hulu Plus to play on Roku, TiVo set-top boxes Hulu Plus coming to Roku streaming media player The next iPad: thinner, built-in camera, same screen size? Apple iPhone 4 sales strong in China Segway owner dies after falling off river cliff Nintendo 3DS launch to miss year-end shopping season Summary Box: Bartab lets you send drinks over Web Social Media May Predict Candidates' Wins Sonos releases iPad controller How Social Media Marketers Can Convert Attention Into Action Official Google Voice app may be coming to iTunes OpenOffice.org Volunteers Cut Ties with Oracle The Cloud: A Threat to Incumbents, Opportunity for Startups Lawyer: NJ ticket scam defendants didn't break law Fedora 14 Tests Desktop Virtualization Forrester: Social Media Content Creators Down in U.S. HP provides rosy outlook, no guidance on next CEO Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:49 pm PDT AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. offered a rosy financial outlook Tuesday without giving any guidance on the biggest issue hanging over the world's largest technology company: the identity of its next CEO. Full Story Top BlackBerry maker offers tablet aimed at businesses Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:50 pm PDT AP - The company that gave us the BlackBerry - still the dominant phone in corporate circles - thinks its business customers will have room in their briefcases for at least one more device: the PlayBook. Full Story Top Hulu Plus to play on Roku, TiVo set-top boxes Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:32 pm PDT AP - Hulu Plus, the $10-per-month online TV subscription service, will soon be available for users of Roku Inc. set-top boxes and Tivo Inc. subscribers who purchase its newest Premiere digital video recorders. Full Story Top Hulu Plus coming to Roku streaming media player Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:11 pm PDT Ben Patterson - As I wrote last week, the recently revamped Roku TV set-top box — which starts at just $59 and offers dozens of streaming media apps, ranging from Netflix and Amazon to Pandora and Flickr — makes for one of the best bargains in home video. One important piece of the puzzle was missing, however: Hulu. Full Story Top The next iPad: thinner, built-in camera, same screen size? Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:44 am PDT Ben Patterson - It’s a pretty safe bet that we’ll be seeing a new iPad sometime early next year. How big it’ll be and how many we’ll get are open questions. Full Story Top Apple iPhone 4 sales strong in China Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:32 pm PDT AFP - More than 200,000 Apple iPhone 4s have been snapped up in China within days of going on sale while waiting lists stretch to the end of October, state media reported Wednesday. Full Story Top Segway owner dies after falling off river cliff Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:17 pm PDT AP - All police found at the bottom of a cliff was a man's body in a frigid river and a Segway, the two-wheeled electric device that was supposed to revolutionize personal transport. Full Story Top Nintendo 3DS launch to miss year-end shopping season Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:53 pm PDT Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) said on Wednesday it would launch a 3D-capable version of its DS handheld game console in Japan on February 26 and in the United States in March, missing the crucial year-end shopping season. Full Story Top Summary Box: Bartab lets you send drinks over Web Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:01 pm PDT AP - ON TAP: San Francisco-based startup Webtab offers a service called Bartab that lets you send friends vouchers for actual drinks using a cell phone and Facebook. Full Story Top Social Media May Predict Candidates' Wins Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:49 pm PDT CQPolitics.com - Republican candidates for the Senate in the November midterm elections have on average four times as many Facebook fans and five times as many Twitter followers as their Democratic opponents, according to a recent analysis. Full Story Top Sonos releases iPad controller Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:55 pm PDT Macworld.com - Sonos, makers of the Sonos Multi-Room Music System () and the Sonos ZonePlayer S5 (), has released the free Sonos Controller for iPad. Full Story Top How Social Media Marketers Can Convert Attention Into Action Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:11 am PDT Mashable - Brian Solis is the author of Engage, and a leading authority in digital branding and marketing. Connect with him on Twitter or Facebook. Full Story Top Official Google Voice app may be coming to iTunes Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:54 pm PDT Appolicious - Is there a thawing of the cold war between Apple and Google? Full Story Top OpenOffice.org Volunteers Cut Ties with Oracle Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:11 pm PDT NewsFactor - LibreOffice. That's the possible new name of OpenOffice.org. The volunteers that develop and promote the free office software severed ties with Oracle on Tuesday and formed an independent group called The Document Foundation. Full Story Top The Cloud: A Threat to Incumbents, Opportunity for Startups Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:30 pm PDT PC World - Legacy enterprise software, like well-known CRM and ERP applications, are moving to the cloud, but new kinds of applications will need to be developed to take full advantage of these computing services, said Amazon's Web Services chief. Full Story Top Lawyer: NJ ticket scam defendants didn't break law Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:49 am PDT AP - The upcoming trial of four California men accused of illegally buying more than a million sports and concert tickets online could set new rules for prosecuting computer fraud if it's allowed to proceed, an attorney for one of the men argued in federal court Monday. Full Story Top Fedora 14 Tests Desktop Virtualization Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:50 am PDT PC World - The newly released version of the Fedora Linux-based operating system will be the first to incorporate desktop virtualization capabilities, the Fedora Foundation announced on Tuesday. Full Story Top Forrester: Social Media Content Creators Down in U.S. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:30 pm PDT PC World - This year, a smaller percentage of U.S. Internet users are contributing to social media sites -- uploading videos, writing blog entries, posting comments to news articles and writing online product reviews -- than in 2009, according to Forrester Research. Full Story Top

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