
So, if you don’t know yet, last Friday the
Palm shareholder board approved the merger with HP . Legally, from July 1, we must become a single company.
What are we all waiting for - a whole placer of new devices: web-connected printers (how do you want this to be translated?), Slates, as well as new models of communicators. As the proud owner of the old Treo 500, I’m totally happy with this!
But what they still say little about is the infrastructure (or ecosystem) on which all these devices on the Internet will rely. And HP, meanwhile, continues to systematically fill the portfolio with more and more interesting new web services. The latest example is the
nuTsie streaming audio
service ,
created by Melodeo.
The nuTsie service invites you to put your playlists from iTunes on the Web, and then listen to “radio” anywhere with a random selection of music by rating. The nuTsie mobile app is available
for any communicator running Windows Mobile, Blackberry or Android. For iPhones, Melodeo offers a selection of
Top 100s Radio playlists.
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Users of
nuTsie , through wireless operators, have already become more than 50 million people in Europe and the United States, and the site is visited by about 2 million people per month. The cost of a monthly subscription varies from $ 3 to $ 10-15 (as a rule, not including fees for traffic).
But the big limitation for nuTsie so far is that with its help you will be able to listen only to those songs from your library that Melodeo has rights to translate and which are in its catalogs. They, however, include songs from most major labels.
A breakthrough in this regard will be the version nuTsie 3.0, which is now being prepared on the Melodeo stocks. In the new version, the service will allow you to physically upload all your music to the “cloud” in order to listen to any song at any time. It seems to me that it will not do without a new data center on HP equipment :)
Total, webOS support in nuTsie, apparently, is a resolved matter. A free use of the service for Palm owners is something you can dream about with restraint. If you do not restrain yourself, then you can dream of a new large music service with advanced features from HP (like
Snapfish for photos, for example).
Well, you did not expect this from HP? And then there will be more! I really do not know what it is - but something will be exactly :)