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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[On Call: A bridge for T-Mobile and Sprint]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>udanikaspencerb</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[On Call runs every two weeks, alternating between answering reader questions and discussing hot topics in the cell phone world.Bloomberg today revived a long-simmering story in the wireless world when it reported that Deutsche Telekom is considering selling its T-Mobile USA subsidiary to Sprint Nextel. A deal is nowhere near definite, sources told Bloomberg, but the two companies are debating a valuation for the country's fourth-largest carrier.More merger maniaMergers between wireless carriers do happen--remember that Sprint and Nextel got hitched almost six years ago--and the possibility of a T-Mobile/Sprint marriage has been bounced around since 2009. The rumor received a lot of fuel last summer after Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said he sees &quot;logic&quot; in consolidation. Hesse didn't elaborate much on his point, but that was all many analysts needed to begin comparing balance sheets.At the time, I wrote a column on why I saw a merger as unlikely. Disparate technology was one reason, and I didn't savor the idea of meshing T-Mobile's relatively strong corporate identity with Sprint's, well, not-so-great image. I still stand by my second point, but I've come around a bit on the technology side.Though many tech journalists, myself included, rightly point to Sprint's struggles to mesh Nextel's iDEN network with its CDMA technology, it's a different world than it was in 2005. As carriers move exclusively to bridging 4G technologies over the next few years, terms like CDMA and GSM won't matter as much. So in the long term, a T-Mobile/Sprint merger could make sense.So how would it workIn short, it could all come down to LTE. Sprint is firmly on board with WiMax at the moment and it will presumably continue that way for the near future. In a few years, however, the carrier should move to LTE as Hesse has indicated.T-Mobile, on the other hand, still is riding the HSPA+ train. True, it's not a real 4G technology--despite T-Mobile describing it as such--but HSPA+ is offering data speeds that can match its rivals at least for the time being. Yet, at some point T-Mobile will need to move on to LTE as well. And if Sprint is walking the same path, then things could work.Sure, I'm simplifying things a bit and making predictions that may not turn out to be true, but the point is that integrating the carriers' CDMA and GSM networks doesn't have to happen. A real 4G technology like LTE Advanced can act as a bridge. I think Sprint has learned a lot from the Nextel integration--and it finally appears to be getting the mess in order--though those lessons may be irrelevant. I'm still not excited by the prospect of blending the two brands, but mergers deemed good for a company usually move forward, whether they're good for customers or not.Updated March 9 at 10:55 p.m. PT: While speaking at the Deutsche Bank AG Media &amp; Telecom Conference on Wednesday, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said &quot;every option&quot; for the carrier's future include Clearwire and WiMax. Bloomberg also said that Hesse refused to comment on a possible merger with T-Mobile.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[YouTube ups upload limit for well-behaved users]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>udanikaspencerb</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET)YouTube is rewarding users who do what it asks of them.The company announced in a blog post yesterday that it has lifted the 15-minute limit on video uploads for &quot;selected users&quot; who have &quot;a history of complying with the YouTube Community Guidelines and our copyright rules.&quot; It seems that those who have violated its terms in the past are still limited to 15 minutes.YouTube didn't explicitly say for sure that well-behaved users will have an unlimited amount of time for their uploads, but it did say that if users upload &quot;original content, it's fair game, regardless of length,&quot; indicating that there will be no limit on those users.YouTube cited its Video ID and Audio ID service, which identifies copyrighted content uploaded to the site by someone other than the copyright holder, as the main reason for eliminating the 15-minute limit on some users.YouTube's Video ID and Audio ID service works by asking rights holders to provide the online video site with reference material that it then uses to compare to uploaded content. The service also allows those copyright owners to determine, prior to the infringement, how they want to handle it. They can choose to &quot;make money from them, get stats on them, or block them from YouTube altogether,&quot; YouTube says on its site.YouTube first implemented time limits on video uploads in 2006 after facing pressure from copyright holders. At the time, the company set the limit to 10 minutes per video. That limit didn't change until earlier this year when the company announced that it upped the time limit to 15 minutes.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Samsung's Galaxy Tab red flag for Intel]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>udanikaspencerb</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[No. 2 chipmaker Samsung is showing Intel how to succeed in the brave new world of tablets and smartphones. Samsung's Galaxy Tab is competitive with Apple's iPad: Samsung makes the device and supplies the main chip inside. Here, Intel is playing catch-up.(Credit:Samsung)While Intel is the largest chipmaker in the world, Samsung is No. 2. And, unlike Intel, it also has a large and successful affiliated consumer arm that churns out products like the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Not surprisingly, many of those products use Samsung silicon too.That's a vertically integrated strategy that Intel can't match. And that's not all. Samsung also supplies chips to outside customers (Intel's business model) like Apple which use its chips in outrageously popular products like theiPhone andiPad. The scary part is that the Samsung Galaxy Tab is a solid product and worthy competitor to the iPad, even besting it with features like front and back cameras--a feature you won't see until the iPad 2, most likely. (I test drove the Android-based 7-inch Galaxy Tab for about 30 minutes and was very impressed). That puts Samsung in two of the leading tablet designs on the market--one its own product. Before I go too far, let me back off a bit by saying that Intel's dominance in the hundred-billion-dollar-plus annual PC market has given it an almost unassailable lead in chips. Intel is also the leading chip supplier for the tens of millions of servers worldwide that power the Internet. The latter a nontrivial point often obscured by the glare of glitzy end-user products like the iPad (which uses Intel-powered servers when accessing Web sites worldwide).That said, Intel is obviously racing to play catch-up in tablets and smartphones, two of the fastest-growing computing markets. The chipmaker has formed a new business unit for Netbooks and tablets and CEO Paul Otellini spent a lot of time at a technology conference today explaining how it's going to eventually be competitive. &quot;It's important to keep a perspective in the early days of any market. Things change. Markets change,&quot; Otellini said today. &quot;It wasn't too long ago--2003--where virtually all of the silicon in a storage system was custom. It's grown dramatically over the intervening seven years to where we now are the predominate architecture for storage vendors,&quot; he said, implying that Intel will could eventually become a big player in tablets and smartphones. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ActaCell nabs $3 million for cheaper, better batteries for hybrids]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>udanikaspencerb</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Recently, we wrote aboutthe move in the private sector to use electric and hybrid delivery trucks. Companies like FedEx and Frito Lay are tapping into benefits of greener cars &amp;8212' even ahead of the broader consumer market because they&amp;'re a hedge against volatile diesel prices and can pay returns more quickly.That&amp;'s the market that Austin, Tex.-based startup ActaCell is jumping on, citing market drivers like EPA regulators cracking down on emissions requirements and the difficulty of predicting the price of diesel. The company makes high-power lithium-ion batteries for use in medium to heavy-duty hybrid trucks, and today it announced over $3 million in grants.One of the grants is a$3 million award over a three-year period &amp;8212' provided it hits certain benchmarks &amp;8212' from the Department of Commerce&amp;'s National Institute of Standards and Technology. The money will provide for the company to create a strategy to show it can scale up by 1,000 times the production of a nano material for high-energy batteries for use in electrified vehicles.&amp;''We have a nano material that can enable a high-energy battery to be made,&amp;'' Kohler said. &amp;''Wecan make the alloy material five grams at a time. A cell may need 100 grams of material. Right now, it&amp;'s not practical to make batteries using this material,&amp;'' so the company will demonstrate it can scale up production of the material to five kilograms at time, which would then put it in contention for being a commercially viable material for hybrid batteries.The other is a $179,000 grant from the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium (made up of Ford, GM and Chrysler) to conduct a 16-month assessment of ActaCell&amp;'s high-power battery cells to see if they meet requirements specified by the consortium for power-assist hybrid-electric vehicle applications. It&amp;'s essentially a slew of tests to pinpoint the battery&amp;'s overall performance, how it works under different temperature situations and what it&amp;'s overall lifecycle looks like.The tests will pinpoint the strengths of ActaCell&amp;'s batteries, Kohler said, and if all goes well, could lead to one of the automakers in the consortium seeking out ActaCell for additional research on its batteries.The company seems to reflect some of the latest trends in venture capital-backed cleantech startups. For one, capital efficiency. ActaCell has raised $7 million and lived off that for three years. In fact, Kohler said the company has been able to buy second-hand equipment from startups that burned through their funding too fast. For another, it&amp;'s focusing on a market &amp;8212' hybrid trucks &amp;8212' that sells to commercial entities on the basis of being able to prove return on investment, a trend Peter Wagner of Accel told VentureBeat would strengthen in 2011.ActaCell licenses research from the University of Texas at Austin and has used it to make battery cells that use a traditional approach to making lithium ion batteries but without blending in nickel or cobalt, which companies typically add to compensate for the short life cycle of these batteries (particularly under too-hot, too-cold conditions). Not having to add those materials and creating a more efficient battery could result in lowered cooling requirements for car makers and a cheaper battery overall. If the company can demonstrate the technology works and can scale up, it could eventually grow to service the market for mass consumer electric and hybrid cars.&amp;''We feel we have a technology that is well understood and can be scaled up without having to reinvent everything. We feel we&amp;'ve solved the technical problem without having to blend anything. We&amp;'ve been able to bring in a high power cell with safety to match,&amp;'' said Marc Kohler, the company&amp;'s director of product management.Next Story: The biggest surprises of 2010: A lost iPhone prototype, Groupon snubs Google, and more Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: Tessera sells 850-megawatt Calico project, GreenVolts aims to raise $39 millionPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: batteries, electric cars, electric trucks, electric vehicles, hybrids, lithium-ion batteriesCompanies: Actacell, Chrysler, ford, GM, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium          Tags: batteries, electric cars, electric trucks, electric vehicles, hybrids, lithium-ion batteriesCompanies: Actacell, Chrysler, ford, GM, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Advanced Battery ConsortiumIris 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[Verizon iPhone launch is no AT&038'T iPhone launch]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>udanikaspencerb</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The  much-hyped Verizon iPhone is finally available for purchase today, and  if you havena4a4t preordered or picked one up yet, therea4a4s still a very  good chance youa4a4ll be able to snag one.Reports of small lines and slow turnout at Verizon and iPhone stores across the country make it clear that this iPhone launch is nothing like the madhouse launches at AT&amp;amp'T.The news doesna4a4t mean that the Verizon iPhone is a failure &amp;8212' especially if you consider that the carrier sold out its online preorders to existing Verizon customers in less than a day. Instead, media  reports and disgruntled iPhone users on AT&amp;amp'T led to the Verizon  iPhone becoming a savior device that could never live up to its  insurmountable hype. (If you want to see an extreme example of what Ia4a4m  talking about, just check out the Daily Showa4a4s hilarious clip on the Verizon iPhone announcement.)Verizon  will still end up selling millions of iPhones throughout the year, even  if it doesna4a4t sell out of its stock today. And come the  launch of the iPhone 5, I suspect Verizon stores will see similarly  insane lines as AT&amp;amp'T has been dealing with for years.There  are many reasons we could point to for the slow launch turnout: Verizon  managed to satisfy most of its customers who absolutely wanted an  iPhone with preorders last week, and AT&amp;amp'T customers are likely  holding out until their contracts end to avoid hefty early termination fees. Also, pretty much everybody is aware that Apple  will unveil the iPhone 5 in a few months, which will launch on both AT&amp;amp'T and Verizon.I  called several Verizon stores in Manhattan and Brooklyn today, and they  all reported that they still had iPhones in stock. When I asked if Ia4a4d  be able to pick up an iPhone later this afternoon, only one store out of  5 said that they were close to running out of stock. None of the stores  had big lines this morning' instead, customers were mostly trickling in  throughout the day.In a small survey of 40 users,  Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster found that 8 percent of users  waiting in line for a Verizon iPhone were coming from AT&amp;amp'T, while 63  percent were already on Verizon. More users came from Sprint (18  percent) than from T-Mobile (13 percent). Such a small survey likely  wona4a4t give us any insight into national trends, but I do think that  wea4a4ll continue to see more Verizon users jumping to the iPhone than  others. Munster believes that Verizon will sell 1 million iPhones in its first three days of availability.Image via Wilson TangNext Story: Popular places to play mobile games: in the car and on the toilet Previous Story: Socialize this: Gamer social network Raptr raises $15M and gets 6M fansPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: iPhone 4, launch, smartphones, Verizon iPhoneCompanies: Apple, Verizon, Verizon WirelessPeople: Gene Munster          Tags: iPhone 4, launch, smartphones, Verizon iPhoneCompanies: Apple, Verizon, Verizon WirelessPeople: Gene MunsterDevindra 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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