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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Galaxy Tab return rate at 13%' iPad 2%]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Apple)Samsung's revenue and profit may be up, but so is the return rate for its Galaxy Tab.According to ITG Investment Research, which tracked sale data from 6,000 wireless stores in the U.S., an estimated 13 percent of Galaxy Tab owners are returning the devices. The data was tracked from the device's release in November until the end of December, according to AllThingsD.com.The news doesn't get any better for Samsung as holiday returns continue to come in. According to the data, if you factor in cumulative data until January 15, the return rate jumps to 16 percent.In comparison,Apple's iPad had a 2 percent return rate for the same time period, according to the New York Post.Samsung posted increased revenue and profits when it reported fiscal fourth-quarter results last week, but the company declined to say exactly how many Galaxy Tabs it sold. Samsung said only that the device &quot;attracted strong year-end demand.&quot;In its first-quarter fiscal earnings, Apple reported revenue of $26.74 billion and profits of $6 billion. The company said it sold 7.33 million iPads during the holiday quarter.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Envy 17 from HP adds new cooling controls, updated Intel CPUs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-envy-17-from-hp-adds-new-cooling-controls-updated-intel-cpus</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:HP)HP's CoolSense technology is quickly becoming standard across HP's laptop lines, and today it gets added to the massive 17-inchHP Envy 17 (and it also turns up in the new 11-inch Pavilion dm1). CoolSense is a control panel for setting fan performance, from maximum cooling to quietest operation. HP says its inclusion in the Envy 17 makes it &quot;the first high-performance HP PC with advanced cooling technology.&quot;The Envy 17 is also moving to Intel's second generation on Core i-series processors, but continuing to couple them with AMD graphics, namely the AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6850M. There's a certain level of automatic graphics switching built into the Envy 17, but it's not as transparent and adaptable as Nvidia's Optimus system (nor, according to our sources, is it likely to be anytime soon). That said, a 17-inch laptop is likely to spend most of its time plugged in, so turning the GPU off and on automatically to save battery life isn't a top priority. HP Envy 17 (photos) We like the current version of the Envy 17 a lot, especially as it's reasonably priced for an upscale desktop replacement, and includes Beats Audio technology. Current versions are already available with active shutter 3D capabilities, and HP says, &quot;Future models of the HP Envy 17 3D are expected to include DDD's TriDef 3D Experience Ignition Game Player, allowing users to experience immersive 3D stereoscopic gaming at no additional cost.&quot; We've used TriDef 3D software in other 3D laptops with polarized screens and glasses' to be charitable, it's not a very satisfying experience. The current 3D version of the Envy 17 works just fine, even though it doesn't use the industry standard Nvidia 3D Vision platform. It's worth noting that HP also positions the 3D Envy 17 as a system for 3D movie viewing, not gaming. The updated HP Envy 17 doesn't have a street date or price yet, but the previous model started at $1,599. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: FBI seizes server in probe of WikiLeaks attacks]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-fbi-seizes-server-in-probe-of-wikileaks-attacks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The FBI has seized a server in Texas as part of its hunt for the groups behind the pro-WikiLeaks denial-of-service attacks launched in December against PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, and others, according to a report.During a December 16 raid, agents seized a server at Tailor Made Services, a Dallas-based co-location, or server-hosting, facility, and copied two of its hard drives, according to The Smoking Gun Web site, which said it has obtained the FBI affidavit in support of a search warrant for the seizure.It's not clear what was found on the drives, The Smoking Gun reported, saying that search warrant records showed agents were authorized to seize material related to the attacks or to other illegal activities involving the groups Anonymous or 4chan.Anonymous has claimed responsibility for deluging the Web sites of PayPal and others with data in order to bring the sites down. The attacks, the group says, were a response to actions taken by the site holders against WikiLeaks, after WikiLeaks publicly released a slew of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables. PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa all decided to prevent WikiLeaks from collecting donations via their financial networks. 4Chan has said it was behind an attack to shut down the sites for Swiss bank PostFinance and lawyers in Sweden prosecuting sex allegations against WikiLeaks front man Julian Assange. related WikiLeaks, Assange feel the heat (roundup)  The FBI began its probe after PayPal contacted the agency, The Smoking Gun reported, and the Internet payment company subsequently provided the bureau with eight IP addresses it said were associated with the attacks. The FBI's investigation has focused on tracing at least two of those addresses--one that's led the agency through Germany and France before taking it to Texas, and another that's led, through Canada, to Hurricane Electric, a hosting company near San Jose, Calif., The Smoking Gun reported.The Smoking Gun said it had not received a response to a request for comment from Hurricane Electric. It also said that during a phone interview, the FBI agent who filed the affidavit declined to provide additional information.Both the German Federal Criminal Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been involved in the investigation, The Smoking Gun said, adding that U.S. investigators claim the attacks are felony violations of a federal law covering the &quot;unauthorized and knowing transmission of code or commands resulting in intentional damage to a protected computer system.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FTC approves Intel acquisition of McAfee]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ftc-approves-intel-acquisition-of-mcafee</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Intel has received a thumb's up from the Federal Trade Commission for its proposed purchase of McAfee.The chipmaker confirmed the news yesterday in a note on its Investor Relations site, announcing that the Federal Trade Commission has finished its review of the deal and has cleared it.In August, Intel broke the news of its decision to buy the security vendor for $7.68 billion--the biggest acquisition in its 42-year history. Intel sees McAfee as a way to gain a greater foothold into a growing market of security-conscious businesses and consumers.The FTC's approval of the deal isn't the only hurdle that Intel faces. Still pending is a review by the European Commission.Regulators from the EC have reportedly expressed initial concerns over the antitrust implications of an Intel-owned McAfee. A recent Wall Street Journal story cited unnamed sources who said that regulators have questioned other security software vendors over the issue of Intel providing McAfee's products with special access to certain chip features, thus giving them a leg up over competitors.However, an analyst from JMP Securities quoted by Reuters doesn't see much trouble ahead in getting EC clearance on the deal.&quot;My supposition here is that it is simply taking a bit more time overseas than here, and obviously Intel has had its recent wrangling with the European Union, which may be throwing just another dimension of complexity into the process,&quot; JMP analyst Alex Gauna told Reuters.Intel has tangled with Europe before. Last year, the company was fined $1.45 billion by the European Union after it found Intel guilty of engaging in illegal antitrust actions designed to hamper rival chipmakers.On its end, Intel said simply that it continues to work with the EC on the review.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mass antipiracy suits looks less certain]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mass-antipiracy-suits-looks-less-certain</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The chances that independent filmmakers and porn studios can find a cost effective way to sue thousands of alleged film pirates appears less likely with each passing day. Robert Talbot (right) oversees the Internet Justice Clinic at the University of San Francisco. He&amp;39's skeptical there&amp;39's any profits in suing people for file sharing.(Credit:Heather Hunt) Last week, lawyers representing producers of the B-film &quot;Far Cry&quot; dropped more than 4,500 people from a lawsuit filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C. that accused them of illegally sharing the movie via the Internet. What prompted the removal of defendants from the suit was a decision by Rosemary Collyer, the judge in the case, who said she wanted to finally rule on whether her court had jurisdiction over the thousands of defendants who didn't live in the Washington, D.C. area. She wanted to hear arguments on the issue, but instead, the filmmakers responded by dropping all but about 140 defendants who lived near Washington, D.C. Thomas Dunlap, attorney for the filmmakers, told CNET a week ago he planned to refile the complaints in district courts closer to the defendants' homes &quot;hopefully&quot; by Thursday. As of today, however, new complaints had yet to be refiled. In an e-mail to CNET this afternoon, Dunlap sounded less certain about timing. &quot;We are not refiling against all of them at once,&quot; Dunlap wrote. &quot;We are filing a few at a time initially in various jurisdictions. The cases outside of DC, Virginia and Maryland [which will be pursued by Dunlap's firm] are in the hands of [other law firms that Dunlap said he has partnered with] so I cannot predict how soon they will be filed...Because the copyright statute of limitations is three years we plan to pursue the list over the course of the next year in waves.&quot;Lawyers who represent some of the defendants aren't buying Dunlap's explanation. Some opposing counsel say they are skeptical about whether Dunlap's 12-lawyer firm can afford to litigate in courts across the country--at least not against all the people the law firm initially sued--and neither can his clients. As for farming out the complaints, skeptics say that there isn't enough money in these cases to make it profitable when it has to be divided among Dunlap's firm, outside counsel, and the filmmakers. Some opponents believe that Dunlap's original business model--which called for naming thousands of people in a single complaint and litigating against them in a single court--is busted. Robert Talbot, a law professor at the University of San Francisco who represents more than 20 people accused by Dunlap's clients, didn't want to claim victory yet. He said he wanted to avoid prematurely claiming &quot;mission accomplished.&quot;I cannot predict how soon they will be filed. Because the copyright statute of limitations is three years we plan to pursue the list over the course of the next year in waves.&quot; --Thomas Dunlap, lawyer&quot;I'm telling clients to wait and see [if Dunlap re-files],&quot; Talbot said. &quot;Dunlap has told us in the past he would refile. But doing that will cost a great deal more money. It looks like their business model must change dramatically. It's going to be difficult and I can't figure out how they are going to do it economically.&quot;The courtroom setbacks in the &quot;Far Cry&quot; case doesn't bode well for Dunlap's other indie-studio clients, including the makers of the Oscar-winning film &quot;The Hurt Locker.&quot; It also is unlikely to be welcome news for adult-film producers who have attempted to duplicate Dunlap's legal strategy. While Judge Collyer's decisions in the &quot;Far Cry&quot; case aren't binding on other courts, it isn't a good precedent for anyone filing these mass lawsuits. At this point, the fundamental problem with Dunlap's plan appears to be his firm's inability to persuade some Internet service providers to quickly turn over names of accused file sharers. To chase down alleged film pirates, Dunlap must first collect the Internet protocol addresses from people who allegedly share illegal files via peer-to-peer networks. He must then persuade a court to issue subpoenas to ISPs and require them to identify the owners of the IP addresses. Time Warner Cable is one ISP that has objected to turning over large numbers of names. The company has argued that the cost and resources it takes to track down the information is too high. TWC has convinced the courts to require the company to only deliver a minimum of 28 names each month. That means that Dunlap would need to wait five years before he could obtain the names of all the TWC subscribers his client accuses of illegally file sharing &quot;Far Cry.&quot; Dunlap asked Collyer for a five-year extension and she promptly rejected the request. That's when he started to drop names from the &quot;Far Cry&quot; complaint. &amp;39'Far Cry,&amp;39' a movie adapted from a videogame, was made by Uwe Boll and stars Til Schweiger.These aren't the only potential pitfalls. For example, it hasn't been determined whether it's legal to name thousands of defendants in a single lawsuit And who will pay to litigate against the people who refuse to settle Fighting a prolonged legal battle with a feisty copyright defendant can be a huge money pit for copyright owners and there's no better example of this than Jammie Thomas-Rasset. The Minnesota woman found liable for copyright infringement by two different juries has spent the better part of the past five years continuing her court fight and driving up the legal costs of her accusers, the four largest record companies. The labels have spent millions in legal fees and the case continues to drag on. It's important to note the record companies tried discouraging illegal file sharing by suing thousands of individuals for five years but gave the practice up in 2008.One of the biggest tests for Dunlap's strategy will be whether he and his clients can afford to litigate cases like Thomas-Rasset's. If Dunlap's clients don't pursue at least some of the people who insist on fighting, then few defendants would feel any pressure to settle. The rub is that it may not matter whether Dunlap and his clients go to the mat with file sharers. Two music industry sources who are knowledgeable about the labels' litigation campaign said the music companies didn't make a dime off their suits. They said copyright litigation on a mass scale simply doesn't pay for itself. More proof of this came last week. On Friday, a coalition of trade groups from the film and music sectors, including the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, filed a report about copyright protection in the Internet age with the U.S. Department of Commerce, which is on a fact finding mission. In the report, the RIAA and MPAA made their feelings about litigation as an antipiracy measure very clear. The coalition wrote: &quot;The role of lawsuits solving the online theft problem is clearly limited.&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Black Friday tech deals]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Lots of GPS units are discounted this year.(Credit:Target)Every year, the Black Friday online circulars hit the Web, and lots of sites round up every Black Friday tech deal under the sun. If you want to see massively long lists with loads of models names that make no sense to you, go over to our friends at ZDNet or Gizmodo. They've done an excellent job compiling everything.However, if you're trying to sort the real deals from all the crap that's being advertised to lure you into the stores, I've done my best to surface some of the more attractive options out there. The truth is a lot of the so-called deals are already available online from stores like Amazon and others--but a few items do stand out.Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and some deals may appear better to you than us, but here's what we've picked so far. If you feel we missed anything, feel free to point it out in the comments section below, and we'll add it to our showcase. Also, noted doorbuster items will only be offered in limited supplies, so get to stores early--or don't bother.Click on any image below to start the slideshow.Top 10 Black Friday tech deals <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Docs may soon offer cloud printing, device syncing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-docs-may-soon-offer-cloud-printing-device-syncing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Docs may soon sport some new features.(Credit:Google)A peek at the source code behind Google Docs by a third-party blog site offers a tantalizing hint of some features that may be around the corner.The Web site Google Operating System (no relation to Google itself) revealed yesterday that it dug into the source code of Google Docs to find a message that said simply: &quot;Coming soon: Third party applications, cloud printers, and sync devices.&quot;Cloud printing, which lets you print to any local or shared printer without the need for a print driver, is a feature that Google has teased for awhile. The company has been developing its own Google Cloud print service that would allow Chrome OS users to print documents that are managed on Google's end and then sent back to a physical printer. Beyond printing to any printer, users could share their own printers with other people around the world, similar to the way they now can share a document itself.The first Chrome OS devices could hit the market later this month and in December, just in time for the holiday season and potentially paving the way for Google's new cloud printing service.The &quot;sync devices&quot; feature likely refers to the ability to synchronize Google Docs files with the desktop as well as with mobile devices. That capability is currently missing in the free basic edition of the software but is available to some degree in the subscription-based Google Apps product and in various third-party utilities. And &quot;third-party applications&quot; might be a tip-off that Google will allow Docs to tap into other other types of software to provide added functionality beyond creating basic documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.These are features that Google has already brought to light, so it does appear to be a case of when, not if, they'll see the light of day. In response to a query about the new features, a Google spokeswoman e-mailed CNET the following statement:&quot;Each of the features you mentioned have been announced before but we are excited to see everyone's enthusiasm for the cloud and integration with Google Docs. Third-party app integration framework was presented at Google I/O in May. At that time, we also mentioned that third parties may potentially build sync clients like Memeo Connect using the Documents List Data API and Sites Data API. We announced Google Cloud Print last April and you can read more about the project on the Google Code page. We have no specifics on timing for these features at this point.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google tweaks Gmail.com for iPhone, iPod Touch]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-tweaks-gmail-com-for-iphone-ipod-touch</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Google)Google has been fine-tuning its mobile in-browser Gmail experience on the iPhone and iPod Touch for years, and over the course of time, the addition here and modification there has added up to a very usable in-box experience in the spirit of Gmail on the desktop, if not its identical feature sets and dimensions.This week's tweaks focus oniPhone andiPod Touch handsets running iOS 4 in English. They nail down the design of the navigation menu, which Google has been experimenting with on its iPhone-optimized Web site for the past few weeks. Now, the toolbar is fixed in place while you scroll, rather than following after you scroll through a message or the in-box.Google also performed some back-end tune-ups on the scrolling speed to cut out the lag time between the motion of your finger and the motion of the in-box contents. We won't deny it: there's no delay.We'll still use the e-mail in-box on our iPhone 4, but we will say that the mobile Gmail experience is improving, one tweak and turn at a time.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Assistly raises $3M to manage customer complaints on Twitter and such]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Assistly, a customer relationship management (CRM) software provider that specializes in social media, announced today that it has raised $3 million in its second round of funding.Assistly&amp;'s brand of CRM software mashes together pretty much every avenue of communication into a single Web interface. It includes traditional communication methods like email and phone calls. It then uses application programming interfaces (APIs) from social media services like Twitter and Facebook to directly feed that information into its website and combines it all into a single interface.The web app lets users enter a number of tags and other keywords and crawls social media outlets to find people who mention them. That information is fed into a dashboard and Assistly users can quickly respond to questions or complaints about a service.Assistly started in 2009 when co-founder Alex Bard and his team decided to take another crack at starting a company in the customer service space. It&amp;'s their fourth startup together, and the third that works with customer service. Their last company together, Goowy Media, was sold to Aol in 2008 a4&quot; though the details of the deal weren&amp;'t disclosed.&amp;''Our investors were pretty happy,&amp;'' Bard said.They pulled the idea of adding an analytics component to CRM software from their previous outing with Goowy Media, a company that designed web and desktop widgets and distributed them with an analytics suite, and ran with it. Assistly has picked up customers like web-based music streaming service Grooveshark and Twitter since launching the service in September last year.Since then, Assistly has raised about $4.7 million with its most recent round of fundraising.The first round, led by True Ventures and Social Leverage, closed last year. Bullpen Capital, Index Ventures and investor Kenny Van Zant joined in the most recent round. The latest round took about two months to finish.The company hasn&amp;'t had a marketing budget since its launch. The most recent round of funding will be used to actually help market Assistly and develop a sales force. It will also be used to &amp;''add more gasoline to the fire&amp;'' and develop the analytics suite further, Bard said.[Photo: The Next Web]Next Story: Gadget megatrend: From one mobile market to many Previous Story: Hearst, Google, and Oprah check in to social TV app MisoPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cloud computing, CRM, customer relationship managementCompanies: Assistly          Tags: cloud computing, CRM, customer relationship managementCompanies: AssistlyMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[In race with Nvidia, AMD launches its fastest new graphics chips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>acaiberriesfx</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Advanced Micro Devices is introducing its fastest new graphics chips today for enthusiast gamers who want split-second 3D graphics performance on their gaming PCs. The move is part of AMD&amp;'s latest efforts to stay in the graphics horse race with Nvidia and Intel.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker is launching its AMD Radeon 6900 series of graphics cards with its second-generation of graphics for Microsoft&amp;'s DirectX 11 architecture. (DirectX 11 enables computers to run the coolest 3D graphics special effects). The series includes the new AMD Radeon HD 6970 and AMD Radeon HD 6950 graphics cards, which house the graphics chips in an add-in card in a computer. Prices for the cards start at $299. For gamers, that means that they can buy screaming-fast graphics chips at prices that aren&amp;'t going to completely bust their budgets.The new chips show that AMD is still dedicated to launching stand-alone graphics chips under the Radeon brand name. Meanwhile, AMD is forging ahead with combo chips, which combine a microprocessor and a graphics chip on the same piece of silicon. Those chips will begin selling early next year under the AMD Fusion brand name and will compete with Intel&amp;'s combo chips, code-named Sandybridge.While the combo chips will take some time to take off, the stand-alone chips like the ones AMD launched today will be critical for high-end gaming PCs, which are racing ahead of the game consoles in terms of what they can display.The new stand-alone AMD graphics cards will compete with Nvidia&amp;'s recently launched GeForce GTX 580 and 570 graphics chips, which sell for list prices of $519 and $349, respectively. The AMD chips feature Eyefinity, which allows a single graphics card to display images on as many as six different monitors at the same time. AMD says more than 60 games now take advantage of Eyefinity.The new chips have more tessellation, a special effect that makes surfaces of objects appear to look more realistic. The new chips have about 2.9 times the performance of AMD&amp;'s earlier AMD Radeon HD 5870 graphics chip. Tessellation is the feature that most distinguishes Nvidia&amp;'s graphics cards. AMD&amp;'s new chips also have other image quality and power consumption improvements, resulting in a 10 percent improvement in performance.Overall, the high-end AMD Radeon HD 6970 graphics chip offers 2.5 times the game performance of AMD&amp;'s fastest graphics chip from 2008. The new Radeon chips also have non-graphics features, such as parallel processing that allows for better video playback quality.These kinds of graphics chips are among the most complicated in the technology world today. The AMD Radeon HD 6970 has more than 2.64 billion electronic components known as transistors, which are the microscopic building blocks of chips. Nvidia&amp;'s GeForce GTX 580 chip has 3 billion transistors.The AMD chip runs at 880 megahertz, has 1,536 processing cores, and has a compute performance of 2.7 teraflops and can push pixels through the chip at a rate of 28.2 gigapixels per second. By comparison, the Nvidia chip runs at 772 megahertz, has 512 processors, and has a compute performance of 1.58 teraflops. It can process pixels at a rate of 37.1 gigapixels per second.Previous Story: Oodle&amp;'s upgraded marketplace is all about friendsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: AMD Radeon, graphics chips, RadeonCompanies: advanced micro devices, Amd, Intel, Nvidia          Tags: AMD Radeon, graphics chips, RadeonCompanies: advanced micro devices, Amd, Intel, NvidiaDean 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[Google turns its year in review into a commercial]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google released its Zeitgeist 2010 list today, highlighting the top queries in its search engine from around the world. More than the list itself, which held relatively few surprises, I was impressed by the effort that Google put into the presentation, with a video tour of the top searches (embedded below) and an interactive website showing different searches in different regions.I was particularly amused by the video, which turned out to be a subtle commercial for a wide range of Google products. On the surface, it seems to be a fast tour of headlines, photos, and videos from the past year, accompanied by some generically uplifting pop music, but to get to those headlines, the video takes us through a crazy variety of Google services, including Google News, Google Images, Google Maps, Google Fast Flip, Google Profiles, Google Buzz, YouTube, YouTube LeanBack, and Google Instant, plus a bunch of features in Gmail, including Priority Inbox, free phone calls, and YouTube previews.Thata4a4s not a criticism, since it would have been boring to watch one Google Web search after another. If anything, I&amp;'m kind of in awe of how many services they managed to shoehorn in there. Some of them are a stretch, though &amp;8212' during the tour of celebrities who died this year, we get to see (presumably fictional) user profiles of JD Salinger and Gary Coleman.And actually, there were a few aspects of the Zeitgeist lists that surprised me. I knew Chatroulette was a hit, but I didna4a4t think it would take the number one spot in a4Athe fastest rising lista4. And as a tech blogger who tries to insert a4AiPada4 into his headlines whenever possible, Ia4a4m pleased to see that I was on the right track, since iPad placed number two. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, it turns out that people really use Google as a way to look up bus times &amp;8212' transit-related queries made up four items in the local top 10.Next Story: Blog company Automattic has a massive audience, less-massive revenue Previous Story: Photo app Picplz expands its social reachPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Google Zeitgeist, Google Zeitgeist 2010, iPadCompanies: chatroulette, Google          Tags: Google Zeitgeist, Google Zeitgeist 2010, iPadCompanies: chatroulette, GoogleAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.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[Facebook Upgrades Its Mobile Privacy&nbsp'Dashboard]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook&amp;'s mobile presence has long been an important part of the site a4&quot;a4sFacebook now gets over 200 million users between its various mobile web sites and smartphone applications. And because so much content gets posted from phones, Facebook has seen fit to port over its extensive privacy controls to mobile. The site initially launched a mobile version of these controls back in August, and soon they&amp;'ll be getting an upgrade.The new controls being announced today have to do with the applications that you&amp;'ve connected to Facebook. Between all the apps you use Facebook Connect for, and the ones you&amp;'ve installed on Facebook proper, there&amp;'s a good chance that you&amp;'re sharing your data with a lot of different sites a4&quot;a4ssome of which you may have forgotten about.To help manage this data flow, Facebook launched a dashboard for connected apps in October a4&quot;a4syou can see which apps are using your data, how often they&amp;'ve accessed it, and what exactly they&amp;'re looking at. And over the next few weeks, Facebook is adding these controls to its mobile site.This may not seem like a huge deal, but remember that web-connected smartphones are spiking in popularity and will outnumber PCs in the next few years. And through efforts like Facebook Zero, Facebook is drawing users who may not even own computers.CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Schmidt On Google TV Network Backlash: We&'re Taking Dumb TV And Making It&nbsp'Smart]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage for a Q&amp;amp'A with hosts John Battelle and Tim O&amp;'Reilly. One topic: Google TV.Specifically, the hosts asked about the backlash Google TV is now seeing from some of the major U.S. television networks. While saying he didn&amp;'t want to speak for them, Schmidt noted that this is the first time someone has tried to do this merging of Internet at television at a huge scale. Obviously, he said, some of them are going to initially be&amp;nbsp'hesitant&amp;nbsp'about such a transition.As he hears it, some of the arguments are &amp;''you&amp;'re taking a dumb television and making it smart&amp;''. &amp;''Yes, we&amp;'re guilty of that,&amp;'' Schmidt said. He said that the networks seem to be concerned that the enormous revenue streams targeted at these dumb televisions will go away if they change the model. Schmidt disagrees. He thinks people will watch even more television if it&amp;'s augmented with the Internet.Schmidt said that the press has done a good job of adding drama to the situation, but he believes that Google and the networks will smooth all this over in relatively short order. &amp;''The ones that have reservations we&amp;'re trying to address that with data,&amp;'' he said.And Schmidt said not to discount the role apps will play on this platform. This hasn&amp;'t been seen yet, but the platform is the powerful thing here. Games, new emergence technologies, and more. It&amp;'s all coming to the living room thanks to Android and the Google TV, according to Schmidt.CrunchBase InformationGoogle TVEric SchmidtInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google To Facebook: You Can&'t Import Our User Data Without&nbsp'Reciprocity]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The war between Google and Facebook is heating up: Google just made one small tweak to its Terms of Service that will have a big impact on the worlda4a4s biggest social network. From now on, any service that accesses Googlea4a4s Contacts API a4&quot; which makes it easy to import your list of friendsa4a4 and coworkersa4a4 email addresses into another service a4&quot; will need to offer reciprocity. Facebook doesna4a4t, so ita4a4s going to lose access to this key piece of the social graph.So what does that mean in laymana4a4s terms  When you initially sign up for Facebook, youa4a4re run through a series of prompts asking you to enter your Google account information so that Facebook can import the email addresses of your contacts. This is a very powerful feature because it helps new users instantly connect with dozens of their friends. And Google is turning it off, because it thinks Facebook isna4a4t playing fair.You see, Facebook has never allowed users to export the contact information of their friends. This has been a gripe against the social network for years, because there&amp;'s never been an easy way to pick up and leave Facebook with your own data in tow. But what, you say Didn&amp;'t Facebook just launch a new feature that lets you download your informationYes and no. The feature lets you download content you&amp;'ve uploaded a4&quot;a4sphotos, wall posts, videos, events, and messages. But the export feature leaves out the most valuable set of data: your contacts. Yes, Facebook will give you a list of their names, but it doesna4a4t attach any contact information: you dona4a4t get their email address, phone numbers, or anything else another service could use to rebuild your social graph somewhere else.Here&amp;'s the relevant addition of the Terms of Service for the Contacts API:5.8. Google supports data portability. By accessing Content through the Contacts Data API or Portable Contacts API for use in your service or application, you are agreeing to enable your users to export their contacts data to other services or applications of their choice in a way that&amp;'s substantially as fast and easy as exporting such data from Google Contacts, subject to applicable laws.A Google spokesperson gave us this statement:Google is committed to making it easy for users to get their data into and out of Google products. That is why we have a data liberation engineering team dedicated to building import and export tools for users. We are not alone. Many other sites allow users to import and export their information, including contacts, quickly and easily. But sites that do not, such as Facebook, leave users in a data dead end.So we have decided to change our approach slightly to reflect the fact that users often arena4a4t aware that once they have imported their contacts into sites like Facebook they are effectively trapped. Google users will still be free to export their contacts from our products to their computers in an open, machine-readable format&amp;8211'and once they have done that they can then import those contacts into any service they choose. However, we will no longer allow websites to automate the import of usersa4a4 Google Contacts (via our API) unless they allow similar export to other sites.Ita4a4s important that when we automate the transfer of contacts to another service, users have some certainty that the new service meets a baseline standard of data portability. We hope that reciprocity will be an important step towards creating a world of true data liberation&amp;8211'and that this move will encourage other websites to allow users to automate the export of their contacts as well.Facebook has claimed in the past that there are sensitive issues around exporting contact information. But that hasn&amp;'t stopped it from pulling in whatever data it can. And it has also forged deals with both Hotmail and Yahoo that will let those services access its contact data. Google didn&amp;'t do a partnership with Facebook, so it doesn&amp;'t get the goods.This one-way flow of contact data isn&amp;'t only impacting Google, either. Earlier this year Twitter launched a new feature that would allow users to see which of their Facebook friends were also on Twitter.  After some initial confusion over what was going on, Facebook simply blocked that functionality (apparently over claims of too much API usage), which was pretty ridiculous. Months later, the feature is still disabled.Which brings us back to why Google is doing this. Facebook has become a major threat to Google because of its exclusive ownership of the social graph (even if it allows other sites to access it via Connect, all roads go through Facebook).  It doesn&amp;'t make sense for Google to die by its own sword, so it&amp;'s going to take the press hit that comes from this change so that it has better footing in the battle over social.And yes, there will be a backlash. Google has long benefitted in the press from its promises and promotion of openness. This is a move toward being more closed, though Google is positioning it as a strategy to help make the web more open in the long-term. That may ultimately prove true, but the underlying motivation is clear a4&quot; this is all about competing with Facebook. And it sets an ugly precedent: if Google feels threatened, it will tweak its degree of openness accordingly. It certainly wouldn&amp;'t be the first company to do so, but its shield of &amp;8216'Open&amp;' is getting somea4sdeep cracks. That said, Google does still let users download their contact data (which Facebook doesn&amp;'t do at all), so it&amp;'s hardly locking users in here. It&amp;'s just making the process to get your Google data onto Facebook more involved.So what does Google want from Facebook Their definition of reciprocity requires that any service accessing its Contacts API offer an API of its own with similar functionality. This means it wants an API that it can access programmatically, without requiring the user to download and then re-upload a spreadsheet of contact data.  Sources close to Google tell us that this policy will be policed on a case-by-case basis. In other words, ita4a4s highly unlikely that Google is going to go around verifying that every startup to access its Contacts API also has an export API of its own a4&quot; they&amp;'re just going to go after the big offenders.This won&amp;'t spell Facebook&amp;'s doom a4&quot; not even close. Facebook can pull in data from other email providers like Yahoo and Microsoft&amp;'s Hotmail, and it already has a massive amount of information that&amp;'s been imported via existing users. It also acquired a company called Octazen that, from what we&amp;'ve heard, is an elite team of professional data scrapers and contact importers. a4sNow that it has contact information from 500 million users, my hunch is that Facebook can simply ask for your Gmail email address and connect you to dozens of contacts without even needing to access Google&amp;'s API.And, if it really came down to it, Facebook has one other way to get Google&amp;'s contact data. Google is going to still allow users to download their contacts in a spreadsheet a4&quot; Facebook could simply ask users to upload that file.We&amp;'ve reached out to Facebook for comment and are waiting to hear back.CrunchBase InformationGoogleFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Moshi Monsters: $100 Million in Projected Product Sales and You&'ve Never Heard of&nbsp'Them]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A quick disclosure: readers of my last book will be familiar with the story (which you can read here) of London-based entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith.Smith co-founded boya4a4s toys e-tailer Firebox.com straight out of university, before moving on to launch an interactive puzzle start-up called Mind Candy. By the end of the book, Mind Candy had gained success with its ambitious Perplexcity alternative reality game (ARG) but hadna4a4t quite tipped over to the mass-market.Michael is a friend &amp;8211' and a fellow Brit &amp;8211' so, obviously, I was really rooting for the company to deliver on its potential. I was one of the first to write about Mind Candy when I was at the Guardian and I promised that, when the company finally tipped, Ia4a4d be the first to write a follow up.And yet, when I left London in 2008, that tipping point seemed further off than ever. Mind Candy had launched Moshi Monsters, a virtual pet product where kids can adopt little pet monsters and buy them cool stuff by solving puzzles &amp;8212' but everyone knew this was the companya4a4s last roll of the dice. Michael wona4a4t discuss specifics but rumours around London were that his investors (which include Accel, Index and Spark Ventures) were trying to force a change of management, and were all-but taking over what was left of Mind Candy. Speaking to Michael by phone earlier today, he still wouldna4a4t comment on the specifics, but I did get him to admit one thing: a4Ayeah, we were screweda4.But he can laugh about all that now. Because some time between the end of 2008 and the middle of 2009, something strange happened to Moshi Monsters. It got successful. How successfulToday, the game has 29m registered accounts across 150 different countries, with 20m of those accounts added in the last year (35% of signups are in the US while the UK accounts for 30%). One in three children (aged 7-11) in the UK has adopted a Moshi Monster and 150 million+ puzzle games have been played. At TechCrunch wea4a4re slightly obsessed with Angry Birds, but Moshia4a4s numbers eclipse it on almost every metric.Whata4a4s even more impressive is that a growing number of these users are paying to further their Moshi obsession' or, the least, their parents are. The basic game is free, but for a4s5 (about $7.50), players can buy a a4AMoshi Passporta4 which gives them access to additional parts of the Moshi world. The company wona4a4t reveal exact subscription numbers but the company became cashflow positive in 2009 and has been profitable ever since.As promised then, I wanted to revisit the Mind Candy story' not least because ita4a4s one of the few companies coming out of London thata4a4s competing with the US in terms of profitability and traction. And yet, like Bebo before it, its profile in the US (except amongst those millions of young players) is virtually non-existent.First though, I wanted to understand how the company went from deatha4a4s door to projected sales of $100 million next year.The first answer, according to Smith, is an understanding that, when parents are footing the bill, ita4a4s important to keep things simple and un-scammy. The five pounds subscription cost is the maximum possible cost for playing the game. There are no SMS payments for virtual goods, or any scamville-type nonsenses to buy credits. a4AThat stuff might work when the person playing is the same as the person paying the credit card bill, but it wouldna4a4t work for us.a4The second is the realisation that a4Akids want to communicate with their friends as much as adultsa4. Moshi added a &amp;8216'friends tree&amp;' and personal pinboards to allow players to connect around the game&amp;'s various puzzles, and user numbers exploded.The final secret to Moshia4a4s success is breaking out into real-world products. Angry Birds has its plush toys, but Moshi is going several steps further: yes, therea4a4ll be toys (the company has signed licencing deals with Vivid Imaginations in the UK and Spin Master in the US) but the educational aspects of the Moshi puzzles has also lead to a contract with Scholastic to produce a range of puzzle books and other print spin-offs. The first of these physical goods roll off the production line in early 2011 and ita4a4s those sales which push the company towards their magical $100 million projection.But, but, but&amp;8230' even if 2011 is a bumper year, what will happen in 2012 The Bebo comparison works both ways, and provides a cautionary tale for anyone running a hugely successful social network for young users. In 2008, AOL bought Bebo for $850 million, two years later they sold it again for a4Aaround ten million dollarsa4. Kids are fickle and, as Smith admits, a4Athe world is littered with forgotten fads.a4And yet, he argues, there are also countless fads that have stayed the course (he mentions Pokemon, Hot Wheels and Barbie). a4AThe secret is to keep the world fresh, and thata4a4s what wea4a4re trying to do by making sure therea4a4s a continuing narrative, and new games, puzzles and animations.a4So whata4a4s next for Smith himself Despite the fact that hea4a4s been building Mind Candy since 2004 and has &amp;8211' if the rumours are true &amp;8211' had a pretty bumpy relationship with his investors, he gives the standard entrepreneura4a4s denial when I ask about an exit.a4AIa4a4m very focussed on Moshi right now,&amp;'' he says. And his relationship with his investors a4AWea4a4ve had our ups and downs,a4 he concedes, coyly a4Abut everything is fine now.a4And &amp;8211' well &amp;8211' yes, with $100 million in projected sales revenue, it probably should be.CrunchBase InformationMoshi MonstersInformation provided by CrunchBaseCrunchBase InformationMind CandyInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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