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<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony set to revive PSN in Japan]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After a longer wait than was the case for users in the U.S., Asian gamers will finally be able to get back to thePlayStation Network.Starting tomorrow, users in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and Thailand, among other countries, will once again be able to gain access to the PlayStation Network and Sony's Qriocity services. Sony said that it &quot;worked closely with respected outside security firms&quot; to ensure the security of its services was better than it had been. It also implemented an &quot;early-warning system&quot; that will alert the company as quickly as possible to any signs a hacker might be trying to gain access to the network.The PlayStation Network and Qriocity were hacked in April, prompting Sony to take those services down worldwide, as well as Sony Online Entertainment, which was also hacked. Sony said that the highly sophisticated attack stole the personal information of over 100 million users across its services, though it reassured users that credit card data was encrypted.After protracted downtime, Sony brought the PSN and Qriocity back to users in the U.S. and Europe earlier this month. Japan's government played a key role in ensuring that the PlayStation Network was not redeployed in the country hastily. Earlier this month, a government official told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview that Sony had not done enough at the time to ensure the safety and security of Japanese users.&quot;As of May 13, Sony was incomplete in exercising measures that they said they will do on the May 1 press conference,&quot; Kazushige Nobutani, Japan's director of media and content in the country's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry told Dow Jones. The official said that the government was blocking the launch of the PlayStation Network within its borders until Sony kept its end of the bargain.Now that its services are coming back to Japan and other Asian countries, Sony said that it has established a hotline for users to contact it if they need guidance to &quot;protect themselves against identity theft and fraud.&quot; The company said that it will also &quot;bear the expenses to reissue new credit cards to those customers who request to replace their existing credit cards when it involves charges.&quot;Those in the U.S. are getting a bit more from Sony. This week, the company launched a sign-up page allowing PlayStation Network users to enter a free, one-year identity-protection service, called AllClear ID Plus from security firm Debix. As part of that program, U.S. customers could be entitled to $1 million in identity-theft insurance if any trouble occurs due to the PlayStation Network breach.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hiccups dog PlayStation Network restoration]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawerenceb</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Sony may have more work to do to jumpstart service to its PlayStation Network.The entertainment and electronics giant announced yesterday that its entire portfolio of online games, game forums, and Web sites would go back online today. After service resumed, however, users started complaining on Twitter that it wasn't active long before it was unavailable again.&quot;Playstation Network was back up for about 10 minutes before going down again for maintenance,&quot; Tom Cranfield tweeted. &quot;Nice work Sony!&quot;&quot;Playstation Network is Back down looks like the servers have crashed,&quot; Lee Fraser  of Manchester, England, said in a Twitter post.Sony's PlayStationEU twitter feed asked users to be patient.&quot;Please bear with us as we continue working on PSN restoration. We are experiencing extremely heavy traffic,&quot; the feed said.Sony later announced a planned outage of its network services.&quot;We're expereiencing [sic] a heavy load of password resets and will be turning off the services for 30 minutes to clear the queue,&quot; the company announced on its Twitter page.The service had been offline for nearly four weeks after several of Sony's servers were attacked between April 17 and April 19, leading to the exposure of the personal data of more than 100 million customers who signed up forPlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online. The networks--used for downloading and playing games, movies, and music--were mysteriously unavailable for nearly a week before Sony revealed the intrusion. The company has said repeatedly that there is no evidence that credit card information was stolen.Sony said its network services would be unavailable while it beefed up its security and announced earlier this week that it planned to restore them &quot;in the next few days.&quot; The company has still has not identified the perpetrator behind the second-largest security breach in U.S. history, but has hinted it believes the hacker activist group Anonymous may have been behind the breach.Updated at 6:15 p.m. with details of planned outage.[Via Huffington Post]<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPad 2, Xperia Play clear FCC]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawerenceb</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, iPad 2, you&amp;39're official!(Credit:James Martin/CNET)Phew! We picked a good week to pick up our semiweekly blogs on the happenings at the Federal Communications Commission. The agency certified a hefty load of big-name devices this week, including the iPad 2 and the HTC Merge. The feds also gave the thumbs up to many of the gadgets we saw last month at Mobile World Congress, including the HTC Desire S, LG Optimus Pad (as well as its G-Slate cousin), and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.Because the FCC has to certify every phone sold in the United States, not to mention test its SAR rating, the agency's online database offers a lot of sneak peeks to those who dig. And to save you the trouble, Crave has combed through the database for you. Here are a selection of filings from the past week on new and upcoming cell phones. Click through to read the full report.Apple iPad 2HTC Incredible SHTC MergeHuawei C2831Huawei Ideos X2LG Cosmos TouchLG G SlateLG Optimus 3D PadNokia 5530 Xpress MusicNokia X7Samsung SCH-i510Samsung SGH-T499Samsung SPH-M380Sony Ericsson G11Sony Ericsson Xperia PlaySony Ericsson Xperia ArcViewSonic ViewPadZTE E821ZTE S1001ZTE Z221ZTE Z331<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. chip manufacturing in the age of the iPad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawerenceb</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Behind the fly-off-the-shelf popularity of products likeApple's iPad andiPhone are hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs--mostly overseas. Is it possible to create more of those jobs here in the U.S. to combat chronically high levels of unemploymentAndy Grove&amp;39's Stanford class examined the state of manufacturing in the U.S.(Credit:Intel)Personal computing is moving rapidly beyond the laptop. And there's no better example than Apple, whose most popular products are arguably now the iPhone and the iPad. The surging demand for anything Apple is causing a seismic shift in chip manufacturing to Asia, the hotbed of new silicon ecosystems. Though companies like Hewlett-Packard and Dell also play a role, they are still primarily Intel-centric PC makers, while Apple is morphing into a maker of smartphones and tablets, which is creating the alternative non-Intel silicon manufacturing ecosystems overseas. So, is there anything a U.S. gadget supplier like Apple can--or should--do to help maintain a chip manufacturing base in the U.S. Seeking an answer to that question I recently sat in on a Stanford University class taught by Andy Grove, the former Intel chief executive, and talked to Vivek Wadhwa, director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. My premise was pretty simple. The tablet and high-end smartphone are pushing chip manufacturing outside of the U.S. and away from PC chip stalwart Intel, which has always maintained a large manufacturing base here. My question: If all things are more or less equal technologically, is it a feasible business decision to source silicon from companies, when possible, that have manufacturing bases--and create jobs--in the U.S. One of the most prominent examples is Micron Technology and its flash memory chip joint venture with Intel, IM Flash Technologies. Micron is a scrappy Boise, Idaho-based chip manufacturer that survived Japanese chipmakers' takeover of the lion's share of the DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) business in the 1980s and is still alive and kicking despite Asia's--primarily South Korea's and Japan's--preeminence in the memory chip business now. Toshiba, in particular, is emerging as a strong presence in flash memory now. Thanks, increasingly, to Apple. In fact, to date, a sizable chunk of the flash that went into the iPhone and iPad was sourced from Toshiba. Most pointedly, Apple announced publicly in 2009 that it had cut a $500 million deal with Toshiba to supply flash. And flash is now prominent in the new MacBook Air, which is offered with 64GB, 128GB, or 256GB flash drives. In the popular 11.6-inch MacBook Air, for example, an iFixit teardown reveals a 64GB solid-state drive supplied by Toshiba. Cost breakdowns by firms such as iSuppli show that the flash memory component of iPads and iPhones, as percentage of a total bill of materials, ranks very high and is--depending on whether it's 16GB or 64GB--sometimes the largest single component in terms of cost. Is this business that Micron and/or Intel--who manufacture flash at facilities in Lehi, Utah, and Manassas, Va.,--could get a bigger piece of That's a business decision Apple has to make. But my point is that the opportunity to make that choice could vanish if trends continue. U.S. manufacturing clusters Grove's Standford University graduate business class focused in part on &quot;industry clusters,&quot; which are described as &quot;a geographic concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions focused on a particular field (i.e., Silicon Valley),&quot; in the class handout. And one of the questions for open discussion was, &quot;How do we make Silicon Valley an industry cluster for manufacturing technology&quot; I didn't hear any good answers to that question. What I did hear were more needling questions such as, &quot;Can you control what you don't produce We say, no.&quot; Or statements about America's lack of focus on maintaining a manufacturing base, such as, &quot;America is not fighting right now, at least not very hard.&quot; And, of course, the usual warnings about major disincentives: the stratospherically high U.S. corporate tax rate--a point Intel's current CEO Paul Otellini is not bashful about making--was cited as second only to Japan's at 40 percent. The corporate tax rate is an important issue because, when it's globally competitive--that is, low--it draws business to the U.S. naturally, in the spirit of Adam Smith's oft-quoted maxim of the Invisible Hand. The U.S. government can't plan a manufacturing base into existence--capitalism doesn't work that way--but a country can do everything possible to make the conditions favorable. Grove asserts that the U.S. government should be aggressive on all fronts to keep the international playing field as level as possible. &quot;Is China following WTO (World Trade Organization) rules Should you be worried about being accused of protectionism&quot;--Grove asked the class. He was posing questions that seemed to imply that the U.S. needs to do more to help itself. And product giants like Apple can also do their share by turning to existing U.S. sources. &quot;Yes, let's put pressure on Apple. If Apple bought flash from Intel or Micron, that's a great example,&quot; said Duke University's Wadhwa. But not all manufacturing is created equal. &quot;The vast majority of manufacturing is destructive to the environment. Like paint and toy manufacturing. And if you build more manufacturing plants here like Foxconn--which build Apple's iPhone in China--Americans wouldn't want to do those jobs. It's mindless, grunt work,&quot; he said. Wadhwa continued. &quot;Germany (for example) is all very high-level manufacturing. It's very high-level technology products and they pay very high salaries. It's not grunt work. By all means let's get high-end high-tech manufacturing in the U.S. Flash memory is a good example. Manufacturing the most critical ingredients of solar technology is a good example. And clean-tech manufacturing,&quot; he said. Some manufacturing, surprisingly, is coming back to the U.S. The Stanford class cited cases of &quot;re-shoring&quot; of manufacturing by General Electric, Caterpillar, and Ford. In some cases, unforeseen complications make manufacturing abroad simply impractical. And China's cost of living is rising too, which will work against low-cost manufacturing in that country in the future. Let's hope that the U.S. remains as hospitable as possible to high-quality high-tech manufacturing jobs and that companies like Apple do their share to source from U.S.-based suppliers when possible. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GE selling 'omnidirectional' LED bulb online]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[General Electric has released an Energy Star-compliant LED light designed as a long-lasting and efficient replacement for a 40-watt incandescent bulb.The General Electric 9 Watt Energy Smart became available online for $50 earlier this week and will be available through GE's existing retail channel in January, according to the company. The A19-shape bulb uses 9 watts and is rated to last 25,000 hours, or 22 years at three hours of daily use. It gives off 471 lumens, has a white light at 3,000 Kelvin, and does not contain mercury or lead.GE said it is the first incandescent-shape LED bulb to meet the new Energy Star tests for this category.GE&amp;39's Energy Smart LED A19 Lamp is a 40-watt incandescent equivalent which uses 9 watts. (Credit:Martin LaMonica/CNET)Both incumbent lighting companies and newcomers are introducing incandescent-shape LED bulbs, which are available online and now in big box retail stories. In terms of price, other LED bulb manufacturers are offering products that give off more light and are cheaper at retail. Lighting Science Group, for example, has a 40-watt equivalent available through Home Depot which now costs under $18. A GE representative said that retailers, which GE will name in coming weeks, will set the price of GE's Energy Smart bulb.GE is trying to distinguish its product with good light dispersal, saying the bulb works for lighting applications typically not well suited for LED lights, such as desk lamps and overhead lamps. LEDs give off light in one direction and some of early incandescent-shaped LED bulbs give off most light on one side, rather than evenly.GE's bulb has eight fins that run down the side of what looks like a thin bulb. That design allows it to disperse light more evenly and take away heat, which is important for the promised long life of LEDs.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Contemplating tablets beyond the iPad (Q&A)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[TheiPad is expected to encounter a crush of competition in 2011. A manager at Atmel, which supplies chips to tablet makers, talks about how he thinks things will shake out in the non-Apple tablet market in 2011. Atmel supplies the touch-screen controller chip for the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The 7-inch screen size will be popular, but large tablets will also emerge, says Atmel.(Credit:Samsung)Binay Bajaj, a product marketing manager at Atmel, which makes touch-screen controller chips for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the HTC Evo 4G and Motorola Droid phones (among other devices) talks about how tablets debuting in 2011 will come in a variety of sizes that move the tablet experience beyond today's 10-inch iPad. Atmel is slated to supply chips to a host of tablets in 2011. Q: How many products does Atmel see comingBajaj: We think there's going to be 10 to 15 products launching early next year. What will make these tablets different than the iPadBajaj: There will be all kinds of screen sizes available. You'll see 8.9-inch, 11.6-inch, 12.1-inch. Predominantly, 10.1-inch and 7-inch. But some consumers will say the resolution that I see on a 10 inch doesn't fit my video watching experience, so I'll go for an 11.6 or 12.1. Will that volume be high Probably not. But as you increase the size, you add more [chip] processing to it. You can provide better multimedia and gaming. And different display resolutions make watching high definition videos more crisp. What else does larger screen size get youBajaj: As the screen sizes become larger, the user can lay more things on the screen, you can easily rest your palm on the screen [without triggering a response]. There's something called &quot;palm rejection.&quot; We support that. And unintended touches, which you can reject. We call it &quot;grip,&quot; touching the screen from the side. We have something called &quot;grip suppression.&quot; In spite of the grip, you can still use the device. What about 7-inchBajaj: Like I said, there will be all kinds of screen sizes available. I would say 7-inch feels better in the hand [for some users]. For these people, 10-inch is just slightly too big. What will be the predominate non-Apple operating environment, in your opinionBajaj:Google Android is clearly a very popular operating system. The application base is growing very rapidly. There will be more and more Android tablets. Android is going to be in the lead. Do you see tablets eroding the laptop marketBajaj: Clearly, an erosion is going to happen. We are hearing that there is big erosion on the Netbook. The tablet gives you an always-on, always-connected experience connecting to the cloud. And as cloud computing becomes more prevalent, there's going to be more tablets. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hacker offers advice to prosecutor in AT&T-iPad case]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawerenceb</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Andrew Auernheimer, aka &amp;34'Weev&amp;34' of Goatse Security, the group behind the disclosure of the weakness in the AT&amp;T Web site that exposed iPad user data(Credit:Andrew Auernheimer)Showing real chutzpah, or delusion, a member of the hacker group being investigated for exposing a hole in AT&amp;T'siPad customer Web site says he will forgive the federal prosecutor if the probe is dropped and offered to work with him to fight cybercrime. In an open letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Vartan that was also sent to journalists and the Full Disclosure security e-mail list,&quot; Andrew Auernheimer begins with &quot;Howdy Lee&quot; and offers some &quot;friendly advice.&quot; &quot;I'm writing you to help clarify this situation we continue to find ourselves in,&quot; he writes. &quot;You seem to still be investigating me for some sort of criminal act.&quot; Auernheimer quotes Thomas Paine in the message and says he decided to write to Vartan while visiting the law library, where he goes for &quot;ethical guidance.&quot;  If Vartan continues to hold grand jury sessions he may be forced to resign for targeting an innocent man, Auernheimer argues. AT&amp;T was negligent in securing its site and Auernheimer's hacker group, Goatse Security, did nothing more than point that out, he claims.  &quot;Social responsibility has always been at the core of everything we do at Goatse Security,&quot; writes Auernheimer, a self-acknowledged Internet troll. &quot;We should work together for a common goal, instead of fighting each other,&quot; he continues. &quot;I pray for you Lee,&quot; he writes, adding as his send off &quot;Hugs and Courage To You.&quot; Auernheimer, whose hacker name is &quot;weev&quot; and who also uses the first name &quot;Escher,&quot; was arrested in June when federal agents found drugs in his home while seizing his computer equipment as part of an investigation into the AT&amp;T case. E-mail addresses and SIM card serial numbers of about 114,000 iPad users were exposed when Auernheimer's group found a way to exploit a flaw in the AT&amp;T site.  No charges have been filed and authorities have declined to discuss the case. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[T-Mobile's Samsung Galaxy Tab (hands-on)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawerenceb</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Tab has landed. Click through to find out how it compares against the Tab we reviewed from Sprint.(Credit:Donald Bell/CNET)We know you've already poured over our review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab on Sprint. But if T-Mobile is your carrier of choice, you're probably wondering what differences you can expect from their version of the Tab.In terms of hardware pricing, the two are neck and neck, priced at $399 with a two-year contract, and $599 off-contract. It's the little things, such as home screen layout, pre-installed apps, memory configuration, SIM card slot, and the color of the backing, that really stand out at first glance.To see what you can expect from T-Mobile's Tab, click through to our hands-on CNET photo gallery.Samsung Galaxy Tab, T-Mobile (photos) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LOLapps gives an inside look at the success of social game Ravenwood Fair]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawerenceb</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[In a useful case study for Facebook developers, LOLapps is unveiling the stellar results it has gotten with Ravenwood Fair, a social game launched on Facebook on October 19.In six weeks, the game has grown to 4.4 million users, according to AppData. And in a talk at the Social Gaming Summit East, LOLapps chief executive Arjun Sethi says that those players are also spending money. As you can see in the charts above, more than 10 percent of users are spending money in the game. And anywhere from 50 to 75 percent of that money is spent on consumables, or items such as extra energy that can be bought over and over again.For social games, those are good numbers. Facebook games are free-to-play, where users can play for free and pay as they go. They pay real money for virtual goods, such as tractor fuel in Zynga&amp;'s FarmVille. But only 3 to 5 percent of users typically pay, and the amount of users buying goods tends to decline over time. With Ravenwood Fair, LOLapps is clearly tracking well above that.In the game, users find themselves as a cute animal in a forest. The goal is to chop down trees and build a fair in the clearing and attract more cute animal visitors. But the forest is creepy and you have to constantly battle back the trees and monsters that try to scare your visitors.More than 30 percent of users are coming back. About 62 percent of the players are women and the largest age group is 18 to 24. On Facebook itself, 56 percent of the users are women and 60 percent of the players are women. As far as the origin, the country that has the most Ravenwood Fair players is the U.S., followed by the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and France. English is the No. 1 language, followed by Spanish.As we&amp;'ve noted in past stories, San Francisco-based LOLapps has about 100 million monthly active users on Facebook, mostly for its gift and quiz apps. This year, the company stepped up its investment in social games. Ravenwood Fair was developed by consultant John Romero, co-creator of Doom. In an interview, Romero said he put more emphasis on keeping users engaged so they would play for longer sessions and keep coming back. The effort is part of LOLappsa4a4 strategy to become a big player in  social games and join the  ranks of Zynga, EA-Playfish, Disney-Playdom,  and CrowdStar. Those  companies have been printing money by creating  simple casual games that entice users to buy virtual goods.Ravenwood Fair was almost derailed. It was supposed to launch on Oct. 15, but Facebook pulled down all LOLapps games on that day and didna4a4t restore them until the evening of 17, citing only a4Aviolation of Facebooka4a4s policies.a4 The Wall Street Journal reported that some games, including LOLapps titles,  were wrongfully transmitting user data to third-party companies. Of  those companies, LOLapps was one that was singled out and shut down.  Sethi said LOLapps worked with Facebook to restore its games and will  ensure it can protect usersa4a4 safety and abide by Facebooka4a4s policies. By  Tuesday, Oct. 19, LOLapps was able to launch Ravenwood Fair on  Facebook. The company has pretty much put that problem behind it, but it also launched its own RavenwoodFair.com web site game, as part of a move to diversify away from Facebook.Next Story: Google to rock the ebook world with &amp;''Editions&amp;'' store soon Previous Story: What Google knows about GrouponPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'                        Dean 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[Flash developer Adobe rakes in $1B in record fourth quarter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawerenceb</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Adobe, the developer of popular design applications like Flash and Photoshop, brought in a record $1 billion for the first time in its fourth quarter this year, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Adobe&amp;'s revenue was up 33 percent when compared to the $757 million it brought in during its fourth quarter last year. The design software developer brought in a total of $3.8 billion this year, up 29 percent from $2.95 billion last year.Going off that momentum, Adobe expects to make another $1 billion in the first quarter next year.Adobe turned around from a loss of $32 million in the fourth quarter last year to bring in a net income of $269 million.Adobe is particularly known for its Flash technology, which runs most video hosting sites today. It&amp;'s also increasingly present on mobile devices, despite battery concerns and thevery vocal and sometimes comical spat between Apple and Adobe. The companyreleased Flash 10.1 for Google Android users, and ita4a4s working on versions for Palm WebOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 and others. The whole argument also seems to be dying down now that Apple has approved SkyFire, a browser that runs flash video, for the App store.The company&amp;'s strong performance this year probably puts a final bullet in the head of the Microsoft-Adobe acquisition talks that rose up in earlier this year. The chief executives of software makers Adobe Systems and Microsoft discussed the possibility ofMicrosoft acquiring Adobe to take on Apple in the mobile-phone market. Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen quickly tried to kill that rumor, but that didn&amp;'t stop shareholders from driving up the stock in anticipation once it came out.Adobe&amp;'s shares surged nearly 5 percent to $30.59 in extended trading today after the company released its financial results.Next Story: Autodesk buys Wild Pockets game design platform (exclusive) Previous Story: BrainAthlete monitors an athlete&amp;'s mental state during sports activityPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Adobe AIR, Flash, PhotoshopCompanies: Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft          Tags: Adobe AIR, Flash, PhotoshopCompanies: Adobe, Apple, Google, MicrosoftMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[Windows Phone 7 devices may be leaking 3G data, Kin-like online features on the way]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Users of Windows Mobile 7 devices are reporting heavy 3G data usage while their phones are idle, something that could pose a problem for those with limited data plans.But at least there may be some good news on the horizon for Windows Phone users: A recent interview with Microsoft&amp;'s Aaron Woodman hinted that some of the cool online features from Microsoft&amp;'s failed Kin phones may make it to Windows Phone&amp;'s Live online service.The 3G data usage problem still hasn&amp;'t been confirmed by Microsoft, but it definitely seems to be affecting a number of users, who say their phones are using multiple megabytes of data while idling. Even worse, the phones appear to be ignoring WiFi connections &amp;8212' meaning you&amp;'re not even safe when on your home network.As Engadget points out, that data usage could quickly add up: 2 megabytes of data used for a month could add up to around 1.5 gigabytes of data. AT&amp;amp'T&amp;'s largest current data plan offers a mere 2 gigabytes to new customers.Hopefully Microsoft will address the issue in its upcoming Windows Phone 7 update. For now, some users are finding that setting their mail to manually update, and turning off location services, helps curb the data drain.As for the other news, it certainly makes sense for Microsoft to bring some aspect of the Kin&amp;'s online experience to Windows Phone 7. While the Kin devices were fundamentally flawed from the start, they did offer a cool feature dubbed &amp;''Kin Studio&amp;'' that automatically uploaded pictures and content from the phones to a centralized online location. At least some aspect of that service could make its way to Windows Phone 7, according to Woodman, who said it&amp;'s &amp;''part of the road map to have enriched services that make the phone more meaningful, and the Web more meaningful.&amp;''Via Engadget 1, 2Next Story: Your eyeballs can be game controllers Previous Story: Revenge of the American automaker: The Ford Focus Electric and GMPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Kin, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: Microsoft          Tags: Kin, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: MicrosoftDevindra 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[Stipple snaps up $2M to easily tag the web&'s pictures]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Image tagging startup Stipple announced today that it has scored $2 million in seed funding, just three months after its launch in August.The San Francisco-based company lets anyone tag photos on their website, similar to how you can tag photos on Facebook and Flickr. The tags can reference people or products in the photo or can just be fun notes.If you tag a product, the service figures out the best place to buy it on the web and links your readers directly to it. The company offers a revenue-sharing program for purchases made through its tags, and you can use Stipple&amp;'s &amp;''People Dots&amp;'' to alert your friends when they&amp;'ve been tagged.To implement Stipple on your site, you just need to include a small snippet of code. Afterwards, you can use Stipple&amp;'s in-line editor to add tags. The service is built to be unobtrusive to your site&amp;'s viewers, so the tags don&amp;'t appear unless a visitor mouses over an image.The company announced partnerships with blogging company Six Apart, Jive Records, Atlantic Records, and media company E.W. Scripps at its launch. You can see the service in action in the video below, and it&amp;'s also been used on Britney Spears&amp;' website.The funding round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and Floodgate. Other investors include Naval Ravikant, Eghosa Omoigui, Global Brain Corporation, Quest Venture Partners, Parkview Ventures, John Ferber, Justin Timberlake and Rick Marini. The company says that Mike Maples and Eghosa Omoigui will join its board of directors.Next Story: On the GreenBeat: Trilliant inks deal with British Gas, NRG Energy launches charging infrastructure Previous Story: IBM: Parking spot tracker Streetline is the world&amp;'s smartest startupPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: images, photos, revenue sharing, taggingCompanies: Atlantic Records, E.W. Scripps, Floodgate, Global Brain Corporation, Jive Records, Kleiner Perkins Caufield And Byers, Parkview Ventures, Quest Venture Partners, six apart, StipplePeople: Eghosa Omoigui, John Ferber, Justin Timberlake, Naval Ravikant, Rick Marini          Tags: images, photos, revenue sharing, taggingCompanies: Atlantic Records, E.W. Scripps, Floodgate, Global Brain Corporation, Jive Records, Kleiner Perkins Caufield And Byers, Parkview Ventures, Quest Venture Partners, six apart, StipplePeople: Eghosa Omoigui, John Ferber, Justin Timberlake, Naval Ravikant, Rick MariniDevindra 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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