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<title><![CDATA[Verizon fires legal shot against Net neutrality rules]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Verizon Communications has fired the first shot in the legal war to dismantle the Federal Communications Commission's new Net neutrality rules.The phone company today filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging the FCC's Report and Order on rules dealing with the issue of Net neutrality.Michael E. Glover, Verizon's senior vice president and deputy counsel, said in a press release that the company has been committed to the process of preserving the open Internet but that after careful review of the FCC's order, it believes that the FCC has overstepped its bounds.&quot;We are deeply concerned by the FCC's assertion of broad authority for sweeping new regulation of broadband networks and the Internet itself,&quot; he said in a statement. &quot;We believe this assertion of authority goes well beyond any authority provided by Congress, and creates uncertainty for the communications industry, innovators, investors and consumers.&quot; After years of debate on the topic, the FCC adopted rules codifying specific Net neutrality principles in late December. The new regulation creates two classes of service subject to different rules: one that applies to fixed broadband networks and one for wireless networks.The first rule requires both wireless and wireline providers to be transparent in how they manage and operate their networks. The second Net neutrality rule prohibits the blocking of traffic on the Internet. The rule applies to both fixed wireline broadband network operators as well as to wireless providers. But the stipulations for each type of network are slightly different. And finally, the last rule applies only to fixed broadband providers. It prohibits fixed wireline broadband providers from unreasonably discriminating against traffic on their network. Net neutrality opponents have been voicing their opposition to the rules since they were adopted a few weeks ago. And some Republican Congressional leaders have already pledged to dismantle the new Open Internet rules. Lawyers in D.C. have also been preparing complaints for weeks.Larry Downes, a consultant, author, and contributor to CNET, said that he finds it odd that Verizon would file its complaint before the official regulations have been published in the Federal Register. But he said he isn't surprised that Verizon has fired the first legal shot.&quot;There was little doubt from the Consumer Electronics Show (earlier this month) that this was going to happen,&quot; he said in an e-mail. &quot;By being first, Verizon gets the best possible court. The D.C. Circuit, in addition to being the court that decided the Comcast case, is historically skeptical of FCC efforts to stretch its authority.&quot;In April, the D.C. Circuit court tossed out the FCC's August 2008 cease-and-desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to slow BitTorrent transfers before voluntarily ending them earlier that year.Since then, the FCC's authority has been called into question. Some people believe that the agency has no authority to enact these rules. But the FCC asserted in its Open Internet ruling that it does have the authority to impose rules and regulations governing Net neutrality. This lawsuit is clearly the next challenge to that authority.Verizon's legal strategy Downes said that Verizon is taking an interesting legal strategy by filing its complaint in the D.C. Circuit Federal Appeals court, which has special jurisdiction to hear certain FCC cases. Filing in that court is likely a safer bet for Verizon rather than a regular federal district court, which may not have much experience hearing telecommunications cases. What's more, the D.C. Circuit Appeals court has historically been more favorable toward complaints against the FCC.But to get it into the D.C. Circuit Federal Appeals court, Verizon has had to do some legal maneuvering. Instead of taking direct aim at the FCC's new Net neutrality rules, Verizon asserts in its &quot;appeal&quot; that the FCC order changes the terms of existing licenses that Verizon holds to wireless spectrum. So in that regard the company is &quot;appealing&quot; the change to the order rather than initiating a new case that challenges the rules directly, Downes points out. If Verizon initiated a new case, it would have to be filed in a regular federal district court. But because it's an appeal to existing FCC licenses, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has jurisdiction. The Court of Appeals may take some time to decide on the motion, which will require detailed briefing and possibly oral arguments, Downes said. In the meantime, Verizon could ask the court to stay implementation of the new rules, which will go into effect 60 days after the FCC posts the new rules in the Federal Register. That is expected to happen any day. Verizon could also ask the court to stay any other proceedings brought by others in different courts against the FCC. Even if the D.C. appeals court eventually decides the case isn't in its jurisdiction, it could grant these stays while it is deciding, which could delay action.The FCC declined to comment on the court filing, but Downes said he suspects that the FCC will move to vacate the appeal on the grounds that the FCC order was a new rulemaking and not a modification to Verizon's existing licenses. And they will likely argue that challenges to the FCC order should start in federal district court rather than in an appeals court. Verizon also filed a separate motion today asking the D.C. appeals court to assign the same panel of judges who heard the Comcast vs. FCC case to the Verizon appeals case. The Media Access project, a nonprofit public interest law firm, says that Verizon is blatantly shopping for a favorable court to hear its &quot;appeal&quot; on the Net neutrality issue.&quot;Under this bizarre legal theory, virtually every FCC decision would wind up in one court,&quot; said Andrew Jay Schwartzman, senior vice president and policy director of the Media Access Project. &quot;Verizon has made a blatant attempt to locate its challenge in a favorable appeals court forum. The company's theory assumes that all agency actions changing rules are 'modifications' to hundreds of thousands of licenses. This would insure the case remains in the District of Columbia Circuit, and keeps others from seeking review in different courts.&quot; So far, Verizon's efforts appear to be about starting a long and time-consuming legal process, which will keep Net neutrality uncertain for some time. So far actual details of the company's arguments against Net neutrality are thin.&quot;There's not much substance yet to their appeal,&quot; Downes said in an e-mail. &quot;Nor does there need to be. They claim that the Net neutrality order exceeded the FCC's authority, was arbitrary and capricious, violates Verizon's constitutional rights, and is otherwise illegal. For now, that's all they have to say. The real legal arguments will come when they brief the case.&quot;Updated 3:30 p.m. PT: This story was updated with additional analysis.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo layoffs of up to 700 employees set for tomorrow]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It matters a great deal to the unfortunate employees at Yahoo who are being laid off this week for the reporting on the subject to be accurate and to entail some serious effort.(It's bad enough to lose a well-paying job in this still-tough economy, but to lose one over the holidays requires quite a lot more than incorrectly quoting a tweet off Twitter without checking first.)And so here's the deal, as BoomTown has previously reported, about what's happening with Yahoo layoffs, set for tomorrow morning:Yahoo will lay off about 650 to 700 employees.Those layoffs will come largely from its product division, headed by Blake Irving, although there could be firings in other parts of Yahoo.The layoffs are mostly in the U.S. units of Yahoo.Those let go will be notified tomorrow and will likely have to leave Yahoo facilities immediately. Company sources said the action will be completed by early afternoon, Pacific time.It's definitely bad timing for Yahoo, given it is less than two weeks until Christmas, but cost-cutting at the company seems unavoidable as it seeks to improve revenue and spur growth.Still, it is another sad day in Sunnyvale, Calif., where the iconic Internet giant is headquartered.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What you need to know about the Gawker breach (FAQ)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This weekend's breach of Gawker has readers of the blogging empire's Web sites scrambling to see if their e-mail addresses have been publicly exposed, but even people who don't use the site can learn lessons from what happened.What happened The Web site and back-end database of Gawker was published on the Pirate Bay Bit Torrent site on Sunday. It included Gawker source code, information about a possible site redesign, instant messages between employees, and about 1.3 million user account passwords, usernames, and e-mail addresses. While they were encrypted using DES (Data Encryption Standard), simple passwords may be vulnerable to a brute force attack.  Jon Oberheide, chief technology officer at Duo security, used a tool called John the Ripper on the passwords and wrote a blog post about some interesting patterns he found. &quot;Attackers will undoubtedly be testing the cracked passwords against both personal and corporate services such as e-mail accounts, online banking sites, VPN remote access logins,&quot; he wrote.Who was affectedAnybody who registered with any of Gawker's sites--Gawker, Gizmodo, Jezebel, Lifehacker, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin and Fleshbot--is at risk, unless they logged in using Facebook Connect, according to an FAQ on Lifehacker. The exposed data includes a bunch of e-mail addresses of workers at federal, state, and local government agencies, that PBS Newshour reports appear to have been separated out for possible future attacks. How do I find out if my personal information is in the data fileAnyone can download the 500MB file to look for their e-mail address in clear text, but it will take bandwidth and time. HD Moore, chief security officer of Rapid7, created a way for people to easily check to see if their information was compromised. He did this by creating hashes, or unique values, for each of the e-mail addresses to protect the privacy but allow people to easily see if their information is in the list. First, you need to create a cryptographic hash of your e-mail address and enter it as lowercase here. Then search for that hash here by clicking on &quot;show options&quot; and setting the condition to MD5 = YourHash and click &quot;apply.&quot; If you find an entry in the table that matches your MD5 hash, then your Gawker account has been breached. More information is on the Rapid7 blog.  Another Web site created to check if your information is on the Gawker list by typing in your username and/or e-mail address is called GawkerCheck.com.  Deciding that Gawker posting warnings about the breach on its sites wasn't adequate notice, some people on the Hacker News site began contacting e-mail addresses on the list themselves, according to the Media Mob blog. What should I do now if my password was among those in the fileIf you used that same password on any other sites you should immediately change it there. Experts recommend not changing the password on the Gawker site until administrators there have completely fixed the security issues. I don't use that site so I'm safe, rightYou might be safe from having your information exposed in this particular attack, but these types of breaches happen every day so you should be careful what passwords you choose and follow some basic precautions. For instance, don't use the same password at multiple sites. Create a unique password for every site you log into. That way your other accounts won't be impacted. This may have already posed a problem for some Gawker users. A Twitter representative attributed spamming on Twitter on Sunday to people having the same password for both sites.  It's very important to choose strong passwords. Passphrases, sequences of words, or other text are harder to crack than passwords because they are longer. Mixing in uppercase and lowercase letters, and using numbers and symbols, greatly increases the strength of the password or passphrase. More tips for choosing strong passwords can be found here. Information about password managers is here. And you can test the strength of a potential password at this Microsoft Web site. Who did thisA group calling itself &quot;Gnosis&quot; appears to be behind the attack. The name could refer to an operating system from the 1970s from a company called Tymshare or to the dictionary definition pertaining to knowledge of spiritual matters. There isn't much information available about the group.Why was Gawker targetedGawker said in July that it was targeted in a denial-of-service attack by people associated with the notorious Internet prankster group called 4chan after reporting that the group had harassed an 11-year-old girl. Although the Gnosis group said in the file it uploaded to the Internet that it is not 4chan, it praised 4chan, as well as Anonymous, a loose group of WikiLeaks supporters who have been orchestrating denial-of-service attacks on Visa, PayPal and others who have cut off the whistleblower project. Among the information released by the group were what appeared to be instant message chats between Gawker employees discussing 4chan. In the messages the participants are suggesting possible headlines such as &quot;Suck on This, 4Chan,&quot; &quot;Nick Denton (Gawker founder) Says Bring It On 4Chan, Right to My Home Address (After The Jump) and &quot;We Are Not Scared of 4chan Here at 210 Elizabeth St NYNY 10012.&quot;  &quot;We went after Gawker because of their outright arrogance,&quot; a source claiming to be from Gnosis told blog Mediaite &quot;We have had access to all of their emails for a long time as well as most of their infrastructure powering the site. Gawkmedia has possibly the worst security I have ever seen. It is scary how poor it is. Their servers run horribly outdated kernel versions, their site is filled with numerous exploitable code and their database is publicly accessible.&quot;  Asked for comment via e-mail, Denton replied: &quot;We're saving our responses for commenters, who are the people directly affected, after all. You can find some of mine in http://gawker.com/tag/crosstalk.&quot;  Forbes has a fascinating article filled with details on how the attack was done that every Web site owner should read. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Passing The Joint (Venture): General Cannabis Inhales&nbsp'Weedmaps]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[General Cannabis, whose admirable mission is to &amp;''improve your quality of life&amp;'', has acquired a dime bag of Weedmaps, as first pre-announced back in September. General Cannabis, formerly known as LC Luxuries Limited, is buying the &amp;''Yelp for pot&amp;'' for a mix of cash and stock with additional earn-out potential for the company&amp;'s duo of founders, although the exact terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Stoner jokes aside, General Cannabis, a publicly traded company on the Pink Sheets, says it had been planning the acquisition of Weedmaps for a long time. As part of the deal, Weedmaps co-founders Justin Hartfield and Keith Hoerling have entered into long-term employment contracts with General Cannabis and will assume the roles of Chief Web Officer and Chief Technology Officer, respectively.The combination of both companies make sense, particularly considering General Cannabis actively manages medical marijuana dispensaries under the name US Cannabis.Weedmaps.com is essentially an online community where medical marijuana patients connect with other patients in their geographic region to discuss and review local cannabis co-operatives, dispensaries, medical doctors and delivery services.Weedmaps is also quite a solid business. As our own Sarah Lacy reported last month, Weedmaps brings in roughly $400,000 in monthly revenues, of just 50,000 registered users. Hartfield told Lacy that the newly formed combined entity intends to acquire and &amp;''roll up&amp;'' (ok, so one more stoner joke doesn&amp;'t hurt, right) several smaller companies in the future, likely also around the cannabis issue.We&amp;'ll be watching this joint closely (ok, I&amp;'ll quit now &amp;8211' oops!).As a reminder: Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson fame was allegedly too chicken to make an investment in WeedMaps in recent times. Will he regret this at some pointCrunchBase InformationWeedMapsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vostu, The Zynga Of Brazil, Raises $30 Million At $300 Million&nbsp'Valuation]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Social gaming is an international phenomenon.  While Zynga is the leading social gaming company in the U.S., in Brazil it is a company called Vostu.  The company has been growing rapidly and just closed a $30 million series C financing led by Tiger Management, with Accel Partners joining the round.  Accel partner Jim Breyer, who sits on Facebook&amp;'s board, will take a board seat on Vostu.  Previous investors Intel Capital and General Catalyst partners also participated.  Investors purchased about 10 percent of the company in this latest round, giving Vostu a post-money valuation of roughly $300 million, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. Including previous rounds, Vostu now has raised a total of $46 million.Vostu boasts 20 million active players a month, a tenfold increase from the beginning of the year.  With only 40 percent Internet penetration in Brazil, that means that about a quarter of all Brazilians who are on the Internet play a Vostu game.  Vostu currently has six social games (including a farm game, poker game, as well as soccer and crime role playing games) which are played on Brazil&amp;'s largest social network, Google-owned Orkut.  Almost all the revenues comes from virtual currency, which players spend inside the games.  It is almost all micropayments, with a little advertising.  Vostu coins can be bought via cash at convenience stores through prepaid scratch cards, or via SMS and charged directly to their cell phone bills.The company was founded in 2007 by three Harvard classmates: CEO Daniel Kafie, chief scientist Mario Schlosser, and Joshua Kushner (who is also an active seed investor through Thrive Capital).  The founders have said that Vostu is profitable.  Vostu is managed from New York City, but employs more than 200 people in two game-creation studios in Buenos Aires and Sao Paolo.  CrunchBase InformationVostuOrkutZyngaInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Foursquare explains itself better to businesses and brands]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hotake4</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Popular location check-in application Foursquare just launched a new &amp;''Foursquare for Business&amp;'' page to encourage businesses and brands to claim venues and create partnerships.With millions of consumers checking in to locations around the world, Foursquare has quickly become another marketing tool for companies. Previously, Foursquare had a less-than-stellar set of pages explaining how a business may claim a venue.With today&amp;'s launch, the new page, dubbed &amp;''Quick Start&amp;nbsp'Guide,&amp;''&amp;nbsp'is much more dynamic, interactive and spotlight how a business or brand can attract customers using Foursquare. For example, rather than just claiming your venue, the company now explores several different types of campaigns that can be run, such as a Mayor Special, Frequency Special or Count Special to name a few. The guide also talks about how to promote specials, redeem them, and track venue stats.Foursquare isn&amp;'t the only one who is trying to get businesses and brands to claim venues or create badges, competitors Gowalla and Scvngr&amp;nbsp'also have a business page. While the basic copy is similar, one wonders if the new interactive and flashy Foursquare business pages are what&amp;'s needed. Though recent reports of bugs in Blackberry app versions won&amp;'t help&amp;nbsp'to prove that the company is&amp;nbsp'a legitimate business tool.Foursquare, based in New York City and founded in 2009, has raised more than $21 million in funding. It currently has more than&amp;nbsp'40 employees in its hometown and a new engineering office that ita4a4s opening in San Francisco.Next Story: Streaming ad network TargetSpot raises $8M to jam ads into online radio Previous Story: Steve Wozniak wishes he had a dual AT&amp;038'T-Verizon iPhone (video interview)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: check-ins, location based appsCompanies: Foursquare          Tags: check-ins, location based appsCompanies: FoursquareCody Barbierri is a social and digital media consultant. He works for Piehead and blogs about social media at Social Tab. (None of his posts are about clients or their competitors.) Reach him at Cody@venturebeat.com. You can also follow Cody 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[Social Network creators compliment Zuck on Golden Globe stage]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Social Network walked away with a few choice awards, including Best Picture, at the Golden Globes tonight. The film is loosely based on Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook, and it largely trashes his reputation from the very first scene, where the Zuckerberg character (Jesse Eisenberg) gets trashed by an ex-girlfriend, who says some classic lines to him.Erica Albright, played by Rooney Mara, says, &amp;''You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But youa4a4re going to go through life thinking that girls dona4a4t like you because youa4a4re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that wona4a4t be true. Ita4a4ll be because youa4a4re an asshole.&amp;''But upon winning a Golden Globe for best screenplay, writer Aaron Sorkin took the stage and said, &amp;''I wanted to say to Mark Zuckerberg, if youa4a4re watching tonight, Rooney Maraa4a4s character makes a prediction at the beginning of the movie, she was wrong. You turned out to be a great entrepreneur, a visionary and a fantastic altruist.&amp;''Producer Scott Rudin accepted the award for Best Picture. He said, &amp;''I want to thank everybody at Facebook' Mark Zuckerberg for his willingness to allow us to use his life and work as a metaphor through which to tell a story about communication and the way we relate to each other.&amp;'' The film also won for Best Director and Best Score.Interestingly, the rumor mill suggests that Facebook&amp;'s handlers resisted the creation of the movie, which is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires, a fictionalized account of Zuckerberg&amp;'s life by Ben Mezrich. Then, after realizing the movie couldn&amp;'t be stopped, Facebook&amp;'s founder embraced it, taking the whole company to go see it in the theaters (a number of times). He often said that the movie makers got a lot of details right, like how he owned almost every T-shirt worn by his character in the film, but noted that he didn&amp;'t create the site to get a lot of girls.But Hollywood likes a good story and ran with the fictionalized account. Now the movie is a big contender for an Oscar. Zuckerberg has been laughing it off. Inside, it has to hurt to be depicted in such a way. But it doesn&amp;'t seem to have dented his reputation that much. Indeed, it seems only to have made him more famous.Next Story: Eighth grader knocks Angry Birds out of the top free spot on the App Store Previous Story: iPhone 5, iPad 2 rumors abound: Dual-core processors, high-resolution iPad 2 displayPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Golden Globes, Oscars, social networking, the social networkCompanies: FacebookPeople: Aaron Sorkin, Mark Zuckerberg          Tags: Golden Globes, Oscars, social networking, the social networkCompanies: FacebookPeople: Aaron Sorkin, Mark ZuckerbergDean 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[Details (and pictures) emerge on HP/Palma4a4s webOS tablets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We didna4a4t see HP/Palma4a4s webOS tablets at CES earlier this month as we&amp;'d hoped to, but wea4a4re still eager to see what the company has planned. Now Engadget has gotten its hands on some early renderings of the devices,  as well as some enticing details &amp;8212' including the fact that HP is  readying 9-inch and 7-inch models, dubbed Topaz and Opal respectively.Judging from the renders, it looks like the tablets feature no buttons and will be entirely gesture-based (something wea4a4re hearing might be true of the iPad 2 as well). We also spot a front-facing camera for video conferencing  (but no rear camera), and three speakers along the sides of the tableta4a4s  thin edges. Sources tell Engadget that the devices are running 1.2 gigahertz  processors, but no other specifications are known at the moment.HP  is reportedly aiming to release WiFi, AT&amp;amp'T 3G, and Verizon LTE  versions of the Opal in September, with an AT&amp;amp'T LTE 4G version  coming in July 2012. Not surprisingly, the Opal is being positioned as  an ereading-friendly device due to its more portable 7-inch size.Judging  from what we saw at CES, 2011 is going to be a year full of compelling  tablets. HP will be squaring off with Motorolaa4a4s Xoom, the iPad 2, and  RIMa4a4s BlackBerry PlayBook. Therea4a4s certainly a lot of potential for HP  to wow us with Palma4a4s webOS software on tablets, but hopefully wea4a4ll see  the devices sooner than September. Otherwise, Palm may end up repeating  its history with the Palm Pre by delivering a compelling product long  after consumers actually want it.Next Story: Apple posts stellar earnings, beating expectations by a huge margin Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: BrightSource raises $1.75 million, Germany to keep cutting solar subsidiesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Opal, Palm Pre, tablets, Topaz, webOSCompanies: HP, Palm          Tags: Opal, Palm Pre, tablets, Topaz, webOSCompanies: HP, PalmDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Online video skeptic Mark Cuban invests in Web video company Revision3]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Cuban last year took part in a &amp;''small round&amp;'' of financing for Revision3, the Web video studio. The round is only now being disclosed, though amounts were not given.AllThingsD&amp;'s Peter Kafka characterized Cuban&amp;'s participation as hypocritical, given Cuban&amp;'s repeated slagging of the notion that the Internet will compete with cable as a distribution network. But Cuban has never said video won&amp;'t work on the Web a4&quot;- that would be insane, since video already works on the Web. His more nuanced argument is that the Internet won&amp;'t threaten cable&amp;'s distribution hegemony.Cuban told Kafka that he simply paid out some undisclosed amount of cash to get a first look at Revision3&amp;'s shows as he shops around for content for his HDNet cable network. The investment was &amp;''relatively immaterial&amp;'' (whatever that means) to Revision3, Jim Louderback, Revision3&amp;'s CEO, told Kafka.Meanwhile, Louderback told Kafka that Revision3, best known for its show Diggnation, is &amp;''EBITDA-profitable,&amp;'' which is finance-speak often used when a company is not profitable under the strictest accounting measures. But he said revenues grew by 80 percent last year.Update: Louderback says in the comments below: &amp;''We were, in fact, both EBITDA and Net Income profitable in the 4th quarter of 2010 &amp;8230' and cash flow positive in December too.&amp;''Next Story: Call of Duty Black Ops map pack keeps Activision&amp;'s hot franchise rolling Previous Story: Seesmic lands $4M more for listening to social enterprise customersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: diggnation, internet televisionCompanies: hdnet, Revision3People: Jim Louderback, Mark Cuban          Tags: diggnation, internet televisionCompanies: hdnet, Revision3People: Jim Louderback, Mark CubanDan Mitchell covers media and technology for VentureBeat,  Fortune.com, and anyone else who will pay him. He previously covered the rise of the Internet for Wired, Cnet News.com, Red Herring, the Industry Standard, Business 2.0 and other  publications and was a Web producer for National Public  Radio. For three years he wrote the column &quot;What's Online&quot; for The New  York Times' Business Day. His popular blog &quot;Daily Bread,&quot; about the  business and political economics of food, ran for two years on Slate's  business site, The Big Money. 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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