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<title><![CDATA[Author Jane McGonigal explains why 'reality is broken' (Q&A)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Until a couple of years ago, the idea that games could make people's lives better was heresy. Everyone knew that games were a massive waste of time and that, if anything, they were harming those who played them the most. But then word began to spread of new research that showed just the opposite: that games, and playing games, could have a positive impact on people. And while there was still plenty of skepticism, the woman behind the research, well-known game designer Jane McGonigal, began to attract a lot of attention with her new claims. Especially the idea that game designers might just be the very people that had the best chance of positively impacting the most lives. Over the years, McGonigal's work has received more and more attention. She first came on the scene as one of the people behind the hit alternate-reality game I Love Bees and soon began earning notoriety for the projects she herself designed--Tombstone Hold'em' World without Oil, which tasked players with imagining scenarios in a post-peak oil world' The Lost Ring, which was commissioned for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and introduced a &quot;lost&quot; Olympic sport to thousands across the globe' Superstruct, which asked players to come up with solutions to the kinds of massive problems that could threaten the future of our species' and more.Along the way, she became a research director at the Institute for the Future. And now, McGonigal has published her first book, a big-picture tome called &quot;Reality is Broken,&quot; which takes the research she had been talking about and implementing in her games, and in keynote addresses from SXSWi to the Game Developers Conference to TED, and beyond, and uses it to make the argument the whole world can see, that games can make the world a better place. One of the most prolific game designers around, McGonigal usually tries to help other people, or at least get other people to think, with her projects. But she has also turned her work inward--when she suffered a debilitating head injury in 2009, she ended up designing a game called Superbetter that she now credits with being instrumental in her recovery.Yesterday, McGonigal sat down for a 45 Minutes on IM interview to discuss her new book, the millions of work-years humans have spent on World of Warcraft, her oldest games, and nail polish.Q: First of all, congratulations on the book. Maybe you could start by summing up for those who haven't seen the book why &quot;reality is broken.&quot;McGonigal: I investigated the reasons why games seem to have an increasing pull on us. We're up to 3 billion hours playing online games a week. I realized that compared to games, reality feels broken: it doesn't engage us or motivate us or inspire us or connect us as effectively and reliably as our best games do. This isn't necessarily a problem. Many people are effectively using games as a way to recharge from reality. But I think it clearly points to a problem with reality itself. Why should virtual worlds make us happier than the real world Why shouldn't we feel as motivated, optimistic, ambitious, determined, resilient, and collaborative in our real livesAnd why do you think games can make people's lives betterMcGonigal: Games provoke positive emotions and strengthen our social relationships in really key ways that ultimately make us not just happier but also healthier and more successful. The book presents research that suggests that how we feel in games can spill over into our real lives--the confidence, the optimism, our willingness to help others. I write about why games make us more likable to others, and how they make us more likely to stretch outside our social comfort zone in ways that can make our real social networks stronger. That's the first half of the book-- looking at how &quot;ordinary&quot; computer and video games are charging us up and making us better. They're more than escapist. They're helping us get what we want out of life, and helping us spend time as the best versions of ourselves. How long did it take before you felt you were making headway in convincing people that that argument wasn't absurdMcGonigal: Is a month or so from now a fair answer But seriously, in 2008 I keynoted at SXSW Interactive, and that was a big turning point. I made a lot of the arguments I make in the book's introduction in that keynote, and I was terrified that it would seem absurd and that I would be accused of trying to ruin the fun of games by pointing out that they actually make us better, not just entertain us when we're bored. That talk received a really enthusiastic response and I started hearing from game designers and game developers all over the world about how the ideas really resonated with them. Still, it's not easy today. There are so many people who &quot;know&quot; that video games are &quot;bad&quot;--violent, anti-social--and they don't want to hear any evidence otherwise. I'm not sure they will read the book, but I hope if they have friends or family who are gamers, they will, because understanding games can be a crucial step toward healing the relationships that are being strained over wanting someone to stop playing so many games.At the same time, I am happy there are more and more game designers who are interested in thinking about positive impacts. There's a new working group in the International Game Developers Association for positive impact games. But it's still a hurdle for many I know.Along those lines, you recently said that gamification of tasks should make them harder, not easier. First, explain gamification, and then, why harderMcGonigal: Gamification, means to take an ordinary task--running, losing weight, meeting up with friends--and adding a &quot;game layer&quot; to it, like points, levels, badges, leaderboards. Making something gameful, as I call it in the book, means making it more like a game, and we know that games are designed to be challenging. So gamification isn't about making real life easier. It's actually about making real life more challenging, in ways that we want. We want to be challenged to run more and faster (Nike +), or to get in shape (the Game Diet), or to see our friends more often and actually get out of the house (Foursquare).The big game project I'm working on now is for the New York Public Library. It's called Find the Future and we're gamifying going to the library. But we're not just giving you points for showing up at the library, or achievement badges for checking out books. We're focusing on a real challenge instead. By playing this game, you write a book. A real book. You can write the book in eight hours. There will be 500 gamers, locked in at the library, allowed down into the 40 miles of underground stacks, and if they win, they write a book, and it goes in the permanent collection of the library.So, you talk a lot about your biggest goal--that a game designer will win the Nobel Peace Prize within 25 years. Why is that so important to you McGonigal: I think we need an epic win condition that we can aspire to, something that we can weigh our game design decisions against. When I take on new games, I use that as a criteria. Do I think that making this game will improve the odds of some game designer eventually winning a Nobel Peace Prize Not every game is anywhere close, but it's a direction to head in. And I think that if anything can harness global engagement, it's a game. We know that world peace requires global engagement. I also believe that we can improve people's quality of life--their health, happiness and well-being--in meaningful ways with games. And if we make games that can measurably improve quality of life statistics, we should get the Nobel Prize for that.I was wondering if it had to be the Peace Prize. Can you imagine a game or a game designer winning any of the other Nobel prizes Economics Medicine PhysicsMcGonigal: Sure. For example, players of Foldit or EteRNA could win the prize in medicine. They've already had a peer-reviewed article in &quot;Nature&quot; published after all.You've said that the idea for that goal came while working on World Without Oil. I'm curious about whether you've felt you made a real difference with WWO, Superstruct, Evoke, or other games.McGonigal: Evoke has been particularly heartening to see the real impact. Players created more than 50 real social enterprises that we were able to get seed funding for via the World Bank. Projects like Libraries Across Africa, which aims to be the McDonald's of libraries--a for-profit franchise that would reward local entrepreneurs for setting up a free library, with revenue-generating side businesses like selling snacks, Wi-Fi, or cell phone access. The demand for Evoke is still really high. The pilot engaged about 20,000 students from more than 130 countries. This week, we're opening the game back up to teachers and groups anywhere in the world to run the game again and go through this crash course in changing the world again. This means the game has a legacy--it's not just a big event that happened once, but a resource that can be used again and again.When I first knew you, you told me about the Ministry of Reshelving. Why did you do that project, and do the principles of that early work show up in what you're doing today at allMcGonigal: Back then, when I was a graduate student, I was looking for ways to use social media (before it was called social media) to inspire people to be playful in the real world. That project was an experiment--would people on the Internet accept a game mission to play out in their own local neighborhoods You could play it in any bookstore, and you would report back with photos on Flickr. Now we have platforms like Scvngr and Groundcrew that can really compile lots of missions like that and create much more exciting game structures around them, better feedback, better social, better GPS confirmation.Tell me how designing a game helped you overcome the aftermath of a serious head injury.McGonigal: After I made the game SuperBetter to help me through my recovery, I wanted to see if it would work for others because it had literally saved my life. So I posted the rules online and asked folks to write me if they tried using any parts of it for their own illness or injury. I got anecdotal reports on using the game for diabetes, asthma, knee surgery, chemotherapy, quitting smoking, even a bad breakup. This was really encouraging and so I wanted to do two things--make a real, commercial version that anyone could play to improve the experience of recovery, and also do some clinical trials to verify how and why the game works.At my new start-up games company, Social Chocolate, that's one of our first big projects. We're designing the clinical trials now with Ohio State University Medical Research Center, where they have one of the best rehabilitation centers for traumatic brain injury. And the game will soon be in beta.Explain the name, Social Chocolate. McGonigal: If you've read the book, you know that my ideas about games are really grounded in the science of positive emotion and social connection. I was lucky to meet some entrepreneurs and fellow researchers--including Dacher Keltner, a researcher at UC Berkeley and the founder of the Greater Good science center--who wanted to start a game company to make games powered by the science. I decided it was a match made in heaven.The name comes from something Keltner said once--that the smiles and laughter and warm touch that we give to one another in every day life, between friends, family, and even strangers, are like social chocolate--rich, satisfying, addicting, rewarding. We crave them more than anything else. Our games are going to focus on provoking social chocolate.How would you have responded if someone had told you when World of Warcraft launched that by 2010, people would have put 6 million work years into itMcGonigal: 'Quick! Let's add one tiny thing to the game that players could do for a minute a week that would add up to 100 Wikipedias worth of collaborative effort.' It's too late now for WoW, but not for future games. I really feel that if we could put tiny opportunities to be of real heroic service into our games--a five-minute optional side mission--we could accomplish really extraordinary things.Last question. I like IM interviews because I get a perfect transcript and because it allows my interviewee to be thoughtful and articulate. But also, it's because IM allows for multi-tasking. So, what else were you doing during the interviewMcGonigal: Hahahahahaha. I was talking to my husband about what I'm typing to you and reminiscing about the old games since we worked together on Evoke, World Without Oil, The Lost Ring, and Ministry or Reshelving. Also, removing my nail polish.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google makes it easier to authenticate e-mail]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gmail users can see who digitally signed an e-mail by clicking &amp;34'show details&amp;34' at the top of the message.(Credit:Google)Google announced today that it is making it easy for organizations using Google Apps to authenticate outgoing mail so that recipients can rest assured that the messages are really from them and aren't spam. Administrators of all editions of Google Apps can enable the DomainKeys Identified Mail technology for outgoing mail in the &quot;Advanced Tools&quot; tab of the control panel by checking several boxes. Gmail has supported e-mail signing standards since its inception in 2004, but implementation required more configuration and resources than that. Functionally, this means fewer legitimate e-mail messages will be blocked by spam filters.  To protect Gmail users directly from phishing attempts using the eBay and PayPal names Google worked with those companies a few years ago to authenticate e-mail coming from them and block all unsigned messages.  More information is included in a post on the Google Enterprise Blog. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Crave giveaway: Intel 80GB solid-state drive]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Post of comment (and only one comment) for a chance to win this 80GB Intel solid-state drive for notebook and desktop computers.(Credit:Intel)You know you've always wanted to stick a solid-state drive in your computer but just weren't willing to shell out the cash. Well, for this week's giveaway, we've got high-performance 80GB solid-state drive from Intel that works in notebook or desktop computers (anywhere a 2.5-inch hard drive does). It's official name is the Intel 80GB X25M Mainstream SATA II MLC Solid State Drive and it's pretty sweet.Instead of using spinning platters like traditional hard drives, the X25-M uses flash memory for storage, which Intel says gives you &quot;dramatically faster&quot; data access. If you need more disk space, the X25-M also comes in a 160GB version, but sorry, we're not giving one of those away. Intel only gave us the 80GB version. Normally, this drive would cost you $180, but we're giving one away gratis. So, how do you try to win it Let me enumerate the basic rules. Please read them carefully' there will be a test.Register as a CNET user. Go to the top of this page and hit the &quot;Join CNET&quot; link to start the registration process. If you're already registered, there's no need to register again.Leave a comment below. You can leave whatever comment you want. If it's funny or insightful, it won't help you win, but we're trying to have fun here, so anything entertaining is appreciated.Leave only one comment. You may enter this specific giveaway only once. If you enter more than one comment, you will be automatically disqualified.The winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive (1) Intel 80GB X25M Mainstream SATA II MLC Solid State Drive with a retail value of $180.If you are chosen, you will be notified via e-mail. Winner must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.Entries can be submitted until Monday, December 27 at noon EST. And here's the disclaimer that our legal department said we had to include (sorry for the caps, but rules are rules):NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. MUST BE LEGAL RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR D.C., 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AT DATE OF ENTRY INTO SWEEPSTAKES. VOID IN PUERTO RICO, ALL U.S. TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. Sweepstakes ends at 12 PM EST on December 27, 2010. See official rules for details.Good luck.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mitsubishi shows its i electric car in Los Angeles]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[JetBlue bolter slides into Mile High Text Club role]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What do you do after you quit your JetBlue flight attendant job while still on the plane, tell the rude passengers what you thought of them, open the emergency slide, and waft your way down it and into the public eyeIf your answer was &quot;train to be a pilot,&quot; &quot;try volunteer work,&quot; &quot;have a talk show on basic cable,&quot; or &quot;pose for Playboy,&quot; you would be heartily mistaken. For Steven Slater, perhaps America's most renowned former flight attendant, is to become the official spokesperson for the Mile High Text Club.You might not be aware that there is a Mile High Text Club. After all, you are repeatedly nagged into turning off your cell phone before a plane takes off because your use of it in flight might cause your A320 to become two A160s. And yet the Mile High Text Club does, indeed, exist. It seems to be some sort of promotion during which you should text your most lunatic flight stories and win dashing prizes such as a Line2 Gift Card that gives you 6 months of Line 2's extraordinary service.Yes, this is all courtesy of Line2, which seems to be a bracing little app claiming to get you phone service where there's no phone service. Such as at 35,000 feet. Naturally, to enter this fine competition, you have to impute a flight attendant's primogeniture, toss some stale salami in their direction, carry on a piece of luggage larger than Honduras, and wrap your seat belt around your eyes and claim you are traveling incognito.No, wait. I got a little mixed up there. You have, in fact, to download the Line2iPhone VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) app. Which is, indeed, smaller than Honduras.Slater's performance in the ad for the Mile High Text Club does remind one of a rookie flight attendant demonstrating the safety procedures on a Southwest red-eye to Baltimore. He tries to deliver the line &quot;Easy as beating George W. Bush in a game of Scrabble&quot; with wit, but it does seem rather forced. His cheeks, too, seem rather red, like those of a medical appliance salesman after his fourth vodka on the way back from a stent conference in Jeddah. Peter Sisson, founder and CEO of Line2 provider Toktumi, is, though, enamored with Slater's grasp of the theatrical: &quot;After talking with Steven, I realized that despite his dramatic approach--which he regrets--he was making a statement about the need to return civility and common courtesy to flying.&quot;Flying is, indeed, such a dreadfully debasing experience these days that I am sure you will be rushing to share your crazy story with your fellow man and woman. Just don't, you know, try to create an in-flight controversy so that you can win. Not all publicity is good publicity.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robbers steal 100 copies of Call of Duty Black Ops]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Call of Duty Black Ops is likely to be the biggest video game of the year. Activision Blizzard said so in its earnings call last week. And it got some additional validation Saturday night, as armed robbers made off with more than 100 copies of the highly-anticipated game in a heist at a GameStop Store in Baltimore.The two robbers had handguns and burst into the GameStop store as it was about to close, according to the Baltimore Sun newspaper. The men stole four full cases of Black Ops, as well as cash and game systems. The latest installment in the Call of Duty series debuts on Tuesday. As we noted in our story on piracy of the game, some gamers are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to get the game early. So these robbers realized that if they could swipe a lot of games before the launch, they could probably sell them off quickly for higher than the $60 retail prices. The games are being transferred under tight security, but clearly armed robbery is a step above the usual thievery that happens around a big game launch.Mike Hickey, an analyst at Janco Partners, said in a note on Friday that the game could sell more than 18 million units, generating $818 million in revenue. That&amp;'s less than Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 sold last year. Last year&amp;'s title sold more than 20 million units and generated more than $1 billion in sales. It will be very interesting to watch this year&amp;'s battle for the consumer. Besides Black Ops, other big game launches of the season include World of Warcraft:Cataclysm, Microsoft&amp;'s Kinect, Halo:Reach, and PlayStation Move. This line-up of hot titles could be just what the doctor ordered for the console game industry, which has seen sales shrink 8 percent so far this year, according to market researcher NPD.Of course, in order for Black Ops to sell well, Activision Blizzard has to keep a lid on the piracy. If piracy runs rampant, it could very well hurt the game&amp;'s chances to sell as many copies as expected. That&amp;'s why this kind of robbery is particularly worrisome for the game companies.My money is on Black Ops for the biggest game of the season. Based on everything I&amp;'ve seen, this game is going to be a stand-out hit, even for a Call of Duty game. One of the prime attractions is its storyline, which focuses on secret soldiers who operate behind enemy lines during the Cold War and use experimental weapons to get their jobs done. You can use ammo such as Dragon&amp;'s Breath, or shotgun ammo that explodes into flames on contact. Sounds vicious, alright. But that&amp;'s what it takes to outdo whatever has come earlier in this game series. It&amp;'s too bad the robbers didn&amp;'t have the patience to wait. I&amp;'m looking forward to this game, too, but I&amp;'m not willing to go to jail for it.Previous Story: &amp;''Data marketplace&amp;'' Infochimps raises $1.2M to build out its data offeringsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Call of Duty Black OpsCompanies: Activision Blizzard          Tags: Call of Duty Black OpsCompanies: Activision BlizzardDean 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[Apple iPad 2 said to be unveiled at March 2 event]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple will finally debut the iPad 2 at a San Francisco event on March 2, multiple sources tell All Things Digital.The iPad successor was expected to be announced within the next few weeks, so the report doesn&amp;'t come as much of a surprise. Since the original iPad was released last April, many expect Apple to have the iPad 2 available in that month as well.The news follows a report from an analyst firm earlier this morning that Apple would be delaying the iPad 2 due to &amp;''production bottlenecks.&amp;'' Indeed, it may not be a coincidence that we get our first wind of the iPad 2&amp;'s official unveiling after Apple&amp;'s stock began to take a hit from the delay rumors. Apple shares were down 3.4 percent to $338.61 on the NASDAQ this afternoon.We reported earlier this month that Apple had begun production of the iPad 2.As with every major Apple device launch, rumors about the iPad 2 have been floating around for some time. By this point, it&amp;'s pretty clear that it will feature front and rear cameras &amp;8212' although the back camera may be lower quality than many hope. It&amp;'s also expected to be thinner and slightly lighter than the current iPad, and it will likely run Apple&amp;'s new dual-core A5 processor.Many had also hoped that the iPad 2 would feature a higher resolution display than the first generation model, although now most rumors say that it will be the same 1024 by 768 pixel resolution. The craziest rumor by far is that we&amp;'ll see yet another iPad release later this year, which may potentially be called the iPad 3.Next Story: Demand Media: Content farm What content farm Previous Story: Solyndra and government support for cleantech under firePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: iOS, iPad, iPad 2, tabletsCompanies: ApplePeople: Steve Jobs, Tim Cook          Tags: iOS, iPad, iPad 2, tabletsCompanies: ApplePeople: Steve Jobs, Tim CookDevindra 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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<title><![CDATA[HP warns consumer PC sales may slip in 2011]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Leo Apotheker&amp;'s first quarter results as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard have a bit of a Mark Hurd feel to them.HP&amp;'s revenue was up 3.7 percent to $32.2 billion in its first quarter of the 2011 fiscal year, up from $31.2 billion the same quarter in its 2010 fiscal year. But the company&amp;'s operating profit shot up 16 percent to $2.61 billion in the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, compared to $2.25 billion the same quarter a year earlier.That&amp;'s because HP&amp;'s gross margins rose by 1.5 percentage points to 24.4 percent a4&quot; meaning the company was operating more efficiently despite slimmer revenue growth. Despite the strong showing, HP trimmed its outlook for the full fiscal year a4&quot; saying they would be around $2 billion short of their original expectations from Wall Street analysts. That weakness will probably come from PC sales a4&quot; since consumers are still limiting their discretionary spending a4&quot; and from their services sector, Apotheker said on the company&amp;'s quarterly conference call.Mark Hurd, HP&amp;'s former chief executive, also had a penchant for cutting costs where he could to bring about a higher profit and a cleaner balance sheet a4&quot; sometimes at the expense of research within the company.&amp;nbsp'Hurda4a4s downfall at HP came after&amp;nbsp'Jodie Fisher, a former HP marketing contractor, complained of sexual harassment. He eventually went on to join HP rival Oracle as president, prompting HP to pick up Apotheker as its newest CEO.The company&amp;'s enterprise segment also did quite well, with revenue growing 22 percent in its enterprise storage, servers and networking to $5.6 billion in the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year a4&quot; up from $4.6 billion the same quarter a year earlier. HP is still going strong with its printer business a4&quot; particularly with its web-connected printers, where sales doubled, Apotheker said on the company&amp;'s quarterly conference call to discuss earnings. Printer shipments were up 7 percent as a whole, and commercial printer shipments were up 33 percent.There&amp;'s still no word as to how the company&amp;'s recent ventures with Palm will play out. HP&amp;nbsp'recently unveiled two new phones and a tablet computer running Palm&amp;'s WebOS mobile operating system in its first entry to the smartphone market and its first serious attempt to compete with Apple and Google in tablets. Both Apotheker and analysts didn&amp;'t discuss how the new devices might perform, and how that would fit into the company&amp;'s guidance, on the conference call to discuss the company&amp;'s quarterly earnings.Investors didn&amp;'t take the guidance shortfall too well, slamming HP&amp;'s shares in extended trading on Tuesday. Shares of HP were down about 12 percent to $42.40 after the bell.Next Story: On the GreenBeat: Khosla strikes back at WSJ, Gevo served a suit by BP and DuPont JV Previous Story: Demand Media: Content farm What content farmPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: HP Veer, Palm, Pre 3, printer, tablet computer, TouchPad, webOSCompanies: Hewlett Packard, HP          Tags: HP Veer, Palm, Pre 3, printer, tablet computer, TouchPad, webOSCompanies: Hewlett Packard, HPMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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[On the GreenBeat: Range Fuels and Evergreen Solar lay off workers, China to double wind power]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest action we&amp;'re following on the GreenBeat:China to double installed wind power &amp;8211' The country has been aggressively pursuing renewable energy and plans to more than double installed wind capacity by 2015, from 40 gigawatts in 2010 to 100 gigawatts, Bloomberg reports. It will promote the development of offshore wind, and expects solar capacity to be five gigawatts by 2015.Production of natural gas to get a lift &amp;8212' We&amp;'ve written before about how natural gas is forecast to take over coal as an energy source and potentially even threaten the appetite for wind and solar projects. Bloomberg reports that prices for natural gas byproducts like propane have hit an 11-month high this week and increased 42 percent since July. The result is natural gas companies are boosting production.Evergreen Solar to close plant &amp;8212' The troubled solar company, which has come under threat of being unlisted on the Nasdaq and is trying to restructure its debt, is closing its Devens Plant. It will lay off 800 employees after receiving $58 million in state incentives for the Massachusetts factory, Greentech Media reports.Range Fuels lays off workers &amp;8211' The cellulosic ethanol producer confirmed it has laid off a &amp;''handful&amp;'' of people in Colorado and Georgia, but did not give reasons, Earth2Tech reports. The company says it will meet its 2011 ethanol production goal set by the EPA.5N Plus acquires majority stake in Sylarus Technologies &amp;8212' 5N plus produces metals and semiconductor compounds and does the vast majority of its business with global solar panel leader First Solar, Greentech Media reports. It took a majority interest in Sylarus, which produces germanium substrates used in solar cells for concentrating solar, where mirrors are used to concentrate sunlight onto a small point, yielding more sunlight harvest and heat than traditional photovoltaics.Next Story: Online game company Gazillion promotes former Blizzard exec to No. 2 job Previous Story: Verizon iPad to follow Verizon iPhonePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, China, concentrated solar, natural gas, Solar, windCompanies: 5N Plus, Evergreen Solar, First Solar, Range Fuels, Sylarus Technologies          Tags: biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, China, concentrated solar, natural gas, Solar, windCompanies: 5N Plus, Evergreen Solar, First Solar, Range Fuels, Sylarus TechnologiesIris 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[Week in review: The top 10 video games of the year]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Herea4a4s our roundup of the weeka4a4s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:VentureBeata4a4s top ten video games of the year (vote for your favorite) &amp;8212' Game publishers arena4a4t thrilled that video game sales are down 5 percent year to date. But for gamers, ita4a4s been an awesome year because 2010 saw the debut of some of the best games ever made.Google plans to fix broken Android Market with upcoming update &amp;8212' The Android Market on Googlea4a4s Android operating system has been broken for some time. This week, Google said it will fix some of the longstanding problems with an update.Word Lens iPhone app combines instant text translation with augmented reality &amp;8212' Just when you thought youa4a4ve seen everything mobile apps have to offer, along comes an entry like Word Lens that makes you feel like youa4a4re in the future. The app instantly translates Spanish into English (and vice versa) whenever you point your iPhonea4a4s camera on text.Starting Monday, WikiLeaks will have a rival in Openleaks &amp;8212' Former WikiLeaks members say they plan to start rival Openleaks as part of an effort to compete for official leaks with WikiLeaks.Record-breaking World of Warcraft Cataclysm sells 3.3M units in its first day out &amp;8212' World of Warcraft Cataclysm broke all PC game records, selling more than 3.3 million copies on its first day of sales on Dec. 7.And here are five more stories we think are important, thought-provoking, fun, or all of the above:Ding-ding-ding! Electric cars likely to be required to make noise &amp;8212' The Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act suggests that electric cars and hybrids might be a little too quiet.Google invests in RelayRides to turn your car into a Zipcar &amp;8212' It seems Google is willing to wait a little longer to fulfill CEO Eric Schmidta4a4s dream of cars that drive themselves.How GetGlue plans to dominate TV check-ins (and more) &amp;8212'  Ia4a4ve seen a ton of TV check-in apps in the last few months, so I asked founder and chief executive Alex Iskold how GetGlue will stand out.Google makes Android Voice Search smarter by learning how you speak &amp;8212' Google is taking a cue from desktop speech recognition software, like the popular Dragon Naturally Speaking program, by bringing personalized voice profiles to Androida4a4s mobile Voice Search app.Fastest-growing game in history: Zyngaa4a4s CityVille hits 26M players in 12 days &amp;8212' Zyngaa4a4s CityVille has become the fastest-growing game in history. And based on an interview with a key Zynga executive, that isna4a4t an accident.Previous Story: Betrayal of the app: How mobile apps are spying on usPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Android Market, CityVille, electric cars, hybrid cars, iPhone, Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act, Word Lens, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: CataclysmCompanies: GetGlue, Google, RelayRides, ZyngaPeople: Alex Iskold, Eric Schmidt          Tags: Android, Android Market, CityVille, electric cars, hybrid cars, iPhone, Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act, Word Lens, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: CataclysmCompanies: GetGlue, Google, RelayRides, ZyngaPeople: Alex Iskold, Eric SchmidtAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site 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[And we&'re off! Electric cars are here &8212' now they need a charge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s official: Electric cars for the mass consumer crowd have arrived.The first all-electric Nissan Leaf was sold last week to a man in California, and more are trickling in.And the first Chevrolet Volts (pictured) &amp;8212' GM&amp;'s model that can go up to 50 miles on battery power before switching to its gas &amp;''range extender&amp;'' &amp;8212' are rolling off assembly lines in Detroit this week, with 160 cars slated to go to dealers in California, Texas, Washington, D.C. and New York.There are more on the way. The Coda sedan is slated for the second quarter of 2011, and the Ford Focus Electric will have a 20-city launch in late 2011. Norway&amp;'s Think plans to build 300 of its electric vehicles in Indiana by the end of this year. The Wheego is supposed to launch this month, too. Chinese automaker BYD is also planning an electric car for the U.S. market. There&amp;'s even an upcomingdocumentary called Revenge of the Electric Car, a follow-up to 2006&amp;'s Who Killed the Electric CarThe launches have gotten their share of rants and raves. Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh bashed the Volt, leading to a rather amusing, Oxycontin-insult-slinging retort from Motor Trend, which Limbaugh bashed for awarding the Volt &amp;''Car of the Year.&amp;'' Cheesy romance-novel coverboy Fabio has been stumping for electric vehicles in Plug In America&amp;'s public-service announcements as of late, even taking on Neil Cavuto of Fox News. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has endorsed electric cars via an investment in China&amp;'s BYD.So with that, the push to roll out matching infrastructure is gearing up into full swing, fueled in part by government dollars. Ecotality and Coulomb are rolling out chargers en masse across a number of U.S. cities, backed with money from the Department of Energy. In Ecotality&amp;'s case, it is deploying almost 15,000 chargers in 16 cities in a $248 million project, half of which will be fronted by the DOE. Coulomb is rolling out 5,000 chargers across the nation in regions where electric vehicles will be delivered by its partners, Chevrolet, Ford and smart USA .On the private-money side, power plant player NRG Energy took the unusual step of unveiling its own network of chargers and charging plans in Houston, while lobbying Nissan to allocate more Leafs to the Texas market. AndTexas utility Oncor has touted West Texas wind energy, for which it is building transmission lines, as a perfect solution for charging electric cars since the wind tends to be strongest at night &amp;8212' the same time as when most of the vehicles are expected to be plugged in.Networked chargers, via NRG, Coulomb or Ecotality, will play a key role in supplying data that determines what works and doesn&amp;'t work in the unknown world of charging habits and grid load management. As Ecotality CEO Jonathan Read describes it, part of their mission is to manage and influence charging habits and grid load, at some point using algorithms to show consumers when it&amp;'d be cheaper for them to charge. (Cheaper would also mean there&amp;'s less demand, so less of a chance of overloading the grid.)&amp;''We can help shift load so we don&amp;'t blow transformers [and] help the utility influence customers in some markets and control time of charge,&amp;'' Read said.The Volt and Leaf mark a historic first step for electric cars in the U.S. (though note that many electric trucks are already on the road). The floodgates are opening, and time will tell how consumers and utilities adjust to the growing skeleton of charger networks popping up across parking lots, streets and slowly blanketing cities. At any rate, it should be an interesting ride.Next Story: Profitable in 2010, Take-Two Interactive Software shows off a stellar slate for 2011 Previous Story: AOL acquires Pictela to distribute more promosPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: electric cars, Leaf, VoltCompanies: BYD, Chevrolet, Coulomb, ECOtality, GM, Nissan, Think, WheegoPeople: Jonathan Read          Tags: electric cars, Leaf, VoltCompanies: BYD, Chevrolet, Coulomb, ECOtality, GM, Nissan, Think, WheegoPeople: Jonathan ReadIris 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[Glassdoor&'s List of Naughty (Mark Hurd) and Nice (Mark Zuckerberg) CEOs&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Glassdoor.com is a site where employees can honestly say how they feel about their employers. The promise is it helps people make more informed job decisions. But even if the company never pulls that off, I&amp;'m glad it exists to give business voyeurs like me a window into the companies that put on such a brave PR face.Enter this year&amp;'s list of naughty and nice CEOs and best companies to work for&amp;8211' as told by the insiders. Spoiler alert: People who actually work with Mark Zuckerberg like him a lot more than Hollywood does. Glassdoor CEO and founder Robert Hohman joined me over Skype to talk about the good, the bad and the downright stunning inside the country&amp;'s biggest tech companies.CrunchBase InformationGlassdoorInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Choose Your Own Adventure: If Groupon Were Acquired By&nbsp'&8230']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If Groupon&amp;'s rebuke of Google last Friday taught us anything, it&amp;'s that sometimes the coolness conferred by just saying no is worth more than any amount money no matter how astronomical.But still, you can&amp;'t help but think of what might have been if Groopon, Groogle or whatever you had chosen to call it had actually come to fruition.For those of us with not so vivid imaginations, artist Azhar Bande-Ali has mocked up some of the possible outcomes if the coupon network had succumbed to the hypothetical and not so hypothetical advances of some of the biggest players in the field, above. You saw it here first.CrunchBase InformationGrouponInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[From The MAD TechVentures Conference 2010 In Kuala Lumpur: 22 Pitches From Malaysian&nbsp'Startups]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I attended the MSC Malaysia MAD TechVentures Conference 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, a two-day tech and web industry event organized by local company MAD Incubator and MSC Malaysia. The launch pad was one of the first of its kind in the country whose Internet and mobile population has been growing rapidly in recent years. (TechCrunch contributor Vivek Wadhwa, coincidentally in town, delivered the opening speech.)TechVentures is essentially a platform for Malaysia&amp;'s startups to demo their services on stage to an audience and a panel of judges, both of whom selected a handful of companies (out of 22) as winners. The nine lucky companies received advertising and marketing prizes valued at a total of 1.5 million Ringgit (US$500,000).Here are thumbnail sketches of all 22 companies that presented during the MAD TechVentures Conference 2010:MAD TechVentures Conference 2010: Winner of the Grand PrizeXilnex by Web BytesXilnex is a Saas-based retail management solution specifically developed for SOHO, small and medium-sized companies, startups, small and medium chain retailers and franchise retailers. The solution can be used for customer and service management, point of sales management, inventory control, services tracking etc. Xilnex also integrates an e-commerce solution (items in the inventory can be automatically pushed to online catalogues) and a number of reporting and marketing tools.MAD TechVentures Conference 2010: Panel-selected winnersAiyo!CONNECT by Terato Tech (winner of the category: Mobile and Communication)Malaysia-based iPhone, iPad and Android development company Terato Tech (iTunes) showed Aiyo!CONNECT, a publishing engine that makes it possible to convert printed material (magazines, books, brochures etc.) to the iPad &amp;''in seconds&amp;''. Users can then edit content directly on the iPad through a special editor. Here&amp;8216's a sample magazine Terato themselves created with the engine.Math Quest by HezMedia Interactive (winner: Games and Creative Content)Math Quest is an online edutainment game designed to teach mathematics to children aged between 9 and 12 through avatars, quests, mini games and other elements. The RPG-like game is created in Flash, entirely playable in the browser but also available (in Malaysia) on CD-ROM. Maker Hezmedia is currently preparing an MMORPG version that&amp;'s due out in 2011 and for which the startup is looking for international business partners.ooView by e-Trifecta Solutions (winner: Business Applications and Productivity)ooView is an augmented reality framework designed for desktop (ooView Suite), web (ooView Extended) and mobile (ooView Pocket) applications. The platform supports both object- and marker-based tracking methods, with maker e-Trifecta offering solutions in a variety of fields, including digital marketing, events, education, or training.Techsailor Community Connect by Techsailor Group (winner: Community and Social Networks)Social media consultancy and online marketing company Techsailor presented Techsailor Community Connect, its white-label social platform for enterprises. Community Connect enables companies to &amp;''turn any website into an online customer engagement tool&amp;'' through different social networking modules such as user profile pages, friend linkages, a messaging system, forums, media sharing functions, etc. Here are two examples for sites built on top of Community Connect (more here).Capsuco (winner: Subscription and Commerce Marketplace)Capsuco is an online art and graphics store offering customizable products (mainly T-shirts at this point) from artworks submitted by independent artists (who earn a share from each sale of any product featuring their artwork). Online payment is still a big hurdle for e-commerce in South East Asia, which is why the startup is planning to offer pre-paid &amp;''Capsuco Cards&amp;'' in selected brick-and mortar retail stores in Malaysia. Capsuco, which launched in July 2010, is based out of Kuala Lumpur but plans to move to other markets in South East Asia soon (beginning with Singapore).Xilnex (the winner of the Grand Prize) also won the MAD TechVentures prize in the Cloud Computing, SaaS and Web Applications category &amp;8211' as judged by the panel.MAD TechVentures Conference 2010: Audience-selected winnersMyMall by Convep Mobilogy (winner: Mobile and Communication)Kuala Lumpur-based Convep, which develops mobile applications for a number of platforms, presented MyMall at the event, a suite of apps, which are available for the iPhone (iTunes) and Blackberry. Each app helps users navigate through a different shopping mall in Malaysia, for example by providing maps, store directories, different search functions, electronic coupons, event information etc.Trosworld by Scandic Corporation (winner: Subscription and Commerce Marketplace)Trosworld is a B2C online mall that offers Malaysia&amp;'s 60%+ small- and medium-sized businesses that are still offline a simple CMS to bring their products to the web. Subscribers to Trosworld&amp;'s so-called VIP Store solution can get their own domain name and hosting on the platform, list up up to 4,000 products, use the integrated order and inventory system, let buyers pay through multiple payment gateways, etc. Trosworld provider Scandic offers offline guidance for VIP Store merchants, for example workshops in the real world or phone support.JustSAMit by ISA Innovation (winner: Cloud Computing, SaaS and Web Applications)JustSAMit is a cloud-based IT Asset Management solution specifically geared towards small- and medium-sized businesses. The service not only keeps track of what kind of hardware is being used in a given company but also helps to control software usage on computers that are in the asset list. JustSAMit, which currently requires an invitation, also wants to support clients to keep up-to-date by benchmarking their IT equipment with relevant industry vertical trends by location.The three panel-selected winners Math Quest, Techsailor Community Connect and ooView also won the audience awards in their respective categories.Here are the 13 other startups that made it to the MAD TechVentures finals but didn&amp;'t quite make the cut:mobile augmented reality platform by Clarify Consulting mobile content platform Happy Ring Ring monetization solution for social games Sogamo by ZelRealm Interactive knowledge management system Qryos by BCZ IT SolutionsGPS tracking solution by bBat tree maintenance system TREEMAIS by Urban Headline SaaS based business activity management solution KPIMatrix by Suzerein sports portal Hooha Asia real-time, location-based sales and promotions platform GetTodo by Aveniq e-commerce website solution HanWebFusion by Hanventure Worldwide Joomla-based website builder for businesses Joomware by Juzit  task management solution TaskTwister by KH Software Services wimax network performance analyzer by Syndes TechnologiesMAD Incubator and co-organizer MSC Malaysia already expect to have another TechVentures Conference in Kuala Lumpur next year.To keep up-to-date about Malaysiaa4a4s web scene, head over to the Entrepreneurs.my blog or follow the Twitter account of Kuala Lumpur-based mover and shaker Daniel Cerventus. For more South East Asia-related information, have a look at the e27 and SGEntrepreneurs blogs or download the This Week In Asia tech podcasts.CrunchBase InformationTerato TechInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Whata4a4s Twittera4a4s big vision Twitter CEO says hea4a4s figuring it out]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If youa4a4re wondering what Twittera4a4s long-term prospects are, youa4a4re not alone &amp;8212' when British newspaper The Guardian asked chief executive Dick Costolo about the companya4a4s long-term vision, he responded that hea4a4s currently trying to come up with a good answer:I am working on clarity around that at the moment. I am currently trying to define what Twittera4a4s purpose is in the long term. We will be able to be more specific on that answer in the near future.It may seem a little strange for a company fielding multibillion-dollar acquisition offers to be figuring out basic questions, but Twitter seems to have made a virtue of essentially flying by the seat of its pants. Twitter is one of the classic examples of how a technology can seem head-scratchingly frivolous (hence the constant a4Awhy should I read about what someonea4a4s having for breakfasta4-type questions) until people started using it in powerful and unforeseeable ways.At the same time, the companya4a4s co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams recently said Twitter is currently a4Ain a transition.a4 When the service first took off, the team had to work so hard to build the infrastructure necessary to keep up with user growth that it didna4a4t have the time to improve the product or develop a real business model, Williams said. That changed this year, with the launch of advertising on Twitter, a revamp of the website, and, apparently, a discussion of where the company goes from here.That transition is also reflected in a change at the top, with Costolo taking over as CEO last month. Ita4a4s interesting to see that Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey is quoted in the Guardian article while Williams is not. Williams pushed Dorsey out of the CEO role in 2008, and while Dorsey is supposedly still focused on his mobile payments startup Square, there are rumors that hea4a4s getting more involved in Twitter too, at Costolo&amp;'s request.[Image via The Guardian]Next Story: Report: Windows Mobile was for work, Windows Phone 7 is for fun Previous Story: First Windows Phone 7 jailbreak tool releasedPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: TwitterPeople: Dick Costolo, Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey          Companies: TwitterPeople: Dick Costolo, Ev Williams, Jack DorseyAnthony 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[iOS 4.2 Update Wipe Out Your iPhone Music Try&nbsp'This.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As you&amp;'re probably well aware by now, iOS 4.2 (technically, iOS 4.2.1) has been released by Apple today. The update unifies iOS across the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for the first time. But it also comes with an annoying bug that some users are seeing.After you update to the new OS, if you load the iPod (Music) app, you may see a message stating that your currently have &amp;''No Content&amp;'' on the device. The problem is that many people do. For example, I have 7.8 gigabytes of audio on my iPhone, but after the update, none of it could be located. Luckily, there&amp;'s an easy fix.As you can see in this Apple Discussion forum, others are having the same issue. The way to fix it is apparently to plug your iPhone back into your computer, play a song from the iPhone on your computer, and then sync. The process is very quick because it doesn&amp;'t actually have to transfer all that music again, it just makes it recognize that it&amp;'s already there. Sure enough, my content is now back.Oddly, it looks as if this issue may only affect the iPhone 4. I updated an iPhone 3GS earlier and see all my music just fine. Likewise with the iPad.Update: A few people have since said that the problem affects iPod touches as well.Update 2: And yet more people are saying it&amp;'s affecting their iPhone 3GS as well. Again, my 3GS updated just fine. Weird.[via Dwight Silverman]CrunchBase InformationiPhone 4Information provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DEMO: Will stepping into the CVAC pod improve your health]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[CVAC Systems is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.CVAC Systems is demonstrating an eyebrow-raising fitness technology at DEMO: The company says that by spending 20 minutes in its CVAC pod two or three times a week, customers can improve athletic fitness and general wellness.The company&amp;'s name stands for &amp;''Cyclic Variations in Altitude Conditioning,&amp;'' and that&amp;'s what happens inside the pod. Once you&amp;'re inside, the air pressure is increased and then decreased to simulate the experience of being in high or low altitude. CVAC claims these changes &amp;''stimulate an individuala4a4s natural adaptation response to environment.&amp;''Sound a little out there Well, you can read more about the technology on the CVAC website. The Temecula, Calif. company says it also has a scientific board of advisors that includes faculty from the University of Hawaii and the University of Canterbury.President and chief executive Allen Ruzskowski said the company has sold the pod to both businesses (you can see a list of locations with a CVAC pod here) and to consumers, but he predicted that the biggest audience will be corporate wellness programs. He said a pod costs more than $100,000, comparing the price to a Tesla Roadster.When I asked Ruzskowski how he plans to get companies on-board with this idea, he said, &amp;''Once a 50-year-old executive tries it out for a week, that&amp;'s all it takes.&amp;''Next Story: GutCheck wins the $1M prize at DEMO Previous Story: Daily deals site 1SaleaDay raises tens of millionsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011Companies: CVAC SystemsPeople: Allen Ruszkowski          Tags: DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011Companies: CVAC SystemsPeople: Allen RuszkowskiAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site 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. 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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