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<title><![CDATA[Lady Gaga, Eric Schmidt team up on social start-up]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lady Gaga owns a major stake in Backplane.(Credit:Greg Sandoval/CNET)An unlikely pairing has emerged in the online space.A new start-up called Backplane has raised over $1 million in venture funding, The New York Times is reporting. The company's investment is led by Tomorrow Ventures, the venture firm that Google Executive Chairman (and former CEO) Eric Schmidt founded.By investing in Backplane, Schmidt has a new partner: Lady Gaga. The pop artist owns 20 percent of Backplane, according to The New York Times.Backplane, which has yet to launch, is designed to build and expand online communities around musicians and sports teams. According to the Times, the service also integrates updates from Facebook and Twitter, among other sites. Backplane is co-founded by Lady Gaga's manager, Troy Carter.According to the Times, Carter came up with the idea for Backplane after sitting in a meeting last year with Lady Gaga and Apple CEO Steve Jobs to discuss Ping. After hearing Jobs' explanation of Apple's music social network, Carter thought he might be able to do something a bit better.Backplane is surfacing at a time when online communities are becoming increasingly important to the success of musical artists. Social media has become so important to artists, in fact, that in December, Billboard launched a new chart it calls the Social 50 to rank the social-media popularity of bands or individuals. Billboard analyzes fan activity on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other prominent social sites to rank artists.Lady Gaga, who recently tallied 10 million followers on Twitter, leads the way on the Social 50. Justin Bieber, Akon, Rihanna, and Shakira round out the top five.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Qualcomm backs Windows 8, CEO says tablet hybrids coming]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lgarciaria</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO--Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said a potpourri of devices will tap into the goodness of its Snapdragon chips, as the company also said Wednesday that it is working with Microsoft on the next version of Windows. Qualcomm's dual-core Snapdragon processor will make its first high-profile appearance in Hewlett-Packard's TouchPadtablet, due soon. Like chips from Texas Instruments and Apple, Qualcomm's APQ8660 is based on the ARM architecture. The company also began sample shipments this month of its next-generation &quot;Krait&quot; MSM8960 processor, which is designed to run at speeds up to 2.5GHz and integrates both 3G and LTE (4G) onto one piece of silicon, according to Raj Talluri, a vice president at Qualcomm. And Qualcomm intends to put Krait to good use. Today, it announced that this chip is designed to power devices running the next version of Windows, typically referred to as Windows 8. &quot;The [two] companies' collaboration continues to address the converging and fast-changing mobile computing landscape, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon family of dual-core and quad-core processors will enable optimal computing performance, extended battery life and connectivity, and top-notch graphics and multimedia in devices,&quot; Qualcomm said in an announcement tonight. Qualcomm CEO speaking at the company&amp;39's Uplinq conference today in San Diego.(Credit:Brooke Crothers)There are a lot of devices are in the pipeline, according to CEO Paul Jacobs, speaking at Qualcomm's Uplinq conference here today. &quot;You will see some clamshell looking devices. Some of them will be convertible. Some of them will be just tablets. We're going to see a wide range of stuff going on. You're going to see some pretty cool stuff coming out this Christmas in terms ofAndroid-based devices,&quot; he said. And the CEO suggested that carriers are working on ways to make data plans more flexible for consumers using more than one device with a 3G or 4G connection. For example, today if you own both a 3G iPad and 3GiPhone, you must sign up for two separate data contracts.  &quot;A lot of it's going to come about by having more family plans. More bucket kind of plans,&quot; he said. &quot;[For example] a bucket of bits where you have a guaranteed data rate inside a certain set of bits. Once you use that up, your guarantee goes down. You can still do e-mail or Web browsing, but maybe you can't do video. So, if you had a bucket plan that would make more sense because you can put more devices on it. And more devices means you'll get a bigger bucket.&quot;  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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