Have you checked out Google Maps Street View? With Street View, you can virtually explore city neighborhoods by viewing and navigating within 360-degree scenes of street-level imagery. It feels as if you’re walking down the street! When it was launched on May 25, 2007, only five cities were included. It has since expanded to more than 40 U.S. cities, and includes the suburbs of many, and in some cases, other nearby cities.

Real Networks has launched an official version of Mattel’s Scrabble on Facebook. This will go toe to toe with the highly-popular an unofficial Scrabulous.

Scrabulous, the Scrabble rip-off, has been garnering over 600,000 users daily, but is now facing competition from the real thing.

Real Networks has created Scrabble for Facebook users outside of the U.S. and Canada.

Mattel’s Scrabble application is, ostensibly, only available to users outside North America – but users can easily fib about their location by clicking on a map. To entice users away from Scrabulous, the official Scrabble application will have to offer users a better playing experience or more useful features.

Hewlett-Packard Co., the No. 1 seller of personal computers worldwide, said Tuesday it’s throwing its weight behind a new class of miniaturized laptops, a fledgling market already populated with products from Intel Corp., the world’s largest semiconductor company, and Asustek Computers Inc., the world’s largest maker of computer motherboards

The machines are so new the industry hasn’t settled on a name for low-cost and scaled-down laptops used primarily for surfing the Internet and performing other basic functions like word processing.

Intel has labeled them “netbooks,” and it expects more than 50 million netbooks to be in circulation by 2011.

The CEO of Sony BMG Music Entertainment says that the company is developing an online music subscription service that would give users unlimited access to its music and be compatible with a host of digital music players.

Sony BMG’s artist roster includes newcomers like Leona Lewis, along with stalwarts like Alicia Keys and Celine Dion, as well as country singer Carrie Underwood among others.

In an interview with the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published Monday, chief executive Rolf Schmidt-Holtz did not offer a timeline for unveiling the service.