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<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sprint asks FCC to block AT&T, T-Mobile merger]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sprint today formally asked the Federal Communications Commission to block AT&amp;T's $39 billion bid to acquire T-Mobile USA on the grounds that it has &quot;no public interest.&quot; The &quot;Petition to Deny&quot; request was filed in Washington D.C. on behalf of Vonya B. McCann, Sprint's senior vice president for government affairs, and other carrier execs.In the 377-page petition (PDF), Sprint argues that the proposed merger would harm competition and consumers by leading to higher prices and poorer service in the wireless industry, impact America's economic growth, and stifle innovation by creating a duopoly between Verizon Wireless and AT&amp;T, the nation's largest and second-largest carriers respectively. &quot;The Commission faces a stark choice in this proceeding,&quot; the petition says. &quot;It can reject AT&amp;T's bid to takeover T-Mobile and extend the last two decades of robust competition in the wireless industry...or the Commission can approve the takeover and let the wireless industry regress inexorably toward a 1980s-style duopoly.&quot;In its own FCC filing last month, AT&amp;T said the merger would not decrease competition and that the marriage is necessary for it to acquire the needed spectrum to roll out a national 4G LTE network. Sprint, however, counters that AT&amp;T's competition clams are &quot;without merit&quot; and the carrier already has ample spectrum to deploy LTE, but has under-invested in its network instead.&quot;AT&amp;T, even without the transaction, holds more licensed spectrum than any other carrier,&quot; the petition said. &quot;AT&amp;T is better positioned to meet consumer demand for mobile broadband services than any of its competitors provided itundertakes the same smart network management practices and network investment the rest of the industry has pursued.&quot;Though the FCC has yet to issue any opinions on the merger, it has established procedural rules for the review process and is allowing the public to weigh in. Congress also has held hearings, though it has no power to approve or deny the acquisition. From almost the moment AT&amp;T announced its bid on March 20, Sprint, the nation's third-largest carrier, has forcefully opposed the deal. It has asked state utility agencies to scrutinize the merger, and CEO Dan Hesse has spoken out against it before Congress, at the CTIA trade show last March, and an April 15 press conference in San Francisco.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's OneNote Mobile arrives on the iPhone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamememaem</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsofts-onenote-mobile-arrives-on-the-iphone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In an important step towards making its note-taking and notebook-authoring service available in more places, Microsoft today has released a pocket-sized version of its OneNote application for Apple's iOS.The software lets users make things like bulleted lists and checklists, as well as grab and insert photos from the user's photo library or the camera app. All these things can be combined into one note with a slightly modified version of the iOS keyboard that adds feature shortcuts just above the keys.OneNote on the iPhone (click to enlarge)(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)OneNote Mobile for iOS shares a similar feature set to its cousin onWindows Phone 7, both in its authoring tools, as well as the capability to sync up to Windows Live SkyDrive. This means users can pen notes within the app, sync up, then continue working on them through the OneNote software back on their PC--and vice versa. In a call with CNET about the app earlier this morning, Jason Bunge, who is the senior director for Office Product Management at Microsoft, said SkyDrive sync works just like it does on Windows Phone 7, but that everything else about the app has been made to fit in and feel like a standardiPhone app.&quot;We certainly optimized each app for the device that it runs on,&quot; Bunge said. &quot;So if you go and download OneNote for the iPhone today, it will feel like an iPhone app, just as if you look at Office Mobile on the Windows Phone and the OneNote experience on that device, it absolutely feels integrated with that Windows Experience.&quot; OneNote currently has some 80 million users in the U.S., all of which are coming from the company's Office software on the PC. And as for why it's arriving on iOS before the more well-known Office applications like Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, Bunge said it's a better fit for the needs of the mobile office worker.&quot;We absolutely want to make sure we're delivering the right mobile experiences to our broad Office customer base, and note-taking absolutely popped to the top,&quot; Bunge said. &quot;We also know from Windows Phone 7 use, that note-taking ability in that app is one of the most-used Office features, so for us this was a natural priority, frankly, to address user needs and feedback,&quot; he said.Microsoft plans to charge for the application, but as part of a limited time offer is making it available as a free download. How much it will cost, and when the free offer runs out, the company has not yet said.OneNote joins a select handful of other iOS apps made by Microsoft, like Bing, Wonderwall, Windows Live Messenger, Tag Reader, and the now-retired Sea Dragon app, which was the company's first iPhone effort. When OneNote's price does--eventually--go up, it will be the first paid application in Microsoft's portfolio.Update at 10:32 a.m. PT: We've just heard the application is currently available only for U.S. App Store users. No word yet on if, or when it will be available in other markets. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Giant batteries steady grid in New York]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamememaem</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=giant-batteries-steady-grid-in-new-york</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lithium ion batteries aren't just for your laptop anymore. A group of truck-size battery banks are delivering quick bursts of power to the electricity grid in upstate New York.AES Energy Storage, a subsidiary of power generation company AES, today said that the first 8 megawatts of a planned 20-megawatt battery grid storage system are now online in Johnson City, N.Y. The full project is expected to be completed later this year.The network of batteries is designed to keep an even balance between energy supply and demand in that portion of the New York grid. The batteries will store energy and, based on a signal from grid operators, supply power for a few seconds as needed.This battery system supplies eight megawatts of power to the grid in upstate New York to maintain a steady frequency. It will be expanded to 20 megawatts later this year.(Credit:AES Energy Storage)The electric grid requires a steady frequency--the rate with which current changes direction in the U.S. grid. Frequency regulation, as it's called in the utilty industry, is traditionally done by turning up natural gas turbines to increase power into the grid.The advantage of a battery-based system is that it can respond quickly--in as little as one second, according to AES--and is less polluting than turning up fossil fuel plant generation.There are already battery storage systems connected to the grid, but AES said this is the largest in the U.S. Battery maker A123 Systems, which also makes batteries and cells forcars and power tools, supplied the hardware for the storage system. The Johnson City project received a $17.1 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, which has funded a number of energy storage-related projects. Another technology being tested for frequency regulation is flywheels supplied by Beacon Power, which is developing a frequency regulation service in Stephentown, N.Y.AES Energy Storage is making revenue on the project already since it gets paid for regulating the frequency, one of a few ancillary services provided to grid operators to maintain reliability. It says it has other frequency regulation projects in its pipeline, including one for 100 megawatts of power in advanced development. Grid energy storage for different applications has risen in importance the last few years. Using storage can make the grid more reliable and make it easier to integrate intermittent wind and solar energy sources, say experts. Energy storage on grid heats up (photos) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Use Chrome Like Twitter Embedly&'s Parrotfish Is Your New Best&nbsp'Friend]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamememaem</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[When &amp;8216'New Twitter&amp;8216' launched earlier this year, it brought a slew of new features alongside its UI overhaul. One of the coolest additions was a new Preview mode a4&quot;a4sclick on a tweet, and in some cases you can see the linked photo, YouTube video, or other piece of content in the right sidebar without having to leave your Twitter stream.  There&amp;'s just one little problem: Twitter only shows embeds for a limited number of services. And today, Embedly has released a new plugin for Chrome called Parrotfish that goes a long way toward fixing it.According to the Embedly blog, at launch, Twitter was showing previews from 16 services like YouTube and iTunesa4&quot;a4sthey&amp;'ve since upped that number to 31, including favorites like Instagram. But there are still a lot of services that Twitter doesn&amp;'t support, like The Onion and or ESPN. With Parrotfish installed, the number of supported services jumps up to a whopping 165 providers (you can see a partial list of them below).It&amp;'s a free extension for Chrome, and it includes a handful of other features as well, like additional phishing detection for links shared on Twitter. And there&amp;'s another really cool feature: for sites that don&amp;'t have supported embeds, Embedly will still generate a preview of the site that displays an image, headline, and brief excerpt (think the previews you see when you share a link on Facebook and you&amp;'ll get the idea).The extension was built by Embedly, a startup that makes it easy for developers to convert a basic link into a rich embed (a link to Amazon can be converted to a visual product overview, for example). The startup recently raised funding from Y Combinator, Lowercase Capital, and SV Angel.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Splunk (who) takes on Google, Microsoft and Facebook for talent in Seattle]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamememaem</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[IT search engine provider Splunk is opening an office in Seattle, Wash., to try to acquire some of the talent in the area a4&quot; and will be competing with a number of Web 2.0 titans and tech giants to do so.Splunk provides IT professionals with ways to log any piece of information and quickly index it, find it and run a number of analytics functions on it. That can be GPS data, data from customer relationship management (CRM) software from Oracle or cell phone data a4&quot; basically anything, as long as it has a time stamp. The service has a bit of a cult following among IT professionals and is a pretty strong candidate for an IPO this year.Splunk is basically making a statement that it can compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other Web 2.0 titans a4&quot; all of which have offices in the Seattle area a4&quot; for talented developers and engineers. The competition for talent in Silicon Valley is even more fierce, with basically every tech company in existence running a San Francisco- or Bay Area-based office.It wasn&amp;'t a move to save money, either, said Splunk co-founder Erik Swan. The new office will serve as a home base for Brad Lovering, a Microsoft technical fellow that Splunk just hired, and as a recruiting central for the area. Splunk considered Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, as potential locations for new offices. Each spot has its own quirks and types of engineers and developers, and Seattle ended up being the best fit, Swan said.Microsoft had a lot to do with that culture, said Swan. Founded in 1975, Microsoft has been based in Redmond, Wash., since its inception. Microsoft, along with Amazon, has attracted a large amount of system administrators and developers to the Seattle area, he said.&amp;''Microsoft has done a brilliant job of building people who understand the developer ecosystem, what it means to support developers,&amp;'' Swan said. &amp;''Much more so than the Valley.&amp;''Splunk has raised $40 million in venture funding fromIgnition Partners,August Capital,JK&amp;amp'B Capital, and Sevin Rosen Funds. The San Francisco, Calif.-based company brought in $66 million last year in revenue, up 96 percent from 2009, and signed on an extra five Fortune 100 companies as clients. Splunk currently has around half of the Fortune 100 companies as clients, and 2,500 customers overall.The company has around 260 employees and also has an office in Hong Kong.Next Story: Tello launches an app to rate customer service anywhere Previous Story: Online content helps push Red Dead Redemption game sales to 8MPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CRM, customer relationship management, hipster startup, IT, obscure, Seattle, silicon valleyCompanies: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, SplunkPeople: Brad Lovering, Erik Swan          Tags: CRM, customer relationship management, hipster startup, IT, obscure, Seattle, silicon valleyCompanies: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, SplunkPeople: Brad Lovering, Erik SwanMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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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