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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[HP, Microsoft debut four new business appliances]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=hp-microsoft-debut-four-new-business-appliances</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft tonight are taking the covers off four pieces of HP-made hardware that will ship with software, services, and support from both companies as part of their Frontline partnership.The goal, the companies say, is to reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy new appliances by bundling together pre-configured hardware and software. The hardware has also been designed to cover both small-medium businesses (SMBs) as well as enterprise-size companies.The four configurations HP and Microsoft are launching to meet that goal are: the HP Business Decision Appliance, the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance, the HP E5000 Messaging System, and the HP Business Data Warehouse Appliance.Two of those offerings that will be available immediately are the HP Business Decision Appliance, and the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance--the latter of which was actually launched in November but now joins the three new ones as part of a singular business platform. HP's E5000 Messaging System and Business Data Warehouse Appliance will be available in March and June respectively.Last year, Microsoft entered into a three-year, $250 million agreement with HP to partner up on hardware and software combinations for business. This covers joint research and development, joint services, as well as joint sales and marketing. This lineup represents the first major offering to come out of that particular investment. &quot;I think this is the most significant appliance announcement that we've ever seen in our industry,&quot; Paul Miller, the VP of solutions and strategic alliances for HP's enterprise storage and servers group, told CNET in an interview earlier today. &quot;This is significant partnership, crossing all parts of our business from the enterprise, storage and networking organization, our services organization and our HP software organization.&quot; As far as what makes this new set of hardware different from the other offerings, Miller said the lineup is more flexible to businesses of differing sizes:&quot;Typically an appliance is only enterprise. What we've done, and the significance of this announcement, is that Microsoft the world's largest supplier of software and business applications, fusing with HP--the world's largest infrastructure provider of storage, server and networking--our technologies to simplify the delivery from an IT standpoint of these appliances, and business solutions to the marketplace. And also enable business to get more productivity out of their business applications through simple tools they're able to use and that they're familiar with using on a daily basis.&quot; Miller also said that the mix of hardware and services, which get bundled with each of the offerings, give each appliance more versatility than what's come before. &quot;If you look at the past appliances, they've been solutions at the edge: the security filter, a router appliance, or a standard data warehouse appliance,&quot; Miller said. &quot;What we've done is build those complete portfolio appliances that our customers can roll out and choose how they want to deploy them.&quot; Along with the four appliances, Microsoft and HP say there will be a fifth to launch sometime later this year that takes care of database consolidation. &quot;This appliance consolidates hundreds of databases into a single, virtual environment,&quot; the companies said in a release. Reference architecture for the appliance, which is optimized for SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft's Hyper-V Cloud will also be released for system builders that want to make their own hardware and software combinations. As far as pricing goes, the HP Business Decision Appliance comes in at &quot;less than&quot; $28,000, with separate licenses needed for Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010. The HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance comes in at &quot;less than&quot; $2 million, also with a separate license for the Parallel Data Warehouse version of SQL Server 2008 R2. Rounding out the bunch, the HP E5000 Messaging System begins at $36,000, with a separate license to Exchange Server 2010.All three of those products come with three years of HP support, with the data warehouse appliance adding site assessment, installation, and start up. Microsoft has not yet put a price on the business version of the Data Warehouse Appliance, though it says it will be sharing those details closer to the device's launch in June.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tethering and a hot spot on the Nexus S]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=tethering-and-a-hot-spot-on-the-nexus-s</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=tethering-and-a-hot-spot-on-the-nexus-s</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Use the Nexus S for tethering or as a Wi-Fi hot spot.As I said last week in CNET's full review of the Samsung Nexus S, I was pleased to find that the handset supports not only tethering, but that you can use it as a Wi-Fi hot spot. Both features are increasingly popular among smartphone users, but some carriers have stood in the way of making them a reality. Sprint and Verizon Wireless, for example, declined to add tethering to their Froyo-equipped handsets, even though the Android 2.2 update promised to add the feature. And while Sprint does offer hot spot capability on its HTC Evo 4G, the carrier charged an extra $29.99 per month for the privilege. The Nexus S, on the other hand, adds both features with almost no restrictions. Such is the benefit of using a phone with the stock Android OS. We're still confirming with T-Mobile if there will be a separate fee. I was able to play with both over the weekend, and I'm pleased to say that I was quite impressed with the performance on both fronts.TetheringThough tethering has has been around since the days of the earliest cell phones, it's only in the last few years that the feature has become really useful thanks to high-speed 3G and 4G networks. If you don't know, tethering is using a cell phone as an Internet connection point for another device. The other device is usually a computer and the connection between it and the phone is made through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or a USB cable.For the Nexus S you must use a USB cable, and it only works withWindows 7, Windows Vista, and Linux, but those are the only restrictions that you'll encounter. To get started, connect your phone to a PC and then switch on the tethering option in the &quot;Wireless &amp; networks&quot; option under the Settings menu (the handset can't be in US storage mode). When I tried it, my PC recognized the phone right away and I browsing the Web within a couple of minutes. The connection over T-Mobile's 3G network (remember that the Nexus S doesn't support HSPA+) was quite good given the setup. Most sites loaded within seconds, and I only had a momentary pause when starting YouTube videos. But once the videos started, they played without interruption.Wi-Fi hot spotThis feature allows you to use the Nexus S as an Internet connection point for up to five other devices (you don't need a USB cable). To activate the hot spot, just visit the same area in the Settings menu. The default Network SSID is &quot;AndroidAP,&quot; though you can change it if you like. Also, you can choose to keep it as an open connection or you can secure it with a password.After activating the hot spot I found the appropriate connection on my PC right away. It took a few seconds to establish a link, though it was still very quick. And once I was connected I was online without incident. The connection was a little slower than on tethering--YouTube videos got hung a few times, for instance--but it was satisfying given the circumstances. I was able to use it with a T-Mobile MyTouch 3G and an iPhone 4 as well, even though it won't work with theMac OS on a computer.As long as you stick to the basics such as checking e-mail, accessing social media, and simple research (news, weather, etc.), both features should serve you well. Uploading small photos shouldn't be a problem, but I'd avoid trying to upload video or download large files.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[eBay buys Milo to unite online, offline shopping]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ebay-buys-milo-to-unite-online-offline-shopping</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ebay-buys-milo-to-unite-online-offline-shopping</guid>
<description><![CDATA[eBay has bought a local-shopping service that it expects will help both buyers and sellers by uniting online and offline shopping.The auction site said yesterday that it has acquired Milo, a Web site designed to help shoppers find products available at their local brick-and-mortar stores and compare prices with those from online retailers.Though pointing buyers to products at local stores may seem at odds with eBay's online marketplace, the company believes the acquisition will open up new opportunities for buyers and sellers.&quot;Since eBay is an online marketplace and doesn't compete with brick-and-mortar stores, adding local store inventory to the eBay marketplace is a natural extension of what we've been doing for 15 years--bringing buyers and sellers together to access the largest selection available anywhere,&quot; Mark Carges, chief technology officer and senior vice president for global products at eBay Marketplaces, said in a statement.Partnering with 140 different retail outlets, Milo offers prices for around 3 million products across 52,000 stores in the U.S. Its search results include more than 90 small and medium-sized businesses, according to eBay, helping the small fry compete with larger retailers. By integrating Milo, eBay said it plans to bring the inventories of small retailers into the online world and allow eBay sellers with physical storefronts to sell their goods locally. &quot;Local commerce companies like Milo are blurring the lines between in-store and online shopping,&quot; Carges said. &quot;By making accurate, real-time, local store inventory and pricing available to online and mobile shoppers, we see a huge opportunity for local retailers, small businesses, and eBay sellers to reach more buyers, and for consumers to make more informed buying decisions.&quot;eBay is looking to add Milo's local product engine to its online marketplace and mobile apps. eBay's RedLaser iPhone app, which scans product barcodes to compare prices, will also soon incorporate results from Milo.Terms of the deal were not announced. However, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) said that several blogs reported a purchase price of $75 million.eBay's once weakening auction business has staged a recovery this year, helping to deliver stronger earnings and sales over the past couple of quarters. But the company is still searching for new ways and new markets to drive profitability.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[T-Mobile to add tethering for $15]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=t-mobile-to-add-tethering-for-15</guid>
<description><![CDATA[T-Mobile USA wireless subscribers will soon be allowed to use their smartphones as modems to bring Internet access to other devices including laptops, a T-Mobile representative confirmed today. The blog the Boy Genius Report first reported the news, citing an internal memo from T-Mobile that outlined the new plan. According to the memo, starting November 3, smartphone subscribers with an HSPA or HSPA+ phone will be able to get up to 5GB of data service per month for an additional $14.99 a month. Once users exceed the 5GB threshold, T-Mobile will throttle and slow down the traffic, the memo says. To be eligible for the new service, customers will have to sign up for a $19.95 data plan or higher. It will be available for both postpaid customers on a contract and people subscribed to the FlexPay service.A T-Mobile representative confirmed that the company plans to introduce a tethering plan, but was unable to confirm timing or pricing for the new service.Up to this point, T-Mobile has not offered an official tethering service. But some customers have configured their devices to use their phones as a modem. Now those customers will be required to purchase a new plan, according to the report.The new tethering option puts T-Mobile on par with some of its competitors, notably Verizon Wireless and AT&amp;T, which also offer tethering options. But for consumers who can get access to T-Mobile's network, T-Mobile's plan could offer a much better deal.Verizon offers its &quot;Mobile Broadband Connect&quot; service for smartphone users and advanced feature phone customers. Smartphone customers can get 2GB of data for an additional $20 per month. This service allows Verizon customers to connect up to five devices via Wi-Fi, but all these devices share the 2GB worth of data every month. Customers who exceed this cap are charged additional usage fees. Customers with advanced feature phones can also tether their devices. This package starts at $30 per month on top of an existing voice and data package and offers users 5GB of data. For $50 per month, subscribers can get up to 5GB of data on top of an existing voice package.AT&amp;T wireless customers can add tethering to their $25-a-month data plan for an extra $20 a month. This service will allow customers to share up to 2GB of data for the month between the smartphone and whatever device is tethered to the Internet via the smartphone.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ubuntu splits from GNOME UI]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ubuntu-splits-from-gnome-ui</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ubuntu-splits-from-gnome-ui</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Unity interface on Ubuntu 10.10 Lite.Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth on Monday detailed how Ubuntu will split from the GNOME user interface for Unity, which is its Netbook approach. Simply put, Ubuntu will have a custom user interface.The reaction to various press reports from Computerworld, Ars Technica, and others has gone to extremes: &amp;149'First, Canonical could be portrayed as evil because it's flipping its middle finger to the open-source community. &amp;149'Others say that GNOME was hard to work with. &amp;149'And then you get your Unity sniping.Read more of &quot;Ubuntu splits from GNOME UI: A good, pragmatic move&quot; at ZDNet's Between the Lines.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple ditching preinstalled Flash on future Macs]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-ditching-preinstalled-flash-on-future-macs</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-ditching-preinstalled-flash-on-future-macs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The new MacBook Air doesn&amp;39't come preinstalled with Adobe Flash right out of the box, as I found out last night.(Credit:Screenshot by Erica Ogg/CNET)Apple CEO Steve Jobs' well-known distaste for Adobe Flash on mobile devices is now extending to theMac.Many of us testing the new MacBook Air noted that surfing over to a site that requires a Flash plug-in to display video gets you the above screen, which is what happens when Flash hasn't been installed. Previously, Apple had done the installation for its customers--but no longer. Apple is now saying that Mac owners will have to do it themselves. &quot;We're happy to continue to support Flash on the Mac, and the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version is to download it directly from Adobe,&quot; is what Apple's official statement says. And, the company is saying to expect that on all new Macs from now on.It's not a huge deal: you can install it yourself from Adobe's own site in a matter of minutes. But it's easy to read it as symbolic of Apple's dysfunctional relationship with former partner Adobe.It also means Jobs might not have been completely straightforward when asked Monday if there was any update on Apple's stance on Flash.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You Can Now Follow The World Series SFRiot On Twitter, Ustream And&nbsp'Foursquare]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=you-can-now-follow-the-world-series-sfriot-on-twitter-ustream-andnbspfoursquare</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=you-can-now-follow-the-world-series-sfriot-on-twitter-ustream-andnbspfoursquare</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The San Francisco Giants won the World Series earlier this evening and of course the celebration in San Francisco has at this point devolved into multiple riots, which you can now follow on Twitter through the hashtags SFRiot and SFScanner. Around 80 people have checked into the riot ona4sFoursquare at the venue &amp;''Giants Riot on Polk Street.&amp;''According to the Twitter stream, several thousand people have taken over 5th and Mission Street and there are currently multiple bonfires at 3rd and King Street. I&amp;'m coming across reports of people throwing beer bottles at police as well as a stabbing at 4th and King Street, which police apparently have under control.You can also follow the activity on Ustream (above) and the San Francisco Police scanner, which is just about the scariest thing you&amp;'ll ever hear.One caveat about following the riots on Twitter You&amp;'ll definitely intercept more than your fair share of parody tweets.  Thanks: SaccaCrunchBase InformationTwitterUstreamFoursquareInformation provided by CrunchBaseTipTweet<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bing Pimps New Microsoft Service As A Top Natural Search Result' Google Buries&nbsp'It]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=bing-pimps-new-microsoft-service-as-a-top-natural-search-result-google-buriesnbspit</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=bing-pimps-new-microsoft-service-as-a-top-natural-search-result-google-buriesnbspit</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search engines like Bing and Google will swear up and down that their natural search results are determined by one thing and one thing only: the all-knowing, all-powerful Algorithm.  Sure, paid results might pop up at the top or to the side, but they are always highlighted as such.  But sometimes the temptation is too great and the natural search results, which are supposed to be sacrosanct, are used to promote a product or service owned by the same company that operates the search engine.  That certainly appears to be what is happening on Bing right now if you do a search for the term &amp;''datamarket.&amp;''  The top result is for Windows Azure DataMarket, a product which just launched a couple days ago.  Don&amp;'t get me wrong. It sounds like a cool product.  It is a cloud-based service where people can upload and sell data in a consistent way.  But in terms of link juice, you&amp;'ve got to wonder whether Datamarket.com, the second result on Bing, is getting a raw deal.  The Azure DataMarket result appears as a natural result, not a sponsored link (which both Microsoft and Google do for their own products but highlight them as such, see &amp;''Azure&amp;'').If you do the same search for &amp;''datamarket&amp;'' on Google, Datamarket.com is the top result, and the Microsoft site is nowhere to be found on the first page of results, which is also suspiciously convenient.  It is pushed all the way to the second page.  Are Google and Bing allowing their algorithms to do their magic, or is something else going on hereAnd if you think that Google never promotes its own products, just search for any place such as the &amp;''Gramercy Park Hotel.&amp;''  The second result is a module with a map, links, and data from Google&amp;'s Places.  Google shows these kinds of Onebox results for many types of search, but in this case the most prominent link goes to a Google Places page.CrunchBase InformationBingGoogleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gmail creator Paul Buchheit leaves Facebook for Y Combinator]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=gmail-creator-paul-buchheit-leaves-facebook-for-y-combinator</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=gmail-creator-paul-buchheit-leaves-facebook-for-y-combinator</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Y Combinator, the increasingly famous Silicon Valley incubator, announced two new general partners today &amp;8212' Gmail creator/FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar, who was already working at YC as a startup advisor.Buchheit (who has been making angel investments on his own) joined Facebook in August 2009 when the social network acquired his previous company FriendFeed. The YC blog post announcing the new partners implies but doesn&amp;'t explicitly say that Buchheit is joining the incubator full-time. He confirmed via email that he&amp;'s leaving Facebook. Today is his last day.The news may seem like a blow for Facebook, since Buchheit was a nice coup in the talent war between Facebook and Google. (Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company&amp;'s acquisitions are all about hiring talent, not acquiring technology.) Plus, the announcement comes right before Facebook will probably unveil its own &amp;''Gmail-killer&amp;'' on Monday.(Update: Buchheit commented about his departure on FriendFeed, where he said, &amp;''It has less to do with Facebook and more to do with me. I&amp;'m just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.&amp;'')Still, Facebook hasn&amp;'t done too badly in the deal, since FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor is now Facebook&amp;'s chief technology officer (and he&amp;'s been much more public in his role at Facebook than Buchheit has).It will also be interesting to see whether this changes the dynamic at Y Combinator. With a number of partners, YC is hardly a one-man show, but sometimes it can seem that way &amp;8212' Paul Graham is definitely the incubator&amp;'s public face. With the addition of Buchheit, YC now has a second partner who&amp;'s pretty famous and respected in the tech world.Front photo via notphilatall on FlickrNext Story: Microsoft Kinect hack gets serious with multitouch interface (video) Previous Story: Nvidia CEO: Oh, the places those magical Android tablets will goPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: incubatorsCompanies: Facebook, Y CombinatorPeople: Harj Taggar, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham          Tags: incubatorsCompanies: Facebook, Y CombinatorPeople: Harj Taggar, Paul Buchheit, Paul GrahamAnthony 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[Here come the sales: Fans buy 2M Beatles songs on iTunes]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=here-come-the-sales-fans-buy-2m-beatles-songs-on-itunes</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=here-come-the-sales-fans-buy-2m-beatles-songs-on-itunes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The music of the Beatles saw strong if not world-changing sales during its first week of availability on iTunes, according to sales numbers that Apple provided to Billboard.The Beatles were the final big holdout from iTunes and from digital sales in general. (The very last CD that I purchased, and will probably ever purchase, was The Beatlesa4a4 White Album &amp;8212' which I promptly copied onto my hard drive.) The band&amp;'s arrival on iTunes last Tuesday was heralded by plenty of media coverage, not to mention a big advertising push from Apple.The Beatles have now sold 2 million individual songs and 450,000 albums on iTunes worldwide, Billboard reports. Those sales included 1.4 million songs and 119,000 albums in the United States. The best-selling album was Abbey Road, and the best-selling song was a4AHere Comes the Suna4.In comparison, another late arrival to iTunes, Led Zeppelin, sold 300,000 songs and 47,000 albums in the US during the week after its digital launch in November 2007.  New songs from superstar acts normally sell between 100,000 and 300,000 in their first week, Billboard says.So even though there are still plenty of fans willing to buy Beatles music, the pent-up demand didna4a4t push the band to the very top of the charts. Still, it&amp;'s cool to see Abbey Road climbing past music from new acts. The iTunes Top Album chart currently places it at number 17, behind Kanye West and Ke$ha, but ahead of popular artists like Cee Lo and Pink.[via All Things Digital]Next Story: Want motion control Better move fast. Spot shortages already hitting Microsoft&amp;'s Kinect and Sony PlayStation Move Previous Story: Did Bjrk (yes, Bjrk) get it right on geothermal energyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: The BeatlesCompanies: Apple          Tags: The BeatlesCompanies: AppleAnthony 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[In Preparation For Sale To Rubicon Project, Fox Audience Network Fires Half Its&nbsp'Staff]]></title>
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<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=in-preparation-for-sale-to-rubicon-project-fox-audience-network-fires-half-itsnbspstaff</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia004</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[News Corp is on the verge of unloading another one of its digital businesses under Fox Interactive Media, the Fox Audience Network (FAN), to Los Angeles-based ad-optimization startup The Rubicon Project.  The deal has not been signed yet and may still fall apart, but the two companies are in the final stages of negotiation, according to sources with direct knowledge of the deal.  (Talks have been heating up over the past month).  In preparation for the sale, or continuation as a standalone business, about half of its 300 employees were let go yesterday, most of them sales people.  Rubicon is more interested in the ad technology.If the proposed deal with Rubicon goes through, it will get certain assets including FAN&amp;'s ad server technology, its self-serve banner advertising platform called MyAds, and about 100 employees to help run those parts of the business.  In return, News Corp will get about 20 percent of Rubicon&amp;'s shares.  (When Fox Interactive Media disposed of Rotten Tomatoes, it structured a similar asset-for-equity swap with Flixster).   The fact that the ad server technology is one of the key assets here is particularly noteworthy, given that Rubicon&amp;'s public posturing in the past was that the ad server is dead.FAN also runs one of the largest ad networks on the Internet.  However, about half of the ad impressions on the ad network are generated by MySpace.  Whether or not that will be part of the deal is one of the last items to be determined.  Either way, MySpace is unlikely to continue to run it as a third-party network.The writing&amp;'s been on the wall for FAN for a long time.  News Corp started to shop it around last March.  A small round of layoffs hit in June, and then Adam Bain, the president of FAN, left to become top revenue officer of Twitter.  News Corp was planning to fold FAN into MySpace when interest picked up from suitors including Rubicon.Rubicon is an advertising technology company that launched in 2007.  helps advertisers figure out which ad networks and sites to run their display ads on based on clicks, views, and other metrics.  It&amp;'s ultimate goal is to build an alternative to Google-owned DoubelClick&amp;'s DART, and some of the technology built by FAN can help it get there.  That is why it doesn&amp;'t need all the sales people.  A few may move over to deal with remnant and other lower-quality ads, but Rubicon is primarily a technology play.  The company has raised a total of $42 million in venture capital.  CrunchBase Informationthe Rubicon ProjectFox Interactive MediaInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg Founder Jay Adelson Is Okay With Not Selling Early, Even In Light Of&nbsp'Layoffs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On stage at FailCon today, Jay Adelson went over his storied career from Equinix to Digg.a4sAdelson kept emphasizing the fact that he had no regrets despite Digg having failed to pin down acquisition offers from both Current and Google, while the news broke during the panel that Digg had just laid off 37% of its staff.I asked Adelson while he was onstage whether he wanted to revaluate his &amp;''no regrets&amp;'' comments with this recently reported information, particularly with regards to selling the company early.Adelson, who looked genuinely concerned at the news, affirmed that he would not have done anything differently,&amp;''I know that those were loyal employees who were hoping for an exit. I&amp;'d like to think that they gained knowledge and wisdom from being there and that Matthew Williams and administration are making these kinds of decisions because they have new data.&amp;''When asked if he thought Digg was dead, as many press reports after the Digg Version 4 redesign hint at, Adelson was adamant that it wasn&amp;'t:&amp;''The site&amp;'s got 20 million people [monthly uniques], that&amp;'s a lot of people. It&amp;'s insulting and weird when the media reports that 20 million people are stupid because a site that they&amp;'re visiting is &amp;''dead.&amp;'' Digg might not have 100X return future, but it has a future.&amp;''Adelson&amp;'s prior recounting of his career trajectory was a personal and painful story and he also made it clear there was never a point where selling was a viable option,a4s&amp;''There&amp;'s this image of Digg as constantly being offered money. Talk is cheap.&amp;''Image: Andrew MagerCrunchBase InformationDiggJay AdelsonInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: Another BrightSource IPO rumor, Tessera scrambles for solar money]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Herea4a4s some of the latest action wea4a4re following on the GreenBeat today:Tessera scrambles to finance solar projects &amp;8212' Two of the company&amp;'s projects will cost a combined $4 billion, but it is struggling to get the financing, according to a Reuters analysis. The analysis cites unnamed sources that confirm buyers are asking about acquiring the land and licenses. But if Tessera agrees to sell, it could lose the opportunity to prove its Sun Catcher technology (pictured) if the buyer wants to substitute its own solar products. Another possibility is that it will find a partner willing to support Tessera&amp;'s technology on the sites.Solar&amp;'s BrightSource Energy to go public after oilfield project &amp;8211' Ah, another BrightSource IPO prediction. A Reuters article cites a source &amp;''close to the company&amp;'' and points out some new information: pre-IPO, investors consider most important the successful deployment of BrightSource&amp;'s solar technology in a 29-megawatt plant at a Chevron oilfield in California. Dow Jones Venture Wire reported BrightSource&amp;'s IPO plans in 2011, and other venture capitalists have predicted next year will be BrightSource&amp;'s year to go public.Spectrawatt lays off 100 and closes New York facility &amp;8211' The solar technology company and Intel spinoff blamed harsher than expected winters in Europe for denting demand, the AP reported. But global photovoltaic installations are up 100 percent this year, Greentech Media points out, suggesting that Spectrawatt may have fallen victim to competitive pricing from Chinese companies and U.S. heavyweights First Solar and SunPower.DOE finalizes $17.1 million loan guarantee for AES Westover &amp;8211' The company is constructing a 20-megawatt energy storage system using advanced lithium-ion batteries, with some cells from A123. The battery-based energy storage project will be based in New York and saves on emissions by becoming a replacement for traditional grid frequency regulation, which usually burns fossil fuels at power plants to balance power generation and consumption on the grid. AES technology promises to use batteries and software to do the same thing for cheaper and with 70 percent less carbon emissions.Next Story: 2011 Fisker Karma &amp;8216'final pricing&amp;' goes up again, to $95,900 Previous Story: Questions over accounting delay Demand Media IPOPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: DOE loan, grid frequency regulation, Ivanpah, SolarCompanies: AES Westover, BrightSource, DOE, Intel, Spectrawatt, Tessera          Tags: DOE loan, grid frequency regulation, Ivanpah, SolarCompanies: AES Westover, BrightSource, DOE, Intel, Spectrawatt, TesseraIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).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[Amazon.com&'s secret retail empire]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos has a loud laugh. But Amazon.com&amp;'s founder and CEO is keeping quiet about his expansion efforts, which now include sites as varied as BuyVIP.com, Zappos, and as of Monday, Diapers.com.With its many acquisitions, Amazon.com is turning itself into a multibrand retailer. You&amp;'d never glean this from the company&amp;'s strategy statements in its annual reports, where it talks about &amp;''the strength of our brand&amp;'' &amp;8212' not brands. Amazon&amp;'s PR boilerplate gushes at length about the Kindle e-book reader but not, say, DPReview, Shopbop, Javari, IMDB, Small Parts, or Fabric.com &amp;8212' all of which Amazon owns.Amazon&amp;'s e-commerce empire is barely integrated. Want to log in to Zappos with your Amazon account, or use your Amazon Prime membership to get free two-day shipping at Fabric.com Good luck with that. (In fact, two years after Amazon.com bought Fabric.com, the site is still apparently run by a third-party e-commerce operator, Bridgeline Digital.) Only Endless.com, a shoes-and-handbags site launched in-house, and Small Parts are &amp;''powered by Amazon.com,&amp;'' a status which means Amazon.com customers can use their accounts on those sites. You have to dig into the legalese of privacy policies or ferret out obscure &amp;''About&amp;'' pages to find a mention of Amazon.com on many of the sites it owns. For all of its talk of building and leveraging the Amazon.com brand, Amazon does little to broadcast it off of the mothership.That hands-off approach may actually be an asset to Amazon&amp;'s merger and acquisitions strategy. Quidsi cofounder Vinnie Bharara told me that the example of Zappos factored into his and cofounder Marc Lore&amp;'s decision to sell the parent company of Diapers.com to Bezos &amp;amp' co.Still run under CEO Tony Hsieh, Zappos continues to operate under its quirky culture, which emphasizes high-quality customer service instead of low prices. New Zappos hires are paid as much as $3,000 to quit after training, a test of their commitment to the company. It&amp;'s hard to imagine Amazon applying that broadly across the company, but it&amp;'s let Zappos continue the practice.Multibrand retail has a mixed reputation offline. Gap Inc. has struggled to differentiate its Gap and Old Navy brands. Limited has had a breakout success with Victoria&amp;'s Secret, but it&amp;'s not clear how the lingerie-store chain has benefited from being owned by the same company as Bath &amp;amp' Body Works. And Macy&amp;'s has gone from a panoply of department-store brands to just two: Macy&amp;'s and Bloomingdale&amp;'s.Online, though, things are different. The cost of operating a Web brand is far less than running a retail chain, and it&amp;'s far easier to experiment. Zappos and Diapers.com built their brands largely through customer service and word of mouth, not expensive advertising.Ultimately, the only question that matters is whether shareholders are losing out by Amazon&amp;'s lax approach to integrating its retail holdings. And the answer is, likely not. Amazon can get economies of scale in sourcing products and processing payments. And Amazon&amp;'s brand, which stands for convenience, selection, and low prices, may not scale to every customer in the retail world. By allowing Zappos and Quidsi to innovate under the Amazon umbrella, Bezos can better fend off rivals &amp;8212' while keeping potential assets out of their hands. (Walmart was reportedly interested in Quidsi.)What&amp;'s next According to Quidsi&amp;'s Lore, the company is planning to go ahead with the launch of Yoyo.com, after reportedly paying $500,000 for the domain name. Does the world need another toys site to compete with Amazon.com&amp;'s vast selection of toys Here&amp;'s the thing: With Yoyo.com in his pocket, Bezos will be the first to know.[Photo: oreilly]Next Story: The iPhone app is the Flash homepage of 2010 Previous Story: Austin companies: Join us Nov. 19 for feedback and drinks at Austin VenturesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Diapers.com, DPReview, e commerce, Fabric.com, IMBD, Javari, Shopbop, Small Parts, Soap.com, Yoyo.comCompanies: Amazon.com, Quidsi, ZapposPeople: Jeff Bezos, Marc Lore, Tony Hsieh, Vinnie Bharara          Tags: Diapers.com, DPReview, e commerce, Fabric.com, IMBD, Javari, Shopbop, Small Parts, Soap.com, Yoyo.comCompanies: Amazon.com, Quidsi, ZapposPeople: Jeff Bezos, Marc Lore, Tony Hsieh, Vinnie BhararaOwen Thomas is the executive editor of 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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