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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AT&T cracks down on unauthorized tetherers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AT&amp;T is cracking down on unauthorized smartphone tethering. This week the company has been sending out e-mails and text messages to wireless subscribers who have been using their smartphones as modems to connect laptops and other devices to AT&amp;T's wireless data network without paying the additional $20 tethering fee. Letters and text messages that have been sent to offending subscribers have been posted on various Web sites. In short, AT&amp;T is telling these customers to pay up or stop using their devices as modems.&quot;Our records show that you use this capability (tethering), but are not subscribed to our tethering plan,&quot; the e-mail reads. &quot;If you would like to continue tethering, please log into your account online at www.wireless.att.com, or call us...If you discontinue tethering, no changes to your current plan will be required. &quot;If AT&amp;T doesn't hear from the offending subscriber and he or she continues to use tethering without paying for it, the company will automatically begin charging customers for the usage, the letters indicate. AT&amp;T requires smartphone customers who use the tethering feature to subscribe to its 2GB data service for $25 a month and pay a $20 a month tethering fee. Customers who tether are given 4GB of data to use during the month. Customers who exceed that limit are charged $10 a GB thereafter.&quot;This is all part of ensuring that we can manage our network,&quot; said Mark Siegel, a spokesman for AT&amp;T. &quot;We are simply letting customers know that we have a tethering plan in place, and we're inviting them to get on the plan.&quot;Siegel said that AT&amp;T is able to detect how devices are being used. But he wouldn't explain how the company determines whether a smartphone is being used to connect to the Internet or whether it's used to provide Internet connectivity to other devices. Siegel said the company has always been able to monitor subscribers' activity, but it has just recently begun sending notifications to a small number of customers. &quot;We have to be able to tell what is happening on the network to manage it properly,&quot; he said. &quot;So if someone is tethering, then they need to be on a tethering plan.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IDC: Apple iPad secures 87 percent market share]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>karadim3z</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=idc-apple-ipad-secures-87-percent-market-share</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tablets are gaining popularity worldwide, andApple's iPad continues to capitalize, a new report from market research firm IDC has found.During the third quarter of 2010, the worldwidetablet market grew by 45.1 percent, IDC reported. All told, vendors shipped 4.8 million units during the quarter, up from the 3.3 million they shipped in the second quarter of 2010. IDC said that Apple's iPad enjoyed 87.4 percent market share during the period, tallying 4.2 million units shipped worldwide.Apple&amp;39's iPad continues to dominate the tablet space.(Credit:Apple)IDC estimates that 17 million tablets were shipped worldwide in 2010. That figure is expected to grow exponentially in 2011 with an estimated 44.6 million tablets shipped. In 2012, IDC said that it expects 70.8 million tablets to hit store shelves.IDC's tablet findings follow a recent report from research firm Forrester, which claims about 10.3 million tablets were sold in the U.S. during 2010. Like IDC, Forrester sees significant growth in the tablet space going forward, with an expected 24.1 million tablet purchases in the U.S. in 2011. Forrester said it believes U.S. tablet sales will reach 35.1 million next year.IDC also examined the e-reader market. The research firm said that 2.7 million e-readers shipped in the third quarter, representing 40 percent growth compared to the previous period. The research firm said that Amazon's Kindle led the e-reader market during the third quarter with 41.5 percent market share and a total of 1.1 million units shipped. Pandigital took the second spot in the e-reader space with 440,000 units shipped. It was followed by Barnes &amp; Noble and Sony with 420,000 units and 230,000 units sent out, respectively.Amazon's control over the e-reader market isn't much of a surprise. The retailer announced last month that its third-generation Kindle is its best-selling product of all time.Going forward, IDC sees significant growth in the e-reader market. The company said that it estimates 10.8 million e-readers shipped worldwide in 2010, and that figure should grow to 14.7 million in 2011. Next year, it expects e-reader shipments to hit 16.6 million.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Android more at risk than iOS, says Trend Micro]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>karadim3z</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=android-more-at-risk-than-ios-says-trend-micro</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to mobile security, Apple's iOS platform might get the nod over Android, according to security software maker Trend Micro.Speaking to Bloomberg yesterday, Trend Micro Chairman Steve Chang said that &quot;Android is open-source, which means the hacker can also understand the underlying architecture and source code.&quot; Apple, he said in the interview, has been &quot;very careful about it. It's impossible for certain types of viruses&quot; to run on the company'siPhone.Chang specifically pointed to Apple's &quot;sandbox concept that isolates the platform, which prevents certain viruses that want to replicate themselves or decompose and recompose to avoid virus scanners.&quot;For its part, Google told Bloomberg that its platform has safeguards in place that &quot;limit the amount of trust a user must grant to any given application developer.&quot;Debates are ongoing with respect to the security of Android and iOS. In July, security experts revealed that both iOS and Android have &quot;comparable&quot; security, but they achieve it in different ways. Moreover, an expert told CNET at the time that the threats each mobile operating system poses aren't affecting users all that much.&quot;Security concerns are mostly theoretical, at this point,&quot; Independent Security Evaluators principal analyst Charlie Miller said in an interview with CNET. &quot;You are more likely to lose the phone.&quot; In November, security firm Coverity found that Android suffers from 359 code flaws that could cause security problems on the platform. The company said that 88 of those flaws are &quot;high-risk problems.&quot;Last week, Trend Micro released Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android. The app, which retails for $3.99, protects users against phishing attacks, call and text message filtering, malware prevention, and identity protection. The company also has a security app for iOS. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Meet Microsoft's new multitouch mouse]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>karadim3z</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-meet-microsofts-new-multitouch-mouse</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&amp;39's new multitouch Touch Mouse arrives on store shelves in May.(Credit:Microsoft)LAS VEGAS--Not mentioned at today's CES keynote address from Microsoft was something new--a multitouch mouse that's been designed to bring special gesture features toWindows 7 users. Readers with a good memory might take one look at what Microsoft is calling Touch Mouse, and recognize it as the &quot;Cap Mouse&quot; from October of 2009, which the company unveiled as one of five mousing prototypes. Since then the mouse has cut the cord, tapered out in front, been given a completely different finish (black and red instead of gray and dark gray), and a $79.95 price tag.The Touch Mouse makes use of multitouch gestures to put nine different system shortcuts up at the top of the mouse instead of using buttons. By the number of fingers, Microsoft breaks them down like so:One finger lets you manage the content of a document or Web page. Moving one finger lets you precisely scroll in any direction and hyperscroll through long documents with a quick flick of your finger, while using your thumb lets you move back/forward easily through your internet browser.Two fingers lets you manage multiple windows by maximizing, minimizing, restoring, and snapping them side-by-side.Three fingers lets you navigate the whole desktop--three fingers up to display all of your open windows for easy task switching or three fingers down for clearing the desktop entirely.It's worth noting these gestures are only available to Windows 7 users--no word yet on whether the mouse reverts to something more standard on older hardware. Microsoft has a video of these gestures in action, which you can watch below:The mouse joins Microsoft's Arc Touch as another touch-friendly mouse in the company's hardware lineup. Microsoft says it will hit store shelves in May, though places like Amazon are already taking preorders.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Skype Staffing Up For A Big Push To The&nbsp'Cloud]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>karadim3z</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[As Skype prepares for an IPO in the next year,  the VoIP company has been looking for new ways to expand its business both in terms of revenue and product development. One avenue the company is exploring to bring in more revenue is through enterprise offerings, via B2C and B2B offerings. However, it looks like Skype will be moving its VoIP offerings to the cloud.We spotted these job postings on Skype&amp;'s website, indicating that the company is looking to build a team of cloud and web technology engineers. According to the postings, these staff members will &amp;''build an infrastructure capable of supporting hundreds of millions of users.&amp;'' The products, will deliver &amp;''voice, video, chat and presence&amp;'' to the web and &amp;''enable radically new Skype applications.&amp;''A source with knowledge of the matter has confirmed that Skype is indeed building a team to work on cloud products and will be launching a number of web-based applications in the near future.   It&amp;'s not surprising that Skype wants to go after the the web-based voice-calling market. As Google gets into the web-based calling market with Google Voice&amp;'s integration with Gmail, the search giant is tapping into a big market. Google recently added an integration with Google Voice to Google Apps, signifying an enterprise play.While a web-based version of Skype would surely draw in plenty of consumers (Skype is averaging 124 million users a month, a small fraction of which are paying for the service), the cloud play could also mean enterprise dollars as well.If Skype was able to integrate its web-based  voice-calling functionality into let&amp;'s say Microsoft&amp;'s cloud offerings, this could be a huge revenue and partnership win for the company. This is all hypothetical, of course, but it seems obvious that the VoIP company would want to look to existing enterprise companies to form these potentially lucrative deals. On the consumer side, Skype could further its existing partnership with Facebook to integrate a web app into the social network. A representative for Skype tells us that the company will be hiring 350 new heads with majority in engineering and approx 80 percent in Silicon Valley. Clearly the company is boosting its developers so it can create new products. We know that Skype is eying other ways to create revenue, including advertising, gaming and virtual gifts. But developing a reliable cloud-based calling service makes the most sense. One thing is for surea4&quot;Skype definitely has something cloud-related up its sleeve. Photo Credit/Flickr/Jesse KrugerCrunchBase InformationSkypeInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Slacker&'s mobile radio to go premium with unlimited song access]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=slackerrsquos-mobile-radio-to-go-premium-with-unlimited-song-access</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>karadim3z</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Music service Slacker plans to launch its long-anticipated premium version this month, marketing vice president Jonathan Sasse told me yesterday. The companya4a4s executives are at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week to demonstrate Slacker Premium, but the big launch is still a of couple of weeks off.It sounds like this premium version has been in the works for a while now &amp;8212' see, for example, this excited preview in Gizmodo from March 2010. If it works as planned, Slacker Premium will fulfill the promises about online radio that have been made for years, but only started to become a reality with the launch of services like Rdio. Most popular music apps, such as Pandora, only give users a limited amount of control over the songs theya4a4re listening to. With Slacker Premium, the company promises that users will be able to choose from millions of songs to listen to whenever they want.At this point, Sasse said the company is just finishing work on the apps to make sure that Slacker Premium can launch across iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry devices at the same time.a4AIta4a4s still a couple weeks away, but wea4a4re shooting for a January rollout,a4 he said.Sasse also touted the fact that Slacker can offer a broader range of options than competing music services &amp;8212' therea4a4s the free version, then Slacker Radio Plus ($4.99 per month) that removes advertising and gives users a little more control, and Slacker Premium ($9.99 per month) with full access to the companya4a4s music library. On-demand music services like MOG and Rdio start charging right away, which Sasse said is a big barrier to signing up.The company also announced that Canadian Slacker users will now have unlimited access to the free version of the app (it was previously only available as a 30-day free trial) and that Slacker will also be available on Nokiaa4a4s Symbian smartphones.San Diego-based Slacker has raised about $70 million from investors including Centennial Ventures, Rho Ventures, Austin Ventures, Mission Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds.Next Story: Microsoft sells a staggering 8M Kinect motion control systems Previous Story: Sony to launch Music Unlimited cloud music service in North AmericaPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CES, CES 2011, mobile radio, Slacker PremiumCompanies: slackerPeople: Jonathan Sasse          Tags: CES, CES 2011, mobile radio, Slacker PremiumCompanies: slackerPeople: Jonathan SasseAnthony 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[Motorola bringing Atrix-like Webtop docks to all high-end smartphones]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Motorola will be bringing its Webtop apps and their corresponding docks to all of its high-end smartphones in the second half of this year, CEO Sanjay Jha told investors today.That means Motorolaa4a4s Atrix, one of our favorite gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show in January, wona4a4t be the only Motorola phone that can plug into a dock and turn into an ultraportable laptop using its Webtop app. It makes sense, because the Atrixa4a4s high-end hardware will likely be matched by upcoming Motorola phones, like the Droid Bionic on Verizon. Therea4a4s no good reason for the company to keep such innovative technology in one device.Ita4a4s unclear if future phones will come with docks of their own, or if theya4a4ll somehow connect to the Atrixa4a4s dock.Hopefully the news will also lead to Motorola will wising up about its Webtop dock pricing. The company is offering the Atrix bundled with its dock for $499.99 with a two-year contract. The dock on its own retails for $499.99 as well &amp;8212' a price which seems egregious when you can get full-blown laptops at that price.Motorolaa4a4s dock is basically a thin shell with a screen, battery and keyboard. All of the hardware that powers it &amp;8212' including the CPU, RAM and storage &amp;8212' is contained in the Atrix phone. Given that ita4a4s really not packing too much power, it seems more fair for Motorola to price the dock somewhere around $200 and under.AT&amp;amp'T is also forcing Atrix users to sign up for its tethering plan at $20 a month, if they want to get the phone bundled with the Laptop Dock. I suppose it makes sense since the dock relies on the Atrixa4a4s network connection, but it still seems ridiculous for AT&amp;amp'T to demand even more money when the dock itself is overpriced. Hopefully future Motorola docks will come with fewer carrier restrictions.Via EngadgetNext Story: On the GreenBeat: Solyndra raises $75M credit facility, Reno&amp;'s wind experiment Previous Story: Think&amp;'s electric car faces third recall after three months in the U.S.PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Atrix, docks, smartbooks, smartphones, ultraportables, WebtopCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, Motorola MobilityPeople: Sanjay Jha          Tags: Atrix, docks, smartbooks, smartphones, ultraportables, WebtopCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, Motorola MobilityPeople: Sanjay JhaDevindra 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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