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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Icebreaker Hockey lets you take the slap shot]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=icebreaker-hockey-lets-you-take-the-slap-shot</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Icebreaker Hockey (99 cents) hit the iTunes App Store recently, adding another sport to the challenging 3D tilt-to-control sports arcade franchise from developer NaturalMotion. Now you'll be able to take to the ice and work your way around defenders until it's your turn to take a shot at the goal.Touch the screen to come to a hard stop--the perfect move when a defender tries to attack from the side.(Credit:Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)Many iOS gamers will remember Backbreaker Football, one of the early greatiPhone games at the iTunes App Store. Taking advantage of the iPhone's accelerometer, Backbreaker Football let you tilt and touch buttons to maneuver a football player downfield to score a touchdown. Later, Backbreaker Football 2: Vengeance expanded on the original, adding obstacles to jump over and a new game mode that let you play as a defender. The genre was such a hit that there have even been copycat games from other developers, like Bonecruncher Soccer, which uses many of the same concepts, but lets you dribble a soccer ball downfield to try to take a shot at the goal.Icebreaker Hockey, from NaturalMotion, now lets you tilt to control a hockey player as you guide a puck down the ice past defenders. This game shares many of the same concepts as the earlier versions, but offers enough variation to keep it exciting--especially for hockey fans. As in the earlier games, you start by picking from unlicensed teams that have remarkably similar colors to NHL teams. You also can put your name on the jersey and choose a number.You know your juke move was successful when the defender gets laid out on the ice.(Credit:Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)Immediately upon starting the game, we were extremely impressed with the opening visuals on the iPhone 4 Retina Display as the camera panned around the arena showing a laser light show and almost true-to-life reflections on the ice. The control scheme is much like the Backbreaker games: you tilt to turn your skater, and each side of the screen there are buttons for spin and juke dodges. You also get a button for turbo boost and, if you simply touch the screen, it makes your skater come to a hard stop--great for making a defender miss when he tries to hit you from the side. Once you get close to the goal, your player will wind up to shoot a slap shot into the goal.As in the other games in this genre, scoring a point is not really the goal of the game' Icebreaker Hockey is about the route and moves it takes to get to the goal. Along with trying to stay out of the way of multiple defenders, you'll want to skate over bonus areas to add to your overall score. We found that mapping out a route as the game gives you a preview of the round was the best method for scoring the most points. After scoring a goal, you can watch how your power shot slipped by the goaltender.(Credit:Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)Icebreaker Hockey comes with tons of gameplay across two modes. In Challenge mode you'll face 50 waves of action across 10 progressively more difficult challenges. Endurance mode takes it one step further, letting you face increasingly challenging waves to see just how far you can go.Overall, Icebreaker Hockey is definitely a worthy addition to the franchise, offering plenty of fun and variation to keep you coming back for more. Online leader boards and in-game achievements only add to the fun.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When YouTube sensation Ted Williams was removed from YouTube]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=when-youtube-sensation-ted-williams-was-removed-from-youtube</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When we see someone else's redemption, it gives us hope for our own.Perhaps someone will finally see us the way we would like to be seen. Perhaps someone will finally recognize our true talents, rather than, say, the ones we get paid for.So the story of Ted Williams, the so-called &quot;golden voice&quot; , which was first posted on the Web site of the Columbus Dispatch, has moved people to emotive heights. Footage of Williams has been seen by a figure that might now be 15 million people on YouTube.However, the original video didn't have a terribly long life on the site.In its own story of how the video became a viral string-puller, the Dispatch explained that a poster called Ritchey uploaded it to YouTube with the message: &quot;Throwing this video from The Columbus Dispatch out there, hoping we can find this talent a place to call home.&quot;Rather than celebrate that one of its stories was being promoted, the Dispatch had YouTube take the video down, citing copyright. The Dispatch described the video's success in these terms: &quot;It took an unauthorized repost on YouTube, tweets, Facebook recommendations and a blurb on the megasite Gawker to get Williams' story before CNN and the networks.&quot;The Dispatch says it posted its own version of the video to YouTube, which would presumably be the very same video. However, when you search for &quot;Ted Williams Columbus Dispatch&quot; on YouTube, the Columbus Dispatch's official version doesn't appear to be prominent. Instead, a posting from Russia Today has enjoyed almost 1.5 million views.When you simply search Ted Williams, a posting from Russia Today, though it credits the Columbus Dispatch, has had more than 6 million views.Perhaps even worse, though, is that when you google &quot;YouTube Ted Williams&quot; , the first video link leads you to the message: &quot;This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by the Dispatch.&quot;It seems hard to understand, given that Ritchey credited the Dispatch, why the paper had YouTube remove the video.Could it have been because someone at the paper thought they'd get more traffic to the paper's own site by claiming copyright Which seems an interesting logic. Even the Dispatch's own readers seem confused.A commenter with the handle &quot;Unbelievable&quot; from Reynoldsburg, Ohio., offered: &quot;You should think about starting your own Youtube channel, not finding ways to irritate the public. But what the heck, they are just your future customers, not the senior citizens who look through your paper every day for the obits.&quot;I contacted the paper, and have yet to receive a reply.Perhaps the Dispatch--should it start its own YouTube channel--might offer Ted Williams some voiceover work. Perhaps, though, he will be too busy by then.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell acquires Compellent for $960 million]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=dell-acquires-compellent-for-960-million</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dell finally got its storage acquisition. On Monday, Dell said it is officially buying Compellent Technologies in a deal valued at $960 million, or $27.75 a share.According to Dell, the Compellent acquisition will allow it to better focus on data management, thin provisioning and storage for cloud computing shops.After a failed bid to acquire 3Par--Dell lost out to Hewlett-Packard--the company needed to do something to bolster its storage line-up and remain a top 5 player. EMC is the storage leader and then the field is bunched with the likes of HP, NetApp, and IBM. Dell was at risk of being on the outside of the storage pack.Read more of &quot; Dell acquires Compellent for $960 million, lands its storage consolation prize&quot; at ZDNet's Between the Lines.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Think City introductory price: $34,000]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=think-city-introductory-price-34000</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=think-city-introductory-price-34000</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Think plans to target urbanites and open retail stores in cities as part of its U.S. market strategy for the Think City EV.(Credit:Think)Automaker Think plans to introduce its all-electric Think Citycar in mid-2011 at a price of $34,000 before incentives, the company's chief marketing officer announced via a Monday interview with blog PluginCars.com.Think CMO Michael Lock said he is under no illusions about the company's place in the U.S. car market. He said Think's management does not expect the average American family to replace its combustion engine car with a small electric vehicle. It does believe, however, that the urban family will consider buying the Think City as a second car, with which to run light errands amid congested city streets. Think plans to build its brand in the United States around that idea, Lock said.&quot;We see ourselves as an urban city car specialist,&quot; Lock told PluginCars.The three-door Think City plug-in electric vehicle, or EV, has a range of about 112 miles on a single charge, and it can be recharged with up to 80 percent battery capacity in 15 minutes at a fast-charging station. It can also be recharged from a standard U.S. 110-volt outlet, though at a much slower rate.Lock cited the car's near-silent cabin, small size, good visibility, and scratch-resistant body as reasons it is ideal for driving in cities. He said Think intends to build a small but loyal base of urban customers in the U.S. by launching city-based retail stores.The CMO also reiterated his company's plan to introduce the Think City to five markets for its initial U.S. rollout: Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Indianapolis. By the end of the year, Think plans to deliver 300 Think City cars to dealers in Indiana and Maryland. Why is Indianapolis on that list The Norwegian automaker has ties to the Indiana community.Think is opening an assembly plant for the Think City in Elkhart, Ind., which also happens to be home to EnerDel's battery manufacturing plant. EnerDel is the exclusive supplier of lithium ion batteries for all U.S. Think City cars and will also supply batteries for 60 percent of the European Think City cars.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Global broadband subscription growth on the rise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=global-broadband-subscription-growth-on-the-rise</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Propelled by demand for high-speed Internet in China, worldwide broadband subscriptions should show a healthy jump for the third quarter, says research firm iSuppli.The number of new broadband subscribers in the quarter is expected to rise by 5.8 percent to reach 16.5 million, according to figures released yesterday by iSuppli. That's a rally from the second quarter when the number of new subscribers actually dropped by 6.6 percent to 15.6 million. It also means the third-quarter numbers are catching up with the 16.7 million new subscribers captured in the first quarter of the year.The latest increase in new broadband subscriptions should pave the way for even better results in the fourth quarter when iSuppli is projecting a 7.3 percent gain, to 17.7 million.(Credit:iSuppli)&quot;Broadband subscriber additions declined in the second quarter because of normal seasonality as well as a poor performance in the North American market,&quot; Lee Ratliff, senior analyst for broadband and digital home at iSuppli, said in a statement. &quot;However, Chinese consumers' insatiable demand for high-speed Internet is so high that it will cause subscriber numbers to rise again in the second half of the year.&quot; China experienced record growth in the first quarter with around 6 million new subscribers, followed by only a slight drop in the second quarter with the addition of 5.4 million people. The forecast for China is calling for an additional 5.7 million in the third quarter and around the same number again in the fourth quarter.Which industries are benefiting from this surge in growth In the U.S, the race has been on between telephone companies and cable operators to grab an increasingly larger slice of the broadband pie. Telecommunications companies led the market in 2008 and into 2009 by winning over customers with fast fiber connections, notably AT&amp;T's U-verse and Verizon's Fios.But by mid-2009, AT&amp;T and Verizon had both started reducing their fiber deployments, allowing cable providers to take the lead. Cable companies enjoy a cost advantage, according to iSuppli. They can roll out broadband access to customers without spending a lot of money, offering speeds of 20 to 50 megabits per second (Mbps) for as little as $20 spent on deployment per household. Telecommunications companies, however, typically need to invest anywhere from $600 to $1,500 per household to set up fiber access.As consumers access more bandwidth-intensive activities such as online gaming, video streaming, and Internet TV, the telecommunications companies and cable providers are also striving to provide higher speeds. Rates of 1Mbps to 5Mbps were OK in the old Web surfing days, but iSuppli believes speeds of 30Mbps to 50Mbps will soon become the norm. And unless telecommunications companies can make more of a case for fiber, cable operators will likely retain their lead in the battle to push out broadband.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Study: Bees are smarter than computers]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=study-bees-are-smarter-than-computers</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=study-bees-are-smarter-than-computers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I know that, for some, bees are something of an irritant. The same, however, can be said of computers.While bees sometimes pester us with their proximity and noise, computers pester us by making us believe in the proximity of something we're missing, somewhere out there.However, new research suggests something both powerful and profound about these two pesterers: bees are allegedly far smarter than computers. For, the Guardian informs me, bees are swiftly able to solve the &quot;traveling salesman problem.&quot;My mother's solution to this was to never open the door or, if she did, to pretend she couldn't speak English. However, when it's put in quotation marks, it refers to the conundrum of choosing the shortest route between a multitude of locations.Are these the coders of the future(Credit:CC Aussiegall/Flickr)I had always assumed that Google Maps and Mapquest had this thing covered. Oh, no. The researchers at Royal Holloway College in London feel that bees are the champions, especially given that their brains are far smaller than naval fluff.A computer will solve the &quot;traveling salesman problem&quot; by comparing the length of all possible routes and then computing which one is the shortest. This might take some time.A bee, by contrast, relies on its instincts rather than aMac. The research, which used artificial flowers controlled by computers, showed that bees do a quick fly-by of the flowers and then work out the shortest route in their extremely tiny heads.One of the Royal Holloway College experimenters, Nigel Raine, told the Guardian: &quot;Despite their tiny brains, bees are capable of extraordinary feats of behavior. We need to understand how they can solve the traveling salesman problem without a computer.&quot;This is merely the latest in the subtle battle between bees and technology. Research in India seems to suggest that the dwindling of the world's bee population may be caused by cell phone radiation, which confuses the bees' sense of direction home.However, if these London scientists manage to discover just how it is that bees are so clever, might some enterprising entrepreneur find a way to teach bees to code, thereby creating new growth opportunities among the bee population Now that would change the nature of the Valley, wouldn't it<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dear Foursquare, Gowalla: Please Let&'s Stop Pretending This Is&nbsp'Fun]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=dear-foursquare-gowalla-please-letrsquos-stop-pretending-this-isnbspfun</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s a bad month to be Foursquare or Gowalla. Ten days ago, 900-pound gorilla Facebook announced Facebook Deals for Facebook Places (i,e., location-based coupons) and check-ins for third-party apps. A day later, Pew Research reported that, despite all the hype, the use of location-based services is actually declining in America, from 5% of the online population in May to 4% last month. Forget the fabled hockey stick' that&amp;'s more like a broken pencil.Why Because they&amp;'re not giving us any good reason to use them. Look at their web sites. Gowalla proclaims, &amp;''Discover the extraordinary in the world around you.&amp;'' Foursquare says, &amp;''Unlock your city.&amp;'' To which I say: &amp;''Oh, come on&amp;''a4sa4&quot; and it seems I speak for approximately 96% (formerly 95%) of the population. I have no interest in enlisting in a virtual scavenger hunt, or unlocking merit badges a4&quot; what is this, the Cub Scouts a4&quot; or becoming the narcissistic &amp;''Mayor&amp;'' of my local coffee shop. Thanks for the offer, but I&amp;'m afraid I already have some semblance of a life.I do want to keep up with my friends, and (sometimes) let them know where I am. But if you&amp;'re competing with Facebook in social networking and your name isn&amp;'t Twitter or Google, I&amp;'m sorry, but I don&amp;'t like your chances.Don&amp;'t get me wrong. Foursquare and Gowalla have done really well building ecosystems that attract early adopters. Unfortunately, the evidence indicates that they only attract early adopters. If they want to reach the majority who don&amp;'t care about making it to Mayor, they need to abandon their pretense of fun, stop pussyfooting around with silly slogans, and make their value proposition stark, simple, and profoundly unsexy: &amp;''Check in and get coupons.&amp;''Look at Groupon. Do they have a cutesy motto No, they just have the fastest growing company ever. Location-based services can and will be at least as big. But they need to make it clear that what you get is the ability to announce I&amp;'m downtown, I&amp;'m hungry, and I don&amp;'t know what I want to eat! or I need to buy a Kris Kringle gift, and I don&amp;'t much care where! &amp;8211' and then sit back and watch the discounts roll in.It&amp;'s true that location-based  games will eventually be huge, too, but such games imply interaction with friends. By the time they really take off, Facebook will own the mobile social graph, and direct competition will be disastrously dumb.Location-based discounts, however, have little to do with social networking. That makes them a poor fit for Facebook a4&quot; and hence still an opportunity for Foursquare and Gowalla. But if they don&amp;'t move fast to make it clear that that&amp;'s what they do, Shopkick is going to leave them eating dust.CrunchBase InformationFacebookGowallashopkickInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[OpenGamma raises $6M to kill old-school trading software]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[OpenGamma, a provider of analytics software for the financial services industry, announced today that it has raised $6 million in its second round of funding a4&quot; even though it doesn&amp;'t have a product quite yet.Traders can basically use OpenGamma to work with a suped-up version of Excel. The application programming interface (API) uses Excel and taps into multiple on-premise machines to quickly do calculations and access data without slowing down the machine a trader is working on. Instead of relying on the power of individual machines, OpenGamma will tap more powerful servers that are deployed in-house to provide some better computing firepower. That will allow traders to work their magic on Excel sheets that have thousands of cells active at a given time.OpenGamma is also designed to be open source, said Kirk Wylie, the company&amp;'s founder and CEO. It&amp;'s not really clear how, as it doesn&amp;'t really have some of the traditional hallmarks of open source software. There isn&amp;'t any kind of community developing plug-ins or applications for OpenGamma&amp;'s software. But any company that decides to deploy the software can modify it in any way they see fit, and OpenGamma will provide them the tools to do so.There&amp;'s also the question of just who will deploy this software. Many hedge funds and banks are running older versions of trading software a4&quot; but that&amp;'s because they are reliable and it&amp;'s a very slow-moving field. Wylie said the companies were excited about getting access to some new tech that would speed up the process.&amp;''You can&amp;'t rely on black boxes when dealing with trades, you have to understand everything that is going on in those black boxes,&amp;'' Wylie said. &amp;''What OpenGamma does is run its code in a crystal box where traders can see every single step, so there&amp;'s no uncertainty or risk because of technical issues.&amp;''This is OpenGamma&amp;'s second round of funding, even though the company hasn&amp;'t released a product just yet. The initial version of the software should come out sometime at the end of the first quarter or the beginning of the second quarter this year, Wylie said. The company&amp;'s CEO has plenty of experience on both ends a4&quot; he worked with a number of silicon valley startups that secured venture financing and then moved to London to work in the financial services industry. The rest of the team rounding out OpenGamma also has similar experience.But given the inertia of the financial services industry, it&amp;'s hard to imagine that a lot of companies would begin deploying the software in the immediate future a4&quot; especially an initial release. Wylie said the company has been in contact with tier 1 banks, some of the largest banks in the world, to begin deploying the software bit by bit rather than swapping it out immediately for a brand new system.Previous Story: Apple CEO takes medical leave againPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Analytics, Financial ServicesCompanies: OpenGamma          Tags: Analytics, Financial ServicesCompanies: OpenGammaMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[Are You A&nbsp'Pirate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=are-you-anbsppirate</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I read blog posts by Don Dodge and Glenn Kelman today about people jumping from Google to Facebook and it got me thinking about entrepreneurs.Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.We make risk/reward decisions every day, all day. Do I go skiing, and enjoy the rush of flying downhill even though there&amp;'s a small chance I&amp;'ll blow out a knee Should I go to college or just get a job and start earning money now Should I eat the high fiber and generally healthy thing on the menu, or go for the cheeseburger Should I hit the restroom before the movie starts Etc. Every time we do something, or don&amp;'t do something, there&amp;'s a risk/reward algorithm being calculated in our brain. Entrepreneurs, though, are all screwed up. They don&amp;'t need to be rewarded for risk, because they actually get utility out of risk itself. In other words, they like adventure.The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.In my youth I was a corporate lawyer, making a very nice salary for representing technology startups in Silicon Valley. There was a good chance I&amp;'d make partner after 7-8 years and could be earning maybe a million dollars a year by the time I was 40. All I had to do was work hard, and bring in clients. I was good at both.But I left the law after just three years to join a startup. And the reason I did it was adventure. I wanted to be in the game, not just watching it. My parents thought I was crazy. They still have no real idea of what I do for a living, and they were, frankly, pissed off that I spent their money getting a law degree, only to throw it away before I was 30.But I did it anyway. And then I left that company after a year to start my own company. And I&amp;'ve never looked back since then. That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists &amp;8211' nearly $30 million &amp;8211' but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a &amp;''real job.&amp;'' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted technicolor. Also, I hate working for other people because I&amp;'m really bad at it.When I talk to non-entrepreneurs about the startup world I often use a pirate analogy. Not because I know that much about pirates, but the general stereotypes work well as an analogy. Why did some people way back in the 17th century, or whenever, become pirates The likely payoff was abysmal, I imagine. There&amp;'s a very small chance you&amp;'d make a fortune from some prize, and a very large chance you&amp;'d drown, or be hung, or shot, or whatever. And living on a small ship with a hundred other guys must have sucked, even for the captain.But in my fantasy pirate world these guys just had really screwed up risk aversion algorithms. Unlike most of the other people they actually lusted after that risk. The potential for riches was just an argument for the venture. But the real payoff was the pirate life itself.Also, it was nearly impossible to be an entrepreneur back then.Now it turns out that most people in Silicon Valley are actually normal risk averse types. They carefully calculate the potential rewards of a startup before they join, taking into account stock options as well as salary. And also the resume value of a company.Some of the richest people I know aren&amp;'t really entrepreneurs. They worked at HP and then moved to Netscape when it got hot. They made a fortune and then jumped to Google and made another fortune. And now they&amp;'re jumping to Facebook.They may be very good engineers, or sales people, or marketing, or execs. But they ain&amp;'t entrepreneurs. They&amp;'re just resume gardening and they&amp;'re really no different from everyone else.I don&amp;'t care if you&amp;'re a billionaire. If you haven&amp;'t started a company, really gambled your resume and your money and maybe even your marriage to just go crazy and try something on your own, you&amp;'re no pirate and you aren&amp;'t in the club.That thrill of your first hire, when you&amp;'ve convinced some other crazy soul to join you in your almost certainly doomed project. The high from raising venture capital and starting to see your name mentioned in the press. The excitement of launch and&amp;8230'gulp&amp;8230'customers! and the feeling of truly learning something useful, you&amp;'re just not sure what it is, when the company almost inevitably crashes and burns.Now that person is interesting. That person has stories to tell. That person is a man who has been in the arena.There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars.But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur. And damnit that feels pretty good. Because if I was a lawyer right now, even a rich lawyer, I&amp;'d always have wondered if I had what it takes to do something a little more adventurous with my life than work for someone else.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tesla plans aggressive timeline for production of 2012 all-electric Model S]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s been a while since we checked in on the car that will likely make or break Silicon Valley electric-car startup Tesla Motors: the Model S, a five-door midsize sports luxury sedan it hopes to launch somewhere toward the end of 2012.Tesla hasn&amp;'t said much about the Model S lately, but a number of updates are contained in the 8-K update it filed Tuesday with the Securities &amp;amp' Exchange Commission (and soon after conveniently sent to several journalists).Growth, partnerships, timingThe document is essentially 15 slides from what is marked &amp;''Investor Presentation,&amp;'' containing an update on Tesla&amp;'s executive team, growth of its engineering team, partnerships with Daimler, Panasonic, and Toyota, progress on the Model S program, and finally, information on the Fremont factory Tesla bought from Toyota.In June of 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy granted Tesla $365 million in Advanced-Technology Vehicle Loans, which it will use to refit the Fremont assembly plant.Tesla says it has now received roughly 3,000 deposits for the Model S, at $5,000 or more apiece. A curious footnote to a chart of cumulative reservations notes that the company sales team is not &amp;''actively focused on getting Model S reservations.&amp;''Model S: &amp;''Planned&amp;''The company plans to build up to 20,000 of them a year, though like all the other information in the presentation, there&amp;'s an asterisk on that claim that points to a footnote saying &amp;''Planned.&amp;''Many of the car&amp;'s features and performance claims have been out for months: It will have a 17-inch touchscreen in the dash, will earn a five-star safety rating, will do 0 to 60 mph in about 6 seconds, and has a top speed of about 130 mph.Regarding the battery, of which Tesla first showed a photo at its October factory tour, the company says it will give up to 300 miles of range (several battery options are planned), recharge in 45 minutes (at a dedicated high-voltage charging station), and include &amp;''rapid battery swap&amp;'' capability.Continuing with cylindrical cellsInterestingly, in the slide on its Panasonic partnership, Tesla says that company has a &amp;''custom 18650 automotive cell in development.&amp;''If that&amp;'s the cell to be used for the Model S battery pack, it means Tesla is sticking with its core design of using thousands of small commodity lithium-ion cells in cylindrical format, rather than switching to larger-format pouch cells as used in the 2011 Nissan Leaf, 2011 Chevrolet Volt, and many upcoming electric cars.Many industry analysts believe that the complexity of the pack internals required to monitor, isolate, and cool the cylindrical cells make it impractical to scale from current production of perhaps 1,000 packs a year to the tens of thousands envisioned for the Model S. Tesla, it seems, begs to differ.The basic platform and powertrain of the Model S will also be adapted for other models, says Tesla, including a convertible, a van, and a crossover/sport utility vehicle.Aggressive scheduleBut it&amp;'s the slide with the two-year schedule leading up to production that reveals the most.During 2010 (which is all but over, of course), Tesla listed engineering tasks including structural and safety design, external design and engineering, and the alpha build&amp;8211'meaning the very first prototypes. On the manufacturing side, the company is sourcing suppliers and preparing the Fremont site to receive tooling.Next year is where it gets really busy. During 2011, Tesla&amp;'s design and engineering team must do &amp;8230' well, more or less all the rest of the development. The company has only listed two tasks: &amp;''Beta build&amp;'' and then &amp;''Crash test program begins.&amp;'' We like a company that&amp;'s modest about what it must do.On the manufacturing side, during 2011, the body stamping presses must be brought online and the paint shop has to be made operational. There&amp;'s also much additional tooling to install. 2012: &amp;''Deliveries begin&amp;''The year the Model S is to launch, 2012, will see validation of production-intent vehicles assembled on the plant&amp;'s tooling, and the build of &amp;''release candidate&amp;'' vehicles that will undergo final testing to make sure that everything&amp;'s in place.The last item on the schedule: &amp;''Deliveries begin,&amp;'' at some unspecified time likely to be in the second half of 2012. The price was long ago announced as $57,400, meaning just a hair under $50K once you factor in the $7,500 Federal tax credit for buying an electric vehicle (if Tesla&amp;'s probably quite wealthy owners qualify for it, anyhow).The four-year planThat is, to say the least, an ambitious schedule. Tesla has been working on the car since 2008' that October, CEO Elon Musk told reporters the Model S would &amp;''crush everything out there.&amp;''Tesla revealed a hand-built Model S prototype in April last year, and GreenCarReports got a quick ride later that month in New York.Still, four years from start of development to production would be fast for an established car company, let alone a startup that has sold a total of about 1,500 cars to date.We can&amp;'t independently verify any of this information, we should note. But we&amp;'d love to get a reality check from the automotive engineers among our readers.Your thoughtsTesla fans will likely hail the news as further evidence of progress, while Tesla skeptics may pooh-pooh it as more corporate propaganda. Only the appearance of actual, running, production-spec Tesla Model S vehicles will be sufficient to decide who&amp;'s right.But we&amp;'re curious: Has your view of the Tesla Model S and its chance changed now that the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt have been delivered to their first buyers And, do you think Tesla can launch the Model S in 2012Leave us your thoughts in the comments below.Written by John Voelcker, this post originally appeared on GreenCarReports.com, one of VentureBeat&amp;'s editorial partners.Next Story: eBay looks to social shopping with $200M Brands4friends buy Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: Cape Wind hunts for customers, Honda eyes China for electric car salesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: electric cars, electric vehicles, Leaf, Model S, VoltCompanies: TeslaPeople: Elon Musk          Tags: electric cars, electric vehicles, Leaf, Model S, VoltCompanies: TeslaPeople: Elon MuskVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  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<title><![CDATA[Apple&'s Next Big Strategic Opportunity Could Be Mobile&nbsp'Payments]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=applersquos-next-big-strategic-opportunity-could-be-mobilenbsppayments</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[When an analyst asked Steve Jobs during Apple&amp;'s last earnings call what he plans to do with Apple&amp;'s $50 billion in cash, he replied that he wants to keep Apple&amp;'s &amp;''powder dry&amp;'' in case &amp;''one or more strategic opportunities . . . come along.&amp;''  Speculation started immediately about who Apple could buy with all that cash: Facebook, Sony, Adobe  But Apple never makes huge acquisitions.  It tends to make smaller talent and technology acquisitions instead.  Apple&amp;'s rumored interest in mobile payments startup BOKU would fall into that pattern.  The fact that it is in M&amp;amp'A discussions with BOKU doesn&amp;'t mean a deal is going to happen, but it does mean that Apple is very interested in mobile payments.  Whether it builds or buys, or does a little bit of both, mobile payments could be a huge opportunity for Apple within the next few years.Imagine if your iPhone became your wallet  The dream of turning mobile phones into wallets has been pursued for a long time by many companies, but Apple is in a unique position to make mobile payments more mainstream.  Apple already handles payments very well through iTunes, which boasts 160 million active credit card accounts.  PayPal only has 90 million.Payments will start with digital goodsa4&quot;songs, movies, apps and in-app purchases.  Apple already does all of this today through iTunes, which is one of the best micro-transaction aggregation systems around.  What if you could charge those micro-transactions to your phone bill just as easily as you could to your credit card  Then, it would be even easier for Apple to sell apps, songs, and movies through iTunes, especially to younger customers or those in developing countries who may not have a credit card.  (BOKU&amp;'s strength is those carrier relationships).Over time, those payments could spread from digital and virtual goods to real-world purchases.  Apple is not thinking about adding a near-field communications (NFC) chip into the next iPhone for nothing.  The more people use their iPhones to actually purchase goods, the more indispensable it will become.Would Apple ever take the next logical step and become payments processor itself  If it did that, it would be able to cut out the carriers from the mobile payments equation. Swap the carrier bill with iTunes, and those fees the carriers charge to process micro-payments go away.  Apple can start charging those fees instead or pass the savings along to their iPhone-toting consumers, who will then be able to spend more on stuff in the iTunes store and elsewhere.  Your iPhone could be your wallet: Never leave home without it.   CrunchBase InformationApplePayPalBOKUInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NSFW: TC Commenters &8211' Though there&'s pain in my chest, I still wish you the best with a&nbsp'FAQ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Ita4a4s been almost a year and a half since I started writing for TechCrunch, and a lot has changed since then. Ia4a4ve quit drinking, Ia4a4ve written another book, Greece and Ireland have both gone broke, the Chilean miners have become international heroes, and Julian Assange has been locked up. Oh, and TechCrunch has been sold to AOL.And yet, plus Assange, plus c&amp;'est la meme chose. Long time readers might recall that in my first column I proposed a few basic guidelines for commenting on TechCrunch.&amp;''Rule One: The next time one of you asks the rhetorical question a4Awhy is this newsa4 I swear to God I will come round to your basement, gather up all of your Wil Wheaton action figures and melt them down into a giant plastic phallus. If youa4a4ve ever seen the Miriam Karlin scene in A Clockwork Orange, you know what happens next. Save us both a trip and next time you find yourself asking a4Awhy is this newsa4, instead ask yourself a4Awhy do I still live with my parentsa4. Ita4a4s news because people better than you said so.&amp;''&amp;8230'that kind of thing.a4sThe initial result was encouraging &amp;8211' for a brief period of maybe 30 or 40 seconds the quality of comments on TechCrunch rose noticeably, including a 20% drop in misspelled name-calling and 35% fewer ungrammatical demands for any given writer to be fired. Since then, though, things have tailed off again &amp;8211' to the point where several of the writers no longer even look at comments, lest they be so disheartened with the state of humanity that they&amp;'re prompted to go on a killing spree.I admit, having in the past few days alone been called a &amp;''cock&amp;'', an &amp;''idiot&amp;'', &amp;''scum&amp;'', a &amp;''wanker&amp;'' (bless) and &amp;8211' worst of all &amp;8211' a &amp;''Republican&amp;'' by commenters, I too am close to installing the TC comment blocker Chrome extension.But before I take that final drastic step, and because I&amp;'m a uniter not a divider, I want to try one last time to restore dignity to TechCrunch comments. I admit, my first instinct was simply to write a post restating my earlier commenting rules, perhaps underlining a few of them that are more important than ever. (&amp;''I would rather encourage my only child to trick-or-treat his way down the sex offenders register than to spend one moment in the company of someone who would leave an anonymous comment on a blog. Man up or fuck off.&amp;'')Two factors, though, gave me pause: first &amp;8211' I did a lazy cut and paste column last week and I probably can&amp;'t get away with that trick again for at least a month, and second &amp;8211' I remembered another thing that has changed at TechCrunch: we now have a community manager &amp;8211' the delightful Elin &amp;8211' who is working hard to bridge the gap between writers and readers. As such, she might not take kindly to me deliberately antagonizing you freaks guys. In any case, maybe aggressive rules are not the best approach: maybe like the basement-dwelling, mid-pubescent children so many of you clearly are you dona4a4t respond well to authority. Perhaps engagement is the secretIta4a4s worth a shot.So, in that new spirit of engagement, I&amp;'ve just spent an a4Aenjoyablea4 hour looking through some of the recent (and totally genuine) comments posted below my columns in an attempt to figure out what lies at the heart of your rage. What I discovered fascinated me: a large number of the negative comments on TechCrunch take the form of questions. It also gave me an idea: perhaps if I could answer those questions in a helpful and friendly way, the people asking them &amp;8211' week in, week out &amp;8211' might stop being so angry. Order will be restored! Just in time for Christmas!As I say, it&amp;'s worth a shot.a4sHere, then, is a handy &amp;8211' and very friendly &amp;8211' FAQ for TechCrunch commenters. I hope you find it useful.Q) Why is this story on TechCrunchA) Great question! In fact, this is by far the most common question asked in response to my columns. Ita4a4s fantastic that so many of you are interested in the editorial process here at TechCrunch! To answer: generally speaking, a story will appear on TechCrunch because one of the professional writers employed here decided it was something that might be of interest to his or her readers. Also, if you read carefully (or at all), therea4a4s a very good chance you&amp;'ll notice that the story involves technology in some way. (That said, other possible reasons include: because the author wanted to take revenge on a hotel company, because the author is having a bad day or because the author is keen to have sex with a particular PR person. Thata4a4s how journalism works, kids.)Q) Do you actually get paid to write crap like this A) Another common question &amp;8211' but non the poorer for it! The answer is yes. Which makes one of us. Now, pray, what brings you hereQ) Youa4a4re a typical &amp;''libtard&amp;'' arena4a4t youA) Why yes! Thata4a4s why I used to write for the Guardian.Q) Youa4a4re a typical Republican arena4a4t youA) Why yes! Thata4a4s why I used to write for the Telegraph.Q) How can you say [opinion X] in this post when TechCrunch previously said [opinion Y]A) Because there are multiple writers at TechCrunch,a4syou fuckinga4simbecile curious reader. Also, to further confuse matters, I suffer from multiple personality disorder. As do I.Q) Seriously &amp;8211' more link bait crapA) I admit, cherished and loyal correspondent, that this question is somewhat irritating as it operates on the assumption that we are directly rewarded based on the amount of traffic our posts get. Fortunately for me (and unfortunately for Jack McKenna) that is not the case. In fact our compensation is inversely proportional to the average IQ of the commenters we attract. This is why Ia4a4ve taken to writing about Sarah Palin with such frequency.Q) Are you on drugsA) This one has cropped up on my posts with alarming regularity of late, which makes me worry that maybe I am on drugs. Alternatively it might just be a handy fall-back question for commenters who disagree with a point Ia4a4m making but lack the rhetorical skills &amp;8211' or basic intellect &amp;8211' to explain the basis of their objection. In that regard ita4a4s the commenter equivalent of a girl shunning your romantic approaches, and you calling her a lesbian.Q) No, but seriously, are you on drugsA) Yes, I am on a cocktail of very strong drugs.Q) Is this what happens when you get acquired by AOLA) A relatively new entry to the comment hall of fame, this one takes a variety of forms &amp;8211' often appearing as a statement: cf. a4AClearly this is what happens when you get acquired by AOLa4. Either way, no matter what the editorial position &amp;8211' that Sarah Palin is a bad parent, that Wikileaks is a net negative to the world, that content farms are evil, or that AOL is the killer of all things good &amp;8211' you can be sure to see a comment from someone suggesting that our new corporate owners somehow had a hand in it. Moving to Discus AOL. Favourable coverage of Yahoo AOL. Jason Kincaid writing about Android AOL. MG buying a Macbook Air AOL. 9/11 AOL. For the avoidance of doubt there is actually only one question relating to TechCrunch to which the correct answer is a4Abecause TechCrunch has been acquired by AOL.a4 and that&amp;'sa4sa4AWhy the hell does TechCrunch have all these bottles of shitty AOL branded wine around the officea4Q) Is this TechCrunch or Huffington PostA) TechCrunch.Q) Is this TechCrunch or PoliticrunchA) TechCrunch. (Also, there is no such site as Politicrunch).Q) Is this TechCrunch or MashableA) TechCrunch.Q) Is this TechCrunch or ValleywagA) TechCrunch.Q) Is this TechCrunch or Fox NewsA) TechCrunch.Q) Is this TechCrunch or Faux NewsA) Kill yourself.Q) Why is this article Not Safe For WorkA) Because it contains a comment in which I call you a fucking dick.Q) Serious Arrington, will you please fire this guyA) Probably.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook makes user profiles a little smarter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook unveiled a new version of its user profiles today &amp;8212' I wouldna4a4t call it a dramatic overhaul, but there were a few substantial changes that should make the profile a better introduction to your online identity.My favorite new element is a box offering a quick overview at the top of each profile. Before the change, if you looked up &amp;''Anthony Ha&amp;''  on Facebook (or at least this particular Anthony Ha), the first thing you would see is my Wall, which is covered with new photos, messages from friends, and random other activity. It&amp;'s not really a great introduction if you&amp;'re wondering who I am.Now you can see that Ia4a4m the assistant editor at VentureBeat, that I studied at Stanford University, that I live in San Francisco, and more. You can also see recent photos of me. All of this was in Facebook already, but now the site is doing more to highlight it. Then, once you get an idea of who I am and what I look like, you can scroll down and see the recent activity that you would have seen before.There are other new ways for users to share information about themselves. You can group your favorite friends into a4AFeatured Friendsa4 lists, which seems like a nice way to organize and distinguish important connections from the random a4Afrienda4 who you met once. Other new information fields include projects that you worked on at a job and favorite sports teams.Altogether, it should make Facebook profiles a little more engaging and interesting. It should also the company additional information about you, which it could use to deliver more personalized content and advertising.The company is also unveiling the features in a slightly unusual way, with an appearance by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on the news show 60 Minutes. That should give Zuckerberg a chance to preemptively respond to the complaints that inevitably arise whenever Facebook makes a change &amp;8212' and ita4a4s another sign that Facebook is interested in its more mature users, since 60 Minutes has one of the oldest audiences around.Facebook says ita4a4s rolling the new profiles out gradually, with the goal of transferring all users by the beginning of next year. You can read more about it in this blog post and activate your new profile here. I&amp;'ve also embedded the first part of Zuckerberg&amp;'s 60 Minutes interview below.Next Story: Does anyone want to tell Yahoo that AOL wants to merge with it Previous Story: Why Google needs the video digital-rights technology behind NetflixPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: 60 MinutesCompanies: FacebookPeople: Mark Zuckerberg          Tags: 60 MinutesCompanies: FacebookPeople: Mark ZuckerbergAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat 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[Sony claims it has shipped 4.1M PlayStation Move units, but doesn&'t give sell-through number]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sony said today that it has shipped 4.1 million units of its PlayStation Move motion controller to retailers around the globe. But, as is its custom, the Japanese company did not say how many of those units have been sold to consumers.The difference between shipped and sold-through is important in this case. Analysts don&amp;'t think that Sony&amp;'s Move controller, which is a wand-like device that senses your motion and position, is selling as well as Microsoft&amp;'s Kinect motion-sensing system, which has sold-through 2.5 million units in the past 25 days. Sony and Microsoft have an apples and oranges comparison when it comes to counting sales. The outcome of the competitive battle is important because Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all want to rule the living room.Sony&amp;'s Move went on sale worldwide in mid-September, while the Kinect went on sale on Nov. 4. The Move units may very well be sitting on retailer shelves. In the U.S., market researcher NPD has reported that fewer than 500,000 Move units have sold, according to reports distributed to game publishers but not disclosed to the media.Peter Dille, head of marketing for Sony&amp;'s game division in the U.S., said last week that the Move controllers were in short supply in some locations. But analysts aren&amp;'t sure that the units are moving that fast.Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities, said that he believes Sony has sold through about 2.5 million units to consumers, including the units that are sold consumers who are buying more than one unit. He guesses that 20 percent of the purchasers bought a second Move controller, putting the actual installed base of new purchasers at 2.1 million units. That means there could be about 1.5 million units sitting in stores now. That means that there probably isn&amp;'t a severe shortage of Move units right now. Last week, however, Dille indicated that the mix of bundles is an issue for Sony. There are plenty of consoles packaged with Move units on store shelves. But the stand-alone Move units have sold very well and they are likely to be in short supply through January, Dille said.With the Move, users can wave the wand in front of a PlayStation Eye camera' the combined sensors detect the player&amp;'s movement and position, then the camera translates that input into controls for the game. Sony says its system is far more accurate than other motion-control systems. So far, 30 Move titles have begun selling in stores.The Move shipment numbers do not include sales of stand-alone PlayStation Eye cameras or stand-alone PlayStation Move navigation controllers.Sony said today that it has &amp;''sold&amp;'' more than 41.6 million PlayStation 3 consoles to date.Nintendo said last week that it sold 900,000 handheld DS units and 600,000 Wii consoles during Black Friday week.Next Story: On the GreenBeat: NRG and SunPower plan $450 million solar ranch, BlackLight plans water-to-electricity demo Previous Story: Enterprise social network Yammer raises a whopping $25M to triple its teamPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Sony PlayStation MoveCompanies: Microsoft, nintendo, Sony          Tags: Sony PlayStation MoveCompanies: Microsoft, nintendo, SonyDean 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[Inkling Debuts Interactive iPad Textbook Experience With Photography&nbsp'App]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[We recently wrote about a startup that develops an innovative digital textbook platform, Inkling, which raised funding from Sequoia, Aydin Senkut, and other investors and scored a number of deals with publishers. Inkling&amp;'s technology delivers interactive textbooks that include the ability to collaborate, add multimedia and communicate within content. The startup adds another layer to online textbooks by adding 3-D objects, video, quizzes, and even social interaction within the content. Today, Inkling&amp;'s technology is making its debut on the App Store with the iPad app, &amp;''Lights, Camera, Capture.&amp;''The app, which is actually incorporates content from the book written by Bob Davis and published by John Wiley &amp;amp' Sons, costs $9.99 in App Store. Like the book, it helps aspiring photographers learn about shooting images with minimal lighting equipment. The app includes over 100 videos, interactive diagrams to help you understand the effect of lighting and equipment settings, workshop videos, high resolution images, and the full text of the original book.Beyond the subject matter, the interactivity of of the app is actually pretty impressive. For example, the app includes interactive photography simulators within the e-book, allowing you to change one paramter to see how it affects an image. So by swiping a bar underneath a photo will show the effect of changing lighting positions, light-strength and more. Within the book, you can also watch videos from the author&amp;'s lighting and photography workshop and commentary on his photography and how he captures his images. And you can access the book through Inkling&amp;'s own iPad app, which will add social sharing abilities and more. The app itself is a testament to just how cool Inkling&amp;'s technology can be for digital publications on tablets. The startup has already struck a number of content development partnerships with textbook publishers, including Cengage Learning, John Wiley &amp;amp' Sons, McGraw-Hill, and Wolters Kluwer, and will be rolling out over 20 titles for the iPad over the next few months. CrunchBase InformationInkling Inc.Information provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making medicine as ubiquitous as Coca-Cola - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marek</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It''s a tragic fact of life today that one in five African children die before their fifth birthday from simple causes like dehydration from diarrhoea. Basic medicines could save those children''s lives, yet no means has been found to make them readily available. A new grassroots project, however, aims to tap into the formidable distribution network of none other than Coca-Cola to get life-saving medicines to the children who need them.The ColaLife project aims to distribute oral rehydration salts and educational materials to people in developing countries through a partnership with Coca-Cola by which its distributors carry medicine in addition to soft drinks. The concept actually dates back 20 years, when its originator&amp;8212'Simon Berry, who was then an aid worker in Zambia&amp;8212'was struck by the realization that one could buy a Coke virtually anywhere on the planet, yet medicine was hard to come by. He proposed designating one compartment in every 10 Coke crates as &quot;the life saving&quot; compartment to transport medicines. His idea fell on deaf ears back then, but today the power of social networking is giving it new life. Specifically, Berry''s ColaLife project has tapped the power of Facebook and other social networking tools to amass a group of more than 6,000 supporters, garner widespread media coverage and&amp;8212'at least as important&amp;8212'get the attention of Coca-Cola. Berry has since met with high-ranking officials at the company, and talks are under way to push the idea further. Meanwhile, ColaLife groups have been added on Google and Flickr, and a YouTube video was created earlier this month to promote the project''s submission to Google''s Project 10^100 initiative. Currently, ColaLife is seeking an NGO to participate in the project as well.The web is facilitating social change in ways that simply weren''t possible before, uniting like-minded activists and gathering support from around the globe. Will Coca-Cola jump in with both feet That remains to be seen. In the meantime, one to watch&amp;8212'and learn from. (Related: Activism site ensures participation &amp;8212' Customers deliver donated TOMS shoes.)Website: www.colalife.orgContact: sxberry@gmail.com  Spotted by: Sarah Nill<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Procurement app alerts Scottish businesses to public sector opportunities - Springwise]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=procurement-app-alerts-scottish-businesses-to-public-sector-opportunities---springwise</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Governments have been relatively quick to launch apps for interacting with consumers a4&quot; targeting civic complaints, for example a4&quot; but such apps outnumber by far those aimed at businesses. That''s why we were interested to see Scotland''s new app for alerting domestic businesses to public sector contract opportunities.The new procurement app was launched just last month by Public Contract Scotland (PCS), the Scottish governmenta4a4s flagship purchasing portal, as a way to notify businesses when new contract opportunities arise in the public sector. That''s a market that''s worth GBP 9 billion annually, PCS says, and now businesses large and small can use the app on their iPhones or iPads to access contract notices as they are posted' versions for other mobile phones are coming soon.  Not only does the app allow users to access information more quickly and easily than by browsing on the mobile web, but it also provides the ability to search notices by category, commodity and date. The PCS app is now available for free download on iTunes.After years of opacity and labyrinthine processes, it''s heartening to see governments opening up and simplifying through the use of mobile technologies. Other governments around the world: how can you improve efficiency, relations and communication with the local businesses you rely on (Related: Mobile app service delivers location-based disaster alerts a4&quot; Fellowship recruits tech talent to transform city governments a4&quot; Geo-targeted messaging with a public services twist.)Website: www.publiccontractsscotland.co.ukContact: www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/aboutus/aboutus_contactus.aspxSpotted by: Ken Green<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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