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<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 07:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon CFO hints at global 'iPhone 5,' talks LTE]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 07:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple&amp;39's iPhone 4(Credit:Apple)Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo revealed several interesting things at the Reuters Global Technology Summit. First, Verizon will continue to compete with AT&amp;T on theiPhone--Big Red will sell the next-generation iPhone (referred to by some as the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S) alongside AT&amp;T.Shammo also said that the nextVerizon iPhone will operate in as many countries as AT&amp;T's global iPhone. Reading between the lines, we can guess that Verizon is preparing for a big announcement on this front when the next-generation iPhone hits global shelves.Verizon's CFO was less transparent about the next iPhone's speeds, suggesting that Verizon's portfolio of LTE Android phones would make up for a next-gen iPhone. &quot;I think it's a bigger issue for Apple than it is for us,&quot; Reuters quotes. &quot;Depending on where Apple plays, that's where we'll sell.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[As iFlow Reader app closes, harsh words for Apple]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 07:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[BeamItDown, the maker of the iFlowReader apps for iOS, had harsh words for Apple as it announced the end of its e-reader app.(Credit:BeamItDown)Some interesting news from the world of e-reading apps in the land of iOS: BeamItDown is shuttering its iFlow Reader app on May 31, saying &quot;Apple has decided that it wants all of the e-book business in iOS for itself and it has has made mid-game rule changes that make it impossible for anyone but Apple to sell e-books at a profit on iOS.&quot;Just like the Kindle, Nook, and Kobo apps for iOS, the iFlow Reader app foriPhone andiPad has an integrated e-bookstore. Apple has reportedly set a deadline of June 30 for developers to alter their apps to reflect the new terms for subscriptions in the Apple Store, which requires companies to give Apple a 30 percent cut on sales their apps generate.  In the past, e-reading apps like iFlow, Kindle, and Nook have avoided paying the cut by sending customers to a Web-based interface outside the app. Starting in June, however, Apple has said it will require developers to sell content from only within the app.Fear of reprisals from Apple has kept most companies mum on the looming issue, but the folks at BeamItDown Software who make the iFlow Reader let their anger--excuse the pun--flow freely. It is one of the harsher public condemnations of Apple we've seen. Here are some of the juicer quotes from the company's announcement that it would be shutting down the app:Five of us spent nearly a year and a half of our lives and over a million dollars in cash and sweat equity developing the iFlowReader app...What sounds like a reasonable demand when packaged by Apple's extraordinary public relations department is essentially an eviction notice to allebook sellers on iOS...We put our faith in Apple and they screwed us...It was the American dream that we all strive for. Sadly, the America that we thought we were working in turned out to be a totalitarian regime and the dictator decided that he wanted all of what we had. Our dream is now over.The company also was extremely critical of the &quot;agency model&quot; for selling e-books, saying that it was created by Apple and basically fixed prices on e-books. &quot;All sales agents are required to sell books at the same retail price,which is set by the publisher,&quot; BeamItDown said in its blog post. &quot;No one can sell at a different price.All sales agents get a 30% commission on the sale of a book. No onegets a different deal. Prior to the agency model, publishers typicallyoffered retailers a 50% discount. The key point here is that all sellers now get a 30% commission andApple now wants a 30% fee, which is all of our gross margin and thensome.&quot;What sounds like a reasonable demand when packaged by Apple's extraordinary public relations department is essentially an eviction notice to all e-book sellers on iOS.-- The iFlowReader staffThe post goes on to explain to iFlow customers how to save their purchased e-books and provides a link to complain directly to Apple execs Steve Jobs and VP Phil Schiller via email.What does this mean for the Kindle, Nook, and Kobo apps on iPad and iPhone Hard to say at this point because no one from Amazon or Barnes &amp; Noble is saying anything regarding Apple and its apps (we've asked high-level execs from those companies about the June 30 doomsday deadline, but as expected, they declined to comment).While BeamItDown says that it had more than 6 million downloads of its iFlowReader iOS products over the last three years, it's a minor player in the e-book space. Obviously, if Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble decided to pull its Kindle and Nook apps from iTunes, Apple could expect a huge amount of complaints from users who expected to be able to read their e-books (bought from those stores) on Apple devices. In their negotiations with Apple, large companies like Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble have a lot more leverage than BeamItDown, so it remains to be seen whether Apple will stick to its guns and truly lay down the gauntlet or come up with a more palatable number for profit sharing that all sides can accept.Of course, complicating matters is Barnes &amp; Noble's entry into thetablet space with the Nook Color and strong rumors that Amazon will release its own Android-based tablet very soon.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cowon's D3 Android player, hands-on]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Cowon D3 portable media player, powered by Android 2.1.(Credit:Donald Bell/CNET)Any hard-core audiophiles out there probably have a soft spot in your hearts for Cowon. The Korea-based manufacturer made an early splash in theiPod era with products like the iAudio X5 and the D2 and their exhaustive spec sheets, supporting every file format under the sun and propping them up with a wide array of sound enhancement tools.And while most manufacturers have fled the field of dedicated portable media players, Cowon has bravely (or foolishly) decided to stick it out. Cowon's latest device is the Cowon D3, a $370 premium portable media player running a heavily skinned version of Android 2.1, packed with 32GB of storage.As expected, it sounds wonderful, and features the full suite of JetEffect sound presets Cowon is known for. Codec support is outstanding for both audio and video, the latter of which supports resolutions of up to 1080p. Other features include FM radio, a Web browser, e-mail, calendar, photos, and all that Android typically brings. Well...almost. There's no Android Market support--not even a poor excuse for an app store (a la Archos or the ViewSonic gTablet). Instead, what you see is what you get, and what you get is pretty dull--especially for the price. The D3 is also a bit on the slow side. The capacitive keyboard is fast and accurate, but everything else is slow on the uptake. Apps launch with a delay that leaves you wondering if your touch registered. Swiping between home screens and scrolling Web pages are both noticeably delayed.There are also some design goofs that have me groaning. Why on earth did Cowon decide to include dedicated playback buttons on the side of the device You can barely see what the buttons are. They're just there to punish you every time you hold the device too firmly, triggering what is sure to be the most embarrassing song in your collection.Another strike against the device is the fact that an included wall-wart power adapter is necessary for recharging the thing. Even transferring files over USB requires a proprietary cable. It's silly. Even the most modern Android superphone can recharge over Micro-USB these days. People don't want to carry around a wall wart with their portable devices (I'm looking at you too,tablet manufacturers).Ultimately, the D3 is as beautiful as it is disappointing. With its 3.7-inch OLED display and refined Cowon industrial design, it's a stunner out of the box. For practical day-to-day use, though, you're better off putting that $370 toward a well-specced Android smartphone and a decent pair of headphones. Cowon D3 (photos) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Majestic monarch butterflies face population crisis]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Clusters of monarch butterflies in coastal California locations like Santa Cruz may become rarer and rarer as loss of habitat and essential plants threaten the majestic species.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--When I lived in this beach town on the central California coast in the early 1990s, I loved visiting a stunning local state park where each winter you could find more than 120,000 monarch butterflies swarming, clustering, and flying everywhere you looked.It was an awesome sight.Today, a visit to the monarch grove at Natural Bridges State Beach reveals a much grimmer situation--just 2,000 monarchs during the peak of their &quot;overwintering&quot; season, the period from late October through early March when the colorful butterflies rest in the trees here, protected from the cold, rain, and wind, waiting for mating season in the early spring.And the same bleak picture is being painted in nearby Pacific Grove, Calif., a tiny town adjacent to Monterey that is known as &quot;Butterfly Town, USA,&quot; Where once many tens of thousands of monarchs would spend each winter, there are now less than 5,000. And that's up a tick from last year.California's monarch butterflies in peril (photos) &quot;The big picture is that the monarch populations have precipitously dropped since the 1970s, '80s, and '90s,&quot; said Mia Monroe, a monarch expert with the international insect conservation group, The Xerces Society. &quot;And needless to say, we're all worried and concerned and are asking why.&quot;What's happened during the last 15 or so years then is nothing short of a crisis for these beautiful creatures. The rapid depletion of the annual coastal monarch population is a direct reflection, experts say, of the impact of humans on nature. Monarchs must lay their eggs on the milkweed plant, which is gradually disappearing in crucial parts of California as housing subdivisions replace the orchards, meadows, and vacant lots where the plant once proliferated, and as more efficient farming methods have allowed people to grow crops at the margins of their properties, places where milkweed used to thrive.As well, the increasing use of pesticides in rural areas and water shortages have also threatened monarch habitat. Taken with the marked reduction in milkweed, it's a trifecta that means that a once-exciting visit to Natural Bridges or Pacific Grove is now a much more somber experience.&quot;Monarchs seem to have sufficient suitable habitat for overwintering along the California coast,&quot; said Francis Villablanca, an associate professor in the biological sciences department at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. &quot;We have not seen any significant mortality factors associated with overwintering. Therefore, the problem must be with the source of overwintering monarchs, which are the milkweed plants scattered throughout the interior West.&quot;That means, the experts say, that action is required. If there are to be significant winter monarch populations in coastal California in the future, people must be proactive in recognizing the crisis and in doing something about it. MonarchWatch.org is organizing efforts to educate people about planting milkweed, an essential plant to monarchs.(Credit:MonarchWatch)Fortunately, some are heeding the call. An organization called Monarch Watch has launched a campaign called Bring Back the Monarchs, which aims to educate the public about the crisis and what can be done.&quot;The goals of this program are to restore 19 milkweed species, used by monarch caterpillars as food, to their native ranges throughout the United States,&quot; the project's Web site reads, &quot;and to encourage the planting of nectar-producing native flowers that support adult monarchs and other pollinators.&quot;That's a sentiment that Monroe shares. While she's obviously deeply worried about the monarchs, she also sees signs of hope. For one, she said, the 2010 monarch population is up a bit from a year earlier--though still an order of magnitude smaller than in the early 1990s--and at the same time, she feels empowered by the fact that people have an opportunity to recognize and do something about the problem, at least in California--namely, to plant milkweed.Supergeneration In the warmer months of the year, monarchs are able to get by on the plentiful milkweed supply of the northern U.S. and Canada. But in winter, the cold climate forces them as much as 2,000 miles south. Those that begin their journey east of the Rocky Mountains are thought to head toward southern Mexico, and westerners embark for coastal California. According to Monroe, most monarchs have a total life expectancy--including their time in the egg, as a caterpillar, and in their chrysalis--of between six weeks and two months. In their butterfly stage, they tend to live about a month to six weeks. That means that new generations of monarchs are coming along constantly, and leads to one of the most enduring mysteries of their species--how do brand-new butterflies know to return to the same overwintering spots as their ancestors&quot;It is the search for proper survival conditions that direct a new generation of monarchs back to an overwintering site,&quot; reads a Natural Bridges monarch brochure. &quot;There is still much speculation about how the monarchs return to the same overwintering grounds. The Earth's magnetic field, the position of the sun and geographic features of the land are components of navigation likely to be involved in the mystery.&quot;A close-up of a cluster of monarchs.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)Perhaps equally impressive is the tenacity of what Monroe called the &quot;supergeneration&quot; of monarchs, those that live a good six to nine months in their overwintering spots in preparation for spring mating season. OverwinteringIf you've never visited a monarch grove before, you might have trouble spotting the clusters of butterflies at first.That's because, rather than there being large numbers of monarchs sporting their loud orange colors, they actually tend to bunch together in such a way that it's very difficult to distinguish them from the leaves of the trees upon which they gather.&quot;Monarchs have trouble flying in temperatures under 55 degrees Fahrenheit,&quot; reads a Pacific Grove monarch sanctuary brochure. &quot;The butterflies hang in clusters in the trees, resembling dead leaves, until the sunlight warms them. Then they spread their wings and begin to flutter down from the trees.&quot;And why do these thousands of butterflies come to Pacific Grove and Santa Cruz--as well as in smaller numbers in northern California counties like Marin and Sonoma and Southern California counties like Los Angeles and San Diego The answer, according to the Pacific Grove brochure, is that the fog-shrouded Monterey Pine forest of Pacific Grove [provides] the 'microclimate' they need: proper humidity, light, shade, temperature, and protection from the wind.&quot;At the same time, the emergence of Australian eucalyptus has helped overwintering patterns in Pacific Grove and Santa Cruz &quot;by providing a tree that is not only well-suited to sheltering monarch clusters, but additionally, provides the butterflies with a convenient nectar source since it blooms in winter.&quot;And, explained Monroe, many of the overwintering sites are on protected land, either public parks like Natural Bridges, or public-private sanctuaries like in Pacific Grove.Inspires aweSince I no longer live in Santa Cruz, I'm not able to return to the monarch groves more than once every few years. And that meant that on my recent visit, as part of my Road Trip at Home series, I was shocked by how few butterflies were in evidence at Natural Bridges.Clearly, I had reason to be alarmed--a notion shared by experts like Monroe.But it was also instructive to talk to her, since despite what is clearly a catastrophic decline in the numbers of monarchs that can be found in coastal California, Monroe remains bullish on the species' future prospects.&quot;I guess I feel optimistic, because for once, there's something we can do to be helpful, which is to plant milkweed,&quot; Monroe said. &quot;We have the chance to plant milkweed and ask our friends to do that too.&quot;She pointed to the work of MonarchWatch, which is making it easy for people to order the plant and which is working hard to spread the word about the dire circumstances.But the monarch's lovely colors and patterns may also aid their recovery, Monroe suggested.&quot;Monarch butterflies inspire awe in us,&quot; she said. &quot;They're beautiful and there's the hopeful story of metamorphosis. We all wish to grow and change ourselves [like a] butterfly. And they're easy for us to identify...So if there's something to be hopeful about, it's monarch butterflies.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple and others gearing up for patent wars with bids on Nortel&'s 4G wireless patents]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nortel, a telecommunications giant that controls some major patents on the next generation of wireless technology, is auctioning off the remainder of its patents to suitors like Research in Motion, Apple and Microsoft, according to a report from Reuters.The 4,000 patents, 7 of which are part of 105 patents that are considered important for the development of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless technology, that are being auctioned off are worth around $1 billion. For Apple and Microsoft, they seems like an obvious choice because the companies are making a strong push into the mobile space and have to gear up for potential patent lawsuits with major players like Nokia.Dealing with patent lawsuits is basically a sure thing for larger companies a4&quot; particularly newcomers in the mobile space like Apple. It&amp;'s a game large companies typically play amongst themselves as a scare tactic and as a way to defend their market share. Patents are also a good source of revenue from licensing deals and the like.Apple has already assembled a legal team to prepare for pending patent wars with Nokia, one of the old guards of the mobile market. According to the report, Nokia controls more than half of the patents important to the development of the LTE 4G wireless network. Picking up Nortel&amp;'s patents would give Apple a bit of a better foundation in that fight.Apple already has a lot of early mobile computing patents, thanks to its misadventures with its Newton personal digital assistant. But it does not have a lot of mainstream, modern cell-phone technologies. Microsoft and Research in Motion a4&quot; traditionally aggressors in the patent war zone a4&quot; could also find a lot of use for Nortel&amp;'s patents. Apple is in a pretty good position to pick up the patents, seeing as the company brought in more than $20 billion in revenue last quarter alone and said it has plenty of cash on hand.The auction for the patents began around seven months ago and is being run by Lazard Capital and Global IP Law Group. Research in Motion made an earlier bid for the patents in 2009 but has not said if it is involved in the current auction, according to the report.Nortel, once a giant company with a market cap of roughly $250 billion has faded into obscurity after filing for protection from creditors in 2009. The company was a casualty of the dot-com era recession and spent the next years spinning down its operations. The patent auction is one of the last dances for the telecom giant.Next Story: Skyara attracts do-gooder activity guides Previous Story: Neal Stephensona4a4s digital novel The Mongoliad invades mobilePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: 4G, LTE, patents, wirelessCompanies: Apple, Microsoft, Nortel, Research In Motion          Tags: 4G, LTE, patents, wirelessCompanies: Apple, Microsoft, Nortel, Research In MotionMatthew 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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