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<title><![CDATA[Apple sues Amazon over 'App Store' trademark]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julrild</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple is once again protecting its trademark turf, this time with a suit against Amazon that takes aim at the Web retail giant's use of the term &quot;App Store.&quot;The suit, which was filed last week and first reported by Bloomberg this afternoon, goes after Amazon's use of the &quot;App Store&quot; name, which Apple filed a trademark for following the release of theiPhone 3G.The suit seeks to prevent Amazon from using the phrase on its site or in marketing materials, according to Bloomberg. Apple is also seeking damages.Amazon spokesperson Mary Osako said the company had no comment. In a phone call with CNET, Apple spokesperson Kristin Huguet said that the move was to keep people from getting confused.&quot;We've asked Amazon not to copy the app store name, because it will confuse and mislead customers,&quot; Huguet said.Amazon first announced plans to enter the world of mobile-application publishing in September, unveiling a $99 developer program and an upcoming storefront called the &quot;Appstore&quot; that will sell Android applications outside of Google's own Marketplace application. As part of that process, Amazon gets either 70 percent of the sale price, or 20 percent of the list price (depending on what's higher). Besides Android, Amazon has hinted that it plans to expand into other operating systems, though that list is likely to not include Apple's iOS given the vertical nature both of the storefront, and the installation mechanism through iTunes on the desktop, as well as the App Store application on the mobile side. While Apple plays offense on Amazon, it's been playing defense against Microsoft over the same trademark. In January, Microsoft filed a motion against the trademark application, saying that it was too generic. Apple's response to that was then put to question by Microsoft earlier this month for trying to get around the font size, and length limits for legal briefs. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Microsoft is trying to make us more productive]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julrild</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=how-microsoft-is-trying-to-make-us-more-productive</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:CNET)A Microsoft press event held last week in Redmond under the name &quot;The Future of Productivity Council&quot; wasn't about introducing new and exciting products. But the day-long event Friday did give us a closer look at how Microsoft develops productivity software and also allowed us to hear from several Microsoft executives about what they are trying to accomplish in the productivity sphere.The first half of the day we watched presentations by various team leaders at Microsoft discussing how productivity products are made and about our slow evolution towards cloud computing.Gary Heil, the founder of the Center for Innovative Leadership, kicked things off with a thought-provoking talk on how productivity within a company is not just about the software, but also about the mindset of the employees in the company. People who feel as though their work will have an impact are more likely to remain engaged.PJ Hough, the corporate vice president of Office Program Management followed, showing the many different methods Microsoft uses to get user feedback to improve its Office products.One of the major themes of the day was how Microsoft views the world's evolution to cloud computing and how that will affect productivity. Speakers talked about Office 365--Microsoft's online productivity suite currently in beta, but due out later this year--and how it will make collaboration easier and let you access your files anywhere.Later in the day, we left the conference rooms and PowerPoint slides to take a short tour of Microsoft's research and development areas.The company let us tour its Envision room where it keeps prototypes for future technologies. An impressive interactive wall, mouth controlled mice, creative uses of the Kinect technology, and interactive desktops were all on display. Many were thought-provoking ideas and productivity concepts, but much of the tech has already been talked about on the Internet for some time.We also got to see Microsoft's Home, a complete house interior using much of its experimental tech and showing how it might be used around the home. Some highlights included the ability to quickly change wallpapers in a room using high-tech wallpaper and the use of multiple displays and devices that are all connected for a free-flowing exchange of information. At one point, our guide demonstrated how a plant could have a sensor that lets you know it needs water or more light via your smartphone, but only when you are in the vicinity of the plant.The event closed out back in a conference room where we listened to Kurt Delbene, president, and Chris Capossela, senior vice president, talk about the evolution of the office division and its position with regard to the next wave of productivity products. They pointed out that Office 2010 was the fastest-selling version of Office in history and that Office 2011 for Mac had won several awards, but seemed even more excited about the possibilities with Office 365, coming out later this year.The Future of Productivity Council event was informative and interesting, but there was not much new to report. It was interesting to see how Microsoft develops its productivity products, and how important user-feedback is to what goes into theMicrosoft Office suites.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nokero solar bulb stands up to Canadian winter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julrild</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Chill factor: the N200 solar bulb basks in the winter sun. (Credit:Tim Hornyak )The mercury reads 12 degrees outside, but it feels like minus 2 with the windchill. That's Fahrenheit--the numbers are depressingly lower in Celsius here in Canada. Still, when I hang Nokero's new N200 bulb on a tree, its solar cell recharges without a hitch.  Denver-based Nokero debuted last year with the N100 solar light bulb. It recently released an improved version, the N200, and I had a chance to try it out. First off, the Nokero bulbs are designed to replace homemade kerosene lamps, not standard bulbs. They're aimed at hundreds of millions of people in developing countries who have little or no electricity. Many burn kerosene for light, which, aside from costing money, is a fire and air pollution hazard.  The N200's light is only 13.5 lumens on the high setting (a 60-watt incandescent bulb is 850 lumens). That's very dim, but it's comparable to a kerosene lamp. It's also better than the 8.5 lumens of the N100 bulb.  Meanwhile, the N200 can last more than six hours on its low-intensity setting after a single-day charge in sunlight. The N100 was rated at four hours if charged in equatorial regions, where the sun is strongest. Nokero says typical kerosene lamp users burn their lamps for 1.5 hours every night.  Obviously, several of these solar bulbs are needed to effectively light a small room or tent. The N200 is priced at $20, which is $5 more than the N100. Nokero says it has lower bulk wholesale prices for both bulbs. The N200 is slightly larger than a conventional bulb. Its main design difference over the N100 is that it can swivel on a chrome-plated steel loop to best catch the sun with its single solar cell, which can capture more light. New Life Orphanage Co-Director Sherry Moseley with a tent city family in Haiti. (Credit:American Green)Power is stored in a replaceable AA-sized, 1,000 mAh Ni-MH battery, which is rated to last two years. The company says it can be replaced for about $1. The bulb has four LEDs, a switch for high or low settings, and a safety hook for hanging. It's rainproof and impact-resistant, and rated from minus 4 to 131 degrees. So I've been recharging it outside in the cold, including days when the windchill factor was about minus 5, and it worked fine, illuminating a dim corner of my kitchen. It also recharged to some extent on cloudy days.  One interesting feature is the bulb's auto-shutoff function. It will only shine when ambient light falls below about 200 lux. This power-saving feature is probably valued by those with the least electricity. A year after Haiti's devastating earthquake killed tens of thousands of people, the N200 bulb is being distributed there through American Green, a media group that brought the lights to the New Life Orphanage and a tent city outside Port au Prince.  According to Nokero, Haitian families often spend $10 to $30 on batteries, kerosene, or other lighting methods a month. For that amount, they can buy one or two solar bulbs that can last years. The company and American Green are trying to get Haitians interested in starting up businesses buying and selling them. The bulbs have been tested in countries like Pakistan and Kenya and are also being shipped to needy families by Project C.U.R.E., the world's largest distributor of donated medical supplies. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: For T-Mobile, it's all about the 4G network (live blog)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julrild</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[T-Mobile shows off the Dell Streak 7.(Credit:CNET ) Editors' note: This live event has concluded. For a brief rundown of what was announced, check out our summary post here. You can also replay our live blog in the Cover It Live module below.T-Mobile's Android plans as well as their 4G strategy could come into play during Thursday's press conference, and you can find live coverage here. T-Mobile's press conference is set to kick off around 11 a.m. PT Thursday from the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. We'll provide news and analysis of the press conference, part of a full day's supply ofCES news.T-Mobile CES 2011 press conference live blogEditors' note: The original pre-event version of this story was published January 5 at 11 a.m. PT.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FCC Net neutrality rules reach mobile apps]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julrild</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=fcc-net-neutrality-rules-reach-mobile-apps</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Net neutrality advocates in Washington have long insisted that eventual government regulations would be simple and easy to understand. Public Knowledge has called the Net neutrality concept &quot;ridiculously simple,&quot; and Free Press said the rules would be &quot;clear&quot; and easy to understand.The Federal Communications Commission finally released its long-expected regulations this afternoon, which it had previously approved on a 3-2 party line vote earlier this week, and they're not exactly &quot;ridiculously&quot; simple. The rules and the related explanations total a whopping 194 pages (PDF).One new item that was not previously disclosed: mobile wireless providers can't block &quot;applications that compete with the provider's&quot; own voice or video telephony services. By including that rule, the FCC effectively sided with Skype over wireless carriers.A series of disputes erupted last year over whether Skype would be allowed on smartphones and over whether it was AT&amp;T or Apple that was responsible for Google Voice not appearing in theiPhone's App Store. (In October 2009, AT&amp;T agreed to support voice over Internet Protocol applications such as Skype on its 3G network, and Google Voice appeared as an iPhone application last month.)The legality of &quot;paid prioritization,&quot; which previously was ambiguous, also has been cleared up. The concept means a broadband provider favoring some traffic over other traffic. That would mean Amazon.com can't, theoretically, pay Comcast for its Web site to load faster than Barnes &amp; Noble's.The FCC acknowledged there's no evidence that &quot;U.S. broadband providers currently engage in such arrangements.&quot; But because any pay-for-priority deals would &quot;represent a significant departure from historical&quot; practice and potentially raise barriers to entry on the Internet, they should be outlawed.That section of today's order, which has been championed by Chairman Julius Genachowski, rejects arguments about paid prioritization that AT&amp;T made earlier this year. As CNET reported at the time, AT&amp;T noted it already had &quot;hundreds&quot; of customers who have paid extra for higher-priority services, and it argued that the Internet Engineering Task Force's specifications explicitly permit the practice.Genachowski had said during Tuesday's vote that the rules would require all broadband providers including mobile services to disclose their network management practices, and that non-mobile providers would be prohibited from blocking and &quot;unreasonably&quot; discriminating against network traffic.Other points that became public in today's order:&amp;149' Internet providers are allowed to block users from committing copyright infringement, &quot;which has adverse consequences for the economy,&quot; though the FCC intentionally left ambiguous the extent of this authority.&amp;149' Mobile providers, which are generally not the target of these rules, nevertheless can't block access to &quot;lawful&quot; Web sites or &quot;competing&quot; services. That includes &quot;a voice or video telephony service&quot; provided by that carrier or a parent company.&amp;149' The definition of &quot;reasonable&quot; network management: &quot;Appropriate and tailored to achieving a legitimate network management purpose, taking into account the particular network architecture and technology of the broadband Internet access service.&quot;&amp;149' All broadband providers, including mobile wireless providers, must disclose their network practices. That includes &quot;descriptions of congestion management practices' types of traffic subject to practices' purposes served by practices' practices' effects on end users' experience' criteria used in practices, such as indicators of congestion that trigger a practice, and the typical frequency of congestion' usage limits and the consequences of exceeding them' and references to engineering standards, where appropriate.&quot;&amp;149' It also includes &quot;whether and why the provider blocks or rate-controls specific protocols or protocol ports, modifies protocol fields in ways not prescribed by the protocol standard, or otherwise inhibits or favors certain applications or classes of applications.&quot;The FCC has been attacked on nearly all sides since its vote Tuesday, with pro-regulation groups like Free Press and Public Knowledge saying the order doesn't go far enough, especially in terms of regulating wireless providers. That was echoed by FCC commissioner Michael Copps, a Democrat, saying he almost voted against the proposal because it &quot;could--and should--have gone further.&quot;Robert McDowell, a Republican, dissented from the vote, saying the FCC did not have the legal authority to enact Internet regulations. The real effect, he predicted, would be: &quot;Less investment. Less innovation. Increased business costs. Increased prices for consumers. Disadvantages to smaller ISPs. Jobs lost.&quot;The ultimate fate of the FCC's order released today is, of course, anything but certain.In April, a federal appeals court unceremoniously slapped down the agency's earlier attempt to impose Net neutrality penalties on Comcast after the company temporarily throttled some BitTorrent transfers. And more than a few Republican members of Congress -- including incoming House Speaker John Boehner--have slammed the FCC's action as an illegal attempt to regulate the Internet. In the 2011 funding bill, they could prohibit the FCC from enforcing any such rules.Last updated at 4:45 p.m. PT<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Another strike against Google TV Logitech temporarily halting Revue production]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julrild</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[UpdatedGoogle TV just can&amp;'t catch a break. We reported last week that Google asked a number of hardware manufacturers to delay their Google TV devices for a few months, and now there&amp;'s word that Logitech may be halting production of its Google TV-powered Revue set-top box.Logitech reportedly asked Gigabyte, which builds the Revue boxes, to suspend shipments from December 2010 to January 2011, according to Digitimes.The company is apparently waiting for Google to roll out some significant changes to Google TV &amp;8212' the same reason Google reportedly asked other companies to delay their GTV devices. A Logitech rep told CNet that it will continue shipping the Revue to customers, so it could just be that Logitech has a surplus of the devices due to poor sales and doesn&amp;'t need any more devices from its manufacturer.It&amp;'s unknown how many Revue boxes Logitech has sold so far, or how well Google TV devices have sold overall. In addition to Logitech, Sony recently rolled out a line of TVs and a Blu-ray player with Google TV built-in.In my write-up of the Logitech Revue, I found that Google TV had a lot of potential as a platform, even if it suffered from some growing pains. GTV&amp;'s recently released first update addressed some of its initial issues &amp;8212' in particular upgrading its barebones Netflix app &amp;8212' but the platform is still too pricey for mainstream consumers (Logitech&amp;'s Revue box retails for $300). And since Google is still having trouble getting access to web video content from TV networks, there&amp;'s little discernible advantage to choosing Google TV over simple, affordable devices like Roku&amp;'s set-top boxes.I suspect that Google is gearing up to bring apps to GTV in its next big update. The company previously said that it intends to have an app market available on the platform in early 2011. With an app ecosystem Google TV would have a compelling feature that competitors, including the revamped Apple TV, don&amp;'t yet offer.Update: A Logitech spokesperson says: &amp;''Logitech has not been asked by Google to suspend production of its Google TV products. As those familiar with the product know, it is not necessary for Logitech to make changes to the Logitech Revue with Google TV companion box to accommodate future enhancements to Google TV.&amp;''Next Story: Tesla stock drops 16 percent, analysts pile on worries Previous Story: Y Combinator-backed Humble Bundle sells $1.8M worth of indie gamesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Google TV, streaming video, TVCompanies: Google, Logitech, Roku          Tags: Google TV, streaming video, TVCompanies: Google, Logitech, RokuDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.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[FitnessKeeper scoops up $1.1M to build out fitness app]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julrild</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Startup FitnessKeeper, the parent company of the RunKeeper smartphone app, has raised $1.11 million and will use the money to build out its nine-person operation and dive into the highly competitive world of now-fashionable mobile fitness applications.The RunKeeper iPhone app uses GPS locating to track your distance, time, elevation, pace and path on a map and has caught the eye of several major investors since the company was founded two years ago, primarily because it has kept up with rapidly developing technologies.The app now has features that let others watch your progress, live, online, as they trace your mileage and can see varying levels of your workout. In addition, it now offers mobile fitness training and routine plans to help runners train for events.It also raised eyebrows last year when founder and CEOJason Jacobs ran the Boston Marathon (pictured)dressed as an iPhone to promote the business.The Boston-based company has raised $1.51 million thus far, including $400,000 in seed money from LaunchCapital last fall, along with angel investors Viewlogic founder Will Herman, BzzAgent CEO Dave Balter and Compete.com CEO Don McLagan.Its latest round of funding was led by well-known Silicon Valley VC firm Oa4a4Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, which has poured money into startup darlings Bit.ly and Foursquare, and included several new unnamed angels and all its former investors.a4AWe liked [OATV managing director and co-founder] Bryce [Roberts] and the OATV gang from the minute we met them,a4 Jacobs said in a company blog post today. a4ABryce (who also invested in our friends at Foursquare) is an avid cyclist, and like us, is a big believer in mobile/social/fitness/quantified self.a4Previous Story: Money pours into the private cloud as Abiquo rakes in $10MPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: applications, smartphones, Venture CapitalCompanies: Bit.ly, compete.com, fitnesskeeper, Foursquare, LaunchCapital, o&amp;'reailly alphatech ventures, RunKeeper, viewlogicPeople: Bryce Roberts, dave balter, don mclagan, Jason Jacobs, will herman          Tags: applications, smartphones, Venture CapitalCompanies: Bit.ly, compete.com, fitnesskeeper, Foursquare, LaunchCapital, o&amp;'reailly alphatech ventures, RunKeeper, viewlogicPeople: Bryce Roberts, dave balter, don mclagan, Jason Jacobs, will hermanRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting.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[Zuckerberg Interviews Former President George W. Bush At Facebook HQ&nbsp'[Video]]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julrild</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Watch live streaming video from facebookguests at livestream.comLooks like President Obama isn&amp;'t the only one resorting to Facebook as a way to reach the American people. In a first for a U.S. President past or present, former President George W. Bush will hold a discussion and Q&amp;amp'A live from Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto. The event will start in about 20 minutes at 2 pm PST.Bush will be talking to Facebook employees about his new booka4sDecision Points, and those of us not employed by Facebook will have the opportunity to watch it on Facebook Live and the Livestream above.a4sAccording toa4sThe Next Web, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself will in fact moderate the discussion along with Facebook General Council Ted Ullyot. Ullyot also happens to have been an attorney for the Bush White House, which might explain why the former President&amp;'s only Bay Area appearance is at the social network.Bush belatedly joined Facebook over the summer primarily to promote Decision Points through his fan page. W. currently hasa4s619,516 fans as opposed to the 16,889,927 people &amp;''liking&amp;'' the decidedly more web savvy Barack Obama.We&amp;'re hoping the Q&amp;amp'A will also extend to the folks at home, or that some Facebook employee will muster up the courage to ask Bush what he thinks about Wikileaks. Stay tuned!&amp;nbsp'CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nvidia, Qualcomm in mobile race to power holiday gadgets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Graphics chipmaker Nvidia announced today that it will have &amp;''the world&amp;'s first quad-core&amp;'' mobile processor out today. That means its latest offering for cell phones and other mobile devices features four processing brains in one chip. San Jose-based Nvidia is in a race with San Diego&amp;'s Qualcomm, which announced a quad-core chip yesterday, to get to market the fastest with a mobile chip that has screaming performance.This competitive battle reminds me of the competitive days of the PC market, when chip makers raced to get the smallest of edges on their competitors. But if Nvidia meets its schedule, it could gain a significant advantage on Qualcomm. That&amp;'s because Nvidia&amp;'s quad-core chips would be in products for the busy holiday season, while Qualcomm&amp;'s will come out afterward.For consumers, this means that it won&amp;'t be long before tablet computers and smartphones have the same kind of performance you&amp;'d expect from a desktop computer or a laptop.Mike Rayfield, general manager of Nvidia&amp;'s mobile business, said in a blog post that the company showed off a working quad-core Tegra mobile processor today at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. He said the chip would be available in tablet computers in August and in smartphones by Christmas. By contrast, Qualcomm said that its quad-core processor would ship samples to customers in early 2012. Rayfield said Nvidia&amp;'s &amp;''next-generation super chip&amp;'' is sampling today.Nvidia&amp;'s new chip, code-named Kal-El, is a quad-core chip with five times the performance of Tegra 2, the chip that is appearing in a number of new tablet computers this spring. Nvidia also showed that it has a competitive Tegra roadmap of new products through 2014.In the demo today, Rayfield said that Nvidia showed Kal-El running in an Android tablet, running a video on a very high-resolution 2560&amp;215'1600 display. That&amp;'s the equivalent of the resolution on the best computer monitors available today.On top of the quad-core processor, the Kal-El also has a powerful graphics component: a GeForce graphics processing unit (GPU) with 12 cores. By 2014, Nvidia promises 100 times the performance of what Tegra 2 can do now.[image credit: Dragwire]Previous Story: How far can Apple push developersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Kal-El, TegraCompanies: Nvidia, QualcommPeople: Mike Rayfield          Tags: Kal-El, TegraCompanies: Nvidia, QualcommPeople: Mike RayfieldDean 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. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat 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[Blekko Partners Up With Search Engine&nbsp'DuckDuckGo]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Blekko, the little search engine that could, has just come off the success of hitting one million search queries day and 30,000 slashtags  (human curated search topics like /colleges, /vegan, /blogs) created in it&amp;'s first week of existence.Now it has taken a unique &amp;''if you can&amp;'t beat them, join &amp;8216'em&amp;'' approach to the search and hooked up with fellow market outlier DuckDuckGo, which like Blekko, is a search engine that prides itself on having more relevant results than Google or Bing with the added bonus of not keeping any of your personally identifiable info.a4ABoth our companies share the same mission of eliminating spam from search so that users get information from the best and most relevant sources on the Web,a4 said Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta.As of today Blekko will incorporate DuckDuckGo&amp;'s Zero-Click Info summaries on a site by site basis, which can be ironically accessed by yes clicking on &amp;''info&amp;'' in the search results while you&amp;'re on Blekko and show up at the top of your query page while on DuckDuckGo.DuckDuckGo search results will now be powered by Blekko for the following heavy hitting searches: &amp;''personal finance,&amp;''&quot;lyrics,&amp;''&quot;recipes,&amp;''&quot;hotels,&amp;''&quot;health,&amp;''&quot;colleges,&amp;'' and &amp;''autos.&amp;'' Blekko itself has been experimenting with auto-applying slashtags to these categories in order to improve queries, for example using the slashtag /health to cull better results for the search &amp;''cure for colds.&amp;''DuckDuckGo users will also be able to search for the most recent results with /date, which is actually my favorite feature on Blekko and is especially useful if you&amp;'re looking for news articles or blog posts or any thing chronological.Blekko has come up with some highly original ways to keep users coming back (check out itsa4sSEO tools) and I wouldn&amp;'t be surprised if DuckDuckGo isn&amp;'t the last partnership we see from the well coffered search engine. Says Skrenta&amp;''We got a lot of money in the bank [$24 million to be exact]a4sso wea4a4re not going anywhere.a4You can check out our TCTV interview with Skrenta here and our full review of Blekko here.CrunchBase InformationBlekkoDuck Duck GoInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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