The Mac App Store was announced in late October at Apple’s Back to Mac VGP-BPS9/S event and was said to launch 90 days later, which would have been in late January. We heard rumblings last week that the store might launch before Christmas, VGP-BPS13A/B but clearly that’s not happening. Instead Apple will get a lot of buzz at this year’s CES, without having an actual presence there.

Keep in mind that in order to qualify, the startup’s product must have been introduced either in the 4th quarter VGP-BPS13 of 2010, or currently be in beta and expected to come to market sometime in 2011. Winners will be announced online the week of February 21st. Don’t be shy, let VGP-BPS9/B your voice be heard in the comments section below!

When Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked recently VGP-BPS9 if he would consider acquisitions of web video companies, he said “You never say never. We’ve tried to not cross that line.” It looks like Google may have to. YouTube continues to be extremely popular, but Google has not moved quickly enough to VGP-BPS9A/B offer movies and TV shows on demand through this medium.

We expect this store to give us a taste of the look and feel of forthcoming Mac OSX Lion. VGP-BPS10 We haven’t heard much about what specific apps will be available, but hopefully Angry Birds will be one of them

Apple sent out official word today that the Mac App Store vgp-bps13b/q will have its grand opening on Thursday, January 6th, 2011– right in the midst of CES.

The new store will become available as a free software update to Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6). Much like the iOS App vgp-bps13a/q Store, the Mac App Store will feature free and paid programs in categories such as Education, Games, Graphics, and Utilities and updates to apps will come vgp-bps13/b from within the store itself.

We’re in the midst of planning and selecting entries for our vgp-bps13/q Mobile Startups Awards for 2011. We’ve got our eye on many really innovative new companies to watch in the upcoming year, but we want to make sure we don’t miss anyone. If you’ve got a great suggestion, we’d love to vgp-bps8 hear about it.

A recently rumored deal for Next New Networks would certainly help Google provide vgp-bps21a more original, viral content, but it’s not really the kind of stuff its customers are willing to pay for. Amazon already has a vast library of TV shows and vgp-bps21/s movies ready to order on demand, though it has yet to make the leap to mobile. Google could certainly help speed that along.

If there’s one thing the Google TV launch solidified, it’s that the king of search doesn’t have enough content (though I vgp-bps21b love the Kevin Bacon commercial). Same thing goes for Android phones. For all of its whiz-bang features, the latest Gingerbread OS is stale when it comes vgp-bps21 to offering premium video, music, and books out of the box. At the same time, industry watchers argue that Android phone owners have shied away sony vgp-bps21a/b from paid apps in the Android market because they don’t want to sign up for a Google Checkout account. What Google needs to compete with iTunes and iOS is a one-stop shop for content and one-click checkouts. That’s why it needs to strike pa3535u-1brs a deal with Amazon.

Google may add an all-you-eat-subscription service at a later date; apparently, a deal with the PA3534U-1BRS U.K.-based startup Spotify fell through. All of this seems like a lot of work when Amazon MP3 already works fine on today’s Android VGP-BPS2A phones (though the interface could certainly use polishing). Wouldn’t it be easier to add these features to Amazon’s existing service through a partnership?

Where Google now competes with Amazon is its new eBookstore, which Google positions as an open alternative to VGP-BPS2C Kindle’s ecosystem. It stocks three million titles, including a fair number of bestsellers, and works with not only Android and iPhone apps but also with VGP-BPS2 web browsers. Not coincidentally, Amazon recently announced that it would be launching a Kindle web app of its own. To me this VGP-BPS2B competition is just silly. Just hook up, already.

On the music front, we’ve been hearing rumors of a Google-branded service for ages. And just this week there were reports IBM thinkpad X60S battery that Google is forking over big wads of cash to the record labels to get its Music Locker service off the ground. The idea is that users would be Lenovo thinkpad x60 battery able to stream any music they own over the cloud to practically any connected device for a $25 annual fee. Google also IBM thinkpad r60e battery wants to sell tracks a la carte like iTunes and allow users to share music.

Between Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and Sony, the world doesn’t need another book store. Google needs—and consumers want—Lenovo thinkpad r60 battery an iTunes alternative that makes all the content and apps we want available in one place. And Amazon would give Google just that. Lenovo thinkpad t60p battery I’m not suggesting that Google purchase Amazon, just forge a strategic partnership where Amazon would be Google’s Lenovo thinkpad t60 battery preferred content partner. Hulu, Netflix, Rhapsody, and other content providers would still be able to flourish on Android devices, but Google would have a single content portal that received preferential Lenovo thinkpad t61 battery treatment.

What would Amazon get out of this partnership? More sales, of course, and more Lenovo thinkpad t500 battery customers to buy all sorts of other goods through the Amazon store. Amazon and Google could find other ways to partner, too. Lenovo thinkpad t400 battery How about long-pressing on a product while surfing the web on an Android phone to add it to your wishlist? I could also see visitors to Amazon’s site being able to add Android apps to their cart while purchasing a tablet Lenovo thinkpad r61 battery or phone.

Although Amazon is reportedly at work on its own Android tablet, Google needs more Lenovo x200 battery than a device from the maker of the Kindle. It needs to grow its ecosystem using a shortcut that’s right in front of its face. It’s called the Lenovo x300 battery Gamazon store.

For purchasing content—and premium apps in the Android Market—Google Checkout would get replaced by Amazon’s one-click ordering, Lenovo r50e battery which has millions of more customers who already have an account. When it comes to e-commerce transactions, comfort Lenovo r51e battery is king.

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