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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Robot arm scoops goop spills like magic]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Switl in action. No word yet on whether it scoops dog poop.(Credit:Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET)Got messy kids Or perhaps you're just clumsy with ketchup. If so, Japan's Furukawa Kiko has just the thing for you--a robot scooper that can scrape up gooey spills without leaving a smidgen behind.  The Niigata-based factory equipment maker says its Switl &quot;robot hand&quot; is the first of its kind in the world and it's patent pending. As seen in the vid below, it scrapes up mayonnaise and ketchup spills completely, and can then deposit them. The Furukawa Kiko Web site has no details on how it works, or what its name means, but there is another video showing it being used in a manufacturing line for baked buns. Furukawa says the technology could be used outside the food industry. I could see an even smaller handheld Switl being very useful around the home. All they need is the ShamWow guy to get behind this. (Via Pink Tentacle) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Salesforce getting too big for its shoes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Web-based software is supposed to make things easy. It&amp;'s supposed to just work a4&quot; that&amp;'s what the cloud is all about.But all that work that happens behind the scenes has kept Salesforce from being as nimble as it should be, said Salesforce.com&amp;'s executive vice president of marketing George Hu. He made the comments at the DEMO Spring 2011 conference in Palm Desert, Calif., today.It&amp;'s a problem that keeps Hu up at night a4&quot; how difficult it is to train each new employee to be able to manage Salesforce&amp;'s ever-expanding suite of cloud products. The company has seen some pretty decent growth, with its revenue rising 29 percent in the first quarter this year when compared to the same quarter a year earlier. That means the staff has to grow to keep up with its customer base.&amp;''We&amp;'ve grown from salesforce automation a4&quot; just one program a4&quot; to now being CRM plus collaboration plus data as a service,&amp;'' Hu said. &amp;''Thata4a4s a lot of products to basically train our employees and also our customers, so we have a huge education drawback.&amp;''Salesforce has been on a massive acquisition spree, as well. Salesforcedropped a whopping $212 million on Web-application developer Heroku in December, and then spentan undisclosed amount on email contact manager Etacts. Salesforce also acquired Web-conferencing provider Dimdim for $31 million. That amount equals almost half of the cash Salesforce had on hand at the end of its most recent operating quarter,according to the companya4a4s most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.But because the company has grown so large, it has become more difficult to train the company&amp;'s sales force and new companies. That has opened the door for smaller, more agile startups to come in and make a legitimate claim to their turf. One of those companies, enterprise social network Yammer, has been successfully going head-to-head with Salesforce&amp;'s enterprise social network Chatter for some time. Yammer has already picked up more than 100,000 companies as customers since it launched.The competition doesn&amp;'t bother Hu though, since he said Salesforce had already &amp;''cracked the distribution code&amp;'' for getting new customers to adopt the service. About 80,000 of Salesforce&amp;'s 92,000 customers have already begun using Chatter rather than Yammer, he said.&amp;''Fact that we were able to get eight out of nine customers to adopt, ita4a4s been a greenfield out there despite startups out there,&amp;'' Hu said. &amp;''Even when we see a customer that has played around with some startups, wea4a4re able to come in with a different value proposition.&amp;''Next Story: Think&amp;'s electric car faces third recall after three months in the U.S. Previous Story: DEMO: Zugara engages online shoppers with dress-up visualizationPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011, Democon, George HuCompanies: salesforce, Yammer          Tags: DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011, Democon, George HuCompanies: salesforce, YammerMatthew 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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