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<title><![CDATA[Report details workings of alleged Mossad hit on Hamas member]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nearly a year ago, a senior member of Hamas died in a hotel in Dubai. Local police blamed Israel's elite intelligence agency, Mossad, and posted a 27-minute video showing activities of the victim and what are identified as Israeli operatives inside the hotel before and after the alleged assassination.  Now, a GQ feature unveils details about the operation, how the victim had survived a poisoning attempt two months earlier and how such an advanced group of spies were unmasked by simple hotel videocameras and other standard security measures. Although Israeli officials have not confirmed or denied that Mossad carried out the mission, &quot;no one seriously doubts that to be the case,&quot; the article says. Not surprisingly, the early stages of the operation appear to have involved the use of the Internet. Israeli spies learned Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh would be arriving in Dubai on January 19, 2010, by monitoring his e-mail and online activities via a Trojan horse planted on his computer, according to the GQ article. The spies--part of a secretive unit within the Mossad known as &quot;Caesarea&quot;--didn't know what hotel Al-Mabhouh would be staying at, so they staked out different hotels he was known to visit.  When he is spotted arriving at the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel, the operatives converged there and used various disguises to track his movements and get into his room. They must not have been too concerned about video surveillance cameras in the hotel as they were caught on camera talking to each other, standing in the lobby in tennis gear with rackets for hours, and exchanging room keys and suitcases. Dubai police studied hundreds of hours of closed-circuit security footage to reconstruct the activities of the operatives and Al-Mabhouh.  One operative is seen in the footage reprogramming the electronic lock to Al-Mabhouh's room so they can use an unregistered electronic key on the door without disabling Al-Mabhouh's key. It's unclear, though, how the operatives managed to leave the room with the door chained on the inside, according to the article. The operatives were linked to each other by their comings and goings at the hotel on the video footage, guest registers during that and previous Al-Mabhouh visits, the use of pre-paid debit cards issued by a company whose chief executive is a veteran of an elite Israeli Defense Force commando unit, and the use of a private switchboard in Austria that connected the operatives' phone calls without them having to call each other directly, the report says. The operatives also used forged foreign identities. &quot;False identities and cover stories are no longer any match for well-placed security cameras, effective passport control, and computer software that can almost instantly track communications and financial transactions,&quot; the article says. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iTunes 10.1 brings AirPlay feature]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kaushalbuddy4u</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:CNET)No iOS update yet today, but Apple did release an update to iTunes for Windows and Mac.iTunes 10.1 is out now, and with it comes AirPlay, the new feature that will allow videos to be streamed to an Apple TV. Apple introduced the feature at its digital music and content event in September.AirPlay is also supposed to allow streaming of audio and video from any iOS device--iPod Touch,iPhone, andiPad--though that feature won't be turned on in those devices until the long-awaited iOS 4.2 update is released. Earlier this week it was rumored that today would be the day we'd see 4.2, but now there are whispers that a Wi-Fi bug in the software is holding up its release.Apple didn't give a specific day that 4.2 would arrive, only that it would come sometime in November.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[About that 7-inch iPad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kaushalbuddy4u</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Maybe the 7-inchiPad is dead. (Or Maybe not.) But it's worth resurrecting a discussion about the design, because it may have been much closer to product life than thought. The 7-inch iPad is dead! Or is itApple CEO Steve Jobs' ramblings during the October 18 earnings conference call are well documented. But to recap excerpts of the homily he delivered on the sins of a 7-inch design: &quot;Apple has done extensive user testing and we really understand this stuff...There are clear limits on how close you can place things on a touchscreen, which is why we think 10 inch is the minimum screen size to create great tablet apps,&quot; he said. Jobs continued. &quot;One naturally thinks that a 7-inch screen would offer 70 percent of the benefits of a 10-inch screen...this is far from the truth. Seven-inch screens are 45 percent as large as an iPad,&quot; Jobs said. &quot;This size isn't sufficient for making great tablet apps.&quot; Aside from the remarks leaving a distinct one-doth-protest-too-much impression, I have heard from enough industry people and analysts over the last few weeks that I believe that the 7-inch iPad was close to an actual product. Sources that I have talked to--both analysts and industry people--across the board believe that there was a lot of ODM (original design manufacturer) activity around a 7-inch iPad--or let's just say &quot;a 7-inch tabletlike device&quot; to be safe. And more than one source believes it was (is) at some stage of preproduction. Now, it's not like this is wild speculation anyway. The rash of published reports that a 7-inch iPad was on the way, coupled with Steve Jobs' impassioned defense of his decision not to bring out a 7-inch iPad, doesn't make for an aha! moment exactly. It's fairly obvious stuff was (is) going on behind the scenes. Here's where the theory mongering comes in. Has the expected crush of 7-inch Android tablets got Apple worried And has this anticipation (trepidation) made Apple do a sudden about-face The iPad Mini would be a lower-margin product in what is expected to be a crowded market--the Samsung Galaxy Tab being the most recent example. Maybe we'll never know. But, then, Apple could change its mind. Remember, Apple said it would never bring out a Netbook. And it didn't. But the 11.6-inch MacBook Air is pretty darn close. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How HP rocks 3D: Earth Wind &038' Fire on a huge screen (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At the close of the Consumer Electronics Show, Monster Cable always throws a huge concert with a marquee band. This year, Earth Wind &amp;amp' Fire gave a rousing concert at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. And Hewlett-Packard captured the event live in stereoscopic 3D.HP streamed the live video in 3D to a huge screen in a room across the way where VIP guests watched. I was impressed with all of the effort HP went to in order to broadcast the event. It took a lot of expensive technology, but it didn&amp;'t quite live up to the quality I&amp;'d expect from all of that effort. There were ghosts, or secondary images, when I viewed the screen with $3 passive glasses. When I looked with $120 glasses made by Gunnar Optics, it looked much better. But the occasional ghosts were still there.To date, that is the problem with 3D viewing. As I&amp;'ve noted before, 3D is a lot of effort for only a little bit of gain. In a handful of examples, it has paid off. Films like Avatar look stunning in 3D in a movie theater, but are less impressive on home TVs. Nvidia 3D Vision looks cool when you&amp;'ve got a three-monitor set-up on a relatively expensive gamer&amp;'s computer. The Nintendo 3DS and MasterImage 3D glasses-free solutions look great on very small screens. But the rest of the efforts are falling short. Toshiba&amp;'s glasses-free 3D report didn&amp;'t really look good at CES.HP&amp;'s Phil McKinney (above), vice president and chief technology officer of the HP Personal Systems Group, said there was enormous potential for 3D in consumer and commercial markets, and it makes sense for HP to develop the technology to make it happen. Researchers from HP Labs have set up a big screen in a lab to test their gear, and they spent a lot of time putting together the large theater-sized screen for the Earth Wind &amp;amp' Fire concert. Over time, McKinney believes that HP can build a &amp;''triple wide&amp;'' screen that is three times as large and can capture all of the action on televised basketball game, from hoop to hoop, in a single wide camera shot. That kind of video could prove very immersive for sports fans, McKinney said.Henry Sang, an HP Labs researcher (right), showed off a wide-lends 3D camera that captured the concert from the back of the ballroom. The camera (pictured at bottom) had 19 imaging engines to capture the data. It fed the video images to some HP workstations that processed the images live. They sent the images to a dozen projectors, which were synchronized to display a single image on the big movie screen. Users could pretty much see the show from anywhere in the room.Sang acknowledged that the ghost images were present but he said that HP could improve on its efforts at the show. The answer was to spend about $100,000 more on computer gear to process the 3D imagery to get rid of the ghost effect.If HP can pull it off and make it tolerable to watch, the applications could be plentiful. Carlos Montalvo, an executive who works for McKinney, said the applications include medical imaging, oil and gas exploration, financial services and other visual data analysis applications.To get there, HP has to develop a solution that is flexible and can superimpose images on top of each other in real time. It has to scale up to large numbers of projectors and make trade-offs in brightness and sharpness, and it has to have redundancy to deal with failures. Today, the process of taking imagery from a concert and making it 3D is laborious. So HP also has to figure out ways to automate that.For your enjoyment, here&amp;'s a YouTube video of Earth Wind &amp;amp' Fire that I took in old-fashioned two-dimensional video. Hopefully by next year&amp;'s concert, HP will have better quality live 3D viewing.Next Story: Peter Relan takes over as CEO of social game firm CrowdStar (exclusive) Previous Story: Find mobile data wherever you need it with Coverage for the iPhone/iPadPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: 3D, digital entertainment, Earth Wind &amp;amp' Fire, stereoscopic 3DCompanies: Hewlett Packard, Monster CablePeople: Carlos Montalvo, Henry Sang, Phil McKinney          Tags: 3D, digital entertainment, Earth Wind &amp;amp' Fire, stereoscopic 3DCompanies: Hewlett Packard, Monster CablePeople: Carlos Montalvo, Henry Sang, Phil McKinneyDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.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[ReplyBuy shows text messaging can make some serious bank with daily deals]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apparently, there&amp;'s still money to be made in text messaging. ReplyBuy, a startup launching today that uses text messaging to deliver Groupon-like daily deals, is a perfect example of just how much life the technology has left.Backed by a number of former YouTube employees, ReplyBuy lets users sign up to receive text messages for daily deals with partner merchants. ReplyBuy users can also text back to purchase the deal, after signing up and saving their payment information on the company&amp;'s site. It operates in the same space as Groupon in the sense that users have to purchase the product through ReplyBuy, rather than use the text message as a flat discount and buy from the vendor.That&amp;'s all fine and dandy, but I&amp;'m also a fan of the (really) little guy. Today that&amp;'s Zaid Farooqui, a fellow Tar Heel over at UNC-Chapel Hill that&amp;'s been working on a text message coupon startup for a little more than a year. BlinkCoupons lets students at UNC and Chapel Hill residents sign up to receive text message alerts for coupons at local restaurants and stores. Right now BlinkCoupons is partnered with the Daily Tar Heel, the university paper for Chapel Hill. It&amp;'s also moving into other papers as well, Farooqui said.So here we have a tale of two startups. One startup is launching today that is backed by prominent investors. One startup is run by a young student still in school. The generational divide there is pretty telling: texting is still as popular and has as much potential as it has always had. It&amp;'s particularly popular in a time-robbed generation filled with early adopters and tech-savvy folks looking for the latest deal (like myself).Granted, smartphone sales are crashing the mobile phone party at an alarmingly increasing rate. The smartphone market grew 95 percent last quarter when compared to the same quarter a year earlier, when 80.9 million new smartphones shipped. And there are plenty of new options outside of text messaging for smartphones a4&quot; like Kik, a personal favorite of mine. But amidst the multitude of ways to communicate on smartphones, texting remains the one standard that every phone, no matter how dumb or smart, can support.The logical extension of that is to bring e-commerce into the equation. I know I used my fair share of BlinkCoupons while I was a student at UNC-Chapel Hill. I&amp;'ve been craving a service like that for some time now in San Francisco. I can only hope that this is a sign to come with startups like BlinkCoupons and ReplyBuy making their moves across the country.Next Story: With Saturday Night Live spoof, TSA is losing the internet war on pat-down searches Previous Story: A first look at Toyota&amp;'s electric RAV4, powered by TeslaPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: coupons, daily deal, sms, text messages, textingCompanies: BlinkCoupons, Groupon, ReplyBuy          Tags: coupons, daily deal, sms, text messages, textingCompanies: BlinkCoupons, Groupon, ReplyBuyMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[Fixing a&nbsp'Hole]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[And it really doesna4a4t matter if Ia4a4m wrong Ia4a4m right where I belong, sings Paul McCartney on his latest album Sgt. Peppera4a4s Lonely Facebook Band, which sits high on the iTunes charts. Boy, is he not kidding. Hea4a4s taking the time for a number of things that werena4a4t important yesterday. So should we.On the surface it seems like business as usual, with the heads of big Internet companies sitting down with John Battelle and Tim Oa4a4Reilly at this weeka4a4s Web 2.0 Summit. The Android tablets are starting to drop now' theya4a4re half the size, half the weight, and amazingly the same price. What Herea4a4s some guy with a Comcast XFINITY iPad app, which lets me control my DVR at home but doesna4a4t let me view any of the network content that is choking the hard drive nor the on-demand versions that would let me not record them in the first place. WhatMuch is made of data portability but how it aina4a4t gonna happen because it wouldna4a4t be good business. Mark Zuckerberg was personable and engaging and all that good stuff, but why on Earth would he want to fix something that is so not broken Why would Evan Williams want to give away Track for free when he can release a new iPhone app with Track push notification tied directly to our credit cards WhatIt really doesna4a4t matter whether we can get our data back out of these warm, cozy, interactive game-like interfaces. I already know what I know' what Ia4a4m interested in is what other people, the ones I care about and the ones they care about, know. That is the value of these services, and I want them to guard it carefully. Not the raw data, but the inferences, the analytics, the swarm sentiment, the speed with which these signals can be delivered to the priority queue.Forget the noise about standards, the contortions Adobe and RIM go through to explain why Flash is important. Standards are what happens while wea4a4re busy making other plans. They emerge from the rubble of innovation, not as the result of freedom-loving patriots who are trying to catch up with those who acted first. Sounds harsh, but Darwin doesna4a4t wait around for stragglers. Sometimes we need the winners of the world to do whatever it takes to get us to swallow our medicine.Flash What The Adobe CEO is still several paragraphs away from saying OK, wea4a4re shipping a tool to convert everything to iPad specs. How about an HTML streaming server so we can see everything in realtime now that ita4a4s actually possible. Instead, we get marketing about an aging technology that developers are fleeing as they rush toward iOS. The mobile investment path goes: iOS, then Android, then RIM, then HTML 5 to work across the rest. If RIM is not careful, they will be among the rest once they get a Web experience (Playbook) that works.Steve Jobs is not worrying about RIM or even Android. Hea4a4s trying to figure out how to get the carriers and Hollywood paid enough to seed the next generation of the iPad and iTouch. Facetime is the path to unify those two markets, forcing a new generation of IP services and Office-next business processes. Not only does it bypass the voice networks, it produces full motion video on a Flashless $250 iPod Touch. Meld the services together once iOS multitasks and you have everything you need for migrating realtime video, text, and notification streams.Already Comcast ads promote movies appearing 30 days ahead of NetFlix. Orb TV throws away the remote in favor of iOS and Android apps to control Hulu, YouTube, and NetFlix. The network windowing strategies are collapsing together into multiple overlapping services that add up to big trouble once customers realize they can cobble enough together while waiting for the big players to co-opt the change. This is what wea4a4ve seen with the carriers, as Verizon bundles a hot spot with the WiFi iPad and Google Voice finally reaches the iPhone.Even the Beatles gave in to the new reality, almost as an afterthought with no fanfare and little excitement even for those of us who see reality only as a pale reflection of those 13 records that changed the world. In the end, the deal was more a business decision to prop up EMI as the record cartel struggles with its myopia about the new order of things. Fixing a hole where the rain gets in. Stops the mind from wandering. Where it will go.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneur Corner: Dissecting a VCa4a4s no and 5 ways to ruin an exit]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Herea4a4s the latest from VentureBeata4a4s Entrepreneur Corner.5 things that can screw up your exit strategy a4&quot; Most entrepreneurs dona4a4t think too much about the end when they start their company, but that can lead to mistakes that make it even harder to be acquired down the road. Attorney Curtis Smolar lists five.The many definitions of a VCa4a4s no a4&quot; Part One a4&quot; A rejection from a venture capital firm doesna4a4t necessarily mean they hated you or your idea. Claremont Creek Ventures technology partner Ted Driscoll offers insight into the reasoning that often goes into the seemingly arbitrary a4Anoa4 answer so many startup owners get.The many definitions of a VCa4a4s no a4&quot; Part Two a4&quot; Sometimes, your pitch to a VC gets no response whatsoever. Ita4a4s definitely not good, but is there a larger message in the silence Claremont Creek Ventures technology partner Ted Driscoll once again lends insight into the mind of a financial backer.Hubris vs. Humility: The positioning challenge a4&quot; Research in Motion and Tivo both have incredibly innovative products, but took vastly different paths in their initial positioning approach. Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank looks at the different methods a4&quot; and the impact they had on the companies.The dangers that come with being on top a4&quot; There are rewards in besting your competition and becoming the number one company in your category, but there are risks as well. Diego Piacentini, Amazona4a4s senior VP of international retail discusses the biggest his company has faced in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given at Stanford University.Previous Story: Lionside scores $1.6M to make Facebook games for sports fansPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: entrepreneur corner          Tags: entrepreneur cornerChris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLargeVentureBeat 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[Sequoia-Instagram Deal Appears to Be Pure Rumor' That Said, Let the Bidding&nbsp'Begin]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s a chaotic week for Instagram. First it becomes the darling of the app world, then its investors Andreessen-Horowitz decide to double-down on competitor Picplz instead, effectively making the company an orphan. Of course it&amp;'s one sexy little orphan half of Sand Hill Road would just love to adopt. (Insert Amazon joke here.)a4sCue swirling rumors that Instagram is in the process of putting together a series A and even weirder rumors that the company is selling to Facebook. We&amp;'ve called Instagram, people close to Instagram and the top five likely suspects that would be doing the deal or have knowledge of that deal and every single one has told us both rumors seem made up out of whole cloth, and that while the company has had the normal &amp;''Ok, we&amp;'ll call you when we&amp;'re ready&amp;'' conversations around the Valley, no deal is imminent.&amp;''We&amp;'re not selling to Facebook, we are not selling to anyone and we are announcing that to our users because they have been worried,&amp;'' Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom says. &amp;''Of course at some point we&amp;'re going to be raising a round, but I haven&amp;'t even created a pitch deck. I haven&amp;'t signed a term sheet. We&amp;'re sitting in the office programming all day. We&amp;'re just not at the stage where we need to raise a series A.&amp;''Indeed, the rumors seem to have caused more problems in the short term for the hot, young company. Several investors I spoke with who&amp;'d been promised a hearing when Instagram was ready to raise money woke up today to stories saying the deal was already underway. According to a few sources, Instagram has had to do some damage control telling investors as late as this afternoon that indeed, there is no deal on the table and they still promise to give the irked VCs a hearing when they&amp;'re ready.So where did the rumors come from It&amp;'s possible they came from a misunderstanding, a VC hoping to get the company moving or from someone connected to Instagram, hoping to spin the orphan-story in a new positive direction. The first seems the most likely. I don&amp;'t think it&amp;'s the last one. This isn&amp;'t a company that needs to bait the press with false rumors to get a good deal. At the end of the day it&amp;'s all a moot point. In today&amp;'s venture world, any startup this hot can raise money by snapping their fingers. Not that they needed it, but the story probably served to get more bidders in the deal, which will no doubt push the valuation higher than companies are already getting in these inflated times.a4sThe story may not be true, but it may well turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stories like these are a hard call to even write, because at some point, we all know the company will raise money. That&amp;'s how startups work. But given that we haven&amp;'t found a single source to confirm it on or off the record it feels worth noting.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mockingbird&'s Wireframe Tool Now Sings To The Tune Of Real-Time&nbsp'Collaboration]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you&amp;'re setting out to design a new website, there are few better starting places than a wireframing service: they let you quickly get a rough idea of what your site will look like, without having to deal with paper cut-outs or endless pencil erasing.  And today, one of the better wireframing services is leaving beta with some major new features in tow for its official launch. Meet Mockingbird.The bootstrapped, two-person startup launched around a year ago, offering a clean interface that&amp;'s based on the Cappuccino web framework (in other words, it isn&amp;'t in Flash, unlike many of its competitors). Since launching in a beta it&amp;'s grown to 55k users and nearly 100k projects created.Today, Mockingbird is launching real-time collaboration, which means that multiple people can fire up their web browser (no install required) and start editing the same page layout. This is obviously a big deal given the collaborative nature of design, and in practice it looks pretty slick (you can see it in action in the video below, or you can check out the demo page to try it for yourself).The other big change with this launch: Mockingbird is ready to turn on the revenue faucets, and will start charging for its more robust plans. There&amp;'s still going to be a free version available that supports 1 project with a maximum of two users, and premium plans start at $9 a month. Competitors in this space include Balsamiq, which offers a desktop application rather than a web app, Mockflow, Hotgloo, and a nifty iPad app called iMockups.CrunchBase InformationMockingbirdInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple staffer: Save your excitement for iPad 3, not iPad 2]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tomorrowa4a4s iPad 2 launch isna4a4t the one that we should be getting excited about, instead we should reserve our enthusiasm for the iPad 3, which is apparently due later this year, an Apple employee tells the Cult of Mac.The Apple staffer reportedly says that the iPad 2 will serve as a slight speed bump, while the iPad 3 will be a more significant redesign coming this fall.While it may sound crazy, this isna4a4t the first time that wea4a4ve heard talk of another iPad coming later this year. TechCruncha4a4s MG Siegler reported last month that an iPad 3 may make its way to consumers by the end of the year. Ita4a4s not inconceivable for Apple to launch another tablet this year, especially if it didna4a4t manage to include all of the hardware updates it wanted to in the iPad 2.Recent rumors have also placed the iPad 2 with the same 1024 by 768 resolution as the original iPad, which pales in comparison to higher display resolutions wea4a4re seeing from Android tablets like the Motorola Xoom. Many had expected Apple to introduce some sort of Retina Display in the iPad 2, similar to the high-resolution display ita4a4s using in the iPhone 4, but that doesna4a4t appear to be happening now. Now it seems like that high-resolution display may be destined for the iPad 3, especially since Apple will likely need a revamped tablet to compete with the plethora of Android 3.0-powered slates coming this year.The Apple employee mentions that the iPad 2a4a4s most interesting new feature may not even be hardware related: Apple may use the devicea4a4s release to show off its revamped MobileMe service, which is expected to be free and store user media in the cloud.Hardware-wise, it looks like the iPad 2 will likely sport front and rear cameras tomorrow, as wea4a4ve reported endlessly. It will also likely be thinner and lighter than the current iPad, which is cumbersome to hold for prolonged periods. And of course, it will pack-in a faster processor &amp;8212' likely Applea4a4s rumored A5 dual-core chip &amp;8212' and more RAM. The iPad 2 is also expected to work across both AT&amp;amp'T and Verizona4a4s cellular networks.A report from the weekend speculated that Apple may surprise everyone by having the iPad 2 ready for consumers to purchase tomorrow, but I don&amp;'t think there&amp;'s a good chance of that happening.Next Story: On the GreenBeat: Warren Buffet, wind king 1366 raises $28M' Soliant suspends operations Previous Story: Nvidia launches Tegra Zone to show off flashy Android gamesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: iOS, iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3, Retina Display, tabletsCompanies: Apple          Tags: iOS, iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3, Retina Display, tabletsCompanies: AppleDevindra 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. 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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