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<title><![CDATA[Apple unveils iCloud, shows off features of Lion, iOS 5]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jakx</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs takes the stage at WWDC 2011.(Credit:CNET Staff)With summer right around the corner, Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote presentation in San Francisco today.As promised, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who's currently on a medical leave of absence from the company, hosted the event, which showcased Apple's long-awaited cloud-based service, iCloud.The online service stores digital media on the Web and automatically pushes it to iOS-based devices, PCs, and Macs. According to Apple, the service is automatically integrated with a user's apps, allowing new content to be pushed to the cloud, and then shared with other devices, automatically. Jobs specifically pointed to Calendar, Mail, and Contacts, which have all been rewritten to accommodate iCloud's functionality. Users with @me.com e-mail accounts that use Mail, for example, will be able to sync their messages with iCloud and view them on any of their devices.But Apple didn't stop there. iCloud will also work with the App Store, allowing users to put all their downloaded programs on their iOS-based devices. The service will also sync with purchased books, delivering a copy to linked devices once a title is bought. Each day, iCloud backs up iOS-based devices over Wi-Fi, allowing users to restore their exact settings and content onto a new iOS-based device.Those who use Apple's iWork productivity suite will be able to create a document, spreadsheet, or presentation on one iOS-based device, and then, after it's stored to the cloud, access it with their other devices.It's a similar story on the images side, with a new cloud feature called Photo Stream. Like documents, photos either taken with devices or synced to those platforms will be automatically uploaded to the cloud, and pushed to other devices. However, Apple said that the last 1,000 photos will be stored on iOS devices, and in the cloud, images will be kept for only 30 days. On the user'sMac or PC, all content will be stored locally.Finally, Jobs turned his attention to iTunes in the cloud. The Apple CEO said that those who purchase tracks and albums from iTunes will be able to re-download them from the cloud to other iOS-based devices at no additional charge. Users can also turn on a feature that automatically downloads a copy of content to other devices.Those looking for better sound quality will be able to take advantage of a new feature called iTunes Match. The service essentially scans the user's library and upgrades it to the 256kbps AAC file available in the iTunes store. iTunes Match will run customers $24.99 per year.According to Jobs, iCloud, which is made up of a total of nine applications, is free. Up to 10 devices are allowed to be connected to a single iCloud account. Users will receive 5GB of free storage for e-mail, documents, and backups. Music, books, and apps are not included in that storage limit, Jobs said today.The service will be made available with iOS 5 this fall.Mac OS X Lion But Apple didn't discuss only iCloud. Jobs turned the stage over to Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, who discussed the company's upcoming desktop operating system, Mac OS X Lion.According to Schiller, Apple now has more than 54 million Mac users around the world, and sales have beaten the industry every quarter for five years. With Lion, Apple is hoping to build on that with the addition of more than 250 new features in the operating system.When it launches later this year, Lion will come with support for multitouch gestures, including tap-to-zoom, two-finger swiping, and more. That functionality has helped Apple nix scroll bars, which will show up only when users scroll using the new gestures. Aside from that, the company unveiled full-screen application viewing from within the operating system, and the previously announced Mission Control, which offers a quick view of all the apps and documents the user is currently running. Resume, which will let users stop working with an application and then pick up in the exact spot where they left off, was demoed at the event. Resume will be available systemwide, Apple says.Apple has also unveiled an auto-save feature for Mac OS X Lion. With it, users can opt to either automatically save documents, make a copy, or &quot;lock&quot; a copy, so auto save is turned off. With the help of Versions, users will be able to go back to an older snapshot of a particular file, see edits made throughout the process, and choose what to use as the final product.Apple wasn't done there, however. The company also talked about a new Lion feature called AirDrop. With the new option, users will be able to see friends on their network and transfer files to them within the same pane. Apple said AirDrop should help replace the practice of people copying content onto a USB drive and bringing it over to another computer to transfer data onto that device.Apple also showed off a completely redesigned version of Mac OS X's e-mail application, Mail. The offering will feature a two- or three-column view and the addition of conversation viewing to keep all e-mails between parties on a respective subject in-line. The platform will also boast improved search.As expected, the Mac App Store, which first launched in January, made a showing during Apple's discussion on Mac OS X Lion. According to the company, the marketplace has become the top channel for buying software in just the few months since its launch, besting Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and other retail outlets. To make it more appealing to users, Apple said it will offer in-app purchasing in the marketplace, as well as push notifications.Apple plans to launch Mac OS X Lion in July for $29.99. Surprisingly, it will be available only as a 4GB download in the Mac App Store' the company will not be selling disc versions of the platform.Apple talks stats, iOS 5 Following the Mac OS X Lion details, Apple turned its attention to its mobile operating system, iOS. According to the company, 200 million iOS-based devices have been sold to date. Apple has also sold 25 million iPads since thetablet's launch last year, the company said.The company's App Store now has more than 425,000 applications, including 90,000 built for theiPad. All told, 14 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple's App Store, and a whopping $2.5 billion has been paid out to app developers. With iOS 5, users will find more than 200 new features, Apple said. Arguably one of the most important updates is the addition of Notification Center. The service aggregates all updates into a single location for people to find out about new text messages, missed calls, and other notifications. The missed notifications will also be available on the device's lock screen. When users swipe across one of those notifications, they'll be brought to the respective app to see the update. Those hoping to cut the cord between their iOS-based devices and iTunes will be happy to hear that iOS 5 delivers over-the-air software updates. In addition, iPhone buyers will no longer need to tether their smartphone to their computer to activate it' all that will be done on the device. iOS-based devices are going PC-free.(Credit:CNET Staff) Apple has added a Newsstand feature to iOS 5 to help users manage purchased digital magazines and newspapers from their iOS-based device, and Twitter will be featured prominently in iOS 5, allowing users to input their credentials into the platform's &quot;Settings&quot; menu. Twitter will be integrated into Camera, Photos, and other apps, allowing users to quickly tweet from the native programs. To help improve the Web-browsing experience, mobile Safari will come with a new Reader feature, letting users click the option on a poorly formatted site and see content in a stripped-down version for easy viewing. In addition, Apple has added the ability for users to e-mail an entire story from Safari, rather than a link as before. Users will also find full tabbed-browsing in the app. Apple's iOS 5 will deliver camera improvements, including being able to snap photos with the volume-up button, and the ability to enhance exposure settings on a particular part of the frame before the picture is snapped. Apple has also added image-editing in the app. For added convenience, Apple has brought the Camera app to the lock screen to give users quick access when they want to take a shot. With Mail in iOS 5, users will have indentation control, the ability to flag messages, and the option to search entire messages. Apple has also added a split-keyboard option, pushing half of the keyboard to either side of the screen, which should excite those who use their thumbs to type. Finally, Apple showed off a new feature, called iMessage, allowing iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users to send text messages, videos, photos, and more to each other. The offering will work on both Wi-Fi and 3G networks, and the new messages are sent to all the iOS devices a user owns. Apple plans to make iOS 5 available to users this fall. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Flickr wipes out wrong account--but now reconstitutes it]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jakx</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Mirco Wilhelm&amp;39's photo account is back on Flickr after it was inadvertently deleted.(Credit:screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)Flickr accidentally deleted a member's account--comments, favorites, and thousands of photos--but now has given the photographer a 25-years Pro-level subscription and at least some of his photos back.And more importantly for others who fear the same might happen to them, it's working to restore it and update its system to prevent such a mistake from happening again.Mirco Wilhelm described his dismay yesterday to find his 5 years of activity and about 4,000 photos were wiped out when his account vanished. Perplexed, he realized it might be connected to an abuse report he made, and sure enough, a Flickr representative told Wilhelm his account, not the abuser's, was inadvertently deleted:Unfortunately, I have mixed up the accounts and accidentally deleted yours. I am terribly sorry for this grave error and hope that this mistake can be reconciled...I can restore your account, although we will not be able to retrieve your photos. I know that there is a lot of history on your account--again, please accept my apology for my negligence. Once I restore your account, I will add four years of free Pro to make up for my error.Four years of a Pro account costs $100, but wasn't Wilhelm's concern. On top of the time it would take to try to reconstitute his account, there was the issue of why it was deleted in the first place.How can this really compensate losing close to 4,000 &quot;linked&quot; pictures from my Web albums I have to recreate most of these links manually, which will take weeks, if not months, of my free time! Not to mention, external Web sites that had linked these images (including some official Yahoo! and Flickr blogs).In my day job I actually work as an IT architect. I do designs on complex infrastructures, delivery processes, and related stuff. Going from an active account to a deleted account is pretty much a NO-GO in any enterprise environment, because of these consequences. If you do something wrong your can't undo it again, without recreating every single setting from scratch.That's why it's VERY common to first &quot;DEACTIVATE&quot; accounts and repeat an evaluation...Since Flickr had deleted the account an(d) all the related object(s), they cannot reactivate anything more that the account itself, leaving me with an empty shell of what I did during the last 5 years. Added photographer Thomas Hawk, who's often been critical of Flickr, &quot;It would be very easy for Yahoo to simply code accounts as private for one week prior to permanent deletion in order to avoid these sorts of unfortunate mistakes.&quot;Well, it turns out that Flickr can do something more, because Wilhelm's Flickr account isn't empty anymore. It's not clear how fully restored it is thus far--there are certainly hundreds, organized in sets, collections, and groups, and including comments and favorites. But it is clear that the Yahoo photo-sharing site is making some progress in building in a less draconian method of deleting accounts.Here's what Flickr had to say about the incident:Yesterday, Flickr mistakenly deleted a member's account due to human error. Flickr takes user trust very seriously and we, like our users, take great pride in being able to take, post, and share photos. Our teams are in touch with the member and are currently working hard to try to restore the contents of his account. In addition, we are providing the member with 25 years of free Flickr Pro membership. We are also actively working on a process that will allow us to easily restore deleted accounts and will roll this functionality out soon.The resurrected account came as a surprise to some who'd seen Flickr disappearances in the past.&quot;Your reincarnation is a helluva interesting development in the world of Flickr nukings,&quot; remarked Flickr user Almond Butterscotch today in a comment on one of Wilhem's photos.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Perfect Market raises $9M to fund newspaper moneymaking tools]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jakx</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Perfect Market, a startup aiming to help newspapers make more money from their articles, just raised $9 million in new funding.The Pasadena, Calif. startup works with publishers to optimize their content for search engines, delivering a customized (usually stripped-down) version of an article page for users visiting from search engines, with advertising targeted at that particular audience. It also offers data to publishers about what articles could earn the most money. Customers include the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel.The new round brings Perfect Marketa4a4s total funding to $28 million and was led by Comcast Interactive Capital. Chief executive Julie Schonfeld said that just as The Tribune Companya4a4s earlier investment helped Perfect Market build connections with the newspaper world, Comcasta4a4s backing should help the company expand into a4Athe bigger media space.a4The money will also allow Perfect Market to build out the product to match what Schonfeld said is an expanding vision. Ita4a4s no longer just about optimizing older articles for search engines, she said, but rather building tools for a4Aadaptive publishing,a4 where the reading experience is customized for whatever way readers are consuming your content.a4ASearch was one instance, social is another instance,a4 she said. a4AWea4a4ve come to the conclusion that you cana4a4t just be thinking about your home page and your section fronts anymore.a4Previous backers Tribune, Rustic Canyon Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Idealab (the incubator that Perfect Market spun out of) also invested in the new round.[image via Flickr/Alex Barth]Previous Story: Game publishers should avoid launching on Feb. 1, also known as Black Ops map pack dayPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: newspapersCompanies: Comcast Interactive Capital, Idealab, Perfect Market, Rustic Canyon Partners, The Tribune Company, Trinity VenturesPeople: Julie Schonfeld          Tags: newspapersCompanies: Comcast Interactive Capital, Idealab, Perfect Market, Rustic Canyon Partners, The Tribune Company, Trinity VenturesPeople: Julie SchonfeldAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.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[Peter Thiel: &''Something seems to have gone quite wrong with cleantech&'']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jakx</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Cleantech companies just can&amp;'t seem to get it right.At least, that&amp;'s the notion Peter Thiel a4&quot; a co-founder of PayPal and president of Clarium Capital a4&quot; subscribes to when he looks at cleantech companies as potential investing opportunities. He made the comments at a Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco Wednesday.Thiel frequently expresses disappointment that Silicon Valley&amp;'s entrepreneurial community is all about making profits and not about changing the world, so you&amp;'d think he&amp;'d be bullish on anything green. But he&amp;'s actually been surprisingly bearish when it comes to cleantech companies a4&quot; those that specialize in producing more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly energy, transportation methods and others. That&amp;'s not because he doesn&amp;'t believe in the technology, he just doesn&amp;'t like the way the companies are run, he said.&amp;''Most of the people who run cleantech companies are sales people, not engineers,&amp;'' Thiel said. &amp;''Something seems to have gone quite wrong with cleantech.&amp;''As a result, most cleantech companies that try to develop alternative energy forms are building power sources that are more expensive. Solar panels, for example, are still not a cost-efficient way to generate power, Thiel said.&amp;''We need something cheaper, not more expensive,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''It doesn&amp;'t matter if the energy is cleaner, it doesn&amp;'t work if it&amp;'s more expensive.&amp;''One potential route for cleantech energies is to work with something that&amp;'s slightly more environmentally friendly than current sources a4&quot; natural gas. It&amp;'s a cheaper form of energy that&amp;'s much more ubiquitous and has less of an environmental impact than most energy sources today, but has not been harnessed, Thiel said. Entrepreneurs and governments should also explore nuclear power options because they are more energy-efficient, he said.Outside of producing alternative energy forms, the biggest step has to come in the transportation industry, Thiel said. That amounts to building better and more efficient batteries for electric vehicles that are more environmentally friendly.Tesla Motors, he said, had as good a chance as any other electric car company to get it right.But Thiel wouldn&amp;'t get any more specific about his expectations for the electric car company, despite the history Thiel has with Tesla founder Elon Musk. Musk was also a co-founder of PayPal. Thiel is also coincidentally an investor in SpaceX, another of Musk&amp;'s Venture that wants to bring space travel to the masses.Next Story: Verizon iPhone preorders live for existing customers, reviews tout call quality Previous Story: iPad, beware: Android tablets can run cool 3D games with Honeycomb software (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cleantech, electric vehicles, PayPal mafiaCompanies: Clarium Capital, paypal, Tesla MotorsPeople: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel          Tags: cleantech, electric vehicles, PayPal mafiaCompanies: Clarium Capital, paypal, Tesla MotorsPeople: Elon Musk, Peter ThielMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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[Social publishing startup Scribd completes its embrace of HTML5]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jakx</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It has been nearly a year since Scribd, a popular site where users can share documents and e-books, announced it was converting its content from the Flash format into HTML5. Today the company is making the last major step in that transition &amp;8212' ita4a4s converting the more than 20 million Scribd documents that are embedded on other sites across the Web.On one level, the format switch seems like a minor change, but ita4a4s part of a larger debate about Adobea4a4s Flash technology and Flash&amp;'s place in an online world thata4a4s increasingly dominated by mobile devices. While Android devices now support Flash, Apple famously refused to include similar support on its iPhone or iPad devices, and chief executive Steve Jobs even published an essay outlining what he saw as Flasha4a4s shortcomings.At Scribd, co-founder and chief technology officer Jared Friedman said the conversion to HTML5 was crucial for two reasons &amp;8212' to make Scribd documents readable on mobile devices, and to improve the reading experience generally. Friedman told me that that HTML5 has tripled the amount of time users spend on the site (which is even more impressive than the statistics he shared in the past).Until now, however, Scribd still used Flash when its documents were embedded on other sites. (For example when VentureBeat wants to share a document with our readers, we usually upload it to Scribd and embed it in a post.) Starting today, all new embeds will switch to HTML5, and next week even old embeds will change too. Friedman said this is the first time a company switching from Flash to HTML5 has included previously embedded documents in the transition.This move has been long-awaited by the San Francisco companya4a4s partners, he added &amp;8212' many publishers using Scribd have been asking for the change, Friedman said, and others have said that theya4a4ll sign up once the transition happens. So if I embed a Scribd document in a post, from now on that document will be readable on a smartphone too.Calling all mobile executives: This April 25-26, VentureBeat is hosting its inaugural VentureBeat Mobile Summit,  where we&amp;'ll debate the five key business and policy challenges facing  the mobile industry today. Participants will develop concrete,  actionable solutions that will shape the future of the mobile industry.  The invitation-only event, located at the scenic and relaxing Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, Calif., is limited to the top 180 mobile executives, investors and policymakers. Request an invitation.Next Story: Algae biofuels for less than $40 a barrel Previous Story: New York Times paywall plans are ambitious and sort of crazyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: HTML5Companies: ScribdPeople: Jared Friedman          Tags: HTML5Companies: ScribdPeople: Jared FriedmanAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. 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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