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<title><![CDATA[Mac lands a Flock, gets Chromium bump]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Beinnaelemymn</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Flock shifted gears from its Mozilla-powered core to Chromium 6 earlier this year, but only for Windows users. Today, the company released a Chromium 7-based version forMac users, as well as updating its Windows version to Chromium 7. Flock 3.5 is built on Chromium 7, but it&amp;39's still behind the most recent version of the Chromium 8-based Google Chrome.(Credit:Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Available for Windows and Mac, Flock 3.5 adds LinkedIn support and include a refined login system. If you log in to a social-networking site that Flock supports the browser itself is automatically logged in to it, too. Updating to Chromium 7 also pushes Flock ahead of its social-networking competitor RockMelt, and the update includes all the security fixes and performance enhancements that Google Chrome received when it revved to version 7. Flock is still behind Chrome, which is now based on Chromium 8. The security fixes are substantial, so if you do use Flock 3 it's absolutely worth updating. Pre-existing users are expected to receive the update automatically, as Chrome users do.Flock is concurrently developing the original Mozilla Gecko-based Flock, now up to version 2.6.1 for Windows and Mac users. It supports more social networking services, but is noticeably slower as well. While the social networking browser isn't for everybody, both versions of Flock are in Facebook's top 10 list.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NSFW: I&'m Some Random Tech Entrepreneur and I Approve This Confusing&nbsp'Message]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Beinnaelemymn</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Last month, the world raised a quizzical eyebrow towards a new advertising campaign for Stolichnaya vodka, starring two Biz Stones, hanging out with each other in a bar. This month ita4a4s the turn of Foursquarea4a4s Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai, posing in chunky knitwear a4s(and with only the merest hint of homoeroticism) to promote Gap.To say the thinking behind the ads is muddled is to use comical understatement. As I write these words, millions of Gap shoppers and Stoli drinkers are staring blankly at the over-airbrushed, bizarrely ill-conceived advertisements, thinking a4Ayeah, Ia4a4ve heard of Twitter but who the hell is that dude And whata4a4s a Foursquare Is it a Facebook thinga4 In fact, if I were a cynical man I might draw a few appropriately cynical conclusions from corporate America&amp;'s new-found obsession with tech entrepreneurs whom 99.9999% of the population couldna4a4t pick out of a police line-up.I might, for example, suggest that the commercials are what happens when some the worlda4a4s biggest brands realise that they know jack-all about the media habits of their target customers and so, rather than admitting defeat, simply throw a burlap sack of money at a dick-headed gaggle of 20 year old sub-junior creative directors who form their entire concept of what constitutes &amp;8216'celebrity&amp;' from the pages of Gawker and their friendsa4a4 Facebook walls. I might also bandy around phrases like a4Acringeworthya4, a4Aembarrassingly ill-conceiveda4 and a4Ashould be lined up against the stark white walls of their painfully minimalistic Madison Avenue offices and shot twice at close rangea4.Fortunately, though, Ia4a4m not a cynical man. And as such Ia4a4m able to appreciate the true brilliance of the commercials. I mean, sure, maybe only fifty people in Silicon Valley and Manhattan will understand the ads&amp;8230' will appreciate why a photo of Biz Stone, getting slowly drunk with only himself for company is actually a brilliantly arch comment on the mediaa4a4s obsession with Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey. Or will comprehend why choosing the founders of Foursquare to model clothing from the official uniform supplier to unemployed hipster wannabes is a piece of pitch-perfect commercial satire, worthy of Adbusters.&amp;8230'but, while the number of people who truly grok the ads might be small, those fifty people also happen to have a frightening level of disposable income, along with the commensurate level of youthful naivete required to blow it all on mid-range vodka and woolen beanies. After all, the cash they just raised to build their awesome new a4AGroupon for Q&amp;amp'Asa4 platform isna4a4t going to spend itself.With the banks in ruin and Bernie Madoff in jail, these kids are Americaa4a4s new highest-spending demographic and the further advertisers can dig into the Interneta4a4s navel to find spokesmodels, the more likely these new-new-new rich kids are to respond.  With that in mind, look out for the following Silicon-Valley-themed product endorsements this holiday season&amp;8230' Teslaa4a4s Elon Musk for Geico: Given the billionairea4a4s propensity for crashing high-powered sports cars before he&amp;'s got around to insuring them, who better than Musk to remind you that 15 minutes can save you 15% on your car insuranceFacebooka4a4s Mark Zuckerberg for Nikon Binoculars: Cavalier attitude to the privacy of strangers Him too! Nikon binoculars: because involuntary sharing is caring. Tumblra4a4s David Karp for Trader Joe&amp;'s: Tumblr: for when, amazingly, youa4a4re too painfully white, tedious, middle class and hipstery for Twitter. Trader Joe&amp;'s: for when, amazingly, youa4a4re too painfully white, tedious, middle class and hipstery for Whole Foods. Groupona4a4s Andrew Mason for Maxim and Kleenex: Because nothing says a4AIa4a4m just not that into youa4 like paying for your date with a Groupon, and nothing says a4AI am incapable of maintaining an adult relationshipa4 like a subscription to Maxim and a box of Kleenex. Wikipediaa4a4s Jimmy Wales for Fox News: a4AWell, ita4a4s says here that Obama was born in Kenya and the moon is made of apple pie. We report, you decide.a4 Aola4a4s Tim Armstrong for Old Spice: Because your grandfather used to use it, and now ita4a4s on Twitter. Amazona4a4s Jeff Bezos for PetSmart / Hershey&amp;'s: Because strangers who bought a4AThe Pedophilea4a4s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lovera4a4s Code of Conducta4 also bought a van-load of puppies and candy.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hastings On Hulu Plus: If They Become A Competitor, That&'s Probably Healthy For&nbsp'Us]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Beinnaelemymn</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Peter Chernin sat down with New York Magazine&amp;'s John Heilemann to talk about the state of the video content business. A question from the audience asked Hastings about the news today that Hulu was cutting their prices.Hastings noted that Hulu was still mainly an advertising play. And he said that Netflix has actually long been an advertiser on Hulu. &amp;''Hulu Plus may grow into a competitor over time, but that&amp;'s probably healthy for us,&amp;'' he said. Notice he&amp;'s saying that he doesn&amp;'t consider them an actual competitor just yet.He said that the space is growing so quickly and that there will be a lot of other players, not just the two of them.Hastings also said that a streaming-only plan would be coming to the U.S. &amp;''shortly&amp;''. The service is currently offering such a plan in Canada.Whena4sHeilemann asked him about further expansion, Hastings said that the plan is to be everywhere in 3 to 5 years a4&quot; but said that the order they expand in doesn&amp;'t matter much. That will be dictated by the availability of broadband, he said.Heilemanna4salso asked Hastings if given Netflix&amp;'s fast growth, he worries about bandwidth problems going forward Hastings noted that just 10 years ago the majority of the U.S. was accessing the Internet via AOL-type dial-up. Now we&amp;'re all on broadband. In 10 years, he envisions a world where we&amp;'ll have 100 Mbps upstream and downstream connections, and we&amp;'ll all be doing video conferencing in realtime.&amp;''It will follow Moore&amp;'s Law,&amp;'' Hastings said noting that technology will keep coming along to make things faster. In other words, he&amp;'s not concerned about growth.CrunchBase InformationNetflixhulu plusInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bidding War For Twitter Raises Valuation To Nearly $4 Billion. Kleiner Perkins Currently In Pole&nbsp'Position]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Beinnaelemymn</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we reported that Twitter was mulling over raising a big new round of financing and the expected valuation was in the $3 billion range. Things have developed since then, it seems.The bidding has gotten more intense from what we&amp;'re hearing. Russian firm DST, among others, submitted offers to invest valuing the company above $3 billion, say multiple sources. But the current leader, and likely winner, is Kleiner Perkins, say multiple sources. And the likely valuation when the smoke clears will be close to $4 billion.Alpha investor and Kleiner investor John Doerr is personally leading the charge, we&amp;'ve heard, and is acting something like a dog with a bone that won&amp;'t let go. &amp;''Doerr wants to own part of Twitter, And Doerr generally gets what he wants&amp;'' says one person with knowledge of the negotiations.Is the deal done No. Another investor could step up with an even higher valuation, forcing Twitter to make a difficult (even legally difficult) decision to pass on Kleiner. But as things stand right now, our understanding is Kleiner is in the pole position on the round, and unless something dramatic happens, they&amp;'ll soon be an investor.This fits in neatly with Kleiner&amp;'s push to invest in the &amp;''third wave&amp;'' of technology disruption. See his April guest post here on TechCrunch for more details on how they&amp;'re thinking about their current investment strategy.CrunchBase InformationTwitterKleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' ByersJohn DoerrInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Nathan Myhrvold&'s Intellectual Ventures becoming a patent troll (poll)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, has insisted for the past decade that his firm Intellectual Ventures has been collecting patents to enable new inventions.But today, Intellectual Ventures has sued nine big technology companies in its first-ever patent-infringement lawsuits. The company filed suits in federal court in Delaware against Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro and Check Point Software Technologies in computer security. It also sued chip makers Elpida Memory, Hynix Semiconductor, Altera, Lattice Semiconductor and Microsemi (which recently bought Actel).Is it time to call Myhrvold a patent troll Patent trolls buy patents and sue companies in order to get royalties. They tend not to create anything innovative. The answer seems to be yes.&amp;''Over the years, Intellectual Ventures has successfully negotiated license agreements with some of the top technology companies in the world,&amp;'' said Melissa Finocchio, Intellectual Venture&amp;'s chief litigation counsel, in a press release. &amp;''However, some companies have chosen to ignore our requests for good faith negotiations and discussions.&amp;''In an interview this morning, she added, &amp;''We can&amp;'t control how people want to label us. We are no different from any other company in the high-tech space that owns intellectual property.&amp;''Actually, a lot of other tech companies make stuff. In that respect, they can be counterattacked if they sue. Without its own product companies, Intellectual Ventures is immune from such responses.Bellevue, Wash.-based Intellectual Ventures has amassed thousands of patents over the years and has hired lots of experts to create inventions in-house which are then licensed to other companies. Myrhvold is a polymath and has a funny, boisterous laugh. He has expertise in geophysics, physics, math, economics, photography, and paleontology. But perhaps my favorite thing about him is he is a &amp;''sous vide&amp;'' gourmet chef (where you cook food inside a vacuum-sealed plastic bag).He has insisted over the years that he is not a patent troll. His company has indeed created a lot of groundbreaking technology in the fields of medicine, computer science and chips. So do you think he&amp;'s a troll Please let us know in our poll below and explain your choice in the comments section.Online Surveys &amp;8211' Zoomerang.comNext Story: Why is Intel so coy about its new netbook and tablet group Previous Story: Smart grid in Europe is all about renewablesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: patent trollCompanies: Altera, Check Point Software Technology, Intellectual Ventures, McAfee, symantecPeople: Melissa Finocchio, Nathan Myhrvold          Tags: patent trollCompanies: Altera, Check Point Software Technology, Intellectual Ventures, McAfee, symantecPeople: Melissa Finocchio, Nathan MyhrvoldDean 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[Is Bill Gates a green hypocrite]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, well, Bill Gates.Today came news that the Microsoft founder, philanthropist and green investor has invested in a $60 million round for NEOS GeoSolutions, a Houston-based firm that uses data analysis and geophysical sensors to help oil and gas companies decide where to drill. NEOS&amp;'s backers also includeGoldman Sachs, Kleiner Perkins, Passport Capital and, now, Saudi-based oil and industrial conglomerate Energy Capital Group, which joined as a new investor with Gates.It&amp;'s a fairly surprising and &amp;8212' dare we say &amp;8212' hypocritical move for Gates, considering that he&amp;'s been a vocal champion of green energy in the past. He&amp;'s chairman of the board of alternative energy advocacy group American Energy Innovation Council, which includes business leaders like GE&amp;'s Jeffrey Immelt and Xerox&amp;'s Ursula Burns.&amp;''The innovation that would be the most important for the world is a way of generating electricity that&amp;'s less than half as expensive as the way we do it today but has no bad environmental effects, and, in particular, emits no CO2,&amp;'' Gates says (italics mine) in an AEIC video embedded below. I&amp;'ve reached out to the AEIC for comment, but haven&amp;'t heard back.In fact, the AEIC&amp;'srecommendations includes a call for the U.S. to invest $16 billion a year in innovative energy research and development, even hinting that the U.S. spends too much money &amp;8212' $16 billion every 16 days &amp;8212' overseas for oil.Gates is also an investor in cleantech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla&amp;'s green fund. He has backed biofuels company Sapphire Energy, nuclear plant designer TerraPower,low-emissions car motors startup EcoMotor, andPacific Ethanol. And the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters was designed as a green building, with a roof that doubles as a natural habitat for birds and is sustained via rainwater.On the flip side, calling Gates a hyprocrite may be a little harsh. For one, he&amp;'s likely diversifying his portfolio of investments. For another, it&amp;'s not easy &amp;8212' or even realistic &amp;8212' to be 100 percent green when most of the world still runs on fossil fuels and the majority of renewable energies are still more expensive than traditional fuel sources. Immelt&amp;'s GE, for all of its investment in cleantech, still makes jet engines and traditional lightbulbs (though it studiously markets greener versions of both).And on the bright side, whileNEOSsupplies oil companies, it also counts gas companies among its clients.Natural gas is a much cleaner fossil fuel than coal, is forecast to oust coal in the next few decades, and big oil companies like Chevron and Exxon have invested in natural gas acquisitions and projects. So smart investors are looking to bet on the commodity, which isn&amp;'t as bad for the environment as coal.I&amp;'d venture that Gates&amp;'s green contributions and high-profile role in green advocacy probably outweighs this one deal, but it&amp;'ll be interesting to see if he&amp;'ll continue to bang the drum for alternative energy with one hand and bet on oil and gas exploration with the other.[Top image via Green Diary]Next Story: Private equity firm General Atlantic takes $200M stake in security software vendor Kaspersky Lab Previous Story: RightNow acquires Q-go to improve customer service with natural language searchPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: alternative energy, drilling, gas, mining, natural gas, oil, renewablesCompanies: American Energy Innovation Council, Blackstone Group, EcoMotor, Energy Capital Group, GE, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft, Neos GeoSolutions, Pacific Ethanol, Passport Capital, Rive Technologies, Sapphire Energy, TerraPower, XeoroxPeople: Bill Gates, Jeffrey Immelt, Ursula Burns, Vinod Khosla          Tags: alternative energy, drilling, gas, mining, natural gas, oil, renewablesCompanies: American Energy Innovation Council, Blackstone Group, EcoMotor, Energy Capital Group, GE, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft, Neos GeoSolutions, Pacific Ethanol, Passport Capital, Rive Technologies, Sapphire Energy, TerraPower, XeoroxPeople: Bill Gates, Jeffrey Immelt, Ursula Burns, Vinod KhoslaIris 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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