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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rumor quashed: AT&T won't offer $529 3G iPad 2]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>johnma5k</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sorry, Charlie. That $529 price is for the first-generation iPad.(Credit:Matt HIckey) There's a rumor going around that AT&amp;T's 16GB 3G version of theiPad 2 will be sold via AT&amp;T's retail stores and its Web site for $529, which would be $100 cheaper than what Apple is selling the same iPad for.It would be another aggressive move by AT&amp;T, of course, and something Apple would likely not appreciate--being undercut on its own device just looks bad.Sadly for those who wanted this to be true, it is not. We've confirmed with sources from AT&amp;T that the deal advertised on AT&amp;T's Web site is for the original iPad, not the iPad 2. At $529, it's $100 off the original price--the same price Apple is selling the original 3G version of the iPad for.AT&amp;T representative Seth Bloom politely pointed out when asked, &quot;That's the original iPad pricing,&quot; and directed us toward this post on AT&amp;T's Facebook page. That said, AT&amp;T is still making an aggressive move by giving away the first month's 3G data free to new users who select the $25/2GB post-paid plan. And for those looking for a Wi-Fi-only iPad, AT&amp;T and Verizon won't be stocking them, for obvious reasons.The iPad 2 goes on sale online starting at 1 a.m. PT tomorrow and in stores starting at 5 p.m. local time. Pricing for Apple's second-generationtablet ranges from $499 for the 16GB Wi-Fi-only model to $829 for the 64GB Wi-Fi and 3G version.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mac App Store hits 1 million downloads in first day]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>johnma5k</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[One million downloads already.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)That didn't take long.Apple'sMac App Store tallied 1 million downloads in its first day of availability, the company announced today.&quot;We're amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,&quot; Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement. &quot;Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is.&quot;Apple launched its Mac App Store yesterday to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard users. It was made available in the free Mac OS X 10.6.6 software update. According to Apple, the store currently has over 1,000 free and paid apps in categories ranging from education to games.But the Mac App Store's first day didn't bring only good news for Apple.A reported Mac App Store hack being shared across the Web allows users to take digital receipts from free applications and use them on pirated copies of a paid app. The receipts effectively fool the paid app into believing use has been authorized, thus allowing users to run the programs and pay nothing for them. Apple has yet to comment on the problem.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dialed In 155: CES 2011 preview (podcast)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>johnma5k</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Another year is in the books, but before we shut the door on 2010 and sign off for the holidays, we wrap up some of the latest cell phone news and reviews. Plus, we give you a preview of what to expect from CES 2011. From LTE handsets to dual-core Android phones, it's shaping up to be a very busy show, and we'll be there to report on all the action, so be sure to tune in on Friday, January 7 at 2 p.m., PT for special broadcast of Dialed In live from Las Vegas. Finally, we want to wish you all a wonderful holiday season and happy new year! As always, thanks for listening, and we'll see you in 2011. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple removes anti-gay app from App Store]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>johnma5k</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Manhattan Declaration)Apple has removed aniPhone app considered anti-gay following a wave of protests sent through the online petition site Change.org.Initially approved and available in the App Store in October, the Manhattan Declaration app was submitted by members of the Manhattan Declaration, a movement launched last year by a number of Christian leaders espousing their condemnation of both gay marriage and abortion rights.In approving the app, Apple originally gave it a rating of 4&amp;43', meaning it had &quot;no objectionable material.&quot;But described by Change.org as an application that invites people to join anti-gay and anti-choice campaigns, the Manhattan Declaration app had offered a &quot;survey&quot; with four questions, including &quot;Do you believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman&quot; and &quot;Do you support the right of choice regarding abortion&quot; Users who responded contrary to the beliefs of the group received a message at the end informing them that they answered 0 out of 4 questions correct. The app also invited people to sign up to support and donate to the group's cause.In reaction to the app, Change.org created an online petition directed toward Apple CEO Steve Jobs asking that the app be removed for its &quot;hateful and divisive language.&quot; Following e-mails from more than 7,700 people sent through Change.org, Apple removed the app Thanksgiving weekend.In response to the app's removal, an Apple spokeswoman e-mailed CNET the following statement:&quot;We removed the Manhattan Declaration app from the App Store because it violates our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people.&quot;In its own response yesterday, the Manhattan Declaration said that it's perplexed over Apple's decision to remove the app, saying that &quot;Apple pulled the app shortly after a small but very vocal protest by those who favor gay marriage and abortion.&quot;Responding to charges that the Manhattan Declaration is homophobic and anti-gay, the group said it doesn't believe that &quot;disagreement&quot; is &quot;gay-bashing&quot; and insists that the language it uses &quot;to defend traditional marriage and the sanctity of human life...is civil, non-inflammatory, and respectful.&quot; The group also said it has written to Steve Jobs urging him to restore the app.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EPA: Nissan Leaf tops in fuel efficiency]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>johnma5k</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The range of the plug-in-only Nissan Leaf varies with real-world driving conditions.(Credit:Nissan)Everything is come up roses for the all-electric Nissan Leaf.The Environmental Protection Agency just named the Leaf best in the midsize vehicle class for fuel efficiency and best for the environment.The EPA tested the Leaf for an MPGe, or MPG equivalency, rating. After five-cycle tests using varying driving conditions and climate controls, the EPA gave the Leaf a rating of 106 city, 92 highway for a combined 99 MPGe. The EPA's formula of 33.7kW-hrs being equivalent to one gallon of gasoline energy, Nissan said in a press release.The 99 MPGe rating will be added to the Leaf's pricing and informational label. In addition, the label will display a charging time of 7 hours on a 240V charge, and a driving range of 73 miles&quot;We're pleased the label clearly demonstrates the Nissan Leaf to be a best-in-class option, reflecting that it's a pure electric vehicle, uses no gas, has no tailpipe and has zero emissions,&quot; said Scott Becker, senior vice president, finance and administration, Nissan Americas. &quot;The label provides consumers with a tool to compare alternative-fuel vehicles to those with a traditional internal combustion engine and allows them to make an informed purchase decision.&quot;The Leaf, which will be available in selected states next month, has an MSRP starting at $32,780.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dazzplay brings your music into Facebook]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[LinkoTec, a startup that synchronizes your music across your devices, is getting into the music-sharing business with a new Facebook application called Dazzplay.Dazzplay isna4a4t the first app allowing users to share playlists on Facebook &amp;8212' competitors include MixPod. But after seeing a demo of Dazzplay and trying it out for myself, I&amp;'m impressed by its integration with Facebook and other features. And since Dazzplay isna4a4t hosting any music itself,and instead linking to music hosted elsewhere, ita4a4s avoiding many of the pitfalls faced by other music startups.Herea4a4s how it works. You can search for music in Dazzplay, or you can just import a playlist from iTunes. Then Dazzplay searches for YouTube videos for those songs and creates a playlist. (In some cases, it finds the official music video, in others it finds YouTube videos that combine a recording of the song with some other visual.) When youa4a4re done editing the list, you can publish it to your personal Facebook Wall, or to other Walls that you manage. Your friends can play the full list directly from the wall, without installing the app, they can edit and share it themselves, and if they like a song they can buy the MP3 from 7Digital.For example, when I tried Dazzplay this morning, I imported the iTunes list of my 25 most-played songs, and the app found YouTube videos for 13 tracks. Unfortunately, I wasna4a4t able to publish the list to my Facebook Wall due to a bug. (When chief executive Tero Salonen demonstrated the app for me last week, the sharing feature worked just fine.)Dazzplay has been in beta testing for the last few weeks, and Salonen said hea4a4s ready to take the beta label off today. LinkoTec is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and it raised $1.5 million from HTT Sixgen and Veraventure earlier this year. The Dazzplay app is free, so LinkoTec plans to make money through a revenue sharing deal with 7Digital for MP3 purchases, and also by allowing musicians and companies to create sponsored channels for sharing playlists with fans. And Dazzplay helps promote LinkoTec&amp;'s Dazzboard media management software, which you have to install to import an iTunes list.[top image via Flickr/Flattop341]Next Story: Your iPhone can be charged wirelessly &amp;8212' how about your electric car Previous Story: Nokia gets a public image facelift, appoints Jerri DeVard as chief marketing officerPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Dazzboard, Dazzplay, music sharingCompanies: LinkoTecPeople: Tero Salonen          Tags: Dazzboard, Dazzplay, music sharingCompanies: LinkoTecPeople: Tero SalonenAnthony 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[Angry Birds Day, Dec 11 &8211' Something big is going down in London&8230']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[By now you will have heard about the first official Angry Birds Day when lovers of that crazy iPhone/Android game come together to celebrate the ongoing war between the birds and the pigs. However, well placed sources told us yesterday that something big was going down on that day, specifically in London&amp;'s Trafalgar Square. Now, this is becoming a big venue to launch big games, especialy console games. Here&amp;'s the spectacular Halo Reach launch with guys in JetPacks earlier this year.There is speculation that Angry Birds for Windows Phone 7 will be anounced on the day. There is also speculation that the game&amp;'s developer, Rovio Mobile, will launch a games console version or that it will spin out a movie.Actually personally I think that maybe, just maybe, something different is going on. Here&amp;'s why. The Finland-based company, headed up by Mikael Hed (CEO) and Niklas Hed (COO), has brought on Peter Vesterbacka as head of business development for North America. Now, Peter is a fascinating guy. He was the founder of HP Bazaar &amp;8211' HP&amp;'s skunk works attempt a few years ago to dominate mobile. He also co-founder Mobile Monday, Mobile 2.0 and several other web and mobility related busines ventures. He&amp;'s a big believer in open source platforms and, from my conversations with him, is very much of the view that games consoles will be disrupted by the Internet and open source. Because, in the end, what you really want to do as a games developer is to get your platform out there. Couple that with the rise of virtual goods and in-app payments and, quite frankly, who needs console platforms any more All you really want to do is own the customer/gamer relationship and billing channel.Now, I am not saying that a movie, Windows 7 version or a console version of Angry Birds won&amp;'t launch on December 11th. But I am saying that is it plausible to expect something far more disruptive from Rovio, given it&amp;'s history and team to date. And right now, the Trafalgar Square meetup is the biggest on the whole day. Just saying&amp;8230'CrunchBase InformationRovio MobileInformation provided by CrunchBaseCrunchBase InformationAngry BirdsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Economist for iPad is barebones and featureless, but that&'s okay]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ia4a4ve been playing with the recently released iPhone and iPad apps for The Economist magazine in the past week, and Ia4a4ve got a stinging critique: not of the app itself (although it falls short in several ways), but of the new media and publishing 2.0 naysayers who incessantly repeat, a4Athose old media farts got it wrong again!a4Not only is that line becoming terribly clich, ita4a4s downright ignorant of the market realities of the publishing industry. Certain publications such as The Economist have a readership that wouldna4a4t necessarily value any of the interactivity afforded by new media like the iPad. The quality analysis readers expect of the magazinea4a4s correspondents wouldna4a4t change much if it were offered with all the a4Agee-whiza4 interactive extras you see touted by other a4adventurousa4a4 publications.Not only would The Economist waste considerable resources in developing features most readers wouldna4a4t care for, theya4a4d also have to pass along those costs to the same readership. Unfortunately for the new media pundits, price-sensitivity is an economic concept most businesses keep in mind, and publishing is no exception. In other words: developing native iPad interactivity for text-heavy publications could do more to harm the transition to that medium than promote it and monetize it.Given these considerations, The Economist iPad app is, understandably, mediocre. Like the Wired magazine app that made headlines a few months ago, ita4a4s a major publication thata4a4s made the tablet switch by way of a simple conversion: this app is more of an image-viewer than a full-blown reading app. The moment you realize you cana4a4t actually highlight any text in the app, it becomes clear that each page was merely scanned and adjusted to fit a 10a4 screen. While the navigation elements have been thoughtfully enhanced for the new mediuma4&quot;providing readers the ability to easily hop to other articles within different sectionsa4&quot;the rest of the iPad version of The Economist looks and feels just like the regular old print version.Beyond looking like the print version, the app also oddly carries over the same limitations: you cana4a4t define words within the app (Applea4a4s native iBooks app and my personal reading favorite Instapaper both allow this)' you cana4a4t share or a4likea4a4 any article through Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, and the like' you cana4a4t annotate text or copy-paste it (due to the lack of highlighting)' and you cana4a4t adjust contrast or switch to white-on-black mode. While this is all disappointing, therea4a4s a logic to the modest conversion these publishers have opted for that others have missed and will sorely pay for.We already know that the few publications that have sunk considerable resources to develop iPad-native reading experiences such as Time, Inc. have been stuck with a less-than-optimal business model for their digital operations. The aforementioned price-sensitivity has come back to haunt them (witness nearly ten-thousand 2 star reviews on their App Store page). Despite how flashy their multimedia version may be (which still lacks many bells-and-whistles), the significant costs in editorial, research, and production factors of publishing in a new medium means readers must pay $4.99 per issue instead of just tens of cents per print issue.Given its audience, the business case for The Economist building a more interactive app is difficult to see. By merely porting its print edition over to the iPad, ita4a4s at least not incurring the additional content-development costs that would yield uncertain revenues, some of which may be cannibalized from print subscriptions.Lastly and most interestingly, this simple conversation can actually be more gratifying to readers than a more feature-packed, a4nativea4a4 experience. For example, unlike the recently updated iPad-native New York Times app (for which paid subscription will soon be required), The Economist displays advertising between articles, not within them, which is a surprising layouttriumphin the age of display ad overload.Clearly, in certain cases, the new media technorati have misunderstood publishing 2.0a4a4s complexities. Sometimes, publishers dona4a4t need to go out of their way to deliver the same or better quality to readers through new mediums. I hope Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs get the memo!Next Story: CloudBees&amp;' Java dream team lands $4M from Matrix Partners Previous Story: Google acquires Groupon for $2.5BPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: digital publishing, economist, iPad, publishing 2.0Companies: The Economist, Time Inc, Wired Magazine          Tags: digital publishing, economist, iPad, publishing 2.0Companies: The Economist, Time Inc, Wired MagazineMichael is a tech-obsessed graduate of UC Berkeley, where he studied Political Economy and globalization. His fanatical passion for technology is strangely matched by his equally intense desire to be a startup attorney. Reach Michael via email, follow him on Twitter, or visit his blog .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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