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<title><![CDATA[Lodsys' patent attack now targets Best Buy, Adidas]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=lodsys-patent-attack-now-targets-best-buy-adidas</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>parwinrestalk</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Lodsys, the company pursuing high-profile patent infringement cases against many in the tech industry, has broadened its legal attack to include Adidas, Best Buy, and other big-name companies.Lodsys' previous targets include iOS andAndroid developers, Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Brother, and Motorola. Now the list is a lot longer, with a Friday filing naming Sam's Club, Best Western, Black &amp; Decker, the Container Store, the Teaching Company, Vitamin Shoppe, Vegas.com, Adidas, CVS, and Best Buy.The move isn't a total surprise. Lodsys sent Adidas a letter on April 19 saying the sports shoe and apparel maker had infringed four patents. And last week, a Michigan company called ForeSee Results filed a declaratory judgment suit against Lodsys. ForeSee names Adidas and Best Buy as clients that have received Lodsys letters asserting that they use technology covered by the patents.The suit, spotted by Florian Mueller of the FOSS Patents blog, accuses the companies of infringing U.S. patent 5,999,908, &quot;Customer-Based Product Design Module.&quot; It also accuses Black &amp; Decker, the Vitamin Shoppe, and Sam's Club of infringing patent 7,222,078, &quot;Methods and Systems for Gathering Information from Units of a Commodity Across a Network.&quot;Lodsys is what's known as a nonpracticing entity, or NPE, which means a company that licenses patents but doesn't actually have any other business. Less charitably, they're called patent trolls. They're hard for defendants to deal with: because their operations don't use much technology, a defendant isn't likely to be able to threaten a countersuit accusing the NPE of infringing the defendant's patents.(Which, by the way, is why an IBM application seeking to patent the process of using a computer to make money from a patent portfolio is so intriguing. If granted, Big Blue could potentially have an infringement counterclaim against NPEs.)Lodsys has had some success licensing its patents. In its letter to Adidas, it said those who've licensed its patents include Apple, Microsoft, Adobe Systems, eBay, Google, Nokia, Verizon, Sony, Nvidia, American Express, and Intuit.In the case of Google and Apple, though, licensing hasn't been enough. Lodsys has sued developers using those companies' mobile operating systems--Apple's iOS and Google's Android--for infringing patents Lodsys says it has for in-app purchases.The new Lodsys complaint is below.Lodsys Complaint Against Adidas BestBuy Et Al            Share     Print   E-mail            Stephen Shankland E-mail Stephen Shankland   Follow @stshank    E-mail Stephen Shankland If you have a question or comment for Stephen Shankland, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software and science.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: AOC shows 0.3-inch thick monitor]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>parwinrestalk</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Thin.(Credit:AOC)LAS VEGAS--It appears the ultrathin monitor wars have begun. AtCES this week, LG showed off its 0.28-inch thick E2290V monitor. And not to be outdone, or at least in an attempt to not be outdone, AOC revealed its i2352Fh monitor with a 0.37 profile length. Not quite as thin as LG's offering, but still thinner than anything else we've yet seen in monitors.The 23.6-inch AOC monitor is, however, wall-mountable--unlike, as far as we could tell, the E2290V. Also, the AOC comes with two HDMI ports.No pricing or release date info has been confirmed yet by AOC.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LUMI: The sleep mask enters the 21st century]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=lumi-the-sleep-mask-enters-the-21st-century</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>parwinrestalk</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=lumi-the-sleep-mask-enters-the-21st-century</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Taylor Franklin Hide looks tired. Cute, but tired. (See video.) So it's hardly surprising that the Alabama-based inventor has been so focused on maximizing the quality of his sleep.Enter the LUMImask, which he has recently unveiled on the creative funding Web site KickStarter. The plain, black mask with an almost-invisible little alarm on one side looks like a Trekkie's dream accoutrement (pun!), and it comes with an appropriately dramatic slogan: Light. Dark. Both. (Some things you just can't make up.)You see, Hide faced a conundrum: he required darkness to sleep, but he loved it when light woke him, so the old-fashioned sleeping mask just wasn't cutting it. With LUMI, he gets to not only block out the light when he wants to sleep but experience the gradual simulation of sunrise over a half hour when he needs to wake.It's that simple. If you set your LUMI alarm for 6, the light begins at 5:30, gradually brightening, and ultimately climaxing in a full crescendo of light and audible alarm at the appointed time.An alarm controller allows for the adjustment of both wake-up time and intensity of light. In the winter months, for instance, one may prefer a soft hue reminiscent of northern latitudes, and in the summer a chirpy penetration of equatorial lumination.Studies have suggested that light at night can increase one's risk for depression and even for cancer, but the jury is out on whether LUMI provides sufficient blockage or even improves quality of sleep. And yet the mask is already raising the sleepy eyelids of a number of backers on KickStarter.When Slash Gear reported on Hide's KickStarter campaign yesterday, the inventor had 56 backers with some $2,560 in total investment (his goal being $10,000 by January 24, 2011). He's got to be onto something, because at the time of this post's publication just one day later, 147 backers have kicked $12,369 his way.If you like his idea, an even $50 will secure you a LUMImask with a supporter tag available only for, well, supporters (there are 121 $50 backers so far). Even for himself, Hide has named a price: a $5,000 pledge will get you one full day with Hide, to &quot;discuss life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in slightly sunny Birmingham, Ala. (travel and accommodations not included).&quot;According to KickStarter, one person has already signed on for that pledge. One is left to consider the logical outcome of said rendezvous, which must surely involve putting on their LUMIs and sleeping together.Shoot, they wouldn't even have to wait for the sun to go down.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy S makes it to Cellular South]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>parwinrestalk</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy S(Credit:Cellular South)It seems that almost every carrier in the U.S. has a Samsung Galaxy S handset now. Cellular South has recently announced that it, too, will carry a Samsung Galaxy S phone after Verizon, AT&amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular. Unlike those five, though, Cellular South will retain the original Galaxy S look and feel that is closest to its global counterpart. It has the usual TouchWiz interface on top of Android 2.1, a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, 2GB of internal storage along with a 16GB microSD card, and more. The Samsung Galaxy S is available for $199.99 after a $50 rebate and a contract with Cellular South. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Crave 25: The Wipe Album (podcast)]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=crave-25-the-wipe-album-podcast</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Translate: You speak the words, your iPhone translates]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-translate-you-speak-the-words-your-iphone-translates</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of my great regrets in life is failing to become fluent in another language. My only consolation was that I figured, someday, someone in Silicon Valley would create a universal translator, like Douglas Adams&amp;' Babel fish in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which could translate any language into any other language.Google Translate for the iPhone seems like a very cool step in that direction. Google released its app today with a &amp;''speak to translate&amp;'' function. You can speak in your own voice in 15 different languages. You can say one word or a phrase, while pressing the microphone icon on the app&amp;'s screen. Then it can translate your words to any of 50 languages in text.The app can also use your voice to say the translations out loud in one of 23 different languages. The feature uses the same new speech synthesizer voices as the desktop version of Google Translate that Google introduced last month.Google has been working on the technology for a while. Back in 2008, the company released an HTML5 web application for the iPhone. But the native iPhone app released today will likely draw more usage. It has more features for a better translation experience. Now you can enlarge a word or phrase to appear on the full screen. That way, it&amp;'s a lot easier to show the translation to the person you&amp;'re communicating with. The app is available on the App Store and works on an iPhone or iPod Touch with version 3 or later of the iOS (Apple&amp;'s mobile operating system).It&amp;'s funny. I first heard about the hope of creating a universal translator from former Apple CEO Gil Amelio when he was CEO of National Semiconductor. That would be about 15 years ago. I&amp;'m glad someone finally got around to doing it. Douglas Adams would be proud. Too bad Yahoo already snatched the name Babelfish for its own competing product, a text-based web translator.Next Story: Nokia CEO prepares troops to jump into the unknown &amp;8212' AKA Microsoft Previous Story: Tello launches an app to rate customer service anywherePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Babel fish, Google Translate, The Hitchhikers Guide to the GalaxyCompanies: Google, National Semiconductor, YahooPeople: Douglas Adams, Gil Amelio          Tags: Babel fish, Google Translate, The Hitchhikers Guide to the GalaxyCompanies: Google, National Semiconductor, YahooPeople: Douglas Adams, Gil AmelioDean 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. 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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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: Cadillac plans plug-in hybrid, DOE grants $1.3 billion loan guarantee to world&'s largest wind farm]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=on-the-greenbeat-cadillac-plans-plug-in-hybrid-doe-grants-1-3-billion-loan-guarantee-to-worldrsquos-largest-wind-farm</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest action we&amp;'re following today on the GreenBeat:DOE grants world&amp;'s largest windfarm $1.3 billion &amp;8211' The Department of Energy has finalized a partial loan guarantee for the CaithnessShepherds Flat project, an 845-megawatt plant in eastern Oregon. The wind farm is sponsored by Caithness Energy and GE Energy Financial Services and will use 338 GE wind turbines. All energy generated from the farm will be sold to Southern California Edison at a fixed price in a 20-year power purchase agreement.Cadillac plans luxury plug-in hybrid &amp;8212' GM is developing the car based on its Cadillac SRX crossover, according to anonymous sources cited by Reuters. The car would share technology used in the Chevrolet Volt. It looks like the new GM might be a cleantech play after all.California approves feed-in tariff for renewable energy &amp;8211'The two-year program is called renewable auction mechanism, which aims to drive small to mid-scale renewable energy development. It mandates that the top state utilities purchase electricity from renewable energy sources by holding auctions twice a year and signing agreements with the cheapest bidders, Earth2Tech writes.Tessera could sell troubled plants &amp;8211' On the heels of a court-granted delay of its Imperial Valley solar project and other corporate troubles, Tessera would likely sell the projects, Greentech Media suggests. A likely buyer, it points out, would be NRG Solar, which has purchased solar thermal plants in the past and has been on something of a buying spree lately.Government proposes 24 special zones for solar &amp;8211' The areas would be on public lands in six western states that the administration has deemed prime spots for utility-scale solar facilities, Reuters reports. The Interior Department is studying the environmental effects of locations that could generate power without a negative environmental impact.The proposed zones are in Arizona, California, Colorado, NewMexico, Nevada and Utah.SolarReserve cleared for 150-megawatt solar plant and salt-based storage &amp;8212' The California Energy Commission has approved the plant, which will be near Blythe, Calif. and will have the capacity to supply the equivalent of 68,000 homes a year, CNET writes. It has a 25-year power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas &amp;amp' Electric. The company is unique in its use of a molten salt mixture to store and release energy after sunset. Greentech Media notes one pitfall: salt can clump and require more energy to circulate through pipes.Next Story: Will RIM buy social data aggregator Gist to strengthen its hold on enterprise market Previous Story: Surprise, surprise: Apple&amp;'s iPad expected to dominate tablets into 2012PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Caithness Shepherds Flat, molten salt, renewable auction mechanism, Solar, Volt, windCompanies: Cadillac, Caithness Energy, California Energy Commission, Chevrolet, DOE, GE, GM, Interior Department, Solarreserve, Tessera Solar          Tags: Caithness Shepherds Flat, molten salt, renewable auction mechanism, Solar, Volt, windCompanies: Cadillac, Caithness Energy, California Energy Commission, Chevrolet, DOE, GE, GM, Interior Department, Solarreserve, Tessera SolarIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feds Finally Closing the Net on America&'s Most Wanted Barbie (since&nbsp'Klaus)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Remember a few months back when I warned John Biggs that spycam Barbie was child abuse waiting to happen Well guess what, America I freaking CALLED IT.The FBI &amp;8211' avid TechCrunch TV readers to a man -a4sjust made the plastic dolla4sthe subject of an official FBI memo, with agents warned that she might be implicated in sex crimes. Like a plastic Julian Assange.Says the Huffington Post&amp;8230'&amp;8216'Beware of Barbie. That seems to be the message from the FBI after an internal memo reportedly leaked from the agency&amp;'s Sacramento field office this week. The memo (PDF) warns that Barbie Video Girl, a doll with a built-in video camera capable of recording for about 30 minutes, is a &amp;''possible child pornography production method&amp;8230'The FBI memo, dated November 30, seems to be a few months behind TechCrunch, where reviewer Paul Carr called the product &amp;''child abuse waiting to happen&amp;'' during a review at the time of the product&amp;'s release. He described it as &amp;''creepy,&amp;'' then read from a press release from the PR firm that sent Tech Crunch the toy: &amp;''Unsuspecting subjects won&amp;'t know that Barbie is watching their every move.&amp;''Amusingly, though, Jezabel&amp;'s coverage of the story slightly over-exaggerates my involvement&amp;8230'&amp;''According to HuffPo, the FBI warning stems from a TechCrunch review in which Paul Carr goes off on the doll, calling it &amp;''child abuse waiting to happen&amp;'' a4&quot; because &amp;''pedophiles&amp;'' could use the doll to record child porn and upload it to the Internet via Video Girl&amp;'s built-in USB port.&amp;''&amp;8230'which is not quite what HuffPo said. But, yunno, I&amp;'ll take the credit. You&amp;'re welcome, America.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google&'s Nifty Guide To Web Technology' It&'s iBooks-Like But Built With&nbsp'HTML5]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In what they&amp;'re calling a throwback to the original comic book they released to announce the launch of Chrome, Google has today unveiled a new site meant to educate users about browsers and the web. 20 Things I Learned About Browsers &amp;amp' The Web is actually an interactive web app meant to look like a children&amp;'s book. And while the book&amp;'s content is all about web technology, the interactive book itself shows off some of that technology as it&amp;'s built entirely in HTML5. And it&amp;'s very slick.In fact, it looks a lot like an Apple iBook a4&quot; the book platform that Apple created for the iPad. It has a nice and clickable table of contents, a quick-jump area along the bottom, and if you hover over the corner of a page, it will even curl (clicking on the curl will turn the page). But again, all of this is done with HTML5.Other cool things include the bookmark which doubles as a share button. If you hover over the area, the bookmark will drop down and reveal buttons to share on Facebook, Twitter, or Buzz. And because each page is actually a different HTML page with its own URL, you can share any individual page rather than the entire book itself. But despite each book page having its own URL, there is no reloading that goes on as you page through, it just looks as if you&amp;'re leafing through a book. Again, very slick.As you might expect from Google, the entire book is also searchable. And there&amp;'s a way to &amp;''turn down the lights&amp;'' (make everything but the book&amp;'s pages dim). And, thanks to HTML5, once you load the book, you can disconnect from the web and it will still work (assuming you&amp;'re using &amp;nbsp'an HTML5-compliant browser).Google worked with illustrator&amp;nbsp'Christoph Niemann on the book.CrunchBase InformationGoogleGoogle ChromeInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ron Conway&'s Crystal Ball: 12 Startups On The&nbsp'Cusp]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, esteemed angel investor Ron Conway took the stage to give attendees a quick taste of the innovation that&amp;'s currently going on in Silicon Valley (and NYC&amp;'s Silicon Alley, which Conway specifically mentioned).  To do that, he brought twelve of SV Angel&amp;'s portfolio companies on stage. Sure, it may have been a bit self-serving because Conway has a vested interest in each of them, but given that Conway has seen countless pitches (and invested in hundreds of startups), his top twelve list is worth reading.Here are the startups that Conway invited on stage:Votizen a4&quot;a4sA platform for helping citizens connect with government representatives. See our past coverage here.BankSimple &amp;8211' Trying to fix banking' will be launching a BankSimple card next year, and will offer an API to developers to help build an open banking platform. Our coverage here.Blekko &amp;8211' A new search engine that lets you filter queries using slash tags. After launching two weeks ago, it&amp;'s up to a million queries per day. Our past coverage here.Hipmunk &amp;8211' An improved, smarter flight search engine. See our past coverage here.Optimizely &amp;8211' An easier way to conduct A/B testing. See our past coverage here.1000memories a4&quot;a4sA way to remember deceased friends and loved ones on the web. See our past coverage here.ElationEMR &amp;8211' Details seem vague at this point, but sounded like this involves electronic records.Greplin &amp;8211' A service that lets you search across all of your web accounts: Dropbox, Gmail, Facebook, etc. You can see our past coverage here.Savewave &amp;8211' Dealing with fully digital grocery coupons. See our past coverage here.Top Guest a4&quot;a4s Earn airline miles, points, etc. in return for checking into venues. See our past coverage here.Beautylish &amp;8211' A social commerce site that&amp;'s focused on cosmetic products. We just wrote about the company today.GroupMe &amp;8211' A rapidly growing service that makes it easy to send group text messages and set up conference calls. See our past coverage here.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google chief says web-connected TVs will lead to fountain of new revenue sources]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said today that his company&amp;'s Google TV initiative will bring the open web to TVs and result in much higher revenues for content owners, not less as some of the content owners fear.Google has been locked in tough negotiations with a variety of cable and broadcast TV companies about getting the rights to show their TV shows and movies on Google TV devices, which are being made and sold by consumer electronics companies such as Sony and Logitech. TV content owners Hulu, Fox, CBS, ABC, and NBC have all blocked Google TV from accessing streaming video content. That&amp;'s frustrating for consumers who have dished out a lot of money since October for Google TV products.Schmidt, speaking to Web 2.0 Summit hosts John Battelle and Tim O&amp;'Reilly in San Francisco on Monday, said that the issue revolves around piracy concerns. If Google TV allows unfettered access to the web, then users may be able to surf piracy sites and watch pay TV or movies for free.With Google TV, TV manufacturers combine Google&amp;'s Chrome web browser, the Android operating system, and Linux in a set-top box or a web-connected TV. &amp;''You turn it on and, boom, you are in a full web browser,&amp;'' Schmidt said. &amp;''You can go back and forth between web and broadcast content.&amp;''Schmidt said that some of those who are negotiating with Google said, &amp;''Do you realize that you&amp;'re taking a dumb TV and making it smart Yes. We are guilty of that. Their concern is this enormous revenue stream will be affective negatively by all this internet content. I disagree &amp;8230' Will people go to stolen content or consume more TV We think it is the latter.&amp;''Schmidt said that Google TV will liberate companies to create a whole new set of applications that will generate revenue. &amp;''You can have a tremendously powerful set of applications,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''That is a big business. Think of new gaming platforms where you can immerse yourself in your TV.&amp;''He added, &amp;''The way to get more revenue is to create more revenue sources, and you can do that with Google TV.&amp;''Next Story: You&amp;'ve got mail &amp;8212' still How AOL failed to catch Facebook Previous Story: CEO Eric Schmidt: There is a talent war, but Google isn&amp;'t losingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Google TVCompanies: Abc, cbs, fox, Google, Hulu, Logitech, nbc, SonyPeople: Eric Schmidt, John Battelle, Tim OReilly          Tags: Google TVCompanies: Abc, cbs, fox, Google, Hulu, Logitech, nbc, SonyPeople: Eric Schmidt, John Battelle, Tim OReillyDean 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[As Funding Talk Swirls, Tumblr Lands A Director Of&nbsp'Product]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, a Business Insider report indicated that Tumblr has landed a &amp;''very big and competitive&amp;'' new round of funding from Sequoia Capital. We&amp;'re still looking into that, and they&amp;'re not commenting, but here&amp;'s one thing we do know about the company: they&amp;'ve just hired a new Director of Product.Derek Gottfrid will be joining the company from The New York Times where he was the Senior Architect in charge of many of the interesting things they do with technology. It looks like today isa4shis last day of work for the Times, and he&amp;'ll be joining team Tumblr shortly, Tumblr President John Maloney confirms. &amp;''We&amp;'re thrilled and excited about what Derek will bring to the team/product,&amp;'' Maloney writes in an email. Gottfrid had been with the Times for 12 years.The move continues the recent trend of Tumblr hiring from old media companies, as back in August they hired Mark Coatney away from Newsweek to be their media evangelist.In terms of growth, Tumblr continues to be on a tear. They publish all their numbers publicly via Quantcast, and the growth rate is pretty amazing. Back in July, we reported they were doing 1.5 billion pageviews a month a4&quot; that number is now past 2.5 billion, with half of those coming from the U.S. They&amp;'re about to become a top 40 site in the U.S. In August, they shot past a billion total posts.Given the growth and assuming the funding talk is true, expect the New York-based Tumblr to begin ramping up hiring shortly. Their staff blog only shows 12 employees, and one of them, co-founder and CTO, Marco Arment left in September to work on his successful side-project, Instapaper.Tumblr last raised money in April of this year. They&amp;'ve raised just over $10 million in total so far leading up to this new funding.CrunchBase InformationTumblrInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook Holding Yet Another Event Next Monday In San Francisco. Inbox&nbsp'Related]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After a Summer spent in &amp;''Lockdown&amp;'', Facebook apparently got quite a bit of work done. They&amp;'ve already had a number of events just in the past few weeks. And now they&amp;'re having another one.We&amp;'ve just been alerted about an invite-only press event taking place next Monday, November 15 at 9:30 AM in San Francisco. At the bottom of the invite, it notes that &amp;''This special event is in advance of Mark Zuckerberg&amp;'s conversation on 11/16 at Web 2.0 Summit.&amp;''So what will Facebook be talking about Who knows. The invite has chat bubbles on it, but as we&amp;'ve learned in the past, these often have nothing to do with the event.After Facebook&amp;'s last event, in which they unveiled some big updates to their Places product including Deals, we asked Zuckerberg if the company had any other big things to launch this year. He indicated that more was on the way, but at least one more big thing was coming soon.Is this the big thing or a smaller thing Tune in Monday to find out.Update: Actually, looking at their icon again, you&amp;'ll notice it is their Inbox icon (at least on the iPhone) and not their chat icon. Could this be the unveiling of the new Facebook mail product a4&quot; Project Titan Let the speculation begin!CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building the Simple&nbsp'Enterprise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Editor&amp;'s note: Guest author Aaron Levie is the founder and CEO of Box.netIn the enterprise, simplicity simply doesn&amp;'t sell. Complexity, on the other hand, justifies costly software licenses and a swat team of consultants and systems integrators. It explains why updates are available every three years instead of being pushed weekly. And it even serves as an easy &amp;8211' but ultimately blameless &amp;8211' scapegoat for failed deployments and lagging user adoption. After all, the problems faced by today&amp;'s enterprises are incredibly challenging, and complex problems require equally complex solutions, rightWrong. This mindset needs to change &amp;8211' in fact, in order to survive, enterprise software must become simpler. Consumers are bringing new technology and expectations into the workplace where, more often than not, they&amp;'re forced to work with and around legacy platforms that disable rather than enable productivity.  Simplicity will become the most important factor in business technology&amp;'s success, and to get there it can no longer be a dirty word in the enterprise. But it&amp;'s going to require some serious effort on the part of vendors and buyers alike.We don&amp;'t want complexity, but don&amp;'t know how to value simplicity While I deeply respect and admire the many innovations brought about by legacy solutions, the current state of technology in the enterprise kind of sucks. There&amp;'s a reason why a Google search returns more than 2 million results for &amp;''I hate Lotus.&amp;'' Complexity is the culprit, and it takes many forms: tedious processes for common tasks like HR and expense reports, inability to collaborate beyond the firewall without IT intervention, and information silos without any security rationale. Not to mention the bad UI, error messages, upgrade failures, and downtime that users and IT departments contend with on a daily basis. And while no one explicitly desires cumbersome technology, we keep buying it because we&amp;'ve built a strong correlation between the number of features a solution has and the likelihood it will solve our problem. That, and you won&amp;'t get fired. While building or adopting the most feature-rich service looks great on paper, in practice it means that customers have signed themselves up for technology that can never be upgraded, unhappy end-users, and (paradoxically) inertia to move off tools that required so much time to implement and experts to maintain.  This bias isn&amp;'t limited to technology buyers or builders &amp;8211' the analysts I speak with often focus more on feature comparisons and product matrices than end-user experience and customer success. But that is changing, slowly. Gartner analyst Brian Prentice recently argued that simplicity is misunderstood and needs to be defined by the relevance and usefulness of features rather than the absence of features. But, we still have a long way to go before product comparisons focus more on customer success than feature parity. Gmail would never win a battle with Exchange on sheer volume of features, but the features that remain translate to better end-user adoption and satisfaction. CIOs and IT administrators may be wary of out-of-the-box simple solutions, but they&amp;'re certainly not happy with the complexity of current solutions. A recent Forrester report on CRM deployments, for instance, found that &amp;''inflexibility&amp;'' and &amp;''difficult upgrades&amp;'' were cited as significant problems by over 75% of CIO respondents. Ouch. And IT adminstrators can&amp;'t even spend their way out of technology headaches &amp;8211' you will often see negative returns on overspending to solve IT problems. Out of the tens of thousands of IT buyers we talk to, the biggest benefit of moving to the cloud is the reduced support time and hassles, not just the reduction in cost.  The need is certainly there for simpler solutions, but we need to prioritize and value simpler technology.Building simple software takes vision and disciplineMark Twain (or Ben Franklin, depending on your source) said, &amp;''If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.&amp;'' This, in essence, is the challenge with simplicity. Building simple technology is not easy' it inherently takes much more work to reduce complex problems into simple solutions for people.  Building products that suck is far easier, as David Barrett of Expensify pointed out in his post yesterday. Simplicity requires that you have user experience drive product management and solve problems with exceptional design. And it also means you sometimes have to say no.It&amp;'s really, really hard to say no to customers. They want the world from your product, and they deserve it (really, they do). But letting customer feature requests or analyst reports exhaustively drive your product roadmap can be incredibly damaging. It&amp;'s not that they want something useless or that they&amp;'re wrong in their demands' it&amp;'s that they&amp;'re not seeing the underlying fabric of your product. And this is why it&amp;'s so crucial to have a vision: if you don&amp;'t know where your product is heading in a fundamental way, your customers or competitors will take you in too many directions. As Rypple co-CEO Daniel Debow points out, traditional enterprise software sucks because vendors relinquish control of product roadmaps to close deals: &amp;''Buyers may not realize it, but the many hours they spend crafting the perfect RFP are really spent designing the software that comes out the other end.&amp;'' Build for all your potential customers&amp;' potential problems and before you know it, you&amp;'ll become the more complex competitor that you&amp;'ve trying to disrupt. The majority of software and services tend to forget this as soon as they go from focusing on user experience (market fit) to scale.  There will always be a few really complex problems that require complex solutions. But for the vast majority (read: 95%) of use cases, simplicity will suffice. Where complexity is necessary &amp;8211' whether it&amp;'s to build a specific workflow, integration, or solution for a particular vertical &amp;8211' solve it through customization. Abstract the core areas of your product from the parts that can be modified by a developer or customer, making sure the core and default use is still simple. The best products in the world can do as much or as little as customers want without you having to think twice. The economic upside of this is obvious, of course, as you&amp;'ll now have a rich ecosystem of integrators, value-added resellers, and professional service firms that can participate in your success.You can&amp;'t change market expectations, but you can create new markets  So how does Box make enterprise content management simple We don&amp;'t, really. We redefine it. If Box tried to compete based on the laundry list of functionalities that have come to define ECM, we&amp;'d quickly lose to SharePoint, which has a sufficiently filled-out offering and deep penetration. An existing market has certain expectations because of the companies that have come before you, and you can&amp;'t just build to meet these standards, nor should you set out to change them immediately. Instead, find the dimensions where you can make things materially simpler, and build a solution that gives users more power with fewer features. Start with a department and end-users, solve their problem, and expand.Or look at the problems your product is already solving, and expand into entirely new, under-served markets. For instance, there&amp;'s an explosion of demand for business software in the mid-market. Companies in the 50-1,000 employee range are large enough to have challenging and interesting problems, and for years they&amp;'ve either lacked the technology to address them, or they&amp;'ve had to buy into more expensive solutions than their needs require. Bring your software to new organizations and new markets, and if you build the best product, it will grow. It&amp;'s far easier to maintain simplicity by finding the groups that have the problem you already solve really well, than by trying to reach legacy markets by building new features.Take MySQL, who redefined the database market by offering a simpler database for every developer in the world. They now own a huge chunk of the market without having to compete with Oracle in the process.  GoodData, Zendesk, Assistly and Workday have all leveraged the cloud to build simpler solutions in markets dominated by big, clunky, overly comprehensive systems.  Salesforce.com, with a $15B market-cap, has shown how to build a very large enterprise by selling a little to a lot of customers: an average Salesforce.com customer only has an estimated 15-20 seats on the service.How to build a simpler enterprise:If you&amp;'re in IT: Look throughout your organization and find the areas where employees spend a disproportionate amount of time or run into problems on a specific set of tasks.  Enabling technologies in these areas will pay huge dividends for your organization.  Pilot tools with employees, or find out what they&amp;'re already using before implementing something site-wide &amp;8212' more likely than not, a simpler solution has already been adopted.  Consider the intangible value of implementing simpler technologies: less support, less maintenance, less headache, more productivity.  Demand simplicity from your vendors.If you&amp;'re building software: Invest disproportionately in design, usability and engineering.  Create transparent feedback loops to make sure your product is being successful.  Building great, usable technology is not subjective.  Constantly test what you&amp;'re building on users and gather data consistently.  Reduce features sets, allow for customization, and stick to your vision.  Sell based on the complexity of the problem and the simplicity of the solution.  If you&amp;'re a business manager or end-user: Talk to your IT department. Explain why your existing technology isn&amp;'t meeting your needs, and offer to pilot new technologies. Use your IT organization as a source of knowledge and innovation rather than just a support center, and they&amp;'re far more likely to implement user friendly, innovative technologies. Simplicity will be incredibly beneficial, and it will also be incredibly disruptive. The losers will be the technology providers who are either too lazy or too overextended to settle on a vision' the winners will be workforces that are empowered by usable technology and the vendors that serve them.Photo credit: GettyCrunchBase InformationAaron LevieBox.netInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[YouMail&'s free iPhone app adds to Apple&'s voicemail]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple&amp;'s built-in voicemail app gets raves for allowing users to pick and choose messages from a list, like email rather than being forced to listen to them in order like a 1980&amp;'s tape-cassette answering machine. But there are extra steps still to be taken to make voicemail as powerful as email.YouMail&amp;'s free iPhone app is, business-wise, a loss leader for the company&amp;'s transcription service, a subscription that starts at $3.99 a month. The app ties into YouMail&amp;'s Web-based service, which allows users to manage their voicemail from a browser.I caught YouMail CEO AlexQuilici on the phone Tuesday. A few minutes after we got off the phone, he sent me a transcription of our talk. Clever.Q: How isYouMail different from what iPhone offersA: With iPhone, the basic idea is that you can see who calls and pick what voicemail you play and in what order.YouMail has provided users with the ability to unlock voicemail and give you more choice a4&quot; play or read it, have transcription embedded in app a4&quot; very useful in meeting, etc. Q: Is transcription a paid featureA: Yes. If you want to be able to read your voicemail, transcription is a premium service. Q: What are the biggest differentiators betweenYouMaila4a4s app and what iPhone offers:A: Three big differentiators: Transcription. We offer users the ability to read their voicemails.  Forward your voicemail to anyone. Wea4a4ve unlocked voicemail so you can forward it to anyone you want a4&quot; you can click forward and it generates a URL for voicemail that you can email, post or do whatever a4&quot; completely unlocked from carrier a4&quot; do whatever you want with the voicemail. Status greetings. With one click, you can change your greeting to let callers know you are in a meeting, on a plane or out surfing. Select your own personal recorded greeting or select fromYouMaila4a4s massive library of pre-recorded greetings.Finally, it&amp;'s important to note thatYouMaila4a4s Visual Voicemail Plus app is a small part of theYouMail desktop online service. If you are at your PC, you can pick up a voicemail and surf for greetings on the computer. The app is simply a convenient entry point for the other functionalities. Standard iPhone voicemail does not offer this. Q: Give me idea of pricing:A: The basicYouMail app is free andYouMail lets you store 100 voicemaila4a4s, which is perfect for most people. The transcription services start as low as $3.99/month, which gives you up to 50 transcribed voicemails /month.YouMail transcribes the first 10 seconds of the voicemail, which is the most critical. There are different plans that range from 9.99/month to $27.99/month which provides unlimited, full-length, high-quality voicemail transcriptions. Q: Who do you consider your competitorsA: Other companies that provide transcription offerings or voicemail. Q: What about Skydeck How are you differentYouMail is focused on providing the best possible voicemail experience. We&amp;'re not interested in other things like low cost phone calls or texts. Everyone gets voicemail and we can make people like it. Q: What about multiple phones DoesYouMail provide support for multiple numbersA: We do. We started off as a replacement voicemail mail box a4&quot; a lot of people asked to forward work and landline or multiple lines intoYouMail. We do this, though it&amp;'s more of an added value for a small portion of our users. The mobile phone is most peoplea4a4s primary communication device. Q: Can you tell me more about forwarding a voicemailA: When forwarding a voicemail, it automatically generates a web link that you can send to anyone. There is no password, it just plays. Ita4a4s a link to a page with an embedded payer, and it automatically plays a4&quot; no attachments, nothing else required. Next Story: iPhone envy IBM launches $100 million mobile research intiative Previous Story: iPhone 3.0: A guide to what doesn&amp;'t work yetPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: iPhoneCompanies: Youmail          Tags: iPhoneCompanies: YoumailPaul wrote for VentureBeat until July 2010. To reach VentureBeat's current writers, email tips@venturebeat.com.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[Facebook Developer Considers Deleting Facebook So He Can Get Some Work&nbsp'Done]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This made us smile. Star mobile developer Joe Hewitt just tweeted out the following missive roping Twitter, email and yes employer Facebook into a triumvirate of distraction, calling them &amp;''non-work related bookmarks.&amp;''When asked to clarify what he meant in &amp;gt'140, Hewitt responded, &amp;''I just mean social media in general. a4sObviously I keep parts of Facebook open for work purposes, but I was referring to my recreational use of Facebook.&amp;''Hewitt proposes relegating all recreational social media use to the &amp;''iPad/iPhone&amp;'' realm, which is an interesting grouping in light of his boss Mark Zuckerberg&amp;'s statement today thata4sa4Athe iPad isna4a4t mobilea4 and the fact that Facebook does not yet have an iPad app.So is he really going to quit social mediaSays Hewitt,a4s&amp;''No of course not. Is that even possible these days I was just thinking about restricting email and social media use to my iPad.&amp;''Maybe we&amp;'ll be seeing that Facebook iPad app sooner than we thinkTeaser image: el frijoleCrunchBase InformationJoe HewittFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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