HP buys Melodeo music streaming service

Don’t ask me what is going on at HP’s – after buying up the webOS, they have now acquired a rather small music streaming company called Melodeo.

TechCrunch reports the following:

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Similar to Apple’s Lala or Pandora, the Seattle-based Melodeo streams music to its mobile apps from the cloud. Melodeo’s main product line is nuTsie— yes, an anagram of iTunes. NuTsie’s flagship service (which is available on several platforms including Blackberry, Android and Windows Mobile) scans your iTunes playlists and allows you to access those playlists on your mobile device in shuffle mode. You can also look at other users’ playlists and discover songs through the company’s proprietary recommendation engine or nuTsie’s editorial playlists (i.e. Top 100 Reggae Songs, Top 100 90′s Songs).

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As of now, it is not known whether this will be integrated into the webOS. However, given the always-on nature of Palm’s new operating system…

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