Here's Proof That Sony's Android Tablets Will Play PlayStation Games (SNE)

Following the announcement of Sony's two new Honeycomb tablets, the company released this sleek video of the two devices.

The images are just renders, but we do get a hint at what the tablets will be able to do. Sony says the S1 and S2 tablets will interact with all your Sony entertainments systems (Bravia TVs, PS3, etc.) for streaming content and games.

The video shows a shot of the S1 running a video game and what appears to be an online media hub more movies and TV shows.

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the first graphs picture doesn't even have the right colors for the download and upload. This is shit!

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Finally, Some Real Proof That Google Apps Is A Threat To Microsoft (GOOG, MSFT)

Google Apps has been around for almost five years, and the company claims 30 million end users at 3 million businesses are using it.

But those statistics are too vague to show whether the product is actually successful -- many of those customers may be conducting limited trials or using the free version.

But new study released today from systems integrator White Stratus, a Google Apps reseller, offers concrete proof that the product is getting real traction among large businesses.

In January and February, White Stratus surveyed 2,030 U.S. companies with more than 250 employees, and talked in depth to 232 IT departments selected randomly from those companies. Here's a summary of what they found:

• Google Apps is getting popular. Almost 20% of the companies surveyed have deployed Google Apps in some form.

• Especially among big companies. Penetration was highest among companies with more than 10,000 employees -- this contradicts the conventional wisdom that Apps is only for smaller businesses.

• It's not just pilots. Of these Google Apps customers, about one-third of IT department heads surveyed said that they were using Google Apps throughout their organization -- not just in pilot programs.

• It's huge in education. Google Apps was most popular by far in the education industry, with nearly 60% penetration. But it's also gaining traction in media companies, professional services, and utilities.

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Nearly 20% of companies have deployed Google Apps in some form.

White Stratus looked at 2,030 U.S. companies with 250 more employees and compared them against Google Apps domain registrations. They found that nearly 20% of these companies had deployed Google Apps in some form.

The bigger the company, the more likely they are to have Google Apps deployed.

Surprisingly, penetration was highest in companies with more than 10,000 employees. This contradicts the conventional wisdom that Google Apps is only for smaller companies. In fact, it's probably easier for companies with large IT departments to conduct a trial of a relatively new product, while smaller IT departments are likely to stick with what they have -- probably Microsoft Office and an on-premise e-mail system.

Nearly one-third of IT respondents said that Google Apps was used throughout the organization.

For this part of the survey, White Stratus randomly selected 263 IT departments from the group and surveyed their senior members via phone. Of the companies within that sample who had deployed Google Apps, 32.8% of IT respondents said it was deployed throughout the organization, 47.8% said it was only a pilot, and the remainder said they weren't aware it had been deployed at all, suggesting that an employee or department set up a trial without informing IT.

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Proof Groupon Still Has LOTS Of Room To Grow

Google's reported $6 billion offer for Groupon has the doubters saying that this two year-old business model has already peaked.

We think that's very far from the truth. As huge as Groupon and its leading competitor, LivingSocial, have become, and as many imitators, aggregators, and related businesses have piled on top of it, we think this is still a young market with lots of room for growth.

One sign that daily deals are just heating up: daily deals are just starting to catch on in some of America's biggest markets.

The Local Offer Network, which runs deal aggregator Dealradar, distributes deals to publishers, and offers a white label deal product, gave us this data on the top U.S. cities by volume of deals offered. Broken down by percentage of total U.S. deals:

1. Chicago: 8%
2. New York, Boston, and San Francisco: 5% each
3. Los Angeles, San Diego, and Washington D.C.: 4% each

In other words, the home of Groupon, followed by the three major cities for venture backed startups. New York is roughly three times the size of Chicago. Boston and San Francisco are tiny compared to cities like Houston, Philadelphia, and Phoenix, which are far behind in daily deals. D.C. -- home to LivingSocial -- is even smaller.

Basically, daily deals are still biggest in the markets where daily deal startups have been founded, not in the markets with the most consumers.

Even if we suppose that Chicago is 100% saturated, the daily deal market still has huge growth potential as the rest of the country catches up.

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• Here's Google's Real Offer For Groupon: $6 Billion ($5.3 Billion Plus $700 Million Earnout)
• No, Google Has Not Bought Groupon Yet
• Here's Why Facebook "Deals" Won't Kill Groupon

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More Proof That Facebook Is Supplanting Search (GOOG)

The evidence of the power shift on the Web from Google and search to Facebook and social networking has been mostly anecdotal so far.

News organizations that used to worry about getting stories placed on Google News now try and get people to share them on Facebook. Small businesses in the Bay Area are still buying keywords, but also begging their happy customers to post on Facebook and user-rating sites like Yelp.

Now comes some data from Experian Hitwise that really drives home the point.

On November 16, Apple's iTunes store finally started offering Beatles songs for sale. A week later, more than 2 million Beatles tracks had been downloaded.

How did these buyers arrive at iTunes?

According to Experian Hitwise, UK search queries related to The Beatles increased 30-fold during the week they went on sale on iTunes. But those queries didn't necessarily guide users to iTunes. Although Apple paid for 67% of the traffic from the keywords "The Beatles," it was only the ninth-biggest destination for UK surfers who searched that term, behind Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook, which didn't pay for any Beatles-related queries.

Even the more specific term "Beatles iTunes" drove twice as many users to the BBC--which was featuring the news that week--than to Apple's site.

In contrast, on the day that the sale began, almost 26% of all traffic that came to Apple came through social networks, compared with about 16% the day before. In particular, traffic from Facebook increased five times, to the point that one in every 200 UK Web surfers who left Facebook went directly to Apple's site.

This doesn't mean that Facebook drove a larger absolute number of viewers to Apple than Google did. But Facebook did a more effective job than Google of reflecting new information--"Beatles songs are now on sale at iTunes"--and showing users where to buy them.

Think of it another way: when Google first launched, its signal-to-noise ratio was much higher than any other source of information online, including other search engines. That's no longer the case.

Marketers are surely taking note. So is Google.

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• Google Delays Facebook-Killer Until Next Spring
• Facebook Is Sniffing Around Twitter, Thinking Acquisition
• Seven Figure Bonuses Aren't Working, So Schmidt Tries Smack Talk In Facebook Recruiting War

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