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<title><![CDATA[Analysts' takes: Apple going ARM on MacBooks]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 07:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Future MacBooks running the same ARM chips that populate the iPad and iPhone(Credit:Apple)The rumor that Apple will drop Intel chips and move future MacBooks to the same kind of silicon that powers Apple'siPhone andiPad has got analysts pondering the prospect. Here are a few reactions. As a preface to the comments below, one analyst cited Microsoft's announcement that it is moving Windows 8 to ARM--the same chip architecture that powers Apple's iPhone and iPad. So, in a way, Microsoft is already on the record with this kind of a transition. Though moving to ARM does not mean Microsoft is dropping Intel. And one transition doesn't necessarily preclude the other. Smart move for Apple vis-a-vis its developers: &quot;This would be, in part, an ecosystem building opportunity. It would be saying to developers that Apple has the opportunity to increase the size of the TAM (Total Available Market) for developers to write for, while also changing the face of computing by bringing key characteristics such as instant-on and long battery life to the notebook clamshell form factor.&quot; --Richard Shim, analyst, DisplaySearch. Apple has switched architectures before but...: &quot;Apple has switched architectures in the past, so it is certainly possible they could switch to ARM. I don't see why they would do it, though. Even with a 64-bit architecture, ARM processors will not offer performance competitive with the high end of Intel's line, so Apple might be sacrificing all of its professional users. ARM may offer some battery life and cost benefits for mainstream laptops, but given that Intel is focusing on these parameters, I don't think the benefits would be sizable. Also, as indicated by its recent 22 [nanometer] announcement, Intel has a manufacturing technology advantage that will prevent ARM from getting very far ahead, if at all. So I am skeptical.&quot; --Linley Gwennap, principal analyst, The Linley Group. It's just a matter of time: &quot;Apple likes vertical integration, has proven ability to migrate software among instruction sets, and can derive adequate performance from non-Intel CPUs. Thus, I think it's only a matter of time before we see Apple computers with keyboards using ARM CPUs. I agree...that it makes sense to wait for the 64-bit ARM instruction set to break cover. My guess is that they'll use a homegrown CPU out of the chute. They've had CPU-development capability long enough in house to have something ready in 2012.&quot; --Joseph Byrne, The Linley Group. Performance, performance, performance: &quot;The concern is performance. Who knows for sure by 2013 what ARM will have But Intel's 22-nanometer chips will be widely available by then. That will make it tough for other people to compete on a raw performance basis. You can offset by saying we're at the point where there's good-enough computing [so] we don't need that performance. But that's a hard argument to accept because we've said that for years. And yet people keep wanting to buy faster and faster PCs. Oh, and by the way, new software soaks up any extra CPU cycles. That said, over the years [Apple has] done two huge instruction set transitions and they've done them very successfully. So, it's not out of the realm of possibility--in order to give [Apple] a single instruction set in a combined platform. And they could do it in phases, where the MacBook Air stuff goes to iOS and ARM and they keep the higher-end stuff on Intel.&quot; --Bob O'Donnell, analyst, IDC The risk factor: &quot;Has Apple beefed up its chip team I don't think they have. Besides, silicon is not their forte. I think it would be a strategic mistake. Intel can offer them extremely competitive products, leading-edge process technology, and throwaway prices. So, what's the advantage There's going to be more risk than upside. If they misexecute on a product line, then the entire product strategy is at risk. And the price-premium argument completely goes away.&quot; --Ashok Kumar, analyst, Rodman and Renshaw <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nexus S first impressions]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[1000Memories Now Captures The Lives Of Departed Loved Ones In A Single&nbsp'Glance]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia chronicles the lives of plenty of the most important figures to ever walk the Earth. Unfortunately, for those countless people who fail to discover an element or pen a bestselling novel, Wikipedia&amp;'s editors are quick to strike down biographies that anyone might try to write about them. And when they die, their stories a4&quot;a4swhich may not be important to the public but are priceless to their family and friends a4&quot;a4shave a habit of fading with them. 1000memories thinks there&amp;'s a better way.The site, which launched last July,a4ssets out with one big, important goal: helping family and friends cherish and share the memories of someone that&amp;'s passed away. This week, the company has launched some key new features to make this sharing easier and more effective than before.Founder Rudy Adler says that one of 1000Memories&amp;'s biggest challenges has been to find a way to weave together the memories that its users have shared to that they really capture the lives of the departed. One of the problems before now was that various kinds of content people uploaded a4&quot;a4sphotos, stories, and so on a4&quot;a4swere broken into different categories, and you had to navigate between them. Now, 1000Memories features a &amp;8216'quilt&amp;' view, which compiles this content into a single page, presenting an entire life in a single glance. It sounds like a simple change, but it&amp;'s very effective.Another new feature is the ability to tag people in photographs. This may sound a bit &amp;8216'social networky&amp;', but Adler says that it&amp;'s been a top-requested feature. After all, people tend to change in appearance as they age, and you may not recognize that the boy standing next to your grandmother in a 50-year old photograph is in fact your uncle.Finally, the site has expanded its biography section. Users can now co-edit a text area that serves as the departed&amp;'s life story a4&quot;a4sthe basic facts of where they grew up, where they lived, their important relationships, as well as the key events in their lives. And there&amp;'s also a section of &amp;8216'quick memories&amp;'.  These sound silly a4&quot;a4syou just jot down random habits, favorite foods, and jokes that the deceased used to tell. But it makes it easier for everyone to contribute something, and oftentimes it&amp;'s these little things that bring back the best memories.1000Memories isn&amp;'t talking about user numbers yet, but the company has grown a bit a4&quot;a4sit&amp;'s hired two full time employees, in addition to its three founders.CrunchBase Information1000MemoriesInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: Warren Buffet, wind king 1366 raises $28M' Soliant suspends operations]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest action we&amp;'re following today on the GreenBeat:1366 raises $28.4 million for cheaper wafers &amp;8211' Silicon wafer startup 1366 has raised $28.4 million in capital from investors that include GE Energy Financial Services, VantagePoint Venture Partners and Hanwha Chemical. It is an $8 million addition to $20 million raised last year. The company can directly convert molten silicon to wafers, which reduces costs, waste and time compared to slicing wafers off an ingot of silicon. Wafers are used to build solar panels.Volvo debuts three-in-one hybrid car &amp;8212' The automaker will beshowing off a concept car (pictured)that combines electric, hybrid and diesel options at an auto show in Geneva, Autopia writes. The Volvo V60 plug-in hybrid with three modes, &amp;''pure,&amp;'' &amp;''hybrid&amp;'' and &amp;''power.&amp;'' In &amp;''pure&amp;'' mode, an electric motor drives the rear wheels for about a 30-mile range. On hybrid, the car gets an 125 miles per gallon equivalent and a 745-mile range.And in &amp;''power&amp;'' mode, the car can go from zero to 62 miles per hour in 6.9 seconds with diesel and electric motors powering the car.Soliant suspends solar operations &amp;8211' The firm raised $29 million in venture funding for its concentrating solar modules, but has now laid off most of its full-time staff and suspended operations while it looks for an acquirer, Greentech Media reports, noting the firm has received backing from Nth Power, GE Energy Financial Services and Rockport Capital. The company has reportedly failed to raise any additional funding. Soliant had focused on concentrating solar systems, which use mirrors or lenses to magnify and strengthen the sun&amp;'s power.Warren Buffet&amp;'s company becomes top wind utility &amp;8212' The billionaire investor and CEO of holding company Berkshire Hathaway has been investing in wind power via his MidAmerican utility. It has now become the top utility in the U.S. for wind, Treehugger reports. The company has put $5.4 billion towards wind projects and had 2,909 megawatts of wind generation in operation by the end of 2011, according to Buffet&amp;'s annual letter to shareholdersHoneywell to develop China smart grid project &amp;8211' The company has been selected to develop China&amp;'s first smart grid pilot project. It will assess the systems and plan for a smart grid implementation, and also study demand management and building energy management. The news comes as more and more major companies and even venture capital firms look for ways to gain a toehold in the nation&amp;'s booming energy market and growing cleantech segements.Genomatica raises $45 million &amp;8212' The cash will go towards demonstration-scale production and early commercialization plans for a green version of butanediol (BDO), a chemical used in spandex, automotive plastics and running shoes. In this round, the companya4a4s fourth, Genomatica signed on new investors VantagePoint Venture Partners, which was the largest investor in the round, Bright Capital, and Waste Management (which also holds stakes in biofuels startup Enerkem and has a partnership with Genomatica to research chemicals that can be created from synthetic gas, or a4Asyngasa4, captured at landfills). Existing investors joined the new round: Alloy Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mohr Davidow Ventures and TPG Biotech.Next Story: One Kings Lane: How social features make e-commerce hot again Previous Story: Apple staffer: Save your excitement for iPad 3, not iPad 2PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: concentrating solar, electric cars, renewable chemicals, silicon, Smart Grid, Solar, wafersCompanies: Genomatica, Soliant, VolvoPeople: Warren Buffet          Tags: concentrating solar, electric cars, renewable chemicals, silicon, Smart Grid, Solar, wafersCompanies: Genomatica, Soliant, VolvoPeople: Warren BuffetIris 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). 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[Google snaps up Brit pricing site BeatThatQuote for $61M]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google acquired English price comparison company BeatThatQuote.com today for more than $61 million.BeatThatQuote helps its website visitors search, compare and apply for lower rates and cheaper prices on a variety of products including financial, insurance, and legal services, utilities, and shopping.The newly acquired company&amp;'s managing director John Paleomylitesannounced the deal on BeatThatQuote&amp;'s homepage:BeatThatQuote.com was sold to Google for GBP37.7 million. We think this deal is a tremendous opportunity for our company to develop new and innovative options for personal finance in the UK.Our team is excited about becoming a part of Google. We look forward to working with their engineers to create new tools making it easier for consumers to choose the right financial products. We think we can offer more transparency and better pricing information than existing online offerings.BeatThatQuote has been growing rapidly &amp;8212' it is currently bringing in more pageviews than popular social networking company Facebook and was the fastest growing website in the U.K. in 2007.That popularity makes it likely Google will roll the company into its new deals service as it seeks to stay ahead of an increasingly crowded and diverse crop of hot startups such as Groupon and LivingSocial.Indeed, Google&amp;'s been on quite a shopping spree for companies it thinks has potential. The search behemoth nabbed 48 different properties in 2010, and Google&amp;'s vice president of corporate development David Lawee said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Saturday that the company will be similarly aggressive this year.It wants its new companies to continue innovating, he said.&amp;''If you&amp;'re en entrepreneur and you come to Google, your days as an entrepreneur are not over,&amp;'' said Lawee. &amp;''Bringing small entrepreneurial teams into Google who have a strong vision for what they want to do has been highly successful for us.&amp;''Previous Story: AdGrok aims to take the headache out of search engine marketingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: beatthatquote, Facebook, Google, Groupon, Livingsocial, The Wall Street JournalPeople: David Lawee          Companies: beatthatquote, Facebook, Google, Groupon, Livingsocial, The Wall Street JournalPeople: David LaweeRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting. 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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