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<title><![CDATA[Engadget top editors exit AOL's giant tech site]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Josh Topolsky, the editor-in-chief of Engadget, is leaving the AOL-owned property, which is one of the largest tech news sites on the Web.Also departing is Managing Editor Nilay Patel, said sources.Sources said the move by Topolsky (pictured here, although the coffee cup is not permanent) and Patel is not out of the tech news arena and both are considering several options.Josh TopolskyBut the departures have been a long time in coming, related to a range of ongoing issues the veteran editors have had working for the large New York-based Internet company. Sources said it was not precipitated by AOL's recent $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post.In fact, sources said new AOL content head Arianna Huffington had tried hard to persuade Topolsky to stay on, but that &quot;he had already mentally made up his mind to go.&quot;This has been a regular occurrence at the site, including two top Engadget editors--Paul Miller and Ross Miller, who are not related--who departed the tech site in recent months. Both stated publicly that they did not like the editorial direction AOL was going in, especially a controversial content strategy document titled &quot;The AOL Way.&quot;In a post in in mid-February, Paul Miller was explicit about the issue on his personal blog:I'd love to be able to keep doing this forever, but unfortunately Engadget is owned by AOL, and AOL has proved an unwilling partner in this site's evolution. It doesn't take a veteran of the publishing world to realize that AOL has its heart in the wrong place with content. As detailed in the &quot;AOL Way,&quot; and borne out in personal experience, AOL sees content as a commodity it can sell ads against. That might make good business sense (though I doubt it), but it doesn't promote good journalism or even good entertainment, and it doesn't allow an ambitious team like the one I know and love at Engadget to thrive.Nilay PatelIn this case, &quot;The AOL Way&quot; was not the main reason for the departure of Topolsky or Patel (pictured here, looking rather fetching), sources said, but was more about the challenges of working within a large corporate entity.Engadget is one of the largest in tech, with 14 million unique visitors a month. Its main competitor is Gawker's Gizmodo. AOL also owns TechCrunch, another tech news site.BoomTown sent an e-mail to AOL execs for comment and is awaiting a reply.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More photos of PlayStation phone leaked]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marwannuyeah</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The purported PlayStation phone next to the PSP Go(Credit:IT168)Sony's as-yet-unannouncedPlayStation phone could be one of the worst-kept secrets in the technology industry.Just a couple of days after images of what appears to be a PlayStation phone leaked on a Hong Kong forum, several more photos have been published on a Chinese Web site, called IT168.The images appear to show a PlayStation phone in full working condition. According to Engadget, which first discovered the leak, the device in the images features a 4-inch touch display, 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash, a microSD slot, and a micro-USB port, among other features.The smartphone in the images boasts slide-out PlayStation controls, including Sony's familiar D-pad and controller buttons. The smartphone and gaming device is branded with Sony Ericsson's Xperia logo.The phone closely resembles devices featured in previous videos and images that have hit the Web.Speculation abounds that Sony will unveil the device in February at Mobile World Congress. However, Sony Ericsson has been tight-lipped about the PlayStation phone. There's currently no telling what games the device will accommodate, and pricing and availability are a question mark. The company hasn't even offered any concrete clues that it will be announcing the smartphone anytime soon.Regardless, Sony Computer Entertainment needs something to jump-start its ailing PSP business, and working with Sony Ericsson might be the best way to do it.In August, the last month NPD reported sales figures, Sony sold just 79,400 PSP units, down nearly 50 percent from the 140,300 units it sold in August 2009. Moreover, GameStop said in November that the PSP has been &quot;a disappointment&quot; for the company at retail.But that hasn't caused Sony to consider dumping the PSP entirely. Last month, Sony Computer Entertainment chief Kaz Hirai indicated that his company might soon offer a PSP with a touch screen.&quot;Depending on the game, there are ones where you can play perfectly well with a touch panel,&quot; Hirai told The New York Times. &quot;But you can definitely play immersive games better with physical buttons and pads. I think there could be games where you're able to use both in combination.&quot;Considering the leaked images show the PlayStation phone with both a touch panel and PSP controls, it's possible that Hirai was referencing the device in the interview.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel showering employees with 4X bonuses]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marwannuyeah</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Intel is giving four times the usual bonuses for its employees thanks to its record year with $43 billion in revenues. The company is also paying its workers the equivalent of 3 extra days of work on top of that.The higher bonuses cap a year when many Silicon Valley companies offered raises or bonuses to employees to keep talent from being poached. Google said it was giving all of its employees a 10 percent raise back in November, partly because it had to fend off poaching by the faster-growing Facebook. Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker also gave HP employees raises after an era of cost-cutting under previous CEO Mark Hurd.In Twitter messages, Intel employees are saying things like &amp;''champagne (er, sparkling cider) popped.&amp;'' Tech company employees are going to be happy. And those that don&amp;'t get bonuses They may walk down the street to the next employer. At Intel, all employees get bonuses based on a given multiplier every year. This year, the multiplier was 4X. In addition, every six months employees get profit sharing based on a number of days.Next Story: Shortages coming for Microsoft&amp;'s Xbox 360, Kinect Previous Story: VentureBeat&amp;'s top gadgets from CES 2011: Atrix, Xoom, PlayBook and morePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: bonuses, talent warCompanies: IntelPeople: Paul Otellini          Tags: bonuses, talent warCompanies: IntelPeople: Paul OtelliniDean 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[A startup scribe goes native]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marwannuyeah</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[For 16 years, I&amp;'ve written about startups and the people who found them. I&amp;'ve even worked at startups for about half of my career as a reporter and editor &amp;8212' for the past year, at this startup called VentureBeat.But I&amp;'ve never actually been part of a founding team.That&amp;'s changed. Yes, I&amp;'m leaving VentureBeat. For a startup.It was with great surprise that I recently found in my email an offer to become the founding editor of a new media venture. (I knew it was coming, but despite my surface appearance of raging vanity, I remain astonished that people would actually want to work with someone who is quite possibly the most perplexing journalist in Silicon Valley.)That led to a hard conversation with my longtime friend Matt Marshall, in which I confessed that this new thing &amp;8212' a thing I&amp;'m not yet ready to tell you about, save that it will be awesome &amp;8212' haunted my dreams the way I know VentureBeat haunts his. And that he&amp;'d managed to infect me with his founder bug.So there you have it. I&amp;'m going to miss my cohorts, minions, and assorted hangers-on at VentureBeat, which I know is poised for further greatness. I&amp;'ll be watching it grow with more than a little wistfulness. But I won&amp;'t be a stranger: I&amp;'m staying in San Francisco and intend to take Ramona the Love Terrier back to visit her pals at 50 California Street as often as she lets me.Matt is searching for someone brilliant and hilarious &amp;8212' &amp;''funtelligent&amp;'' is the neologism we&amp;'re using &amp;8212' to lead VentureBeat&amp;'s editorial team to madcap glory. Drop a note if you think you&amp;'ve got what it takes. VentureBeat is also hiring writers and people on the business side.If you want to keep track of me, follow me on Twitter or Facebook.Just watch out for that startup fever. I hear it&amp;'s catching.Next Story: Another Reddit employee says goodbye, accepts a4dream offera4a4 from Google Previous Story: XXX sites win web domain approvalPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: job changes, too insideryCompanies: VentureBeatPeople: Owen Thomas          Tags: job changes, too insideryCompanies: VentureBeatPeople: Owen ThomasOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat. 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[With massive funding, Color aims to reinvent mobile photos]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After the South by Southwest Interactive conference last week, youa4a4d think the world would have its fill of mobile social networking apps. But here comes another big launch, this time of a free iPhone and Android app called Color.If, like me, youa4a4re starting to feel a bit of a mobile social overload, herea4a4s a different reason to pay attention to Color: It has raised $41 million in funding. Thata4a4s an extraordinary amount for a product that hasna4a4t even launched yet, and it comes from Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valleya4a4s top firms, along with Bain Capital Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.One more reason Color stands out: Its leadership team includes co-founder and chief executive Bill Nguyen (founder of Lala, the music service acquired in 2009 by Apple), co-founder and president Peter Pham (formerly CEO of BillShrink), and chief product officer DJ Patil (formerly chief scientist at LinkedIn).Okay, so therea4a4s a lot of money and an all-star team. What does the app actually do The goal, Pham told me today, was to create a social experience that&amp;'s &amp;''native&amp;'' to mobile and really takes advantage of smartphone technology rather than simply transferring a Web-based experience to the phone.Users share photos and videos on Color, and they see all the media shared by other users at the same location and time. Photos and videos (again, not just the ones you took) from all those experiences are stored in a4Adiariesa4 &amp;8212' users can look back at their own diaries to remember their past experiences, and they can look at friendsa4a4 diaries to see what theya4a4ve been up to.For example, Pham, Patil, and I had lunch across the street from Colora4a4s Palo Alto, Calif. offices today, and as the two of them took pictures and videos during our conversation, everything showed up under a single event. Then we could look at the diaries of their co-workers and see what was happening back at the Color office.The obvious points of reference are photo-sharing apps like Instagram, but with a focus on location rather than personal identity or networks. On Color, the content you see isna4a4t delivered based on who you follow, as it is on Instagram, but rather where you are. That approach can lead to serendipitous discoveries &amp;8212' so if another Color user had been taking photos in the same restaurant, Pham, Patil, and I would have seen their photos too. You could also compare Color to location-based apps like Foursquare, but in Color, photos are the central experience, rather than a sidebar to check-ins.Patil said Color is doing a lot of work behind the scenes to make the experience as simple and automated as possible. So users never have to tell Color where they are or who they&amp;'re with &amp;8212' the app figures that out for itself, and it dynamically adjusts the size of a single event or location based on usersa4a4 activity. Does that mean your photos and videos could get a4Aautomaticallya4 grouped with a completely unrelated set There could definitely be some mistakes, Pham acknowledged, especially early on, but the app will get better based on user activity and feedback.And instead of requiring users to become friends or followers of other users, Color just points to other accounts that users may want to check out, based on their activity. So if Ia4a4m constantly using the Color app at the same time and location as someone else, Color will figure out that I probably want to see that other users&amp;' photos and videos.One important point about Color: All of the content is public. Does that mean a usera4a4s embarrassing keg stand picture will be visible to everyone Yes, but Pham said hea4a4s hoping to avoid those situations by being completely clear about Color&amp;'s policy. Users don&amp;'t have to wonder who can see what, or adjust a bunch of different privacy settings, because everything&amp;'s public. He added that more people are beginning to understand, a4AWhen youa4a4re in public, youa4a4re in public.a4I haven&amp;'t had a chance to play with the app in any meaningful way' I&amp;'ve just watched the demos from Pham and Patil. But I was pretty impressed with what I saw today. Over and above any individual feature, it&amp;'s a beautiful, responsive app, and its interface looks intuitive (and fast) enough to eliminate any technological barriers to the oversharing that Color wants to encourage.Calling all mobile executives: This April 25-26, VentureBeat is hosting its inaugural VentureBeat Mobile Summit,  where we&amp;'ll debate the five key business and policy challenges facing  the mobile industry today. Participants will develop concrete,  actionable solutions that will shape the future of the mobile industry.  The invitation-only event, located at the scenic and relaxing Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, Calif., is limited to 180 mobile executives, investors and policymakers. We&amp;'ve pretty much finalized the invite list, but have a few spots left. Request an invitation.Next Story: Sony says PS 3 hacker Geohot has fled to South America Previous Story: Flurry joins the war for mobile developers with an interesting new hirePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, iPhone, mobile photo-sharing, mobile photosCompanies: Bain Capital Ventures, Color, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley BankPeople: Bill Nguyen, DJ Patil, Peter Pham          Tags: Android, iPhone, mobile photo-sharing, mobile photosCompanies: Bain Capital Ventures, Color, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley BankPeople: Bill Nguyen, DJ Patil, Peter PhamAnthony 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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