New and Noteworthy: Sony Brings LocationFree TV to Macs; Microsoft's Ballmer sees Google, Open source as biggest competitors; m

CNET staff

Sept. 2, 2009 6:57 a.m. PT

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Sony Brings LocationFree TV to Macs PC World reports that Sony plans to unveil new client software next week that will extend its LocationFree TV platform to Macintosh computers and a wider range of mobile devices. "LocationFree TV is a platform that streams a live video and audio signal from a base station to client devices. It allows users to watch TV and video from devices in their living room on a remote computer, so long as there is a broadband connection between the base station and the client. The new client software will be demonstrated in Tokyo next week and is the product of two recent licensing agreements. One, with Access, covered the development of clients for devices like cell phones and PDAs while a second, with Kaga Electronics, covered an Apple Mac client." More.

Microsoft's Ballmer sees Google, Open source as biggest competitors eWeek reports that Alternative business models, like that of Linux and open source and Google's advertising model, pose the greatest competitive challenge to Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer said May 11. "Addressing an audience of several hundred members at an event jointly hosted here by the Churchill Club and the Commonwealth Club, Ballmer said the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant faces many competitors across the many different parts of its business." More.

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