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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: 80 million USB 3.0 devices in 2011]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There should be little doubt that USB 3.0 technology has arrived on PCs after a report released today forecast that tens of millions of devices using the standard will ship in 2011. The HP Pavilion dv6 is one of many HP laptops that now sport USB 3.0 ports. (Credit:Hewlett-Packard)&quot;The primary story for USB in 2010 was the emergence of the SuperSpeed standard. 2011 should be a much bigger year for the technology, especially in mobile PCs,&quot; said market researcher In-Stat. &quot;This has led In-Stat to forecast that nearly 80 million USB SuperSpeed-enabled devices will ship in 2011.&quot;USB is one of the most widely used connection technologies in the world, found on everything from PCs totablets to printers to smartphones. Peak speeds for &quot;SuperSpeed&quot; USB--the official nomenclature for the 3.0 specification--are about 10 times that of USB 2.0, the current standard. Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices--not PC processor kingpin Intel--is one of the driving forces behind USB 3.0 this year, In-Stat said. Yesterday AMD announced its A-series processors, which will be used in more than 150 laptops and desktops starting in the second quarter of 2011. The new AMD silicon has built-in support for USB 3.0. Intel will follow in short order in early 2012, however, with its Ivy Bridge chips, which also have built-in support for USB 3.0. This year, Intel, along with Apple, began supporting an alternative high-speed standard called Thunderbolt. Down the road, mobile phones will also begin to sport USB 3.0 ports, too. &quot;Mobile phones are a key driver for USB overall, and will play a role in the adoption of SuperSpeed USB,&quot; wrote Brian O'Rourke, research director at In-Stat. &quot;In 2010, USB was found internally in over 1.2 billion mobile phones...The first SuperSpeed USB phones won't hit the market until late 2013, but they will be accompanied by a new SuperSpeed connector for phones that will succeed the current micro-USB port found in today's phones.&quot; The USB Implementers Forum provides a list of devices that are in compliance with the USB 3.0. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Live blog: Nintendo 3DS announcement at 6 a.m. PT Wednesday]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ballmurderer</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=live-blog-nintendo-3ds-announcement-at-6-a-m--pt-wednesday</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: MSI shows WinPad 100A]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-msi-shows-winpad-100a</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ballmurderer</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-msi-shows-winpad-100a</guid>
<description><![CDATA[MSI&amp;39's WinPad 100A is still prototypical and its design will likely change before release.(Credit:Eric Franklin/CNET)LAS VEGAS--MSI was fairly coy about sending out pics of its Android-basedtablet, the WinPad 100A. Luckily, the device was on display at the company'sCES booth.The WinPad 100A has a 10.1-inch capacitive touch screen and runs on Android 2.3. It wasn't clear whether the device will be upgradable to Honeycomb when the new OS launches however. Other specs and details include an ARM processor, a USB port, Mini USB, HDMI, an SD card reader, a front-facing camera on the upper left side, and a headphone jack. Additionally, the device includes a G-Sensor gravity-detecting device, a GPS locator, an ambient light sensor, and Wi-Fi with a 3G option available.The WinPad 100A weighs in at 1.6 pounds and is approximately half an inch thick at its thinnest point. MSI claims the 100A can run for 8 to 10 hours on a single battery charge. The tablet is expected to be released around July for an estimated price of $500. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Seagate revives Zip drive concept with GoFlex storage system]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ballmurderer</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-seagate-revives-zip-drive-concept-with-goflex-storage-system</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the flexible design, the Seagate&amp;39's GoFlex portable drive can be easily turned into a storage module to be used in a more standard, slot-based application.(Credit:Dong Ngo/CNET)LAS VEGAS--You might not remember it, but the Zip drive was arguably the most popular external storage solution during the second half of the 90s. With the initial storage capacity of 100MB (which later increased to up to 750MB) it was a perfect replacement for the floppy drive. The Zip drive is similar to a floppy drive, with the slot just slightly larger to accommodate the thicker Zip disks.With the rapid increase of internal hard drives' capacity, though, the Zip drive couldn't keep up, and its popularity started to wane at the turn of the century. By 2005 it was obsolete. It was the time that the portable storage market fell into the hands of external portable drives that came in many different physical shapes, sizes, and types of connectivity, including USB, Firewire, and eSATA. While external portable drives offer basically the same amount of storage that internal hard drives do, they are a little inconvenient to use, as oftentimes users need to fumble to find the cable or the port on the computer. Also, the external drives require a computer to support its type of connectivity to work. For example a Firewire external hard drive is useless with computer that only has USB ports.For this reason, Seagate, the maker of hard drives and many portable storage solutions, including the superflexible GoFlex family wants to revive the concept of the Zip drive with its GoFlex storage system.The company announced today its new program to allow third-party companies to incorporate slots on their products to support removable GoFlex external hard drives. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BP oil spill, celebs top 2010 Yahoo, AOL searches]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ballmurderer</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The BP oil spill was among the top searches in 2010, according to Yahoo and AOL.(Credit:U.S. Coast Guard)The tragic BP oil spill was on the minds of Yahoo and AOL search users this year.According to Yahoo, which released its Year In Review blog post today, more users searched for information about the BP oil spill than any other topic in 2010. It was followed by searches for the World Cup, Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian, and Lady Gaga, respectively. Apple'siPhone took the sixth spot in Yahoo's list of the top searches, while Megan Fox, Justin Bieber, American Idol, and Britney Spears rounded out the top 10.When it came to queries through Yahoo's mobile search, the list was much different. According to the company, the NFL was the most popular mobile query this year, followed by Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Sandra Bullock, and the NBA. The BP oil spill fell to 10th place in the company's mobile-search list.The World Cup was the most searched-for sporting event on Yahoo this year, while more people asked &quot;how to tie a tie&quot; than any other question in 2010. Apple's iPhone 4 topped the list of &quot;obsessions&quot; this year, beating out Lindsay Lohan and theiPad. When it came to the financial world, unemployment was the top search query in that sector, Yahoo reported.AOL's list of the top searches in 2010, which it announced yesterday, is a bit different.Although the company didn't say which queries bested them all, it revealed that Tiger Woods attracted the most searches among celebrities during the year. Apple's iPad was the &quot;top shopping&quot; query in 2010. New York City's trouble with bedbugs caused that query to top all health-related searches. The BP oil spill was the most popular news query of the year, beating out unemployment and the earthquake in Haiti.Microsoft yesterday released its own list of top searches for 2010 on Bing. According to the company, its most popular search was for Kim Kardashian. She was followed by Sandra Bullock, Tiger Woods, Lady Gaga, and Barack Obama, respectively. Perhaps a sign of the state of the economy, the 10th most-popular Bing query this year was &quot;free.&quot;Google has yet to release its list of the top search queries in 2010. A company representative told CNET in a statement yesterday that the search giant plans to release its list later this month to ensure it includes as much 2010 data as possible.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Symantec: Stuxnet clues point to uranium enrichment target]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=symantec-stuxnet-clues-point-to-uranium-enrichment-target</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Stuxnet looks for frequency converters that control motors in industrial control systems, Symantec says.(Credit:Symantec)Symantec researchers have figured out a key mystery to the Stuxnet worm code that strongly suggests it was designed to sabotage a uranium enrichment facility.The program targets systems that have a frequency converter, which is a type of device that controls the speed of a motor, Eric Chien, technical director of Symantec Security Response, told CNET today. The malware looks for converters from either a company in Finland or Tehran, Iran. &quot;Stuxnet is watching these devices on the target system that is infected and checking what frequency these things are running at,&quot; looking for a range of 800 hertz to 1200 Hz, he said. &quot;If you look at applications out there in industrial control systems, there are a few that use or need frequency converters at that speed. The applications are very limited. Uranium enrichment is an example.&quot; There had been speculation that Stuxnet was targeting an Iranian nuclear power plant. But power plants use uranium that has already been enriched and don't have the frequency converters Stuxnet seeks like those that control centrifuges, Chien said.  The new information from Symantec would seem to bolster speculation that Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility was a target. The worm spreads via holes in Windows and saves its payload for systems running specific industrial control software from Siemens.  Also on Symantec's short list of possible targets are facilities using computer numerical controlled equipment, commonly referred to as CNC equipment, such as drills used to cut metal, he said.  The Stuxnet code modifies programmable logic controllers in the frequency converter drives used to control the motors. It changes the frequencies of the converter, first to higher than 1400 Hz and then down to 2 Hz--speeding it up and then nearly halting it--before setting it at just over 1000 Hz, according to Chien.  &quot;Basically, it is messing with the speed at which the motor runs, which could cause all kinds of things to happen,&quot; he said. &quot;The quality of what is being produced would go down or not be able to be produced at all. For example, a facility wouldn't be able to enrich uranium properly.&quot; It could also cause physical damage to the motor, Chien said. &quot;We have confirmation that this industrial process automation system is essentially being sabotaged,&quot; he added.  Symantec was able to figure out what the malware does and exactly what systems it targets after getting a tip from a Dutch expert in the Profibus network protocol, which is used in these specific industrial control systems. The information had to do with the fact that the frequency drives all have a unique serial number, according to Chien. &quot;We were able to pair up a couple of numbers we had with some devices and figured out they were frequency drives,&quot; he said.  &quot;The real world implications [to Stuxnet] are pretty frightening,&quot; Chien said. &quot;We're not talking about a credit card being stolen. We're talking about physical machines potentially causing damage in the real world. And clearly there are some geopolitical concerns, as well.&quot; Chien has more detailed technical information in this blog post. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anonymously Chat With Other College Students On&nbsp'HowRandom]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[HowRandom, a site for college students, launches today with one core feature &amp;8212' the ability to anonymously chat with people from other schools. There&amp;'s no photo uploading, file sharing or video capabilities, just a text entry line and a chat widget.The student on student communication happens on two levels, a test function where you casually enter in your school (warning, you have to type the full word &amp;''University&amp;'') and a verified function which allows you to type in your .edu address in order to get &amp;''Verified&amp;'' as a bona fide college student.Explains founder Jon Cook, &amp;''Ita4a4s a way for guys at Harvard to meet girls at Yale, etc. And ita4a4s not intrusive. HowRandom has a very solid viral loop. It has the Facebook-like .edu exclusivity. And ita4a4s extremely simple to use.&amp;''Cook and co-founder Jason Humphries think of HowRandom as more of a social experiment than a business. They hope it will mirror the randomness of life and &amp;''foster real-world meetings and interactions between two people that might otherwise never meet. a4 Like a text-based Chatroulette with no penis problem, there&amp;'s also a next feature in case you don&amp;'t like who you&amp;'re chatting with.Cook says he wants to keep evolving the app through user feedback, and is considering including limited profile option along with the &amp;''Verified&amp;'' logo.Facebook initially restricted its users to college students with .edu addresses and that element was crucial to its success, this is also HowRandom&amp;'s hook. Colleges are hotbeds of virality in more ways than one, and starting off there is a good move for any social app.CrunchBase InformationHowRandom.comInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scribd Stats: A &8216'Google Analytics For&nbsp'Documents&']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=scribd-stats-a-8216google-analytics-fornbspdocumentsrsquo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Document sharing hub Scribd has just announced a new feature that will allow publishers on the site to more accurately measure how their content is performing. Dubbed Scribd Stats, they&amp;'re likening it to a &amp;8216'Google Analytics for Documents&amp;', and it&amp;'s an apt description a4&quot;a4sthe product looks quite similar to Google&amp;'s popular web analytics product, but it&amp;'s obviously been tweaked to suit the documents, presentations, and other files that have been uploaded to Scribd. CEO Trip Adler says that until now, publishers haven&amp;'t really taken advantage of the features that the web affords a4&quot;a4sthey might know how many hits a given document has received, but there&amp;'s much more data waiting to be unlocked.  That&amp;'s where Scribd Stats comes in. After logging in, you&amp;'ll see an overview charting your overall document popularity (your aggregate read count, the number of times embedded versions of your docs have been read, etc.). You can also see this broken down on a per-document basis. Graphs look similar to Google Analytics, allowing you to quickly adjust the date range.You can also select individual documents to do a deeper dive, with features that include: a heatmap for each document you&amp;'ve uploaded, allowing you to see which portion of a document people find most interesting' data on which search queries led people to find your document, and what they&amp;'re searching for within your doc' and graphs that led you track a document&amp;'s popularity over time.  The feature will also allow publishers to analyze the performance of Scribd&amp;'s ReadCast feature, which lets users share the content they&amp;'ve recently read to Facebook and Twitter.During the event, Adler took the opportunity to list of some of Scribd&amp;'s growth stats: it&amp;'s now home to one billion HTML5-based pages and is growing 15% month over month, which he says makes it the largest and fastest growing corpus of text online. The site saw 60 million uniques in the last month, and ranks a among Alexa&amp;'s top 100 sites worldwide.Adler says that this is part of Scribd&amp;'s transition to a site where people read and share what they&amp;'re reading with their friends (before this year the site&amp;'s big pitch was to publishers looking to get their content online, now Scribd wants to be able to tempt more publishers by offering a sizable audience as well).Scribd Stats probably isn&amp;'t going to increase readership directly, but it will allow publishers to hone in on what their readers like, which will (hopefully) help them produce more engaging content. a4sIt could attract newa4spublishersa4sto the platform a4&quot; perhaps authors will start releasing excerpts of their books on Scribd before publication, using Scribd Stats to figure out which pages are duds.Scribd says that the product will be rolling out slowly to users over the next few weeks.CrunchBase InformationScribdInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Samsung to debut Galaxy S successor in February]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ballmurderer</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sure, Samsung is now the king of Android phone manufacturers,  but that doesna4a4t mean it plans to rest on the success of its  current Galaxy S line of Android phones.The  company is gearing up to show off the a4Aevolutiona4 of the Galaxy S line  (and give smartphone geeks an early Valentinea4a4s gift in the process) on  February 13 at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, according  to a Samsung promotional site. Samsung will also tease the product on February 1, which will likely amount to shadowy screen shot or some sort of silhouette.Undoubtedly,  Samsunga4a4s next major Galaxy S phone (or whatever ita4a4s called) will  feature LTE 4G technology. The company has already unveiled an LTE 4G  phone with the Infuse 4G for AT&amp;amp'T,  but therea4a4s still room for more hardware upgrades that will make it  competitive with some of the high-end Android phones coming out of CES,  like the Motorola Atrix.  In particular, wea4a4ll likely see a dual-core version of Samsunga4a4s  powerful Hummingbird processor, as well as its a4ASuper AMOLED Plusa4  display.Samsung  certainly wona4a4t be the only company debuting blazing fast new hardware  at Mobile World Congress, but given the success of its Galaxy S line so  far, I suspect it also has a few surprises in store to one-up the  competition.Via EngadgetNext Story: Video: Tesla shows off Model S hitting the road Previous Story: Nintendo 3DS coming to US March 27 for $250PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: 4G, Android, Galaxy S, Infuse 4G, LTE, smartphonesCompanies: Samsung          Tags: 4G, Android, Galaxy S, Infuse 4G, LTE, smartphonesCompanies: SamsungDevindra 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[Nokia scraps its first MeeGo phone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nokia has canceled its first MeeGo phone before it even had a chance to launch, according to a report by Reuters, citing two industry sources.The  news, if true, can be read in multiple ways. You could look at it as  yet another failure for Nokia, or, more optimistically, you can view it  as a wise decision if the companya4a4s first MeeGo device  wasna4a4t living up to its expectations. I choose the latter.Nokia  has been talking about MeeGo, its joint OS project with Intel, for  years now. And while developers have seen it in action, the company has  yet to publicly show off the OS &amp;8212' and more importantly, to explain why it  will be worth the wait. So if Nokia realized that its first stab at a  MeeGo device wasna4a4t up to snuff, the wisest decision would be to drop it  and try something new.The canceled device may be the Nokia 9-00, a smartphone with a sliding hardware keyboard similar to the E7.A  second MeeGo device may still make an appearance during Nokia CEO  Stephen Elopa4a4s announcement on Friday, where he plans to unveil his  grand new corporate strategy. Elop will reportedly sack several Nokia executives on Friday. And given his recent memo to Nokia employees, I think therea4a4s a good chance wea4a4ll see the company partner with Microsoft to provide Windows Phone 7 devices.Next Story: Why we break up&amp;8230' with a brand Previous Story: Tapjoy launches way for advertisers to pay for engagement in mobile gamesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: meego, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: nokiaPeople: Stephen Elop          Tags: meego, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: nokiaPeople: Stephen ElopDevindra 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. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CD Baby Founder Recounts A Tale Of Steve Jobs, iTunes, And Broken&nbsp'Promises]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It isn&amp;'t exactly difficult to find stories detailing how tough it can be to work with Apple and Steve Jobs a4&quot;a4sthe web is rife with accounts from former Apple employees, developers, and partners providing a small glimpse of how things tick inside 1 Infinite Loop. But for some reason, these stories never get old. Tonight, there&amp;'s a new tale to add to the annals of Apple history that comes from CD Baby founder Derek Sivers,a4swhich he&amp;'s called The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote.In his post, Siversa4srecounts how he received an offer from Apple to include CD Baby&amp;'s entire library of 100,000 indie albums as part of the launch of the iTunes Music Store in 2003. Sivers jumped at the chance a4&quot;a4sat the time it was extremely difficult to get major distribution for indie artists, so this would be a major win for them.  He even agreed to go through the labor-intensive (and costly) process of reencoding and tagging these CDs using Apple&amp;'s own software, despite the fact that CD Baby already had them in its database:I asked again, saying we had over 100,000 albums, already ripped as lossless WAV files, with all of the info carefully entered by the artist themselves, ready to send to their servers with their exact specifications. They said sorry &amp;8211' you need to use this software &amp;8211' there is no other way.Ugh. That means we have to pull each one of those CDs off of the shelf again, stick it in a Mac, then cut-and-paste every song title into that Mac software. But so be it. If that&amp;'s what Apple needs, OK.Of course, that process cost quite a lot of time and money, so CD Baby made an offer to artists that they could pay $40 to appear on the iTunes store. Five thousand of them agreed, paying a cumulative total of $200,000, and CD Baby managed to get them on other competing music stores. But the Apple went radio silent, and Sivers grew worried that he may have to return the money to the participating artists. It wasn&amp;'t until Jobs&amp;' keynote presentation that Siversa4sknew what had happened.Jobs, talking about the iTunes store during the keynote: a4AThis number could have easily been much higher, if we wanted to let in every song. But we realize record companies do a great service. They edit! Did you know that if you and I record a song, for $40 we can pay a few of the services to get it on their site, through some intermediaries We can be on Rhapsody and all these other guys for $40 Well we don&amp;'t want to let that stuff on our site! So we&amp;'ve had to edit it. And these are 400,000 quality songs.a4Whoa! Wow. Steve Jobs just dissed me hard!I&amp;'m the only one charging $40. That was me he&amp;'s referring to.I&amp;'ll steer you to Siver&amp;'s post for the conclusion of the story, which you can find here (spoiler: things worked out fine).  It&amp;'s really a fascinating look at the way things work in Cupertino. And perhaps should stand as a warning for anyone in a business where they don&amp;'t have full control over how their promises play out.CrunchBase InformationCD BabyAppleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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