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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Motorola Xoom: The tale of the (current) market tape]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The three best tablets currently on the market. Note the &amp;34'currently&amp;34'...(Credit:Eric Franklin/CNET)On Thursday, Motorola's long awaited--and CNET's Best of CES 2011 winner--Xoomtablet will be released. At the time of this writing, only a handful of tablets already released, are fit to compete with the Xoom in terms of features, usability, and specs.Those include the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Apple iPad. I've gathered them here with what I feel are their most important specs, which we'll now take a deeper look at. The great tablet wars of 2011 can now begin. It will be bloody and terrible, but with so much competition coming, consumers will eventuall be the ones who win out. For the time being, if you're looking to buy a new tablet, you'll want to start here, with these three. In a few months time, I'll likely have a different opinion on where to start.SpecsMotorola XoomApple iPadSamsung Galaxy TabOSAndroid 3.0 (Honeycomb)iOS 4.2.1Android 2.2 FroyoScreen size (inches)10.19.77Resolution1,280x800 pixels1,024x768 pixels1,024x600 pixelsPanel typeIPSIPSIPSProcessor1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 Dual Core1GHz Apple A41GHz ARM Cortex A8Storage32GB+optional 32GB micro SDUp to 64GBUp to 32GBCameras5MP (rear), 2MP (front)None3MP (rear), 1.3MP (front)HDMI outYesNoYesAdobe Flash supportYesNoYesOSI've yet to spend a lot of time with Honeycomb, but with the little time I have spent with it, I can say that though it's very different from iOS, it's a marked improvement over Android 2.2.TheiPad has had great success thanks to its very simple and stripped-down interface. Android 2.2 adds flexibility at the cost of complexity. So far, it seems that Google has created an OS that provides the flexibility of previous Android OSes, with less complexity. I'll need to spend more time with it to come to a final decision, but based on my initial impression, it's quite good.Screen size and resolutionScreen size plays a very important part in how comfortable a tablet is to use. For my tastes, the 7-inchers and below just don't cut it, especially when it comes to typing. I've found that my typing speed on the Xoom and iPad were about the same, while on the Galaxy Tab it's severely diminished. This has mostly to do with the screen size, but also credited is the care that was taken to get both the iOS and Honeycomb interfaces optimized for touch precision.The Xoom has the highest resolution of the bunch. Though it's difficult to see a difference in clarity compared with the iPad, that difference will become apparent as more apps (especially games) are optimized for the device.Panel typeAll three tablets are built with In-Plane Switching (IPS) panels, which affords them wider viewing angles than panels made using Twisted Nematic (TN) technology. This comes in handy when viewing the tablet from off angles. ProcessorWith an optimized OS there must also come a speedy processor to handle quickly switching between apps, making for fast and seamless navigation. Also, games and video. Without a fast and powerful processor, you'll see games with low frame rates. Movies will stutter and possibly lock up while the processor attempts to decode the high-definition signal.Camera(s)One of the biggest criticisms lauded at the iPad when it debuted was its lack of a camera. Pretty much every subsequent tablet released has seen fit to not make the same mistake. Some by including up to two cameras. Don't expect to see another major tablet released sans a camera, and most will include two.StorageStorage doesn't seem to have been a problem, at least not in my experience. Apple doesn't make upgrading storage an easy task, however, while Android tablets accept SD cards to facilitate storage increases.HDMI outThe ability to push out 1080p content to a 50-inch HDTV can be a useful feature, especially if you have no other way to watch such content--for example, if you don't have a Blu-ray player or a Netflix device.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FDA approves first and only MRI-safe pacemaker]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Santmier</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Pacemaker patients who opt for magnetic resonance imaging risk serious complications, including damage to the pacemaker's parts or a change in the device's ability to consistently trigger a heartbeat (called pacing capture threshold). That is, until now.(Credit:Medtronic)The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved Medtronic's Revo MRI SureScan pacemaker for use in the U.S.' in doing so, the SureScan has become the first and only pacemaker in the country approved as MR-Conditional.Minneapolis-based Medtronic says it will begin shipping the pacing system--which costs between $5,000 and $10,000--immediately.&quot;[This] is a major technological breakthrough for patients who need access to MRI,&quot; says Rod Gimbel of Cardiology Associates of East Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn., in a news release. &quot;Providing pacemaker patients with access to MRI allows detection and treatment of serious medical conditions such as stroke, cancer, and a wide variety of important neurologic and orthopedic conditions.&quot;Because MRI scanners can cause pacemakers to misinterpret MRI-generated electrical noise and withhold (or delivery unnecessary) pacing therapy, the Revo includes &quot;SureScan&quot; technology that sets the device into MRI mode, with hardware modifications to both the device and the leads that reduce hazards produced by MRIs.Since Medtronic's pacemakers are designed &quot;to treat bradycardia (a slow, irregular, or interrupted heartbeat),&quot; pacemaker patients tend to be a population that could benefit from MRI scans. Medtronic estimates that some 200,000 pacemaker patients in the U.S. who could use MRI scans for a variety of diagnoses forgo them due to the risks of pacemaker interference and complications.In 2009, the FDA alerted pacemaker patients to the Class I recall of certain Medtronic Kappa and Sigma pacemakers, which were found to at times fail due to a separation of wires connecting the electronic circuit to certain parts, including the battery. These pacemakers are no longer for sale.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's server and tools boss steps down]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Santmier</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Muglia talking up the Windows Azure platform to attendees of Microsoft&amp;39's PDC conference in 2010.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)Microsoft today announced that Bob Muglia, the president of its server and tools business, is stepping down and will be leaving the company sometime this summer. In a memo to Microsoft employees, CEO Steve Ballmer said that Muglia will stick around for the transition as Ballmer does &quot;an internal and external search for the new leader,&quot; and that Muglia would &quot;complete additional projects for me.&quot; The company would not comment on what Muglia plans to do next.Muglia joined Microsoft in 1988. Before heading up the company's server and tools business, he was its senior vice president and had leadership roles in Microsoft's Office, mobile, and developer units. Muglia also sat on Microsoft's Business Leadership and Technical Senior Leadership Teams, both of which play a part in shaping the company's ongoing software and marketplace strategies.During his tenure in the server group, Muglia helped the company launch and hone the direction of its Azure platform, which lets developers write applications that run on Microsoft's hardware. Muglia's team's most recent effort has been the next major version of Windows Home Server, as well as Windows Small Business Server, the latter of which was released to manufacturing last month.Muglia bounced back from a demotion following Microsoft's late-'90s foray into e-commerce, called Hailstorm. As part of the rise of the server and tools business, which has become an increasingly larger part of Microsoft's revenues, Muglia was promoted to president in early 2009.Muglia's departure is just the latest in a long string of executives who have left the company in just the past year. During 2010, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie bid adieu, as did Business Division President Stephen Elop, who left the company to become the CEO of Nokia. Entertainment and Devices Unit President Robbie Bach and Chief Technology Officer J. Allard also left the company back in May of last year. The full copy of Ballmer's memo can be found below:From: Steve BallmerSent: Monday, January 10, 2011To: Microsoft - All EmployeesSubject: STB - Building on Success, Moving ForwardThere are very few $15B businesses in the software industry, and Microsoft is the only company that has built three of them. While Windows and Office are household words, our Server and Tools Business has quietly and steadily grown to be the unquestioned leader in server computing. We have driven the industry forward and established the foundation for an entire generation of business applications. We have overcome significant competitive challenges. Over the past twenty years, the outstanding leadership from everyone involved in STB has made it a $15B business today.We are now ready to build on our success and move forward into the era of cloud computing. Once again, Microsoft and our STB team are defining the future of business computing. In October, we completed an incredibly successful PDC where we detailed the future of the cloud, outlining Platform as a Service and demonstrating the rapid advancement of Windows Azure.The best time to think about change is when you are in a position of strength, and that's where we are today with STB - leading the server business, successful with our developer tools, and poised to lead the rapidly emerging cloud future. Bob Muglia and I have been talking about the overall business and what is needed to accelerate our growth. In this context, I have decided that now is the time to put new leadership in place for STB. This is simply recognition that all businesses go through cycles and need new and different talent to manage through those cycles. Bob has been a phenomenal partner throughout this process, and he and his leadership team have the right strategy in place.In conjunction with this leadership change, Bob has decided to leave Microsoft this summer. He will continue to actively run STB as I conduct an internal and external search for the new leader. Bob will onboard the new leader and will also complete additional projects for me.Bob has been a founder and leader of our server business from its earliest inception. He has led our Developer, Office, and Mobile Devices Divisions, and key parts of Windows NT and our Online Services business. I've worked with him in many capacities over the years and I've always appreciated his customer focus, technical depth, people leadership skills, and his positive energy. I want to thank Bob for his hard work, many accomplishments, and his focus on putting Microsoft first for 23 years.We enter this new decade with STB providing the platform for today's business solutions, and uniquely well-positioned to drive the future of cloud computing. I believe STB will continue to lead the industry with outstanding products and services for our customers and exceptional results for our business. Thanks,SteveUpdate at 2:45 p.m.: Mary Jo Foley has included the text of Bob Muglia's departure e-mail here.Previously: Microsoft's server boss talks Azure and more (Q&amp;A)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Google mulling digital newsstand]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Santmier</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Think of it as an old-fashion circulation war in the digital age, substituting tablets for tabloids.Google is trying to raise support from newspaper and magazine publishers for its own digital newsstand for Android powered devices, according to a Wall Street Journal report, a venture that would ramp up its competition with similar efforts backed by Apple and Amazon.com. The digital newsstand would reportedly feature apps from publishers that would allow versions of their content to appear on devices running Google's mobile operating system, according to the report, which cited anonymous sources. However, media executives said the details and timing remain vague and the venture might never materialize. It's also unknown how Google would address the presence of those partner publishers' content in its Google News section in order to add value to the e-newsstand. Google representative did not immediately return a request for comment.Google recently launched its Google eBookstore to peddle electronic versions of books, jumping into a hot market dominated by similar enterprises launched by Apple and Amazon. Competition between Apple's iTunes Store and Amazon's Kindle Store for mobile newshounds has been heating up. In an effort to secure its piece of the e-newsstand pie, Amazon recently announced plans to give newspaper and magazine publishers a greater share of the revenue it collects for periodicals sold through the Kindle Store. Meanwhile, Apple was rumored to be working with News Corp. to create a digital newspaper exclusively for iPads.Google CEO Eric Schmidt has long had an eye on newspaper content. Even though his company's Google News has been publicly derided as a leech of the newspaper business, Schmidt told a group of newspaper editors last April that he believes newspapers can make money online.&quot;We have a business model problem' we don't have a news problem,&quot; Schmidt said at the time. &quot;We're all in this together.&quot;Google has reportedly told publishers that it would take a smaller cut of revenue than the 30 percent that Apple takes from iTunes sales. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mixed bag for green tech in Washington dealings]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Santmier</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Grants for renewable energy projects are part of a planned tax bill being brokered in Washington, but incentives for manufacturing are not included and clean-energy research spending will remain flat at best, according to reports.Even though corn ethanol subsidies have increasingly come under fire, the Senate is expected to vote on a tax deal on Monday that includes an extension to a 45 cents per gallon tax credit for blenders, reports E2 Wire today. A 54 cent per gallon import tariff, designed to protect the U.S. corn ethanol industry, was also extended through 2011. Over the past few days, wind and solar industry lobbyists were working furiously to extend a grant program that directly affects large-scale renewable energy projects. Last year, the Treasury Department starting making grants available for renewable energy investments in lieu of tax credits. Because of the meltdown of the financial markets, tax equity had dried up almost entirely, making it very difficult to finance renewable energy projects.Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), said yesterday in a statement that the one-year extension of the &quot;Section 1603 investment tax credit&quot; would stave off a wrenching slow-down of wind manufacturing and installation.&quot;Factories across the country will restart production lines, recall workers, and avoid layoffs that would have followed the loss of this key incentive for wind energy. With consistent policies like this one, wind energy can generate 20 percent of America's electricity within 20 years, and employ half a million Americans,&quot; she said.The grant extension is estimated to cost almost $3 billion while extending the ethanol tax credits will cost over $4.8 billion, E2 Wire reported, citing estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation.Because the lack of available tax equity and the large size of wind projects, the renewable energy grant program is particularly important to wind, according to GE, the largest U.S. turbine manufacturer. The cash grant in lieu of tax credits is important but less vital to solar, according to some executives, VentureBeat reported yesterday.One program that many companies took advantage of but appears to be left out is &quot;clean-energy manufacturing credits,&quot; which provided a tax incentive for U.S. manufacturers to invest.Meanwhile, a House spending bill to keep government operations running includes no additional funding for research agencies, including those related to clean energy research next year, reports Science. Regardless of what the Senate version of the government spending bill looks like, the outlook for energy research and development looks bleak in 2012, reports Technology Review.Last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu argued that the U.S. needed to increase R&amp;D spending particularly in clean energy in order to compete with other countries, saying that China's rapid embrace of clean technologies is a &quot;Sputnik moment&quot; for the U.S. Other prominent business people and academics have also called for boosts for research and development over many years to promote innovation in green technologies, including the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (click for PDF) and business leaders at the American Energy Innovation Council. One research program that does appear to have funding for next year, although it's unclear how much, is ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy). The agency was created a few years ago but was not funded until last year through the federal economic stimulus plan. The mandate for ARPA-E is short-term projects that are high risk but have the potential for technology breakthroughs. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Android hits 300,000 daily activation milestone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Santmier</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Chalk another major milestone up for Google&amp;'s Android mobile OS. Google&amp;'s Andy Rubin tweeted last night that over 300,000 Android phones are activated daily &amp;8212' that&amp;'s up from 200,000 daily activations in August.The news puts Android&amp;'s daily activations over both the iPhone and BlackBerry, and it even surpasses Nokia&amp;'s 260,000 daily Symbian activations (though research firm Canalys says those numbers may be closer to 325,000), Fortune reports. Android&amp;'s daily activations also point to Google nearing 10 million Android activations a month. In comparison, Apple recently reported that it shipped 14.1 million iPhones in its last quarter.What&amp;'s most interesting to me is that Android&amp;'s growth is completely organic. Since August, there hasn&amp;'t been a major Android phone release that would have sparked an influx of new customers. That tells us that consumers are gravitating towards the platform instead of any one flagship phone. Of course, the fact that more low-cost Android phones (like LG&amp;'s Optimus) are hitting the market is also good news for sales. Low-cost Android phones, together with well-marketed high-end phones like Verizon&amp;'s Droid series, will surely continue to push Android&amp;'s activations higher into the next year.Previous Story: Bebo co-founder Michael Birch buys back a piece of his babyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: activations, Android, Blackberry, iPhoneCompanies: Apple, Google, Lg, RIMPeople: Andy Rubin          Tags: activations, Android, Blackberry, iPhoneCompanies: Apple, Google, Lg, RIMPeople: Andy RubinDevindra 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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<title><![CDATA[Up close with Motorola&'s new Android smartphone, the Atrix 4G]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Santmier</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[New Android phones are popping up like crazy at the Consumer Electronics Show. A number of them have Nvidia&amp;'s Tegra 2 dual-core ARM-based processor, including the Motorola Atrix smartphone.This kind of cool new phone is what makes Motorola&amp;'s smartphones the &amp;''tip of the Android spear,&amp;'' which is pointed right at Apple&amp;'s iPhone. We got an up-close look at the Atrix 4G at Nvidia&amp;'s booth. This is AT&amp;amp'Ta4a4s first smartphone with a dual-core chip that runs at 2 gigahertz and features 1 gigabyte of RAM. The phone is so  powerful that Motorola will offer a dock that lets you plug in the Atrix 4G so you can use it as a virtual laptop.Check out our video of the device up close and personal.Next Story: Amazon&amp;'s Android app store: an exercise in narcissism Previous Story: Record $7.8 billion year for cleantech venture capital in 2010, but with two quarters of declinePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, AtrixCompanies: Google, motorola          Tags: Android, AtrixCompanies: Google, motorolaDean 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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