inherited the web o.s. software when it bought palm last year. the touch pad enters a competitive market where apple has had a long lead, especially in terms of software applications or apps designed for tablets. apple's ipad dominates with more than 90,000. google's android system has about 100. the vice president of hewlett- packard's web o.s. developer relations business unit. richard kerris is confident in h.p.'s market position. >> applications are a key part as well as content. we have a lot of applications. we have over 300 applications at launch. the whole myth about thousands, hundreds of thousands of apps-- nobody uses that many. what you have to have is meaningful applications that make a difference to the things that you do. >> tom: the h.p. tablet goes on sale next week. the launch of new consumer electronics devices could pick up later this year, including 3d televisions, video game services and maybe a new iphone. we spoke with gary shapiro, c.e.o. of the consumer electronics association and author of "the comeback: how innovation

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a major step forward, this limited live performance would certainly be welcomed along with perform o.e.'s an everything else. especially because we're not going to be anymore housing there. then in the case of m.u.g.'s, we're under pressure to put in a lot of housing. the western soma plan is going to be adding 3,000 or 4,000 more units of housing. and since we fenced off sally and have stricter zoning in this street, we're putting new residential areas so i would caution your commission to step very carefully before they create more incompatible uses and whether this form of entertainment is incompatible or not, i'd like to add that conversation with mr. soma but just a message to the small business commission, you know, you have to be very careful of -- the reason it's a planning process is you try to plan for the impacts of these -- these sors of things. and so i would just ask you to take that message back to your commission. >> will do. and just a couple of points. so for the west portal area, they want to maintain entertainment as not permitted but still be able to have the limit

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and o.s.'s for you now in the palm of your. question on the comb. it is one of the most unpredictable climates in the world but for people who go to antarctica in the name of science dealing with environmental extremes is a daily reality and the latest in his series of special reports artie shaw and thomas has witnessed how people survive at the ends of the earth. antarctic storms are known to be fierce sometimes forcing those who have to endure them to take safe harbor it was pretty bad it was. thirty to thirty but. it was rolling around. the head of the. kids. in this in between us. so we're rolling around. trying to make a good rider. gets here the crew of this ship was able to pull through the tempest and even work with nearby stations to repair their damaged vessel but they were lucky operating in such a remote environment means that replacement parts aren't always available and the workers here have to make do with what they can it is pretty hard to get here and good equipment ok here are sophisticated equipment. one challenge is to try to mak

next week laptops running chrome o.s. are set to go on sale. they are remarkable containing 16 gigabytes of storage space, about the same as an ipod nano that holds 4,000 songsle. why so little space? it lets your apps live on the company's servers. google is convinced that the computer masses are ready to live in the cloud. >>> and cloud-based music services could be the new way to store our digital music collections. apple is expected to release the i it's cloud tomorrow. are we really ready to put our music in the cloud? that's what i asked chris taylor. >> the big question is are they going to be allowing us to upload all the music or give us access to all the itunes music in the cloud, or is it just music we have already bought on itunes. so that's what we don't know yet. if it is the former, i think that will be a really formidable cloud service. the other room is that it will cost $25 a year. that part i'm not so sure about myself. i think that, again, itunes users are going to balling for paying for this stuff twice when they already ha

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