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<title><![CDATA[App Store placeholder hints at another iOS device]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>belimsirkak</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[One of these things is not like the others.(Credit:Cabel Sasser/Twitpic)What appears to be a placeholder that popped up briefly on some App Store listings last night is causing a stir, hinting that another iOS app capable device could be on the way.As spotted by developer Cabel Sasser and picked up by MacRumors, a compatibility description for &quot;ix.Mac.MarketingName&quot; appeared briefly under Sasser's listing for his newest iOS app called Prompt.The app, which serves as an SSH admin tool, is universal--meaning it works on both theiPhone andiPod Touch, as well as on theiPad. The &quot;ix&quot; moniker showed up as a fourth device within that list. Since being discovered, the item has been removed. The apparent placeholder shows up fewer than two months ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference where the company has said it is showing off &quot;the future of iOS and Mac OS X&quot;. That future could very well include bringing iOS apps to other Apple products where they cannot currently be had, such as the Apple TV and computers running the next major version of Mac OS X. For months, rumors and code snippets have suggested that Apple was looking to bring apps to the Apple TV, however when the second-generation device was released the features were not present. As for Macs, some of the design and interface changes to pre-release versions of OS X 10.7--including touch-screen-like track pad behavior and app organization with the Launchpad feature--have suggested the OS is getting more finger-friendly. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AMD to back USB 3.0 in its chips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>belimsirkak</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Advanced Micro Devices will support USB 3.0 in its chips, marking the first instance of a major PC processor supplier getting behind the standard. Intel has yet to support the high-speed interface. The USB Implementers Forum today announced that AMD will deliver the first chipsets to integrate support for USB 3.0, aka SuperSpeed USB. A chipset accompanies the main processor. &quot;With [today's] announcement AMD is...disclosing our support for SuperSpeed USB 3.0 in upcoming AMD A75 and A70M Fusion [chipsets]. Both chipsets are shipping today,&quot; said Phil Hughes, an AMD spokesman, responding to an e-mail query. The current USB 2.0 standard, which is found on virtually all laptops today, has been around for an eternity in tech years. Intel laid the groundwork for widespread use on PCs and devices in spring 2002 when it put the technology in its silicon. Eight years later, the advantages of moving to a faster standard are clear for devices like digital cameras, camcorders, and hard drives: transfer rates jump from a peak of 480 megabits per second on USB 2.0 to as much as 5 gigabits per second with USB 3.0. But mass adoption by PC makers won't happen until support is included in chipsets, according to Brian O'Rourke, an analyst at In-Stat. &quot;In order for the rippling effect to happen with USB 3.0 it has to hit in PCs and for it to hit in PCs it has to be integrated into the chipset. AMD is not Intel, but it's probably the next best thing in chipsets,&quot; O'Rourke said. Currently, USB 3.0 is integrated into PCs by adding a separate chip, typically from NEC. If mass adoption happens, it will take place in laptops first. &quot;USB 3.0 is really gaining traction first in mobile PCs,&quot; O'Rourke said. And it's not just because of the higher transfer speeds. The standard also provides more power to devices, such as external hard disk drives. &quot;A USB 3.0 host can deliver a minimum of 80 percent more power than a USB 2.0 host,&quot; according to O'Rourke. The standard is also more energy frugal, O'Rourke said.  USB 3.0 merits: Speed: About 10 ten times faster than USB 2.0. Power: Better able to power devices like external hard disk drives. Power efficiency: No device polling and lower active and idle power requirements. Backward compatible: Supports USB 2.0 legacy devices. Laptops shipping today: Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Toshiba are shipping laptops today with USB 3.0. Future support in small laptops: Netbook-size laptops using AMD's Fusion chip can support USB 3.0. Not all of the pieces are in place yet for USB 3.0 to take off, however. &quot;The only peripheral devices with USB 3.0 out there right now are external hard drives and a few flash drives. Why There aren't any peripheral controllers for USB 3.0 in general release yet. Not any out there on the market yet,&quot; O'Rourke said. O'Rourke continued. &quot;So, that has to happen. The peripheral controllers don't get produced in any large volume until there are a lot of [consumer] devices out there and there are not going to be a lot of devices [that support USB 3.0] until USB 3.0 is integrated into chipsets. That's why the AMD announcement is so important. It starts to drive the engine that will create widespread adoption.&quot; And what about Intel Intel is now putting its considerable weight behind Thunderbolt tech, which is now shipping with Apple's 2011 MacBook Pro line. Intel has stated that Thunderbolt will complement USB 3.0, not replace it. And the world's largest chipmaker has also said that it plans to integrated USB 3.0 support in future silicon. And it may take Intel's support to make the standard truly universal. &quot;Intel still commands too much [chip] market share for AMD's move to make a difference,&quot; said Rich Brown, an editor at CNET Reviews. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[To avert Internet crisis, the IPv6 scramble begins]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>belimsirkak</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Remember Y2K The Internet today is facing a similarly big problem all over again, but nobody knew exactly when it would hit--until now.The problem is the day the conventional Internet runs out of room for new computers because the world has used up the supply of Internet addresses that computers need to communicate over the Net.It's likely that this week or next, the central supplier of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses will dole out the last ones at the wholesale level. That will set the clock ticking for the moment in coming months when those addresses will all be snapped by corporate Web sites, Internet service providers, or other eventual owners.And that means it's now a necessity, not a luxury, to rebuild the Net on a more modern foundation called IPv6.It's taken a long time because there was little immediate payback for companies spending money and time to build IPv6 support. But even though the carrot to motivate people has been pretty small, the stick now is getting bigger with each passing week.&quot;Many are waiting for a 'killer application' for IPv6. This is a misconception,&quot; said Lorenzo Colitti, the Google engineer overseeing the search giant's years-long transition to IPv6, in a 2010 talk. &quot;The killer application of IPv6 is the survival of the open Internet as we know it.&quot;Only a tiny fraction of Google users--about 0.2 percent--are equipped to use the next-generation IPv6 technology that will relieve growth pressures on the Internet.(Credit:Google)Minimizing disruptionsMany expect some disruptions as the IPv6 shift takes place. Web sites could be slow or inaccessible, companies could have a harder time setting up new services, Internet service providers could have a hard time keeping up with subscriber growth, and security will have to adapt to the new technology.The Net won't collapse, though.Leslie Daigle, chief technology officer of the Internet Society, a standards and advocacy group, likens the situation to a changing separation of railroad tracks. Trains for one can't travel on tracks for the other, and moving data between the networks is, in effect, as onerous as unloading and reloading traincars' cargo.&quot;If you have a Web site, you are basically going to have some customers coming on wide gauge and on narrow gauge,&quot; Daigle said. &quot;Narrow gauge is going away.&quot;To give the world a chance to wrestle the IPv6 bull directly by the horns, the Internet Society is helping to organize the World IPv6 Day. On June 8, content providers such as Google and Yahoo and content distributors such as Akamai and Limelight Networks will offer their services over IPv6 for 24 hours for a collective evaluation and troubleshooting session.That means, for example, that Google will enable IPv6 service on its primary domains, not just in a dedicated corner such as today's ipv6.google.com (that link won't work for most folks today). Those with IPv6 connectivity will help to stress test a tender new Internet.People who want to get an earlier start can point their browser to an IPv6 readiness test page to see how far along they are. All modern personal computer operating systems can handle IPv6 with no trouble, but the connection to the Internet is another question entirely.The end in sight--for yearsExperts have known for ages that the limit of 4.3 billion IP addresses would be a problem with the prevailing Internet Protocol version 4. The problem stemmed from a 1977 decision by Vint Cerf, who now is an Internet evangelist at Google.At the time, just a few years into the Internet's history, he decided to use 32-bit Internet addresses. But 2 to the 32nd power, about 4.3 billion, looks a lot smaller in 2011 than in 1977.&quot;Who the hell knew how much address space we needed&quot; Cerf told journalists in Sydney, Australia, recently.It didn't take until today to figure out an answer to that question, though. That's why in the 1990s, Internet engineers developed IPv6, which has a practically inexhaustible supply. To be precise, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses.The big problem, though: IPv6 isn't compatible with IPv4, so making the transition is painful for a wide spectrum of the computing industry.The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which doles out IPv4 addresses in blocks of 16.8 million called slash-eights or /8s to five organizations called regional Internet registries (RIRs), only has seven of the 256 &quot;slash-8&quot; blocksoriginal 256 /8s left. And after the next two are handed out, the remaining five will automatically be distributed to each of the RIRs, which in turn will offer them to Internet service providers, hosting companies, and others with an appetite.Yahoo Japan&amp;39's broadband service has been evaluating the best ways to offer IPv6 connections. It&amp;39's not simple.(Credit:Yahoo Japan/Softbank)The imminent exhaustion of IANA's IPv4 addresses helps put a timetable on the IPv6 transition. That's a big change from the last decade, when IPv4 exhaustion was clearly going to happen but not on some specific schedule.Setting a deadlineThe timing is helpful for getting planning in gear. In fact, it makes makes the IPv6 transition look more like Y2K, the expensive problem that peaked on January 1, 2000, when computers storing dates with only two digits could confuse 2000 with 1900. Like Y2K, the IPv6 transition requires companies to spend money on mundane infrastructure upgrades rather than exciting new revenue-generating services.But there's a big difference between the Y2K and IPv6 challenges. Y2K was mostly limited to isolated computing systems. With the exhaustion of IPv4 Internet addresses, the entire Internet needs to be upgraded to IPv6--everything from Web sites to smartphones, from networked gaming consoles to routers that pass information across the Internet.That means regular folks are going to be dragged into the IPv6 transition, said Martin Levy, director of IPv6 strategy at Hurricane Electric, a back-end Internet service provider that has had a concentrated IPv6 program for years.&quot;When you walk into [electronics stores such as] Fry's, Dickson's, or Comet, you look at the shelves and pick the wireless gateway you want for your home. You may want 802.11n or a printer port or storage,&quot; Levy said. &quot;But at what point do you say, 'I want v6 enabled' You don't have a realization as a consumer that this is important.&quot;And as with Y2K, when companies bought a glut of new servers to replace aging systems, there's money to be made from the IPv6 transition. Hurricane Electric isn't the only one with a sales pitch.NTT America has had a specialized service for helping companies through the change. And AT&amp;T, which &quot;has invested millions of dollars to ensure that its own network and services are ready to make the transition to the new Internet Protocol,&quot; yesterday announced a consulting service for businesses facing the change.Early adoptersNot everyone is scrambling, though. Google is perhaps the best example of a company that's been working to adjust to IPv6 before crunch time. It's used IPv6 both for internal operations and, increasingly, external sites.In 2008 came Google search over IPv6, with a public launch in January 2009. In March 2009 came Google Maps, then in August the first IPv6-enabled Android phones. In Feburary 2010, YouTube showed up, leading to an overnight surge in Google's outgoing IPv6 traffic.&quot;The key lesson that we learned was starting early and taking the transition slowly. It was cheap and relatively easy,&quot; Colitti told CNET. &quot;We also found that an incremental approach was key: by bringing IPv6 to one service at a time and using shim layers when communicating with back-ends, it's possible to achieve slow but steady progress rather than have to tackle the whole code base at once. Unfortunately, it's getting late for that approach now.&quot;Facebook, too, has been working on the problem, and like Google, has been avoiding the idea of separate internal infrastructure for IPv4 and IPv6. &quot;Since last summer, we've offered Facebook over IPv6 at www.v6.facebook.com,&quot; said Donn Lee, a Facebook network engineer. We leverage as much of the existing systems in our data centers to minimize separate paths and functions for v6. We are not unique in this practice. Others are following similar strategies. Having a parallel Facebook for v6 won't scale.&quot;Where's the appetite for IPv6 data A huge amount, at least for Google in 2010, was France. That's because, Free.fr, a French Internet service provider that offers phone and TV service as well, made the jump to IPv6 in 2008.They're still a rarity. Google statistics show that a little over 0.2 percent of Google visitors today would get Google services over IPv6 if they were offered on the company's primary domains rather than IPv6-specific addresses.Unfortunately for early adopters, there can be an IPv6 penalty. IPv6 routes across the Internet can meander through distant, sometimes overloaded gateways rather than connect computers more directly, Yahoo IPv6 expert Jason Fesler said in a presentation last year. &quot;A small percentage of the users will, when given the chance to connect to an IPv6 address, time out instead of quickly and transparently failing over to IPv4,&quot; he said.In other words, at times, IPv6 servers will appear to be offline--something that makes Yahoo &quot;a bit timid&quot; about serving content over IPv6. It lags Google and Facebook, in part because of higher priority engineering projects, and plans to begin offering its services over IPv6 in late 2011, Fesler said.That's changing, though. Gradually, nodes on the Internet will start getting wired into the IPv6 Internet, relieving congestion. Right now, by Hurricane Electric's measurements, 8 percent of those nodes are on IPv6.&quot;More and more networks are going v6' but that's a measurement in the core of the networks, not the end user connections,&quot; Levy said. &quot;We see that improving day over day.&quot;Worth it in the endPerhaps the best news about the IPv6 transition is that, once it's mostly over, the Internet will be a qualitatively different place. With vast tracts of IP addresses available, individual ones can be assigned to phones, computers, cars, stereo components, living-room thermostats, heads-up display glasses, wristwatches, home solar panels--you name it. Where a case can be made for networking, these devices will be able to communicate directly without the network topology shenanigans such as network address translation necessary today.One consequence of that more direct connection is the elevation of peer-to-peer communications in the network. Central servers will remain important, but no longer necessarily a gateway.Less revolutionary but probably more persuasive for those in the computing trenches, IPv6 makes the more mundane business of networking easier, too. There, perhaps, people can relish a little taste of the carrot even as they smart from the stick .&quot;Direct connections between users and sites...allows for faster, more reliable, more secure, and less costly Internet service,&quot; Facebook's Lee said. &quot;Almost everyone in the Internet ecosystem is motivated along these lines.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CDMA iPhone shipments could top 12 million in '11]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>belimsirkak</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple's CDMA-compatibleiPhone isn't on the market yet, but estimates for the number of units shipping in 2011 are apparently on the rise.(Credit:Kent German/CNET)Pegatron, the Taiwan-based company that is manufacturing the CDMA iPhone for Apple to sell through Verizon, is expecting to ship 12 million to 15 million units in 2011, component makers told DigiTimes. That's up from previous internal estimates of 10 million CDMA iPhones for 2011, the Taiwan-based tech news site reported Tuesday.Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster recently pegged the number of iPhones Verizon would sell the first year at 9 million, which is below Pegatron's first estimate.Apple'sVerizon iPhone has been one of the most rumored devices since Apple first brought the iPhone to AT&amp;T four years ago. Verizon announced last week that it will launch its iPhone on February 10. There are very few differences between the upcoming CDMA iPhone and GSM iPhone models currently being sold around the world. Perhaps the biggest difference is the fact that the mute switch had to be moved to accommodate the CDMA antenna.Existing Verizon customers can preorder the iPhone 4, starting February 3.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Battle Royale 4: Windows Phone 7 enters the ring]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Eric Franklin/CNET)Editors' note: If you've already read &quot;Battle Royale: Five smartphones face off&quot;, &quot;Battle Royale 2: Smartphones face off, screen to screen&quot;, or &quot;Battle Royale 3: The Final Conflict&quot; (which, you know, didn't really pan out given the article you're currently reading), then you may experience some deja vu when reading this article. We've used the same tests and presented the article in the same style. Only the phones in question and the details of their performance have changed. Because of some technical difficulties on the back-end, our How We Test Smartphone Displays page (still!!) isn't up yet, but hopefully, by Round 5 it will be.I've now tested 12 different smartphone displays, including the two new ones presented today. Android andiPhone fans remain as passionate as ever about seemingly every aspect of their favorite phones, but now a new fighter enters the tournament. Today we test our firstWindows Phone 7...um, phone. (I still have an aversion to the OS name.) Once again, using DisplayMate Multimedia Edition for Mobile Displays, I put each phone through a battery of tests. Well, today is a new day, and with that comes the promise of a more robust evaluation (or so the saying goes). For Round 4, not only do we have the iPhone 4, but also the Samsung Nexus S. As in previous roundups, we used three different types of tests to evaluate each phone:Scientific measurements: We used the Konica Minolta CS-200 ChromaMeter to test the maximum brightness, black level, and contrast ratio of each phone and reported numbers for each of these three tests.Test pattern screens: We used several DisplayMate Mobile test patterns to test for color-tracking errors, 24-bit color, and font legibility, among others.Real-world: We conducted real-world anecdotal testing using 3D games, and photos.All test screens were viewed within each phone's native gallery application. Some phones may handle pictures differently--and even improve them to some extent--outside the gallery application. That said, we believe that testing within the respective gallery applications is still a viable test, as this is where most users will view pictures on their phones.In order to diminish potential repetition, I'll dive right into the details of how each phone performed' if you'd like to know more about our tests, you can binge on nerdy details in our &quot;How we tested&quot; section at the bottom of this article. Please note that this is an evaluation of each phone's screen performance and nothing else. Check out the full reviews of these phones to determine which is right for you. Also, DisplayMate has posted a more technically focused evaluation of the http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_4_ShootOut.htm iPhone 4 screens that's worth checking out.The bottom line Here's how we rank the phones in screen performance:Apple iPhone 4HTC HD7Samsung Nexus SKeep reading to find out why we ranked them this way. I know everyone has strong opinions and usually fiery passions about their smartphone of choice, so I don't expect everyone to agree with my assessment or the methods used in drawing my conclusions. If there are any questions about how I came to my conclusions or anything relevant I may have left out, please leave a comment saying as much. This has become a regular feature here at CNET, so don't in any way believe this is the last word on the subject. We'll likely be seeing &quot;Battle Royale 15: The iPhone 4 is dead, long live the iPhone 5D &quot; at some point in the not too distant future.Lastly, though I hope consumers get something useful out of this, I'd also be happy if the manufacturers of the phones took a serious look at these results and at least considered them when making their respective hardware and software revisions. We all want these phones to continue improving, and I'm just attempting to contribute to the cause.Apple iPhone 4The iPhone 4 was the best overall performer of the three phones we tested. The iPhone 4 was capable of displaying 24-bit color and was able to display colors in games and pictures with pop and life while still being accurate. The iPhone 4 won in most of our scientific tests and also had the best performance overall in our real-world tests. Once again, the iPhone 4 has the best smartphone screen on the market. HTC HD7The HD7 displayed mostly accurate color' however, the color did show evidence of being washed out in certain tests. Also, the phone's gallery app may have a bandwidth problem, which resulted in blurry text in our tests. We'll need to do more testing though to confirm. Samsung Nexus SThe Nexus S saw an incredible contrast ratio thanks to its OLED screen. Also, it displayed fonts smoothly and legibly and passed the Coke can test with only minimal dithering. Unfortunately the Nexus S failed in most of our other tests, especially color tracking, white level saturation, and false contouring. The Nexus S was the least impressive of the three. How we testedWe measured each display's brightness, black level, and contrast ratio using theCS-200 and test patterns provided by DisplayMate. All phones were tested at their maximum brightness with full battery charges. All readings were conducted in a completely dark room. Phone nameResolutionBrightnessBlack levelContrast ratioApple iPhone 4960x640 pixels510 cd/M20.30 cd/m21,701:1Samsung Nexus S480x800 pixels333 cd/M2(At least) 0.0049 cd/m2(At least) 67,959:1HTC HD7480x800 pixels297 cd/M20.17 cd/m21,747:1  &quot;At least/At most&quot; explanation: True black can be represented as 0 candelas per square meter (cd/M2). Thanks to its OLED screen, the HTC HD7's black levels were so low, the Konica Minolta CS-200 ChromaMeter wasn't equipped to detect them. According to its specs, the CS-200 can only see black-level measurements as low as 0.005 candelas per square meter (cd/m2). Using simple logic, we can infer that both phones achieved, at most, a 0.0049 cd/m2 black level. Using this method we were able to determine the estimated contrast ratio of the Nexus S.  Test patterns: All test pattern tests were conducted in a completely dark room. White-level saturation: This test includes a number of rectangular blocks on a bright, white background. Peak white is represented by the block labeled 255. The closer a screen gets to displaying 255, the more likely it'll be to show certain colors when viewing a really bright screen. The iPhone 4 came out on top here by just barely displaying up to level 254. The HTC HD7 also displayed up to level 254, just not as clearly. The Nexus S achieved no higher than 251, and it must be noted that it had some red tint problems where what should have been gray boxes looked pink instead. Color scales: Tests the display's ability to show 25 distinct intensity levels for each of the 10 primary colors, from black to peak brightness. A perfect showing would have each color with 25 distinct steps. The Samsung Nexus S had the worst performance as its scaling from dark to light included several nonlinear jumps. Also, a few colors within a given color row were noticeably inaccurate. The HTC HD7 showed a linear progression from dark to light, but some of its steps had evidence of compression as some levels blended in with others and were not as distinct as they should have been. The iPhone 4 displayed the color scale linearly and accurately' however, it could not show the next to darkest level of the colors, indicating that very dark colors may be out of the iPhone 4's reach. Both the Nexus S and HD7 had not problem showing that level though. Color tracking: This screen tests the LCD's capability to display the grayscale uniformly and accurately without any color tint problems. As in previous rounds, the iPhone 4 had the best presentation here with an accurate grayscale and no apparent color tint problems. The HTC HD7 also showed an accurate grayscale with no apparent color problems. The Nexus S had a very obvious green and red color tint problem and like in the color scales test, its progression from dark to light was nonlinear and skipped around a lot.  RGBW smooth color ramp: This an excellent test for determining whether the LCD can display 24-bit color. If the scale is smooth, without visible &quot;steps,&quot; the display should be capable of 24-bit color. If not, it's likely limited to 16-bit, or possibly 18-bit, color. The Nexus S showed very visible steps and and is likely not capable of 24-bit color, at least not in its gallery app. Both the iPhone 4 and HD7 each showed a smooth progression from dark to light and likely each supports 24-bit color.  Fonts: We tested black, gray, and white fonts on different combinations of black, gray, and white backgrounds. Depending on how the phone handles things, certain combinations may affect the text's legibility. The HTC HD7 delivered blurry text during our test. Our test photo has a resolution of 480x800, the same as the HD7's native resolution. Also, when viewing Websites and the phone's menu, we saw no signs of blurry text. It could be that the phone's gallery app just doesn't have quite enough bandwidth devoted to it, but we can't yet say that definitively without more testing. Text on the iPhone 4 was sharp, but thanks to its high resolution, was also small and difficult to see without squinting. The Nexus S delivered the best overall text, as it was properly sized and just as sharp as the iPhone 4's.  DisplayMate Mobile's white-level saturation test.(Credit:DisplayMate) Real-world testsCoca-Cola photo: A high-quality picture of a Coke can can be used to test how close the phone can come to reproducing colors from the real world. We used a real Coke can as reference. The iPhone 4 displayed the pic with the most accurate color, where red looked accurate and vibrant without looking washed out. The Nexus S was second best, with a detailed can with only a small amount of visible dithering' however, the color was oversaturated and the can's color appeared more orange-red than red. The HD7 showed no signs of dithering, but had washed-out color.  Mars photo: We used a picture of a sunset on Mars to test the display's real-world false contouring threshold. The sky should appear to smoothly transition in color. If visible steps are noticeable, the phone has a false-contouring problem. The iPhone 4 displayed the clearest picture with no false contouring signs, but it was too dark to see the darkest detail of the rocks on the bottom of the picture. The HD7 came in second with no false contouring, and more visible dark detail than the iPhone 4, but the overall picture was less clear. The Nexus S had very noticeable evidence of egregious false contouring in the sky, but dark detail was more visible than on the iPhone 4.  Game: We used Raging Thunder 2 on the iPhone 4 Raging Thunder 2 Lite on the Nexus S and Need for Speed: Underground on the HD7 to evaluate each phone's color performance in a fast-moving game. Both the iPhone 4 and Nexus S delivered a bright and vibrant image' however, the Nexus S's color was not as accurate and noticeably oversaturated. Not surprisingly, the HD7 showed somewhat washed-out color and a muted vibrancy.  The sun, from a Mars perspective. Each phone should display a smooth transition in intensity and color of the skyline.(Credit:NASA) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Amazon likely to sell 8 million Kindles in 2010]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Kindle is on pace for a very good 2010, according to sources.(Credit:Amazon)Amazon likes to keep its Kindle sales figures pretty close to the vest, so it's been a mystery just how many e-readers the company has sold. But according to a report by Bloomberg, which cites &quot;two people who are aware of the company's sales projections,&quot; the company is likely to sell more than 8 million Kindles this year. That's at least 60 percent more than the 5 million units analysts had predicted Amazon would sell in 2010.Those anonymous sources indicate that the projections show Amazon is &quot;adding share in the e-reader market,&quot; where it's going up against Barnes &amp; Noble and Sony, &quot;faster than predicted&quot; by analysts at Citigroup and at least five other securities or research firms.Of course, howApple's iPad figures in all this is hard to say, as both Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble have apps that allow iPad owners to use the device with those companies' respective e-book stores (Apple has its own iBooks app but it offers fewer books for sale than both the Kindle and Nook apps). The same article mentions that Apple sold 7.46 million iPads from April through September, and many analysts are predicting the iPad will easily surpass the 10 million mark after this holiday buying season.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Superstar Marc Bodnick leaving Yelp, Facebook investor Elevation Partners]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most-watched private-equity partnerships in Silicon Valley is coming apart.Marc Bodnick, a cofounder of Elevation Partners, is planning to leave, according to a source close to the firm.His departure could threaten Elevation&amp;'s plans to raise a second fund, which have been on hold as the firm has struggled to convince investors it can recapture its early magic.Elevation Partners, formed in 2003, brought together a literal rock star &amp;8212' Bono of U2 &amp;8212' with some of the Valley&amp;'s savviest investors, including Bodnick and Roger McNamee, who had previously worked together at Silverlake Capital' former EA executive John Riccitiello' and ex-Apple CFO Fred Anderson.In a San Jose Mercury News profile of Elevation Partners, Bodnick got most of the credit for turning around the fortunes of the firm&amp;'s first fund, largely through investments he led in Yelp, the local-reviews website, and Facebook, the world&amp;'s largest social network (where, it&amp;'s worth noting, Bodnick&amp;'s sister-in-law, Sheryl Sandberg, is chief operating officer).Elevation invested in Facebook shares at a $13 billion valuation' the company was recently valued at $50 billion by DST and Goldman Sachs when they bought $1.5 billion in Facebook shares from the company and other investors.Bodnick also led Elevation&amp;'s $100 million investment in Yelp, where he currently serves as a member of the board. A Yelp spokesman could not immediately say if the company had plans to replace Bodnick on the board.Those are two bright spots in an otherwise troubled record. The firm&amp;'s high-profile investment in Palm looked messy as its big bet on new smartphones failed to pan out, although Elevation ended up making a modest profit when the smartphone maker was sold to HP last year. That was largely thanks to favorably priced warrants Elevation had negotiated at the time it invested.After the Palm deal closed, Elevation lost Patty Halfen Wexler, a well-regarded principal at the firm, and let other staffers go.Around the same time, Elevation hired former eBay CFO Rajiv Dutta and former Apple executive Avie Tevanian as managing directors, suggesting ambitious plans for new investments.Elevation referred questions to Bodnick, who didn&amp;'t respond to a request for comment. It&amp;'s not clear what he plans to do next, although he seems to be spending a lot of time on Quora, the popular question-and-answer service, lately. Just to be safe, we asked him what was going on there, too.Next Story: Googlea4a4s Eric Chu explains Android Marketplace rejections, in-app purchases Previous Story: Kongregate takes another crack at launching online arcade on AndroidPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: departures, Private EquityCompanies: Elevation Partners, Facebook, YelpPeople: Bono, Fred Anderson, Marc Bodnick, Patty Halfen Wexler, Patty Wexler, Roger Mcnamee          Tags: departures, Private EquityCompanies: Elevation Partners, Facebook, YelpPeople: Bono, Fred Anderson, Marc Bodnick, Patty Halfen Wexler, Patty Wexler, Roger McnameeOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat. 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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