Facebook focuses on streaming music

Facebook recently started warning page administrators the official Music Player and Discography apps would be discontinued. Now it's happened, reports ZDNet.

The Facebook Help Centre states: The Facebook Music Player app is being replaced with better ways to incorporate music on your page. Here are some alternatives you can use:

* Post music videos on your page Wall so people see your music in their news feed.
* Use apps built by other developers that enable people on Facebook to discover and listen to your music.
* Like the Music on Facebook Page to stay up-to-date on new ways to share music with your audience.

If a leaked image of a box is to be believed, Motorola Mobility is working on a tablet computer that also doubles as a TV controller, according to Cnet.

Codenamed Corvair, the 6-inch touch-screen tablet running Android 2.3 is in testing with cable companies, according a report by The Verge.

The box in the image calls it a "dedicated controller" and shows it wirelessly displaying the same user interface as the TV.

A German court has granted Motorola an injunction against Apple, but the ruling apparently does not mean the end of iProducts in the country, says PCMag.com.

According to Apple, the Manheim ruling does not immediately change anything about its status in Germany. "This is a procedural issue and has nothing to do with the merits of the case. It does not affect our ability to do business or sell products in Germany at this time," the company said in a statement provided to Cnet.

Motorola, meanwhile, did not shed much more light on the situation, telling patent blogger Florian Mueller that it "will continue to assert ourselves in the protection of these assets, while also ensuring that our technologies are widely available to end-users. We hope that we are able to resolve this matter, so we can focus on creating great innovations that benefit the industry."

Sprint Nextel said it could use the proceeds from a private debt offer to fund Clearwire, sending shares in the cash-strapped high-speed wireless firm up 8% on Friday, states International Business Times.

Sprint sold $4 billion in bonds on Friday, according to underwriters. The company had included Clearwire funding among possible uses for the debt proceeds when it announced the offering on Friday morning.

But Sprint executives later told debt investors that Clearwire's inclusion on that list did not indicate any increased willingness to fund the debt-strapped wireless network operator, according to one investor.