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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo comes out of hiding]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo(Credit:Android Community)Sony Ericsson is busting out all over in the run up to Mobile World Congress. First, the company teased us with a peek at the long-awaited Xperia Play, and now we catch a glimpse of another handset called the Xperia Neo.Android Community posted photos today of a candy bar smartphone that looks not unlike the new Xperia Arc. Like the Arc, the Neo should run Android 2.3 Gingerbread, though on a slightly smaller 4-inch touch screen. On the outside it also promises Mini-HDMI and Micro-USB ports.According to Android Central, other features should include a 1Ghz Qualcomm processor, 512 MB RAM, an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and HD video recording, and a front-facing 2-megapixel camera.Sony Ericsson kicks off Mobile World Congress next Sunday, February 13 with a press conference at a nightclub in Barcelona. CNET will be there so be sure check back at 9 a.m. PT for full coverage. Though anything could happen, it's pretty clear that we'll see both the Xperia Play and the Xperia Neo.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Go to' clouds of the future, part 2]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[In part 1 of this two-part series, I highlighted my thoughts on why the long-term future of the cloud, at least for consumer and small business, belongs to integrated &quot;one-stop&quot; cloud suites, and why Microsoft and Google are the two companies best positioned for this opportunity. However, I was also clear that success in this space for both companies is far from guaranteed.(Credit:Flickr/Pete Markham)The truth is that several potential competitors could overtake either--or both--companies, if they should fail to execute successfully. Here are some of my favorites, and a few that should be contenders but really aren't, at this point:Salesforce.comWith a series of moves in the last year or two, Salesforce.com has moved from simply being a customer relationship management software-as-a-service vendor to being a true cloud platform contender. With the broadening of its Force.com platform as a service environment to add Java (via VMforce, a partnership with VMware) and Ruby (via the acquisition of Heroku), Salesforce has made itself a very interesting option for developers.However, given its SaaS roots, I'm convinced that CEO Mark Benioff has more up his sleeve than that. Already, Salesforce has built up an impressive ecosystem with its App Exchange marketplace, but the real sign that it intends to be a broad business platform is the investment in Chatter, its enterprise social network and collaboration tool.With a few more acquisitions and/or product offerings to expand its business applications suite (perhaps adding e-mail, a productivity suite, or even accounting applications), Salesforce will begin to look like a true &quot;one-stop&quot; leader. Frankly, with respect to the company, I'm already on the fence about whether the top two should become the top three.VMwareFirst, it should be noted that VMware is not trying to be a cloud provider itself but rather an arms dealer to those that are. The question is, will it help these providers be &quot;one-stop shops,&quot; if they so chooseThere is no doubt that VMware has made significant progress in moving up the stack from virtual server infrastructure to cloud computing and even to development platforms. The aforementioned PaaS offering with Salesforce.com, VMforce, is one example, but there have been many announcements around cloud application development and operations capabilities--and all signs point to there being much more to come.The reason VMware is mentioned here, however, is its acquisition early in 2010 of Zimbra, the open-source online e-mail platform. To me, that was a sign that VMware was looking at building a complete suite of cloud services, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities. However, as far as I can tell, the SaaS-related investments have either gone underground or dried up completely.Giving VMware the benefit of the doubt, I'll assume that it is still working its way up to the SaaS applications necessary to supply one-stop cloud services. With the capabilities it has been working on over the last few years, being a contender in this space is not out of the question--or perhaps its ecosystem of partners will do it for the company. However, it just doesn't have enough SaaS to be one today.Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services is, and will likely remain, the flagship cloud infrastructure company. It is also underrated as a PaaS offering, in that most people don't understand how much its services are geared toward the developer.However, it is completely focused on selling basic services to enable people to develop, deploy, and operate applications at scale on its infrastructure. It does not appear to be interested today in adding SaaS services to serve small businesses.That said, there are two things that may make AWS a major part of the one-stop ecosystem. The first is, if a start-up or existing SaaS provider chooses to build and operate its one-stop suite on top of AWS services. That is actually a very likely scenario.The other would be if Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos sees an integrated suite of small-business applications as a perfect offering for the Amazon retail business. This would probably be the resale of other companies' software, but it would make AWS a one-stop shop worth paying attention to.IBM and HPIBM and Hewlett-Packard are companies that can integrate a wide variety of infrastructure, platform, and professional-services products, so you can never count them out of a major IT market opportunity. However, they seem to have shifted away from business software suites, with a focus more on IT operations and data management/analytics. While IBM and HP will no doubt be players in enterprise IaaS and PaaS, I don't see them making the investments in building, acquiring, or partnering for the basic IT software services required to meet the one-stop vision. Again, perhaps their ecosystems get them there, but they are not promoting that vision themselves.Hosting-turned-cloud companiesCompanies such as Rackspace, Terremark, and other hosting companies that have embraced the cloud for IaaS services are important players in the overall cloud model, but I don't believe that they are ready to contend, when it comes to integrated cloud suites, at this time. Their focus right now is on how to generate as much revenue as possible per square foot of data center space, and their skill sets fit IaaS perfectly. However, if VMware or another cloud infrastructure software provider builds a suite of services that they can simply deploy and operate, that may change quickly. They just are not contenders based on today's business models.Telecommunications and cable companiesOne possible industry segment that may surprise us with respect to one-stop cloud services would be companies such as AT&amp;T, Verizon Communications, Comcast, and BT--the major telecommunications providers. They own the connectivity to the data center, the campus, mobile devices, and so on, and they have data center infrastructures perfect for a heavily distributed market like the small-business market (where each small business may be local, but the market itself exists in every town and city).The problem is the same as it has been for decades: business models and regulatory requirements of these companies make it difficult for them to address software services effectively. These companies have traditionally been late to new software market opportunities (with the possible exception of the mobile market). You don't see AT&amp;T, for instance, competing with others in bidding for a platform-as-a-service opportunity. So until they show signs of understanding how to monitize business applications, they are not in the running.My dark horse: Oracle&quot;Really Not with Larry Ellison at the helm,&quot; some of you are probably thinking. However, you have to admit that when it comes to business software suites, Oracle certainly has the ammunition. It has dabbled in SaaS already, and with the Sun acquisition, it has rounded out its possible offerings with OpenOffice.org and Java.Oracle's biggest problem is its business model, as well as its love of license and maintenance revenue. If it can figure out how to generate revenue from SaaS that meets or exceeds its existing model, I think that it'll move quickly to establish itself as a major player in the space and will quickly rise towards the top of the heap. In fact, the recent announcement of Oracle Cloud Office might be a sign that it has already started.Today Oracle does not seem to be focused on being a cloud provider. It killed Sun's IaaS offering--which always confused me--and has only introduced PaaS for private-cloud deployments. To date, it seems that it can't pull itself away from equating an enterprise sale with an on-premise, up-front licensing sale.I am watching Oracle's moves in the cloud with great interest, for that reason.If I am right--if one-stop cloud services are what many small and midsize businesses turn to in order to avoid building an IT data center infrastructure of their own' if integration is the key differentiator for cloud services across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS--then I'm pretty comfortable with the observations I've made in this series.If I am wrong, then integration of disparate cloud services will be a huge market opportunity. What it will come down to is what is easier to consume by small and medium-size businesses. For that reason, I'll place my bet on the one-stop model. What about you<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hands-on with Ford's Sync AppLink and Pandora]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel confirms special accelerators in 'Sandy Bridge']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[                                At a Wells Fargo Securities conference earlier this month, an Intel vice president confirmed that Sandy Bridge will have special media acceleration capabilities, in addition to the oft-touted boost in graphics performance. Sandy Bridge will have new media acceleration capabilities beyond the improved graphics function.(Credit:Intel)    At a Wells Fargo Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference held on November 9-10, Stephen L. Smith, vice president and director of PC Client operations and enabling at Intel, confirmed that the Sandy Bridge processor--to be announced January 5--will pack media acceleration circuitry, as CNET reported earlier.  Part of the conference--when Smith was speaking--was captured on an audio stream.&quot;The other cool thing is dedicated circuitry for media acceleration,&quot; Smith said, responding to a question from the audience. &quot;All of us in our daily use, whether it's home videos or photos tend to pull things from the Internet, pull things from our own capture devices at home, bring them on to our PC, transform them into different formats...all of that will be dramatically faster if one utilizes this hardware acceleration, media acceleration that we have on Sandy Bridge,&quot; he said. Sandy Bridge will support DirectX 10.1 and OpenCL 1.1--the latter used on Apple's Mac operating systems, a point Smith didn't mention but which CNET has previously reported.  Certain graphics chips from Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia already support DirectX 11. He also pointed out that Sandy Bridge should enable slimmer designs that perform more like mainstream laptops.  &quot;It enables us to build a notebook with a sleeker form factor and potentially longer battery life and still get great mainstream performance,&quot; he said.  Smith also reiterated that Intel is on track to deliver the 22-nanometer Ivy Bridge silicon--the follow-on to Sandy Bridge--by the end of 2011.  &quot;We're on track to develop our 22 nanometer with units in production by the end of 2011,&quot; he said.  He also repeated that Intel has invested &quot;six to eight billion dollars to equip up to four factories for 22-nanometer production.&quot; &quot;Ivy Bridge is a shrink of Sandy Bridge with some enhancements,&quot; he said.  A slide showed Intel getting to 8 nanometer chips by 2017. He also addressed Intel's smartphone strategy. &quot;You can expect some phones with Intel-based products in 2011...But with our Medfield processor, that goes into production in 2011, [you can expect] a significantly higher volume in 2012 for smartphones.  Our strategy is to start at the top end of phones...then move our capability down over time.&quot;                  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple buys old HP campus]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard has found a buyer for its decades-old campus at 19091 Pruneridge Avenue in Cupertino.Apple.About five minutes' drive from Apple headquarters, the 98-acre parcel of land is adjacent to 50 acres Apple acquired back in 2006 and will be used to house a workforce that's expanding nearly as quickly as the market for iOS devices.&quot;We now occupy 57 buildings in Cupertino and our campus is bursting at the seams,&quot; Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told the Mercury News, which first reported the story. &quot;These offices will give us more space for our employees as we continue to grow.&quot;No word on HP's asking price for the parcel, but real estate experts estimate that it may have been $300 million or more.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare Apple computer sells for $210,700]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[This Apple-1 sold at a Christie&amp;39's auction for $210,700.(Credit:Christie&amp;39's)Talk about a smart tech buy. An Apple computer purchased more than 30 years ago has sold for 425 times its original selling price.An Apple-1, one of only about 200 such machines built in Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' parents' garage, sold at Christie's auction house in London today for 133,250 pounds (about $210,700). The Apple-1, which didn't include a casing, power supply, keyboard, or monitor, originally retailed for $666.66 in 1976. Apple discontinued the model in 1977. Christie's called the computer a &quot;historic relic&quot; and said the auction included all the original components, including its 8K bytes of RAM, in its original shipping box, as well as a signed letter from Jobs to the original owner. The winning bidder was Italian businessman and private collector Marco Boglion, who made his offer over the phone, according to the Associated Press. In a time when most personal computers were sold as self-assembly kits, the Apple-1 broke new ground as the first personal computer sold with a fully assembled motherboard. Fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who attended the auction in London, threw in an autographed letter with the sale. Wozniak said he was proud to have his work auctioned alongside such technologically notables as an Enigma, the World War II German code-making machine, and documents from British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing.&quot;Today my heart went out as I got to see things auctioned off like the Turing documents and the Enigma machine--and the Apple I,&quot; Wozniak reportedly told journalists after the auction. &quot;It really was an important step, (even though) I didn't feel that way when I designed it.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple Store opens online in China]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple&amp;39's new online store for China.(Credit:Apple)Apple has launched an online Apple Store in China.Opening for business yesterday, the new Chinese version of the Apple Store lets customers in China buy iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple products online. Beyond providing the traditional Apple lineup, the store is also selling certain third-party products. Apple is offering free shipping and discounts for students and teachers.Shoppers can also get free personalized engraving on aniPod oriPad and can configure Macs with the options and features they want, Apple said. And prepping for the holiday season, Apple is offering personalized gift wrapping on theiPhone, iPad, iPod, and other products. &quot;We are thrilled to open our newest online store in China,&quot; Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said in a statement. &quot;With personalized engraving, configure-to-order options, and free shipping on everything, the Apple Store is a great destination for our customers in China.&quot; Beyond the new Apple Store, users in China can now access Apple's App Store in Simplified Chinese, featuring local apps and charts of China's most popular paid and free apps. The iPhone without Wi-Fi capability has been available in China for the past year. But it wasn't until last month that Apple introduced a Wi-Fi-enabled version of the iPhone 4 and the Wi-Fi-only edition of the iPad. Liu Chuanzhi, chairman of China-based PC maker Lenovo, told the Financial Times in July that Apple is missing a tremendous opportunity in China. Chuanzhi was quoted as saying: &quot;We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn't care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.&quot; But Apple has been pushing to make a greater dent in the Chinese market. In addition to its new online store, the company has launched retail outlets in China this year. Starting with its two existing stores in Shanghai and Beijing, Apple has said it plans to open up a total of 25 retail outlets in China by the end of 2011. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[First take: Getting whiplash driving the Nissan Leaf]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Driving the 2011 Nissan Leaf is surprisingly similar to other compacts and midsize cars--except for the 100-mile range limitation.(Credit:Liane Yvkoff)As much as I write about electriccars, I don't often get to drive them. The 30 or so miles I drove the 2011 Nissan Leaf in Nashville, Tenn., last week was the longest I've spent inside a pure electric vehicle. And despite my obsession with battery technology, not once on that trip did I wonder about the onboard charger, thermal management system, or degradation of its lifetime capacity. That's Nissan's problem, and I trust they've sorted all that out. I was too busy enjoying the driving experience and fiddling with the infotainment system.Battery-electric motor aside, the Nissan Leaf is more or less like other conventional gas-engine-equipped compacts in its price range, albeit a bit roomier since it's a hatchback. The main difference is that the car is limited to a 100-mile range, give or take a few, as confirmed by the LA4 test cycle, and a top speed of 94 mph. The Nissan Leaf is available in two variants: SV (base) or SL. The only difference between the two is that the SL trim adds a solar panel on the spoiler to support some accessories, such as fog lights and headlights, and a backup camera. The gear shift is modeled after a trackball, and there are only two gears: drive and reverse.(Credit:Liane Yvkoff)On the outside, the Leaf appears small, but at 175 inches, it's almost as long as the Nissan Versa sedan. The EPA classes the Leaf as a midsize vehicle because of its interior volume. To put it in perspective, Nissan's marketing team says you can fit three car seats across the back row in any configuration. Although it's far from the perfect road-trip vehicle, it has all the essentials you need in a commuter car, a few creature comforts, and a couple of bells and whistles you don't expect. The interior is spare but comfortable (to me, it seemed more Honda than Nissan) with a few dashes of digital design. The main focus on the inside is the standard in-dash navigation system, the digital instrument panel, and the funky cue-ball-esque gear shift on the center console that contrasts against the pale-beige-and-gray interior, making everything else sort of fade away into the background. It's almost serene.The Leaf uses Nissan's Intelligent Key with Push Button Start. In the driver's seat, you might experience the same &quot;is it on&quot; confusion as you do in hybrid vehicles. You'll need to train yourself to check the instrument cluster for the telltale &quot;Drive&quot; and corresponding green car symbol, which signal to the driver that they're ready to go. Drive and reverse are the only two gears on the Leaf, and you're given the option of two driving modes: regular or Eco. The former will familiarize you with the powerful torque that electric motors famously deliver. It will also familiarize you with whiplash, we discovered. Tip: go easy on the throttle. The torque makes accelerating from 0-20 mph a breeze, but it's the climb to 60 mph that will remind you that you're in an electric car as you watch the near exponential drop in range on the instrument panel. Switching to Eco mode will eliminate the dramatic throttle tip-in, conserve energy, and deliver a smoother, but less exhilarating ride that maximizes range. An Eco Indicator on the instrument panel displays trees when you drive efficiently, but we never saw a tree during our test drive. With the 600-lb battery pack bolted squarely in the center of the car floor, the Leaf has a low center of gravity and feels stable around corners. The only thing holding us back on the freeway was the Highway Patrol we spotted, and the EV was a pleasure to drive on country roads. In addition to the usual suspects, the digital instrument panel shows the driving distance, battery capacity, and battery temperature.(Credit:Liane Yvkoff)There are definite upsides to an electric motor. At lower speeds you get the kind of silence that luxury car designers can only dream of achieving. However, at 80 mph, you'll hear wind noise rivaling a softtop, which isn't entirely the fault of the Leaf--there's no gas engine to provide soft, rumbling ambient noise. But there is an infotainment system.The primary job of the six-speaker Clarion touch-screen infotainment system is to convey battery information and driving distance capability to the driver. There are numerous screens that offer incrementally more information on battery health, energy history, energy usage battery maintenance--most of which the average driver will find useless. There are only a few screens that will matter, namely the ones that detail battery range, the nearest charging stations, and graphically display how far you can go in one direction on the current battery charge. If you're concerned whether a destination is within range, enter it into the navigation system, and it will let you know. Another screen worth noting is Maintenance, which, if you're like me and have no idea when the air conditioning filter was last changed, now you'll have a screen that will tell you when to change it and add air to the tires. Everything else you probably can safely ignore.The navigation is adequate and works pretty much as you'd expect, although dragging the map seemed a little sluggish. Point-of-interest (POI) lists show nearby restaurants and stores, and it's free for the first three years. And where a conventional nav system might show gas stations along the way, the Leaf's will show public charging stations. Suffice to say, those will be few and far between until EcoTality and Coulomb Technologies complete their roll-out of station installations. Nissan says there should be 13,000 public charging stations across the U.S. by this time next year. The car is equipped with telematics that it uses to update its charging station map. Due to bandwidth contraints, full updates to the navigation system will still need to be done via SD card. The Leaf also offers Bluetooth voice control, and offers straightforward features such as dialing from either your contact list, the car's contact list, or the car's call history. The navigation system includes a screen that maps how far you can go on the current battery charge.Connecting myiPhone to the car was easy enough, although I didn't get enough time to fully test the connection. The Leaf doesn't offer Bluetooth streaming because the specs hadn't been finalized in time to make it into the car design before the Leaf's production, so I still had to connect via cable to access music on my phone. Song and artist information displayed on the navigation screen, although not album art, and I was able to interface withiPod/iPhone the steering wheel controls. One weird thing I noticed: clicking up on the steering wheel control replayed the song, while clicking down skipped to the next track. I thought it should be the opposite. Unfortunately, I didn't get to try the more advanced software features of the Leaf: its charging system and remote access. The Leaf's electric charging interface acts like a smart meter and will enable the driver to program at what time and for how long to charge the vehicle. You can interact with this charging software in the car or remotely using either a soon-to-be released smartphone application or over the Internet. The system will also e-mail or text you with car updates, such as if charging is completed or interrupted, or for emergencies. In the event of an emergency, the app will have a direct link to Nissan Call center, which serves only Leaf customers. When you add in Nissan's tow plan, these features make the 2011 Nissan Leaf a fairly safe bet. In fact, the Leaf is a really good car--for a first-generation electric vehicle. I hate to use the qualifier, but if it weren't for wow factor of the electric power train, the Leaf would probably be considered merely adequate. But for an EV, it's an impressive first move, and I suspect that it will get only better over time. Double the capacity of the battery and light a fire under Ecotality to install their fast-charging stations, and gas cans will become a relic of the past. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adobe works up new ad format for smartphones]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Adobe Systems is working with several digital ad companies to create a new format for mobile ads that can tap into Flash or HTML5.EyeWonder ad(Credit:Adobe)Announced today at the Adobe Max developers conference, the collaboration will define two full-screen ad formats in a bid to create a new industry standard for mobile device ads. Though geared toward devices running Flash Player 10.1, the ads can display in the Flash format or be converted to HTML5 for devices that don't support Flash. Currently targeted at smartphones, the new ad format will eventually expand to tablets and other devices, Adobe said.By supporting Flash, Adobe is offering ad agencies and publishers an alternative to Apple's iAd format, which doesn't allow for Flash due to Apple's snub of it on the iPhone. But by offering the ability to convert ads to HTML5, Adobe is looking to build a standard that can run on all mobile devices.Adobe said it will also give ad agencies the power to control the design and development of their own ads but will provide technical requirements to make sure those ads are both interactive and consistent. That capability may be Adobe's way of further distinguishing its new ad format from that of iAd. Apple has been criticized by some advertisers over its tight control of the creative design of the mobile ads.The first Adobe ad format, dubbed FS-microsite, will include interactive product details and lead capture in the ad itself, so users don't need to view the ad in their mobile Web browsers to get the full experience. The second format, named FS-video, will send redesigned broadcast ads and high-quality video ads to the user, letting agencies reuse their broadcast ads for the mobile market.&quot;Our work with the advertising industry will define a new model for ads units and ad measurement in a marketing world being transformed by mobile communications,&quot; John Loiacono, senior vice president and general manager of Adobe's Digital Media Solutions, said in a statement. &quot;These new ad formats are a first step in establishing an industry example that is cross-platform and expected to become the volume standard on smartphones, reaching across the broadest number of platforms and devices worldwide.&quot; Teaming up with Adobe are six digital ad companies: EyeWonder, Greystripe, Medialets, MediaMind, PointRoll, and Sprout. Beyond working with Adobe, the six will also promote the new ad format to ad agencies as well as to trade associations, such as the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Mobile Marketing Association.See also:Adobe modernizes with tablet tool, mobile AIR<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gaikai kicks off its beta for cloud-based game streaming]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gaikai chief executive David Perry said his company has finally launched the long-awaited beta test of its cloud-based gaming technology that promises to stream video games to any computer.Perry (pictured) said in a blog post today that the company has sent out more than 11,000 invitations this week so that users can play games that are stored and computed on servers, not desktop computers or laptops. Much like rivals OnLive and Otoy, Gaikai has been working on the server gaming technology so that it can bring new kinds of business models and distribution methods to the game industry.With Gaikai, Perry plans to make money by letting game publishers embed its technology on their web sites. The game companies can post demos of their games on any site. Gaikai gets paid based on the number of minutes users spend playing game demos. That plan is very different from OnLive&amp;'s, which makes money by selling games via its digital distribution network. OnLive launched its cloud-based games on demand service in June.The initial users are playing Mass Effect 2, a hit game that Electronic Arts published earlier this year. But Perry says that is just the beginning of a bunch of EA games coming soon. With other publishers, more than 60 games are in the pipeline. Linden Labs&amp;' Second Life virtual world is among the properties that will tap the Gaikai technology. Second Life loses lots of potential users because people don&amp;'t want to download its client software' with Gaikai, users could play a browser-based version of Second Life that doesn&amp;'t require any download at all.Players can register for the invite-only beta on the company&amp;'s web site. Gaikai is testing 15 of its 24 different data centers. The company, based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., is testing just where it needs to have data centers so that it can have worldwide coverage. Over time, through a partnership with Limelight Networks, Gaikai expects to have 300 data centers.Perry said in an email that he believes Gaikai has the fastest cloud-based game streaming network. But Gaikai has definitely been slow at getting off the ground' Perry originally promised the beta testing would open up in late summer.Next Story: Co-founder says Twitter is still exploring business models Previous Story: Amazon.com starts movie studio to fund budding filmmakersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cloud gaming, Mass Effect 2Companies: Gaikai, OnLive, OtoyPeople: David Perry          Tags: cloud gaming, Mass Effect 2Companies: Gaikai, OnLive, OtoyPeople: David PerryDean 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[Finally, A Song I Can Relate&nbsp'To]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[The Creator Of &''The First True Web 2.0 App&'' Is The Latest To Leave&nbsp'Google]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Back in 2005, whena4sTim O&amp;'Reilly saw HousingMaps.com, he called it &amp;''the first true Web 2.0 application.&amp;'' The site, created by Paul Rademacher, was the first mash-up using Google Maps, and tied it in with Craigslist data. The mash-up was so impressive that it got Rademacher a job at Google. And now, over five years later, he&amp;'s leaving the company, we&amp;'ve learned.Rademacher, who was an engineer at Dreamworks Animation before he started HousingMaps, had worked his way up the engineering ranks at Google over the past several years. Most recently, he was the engineering manager for Google Maps frontend. At Google, Rademacher also created the Google Earth Browser Plugin, which brought the impressive software into the web browser for the first time. Here&amp;'s his post on it from 2008.Now he&amp;'s the latest talented engineer to leave the Googleplex. And his departure comes right on the heels of the news that Lars Rasmussen, the father of Google Maps, has left the company as well. If there&amp;'s a silver-lining for Google, it doesn&amp;'t appear that Rademacher is following Rasmussen to Facebook a4&quot; at least not yet. For now, he&amp;'s likely to pursue his own thing, we hear. His LinkedIn profile confirms that he&amp;'s left Google, but doesn&amp;'t say what he&amp;'s doing next beyond continuing to run HousingMaps. Google has yet to respond to our request for a comment.Update: We&amp;'ve figured it out. Rademacher is joining Joshua Schachter on a new startup.CrunchBase InformationGoogleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Starting Monday, WikiLeaks will have a rival in Openleaks]]></title>
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<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Former WikiLeaks members say they plan to start rival Openleaks on Monday as part of an effort to compete for official leaks with WikiLeaks.The new site is being started by Daniel Domscheit-Berg and others who say that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has &amp;''weakened the organization,&amp;'' according to CNN. It&amp;'s kind of ironic that some of WikiLeaks&amp;' members found that its own process of getting information out stood in the way of the group&amp;'s goals. Assange has been arrested on charges of sex crimes' he is being held in Britain and could be extradited to face trial in Sweden. With yet another site devoted to leaking documents, governments and corporations may find it even tougher to keep their classified secrets.In a documentary airing Sunday night on the Swedish TV network SVT, Domscheit-Berg (pictured, right) said that WikiLeaks has become too focused on one person, and &amp;''one person is always much weaker than an organization.&amp;'' He also said the group hopes to launch on Monday. Openleaks says its goal is to help insiders deliver material to news outlets without being identified. The site will act as an intermediary, without a political agenda except the &amp;''dissemination of information to the meida, the public, non-profit organizations, trade and union organizations,&amp;'' etc.Domscheit-Berg said that WikiLeaks should have issued its disclosures more slowly, step by step, instead of doing it all at once. That presumably might have helped the group raise more funds to achieve its aims. In November, WikiLeaks disclosed more than 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables. After that, it was hit with denial-of-service attacks, saw its corporate partners abandon it, and lost a number of major revenue sources.In an apparent reference to Assange&amp;'s arrest, Domscheit-Berg said, &amp;''If you preach transparency to everyone else, you have to be transparent yourself.&amp;'' Besides Domscheit-Berg, another former WikiLeaks member who is joining Openleaks is Herbert Snorreson. WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson declined to comment on Openleaks, except to say, &amp;''the more the better.&amp;''[photo credit: Forbes]Next Story: DEMO Early Bird deadline this Wednesday Previous Story: Twitter prepares for European expansionPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: classified secrets, leaksCompanies: OpenLeaks, WikiLeaksPeople: Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Julian Assange          Tags: classified secrets, leaksCompanies: OpenLeaks, WikiLeaksPeople: Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Julian AssangeDean 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[Sprint: 4G tablet coming in 2011, 80% of CIOs want tablets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neha</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Rest easy, Sprint fans. A 4G tablet is on the way from the carrier next year, company executive Paget Alves revealed to Forbes in an interview.Not that there was ever any question Sprint would bring out a 4G tablet. The company has been offering 4G service since 2008, longer than any other carrier, so it&amp;'s to be expected that it would be the first to unveil a 4G tablet. Sprint already offers Samsung&amp;'s 3G Galaxy Tab Android tablet.Alves, Sprint&amp;'s president of business markets, said he also expects many of Sprint&amp;'s tablet customers to be business users, revealing that 70 to 80 percent of chief information officers the company speaks with are interested in deploying tablets. Apple noted similar business interests for the iPad during its most recent earnings call &amp;8212' a sign that tablets are destined to serve as more than just consumer devices for play.Alves wouldn&amp;'t reveal which manufacturer would develop its 4G tablet, but he did say that Sprint will soon offer tablets with operating systems other than Android. That opens the door for the BlackBerry Playbook tablet, a Windows-based device, or even something as far-fetched as a WebOS device from HP.Sprint is also looking at affordable plan pricing options that will spur on the adoption of 4G. The company already offers discounts of around $10 per month for business users with both cellular and mobile broadband service. a4ALots of different prices are being tried right now,a4 Alves said. a4APeople like unlimited, predictable plans, so wea4a4re looking for something thata4a4s simple and easy.a4Next Story: On the GreenBeat: GE chooses ZigBee over WiFi, Deepwater proposes massive Atlantic wind farm Previous Story: Can we just agree that the iPad 2 will have cameras alreadyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: 4G, BlackBerry PlayBook, cellular, Galaxy Tab, tabletsCompanies: sprintPeople: Paget Alves          Tags: 4G, BlackBerry PlayBook, cellular, Galaxy Tab, tabletsCompanies: sprintPeople: Paget AlvesDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.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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