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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft works to woo advertisers with technology]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jasonmichael004</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer made a pitch to a collection of the world's top advertisers that his company is in the best position to bring together the different marketing opportunities offered by the Web, mobile phones, video gaming, and television.&quot;All of our marketing customers kind of wish there was one thing you could promote on called the Internet,&quot; Ballmer told about 200 agency and brand advertising executives today at Microsoft's Imagine2011 conference on the company's campus. The way it works now, advertisers have to gin up different approaches for different mediums, buying ad spots in a disjointed set of ways. &quot;We have to make the Internet better in order to have it grow to be the standard platform for marketing,&quot; Ballmer said.Microsoft, which generates $3 billion in ad revenue annually, is working on &quot;the commercial glue&quot; to buy advertising for campaigns easily across multiple devices, Ballmer said. To that end, Microsoft rolled out the latest version of Microsoft Advertising Exchange, that's now been integrated with the real-time bidding system of AppNexus.Though Microsoft remains far behind Google in online advertising sales, the business generates $3 billion in annual revenue for the software giant. &quot;It's the most rapidly growing part of our business. It's superimportant to us,&quot; Ballmer said.That's why Microsoft holds the annual advertising gathering and trots out Ballmer to pitch the company's advertising business. It will show off not just its advertising tools, but technology such asWindows Phone 7,Xbox, and Bing, where advertisers can sell their message. And it's brought to Redmond big thinkers, such as Rhode Island School of Design President John Maeda and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, to lure ad executives to the meeting and get them to think broadly about new opportunities.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[T-Mobile to shut down Sidekick data service May 31]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jasonmichael004</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[As of May 31, the Danger service for T-Mobile Sidekicks will be no more.(Credit:Corinne Schulze/CNET)It's the end of an era. T-Mobile announced this evening that it will discontinue its Danger data service to all Sidekick models starting May 31, 2011.At that time, you will no longer be able to access data stored on Danger's cloud-based service, including contacts and photos. Internet and e-mail service will also be cut off. If you wish, you can still use the Sidekick for calls and text messaging. T-Mobile will begin sending out letters to current Sidekick owners tomorrow to alert them to the change and provide information about transferring data and transitioning to a new device. If you're one of the affected users, the first thing you'll want to do is get all of your personal data from the Danger service. T-Mobile provides a couple of ways to do this. The first is through MyT-Mobile.com' there you will find a Web tool that can export your information, including contacts, appointments, photos, and bookmarks, to a new device, computer, or e-mail account.The second method is to use the data transfer application, which is available from the Sidekick app catalog, and export all your data onto the Sidekick's memory card. You can then bring that card to a T-Mobile store and have a representative transfer the information onto your new phone.The carrier said it will provide special offers on devices to Sidekick owners but didn't provide any specifics at this time. More information is expected in the coming weeks. It is T-Mobile's goal, however, to have the new Android-based T-Mobile Sidekick 4G available by spring, ahead of the May 31 cut-off date. Old phones can be returned to T-Mobile for recycling.T-Mobile told CNET in a phone interview that the decision to shut off service was made jointly by Microsoft and Danger as a reflection that older devices must be replaced with newer ones. The carrier added that it was a natural evolution as the market transitions to new operating systems. The first T-Mobile Sidekick (aka Danger Hiptop) debuted in 2002 with a 240x160-pixel-resolution, 4-bit monochrome screen. The most recent model was the T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Path changes course with comments, e-mail access]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jasonmichael004</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[I went to see Dave Morin, CEO of Path, because I didn't understand the quirky little photo-sharing service. I had signed up and added a few friends, but found it a spare and unsatisfying social experience.  Path is the anti-Twitter and the anti-Facebook: You can only share your stream with 50 people. Compared with almost all other social services, it is closed off--and to some (like me)--claustrophobic. Path may be tapping into a need, though. Existing social services are too broad and, by design, encourage people to &quot;friend&quot; or follow others with wanton abandon. That, in turns, leads people to self-censor' if you have 1,000 friends, do you want to share genuinely intimate moments with all of them Path CEO Dave Morin in the company&amp;39's new downtown San Francisco office.(Credit:Rafe Needleman/CNET)With Path, since you have a limited number of friends you can add, you have to decide for each person--is this person really among my closest friends Then, OK, I can share a photo from my kid's hospital visit. It is true that you can do this in Facebook, with the &quot;limited profile&quot; feature. But according to Morin, who worked at Facebook and helped create the Facebook Platform, fewer than 5 percent of Facebook users use this feature.  So Path has locked itself into a slow growth curve. It'll never supernova like Facebook or Twitter did. Then there's an accessibility problem. Until very recently, onlyiPhone owners could use Path. If you wanted to share pictures with your mother but she didn't have an iPhone, you were both out of luck. That recently changed, as you can now &quot;friend&quot; people with just e-mail addresses' photos can be viewed in the e-mail messages people get.  Path also felt small due to its very limited interaction features. You could post photos and flag places and people, but you could neither add commentary (other than flagging a photo as being a &quot;thing&quot;) nor get followers' comments on your posts. Today, finally, that's changing, as Path is adding a real-time commenting feature, Path Chat, to the iPhone version of the site. E-mail and Web commenting will get layered in later.  Commenting makes Path an actual dialog. Prior to this feature, it felt like a broadcast service (Twitter at its worst) but with a really weak transmitting antenna due to the follower count limitation. Now that you can actually put captions on photos and have a dialogue with your friends, it's like a more intimate and better-looking Facebook. Path gives iPhone users a very attractive tool for sharing photos with (only) their closest friends.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) An Android version of Path is also in development. So is some form of Facebook integration.  The real puzzler for me is Path's business model. It's a free service, but it has a tight governor on user growth. It'll get location-based ads at some point, says Morin, but without an aggressive user growth model that won't generate much money. The real revenue stream, Morin says, hinges on the big existing market for &quot;expression goods&quot;--custom personal trinkets spun off from users' content. Initially I thought this meant that Path users would be able to throw personalized, virtual sheep at each other, but perhaps there's a bit more to it. Photo sharing sites make money when users buy prints, mugs, shirts, and calendars, for example. And if Path becomes the site where you share the kinds of pictures that find their way onto mugs, there might be a few bucks in that. Morin points out that services like Evernote and Dropbox, which are free, not necessarily social, and have rabid fans, &quot;convert&quot; their users to paid accounts at a very high rate, 5 percent to 10 percent. I admit I still don't see people signing up to pay for a limited social network, although if (big if) close family and friend circles start to rely on this service, some users could be convinced to upgrade to a paid account if they got additional features, perhaps optional Instagram-like effects for their photos. Or, maybe, a higher friend-count maximum, even if that would be antithetical to Path as it is today.  I get Path now, although personally it's still not working for me as a must-have sharing service. Nor does it read for me as a killer business. The team is top-notch, though. Investors Kleiner-Perkins and Index Ventures have put $8.5 million into this operation, clearly betting on the team's ability to carve a bit of the social network space out of Facebook's hide. I wouldn't bet against this team, especially now that it's well-funded enough that it can take big risks and change directions a few times. I would only bet that if Path succeeds, the product won't look much like the Path we know today.  Related: Path, Instagram, and what the 'Facebook mafia' sees. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IE9 beta patches bring stability, feedback fixes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jasonmichael004</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest beta of Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser has two new fixes out that the company says will improve stability, as well as squash a feedback bug some users had been experiencing.The stability fix, which rolled out as an automatic update to IE9 beta users mid-day yesterday, should address some of the issues users have had with the browser crashing. Microsoft did not go into detail on if this was tied to any specific usage behavior, or any add-ons, just that it &quot;improves the reliability of Internet Explorer 9 Beta in various scenarios.&quot; The feedback bug, on the other hand, was a more localized issue, affecting users on 64-bit machines with Windows Live Essentials 11 installed, who could not use IE9's built-in tool for sending feedback.At last month's PDC, Microsoft said the beta of IE9 had been downloaded more than 10 million times in six weeks. Last week the company also rolled out another platform preview of IE9, the seventh so far.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[N.Y. appeals court revives Amazon's sales tax suit]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Politics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[In a long-awaited decision that could shape the debate over Internet taxes, a New York appeals court today reinstated Amazon.com and Overstock's lawsuit claiming a state law forcing them to collect sales taxes was unconstitutional.A New York appeals court ruled 5-0 that &quot;the dismissal of the entire complaint was premature&quot; and that the lawsuit should continue.The legal actions, filed a few weeks apart in early 2008, claimed that the state law was &quot;invalid, illegal, and unconstitutional.&quot; Amazon has, however, been collecting sales taxes on shipments to Empire State customers while the case is under way.Today's decision is anything but a complete victory for the Internet retailers, however: the judges ruled that, in at least some cases, the state law can be constitutional. That leaves the retailers' other arguments--which are separate and still in play--that the statute remains unconstitutional as applied to the Internet and their businesses. Further proceedings and evidence are necessary &quot;before a determination can be rendered&quot; on that point, the appeals court said.Brad Maione, a spokesman for the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, told CNET, &quot;We're pleased with the decision in light of the fact that the court found that the statute is indeed constitutional. We are confident that we will prevail in the end.&quot;Amazon.com declined to comment.In general, a 1992 Supreme Court ruling says that retailers can't be forced to collect sales tax on out-of-state shipments unless they have offices in those states. In the last few years, though, revenue-hungry state governments have tried to find ways to test the boundaries of that decision.A report earlier this year said that 16 states have considered or are considering enacting laws targeting Amazon and other e-commerce companies that typically do not charge sales tax for shipments sent outside their home state, and that four states already have enacted them.The justification for the laws is a reprise of arguments that state tax collectors have made for at least a decade: they claim that Amazon, Overstock.com, Blue Nile, and other online retailers that don't collect taxes are unreasonably depriving states of revenue, and that they enjoy an unfair competitive advantage over local retailers that must collect taxes.New York's law says that companies without offices or employees in the state -- a legal concept called &quot;nexus&quot; -- nevertheless must collect sales tax if the firm receives revenue from affiliates located in the state.The non-partisan Tax Foundation, which filed a brief arguing the New York law was unconstitutional, said the appellate court offered some &quot;ominous&quot; suggestions about Amazon's liability. &quot;Solicitation plus sales creates nexus for the affiliates, but it shouldn't create nexus for Amazon,&quot; the foundation said.Today's decision could be appealed to the highest state court, which is called the Court of Appeals.Last updated 11 p.m. PT<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s Christmas time for Instapaper fanatics: Developer Marco Arment has finally delivered Instapaper 3.0 for the iPhone and iPad, bringing with it new social features, sharing options, and more.For  those not familiar with the insanely useful service, Instapaper lets  you easily save articles on the web to read later. Saved articles appear  in a minimal format that strips out unnecessary distractions like ads.  You can read the saved pieces on Instapaper&amp;'s website, and Arment... Continue ReadingAOL eliminated approximately 900 jobs today, including 200 US employees in the media and tech group and 700 people in India.In a company memo that has leaked out to a number of news organizations, chief executive Tim Armstrong tries to paint the move as a positive and necessary step towards turning the company around, saying it will a4Asignificantly improve AOLa4a4s ability to focus on growth.a4 And despite the layoffs, Armstrong said AOL will be... Continue ReadingRadiumOne said it has raised $21 million for a new digital ad network that leverages the social web.That a lot of capital for an ad-based startup, but the San Francisco company believes it can deliver superior advertising performance through its patent-pending ShareGraph technology. The ShareGraph technology analyzes how users communicate with their closest connections and then identifies the specific consumers who are most likely to engage with a brand&amp;'s ads. RadiumOne says this works... Continue ReadingVideo game players finally bought enough games in February to push the monthly sales numbers above year-ago figures, with February sales coming in 3 percent above a year ago.Total sales of game hardware, PC games, console games, and  portables rose 3 percent to $1.36 billion from $1.33 billion a year ago, according  to market researcher NPD. The report is encouraging since many months have been negative compared to year ago numbers. The core video... Continue ReadingThere&amp;'s trouble brewing over at Clearwire, the 4G network company in which Sprint holds a non-controlling majority stake. Chief executive Bill Morrow has resigned from his positions as CEO and executive board director, citing the usual &amp;''personal reasons,&amp;'' the company announced today.Current Clearwire chairman of the board John Stanton will replace Morrow as interim CEO. Stanton was formerly the head of VoiceStream Wireless, a company that in 2001 was bought out by Deutsche Telekom... Continue ReadingIn a move that threatens Intel&amp;'s lock on vast swaths of the computing market, the Chinese-made Loongson chip will take a giant step from netbooks to supercomputers later this year.&amp;''Like a country&amp;'s industry cannot always depend on foreign steel and oil, China&amp;'s information industry needs its own CPU,&amp;'' or central processing unit, said Hu Weiwu, the lead architect Loongson microprocessors, to the Peoplea4a4s Daily newspaper.Intel doesna4a4t have to worry yet: It will take... Continue ReadingJustin.tv, a site that lets web browsers watch and publish live video streams, is recruiting additional developers to build an exclusive electronic sports live-streaming website for games like real-time strategy game Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty.The live streaming site launched a new landing page for job-seekers, saying it wants to &amp;''be the world&amp;'s best live esports site.&amp;'' Justin.tv is already widely used as a place to broadcast live streams of video game matches in... Continue ReadingWhen it comes to iPad 2 reviews, there aren&amp;'t many surprises.  Ita4a4s thinner, faster, and lighter, just like Apple claimed when it was unveiled last week.Reviewers all agree that ita4a4s still the best tablet on  the market right now. After all, ita4a4s Applea4a4s second stab at a tablet, while most competitors are still struggling to launch their first entries (Samsung is one of the rare exceptions with last yeara4a4s Galaxy  Tab).For new tablet... Continue ReadingProduction and installation of solar power fixtures grew 67 percent in the United States a4&quot; but it wasn&amp;'t enough to keep up with booming demand and growth of the solar power industry in Europe, according to a new report by the Solar Energy Industries Association.The U.S. solar power industry grew 67 percent to $6 billion in 2010, up from $3.8 billion in 2009, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.Solar electric installations generated... Continue ReadingIt seems pretty obvious nowadays that companies need to engage with their customers on social networking sites like Twitter. But how can they find the comments that are really worth a response A startup called InboxQ has one answer: Look for the questions.The San Francisco company was incubated at Y Combinator under the name Answerly and started out as a Q&amp;038'A search engine, but it relaunched last month with a new name and a... Continue ReadingMobile social game platform Scoreloop is encouraging iPhone game developers to switch sides with the launch of its Go Android campaign.Munich-based Scoreloop makes mobile games more social by infusing them with features such as achievements, leaderboards, friend requests and multiplayer challenges. It started on the iPhone and now it is encouraging developers to make games for Google&amp;'s Android operating system.This move is another nudge that could get the snowball rolling in Google&amp;'s favor... Continue ReadingGoogle suffered a black eye with the malware that targeted dozens of Android Market apps last week. But even as users clean out their phones, now comes this: the Android Market Security Tool released by Google has been copied to third-party alternative Android markets and it is itself embedded with malware.The latest incident shows that it&amp;'s not that easy to keep a multifaceted mobile app ecosystem free of malware.On March 6, Google published... Continue ReadingIn a sign of the growing importance of computers in education, Lenovo has signed up to join Intel&amp;'s Classmate PC program which sells child-friendly computers to governments and schools.The education market for PCs is booming worlwide as schools and teachers see more value in low-cost web-connected computers as learning devices.Lenovo is now making its Lenovo Classmate+PC and will sell them for $300 to $400, depending on configuration. Lenovo&amp;'s first major customer is Argentina&amp;'s... Continue ReadingLinkedIn just announced a new product today called, uh, LinkedIn Today. It&amp;'s an online news site with the most-shared headlines on the professional networking service.At first glance, this might not seem all that different from all the other news services pulling headlines from Facebook and Twitter. The difference, however, is that LinkedIn Today is connected to users&amp;' professional identities, which means it can filter the headlines in a cool new way. For example, if... Continue ReadingThere is no bubble forming around Silicon Valley or tech startups because white-hot companies like Twitter and Facebook are able to show they have fundamental value and are capable of making money, Phil Black, co-founder at early stage venture capital outfit True Ventures told me today.&amp;''There is no bubble at current moment. There are very successful Internet businesses being created that are growing very rapidly and are making a lot of pretax profit,&amp;'' said... Continue ReadingBain Capital Ventures has led an $8.3M investment round in Clovr Media, which has built the first platform that converts banner, text-link, video, or mobile ads into card linked offers.The company, which aims to pioneer &amp;''Loyalty 2.0,&amp;'' or the next generation of consumer loyalty programs, gives advertisers the ability to offer special discounts to consumers without requiring any payment up front or paper coupons from users. The company works with financial institutions to present... Continue ReadingSome of the excitement around real-time search seems to have died down recently &amp;8212' Ia4a4m no longer seeing hordes of startups embracing the term, and some of the most prominent companies that were active in the space have refocused. But investors still seem to be optimistic about San Francisco startup Topsy, which just announced that it has raised $15 million in a third round of funding.Like other real-time search engines, Topsy allows users to... Continue ReadingThe Go Game, creators of location-based scavenger hunts for companies, today announced the launch of a do-it-yourself iPhone application for creating and participating in local scavenger hunts, according to a company announcement.The application, which is now available in the Apple App Store, is being released at South by SouthWest (SXSW) with basic functionality, including the ability to challenge other players and participate in local scavenger hunts around Austin, Texas, where the event is held.... Continue ReadingMarket research firm Forrester isn&amp;'t putting too much stock in the hype surrounding upcoming Android 3.0 tablets. Instead, the company believes that Amazon is best suited to take on the iPad when it decides to enter the tablet arena.What&amp;'s the problem with Android slates like Motorola&amp;'s recently released Xoom Forrester considers them all too expensive, and they also can&amp;'t match the Apple Store&amp;'s retail experience. Forrester has found that consumers also find Apple&amp;'s products... Continue ReadingAccel Partners and Atomico Ventures have co-led a $42 million investment round for Rovio, the creator of the Angry Birds Franchise.The Angry Birds game is played by 40 million monthly active users and, with sales of over 2 million plush toys, has become one of the most recognized entertainment franchises. The game has had well over 75 million downloads.Rovio plans to use the money to increase its reach internationally and to expand across... Continue Reading<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tesla employee: Model S alpha prototype up and running]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Has Tesla Motors completed its first Model S prototypeA Tesla manufacturing team employee, commenting on Engadget, appeared to confirm a test of the much-anticipated all-electric sedan, Tesla&amp;'s first mass-market model, though Tesla has not formally announced anything.&amp;''I just got to see the 1st Alpha proto run&amp;8230'. And, boy, did that thingrun! The production vehiclewill be as sexy as the red/silver rollers in all the photos. So awesome&amp;8230'.&amp;'' Brian Z. Jones wrote in the comments section of a Tesla story. His Facebook profile identifies him as a production control manager at Tesla.According to some investor slides released last month, Tesla planned to finish its first prototype of its hotly anticipated 2012 Model S all-electric sedanby the end of December. The company has announced an aggressive production plan for the car, and will be assembling vehicles from start-to-end for the first time at its newly acquired $42 million Fremont factory. Many regard the Model S as a major testing ground for the company and the foundation for future revenues after its hot IPO last year.Per Jones&amp;'s comment, it looks like Tesla might have hit the December 2010 goal of getting a prototype up and running. Take it with a grain of salt, though. Outside of the excitement factor, one prototype is probably not that big of a deal, considering automakers like GM typically build dozens before going into full production. And carmakers must crash 20 or more cars in safety ratings tests, Tesla has many more prototypes to make.It&amp;'s also unclear what kind of prototype, exactly, Tesla has built, since there are various stages of advancement possible. An alpha prototype could mean the company built a running Model S using prototype parts that resemble what Tesla intends to produce, according to John Voelcker, editor at Green Car Reports, one of VentureBeat&amp;'s editorial partners. Tesla already has one running prototype it has showcased in the past, which Voelcker rode in briefly in2009.Commenters on the original Engadget post were discussing the battery swap technology that will be incorporated in the Model S, which an exiting Tesla engineering chief Michael Donoughetold Edmunds in 2009 would enable a five-minute battery swap. While startup Better Place has been one of the biggest and most visible proponents of battery-swapping technology &amp;8212' in which a fully charged electric car battery is swapped out with a depleted one &amp;8212' the design wouldn&amp;'t be exclusive for use with Better Place&amp;'s battery swapping infrastructure.Here&amp;'s the full text of what Jones said:&amp;''Working as part of the Model S mfg team, I can tell you it is a single unit. Don&amp;'t take the s below as gospel, I&amp;'m being purposely vague &amp;8211' I&amp;'m sure you understand. '^)Cells a4' modules a4' packs. X of [Panasonic] cells become a module, Y of modules become a pack. Packs are bolted to the underside of the body with 30-something bolts.I wouldn&amp;'t give a direct correlation of a battery-swap to an engine swap. Compared to an engine, the battery-pack is quite large &amp;amp' unwieldy. Most of the people doing engine swaps at home are swapping V8s, which generally go in from above, with a hoist. So you&amp;'re only lifting the weight of the engine (300-700lbs). (Here, we&amp;'re completely ignoring the fact that ppl who spend Mercedes-money on a car are not the type of ppl who do engine swaps in their driveway&amp;8230' :^) ).If you wanted to swap a battery pack at home, 1st, you&amp;'d need to be able to receive something that weighs over 1000lbs., and has a footprint of something like 6ft x 8ft &amp;8211' not realistic in most ppl&amp;'s homes. Then you&amp;'d need to support both the battery pack &amp;amp' the body &amp;8211' separately, of course, since you&amp;'re removing it &amp;8211' the body weighing in at over 2000lbs (thanks to lots of Aluminum). Then you have to roll one or the other away &amp;8211' now, using three times the footprint of the vehicle. Then do it all again, in reverse.You really need a vehicle lift to remove the pack. It will be interesting to see the possible infrastructure develop around swappable packs. If you want to mirror the ICE infrastructure, then this is the way to go. But, I think we need to evolve from that allegory. I&amp;'m not going to postulate on what that could be &amp;8211' I work in process &amp;amp' internal logistics planning, not power-train engineering &amp;8211' but I joined Tesla to be part of this exciting future.I just got to see the 1st Alpha proto run&amp;8230'. And, boy, did that thingrun! The production vehiclewill be as sexy as the red/silver rollers in all the photos. So awesome&amp;8230'.-bZj&amp;''Next Story: Gadgets galore! Consumer electronics to outpace world economy in 2011 Previous Story: Gadget megatrend: From one mobile market to manyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: electric cars, electric vehicles, Model S, RoadsterCompanies: Tesla, Tesla MotorsPeople: Brian Z. Jones          Tags: electric cars, electric vehicles, Model S, RoadsterCompanies: Tesla, Tesla MotorsPeople: Brian Z. JonesIris 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[Shortage of Engineers or a Glut: No Simple&nbsp'Answer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ask a child if there is a shortage of ice cream in the world, and no doubt, the response will be an emphatic yesa4&quot;there certainly is. And ask a tech CEO if there is a shortage of engineers, and you will get the exact same answer.Thata4a4s the story I used to tell, based on my research on engineering graduation rates and outsourcing trends.a4s In 2005, my team shattered the myths about India and China graduating 12 times the numbers of engineers as the U.S. (we found that the U.S. graduated more than India did in 2004, and the quality of Indian and Chinese graduates was not comparable to that of American schools). And our survey of 78 executives from companies that Lou Dobbs (remember him) harangued for a4AExporting Americaa4 revealed that they werena4a4t going offshore because of shortages of U.S. talent or deficiencies in the skills of Americans, but because it was cheaper and these companies needed to be closer to growth markets.The argument that I made, and that the opponents of skilled immigration also make, is that if there was, indeed, a labor shortage, then engineering salaries would be rising and companies would be paying huge bonuses to attract and retain talent. This wasna4a4t the case a few years ago. But with Google giving 10% pay hikes to all of its employees and offering hundreds of thousands of dollars in retention bonuses, this appears to be happening today. In Silicon Valley, there seems to be a talent crunch: most startups, venture capitalists, and big company executives say it is very hard it is to hire the right talent' they claim that wages are rising.But national unemployment rates are hovering around 10%, and tens-of-thousands of highly experienced computer programmers and technical specialists cana4a4t find work. How can this beI believe I know the answer. But to be sure, I asked several experts and even my Twitter followers to share their opinion on my website. I received many insightful responses.Sanjay Subhedar, a VC at Storm Ventures, says that in Silicon Valley, there is a shortage of Objective C developers, analog engineers who understand low power design, and good user-interface designers. There are also shortages of radio-frequency engineers in New York City and in Indiana.Edward Alden, Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations, explains that before the current downturn, computer programmers and software engineers were two occupations that had a4Asomething pretty close to full employmenta4. There was very strong wage growth during the tech boom (1999-2001), and then a leveling offa4&quot;but not a declinea4&quot;in wages from 2001-2007. Complaints of shortages continued post-recession, however, even when the overall unemployment rate of engineers was much higher. Alden postulates that employers are looking for very precise skill sets that are not readily available either because of inadequacies in U.S. education and training, or because of insufficient mobility in the labor force.There is clearly a mismatch between need and skill availability. There are other problems also:Many engineering graduates arena4a4t becoming engineers or joining startups, as UC-Berkeley engineering masters student Rahul Barwani noted.  Most of Rahula4a4s classmates became management consultants or took other non-engineering jobs. Thata4a4s because they received higher salaries than what engineering firms or startups offer.Startups dona4a4t hire students fresh out of college because they cana4a4t afford to train them.a4s As Robert Shedd, CTO of Three Screen Games, explains, startups need people who can hit the ground running. And that is why college graduates in places like Tampa, Florida cana4a4t get jobs, as IT consultant Roy Lawson observes.American companies dona4a4t invest in training their workforce any more like they used to. They expect workers to have all the right skills.Nearly 60% of U.S. engineering post-graduate degrees and 40% of graduate degrees are awarded to foreign nationals. In the past, most of these students would remain in the U.S. after graduation and eventually become U.S. citizens. Now, because of flawed U.S. immigration policies, most buy one-way tickets home.The worlda4a4s best and brightest arena4a4t beating a path to the U.S. any more. In previous years, H-1B visas for foreign nationals were in such high demand that they had to be awarded by lottery. This year, the annual quota of 65,000 hasna4a4t even been used yet. Instead, these workers are staying home and entrepreneurship is booming in countries like India and China.So there are many issues here. But the national debates about competitiveness, immigration, and education, typically focus on the issue of supply and demand of engineers and scientists. They paint this issue in black or white when it is shades of gray.On December 7, The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is releasing a detailed report which analyzes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and worker shortages from a historical perspective. It finds that the standard indicators of salary growth and unemployment rates are not the best metrics for assessing shortages. The authors of the report say it is better to measure the length of time it takes for companies to hire STEM workers' analyze global job growth in a given sector' and compare the U.S. position in the global job market to other countries. They prescribe more skilled immigration and greater investments in the education and skills of American-born workers.All of this is very important, because many countries in the world are moving faster than the U.S. They are learning to innovate and will provide stiff competition in the future. Just when the U.S. should be opening its doors wider to skilled foreign workers and be focusing on nurturing startups, it is turning protectionist and xenophobic. We need to give Silicon Valley every advantage it can have rather than handicapping it with uninformed and misguided policies.Editora4a4s note: Guest writer Vivek Wadhwa is   an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at   UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and   Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research   Commercialization at Duke University. You can follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa and find his research at www.wadhwa.com.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Online holiday shopping climbs 13 percent]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[More shoppers are taking advantage of the Web to avoid crowds, long lines, and the sometimes futile search for deals on Black Friday, according to new data from online research firm comScore.On Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday shopping season, in case you need a reminder) US online merchants saw $648 million in sales this year, up 9 percent from last year. Since the beginning of November (which is what comScore counts as the a4Aholiday shopping perioda4), people have spent $11.6 billion on Web shopping, a 13 percent increase. And that&amp;'s all before Cyber Monday (tomorrow), which is supposedly when holiday shopping really moves online.Those numbers are even better than the general uptick in Black Friday spending. The National Retail Federation reports that more people were shopping  this weekend (212 million compared to 195 million last year) and each of them spent an average of 6 percent more money.Among online retailers, Amazon.com was the big winner, with 25 percent more unique visitors than last year. Walmart was down 1 percent, while Target was up 9 percent, and Best Buy was up 1 percent.[image via Flickr/mmlolek]Previous Story: Week in review: Oracle wins huge verdict against SAPPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Black Friday, Cyber MondayCompanies: Amazon.com, Best Buy, comscore, Target, Walmart          Tags: Black Friday, Cyber MondayCompanies: Amazon.com, Best Buy, comscore, Target, WalmartAnthony 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[Stack Overflow Hits 10M Uniques, Boldly Goes Where No Q&amp'A Site Has Gone&nbsp'Before]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It seems as though Q&amp;amp'A network Stack Overflow has put the $6 million in funding it received back in May to good use, crossing thea4s10 million unique monthly visit mark as of yesterday. While Q&amp;amp'A sites like Quora bank on the winning model being one big monolithic site, Stack Overflow is showing success by carefully separating the Q&amp;amp'A game into different communities, launching 34 different sites on topics as diverse as Bicycling, Cooking and IT Security.The company had only three fulltime developers before its first round of funding, which included rockstar angel investors like Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Naval Ravikant and Caterina Fake. Since then foundersa4sJoel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood have hireda4s24 new employees including Stack Overflow power user Marc Gravell.Despite (or because of) its programming roots, Spolsky tells TechCrunch that the company&amp;'s biggest accomplishment in the past six months has been building Stack Exchange, which allows users to suggest new verticals for Stack Overflow-style Q&amp;amp'A sites like Chess, Aviation and Cryptography. This is a savvy move, as using a consensus model to decide which sites get built ensures critical mass upon arrival and high quality answers like this one.Stack Overflow traffic has soared, going from 6 million to ten million uniques in six months (it took two years to get to the first 6 million). Says Spolsky, &amp;''Almost every programmer in the world knows Stack Overflow and visits regularly, usually because we have the answer to a problem they&amp;'ve typed into Google&amp;8211'and the new Stack Exchange sites are starting to spread rapidly beyond the initial audience of programmers.&amp;'' In my experience, things that have massive traction with coders often pick up mainstream and viral tread, as programmers spend the most time online.Case in point: The new Stack Overflow vertical sites have only been up for a couple months but are already showing 33% monthly growth according to internal metrics. Aside from traffic, success is based on a variety of criteria, the most important of which is the percentage of site questions that have at least one up-voted answer. Spolsky says that all of the new sites have 90-100% answer up-vote rates.In terms of future plans, Spolsky is focusing on Stack Exchange and encouraging the growth of even more new verticals where experts can come together, &amp;''Ultimately wea4sthink there will be hundreds or thousands of these sites providinga4sextremely high quality answers to detailed questions, so the mosta4simportant thing we&amp;'re working on is really cultivating nichea4scommunities.&amp;''The network also recently received a small and mostly symbolic $50K spike of funding from Jason Cohen and Dharmesh Shah and just released a bunch of new features including a Campire-like interactive chat.May the best Q&amp;amp'A site (or sites) win.CrunchBase InformationStack OverflowInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Kno wants to be the tablet for students &8212' but is it too pricey]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tablet maker Kno, which is hoping to find a niche for itself by marketing its devices specifically to students, has announced the pricing for its first tablet computers. The single-pad model will cost $600, and the dual-screen model will go for $900, the company said.Kno&amp;'s idea is to create a cheap tablet designed to carry textbooks for students. When we covered Kno back in September, the company was promising to deliver an affordable single-screen model. But $600 probably isn&amp;'t quite as cheap as many students hoped.The odds are, the tablets will serve well as a textbook readers. Kno co-founder Osman Rashid also helped found textbook rental site Chegg. But general-purpose tablet computers like the iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab already hit a similar price point and offer broader functionality than just a textbook reader. The iPad&amp;'s cheapest model costs $500, while the Samsung Galaxy tablet costs $600 without a contract.In fact, the price point of most tablets is a little daunting compared to just picking up a  full-fledged computer. College students simply write too much and use  other applications like MATLAB and design programs to justify tossing  the computer for any tablet just yet.As a recent college graduate, I honestly can&amp;'t say I could justify picking  up the Kno to avoid carrying textbooks. There&amp;'s a certain tactile  satisfaction that comes from scribbling all over Greenberg&amp;'s twelve-pound guide to Advanced Engineering Mathematics.But Kno has announced partnerships with publishers like Cengage Learning, McGraw Hill, Pearson and Wiley, and will beginmarketing the tablets at 10 college campuses across the country initially. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has raised $55 million to date, including the $46 million it raised in its most recent round of fundraising in September. It has the backing of one of the most prominent VC firms in the valley &amp;8212' Marc Andreessen&amp;'s investing firm Andreessen-Horowitz &amp;8212' and a good bit of momentum. So it will be interesting to see if Kno is finally the company to kill the textbook.Next Story: Online game firm Gazillion raises $60M Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: Oil supply could run out before replacements ready, Solazyme signs JVPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: iPad, Kno Tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab, tablets, textbookCompanies: Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Cengage Learning, Kno, McGraw Hill, Pearson and Wiley, SamsungPeople: Marc Andreessen, Osman Rashid          Tags: iPad, Kno Tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab, tablets, textbookCompanies: Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Cengage Learning, Kno, McGraw Hill, Pearson and Wiley, SamsungPeople: Marc Andreessen, Osman RashidVentureBeat 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[Symbian fail: Nokia takes over platform development as Symbian Foundation implodes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In  yet another blow to the Symbian platform, the non-profit Symbian  Foundation announced today that it will transition to a licensing-only  role, while Nokia will continue development of the mobile platform on its own.a4AThe  founding board members took a bold strategic step in setting up the  foundation, which was absolutely the right decision at the time,a4 wrote  Symbian Foundation executive director Tim Holbrow. a4AThere has since been  a seismic change in the mobile market but also more generally in the  economy, which has led to a change in focus for some of our funding  board members. The result of this is that the current governance  structure for the Symbian platform a4&quot; the foundation &amp;8212' is no longer  appropriate.a4The  Symbian Foundation will lay off its 100 full-time employees, and by  April 2011 it will be governed by non-executive directors who will  manage the licensing operations. Nokia senior vice president Jo Harlow  stresses that the company is still committed to Symbian &amp;8212' it expects to  sell more than 50 million Symbian^3 devices like the N8.A  few weeks ago, we reported that Symbian CEO Lee Williams stepped down from his position for a4Apersonal reasons.a4 At the time, there were  murmurs that it was the beginning of the end for the Symbian Foundation.  The platform also lost much of its third-party support recently &amp;8212'  Motorola dropped Symbian last year and fully committed to  Android, Sony Ericsson dropped support in September, and Samsung gave up on it last month.Symbian  is still the worlda4a4s leading smartphone platform, but ita4a4s market share  is quickly slipping. Research firm Gartner expects it to drop 10 points in market share by 2014 &amp;8212' from 40.1 percent to 30.2 percent &amp;8212' and IDC notes a steady decline as well.Given  that Nokia was the last major contributor standing in the Symbian  Foundation, it makes sense for it to take over the platforma4a4s  development duties. The company says that the announcement wona4a4t affect  the upcoming Symbian Exchange &amp;amp' Exposition 2010 trade show &amp;8212' but  ita4a4s certainly going to be a stormy cloud hanging over that event.Via PC MagNext Story: On the GreenBeat: Coda CEO steps down, Fisker plans to raise up to $150 million before IPO Previous Story: Xbox Live Extras features go live on Windows Phone 7PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: N8, smartphones, Symbian, Symbian^3Companies: motorola, nokia, Samsung, sony ericsson, Symbian FoundationPeople: Lee Williams, Tim Holbrow          Tags: N8, smartphones, Symbian, Symbian^3Companies: motorola, nokia, Samsung, sony ericsson, Symbian FoundationPeople: Lee Williams, Tim HolbrowDevindra 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[Magazine on vinyl LPs features short stories read aloud - Springwise]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We''ve already seen the expansion of magazine publishing well beyond the worlds of web and print and into t-shirts, objects of art and beyond. One we hadn''t seen until recently, however, is a publication for which vinyl is the chosen medium.Sure enough, UK-based Underwood: Stories in Sound (named for the old typewriter company by the same name) is a twice-yearly publication produced on vinyl LPs. The journal comes out every May and November, and each limited-edition issue features two writers reading one of their own short stories. Underwood''s first issue appeared this past May with the works of British writers Toby Litt and Clare Wigfall. Further enhancing the publication''s collectibility, Underwood commissioned LA-based comics artist Jordan Crane to illustrate its cover, according to a report in Publishing Perspectives. A thousand copies of each Underwood issue are produced, with per-issue pricing of GBP 25.a4AA vinyl record is a combination of unique sound and beautiful packaging a4&quot; quite the opposite of digital,a4 Publisher Nathan Dunn told Publishing Perspectives. a4ARecords are all about the experience: youa4a4ve got to lay them down on the turntable, drop the needle and then change the side when ita4a4s done. A record makes you slow down, sit back and pay attention to the words.a4 Indeed, in a world currently dominated by podcasts, e-books and other instantaneous-delivery offerings, it''s intriguing to see the LP brought back as a means of restoring a sense of experience and occasion in story-telling. Reminds us, in fact, of the a4Aslownessa4 trend we''ve observed with the emergence of anti-energy drinks. One to be inspired by! (Related: Analog instant film, brought back for Polaroid fans a4&quot; Bedtime story events for grownups in pajamas a4&quot; An online address for the offline world a4&quot; In web videos, kids read stories for kids.)Website: www.underwoodstories.comContact: hello@underwoodstories.comSpotted by: Cecilia Biemann<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[After Ten Years, LimeWire Capitulates To The Music&nbsp'Industry]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The music industry lawyers just put another notch on their wall.  After ten years of existence, peer-to-peer music sharing service LimeWire is joining Napster, Kazaa, and all the rest.  It will abide by a court-ordered injunction today and begin to disable the file-sharing and music-searching features of its P2P software.  Years of legal battles and the prospects of paying astronomical fines finally did the service in.  We are putting it in the deadpool.The company, LimeCompany, will soldier on.  Transitioning to a music store or legal streaming music service, however, will be tough. It fought a good fight, and lasted longer than most other P2P services. Partly that was because there was usually a bigger P2P sharing service freaking out the music industry. Once the lawyers got rid of those, they finally got around to LimeWire.  Still, it took them the better part of a decade to get LimeWire to comply with an injunction.As far as the Internet goes, the music industry is basically organized around litigation on one side, and extracting maximum licensing fees from music startups that try to play by the rules on the other.  If you want to understand exactly how difficult it is for a music startup to survive, check out this talk by Dalton Caldwell, founder of now-defunct imeem.  The lawyers won, but their ships are still sinking.CrunchBase InformationLimeWireInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AdMob Brings Interactive Video Ads To&nbsp'Android]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google&amp;'s recently purchased mobile ad network AdMob is announcing today that it is bringing interactive video ads to Android phones. AdMob already offers the video ad format for iPhones. Similar to the iPhone formats, the new SDK for Android devices includes interactive video and interactive interstitial ad units. The ad network will dynamically identify screen resolution, size, and network connection speed to serve users the best ad for each device. And Android developers have more  interactive options when including ads in their applications. The new ad units themselves can be placed when an app opens or within an app. AdMob says that it has run over 120 video and interactive interstitial campaigns for clients such as Universal Pictures, Best Buy and Seattlea4a4s Best Coffee. Google&amp;'s big push for AdMob has been the ability to serve interactive mobile ads across many mobile platforms, whereas single-platform options like iAd have been focused on only serving iOS devices, limiting reach for advertisers. Interestingly, Apple is also eying the video ad space and is rumored to be developing iAds for video.  CrunchBase InformationAdMobInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[With OS X Lion, It&'s No Longer Point &amp' Click, It&'s Flick &amp'&nbsp'Swipe]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It feels like we&amp;'re on the verge of something a4&quot; &amp;''feel&amp;'' being the keyword. Personal computing has more or less been the same for a few decades now. It&amp;'s the mouse, the keyboard, the monitor, and the machine. With things like notebook computers, this has been altered a bit, but it&amp;'s the same basic idea. But with the rise of smartphones and now tablets, the whole concept is finally starting evolve. And it looks like OS X Lion will be a key to this transition.On stage last week during their Back to the Mac event, Apple gave a sneak peak at some of what they have in store for the next version of OS X. Of note, CEO Steve Jobs made it very clear that it has been born out of the concept of &amp;''OS X meets iPad&amp;''. In other words, OS X meets iOS, Apple&amp;'s touch-based operating system.Jobs also made it clear that Apple wouldn&amp;'t be creating touchscreen Macs anytime soon. Noting that these concepts &amp;''give great demo&amp;'', he also said that extensive testing over the years have proven that touching a vertical screen just isn&amp;'t ergonomically sound. Instead, Apple has committed itself to developing products that will allow them to use touch elements on the screen, without actually touching it. In their MacBooks, the multi-touch trackpads are built-in. For their desktops, the Magic Mouse and the Magic Trackpad were created to bring multi-touch to all Mac users.Obviously, neither of those products was an accident. As we&amp;'ve noted before, Apple is ushering in an era of touch, and each of these things are key for such a transition. Now, with the features in OS X Lion, we&amp;'re going to see touch concepts fully baked into the traditional operating system for the first time.Sure, Apple has included certain multi-touch options in OS X for some time now' first for MacBook users with multi-touch trackpads, then for Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad users. But all of these are basically tacked-on shortcuts of sorts for stuff you normally do with mouse clicks. Some of these newer OS X Lion features appear to be fully thought-out with multi-touch in mind.As Apple VP of OS X, Craig Federighi, demoed on stage last week, to navigate new features such as full-screen apps and Mission Control, it&amp;'s no longer point &amp;amp' click, it&amp;'s flick and swipe. It&amp;'s a two finger flick to the left or right to travel between full-screen apps a4&quot; and back to your desktop. Interestingly, it&amp;'s also now a two finger flick to the left from your desktop to get access to your desktop widgets (it would appear that they&amp;'re no longer overlaid on your actual desktop). To enter Mission Control, it&amp;'s a three finger swipe down. To get a preview of many open windows in Mission Control, it&amp;'s a two finger swipe up.Yes, pointing and clicking can still be involved for some of this, but it seems that it&amp;'s more of the fallback now. Undoubtedly, there will be keyboard shortcuts as well, but again, as a fallback/power user option. And I can&amp;'t help but wonder if the trackpad &amp;''Tap to Click&amp;'' option will become the norm one day in the not too distant future.And as you may have noticed during his demo, Federighi had trouble a few times launching into Mission Control on the Magic Mouse. Part of that was because he was nervous, but part of that is also because while multi-touch is a nice feature on that device, the surface isn&amp;'t big enough for more advanced gestures. But the Magic Trackpad (and MacBook trackpad) is perfect for those. Remember that there are now more Mac laptop users than Mac desktop users. This trackpad multi-touch manipulation is the future.Given the little we know about OS X Lion so far, I&amp;'m already much more excited about it than I was for OS X Snow Leopard. To me, it seems clear that Apple is going to use this new OS to begin the transition to the golden age of touch computing. I can&amp;'t wait.CrunchBase InformationOS XAppleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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