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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook takes another swing at Web video]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last week, you could rent a movie on Facebook. Today, you can watch a live pro baseball game on the site. Still think Facebook can't be a big player in Web video You can watch the game--today it was a pre-season matchup between the Dodgers and the Rangers--for free, via Major League Baseball's page.  If you click on the image, you'll be directed off-site, where you can sign up for a (free) account and watch the game on a full screen. And maybe you'll end up liking it so much you'll end spending up to $120 for a season-long subscription to MLB.TV's digital video package. Which is really the point of this experiment, says Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com, pro baseball's digital operation. Bowman says the free games on Facebook, which began yesterday and will run until opening day at the end of month, are merely supposed to test Facebook's promotional power. (The folks behind Ultimate Fighting Championship have been trying the same thing, by showing some of their preliminary matches for free and trying to upsell viewers on a pay-per-view buy offsite.) It's possible that the league will keep running a single free game a day on Facebook during the regular season, too. MLB.com has tried that in the past on mobile phones, and will be doing it on its own Web site this year as well. But Bowman says there aren't plans to give MLB.TV subscribers full access to games via Facebook, and doesn't plan on selling individual games on the site, either. &quot;What we're trying to do is figure out who these fans are, whether they like it, and whether they share it,&quot; he says. So in case you were planning on panic-selling some shares tomorrow: This move doesn't threaten any established distribution business any more than Facebook's one-off movie rental threatens Netflix. For now. Still, just because Bowman and company are starting with a toe-touch doesn't mean they couldn't take a deeper plunge later on. And live sports seems like something that lends itself quite nicely to Facebook's platform--much more so, really, than watching movies like &quot;The Dark Knight.&quot; And unlike the &quot;The Dark Knight&quot; experiment, there's no e-commerce angle here for Facebook. Users don't need to use Facebook Credits to watch the game, and if MLB.com generates some subscriptions, Facebook won't get a lead-gen fee. But again, it's easy to imagine ways that Facebook could participate in this if they wanted to elbow their way in. For now, though, the site seems content to let developers like Warner Bros., and MLB.com experiment with interesting ways to deliver video--and potentially, all sorts of entertainment--via their platform. Smart. And worth watching. Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: BlackBerry PlayBook (hands-on)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawan</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-blackberry-playbook-hands-on</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Ground coffee + party balloon = robot gripper]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawan</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ground-coffee--party-balloon---robot-gripper</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The robot gripper wields a brush. But can it paint(Credit:Cornell University)If you've got ground coffee and a few party balloons lying around, you have the ingredients for a universal robot gripper, according to researchers at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and iRobot.  In a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers including Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical engineering and computer science at Cornell, describe how they used granular material instead of multijointed fingers to create a robot gripper. The researchers put ground coffee into a latex balloon and attached it to a robot arm. When the coffee balloon is pressed around an object like a brush, above, it deforms and envelops the target. When the air is removed from the balloon, the ground coffee solidifies around the brush, forming a firm grip. Apparently, the gripper can also pick up eggs and coins, which are challenging for robot manipulators with fingers.  The gripper makes use of &quot;jamming transition,&quot; in which a fluidlike material becomes virtually solid when its particles cannot move past each other in a vacuum. The researchers also tried using materials like couscous, rice, sand, and ground-up tires. Coffee's lightness proved to be a winning quality.  Funded by DARPA, the research could lead to applications such as robot arms that could be used to dismantle explosives or robot feet that could walk up walls, Lipson speculated in a Cornell release. Spider robots that run on coffee. Sounds like one of those great ideas that can go horribly awry.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple to fix iPhone security flaw in next iOS]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawan</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-to-fix-iphone-security-flaw-in-next-ios</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple has acknowledged a newly-discovered security flaw in theiPhone and is promising to offer a fix with next month's release of iOS 4.2.Apple promises to fix iPhone&amp;39's latest security flaw in iOS 4.2.(Credit:Apple)The new flaw allows someone to access the phone dialer on a locked iPhone by punching a certain sequence of buttons, thereby giving them the ability to make phone calls, send e-mails, and access the address book. Confirmed by Wired Magazine, the Boy Genius Report, and other online sources, the flaw was reportedly first discovered and posted by a user on the MacRumors online forum on October 22.Bypassing the lock requires someone to tap the Emergency Call button, enter a non-emergency number such as , tap the call button, and then hit the lock button. Though the forum user said he was using a jailbroken iPhone, other users with non-jailbroken phones quickly chimed in to report the same bug.On its end, Apple is eyeing a fix for the flaw. In response to a query from CNET, an Apple spokeswoman e-mailed the following statement:&quot;We're aware of this issue and we will deliver a fix to customers as part of the iOS 4.2 software update in November.&quot;This latest vulnerability mimics a similar flaw found in 2008 on the iPhone's OS that let someone tap a series of buttons to sneak past the passcode security. At the time, iPhone cracker and forensics specialist Jonathan Zdziarski also criticized the iPhone's overall passcode security, which he claimed was relatively easy to hack. Zdziarski offered the simplest bit of advice: don't allow physical access to your iPhone.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lawsuit targets Google over Web referrals]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawan</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=lawsuit-targets-google-over-web-referrals</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google search-results pages include the search terms in the URL, which gets passed along by Web browsers to the next page clicked.(Credit:Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)Google has been targeted in a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of violating user privacy by passing along search queries in referral links. The suit, filed yesterday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that Google's practice of including search terms in the URL for search-results pages violates user privacy when that URL is passed onto the publisher of the Web site clicked on by a Google user. For example, when a Google user searches for &quot;sushi restaurants in San Francisco,&quot; Google generates a search results page with a URL along the lines of &quot;http://www.google.com/searchsourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=sushi+restaurants+in+san+francisco,&quot; and that URL gets passed along by your Web browser when you click on one of the results. This is almost ubiquitous on the Web, as it allows Web publishers to see which sites are sending them traffic and which search terms are generating most of that traffic. However, Paloma Gaos, a resident of San Francisco, argued the practice allows third-party data mining companies to assemble a wealth of sensitive and personal information on searchers by aggregating their queries and linking them to personally identifying information, such as IP addresses or even their names should they do a vanity search coupled with another search term. &quot;Because Google's financial success depends on, among other things, the symbiotic relationship it shares with SEOs (search-engine optimization consultants) and the ability for third parties to engage in Web analytics, Google has placed a high priority on revealing individual user search queries to third parties,&quot; the plaintiffs argued in the complaint. The plaintiffs want the suit extended to include anyone who did a search on Google and clicked on a result after October 25, 2006. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Search Engine Land's Greg Sterling and Danny Sullivan noted that the plaintiff is singling out Google for a practice followed by countless Web sites. Both Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing also include search terms in their search-results page URLs, and other Web pages can contain even more sensitive information within the URL that can be passed along by the browser when a user navigates to the next page. While it's possible that search queries, names, and IP addresses could be linked, it would take no small amount of effort to capture enough queries to make it worth someone's time. AOL showed the world just how possible this was in 2006 by releasing a large amount of anonymized data that had enough specific query information to paint pictures of specific individuals. Still, it's clear that should this practice be outlawed or discontinued, the world of Internet marketing would change drastically. &quot;Referrers are part of the reason that Internet marketing is so successful, because results are trackable. Without referrers, it becomes more like the offline world where people spend on marketing with relatively little (compared to the Internet) insight as to what works,&quot; Sullivan wrote in a blog post today.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ray Ozzie sees new 'dawn' for Microsoft]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawan</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ray-ozzie-sees-new-dawn-for-microsoft</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As he gets ready to head out the door at Microsoft sometime in the coming weeks, Ray Ozzie is offering up sweeping thoughts on how the company should move forward into the coming decade.&quot;Let there be no doubt that the big shifts occurring over the next five years ensure that this will absolutely be a time of great opportunity for those who put past technologies &amp; successes into perspective, and envision all the transformational value that can be offered moving forward to individuals, businesses, governments and society,&quot; Ozzie wrote in a blog post titled &quot;Dawn of a New Day.&quot; The post is written as a memo to &quot;Executive Staff and direct reports.&quot;Ray Ozzie, chief software architect on the outs.Last week, Microsoft unexpectedly announced that Ozzie would be departing after five years at the software giant. No specific last day was given, but the transition is expected to last several months. Microsoft said that Ozzie, who has been serving as chief software architect, will focus his time on &quot;the broader area of entertainment where Microsoft has many ongoing investments&quot; before he officially leaves the company.Five years ago this week, Ozzie put a stamp on his then new role at Microsoft with a similarly big-picture essay known as &quot;The Internet Services Disruption&quot; memo. That quickly became the inspiration for several of Microsoft's products, including Windows Live and Windows Azure.In the new memo, posted to the newly launched &quot;ray ozzie's blog,&quot; Ozzie urges the company to keep up its forward momentum and not hold too tightly to a past that was defined in large part by Microsoft's software for the PC.&quot;As Microsoft has done so successfully over the course of the company's history,&quot; he writes, &quot;let's mark this five-year milestone by once again fearlessly embracing that which is technologically inevitable.&quot;Some of those successes, Ozzie writes, include delivering a &quot;seamless OS&quot; that uses Windows Live &quot;as an optional, yet natural services complement to the Windows and Office software.&quot; He cites Office 365 and &quot;our 2010 Office&quot; as components in the company's &quot;seamless productivity.&quot; And in the &quot;seamless entertainment&quot; space, Ozzie believes &quot;Xbox Live has transformedXbox into a real-time, social, media-rich TV experience.&quot;But Ozzie is also fully aware of the mistakes Microsoft has made over the past few years. He said that the &quot;early and clear vision&quot; of some of Microsoft's competitors has helped those companies get ahead of the software giant &quot;in mobile experiences, in the seamless fusion of hardware and software and services, and in social networking and myriad new forms of Internet-centric social interaction.&quot;The next five years will present &quot;another inflection point&quot; presenting yet more opportunities, Ozzie writes.&quot;We're moving toward a world of 1) cloud-based continuous services that connect us all and do our bidding, and 2) appliance-like connected devices enabling us to interact with those cloud-based services,&quot; he writes. He continues:At first blush, this world of continuous services and connected devices doesn't seem very different than today. But those who build, deploy and manage today's websites understand viscerally that fielding a truly continuous service is incredibly difficult and is only achieved by the most sophisticated high-scale consumer websites. And those who build and deploy application fabrics targeting connected devices understand how challenging it can be to simply &amp; reliably just 'sync' or 'stream'. To achieve these seemingly simple objectives will require dramatic innovation in human interface, hardware, software and services.Meanwhile, the PC-centric, client/server world has &quot;accreted simply immense complexity over the past quarter century. To which he adds a warning: &quot;Complexity kills. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT. Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use. Complexity introduces security challenges. Complexity causes administrator frustration.&quot;That's exactly why Microsoft must &quot;form a realistic picture of what a post-PC world might look like, if it were to ever truly occur.&quot; He writes that &quot;those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.&quot;He went on to say that the industry is on a path toward &quot;cloud-based continuous services that connect us all and do our bidding, and appliance-like connected devices enabling us to interact with those cloud-based services.&quot; And although he believes that continuous services and connected devices could lead the &quot;next wave of industry reconfiguration,&quot; it could take a while before the industry fully embraces them. But, Ozzie said, &quot;it will.&quot;And despite economic and other insecurities of the present day, Ozzie expresses optimism: &quot;I see a great, expansive future for our industry and for our company.&quot; (Via TechCrunch)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Beleaguered Digg announces more layoffs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawan</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=beleaguered-digg-announces-more-layoffs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Long gone are the days when then-Digg execs Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson would make joint appearances at tech industry conferences and giddily discuss a cluster of new features coming to the social-news site--as well as the fact that they were, invariably, looking to hire new employees.On Monday, following a report in AllThingsD that publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards was bailing for a start-up, Pixazza, CEO Matt Williams e-mailed staffers to announce that &quot;the burn rate is too high&quot; at the company and that it would be laying off 25 of its 67 staffers, a total of 37 percent. At its peak--at the time of Adelson's departure--the number of employees was slightly over 100.&quot;We must significantly cut our expenses to achieve profitability in 2011,&quot; Williams wrote in the e-mail. &quot;We've considered all of the possible options for reduction, from salaries to fixed costs.&quot;Williams, a former Amazon executive, joined Digg as chief executive fewer than two months ago, following a major executive shake-up in which CEO Jay Adelson departed and was replaced temporarily by Rose. In the meantime, other prominent Digg employees started trickling out the door, a few heading to AOL and some to start-ups like SimpleGeo (co-founded by former employee Joe Stump) and Path. A month later, Digg laid off about 10 percent of its staff.A product refocus is also imminent. At the time of the executive shake-up, Digg had also just rolled out &quot;Version 4,&quot; a long-anticipated redesign that attempted to bring the service from fanboy favorite to potential mainstream hit. Suffice it to say that it hasn't been a smooth transition' to add insult to injury, rival Reddit, which sold to Wired Digital a few years ago, has experienced a renaissance of influence as its tech- and politics-savvy user base has moseyed its way into issues as varied as the medical marijuana legislation debate and hatching the initial idea for comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to host mock political protests in Washington, D.C., before Election Day. (They're holding their joint rallies on Saturday.)Of course, in the tech industry, it ain't over till it's over--just look at Apple, and rival PC-maker Michael Dell's now-infamous comment in 1997 that newly reinstated CEO Steve Jobs should &quot;shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.&quot; But it increasingly appears as though Digg won't follow that path, and that it's become a latter-day cautionary tale about too much faith in media hype.In mid-2006, a BusinessWeek cover story featuring a grinning Kevin Rose pointed out that Digg was the 24th-most-trafficked Web site in the U.S., ahead of Fox News and approaching The New York Times. AOL and Yahoo were scrambling to copy its social-news model, the breathless article recounted. Over the next year and a half, the rumors began to show up. Al Gore's Current Media had wanted Digg and was willing to pay $100 million' Rose turned the offer down. News Corp. was a reported suitor as well. A deal with Google was reportedly almost completed before talks fell apart.But the BusinessWeek article from 2006 concluded, almost prophetically: &quot;Wannabes be warned: As nearly everyone found out six years ago (in the dot-com bust), the fall from rock star to pariah can be just as quick--and not nearly as much fun.&quot;Rose is now an active angel investor, and industry recognition of Digg employee talent is evident in the number of companies that have been eager to scoop them up. So they're hardly pariahs--but at this point few can deny that the company was badly mismanaged over the years, and that one attempt after another has been unable to get it back on its feet.This post was expanded at 12:36 p.m. PT.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Texas may be a better electric car state than California]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[When power plant heavyweight NRG Energy announced yesterday that it would invest $10 million in the rollout of the nation&amp;'s first privately-finance electric vehicle charging network it also revealed that the city it would debut in would be &amp;8230' Houston, Texas.Um, whatHouston (pictured) is known as the nation&amp;'s oil capital, and as a resident, I can&amp;'t say I disagree with that assessment. It&amp;'s also in a state where oil is still cheap compared to other parts of the country, and the same is true for electricity costs. At nearly 15,000 square miles, it&amp;'spurported to be bigger than Maryland, and is known for bad traffic and long commutes. And despite its traffic and air pollution issues, Houston has been reluctant to adopt mass transit.But NRG president and CEO David Crane tells me the company actually believes Texas is a better market for electric vehicles than it gets credit for, which I was skeptical about after test-driving the Ford Focus Electric in Dallas. In fact, Crane says they&amp;'ve been actively talking to Nissan about allocating more of its limited-supply, all-electric Leafs to Texas, which the automaker passed over when choosing its first-launch markets. (As part of the rollout, Nissan dealerships in Texas will sell NRG&amp;'s monthly charging packages to Leaf buyers).Keep in mind that NRG is parent to Texas-based electricity retailers, Green Mountain Energy and Reliant Energy, so it has close Texas ties. Crane says he&amp;'s interested in pursuing and developing a similar network in California &amp;8212' after all, NRG is in the business of selling electricity, and more electric vehicles on the road means more electricity sales for power providers. All that aside, here&amp;'s Crane&amp;'s reasoning for why Texas makes sense for an electric car network:It&amp;'s good business For $10 million, Crane says they can saturate a city of six million with charging stations. The amount is a pittance for NRG, which might spend hundreds of millions of dollars building a power plant.&amp;''We think it&amp;'s a winning proposition,&amp;'' he said. The company is seeking to patent the business model, which is called eVgo. It offers charging packages at $49 to $89 (for unlimited charging), a cost that&amp;'s added to a user&amp;'s monthly electric bill and would likely amount to less than what a driver pays in monthly gas costs. It will take several thousand subscribers and years before the company sees a return on investment, but Crane is confident the model will take off.Deregulated electricity marketsOne key factor for NRG: Texas is the only deregulated electricity market in the country, making it ideal for rolling out programs like this.&amp;''It&amp;'s easier to move more quickly when it comes to innovative technologies in the private sector than in a utility-based system,&amp;'' Crane said. In California, the process will be more complicated and time-consuming, though it won&amp;'t deter NRG from pursuing opportunities there.Sprawl and suburban commutes are not a deal-breakerTake this with a grain of salt if you like, but Crane argues that &amp;''hub-and-spoke&amp;'' cities like Houston can be a good place to launch electric car infrastructure &amp;8212' it may well be the key to convincing prospective buyers to take the plunge. The company had an &amp;''A-ha!&amp;'' moment when it looked at case studies in Tokyo and saw it only took 60 fast chargers around the city to declare it fully wired. For Houston, it could be 50 to 150 stations.From a competitive point of view, eVgo is selling a home charging system as part of the package, so it&amp;'s also a plus that most prospective customers live in houses in suburbs, and will likely charge from home. Cities like San Francisco and New York pose a competitive disadvantage for products like NRG&amp;'s because cars are mostly parked on streets.&amp;''Street solutions will come but we don&amp;'t think that&amp;'s as easy as the garage solution,&amp;'' Crane said.Change is in Texas&amp;'s interestHouston and Dallas-Fort Worth both suffer from air quality issues, and tailpipe emissions are a contributor to that. And for the nation to become truly electrified, the cars must be adopted by a broader crowd than the usual suspects in California, Oregon, Colorado and other environmentally-conscious states, Crane points out.Shrewd marketing And heck, maybe there&amp;'s appeal in the privately-financed angle that NRG emphasized in its announcement of eVgo. It&amp;'s a conservative state where negative sentiment about government spending abounds. Texas governor Rick Perry isfamous for refusing the $550 million offered to Texas in federal stimulus funds, then,notoriously, hinting that Texas could secede from the Union after becoming fed up with high taxes and the government&amp;'s stimulus spending.&amp;''We wanted to say, &amp;8216'Look this is a private sector initiative.&amp;' It&amp;'s not a government giveaway,&amp;'' Crane said.Potential for the energy to be clean too, not just the carNRG recently acquired Green Mountain Energy for $350 million, a company that sells electricity generated from renewable sources. Down the line, NRG is looking to figure out a way in which electricity that charges green cars comes from green sources.Dallas utility Oncor is also planning to build out 850 miles of transmission lines from the wind-energy region of West Texas so that electric vehicles in Dallas could presumably run on wind. (Wind blows strongest at night, and most cars will likely charge at night.)[Image via Flickr/SMercury98]Next Story: Sony Ericsson says no to Windows Phone 7 and tablets Previous Story: Angel investors to Fashism: You look fabulousPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: electric car charging, electric cars, electric vehicles, LeafCompanies: Green Mountain Energy, Nissan, NRG Energy, Reliant EnergyPeople: David Crane          Tags: electric car charging, electric cars, electric vehicles, LeafCompanies: Green Mountain Energy, Nissan, NRG Energy, Reliant EnergyPeople: David CraneIris 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[ChompOn Turns Display Ads Into&nbsp'Deals]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[White label daily deals platform and TC Disrupt finalist Chompon today launches what it is calling an &amp;''Adsense platform for daily deals.&amp;'' Rolling out today is a new Chompon affiliate functionality that makes it easy for publishers to drop in a deals widget where they&amp;'d normally show an ad unit, enabling them to sell targeted deals instead of ads.Niche websites can now get the monetization of ecommerce sites like Groupon applied to the scale of a display ad with ChompOn&amp;'s embeds. The ChompOn platform also allows deal providers to bid on getting their ads sold and automatically tracks sales and other analytics for both merchants and publishers. Deals like this one can now be distributed across any affiliate site whether it&amp;'s part of the Chompon network or not.Thus far Chompon is working with 50 partners including Blackbook Magazine, JDeal and as of today the wine branch of Beyondtherack, a flash deals site and their largest partner thus far. While CEO Samuel Yam wouldn&amp;'t get into specifics, the service currently has a few hundred thousand dollars in monthly gross revenue and will be announcing additional partnerships in the coming months.CrunchBase InformationChompOnInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LiquidSpace launches its workspace-finding mobile app]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[If you&amp;'re the kind of person who spends more time working at Starbucks than in your office (i.e., me), then you may be able to upgrade your work life with a new iPhone application called LiquidSpace.The idea of finding an empty desk to work at isn&amp;'t new. We&amp;'ve seen the launch of a number of co-working offices in San Francisco and elsewhere recently, as well as ShareYourOffice, a marketplace for renting out empty workspaces. But LiquidSpace is less focused on creating long-term work arrangements and more focused on finding someplace to work right now &amp;8212' the company has compared itself to Airbnb, the service that helps travelers find empty couches and bedrooms.One of the coolest things about the app is that it supports a variety of arrangements. They include private spaces, where a company only makes offices available to traveling employees or other approved guests' paid spaces, like a co-working office where you rent a desk for the day or the afternoon' and public spaces, like a Starbucks with WiFi. If you&amp;'re looking for a space, you can also specify exactly what you need: You might be happy as long as there&amp;'s a desk with free WiFi, or you might need a private conference room for three people.The listings will come mostly from the facilities themselves (particularly in the case of private or paid spaces), but users can also add venue information and photos.To help kick things off, LiquidSpace is also announcing a promotion next week where users who travel to the South by Southwest conference will be able to visit a number of &amp;''pop-up workspaces&amp;'' in Austin locations like art galleries and coffee houses.The LiquidSpace app is free, because the company plans to make money by taking a share of all the paid transactions. It has raised $1.3 million in funding from Greylock Partners and Floodgate.Oh, and if you think the audience for the app is a bit limited, LiquidSpace has data showing the growing number of mobile workers, including an IDC study showing that there are more than 110 mobile workers in the United States alone.Next Story: AMD launches world&amp;'s fastest dual-chip graphics card Previous Story: Meteor Games renews its social gaming assault with Serf WarsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: co-working, South by SouthwestCompanies: LiquidSpace          Tags: co-working, South by SouthwestCompanies: LiquidSpaceAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site 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. 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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<title><![CDATA[Google Instant heads to the iPhone and Android]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As  promised, Google has brought its wicked fast Google Instant search to  mobile devices with support for the iPhone and Android, the company announced today on its blog.The  service works just the same on mobile devices as it does on the desktop. After turning on the beta instant search functionality, search terms that you type on Googlea4a4s mobile website will automatically  deliver results. Youa4a4ll see predictions for your search terms as you  type as well.Google  says ita4a4s a4Apushing the limits of mobile browser and wireless networksa4  with the feature. A new implementation for mobile browsers uses the HTML5 standard for Web pages and AJAX, a common Web-programming technique, to dynamically update search results, giving users a big speed  improvement in the process.Google Instant works best on 3G and Wi-Fi connections, but you can also easily  turn it off without leaving the search page in case of network hiccups.  Ita4a4s currently available for iPhones and iPods running iPhone operating  system 4, and ita4a4s available for Android 2.2 devices. The company says  support for more devices and languages is coming in the next few months.After  playing around with Google Instant on my iPhone 4 for a bit, Ia4a4m  finding it even more impressive than the desktop. Perhaps ita4a4s because  ita4a4s a much bigger speed improvement for mobile search than it was for  desktop search, but Ia4a4ve definitely found a new appreciation for Google  Instant on my iPhone. Now leta4a4s just hope we can get the feature in  Gmail soon.Check out a demo of Google Instant for mobile below:Next Story: Startups bet on solar panels on every home and building Previous Story: Hulu Plus drops invites, heads to Sony Bravia HDTVs and all PlayStation 3 usersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Google Instant, iOS, iPhone, iPod Touch, searchCompanies: Google          Tags: Android, Google Instant, iOS, iPhone, iPod Touch, searchCompanies: GoogleDevindra 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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