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<title><![CDATA[Verizon iPhone goes on sale (live blog)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The wait is finally over for the Verizon Wireless iPhone. Starting Thursday, Verizon's version of theiPhone 4 will be available in retail stores.Apple and Verizon Wireless stores, along with Best Buy and selected Wal-Mart stores, will start selling the Verizon iPhones at 7 a.m. local time. And even with a high of 28 degrees forecast for New York City, eager iPhone fans are expected to line up around the block at stores throughout the city.It's unclear how many iPhones will be available on Thursday. Apple and Verizon quickly sold out of the initial batch of iPhones that were made available through a presale to Verizon customers last week. In fact, Verizon said that demand for the iPhone 4 surpassed any other previous smartphone launch on its network, including the hotly anticipated Motorola Droid and Droid X, as well as the HTC Incredible.In an effort to move the sales process along more quickly, Apple has been taking online reservations for customers buying the phone in its retail stores. Customers with reservations can pick up their reserved iPhones after noon in Apple stores.But some people, of course, just like the thrill of waiting in line. That's why CNET is sending out a crew of reporters and photographers to document this momentous launch. I'll be on location at the Apple cube on Fifth Avenue in New York City updating a blog with pictures and snippets from the crowd. I'll also be in front of the camera putting together a story for CNET TV.My CNET colleague Daniel Terdiman will also be contributing to the blog from the West Coast, where he will provide commentary from the Apple scene in San Francisco. For the latest news and pictures from theVerizon iPhone launch, bookmark this page and be sure to check back early Thursday morning and throughout the day.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Futuristic touch screen puts the desk in desktop]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hiuvahaber</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[editor's notebook The future just keeps getting closer and closer these days. Not only do we have iPhones with FaceTime--which, when combined with theiPod Nano (as I'm sure they will be before too long) will come pretty close to creating a mass-market version of Dick Tracy's 2-way wrist TV--we've also got robot cars and, ahem, robot journalists (which I'm trying to keep at bay by way of this terribly sophisticated and never-ending sentence--apparently the roboscribes have trouble with such Proustian gymnastics: Quick! They're coming for our jobs! Hand me another semicolon and an em dash!).And too, we've got Minority Report-like gesture-driven interfaces and now this: a multiuser touch screen the size of a desk, which curves up to create a, well, desktop like the metaphorical one you may be staring at right now.Cool!I realize some of you will scoff at this device--whipped up by The Media Computing Group at Germany's RWTH Aachen University, and brought to my attention by Engadget--but I freely admit that it fires my imagination.I can see it combined with the type of Wacom pen-and-tablet device that lets you &quot;draw&quot; directly on screen. As a sometime graphic designer, I'd be in nirvana. I could hunch over in a hard-working, tortured artist kind of way and draw a picture or manipulate a Photoshop file, save a version of it, and then whisk that version across the (horizontal) desktop to see it curve up onto the (vertical) desktop that would now be a perfect bulletin board.(Credit:Media Computing Group)I can see it incorporating the aforementioned gesture-driven technology to allow me to sit back and point at the drawings on my bulletin board to choose the ones I like: I could snap my fingers, say, and preserve those files' then--I don't know--dismiss the rejects with a disdainful backhanded wave and watch them burst into unbelievably lifelike flames courtesy of a supercharged graphics card or an up-and-coming 3D Web technology like WebGL. A client meeting was never so much fun! It's a multiuser device: I could set the client's favorite drawings ablaze, and she could ignite mine! We could create a new videogame! I'd let her win! I'd have to! She's now my only source of income--my journalism job having been stolen by R2-D2!But enough of my overheated holiday-weekend imaginings' irrelevant asides about robots' and tiresome, tiresome, tiresome--tiresome--syntactical pyrotechnics. Why don't you take a look at the video and share with us your own brilliant vaporware in the comments section below(And, yes, I know, we've already had at least one real-life interpretation of the Dick Tracy gadget--and for a long time now. See I told you the future just keeps getting closer. So close it's become the past. Feel free to point out if and where the technology mashup I've conjured already exists--and when it appeared.)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hsieh: Corporate culture should be a top priority]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You might have read our review of Zappos CEO and founder Tony Hsieha4a4s recent book a4ADelivering Happinessa4 a couple of weeks ago.Hsieh&amp;'sa fanatic about building a strong company culture, where each department understands the other. And his book is a fascinating study in insisting on more from your employees and making them happier at the same time. Now you can learn more about this philosophy from Hsiehhimself in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture, given last month at Stanford University.See if you can determine how many brand new hires take the company up on its offer of a $3,000 bonus to quit after just a few weeks on the job.Next Story: In wake of Republican victory, chip trade group&amp;'s new chief shows his political agenda (video) Previous Story: Netgear introduces a swarm of new devices to connect TVs to the webPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Stanford UniversityCompanies: Zappos          Tags: Stanford UniversityCompanies: ZapposChris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLargeVentureBeat 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[Skyara, An AirBnB For&nbsp'Experiences]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[i/o Ventures backed Skyara launches today as a marketplace for exciting things to do. Founded by Jonathan Wu, Dennis Liu and Steven Ou, the site provides people who can offer new experiences like a culinary tour, personalized yoga or a beer tasting with a platform to do so, hooking them up AirBnB-style with people who seek new experiences like foodies or yoga fanatics.Key Skyara features include packaging, scheduling, booking and payments services and well as a Digg-like voting features and Skyara Requests, i.e. if a specific experience isn&amp;'t available on Skyara, consumers can request it and see if any vendor can customize their offerings.The founders say that they&amp;'re trying to create a new experience market similar to how Etsy created a new market for DIY craft fans, targeting people who ask, a4AWhat is there to doa4 during the weekends  The site currently has between 50-100 experiences available in the Bay Area and plans to monetize by charging experience vendors a 12% transaction fee.Future plans include expansion into other markets like New York and Hawaii. Says Wu, &amp;''Our goal is to get all of the screen tanned entrepreneurs and business folks out of the house and trying exciting new things. We want Skyara experiences to become a part of everyonea4a4s weekend schedule.&amp;''Skyara is also offering a $5 off promotional code to the first 100 TechCrunch readers to sign up with the referral code TECHCRUNCH. And for those interested, AirBnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyka4shas offered lunch as a Skyara experience (starting at $10)a4sin solidarity.CrunchBase InformationSkyaraInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: Thin-film solar&'s prospects look dicey, Nissan to sell 500,000 electric cars by 2013]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Here are the top stories we&amp;'re following today on the GreenBeat:Most of GE&amp;'s recent renewable energy investing has gone towards wind energy projects &amp;8212' 80 percent of the $6 billion invested went to providing equity and debt for wind projects, Dow Jones Newswires reports.Nissan plans to sell 500,000 electric cars by 2013, with chief executive Carlos Ghosn saying the only constraint would be how many battery packs factories can produce, the New York Times reports. The company&amp;'s first all-electric car was slated to debut in December, but VentureBeat learned that the company is delaying deliveries and will only ship five Leafs this year.Thin-film solar makers are in a fight for their lives against the more dominant and cheaper crystalline silicon technology employed by most solar panel makers, according to a new report from Lux Research. The report singled out thin-film Oerlikon&amp;'s technology (pictured) for boosting efficiency rates of thin-film modules.Chinese renewable energy companies are racing to offer IPOs on the Hong Kong stock exchance, Dow Jones Newswires reports, the two most recent examples being twoChinese wind operators looking to raise a combined $2.5 billion.A federal program that offered cash grants for solar projects expires at the end of this year, and chances look slim that it will get renewed during the lame-duck session of Congress that started this week, Reuters reports.Solar Millenium has received approvals for 1,000 megawatts of solar projects in Nevada and California, Bloomberg reports.After winning raves from Kleiner Perkins and RockPort Capital, Clarian Power&amp;'s plug-and-play solar solution has won the GE Ecoimagination competition.Next Story: Analyst Mary Meeker&amp;'s 10 questions for Web CEOs Previous Story: Adobe CEO says he has no plans to sellPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cleantech investing, ecoimagination, electric cars, Solar, windCompanies: Clarian Power, GE, Lux Research, Nissan, Solar MilleniumPeople: Carlos Ghosn          Tags: cleantech investing, ecoimagination, electric cars, Solar, windCompanies: Clarian Power, GE, Lux Research, Nissan, Solar MilleniumPeople: Carlos GhosnIris 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[OnLive starts pre-sales for MicroConsole aimed at eliminating game consoles]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In a move aimed at disrupting the game console market, gaming startup OnLive announced that it is beginning pre-sales today for its MicroConsole, which allows you to play games-on-demand on a TV.The MicroConsole TV adapter and a wireless controller will cost just $99, and yet it will allow gamers to play high-end computer games on flat-panel displays in 1080p high-definition running at 60 frames per second, or faster than a blink of the eye. OnLive will start delivering limited quantities of the Onlive Game System starting on Dec. 2. For the holidays, the company is offering a free game with any OnLive Game System purchase.OnLive launched its instantly playable server games in June. But the MicroConsole represents the fruition of entrepreneur Steve Perlman&amp;'s vision to turn the video game industry upside down. If it truly works, the cheap MicroConsole hardware could potentially eliminate the need for players to keep buying more and more powerful and expensive game consoles.The disadvantage for the console rivals is that they will never be able to match the low costs of OnLive&amp;'s MicroConsole, given the simplicity of OnLive&amp;'s client hardware. Even the relatively cheap Nintendo Wii costs $199, and its performance isn&amp;'t as good as OnLive&amp;'s in terms of quality of graphics. This bold strategy explains why OnLive was valued at $1.1 billion during its latest investment in the summer.&amp;''It marks the beginning of a new era,&amp;'' Perlman said in an interview.The OnLive system uses a cloud-based design to allow it to deliver high-end games on low-end hardware. Current consoles such as the Xbox 360 do all of the serious computing of games on the console itself. But with OnLive, the games are processed in the cloud, or web-connected data centers. Those images are then sent at lightning speed over the broadband connection to the MicroConsole, which adapts the images so they are properly displayed on the high-definition TV.Normally, web connections are too slow to handle so much data. A lot of skeptics said Perlman&amp;'s scheme would never work. But OnLive has worked for more than eight years on its data compression technology so that it can make the games instantly playable, as long as the MicroConsole is connected to a data center that is less than 1,000 miles away.The MicroConsole itself is just a tiny pocket-sized box connected to broadband, with a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) connection to your TV. The MicroConsole adapts the images to your TV screen. You can play pretty much any game that runs on the PC as long as the game publishers have authorized the game for TV play. As many as 35 titles are expected to be available at launch. Those games could be better and newer. But that is a problem that can be fixed over time.Beyond enabling players who can&amp;'t afford consoles to play premium games for a lower price, OnLive lets you log in from any computer and play games on a PC or laptop. You can also play those same games in your living room on the TV now, without ever having to load a disc or download a copy of a game. You can also be a spectator, watching live multiplayer games in progress and move from game to game as if you were surfing channels on TV.I tried out the MicroConsole, and it works as advertised. Within ten or 15 seconds of activating OnLive, I was playing a tennis game with the wireless controller. There is no frustrating load time. The console is silent, with no noisy fan. And it is so small it doesn&amp;'t take up space on your entertainment center.The set-up is hassle free. You connect the MicroConsole to the internet and your TV. Within minutes, you can browse OnLive&amp;'s Marketplace and play games instantly. The wireless controller has media controls to enable one-touch Brag Clip video recording, which lets you to take a video of your exploits to share them with friends.Up to four OnLive wireless controllers can be used at the same time. You can also attach your own keyboard and mouse if you care to. Perlman says that the performance of OnLive will improve with time, as the company can easily make changes by upgrading its hardware or software in its data centers. OnLive can improve its game performance without revamping its hardware. The one thing that OnLive lacks now is motion-sensing hardware. But that could conceivably be added sometime down the road.You can demo games for free, rent them, or purchase them. Rentals cost $3.99 to $8.99. Full game purchases range from $4.99 to $49.99. Later this year, OnLive will add a monthly flat-rate subscription plan. Those pricing models are aimed at tempting users who aren&amp;'t exactly sure how much they&amp;'ll play a given game.&amp;''For those who want an all-you-can-eat plan, we offer it,&amp;'' Perlman said.Titles include Borderlands Game of the Year Edition, Just Cause 2, Mafia II, NBA 2K11, Shaun White Skateboarding and more. Coming soon are titles such as Driver San Francisco, Homefront, Assassin&amp;'s Creed Brotherhood, FEAR 3, Red Faction Armageddon, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Tom Clancy&amp;'s Ghost Recon 4 Future Soldier, and Duke Nukem Forever. Some of these titles are available on OnLive as soon as they come out in stores. Full told, more than 100 games are in the pipeline, Perlman said.To publicize the launch, OnLive will be launching TV commercials and other ads. I don&amp;'t expect OnLive to make too big a splash because its MicroConsole won&amp;'t be widely available. But it&amp;'s time for the console makers &amp;8212' Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo &amp;8212' to pay attention because they have a new competitor.For 40-inch and larger TVs, users will need a broadband connection with a speed of 5 megabits per second. For 30-inch to 40-inch TVs, the speed required is 4 megabits per second. For sub-30-inch TVs, 3 megabits per second is needed.Palo Alto, Calif.-based OnLive now has more than 200 employees. Investors include Warner Bros., Autodesk, Maverick Capital, AT&amp;amp'T, British Telecommunications, and the Belgacom Group. In other news, Perlman showed how OnLive can run in demo mode on an iPhone or iPad. He also showed it working on Android version 2.2.Next Story: Steve Perlman shows off OnLive&amp;'s disruptive MicroConsole  (video) Previous Story: Twitter&amp;'s Ev Williams: Being CEO is &amp;''kind of a sucky job&amp;''PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: consoles, MicroConsoleCompanies: Autodesk, Maverick Capital, OnLive, Warner BrosPeople: Steve Perlman          Tags: consoles, MicroConsoleCompanies: Autodesk, Maverick Capital, OnLive, Warner BrosPeople: Steve PerlmanDean 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[Want An iPod Nano Watch So Does Everyone. Idea Poised To Be New Kickstarter&nbsp'King]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We&amp;'ve talked a lot about Diaspora, the open-source Facebook-alternative, in recent months. One of the reasons for that is the massive success they had raising money on the crowdsourced fund-raising site, Kickstarter. The project raised over $200,000 from nearly 6,500 backers in just 39 days. Now a new project has already blown that tally out of the water: an iPod nano-based multi-touch wristwatch.Scott Wilson, the founder of Chicago-based product and design studio, MINIMAL, set out with an idea: to create two watch enclosures for Apple&amp;'s latest iPod nano. He wanted the TikTok to be a low-end model ($35) and the LunaTik to be high-end ($70). So he put his project on Kickstarter with a goal of raising $15,000. So how is he doingWell, he&amp;'s raised $341,895. And he still has 22 days to go.Wow.Wilson&amp;'s project has not only blown past the high-profile Diaspora one, it&amp;'s poised to demolish the all-time funding leader, the Save Blue Like Jazz movie. That project raised $345,992 when it closed on October 25. Wilson&amp;'s project should pass it tomorrow, if not tonight after I publish this post.And with good reason. While the idea is a simple one (Apple CEO Steve Jobs even joked about such an idea on stage to highlight how small the nano is), but it&amp;'s something a lot of people clearly want. The project has 4,636 backers so far. And the video Wilson made to accompany the project (below) looks quite a bit like an Apple-produced video.Wilson had a goal of shipping the TikTok by late December and the LunaTik by mid January. At first, money was the issue. Now it seems as if demand may be the bigger problem. (To be clear, given the prices he&amp;'s selling these for, the iPod nano is not included.)Again, the project still has 22 days to go on its funding run. I have to imagine it&amp;'s going to shoot well past $500,000, putting it far atop the Kickstarter Hall of Fame.[thanks David]CrunchBase InformationKickstarterAppleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[As its CEO steps down, whata4a4s happening at RockYou]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[News broke late yesterday that Lance Tokuda is stepping down from his role as chief executive of social game- and app-maker RockYou. Coming barely more than a month after the company announced substantial layoffs, we started wondering where RockYou is headed. So I got on the phone with chief operating officer Lisa Marino to find out.Marino emphasized that both Tokudaa4a4s decision (he will remain at RockYou working on a4Ainnovation and strategic initiativesa4) and the layoffs were part of a larger reorganization at RockYou as it focuses on social games. The company was already making games, such as Zoo World, but Marino said it was doing too many other things &amp;8212' if you asked people in the industry what RockYou did, youa4a4d get a4Aa mixed bag of answers.a4So RockYou laid off part of its workforce (it never said how much), hired new employees with what Marino called a4Athe right DNA to build the good gamesa4 (such as former EA executive Jonathan Knight), and in the last month alone, it shut down more than 50 applications. RockYou has become a4Aa really different place,a4 Marino said.And wea4a4ll see the fruits of this new focus in the next few months, she added, as RockYou unveils new products that will make it a4Avery relevanta4 in the social games industry.When I asked how RockYou hopes to stand out against giants like Zynga, Marino said the company isna4a4t just a game-maker. Yes, it&amp;'s focused on making games, but it&amp;'s also  a4Aa social entertainment companya4. Therea4a4s a media and advertising side to RockYoua4a4s business, which it uses to make money from its own games (so ita4a4s not just tied to virtual goods) and to help other developers do the same.a4AThis was an aggressive move and a proactive move,a4 Marino said. a4AWea4a4ve got a lot of money in the bank.a4Revenue is still strong, she added, with RockYou set to make more money in the fourth quarter of 2010 than it did in Q3 or Q2 (but not as much as Q1).RockYou has raised $127 million in funding, so if its investors (including Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners) want to see a healthy return, theya4a4ll need a bigger exit than rival Slidea4a4s $228 million acquisition by Google.Tokudaa4a4s departure from the CEO role fit into that restructuring, Marino said, and it also came from his realization that as the company grows, it will need a a4Abeen here, done thata4 CEO with more experience growing organizations. For now, Marino and the rest of the current executive team are managing RockYou while the company searches for a replacement.a4ABecause the management team is doing well, we have the luxury of being patient to find the right candidate,a4 she said.[Photo of Lance Tokuda at the Facebook Developer Garage via Flickr/Niall Kennedy]Next Story: Google Wave to ride again as open source Apache project Previous Story: Idiocy: EPA rates 2011 Nissan Leaf &amp;8216'gas mileage&amp;' at 99 MPGPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: social gamesCompanies: RockYouPeople: Lance Tokuda, Lisa Marino          Tags: social gamesCompanies: RockYouPeople: Lance Tokuda, Lisa MarinoAnthony 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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