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<title><![CDATA[How much will the iPad 2 weigh]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A mock iPad 2 seen at this year&amp;39's CES. (Credit:Engadget) Updated: 2/26 to reflect the arrival of the iPad 2 on March 2 Weight. It's something our society tends to dwell on when it comes to physical appearance, but it's also a big factor in today's mobile products.Like a lot of people, the first time I saw the iPad my eye was drawn to its vibrant screen and those sleek lines that are the signature of Apple products. Yet the one overwhelming thought I had when picking it up for the first time was, &quot;Damn, this is kind of heavy.&quot;No, at around 1.5 pounds, it's not that heavy. And it's obviously lighter than every laptop on the market, including Apple's own MacBook Air, which comes in at 2.3 pounds for the 11.6-inch model (the new $299 HP Mini 1103 Netbook weighs 2.8 pounds). But the iPad ostensibly is a handheld device, and for a lot of folks, holding up a 1.5-pound weight for extended periods is a challenge. That's why iPad owners tend to keep the device propped up in some way--whether it be on a lap or a chest (while using it in bed), or using a stand integrated into a cover or separate accessory.While techie types like to complain that the iPad is functionally a lightweight (it just can't take the place of a laptop), the bigger gripe is its physical weight. Which brings us to the iPad 2, which will be announced on March 2. Yes, there's plenty of talk about it having a front-facing camera for video chatting and a faster CPU and GPU, but many of the rumored design changes touch upon reducing the size and weight of the device.A few weeks ago 9to5 Mac got its hands on what it claims is the screen for the next iPad. The article referred to the possible new display--an LG model--as &quot;lighter, and over a mm thinner than the current iPad's display with a smaller surrounding frame...a dream for a product designer like Jony Ive, who now has some more tapering options for what looks to be a significantly lighter iPad 2.&quot;More recently, iLounge.com threw out a rumor that Apple might be designing the next iPad with new materials to further shave off a few ounces. Citing an anonymous but previously &quot;accurate&quot; tipster, iLounge's Editor in Chief Jeremy Horwitz, wrote:While our source urges caution on this point, it's possible that the company will use a new material similar to carbon fiber rather than aluminum for upcoming iPads. Apple has already applied for a patent on this, and apparently second-generation iPad shells made from the new material have already been spotted. Apple has in the past worked simultaneously on more than one version of a device enclosure before making a late-stage switch to another, but it is apparently testing these new shells now in the hopes of reducing the weight of iPads.So, the iPad's been on a diet. A very strict one. Probably from the day it was released. And the head trainer, the guy cracking the whip, was presumably Steve Jobs. What was his target number How much weight had to come offI don't know--and no one at Apple is about to tell me. But for some reason, I keep hearing the 25 percent number bandied about, as in the new iPad is going to drop a quarter of its weight. If you do the math, that's around a 5.5-ounce loss.That would put the iPad at just a shade over a pound at 16.5 ounces. Being able to say it weighed less than a pound would be even better, the Holy Grail really, but dropping 5.5 ounces would still be very impressive.At that weight--or anywhere close to it--Apple would be looking at a serious competitive advantage over such &quot;large&quot; tablet hopefuls as Motorola's Android 3.0-powered Xoom, which weighs in at 26 ounces and seems like a tough sell at $800. By comparison, Blackberry's smaller PlayBook (7-inch screen) weighs .9 pounds and Samsung's Galaxy Tab tips the scales at 13.8 ounces, or .8625 pounds.How much weight Apple really trims from the iPad is anybody's guess (for the record, Apple has been &quot;mulling&quot; carbon-fiber parts for a couple of years). Which is why I'm calling on readers to take a stab at predicting a weight in the comments section below. When Apple unveils the iPad 2 next week, the poster who comes closest (you can go out to hundredths of an ounce but not thousandths) will get called out and receive infinite props in an article. I also just might even send the winner a small prize (if I promise anything, I have to clutter up this post with a long legal disclaimer). If you don't want to guess, feel free to comment about anything you want, like whether the new crop of Android tablets has a chance against a slimmed-down iPad. Or, does the size and weight of these tablets really matter that much <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Apple readies iPhone, iPad for mobile payments]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Consumers may soon be able to pay for items on the go directly through their iPhones or iPads.Will the next-generation iPhone let you make payments on the go(Credit:Apple)Apple is reportedly working to outfit the next generation of its smartphone andtablet with near-field communications (NFC) technology, which would let consumers use the devices to make mobile payments as an alternative to cash and credit cards, according to a story today by the Bloomberg news service.Richard Doherty, director of the technology consulting firm Envisioneering Group, told Bloomberg that both theiPhone 5 from AT&amp;T and theiPad 2 would likely include NFC chips, citing engineers working on the project. NFC technology lets devices exchange information over a short distance--no more than four inches. As such, a mobile device equipped with NFC could send payment information from a bank account to a register or terminal, allowing people to use them to pay for items and services at stores, restaurants, and other types of retail outlets. Apple has apparently been eyeing NFC for for some time. Last summer, the company hired an expert in NFC to join its mobile commerce team at the same time it reportedly was already testing the inclusion of the technology in its next iPhone. Beyond the benefits to consumers, companies like Apple stand to gain from NFC, notes Bloomberg. Like any business that accepts credit cards, Apple currently pays processing fees on every iTunes purchase made through a credit card. By letting people pay for iTunes content on their iPhones via NFC, Apple could cut out the Visa or MasterCard middleman and trim its own expenses. For tech users, the new technology could also help them more easily transfer and share files and settings between their NFC-equipped smartphones and other devices, such as PCs. Other players have also gotten into the act. Last November, AT&amp;amp'T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile announced the creation of a new mobile payments network that would use NFC. Google soon followed up that up with the launch of its Nexus S Android phone packing an embedded NFC chip and with support for the technology in Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread. On its end, Apple is currently looking into launching a mobile payment service as early as the middle of this year, Doherty told Bloomberg. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon gets Kiva robots via Zappos, Diapers buys]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Even those of us who cover e-commerce often overlook the reality of connecting the &quot;e&quot; part of the equation to the real world. Webvan and Kozmo.com were great online services, but it was the unavoidable and nonvirtual expenses of moving goods around that did them in. Former Webvan business process guru Mick Mountz said the company lost $20 an order, due to the cost of physical logistics.  In 2003, having left Webvan and moved to the East Coast (to escape Webvan's investors, I would guess), Mountz started Kiva Systems, a robotics company that rethought warehouse logistics for the world of e-commerce. Kiva could have saved Webvan, Mountz believes, it if had been around in 1999. A Kiva-powered warehouse looks like a jumble to a human, but the software sees order in the location of every good tracked. Kiva is not new, and we've covered it before, but I find it interesting, since it's one of the few U.S. tech companies to take advantage of the our trade imbalance with Asia without actually manufacturing goods in cost-competitive overseas plants.  To recap, the company makes what looks like giant Roomba robots. These big puckbots can lift 3,000 pounds each. Swarms of them live in pick-and-pack warehouses. They move entire shelving units to the employees packing boxes by scooting under the shelves, lifting them on jacks, and then rolling to workstations. At the workstations, humans (who have the &quot;world's best end effectors,&quot; says Mountz), pick items off shelves and pack them into boxes. Then the robots park the shelves out of the way of other shelves in motion.  The control systems in each warehouse monitor orders to make sure shelves with the most popular items stay close to the front of the shop and that items that are usually sold together are on single shelving units. This reduces travel time of goods. As Kiva engineers learn more about how their systems work, they tweak the software to improve efficiency. One recent software upgrade: parking shelving units two shelves deep. If a parked-in shelf is needed, it takes a &quot;buddy bot&quot; to move a shelf facing an aisle out of the way, but this scheme dramatically increases warehouse storage density.  As I said, current trade economics work in Kiva's favor. So much U.S. consumer material arrives here via ports now. At docks, shipments are broken down into still-large shipments that get sent to U.S. distribution centers. From many of those centers, shipments get broken down again, either into store-size loads headed to regional brick-and-mortar retail stores, or into individual orders that contain items combined into boxes for e-commerce delivery to consumers. The long consumer supply chain, and the resultant growth in distribution warehouses, is a shift in U.S. retail, driven by both global economics and the growth of the Web. Kiva is riding both waves, as are Amazon and other e-commerce retailers.  Amazon, of course, began experimenting with methods to improve pick-and-pack efficiency early in its existence. But the Web retailer never bought a solution from Kiva Systems--at least not directly. As it happens, two companies Amazon recently decided to buy--Zappos.com and Diapers.com--have been Kiva users. Through those buys, Amazon now owns four Kiva-powered warehouses (Diapers.com has three, Zappos one).  Mountz said Kiva's systems have replaced traditional serial pick-and-pack logistics, such as conveyor belt systems, or warehouses where people move around with totes, with a parallel and fault-tolerant system that takes advantage of the efficiency of a lot of automated and cheap-to-maintain small moving parts (its robots) to overcome the inherent inefficiency of moving 3,000 pounds of shelving and unwanted products around, when all a customer wants is one 6-ounce tube of toothpaste. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Keith Rabois: I Was Excited About Fraud At&nbsp'Square]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Paypal&amp;'s Scott Thompson, Square&amp;'s Keith Rabois and GSI&amp;'s Michael Rubin took the stage at Web 2.0 Summit today to talk about the future of digital commerce.As a continuation of John Battelle&amp;'s argument that a credit/debit card payment counts as a &amp;''check-in,&amp;'' Rabois explained that there is data other than what we historically use to prevent fraud that can be used to protect users, including social data from Facebook and Twitter that can be used to verify purchases.Rabois started to get into an anecdote (which he never finished) about the first fraud attempt at Square, revealing that he was excited about the unique milestone. Why Well, apparently fraud attempts in the mobile payments world mean that you&amp;'re succeeding as a company.Congrats Keith, we&amp;'re so proud. CrunchBase InformationSquareInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Media Comes To The Defense Of WikiLeaks At LeWeb: &''The Leakers Will&nbsp'Win&'']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Today during the Media Panel at LeWeb &amp;'10 in Paris, France, there was one thing on everyones&amp;' mind: WikiLeaks.&amp;''This is a turning point for the Internet a4&quot; it&amp;'s not just about WikiLeaks anymore,&amp;''a4sWeblogs SL&amp;'s Julio Alonso said.a4s&amp;''What happens to WikiLeaks will get applied to others later on,&amp;'' he warned.&amp;''This is the first attempt at censorship of the Internet by all the governments of the planet,&amp;'' Wikio&amp;'s Pierre Chappaz added. &amp;''Despite all the attacks, I&amp;'m optimistic that the information will survive,&amp;'' he added.When moderator Adrian Monck asked if this would cast a shadow on the United States in particular, Techmeme&amp;'s Gabe Rivera said he thought it already has in some ways. Rivera noted that just the tone of the crowd at LeWeb proves that to some extent. He also singled out U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman suggesting that The New York Times could be a target because of their publication of some of the cables. &amp;''It underscores that there&amp;'s really no essential difference between what WikiLeaks is doing and what The New York Times does,&amp;'' he said. Rivera said that is something to be concerned about.&amp;''We&amp;'ve pushed the theory of Internet censorship to the very edge,&amp;'' The Wall Street Journal Europe&amp;'s Ben Rooney added.&amp;''We have to speak about what&amp;'s happening,&amp;'' Chappaz said.a4s&amp;''I&amp;'m amazed by the silence of the traditional media. This is a systematic attack. We have to explain to the traditional media. The stakes are about the free press,&amp;'' he continued.Alonso agreed. &amp;''The first line of defense is speaking about it,&amp;'' he said.Rivera added that the leakers aren&amp;'t going to lose this war. He cited mirror sites, Twitter accounts, Facebook messages, and all kinds of things that keep popping up to continue the data spread. &amp;''The leakers will win,&amp;'' he said.The panel seemed fairly convinced that even if P2P networks had to replace DNS, the information would indeed end up winning.&amp;''The Internet is too strong. They&amp;'ll have a hard time getting it under control,&amp;'' Chappaz wrapped up the panel with.CrunchBase InformationWikiLeaksInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: Cape Wind hunts for customers, Honda eyes China for electric car sales]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest action we&amp;'re following on the GreenBeat today:Offshore wind farm Cape Wind needs buyers for its power &amp;8212' The large, expensive and controversial Massachusetts wind farm needs customers, the Associated Press writes. Half of its 468-megawatt capacity has been sold to National Grid, but the other half has been turned down by top state utility NStar, which said it could find cheaper alternative energy elsewhere. Siemens is in talks to help finance the project, Bloomberg reports. The wind farm would use 130 of Siemens&amp;' wind turbines.Honda could launch electric car in China &amp;8212' The company unveiled the electric version of its Fit at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and plans to roll out electric vehicles in 2012 in Japan and the U.S. Chinahas a &amp;''good chance&amp;'' of seeing Honda&amp;'s electric cars, the company president said, according to Dow Jones Newswires. The Chinese government has made a strong commitment to electric vehicles, though BYD&amp;'s electrid hybrid reportedly stumbled due to the lack of charging infrastructure &amp;8212' so Honda must be assuming that will be in place by 2012 and beyond.California to create carbon market &amp;8212' State regulators have approved the development of an exchange that will allow the top pollution emitters to use a market-based system to reduce emissions, Triple Pundit reports. The market would set allowances on emissions for top polluters that will decrease annually after 2014, and help set a price point that would drive long-term investment into energy efficiency and cleantech.Tobacco could help build highly efficient batteries &amp;8211' Researchers at the University of Maryland have used a virus hosted by tobacco to improve energy capacity of batteries, CleanTechnica reports. The result is a battery that has 10 times the energy capacity of a traditional lithium-ion battery.China plans to invest $601 billion in the smart grid &amp;8211'The money will goto develop the smart grid over the next decade, according to China Securities Journal. The program would promote applications like smart appliances, virtual health care and vehicle-to-vehicle communications, eco-business.com reports.Next Story: Tesla plans aggressive timeline for production of 2012 all-electric Model S Previous Story: CityVille could surpass FarmVille&amp;'s 56M users in a few daysPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: batteries, battery, Cape Wind, China, electric cars, electric vehicles, offshore wind, Smart Grid, Solar, windCompanies: Cape Wind, Honda, National Grid, NStar, siemens          Tags: batteries, battery, Cape Wind, China, electric cars, electric vehicles, offshore wind, Smart Grid, Solar, windCompanies: Cape Wind, Honda, National Grid, NStar, siemensIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).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[Motion-control startup Omek is bringing gesture controls to the PC (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After the smashing success of Microsoft&amp;'s Kinect motion-control system for the Xbox 360, a bunch of companies are getting excited about taking the technology to PCs and other devices. We profiled Sixense earlier today, and here&amp;'s a snapshot of motion-sensing software firm Omek Interactive, which was founded in 2006.Omek Interactive is one of the companies making the ingredients for  gesture-control systems, where you can use your body, arms, legs and  head to control movement in games.Microsoft shipped more than 8 million Kinect units in three months, while Sony said it shipped at least 4.1 million units of its Move motion control system for the PlayStation 3. Nintendo has also sold more than 84 million motion-control Wii systems since 2006.But game consoles aren&amp;'t the only market for motion controls. At the Consumer Electronics Show, it was clear that expanding motion control to broader markets was one of the big vectors for innovation.Janine Kutliroff, chief executive and co-founder of Omek in Beth Shemesh, Israel, said that her company has created the middleware and game development layer for gesture controls. Other companies such as PrimeSense and Optrima are making the chips and cameras on the hardware side of the equation, but Omek focuses on taking the raw data from the sensors and converting that into controls. It also provides a full software development kit for companies to make motion-control games. Omek is also making games and its focus is on extending motion control to the PC.Kutliroff said that 15 to 20 game companies are developing games using Omek&amp;'s SDK to make games for the PC, although she also said there are some in the works for &amp;''embedded platforms,&amp;'' meaning stand-alone appliances. Beyond games, other developers are working on applications such as rehabilitation for patients who need to rebuild muscles and exercise joints.&amp;''Our goal is to be the technology enabler for the game developers,&amp;'' Kutliroff said. &amp;''But games are just the low-hanging fruit in this broader market for motion control.&amp;''Microsoft moved early in picking up companies with a lot of patents in the motion-control market. It bought two 3D motion-control companies, 3DV and Canesta, and bought chips from PrimeSense. It also licensed patents from GestureTek. But there still appears to be plenty of opportunity for companies to put together motion-control systems for the PC. One of those is Asus, whose Asus Wavi system links a PC to a TV and enables gesture controls for navigating through a variety of content. Omek is also working with others who will launch systems this year.Check out the videos below that demonstrate a couple of Omek games. Yours truly plays Galactic Surfers, which was designed in-house by Omek.Next Story: Smart blood-pressure monitor reports your readings to iPhone (video) Previous Story: Up close with Razer Hydra motion controls for Valve&amp;'s Portal 2 game (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Galactic Surfers, Kinect, motion control systemsCompanies: 3dv Systems, asus, Canesta, Gesturetek, Microsoft, Omek Interactive, Primesense, SamsungPeople: Janine Kutliroff          Tags: Galactic Surfers, Kinect, motion control systemsCompanies: 3dv Systems, asus, Canesta, Gesturetek, Microsoft, Omek Interactive, Primesense, SamsungPeople: Janine KutliroffDean 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[Applea4a4s Wozniak confirms white iPhone 4 camera issues, showers more love on Android]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak confirmed today that early white iPhone 4 parts caused issues with its camera, which led to multiple delays and  its near-mythical status among gadget hounds. He also praised Google&amp;'s Android smartphone operating system.Both observations are interesting in that they show rare cracks in Apple&amp;'s seamless public faade. The gadget company had announced at its launch that the iPhone 4 would come in black and white models, then kept delaying the release of the white iPhone 4, a rare misfire in its recent history of smooth product rollouts. And Wozniak, who regularly notes that he&amp;'s still on the Apple payroll, has issued praise for Android before.In  a conversation with Joshua Topolsky, editor of the AOL-owned tech blog Engadget, on the site&amp;'s eponymous online-video show today, Wozniak said that he ordered the white iPhone parts from a  teenager online who somehow received them from Foxconn, who  manufacturers the iPhone. When he tried to take a picture with the  devicea4a4s flash, he said the photo looked as if it was taken through cellophane, confirming earlier rumors that the white case caused light leakage when the flash was used.Additionally,  Wozniak said that his white iPhone 4 parts caused issues with its  proximity sensor (although I think hea4a4s actually referring to its  ambient light sensor, which could see similar light leakage issues to  the camera). He then confirmed that Apple has resolved the problems with  the white iPhone 4, and that wea4a4ll be seeing them soon. We recently  reported that the fabled device has started appearing on AT&amp;amp'T and Best Buy computers.Woz also spent quite a bit of time praising Android, something that put him in hot water months ago when he called Android the winner in the current smartphone race (he later said he was misquoted). He said that Android contained many  great features that the iPhone is lacking. In particular, Wozniak  emphasized how much he loved Androida4a4s ability to accept voice commands,  as well as the Swype software keyboard available on Android, Symbian and other platforms. He definitely  preferred both of those methods to hunting and pecking letters on a  touch screen &amp;8212' which is the only method of text input on the iPhone so  far.Wozniak also revealed that he&amp;'ll be picking up two Verizon iPhones &amp;8212' in black and white &amp;8212' to accompany his current trio of AT&amp;amp'T iPhones.Previous Story: China is blocking coverage of Egypt protests on Twitter-like servicesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, iOS, iPhone 4, smartphones, white iPhone 4Companies: Apple, GooglePeople: Steve Wozniak          Tags: Android, iOS, iPhone 4, smartphones, white iPhone 4Companies: Apple, GooglePeople: Steve WozniakDevindra 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. 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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