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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[40 percent of new Angry Birds buyers doing in-app purchase]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO--It's no secret Rovio has made a small fortune off its sales of Angry Birds on the App Store (and other platforms), but there had been some question about the success of its dabbling in the in-app purchase market. That question was answered this afternoon by Rovio's &quot;mighty eagle&quot; Peter Vesterbacka at the Game Developers Conference here. In a talk outlining the company's efforts to build the Angry Birds franchise beyond its humble beginnings, Vesterbacka announced that 40 percent of new Angry Birds buyers had purchased the 99-cent &quot;mighty eagle&quot; add-on, which lets users skip a level they're stuck on by unleashing a powered-up bird.Vesterbacka did not go into detail on how those numbers trickled down to users that had purchased the game since its release, but suffice to say that the company has been pleased. That success, he said, hinged on making add-on game content that had a wide appeal. &quot;It's bad if you make products that 2 [percent] to 3 percent of your mobile fans want to buy,&quot; Vesterbacka said. Other tidbits revealed during the talk were that Rovio had sold more than 2 million of its plush toys. Vesterbacka described that as &quot;a good start,&quot; while saying that it was only the beginning of the company's plans to expand the franchise. Vesterbacka also talked up the upcoming sequel to Angry Birds, which is a tie-in with the upcoming Fox film Rio. &quot;We didn't want to sell out,&quot; Vesterbacka said of the partnership. In the lead up to that choice, Vesterbacka had described some of the offers from other studios as &quot;weird.&quot; &quot;We got approached by different Hollywood studios, and they wanted to do all kinds of weird promotions, and lots of them were not very...let's say they didn't jive with the brand,&quot; Vesterbacka said.Being a developers conference, Vesterbacka also urged game makers not to give up in the face of not having a smash out success, citing that Angry Birds had actually been Rovio's 52nd game. &quot;The previous 51 games, those were also great games for the devices at that time, but of course the devices at that time were pretty limited,&quot; Vesterbacka said. &quot;If you look at the early J2ME/Brew games, the experiences were not amazing.&quot;There was also a particularly awkward moment in the question-and-answer part of the presentation when Vesterbacka was asked what physics engine Rovio had used. &quot;Box2D,&quot; Vesterbacka replied. The question asker turned out to be the creator of  the open-source physics engine and asked whether the company would be giving him credit in Angry Birds. Vesterbacka encouraged the gentleman to come see him after the talk, as well as for other attendees to introduce themselves before asking their question.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gaming social network Raptr hits 6 million users]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=gaming-social-network-raptr-hits-6-million-users</guid>
<description><![CDATA[More and more people are sharing their video game progress with others on Raptr, the company touts.The social platform for gamers said today that it has hit 6 million registered users since its founding in 2007. Each month, it's adding about 750,000 new users. An infographic on Raptr's site claims it has about 5.5 million unique visitors every month and by the looks of things, its traffic is growing at a sizable rate.Raptr tracks user activity on theXbox 360,PlayStation 3, and PC. Armed with that data, users can find out what their friends are up to on those platforms and chat with them through the service. Raptr also includes integration with Facebook, Twitter, and several instant-messaging platforms.Currently, Raptr says it has more than 43,700 games in its online database. Since its launch, the company has tracked more than 10 billion minutes of playtime. Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Halo are the top three most popular franchises among its users. Zynga's selection of games, including FarmVille and CityVille, and Assassin's Creed round out the top five.Raptr certainly isn't the only social-gaming network on the Web. Services like PlayFire, WeGame, and UGame also offer gamers the ability to communicate with others about what they're doing across the video game landscape.Aside from its growth, Raptr also announced today that it secured another $15 million in venture funding. It said that the Series B funding round was led by DAG Ventures and Tenaya Capital. Accel Partners also participated in the round, which brought Raptr's total funding to $27 million.Raptr says it plans to use the funding to offer new features to its growing community.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Opera for Android to get HTML5 video, Flash]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=opera-for-android-to-get-html5-video-flash</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Opera is working on Opera Mobile, its full-fledged mobile browser, for Android devices.(Credit:Opera)Two significant features are coming to Opera Mobile for Android, the Oslo company's higher-end smartphone browser: playing HTML5 video and accommodating Adobe Systems' Flash Player plug-in.&quot;New Web technologies aim to replace it, but Flash will be around for some time. If you have Flash player installed on your phone, Opera will support it,&quot; mobile team member Pavel Studeny said in a blog post on Saturday.HTML5 video, one of those technologies that encroaches on Flash's turf, lets developers embed video directly into a Web page, as happens with images. It's also en route Studeny said. He didn't say when the two features will arrive.Opera Mobile for Android is in beta testing. It competes most directly with the built-in browser that comes with Android, but also with a mobile version ofFirefox that's also in beta testing (a third beta of which should arrive soon) and a handful of other browsers. Google permits other browsers to be installed on Android' Apple only permits alternative browser user interfaces that use iOS's browser engine under the hood.Opera Mobile is written in the C++ programming language, not the Java variant that most Android applications use. That's possible because of a feature called the Java Native Interface (JNI) that enables a hybrid programming approach. Studeny said:Luckily, Java allows class methods to be loaded from external libraries through a special interface, JNI. The external libraries can be written in any language. That's how we do it. We keep all the browser code in such external libraries and use a tiny Java code that loads them. This works very well, although debugging in multiple programming languages isn't that easy. Opera also offers a lighter-weightmobile browser called Opera Mini that works with Android, Apple's iOS, and several other operating systems. Opera Mobile has a built-in browser engine, but Mini requires an Opera server to browse the Web page, boil it down to a smaller size, and send it to the Mini browser for viewing. This brings the browser to lower-end phones and is adapted for worse network connections, but it detracts from some browsing experiences such as running interactive Web applications.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vudu coming to PS3 with updated interface]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Vudu is coming to the PS3, and bringing an updated user interface.(Credit:Vudu)PlayStation 3 owners are about to get yet another option when it comes to online entertainment.As of November 23, the Vudu pay-per-view movie service will arrive on Sony's gaming console with an updated user interface. (Vudu says the new interface is more friendly for navigating with input devices like mice and thePlayStation Move.) The same &quot;Vudu 2.0&quot; UI will be rolled out on other Vudu-supported devices--including many Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players, the D-Link Boxee Box, Windows PCs and Macs--before the end the year. Vudu offers more than 4,000 HD movies for rental and purchase, and the PS3 will offer Vudu's optimal 1080p HD resolution and 5.1 surround sound on supported titles.For PS3 owners, the announcement constitutes more great news on the home entertainment front. Vudu will join the Netflix, Hulu Plus, MLB.TV, and NHL Gamecenter services on the console, in addition to the native PlayStation Store (which also supports the purchase of movies and TV shows). For Wal-Mart's Vudu service, meanwhile, the new PS3 partnership provides millions of potential new customers in the U.S.To sweeten the deal, Vudu will be offering new customers a $5.99 credit--effectively giving users a free movie to try out the service.Related: Quick guide to Internet TV<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Police told to text to save money]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=police-told-to-text-to-save-money</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There is something both lovable and just about British policemen. They roam the streets, dispensing righteousness, without the aid of a gun. Which makes it safer for the average British citizen to know that if they happen to offer a policeman a slurry quip they will not be offed within a nanosecond of the punchline.However, it seems as if the British police is struggling to make ends meet, technologically speaking. For the Daily Mail solemnly reports that bobbies on the beat are being trained to text to save money.You see, British policemen have radios attached to their lapels. However, the company that happens to own the network upon which the police urgently ask for backup, Airwave Solutions, is alleged to charge quite a lot of money for the service.Personally, I am highly suspicious of any company that has the word &quot;solutions&quot; in its name. Claiming you are a solution is merely a ruse behind which lurks a company that creates problems.Step away from that radio. It&amp;39's too expensive.(Credit:CC Steve Punter/Flickr)So who could be stunned to discover that the British policepersons are being taught to text in order to avoid using their radios The Mail declares that Airwave Solutions makes more profit than UK cell phone provider Vodafone. And one reason that they might have such healthy profits is that they reportedly charge 2 British pounds (around $3) for every second that the police exceed some pre-arranged limit of talk time.Please consider that. $3 a second. No cell phone provider, no lawyer, no lap dancer would surely even think of charging that sort of money.The Mail quotes Clive Chamberlain, chairman of the Police Federation in Dorset (a sweet, picturesque part of England that spawned Thomas Hardy and some very fine alcohol rehabilitation clinics) as saying: &quot;Airwave is a very expensive system which was forced upon the police service by the Government.&quot;Chamberlain added: &quot;We are being told that texting more has the potential to save tens of thousands of pounds because it costs only 4p to send 1,000 texts.&quot;And so British policemen are attending special courses during which they are taught to text. This means that instead of telling someone at central control that they are about to apprehend a hound or just clocking off for some plaice, chips and peas, they will text information according to sixteen numerical codes.How very modern. It's a little like ordering from a restaurant menu by the number rather than the dish. This numerical texting mullarkey is, however, said to be restricted to the transmission of routine information. If a policeman is hurtling in chase of a serial killer, he is still allowed to use his radio. Former Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick did offer somewhat wisely: &quot;If officers are trying to push buttons they won't be looking to see what is going on around them and to that extent it's risky.&quot;However, isn't it comforting to know that it isn't just you who signed up for an expensive cell phone plan without realizing it Isn't it gratifying to realize that someone, somewhere, far bigger than you, is having to be very careful about the minutes he spends conveying his whereabouts<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Emulator runs DOS, Windows on an iPad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=emulator-runs-dos-windows-on-an-ipad</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Interested in using your iPad to emulate a 20-year-old computer No problem, if you get iDOS, a 99-cent DOS emulator currently on sale at the App Store.(Credit:CNET)So this was cool enough that I had to drop what I was doing (cleaning out my desk) to write it up.Somehow, Apple has approved a DOS emulator for theiPhone andiPad and it's on the App Store for 99 cents. Better yet, someone managed to load Windows 3.0 on the thing.The app, iDOS, is universal, working well on iPads and iPhones alike. It features such niceties as a retro grimy keyboard, floppy drive, and attached sticky notes, along with a coffee-stained notepad.But if you want it, you probably better buy it quick. I suspect it's going to be a race between Apple's store monitoring team and Microsoft's lawyers over who can cry foul first.In the meantime, here's a screenshot of it running on an iPad as well as a link to Touch Arcade, which has pictures of the thing running Windows 3.0.If you get anything interesting running, please drop me a note and some pictures and I'll update this post.Update at 2:45 p.m. PDT: As we expected would quickly be the case, iDOS is no longer available via the App store. Hope you got it while you had the chance.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Call centers connected to Verizon staff up]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=call-centers-connected-to-verizon-staff-up</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The January release of a VerizoniPhone remains unconfirmed, but we may have still more grist for the ever-churning rumor mill. Call centers connected to the wireless carrier and Apple are hiring hundred of new positions over the next three months, according to job postings spotted by CNET. Call center jobs in Pennsylvania will support a wireless company, according to this job posting (click to enlarge). (Credit:Screenshot by Kent German/CNET) The hiring companies, Salt Lake City-based Teleperformance and Kennesaw, Ga.-based Ryla, are hiring at facilities around the country, with Ryla advertising for 1,700 positions in Indiana, California, Virginia, and Colorado.Though few of the job postings specify which company the new employees will be taking calls for, Teleperformance's Careerbuilder post says employees in Pennsylvania will field calls for a &quot;major wireless cell phone service retailer.&quot;  Duties will include processing and explaining rate plan changes and assisting customers with &quot;general inquiries about billing rates, roaming, features, and services.&quot; Additional postings on Teleperformance's Web site list positions in Salt Lake City, Texas, Ohio, and South Carolina as being dedicated to either a wireless, cell phone, or communications company. What's more, applicants for positions in Lindon, Utah, will offer technical support for personal computers and portable devices like MP3 players and smartphones.Calls placed to Teleperformance were not returned as of press time, but the company has supported Apple, Verizon Wireless, and other cell phone carriers in the past. And in an interview with the Augusta Chronicle, Marcie Ballard, Teleperformance's vice president of recruiting, said new positions for the company's office in Augusta, Ga., would be for a new line of business for &quot;a major wireless company.&quot;According to the Fresno Bee, Ryla is hiring at least 500 people in Clovis, Calif., for &quot;a Fortune 50 cellular/telecommunications company that expects to increase its marketing and sales.&quot;  Across the country in Norfolk, Va., the company's Careerbuilder job posting specifically named Verizon's wireline, FIOS, and high-speed Internet business and residential customers, but stopped short of mentioning the company's wireless division.  Ryla spokeswoman Karen Clay did not return calls as of press time, though a source told CNET Ryla has worked with Verizon for more than 10 years.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Has Seen The Light. And It&'s Not&nbsp'Silverlight.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-has-seen-the-light--and-itrsquos-notnbspsilverlight-</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly a year ago, Microsoft pulled together a group of reporters for Bing Fall Release event. The highlight of the presentation was a demo showing off some nifty new features in Bing Maps. The problem All of this stuff required Microsoft&amp;'s Silverlight browser plug-in to work. I berated the company for once again pushing users towards a more proprietary web. So today it&amp;'s time to laud them, as they seem to be backing away from that strategy.During last week&amp;'s Professional Developers Conference (PDC), ZDNet&amp;'s Mary-Jo Foley asked Bob Muglia, Microsoft&amp;'s SVP of the Server and Tools Business, why the company failed to highlight Silverlight in a meaningful way this year. His answer was rather surprising.a4ASilverlight is our development platform for Windows Phone,&amp;'' he said. And while he said that the technology has some &amp;''sweet spots&amp;'' for media applications (presumably like Netflix, which uses Silverlight on the web), its role as a vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime appears to be over. &amp;''Our strategy has shifted,&amp;'' is how Muglia put it.Instead, as they made clear during PDC, Microsoft is putting their weight behind HTML5 going forward. Hallelujah.Microsoft&amp;'s new IE9 web browser (which is in public beta testing) will be a big part of this strategy. And presumably, a lot of the things that currently require Silverlight, like some of those nifty Bing Maps features, will move to HTML5 going forward. Again, that&amp;'s great news.So why is Microsoft doing this It seems that Microsoft sees the writing on the wall. They likely know that&amp;'s it&amp;'s going to be much harder to make a dent in the new developer world order with Silverlight, which still has a relatively small market penetration and no penetration in mobile, than with HTML5, which is (or shortly will be) everywhere a4&quot; including all of Apple&amp;'s devices.&amp;''HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Applea4a4s) iOS platform,a4 Muglia told Foley.This is a very different tone than Muglia had just a year ago, when he and then Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie were out on the circuit drumming up support for Silverlight with hopes that it would become a new de-facto standard like Adobe&amp;'s Flash. It&amp;'s not clear if Ozzie&amp;'s imminent departure from the company has anything to do with this change of tone or vice versa.Regardless, Silverlight will now be mainly known as the development platform for Windows Phone going forward. In other words, the way to make native apps for those devices. But for just about everything else, it will be HTML5 or bust. And that&amp;'s great news for all end users. It&amp;'s one less plug-in to download. And it&amp;'s another step towards a unified web.CrunchBase InformationMicrosoft SilverlightInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Myspace Accused Of Ripping Off Stealth Startup&nbsp'Pinterest]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=myspace-accused-of-ripping-off-stealth-startupnbsppinterest</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This morning Pinterest co-founders Ben Silberman, Paul Sciarra and Yashwanth Nelapati woke up to a barrage of tweets,a4s&amp;''So @myspace has completely ripped off @pinterest. It really pisses me off when an old, tired hack tries to undermine hardworking inovators. [sic]&amp;'' Myspace revealed its new redesign last night and Pinterest users quickly picked up on the similarities between the two site aesthetics, leading to an intense Twitter debate.The offsite grid layout used by both Myspace and Pinterest is nothing new' Lazyfeed, http://enjoysthin.gs and countless other sites have aa4ssimilar design (there&amp;'s even a Tumblr theme). But the fact that former Myspacea4sDirector of Technology Dave Peck emailed Pinterest back in March asking for an advance invite is interesting, especially when you read the email.Founder Silberman told TechCrunch, &amp;''The Myspace product team joined our site really early and so I&amp;'m sure they took inspiration from it. Our impression was that they took some information and we were touched that our users were vocal about it.&amp;'' However, Silberman who retweeted the accusations from the official Pinterest account this morning, emphasized, &amp;''I wouldn&amp;'t go as far as saying they ripped it off.  They&amp;'re probably in tune with organizing friends around interests after they missed the boat on friends,&amp;'' referring to how you can now use Myspace to follow Topics pages.Pinterest is still invite only and is currently seeking funding. Despite being in stealth mode, the social cataloguing startup has 17,000 users and is about to experience its one millionth &amp;''pin.&amp;'' Silberman plans on launching in a couple of months, encouraged by all the user support today, &amp;''It&amp;'s cool when you&amp;'re a small company and your users stick up for you.&amp;'' Myspace had 90 million users this September according to comScore,a4smarking aa4s18% drop from last year. This recent design and concept overhaul was an attempt to win back some of the traffic lost to competitors like Facebook.Myspace screencap via The GuardianCrunchBase InformationPinterestMySpaceInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Salesforce&'s micro-blogging app Chatter jumps on the freemium bandwagon]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=salesforcersquos-micro-blogging-app-chatter-jumps-on-the-freemium-bandwagon</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Not even the enterprise application ecosystem is safe from the invasion of freemium services.Salesforce announced today that it is releasing a free, stripped down version of its twitter-like micro-blogging application Chatter to compete with other free-to-use collaboration services like Huddle and Yammer at the company&amp;'s annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this December.Chatter&amp;'s pitched as a collaboration tool for businesses with multiple employees strewn across the country. It&amp;'s also good for large businesses where communication can be difficult because there are a lot of distractions and minor details to hash out. Chatter users can let everyone know what they are working on and track specific projects and users a4&quot; much like Twitter users do.Chatter is already available as a part of Salesforce&amp;'s services, a massive customer resource management suite that many businesses use to manage their finances and other aspects of their business. Chatter&amp;'s available to everyone else for $15 a month per user. But that made it hard to justify introducing the business collaboration service into a work environment that hasna4a4t had any time to try it out, saidKevin Spain, a partner with Emergence Capital Partners and a Salesforce investor.Meanwhile, other free-to-use enterprise collaboration services have seen some serious growth. Yammer recently revamped its business micro-blogging software tobehave more like a Facebook for enterprise usersand has seen a lot of success as a result. Ita4a4s free to join Yammer, and the company makes money off subscription models for premium services and IT servicing.That&amp;'s what made other freemium services like Yammer so popular a4&quot; because Yammer users can try it out before they invest in the softwarea4a4s premium services. In fact, Spain even called on Salesforce to set its micro-blogging service free to let business try it out in order to compete with other collaboration tools like Yammer.Luckily, Salesforce listened to its users and investors. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said 60,000 of Salesforce&amp;'s 87,200 customers are currently using Chatter, according to a report from ReadWriteWeb. But that&amp;'s largely because the service was marketed as an add-on to its traditional CRM suite. With this freemium version, it&amp;'s clear Salesforce has much loftier goals for its micro-blogging application as it is now looking to take on other collaboration services.Score another one for the freemium revenue model as well. What began with aninteresting experiment in video games has exploded into a powerful revenue model that shows up everywhere from social networks toenterprise collaboration tools. A third of the top-grossing apps on the Apple App Store a4&quot; which include any number of apps a4&quot; are free to download and make money off the sale of virtual goods and premium services.Next Story: Angel investors to Fashism: You look fabulous Previous Story: Groupon needs the human touch, not Google&amp;'s robotsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Chatter, collaboration, enterprise social networking, micro-blogging, Salesforce ChatterCompanies: Huddle, salesforce, YammerPeople: Marc Benioff          Tags: Chatter, collaboration, enterprise social networking, micro-blogging, Salesforce ChatterCompanies: Huddle, salesforce, YammerPeople: Marc BenioffVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lenovo&'s IdeaCentre tries to cash in on the mad rush to all-in-one desktops]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Lenovo unveiled its newest all-in-one IdeaCentre computers today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The four new computers represent the Chinese company&amp;'s attempt to compete seriously with Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Sony when it comes to cool computer designs.The models include the A320, billed as the world&amp;'s slimmest all-in-one computer (which combines a desktop and a monitor in one device)' the B520 entertainment all-in-one with no frame (pictured)' the B320 computer that doubles as a TV' and the C205, which is compact and affordable.By coming up with so many models, it&amp;'s clear that Lenovo wants to make a big statement about all-in-one computers. Each one is tailored to a slightly different audience. And the market researchers are clearly saying that the consumer demand is there for the all-in-one market.Dion Weisler, vice president of business operations at Lenovo, said the company&amp;'s all-in-one desktop business grew 150 percent in 2009.The A320 model is just 18.5 millimeters deep at its thinnest point. It features a 21.5-inch high-definition display and high-contrast LED panel technology. It has an Intel Core i5 processor. The B520 entertainment machine has an Intel Core i7 processor and a frameless touchscreen. It has a 23-inch screen and comes with an option for an Nvidia 3D Vision stereoscopic 3D headset. The B320 has a 21.5-inch screen and has TV functionality at the press of a button. And it has an Intel Core i5 processor. The Lenovo C205 has an 18.5-inch screen and sells for $449. The IdeaCentre A320 will start at $699. The B520 and B320 will be available in June at $899 and $699, respectively. Lenovo didn&amp;'t say when the A320 and C205 will be available.Previous Story: HP unleashes a host of new computers at CESPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: all-in-one computer, desktops, Intel CoreCompanies: Apple, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Lenovo, SonyPeople: Dion Weisler          Tags: all-in-one computer, desktops, Intel CoreCompanies: Apple, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Lenovo, SonyPeople: Dion WeislerDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ubercab, Now Just Uber, Shares Cease And Desist&nbsp'Orders]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UberCab a4&quot; which was recently renamed &amp;''Uber&amp;'' to avoid the appearance of marketing itself as a taxi business a4&quot; has shared the full contents of the cease and desist orders it received this week from city authorities in San Francisco regulating transportation businesses there. News of the cease and desist orders sparked an outcry from anti-regulation camps and fans of Ubercab web-wide. It also garnered votes of confidence (tweets) from the company&amp;'s investors and TechCrunch writers who said the orders only validate the company, and that it is disrupting taxi and limo services in San Francisco. Others argued that Ubercab was either ill-informed, or flouting the law to gain unfair advantage versus the incumbent taxi industry in San Francisco. They were concerned about a funded startup&amp;'s regard for hard-working, law-abiding taxi drivers and taxi business owners. Commenters questioning Ubercab&amp;'s model pointed out at least two other companies that work with taxi incumbents to provide a similar service in San Francisco. Both Cabulous and TaxiMagic provide mobile apps and services that allow consumers to order a ride, track it and [correction:] in TaxiMagic&amp;'s case to pay for it by mobile phonea4&quot; but both of them count taxi drivers as clients, and aim to help them find and get more fares per day.     View this document on Scribd    View this document on ScribdTipTweet<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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