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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gmail 'people widget' tidies up your inbox]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gmail tidies up.(Credit:Google)Your Gmail inbox will soon become a list-maker. Over the next two weeks, Google is rolling out a new feature to its Gmail users, a &quot;people widget&quot; that tidily aggregates the content you share with your contacts.Stashed away on the right side of the screen, the people widget will list the messages, phone calls, and chats between you and a contact. You'll also get a glance at e-mails, shared Calendar activities and Google Docs, and Google Buzz updates. You should be able to click an item to interact with the entry.The widget also provides quick access to contact your contacts through e-mail, chat, a meeting, and so on.This isn't the first time we've seen this concept of aggregating communication details to make finding information and shared items easier. Xobni is a San Francisco start-up with a similar beta product, except that it also includes search, statistics, and auto-suggestions. Xobni also pulls in contact data from e-mails, and approved information from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, among other features. (Xobni also builds mobile and desktop apps.)Although Google's Gmail widget won't have Xobni's features at launch, it's a sure bet the software titan will gradually build off its new tool to incorporate other Google features and services, like maps and mobile contacts.The Gmail people widget will be a global release to Google's hundreds of millions of active users, although it's an optional feature that you can turn off in the settings. The widget looks useful to us so far, but we won't know for sure until we see it appear in our own inboxes, so keep checking back for more. You can view more screenshots in Google's blog post.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Google and DOJ close to ITA settlement]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google and the U.S. Department of Justice are said to be close to reaching a legal settlement over Google's intended $700 million acquisition of travel data company ITA Software, which was has been under scrutiny since the deal was announced last July.Citing &quot;people familiar with the matter,&quot; The Wall Street Journal reports that the proposal agreement, which would allow the purchase to go forward, is not finalized. That agreement, the Journal says, also lets the government keep an eye on Google for antitrust activities and could be made within days.From the get-go, the proposed acquisition has faced challenges from the Department of Justice over whether the control of the travel software company would give Google too much power. Google has since set up a site that outlines its intentions with ITA, including honoring all existing agreements with companies that make use of ITA's data and technology in their services. Nonetheless, groups including the coalition FairSearch.org have sprung up, contesting the buy, saying that it would give Google an upper hand against competitors, many of whom use ITA's technology. ITA's core business is curating and indexing prices, flight schedules, and open seats, and offering the data to partners. The 500-person company has relationships with airlines and travel agencies and can be found powering sites like Kayak, Hotwire, and Orbitz. When Google first announced plans to buy the company, it said it intended to use ITA's technology to let users buy tickets directly from its search pages.A report by Reuters, which also claimed that a deal was days away from completion, said the Justice Department was concerned with how Google planned to license the technology to competitors and that there was still some argument over how those competitors would be presented as part of Google's search results.Google last week entered into a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission over violating user privacy as part of the roll-out of its Buzz service last year. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 411 on AT&T's 4G strategy (FAQ)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AT&amp;T took another step toward filling out its 4G wireless broadband strategy with the announcement yesterday that it plans to spend $1.9 billion to buy wireless spectrum from chipmaker Qualcomm.The new spectrum will be used to help build the carrier's next generation LTE network. This is the same technology that Verizon Wireless is using to build its 4G network. In some ways, AT&amp;T may seem a little late to the 4G wireless party. Competitors Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile USA have already been touting their fourth generation networks. Verizon just launched its service earlier this month. And Sprint has been offering 4G service using a technology called WiMax for more than two years. Even T-Mobile USA--the smallest of the major four national wireless operators--is claiming to offer 4G wireless. For the most part, AT&amp;T has been quiet about its 4G plans. But now the company is making nearly a $2 billion investment in the new network. To help shed some light on AT&amp;T's 4G strategy and what consumers might expect, CNET put together this FAQ.What is AT&amp;T's strategy for 4G, and is it really lagging its competitorsIn terms of marketing, AT&amp;T is definitely behind its competitors in getting its 4G message out. But in terms of technology, the company isn't really that far behind its competitors. It's just taking a slightly different route. In short, AT&amp;T has decided to upgrade its existing 3G network before it deploys LTE. This is the same strategy T-Mobile USA is taking as well. AT&amp;T and T-Mobile are both GSM carriers, using HSPA 3G technology. HSPA 3G has an easier path toward LTE, so it makes sense for these carriers to invest in these networks as long as they can before building an LTE network. Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel, which are CDMA-based carriers, use a 3G technology called EV-DO that doesn't have as clear an upgrade path to 4G. So this is why these carriers have decided to move to next-generation technologies. Verizon is using LTE, while Sprint is using WiMax.What technology has AT&amp;T already deployedIn 2009, AT&amp;T upgraded to HSPA 7.2 technology. This 3G technology provides a theoretical download speed of 7.2 Mbps. The company completed that upgrade and is now working to upgrade the network yet again with HSPA+ technology. The technology it is using can theoretically offer between 14 Mbps and 21 Mbps downloads.In November, AT&amp;T's CTO John Donovan said the company had completed 80 percent of its network upgrade to HSPA+. And now AT&amp;T claims it offers this faster service to 250 million potential users.Are there products that take advantage of these new faster speedsSo far AT&amp;T has introduced only USB modems that offer HSPA+ speeds. But there is a good chance the company will offer HSPA+ handsets early next year. T-Mobile, which touts its HSPA+ network as 4G, was the first carrier in the U.S. to launch HSPA+ phones in the U.S.: the G2 and myTouch 4G.If LTE is the next evolution in AT&amp;T's roadmap, how much faster will it be than HSPA+AT&amp;T has not said how fast it expects the new service to be, nor has AT&amp;T published its own estimates for actual speeds on its HSPA+ network. If you look at competitors using similar technologies, the actual speed of its HSPA+ is likely around 3Mbps to 7Mbps. Verizon, which is the only major U.S. carrier that has deployed LTE, is reporting average download speeds around 5Mbps to 12Mbps.When is AT&amp;T launching its LTE networkThe network is expected to launch commercially in mid-2011. AT&amp;T is already testing the service in Dallas and Baltimore. The company has said it plans to cover 70 million to 75 million potential customers with the service by the end of 2011. AT&amp;T plans to spend $1.9 billion on new spectrum from Qualcomm. How will this new spectrum be used in building the LTE networkAT&amp;T plans to use the spectrum as a supplement to the spectrum it's already using for 4G services. Specifically, it plans to use &quot;carrier aggregation technology&quot; to enable supplemental downlink capacity. Carrier aggregation technology has been discussed as a technique to be used in the next generation of LTE, known as LTE-Advanced. Using this technology, LTE Advanced could provide peak download speeds of 1Gbps.In a separate announcement, Qualcomm said it intends to integrate carrier aggregation technology into its chipset road map. The company said demand for the technology will be driven by more consumers downloading rich content onto their phones.Will the addition of new wireless spectrum help AT&amp;T deal with its dropped call issues on devices like theiPhoneUnfortunately, it will not help solve the dropped call issues. Neither Verizon Wireless nor AT&amp;T will use LTE for voice services anytime soon. For now, voice traffic will remain on the carriers' existing 2G and 3G networks.I thought the FCC said there was a spectrum shortage. Where did this spectrum come fromThe spectrum AT&amp;T is buying from Qualcomm was originally used for analog broadcast TV. It is in the 700MHz band of spectrum, which is the same band of spectrum that the FCC auctioned off a couple of years ago. Verizon Wireless bought a nationwide license of similar 700MHz spectrum. And that is what Verizon is using to build its 4G LTE network.This 700MHz spectrum is considered valuable because it can travel long distances and penetrate walls. Qualcomm is a cell phone chip company. What was it doing with this spectrum That is correct, Qualcomm is a chip manufacturer. And it used the spectrum to build a mobile broadcast TV network it calls Flo TV. The service tied into Qualcomm's business because the company made the chips that went into devices to receive the TV signals.The Flo TV service covers more than 300 million people nationwide. Qualcomm reportedly invested $683 million to build the network. It started as a wholesale provider, allowing carriers like AT&amp;T and Verizon Wireless to resell its mobile TV service. It eventually launched its own device with service using its network. But neither mobile TV business ever got enough subscribers to sustain the business. And so the company announced earlier this year that it would shut down the service in March. CEO Paul Jacobs said the company would evaluate options for the spectrum, which included selling the spectrum license to another carrier.What spectrum is AT&amp;T currently using to build its LTE networkCurrently, AT&amp;T is using 700 MHz spectrum holdings as well as spectrum it acquired in the FCC's Advanced Wireless Services spectrum auction. Why is AT&amp;T taking its time with the 4G rolloutNew networks take time to build. So part of AT&amp;T's strategy is to make sure that its legacy 3G network is as fast as it can be before investing in a new generation of network. This will help the company in two ways. For one, it helps the company wring out as much use as it can from its existing network investment. And second, Donovan believes it gives AT&amp;T a competitive advantage over rivals such as Verizon. WhyAccording to a recent blog post defending AT&amp;T's strategy, Donovan said AT&amp;T's decision to take HSPA to its limit is in part to get better network coverage. &quot;Our HSPA+ network and upgraded backhaul is expected to deliver speed performance similar to initial LTE deployments. That matters, because when we begin commercial deployment of LTE in mid 2011, customers on our LTE network will be able to fall back to HSPA+. As they do, they'll receive a more consistent mobile broadband experience that supports simultaneous voice and data connections and higher speeds than the others can provide outside their LTE footprint.&quot;Does this strategy make sense Or will AT&amp;T be left behind as Verizon Wireless, AT&amp;T's main rival, gets at least a six month jump on the marketThe answer likely lies in how quickly the LTE device market evolves and matures. Verizon, the first major U.S. operator to launch LTE, isn't expected to announce handsets for the new network until early January at the CES tradeshow in Las Vegas.It will be interesting to see how these handsets compare with other hot smartphones on 3G networks in terms of battery life and functionality. The 4G network will definitely offer more speed for these devices. But early versions of these products are likely to be somewhat clunky in network handoffs and could have serious battery life issues.By the time, the device kinks are worked out, AT&amp;T could be launching its own service. And as Donovan points out, if AT&amp;T introduces LTE/HSPA+ handsets, it could very well offer the fastest and widest footprint of ultra fast 4G wireless broadband. Verizon's customers will experience 4G speeds where LTE is available, but dramatically drop down to EV-DO in places where LTE is not available.The real trick is whether AT&amp;T can execute on its strategy. And a big part of that will be getting the right kinds of devices on its network as quickly as it can to compete against rivals. But AT&amp;T might have another problem to deal with once it loses its exclusive contract for the Apple iPhone. While the exclusive deal for the iPhone has helped AT&amp;T win millions of new subscribers, it's also hurt the company's reputation. Poor network performance has caused the company to place last in customer satisfaction in a recent Consumer Reports survey. Perhaps a speedier network with a wider footprint than its competitors could help it rebuild its reputation.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can black gold be green]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ending petroleum dependence is the big, fat target of most cleantech startups. But one startup thinks it can make today&amp;'s dominant energy source for transportation greener.Petroleum refining catalyst maker Rive Technology announced today a $25 million round to commercialize its technology, which helps oil refiners squeeze better yields of high-quality fuel out of crude oil.Rive&amp;'s catalysts can increase the amount of fuel usable for transport that refiners can get out of crude oil, and can be dropped in to replace current catalysts used in refineries. The company explains its cleantech peg as this: catalysts that improve efficiency in oil refining can eventually cut down on the overall amount of crude oil used or mined, increasing profits for refiners and also leaving less of an environmental footprint.&amp;''Refiners can produce a fixed amount of fuel while emitting less CO2,&amp;'' said Andrew Dougherty, the company&amp;'s marketing and finance chief, noting the technology could also be used in biofuels.As an investment, the company certainly seems to be a good bet, considering that the oil refining market that Rive&amp;'s catalysts will play in is worth about $2 billion globally. Winning over Blackstone is no small feat, either &amp;8212' Blackstone executive Jamie Kiggen called Rive &amp;''poised to havemajor impact on the refining industry&amp;'' in a statement.Still, at first blush, Rive&amp;'s self-described clean-energy angle does seem to be a bit of a stretch considering how it&amp;'s working with, well, oil.And in fact, Rive&amp;'s technology aims to make the oil business more profitable.It brings to mind how some long-time green investors bristle at the term &amp;''cleantech&amp;'' since it&amp;'s become a catchall for things that are only vaguely clean energy-related. (The term &amp;''green&amp;'' has the same problem in packaging marketing, which has led the Federal Trade Comission to crack down lately.)But then again, Rive&amp;'s appeal is an example of new technology efforts thatmitigate or adapt to global warming rather than stop it entirely, a trend that Earth2Tech recently pointed out. It&amp;'s a line of thinking that reflects a sharp edge of pragmatism and reality. Exciting hype aside, electric cars are set to make only modest gains in the overall car market in the next few years, and despite gains in biofuels and larger percentages of ethanol-blended gasoline approved for cars in the U.S., oil is far from going away any time soon &amp;8212' so making the refining process greener isn&amp;'t a bad way to go.Possibly the bigger takeaway here is that despite buzz and generous government support in recent years for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, fossil fuels are here to stay. As we&amp;'ve previously reported, the rising popularity and relative cheapness of natural gas will likely challenge solar and wind for financing, as well as replace its dirtier fossil-fuel cousin, coal.And all the green buzz aside, major investors like Blackstone Group think improved oil refining is a good bet in any market, bull or bear, according to Dow Jones Newswires.Other investors in this round, which was led by Blackstone, include Charles River Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures and Nth Power.The company&amp;'s technology was developed at MIT. Rive has raised $47 million to date.[Image from Flickr/tsuda]Next Story: Goldman Sachs: Tablets will hurt Microsoft&amp;'s growth Previous Story: Cond Nast&amp;'s $500M Web shopping spreePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: biofuels, catalysts, oil refiningCompanies: Advanced Technology Ventures, Blackstone, Blackstone Group, Charles River Ventures, Nth Power, Rive TechnologyPeople: Andrew Dougherty, James Kiggen          Tags: biofuels, catalysts, oil refiningCompanies: Advanced Technology Ventures, Blackstone, Blackstone Group, Charles River Ventures, Nth Power, Rive TechnologyPeople: Andrew Dougherty, James KiggenIris 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[Moblyng raising $10.9M to make mobile HTML5 games]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Moblyng, a developer of games using HTML5 for mobile devices, is looking to raise about $10.9 million and has raised about $7.5 million of that so far, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Moblyng began life as FlipTrack in 2007, when it ported Flash slide shows to mobile operating systems. It then changed direction to help developers of mobile games quickly port them to other mobile operating systems.The company&amp;'s site now indicates that it is looking to become the top developer of HTML5 games on social networking sites and mobile devices. HTML5 is seen as a large competitor for Flash, which most casual games are built on. Most websites that host videos also use Flash to play them. But Flash is lacking on some mobile devices a4&quot; most notably the iPhone and iPad a4&quot; while HTML5 is available in most mobile browsers.The Redwood City, Calif.-based company teamed up with casual game developer Playdom earlier this year to publish Playdom games such as Mobsters and Sorority Life on mobile platforms such as the WebOS, Symbian, BlackBerry and Android. Moblyng has also teamed up with social game maker LOLapps, which makes lighthearted apps such as Roses for You on Facebook.Moblyng also publishes its own games and is a top game publisher on the Android Marketplace. It made games like Dungeon Quest, M:Mafia and M:Racing. It also charges development fees when it co-publishes partner titles and gets a percentage of that revenue. Moblyng has had more than 5 million downloads of its games in the past year.Moblyng has raised $10.65 million before this recent fundraising round. Moblyng is funded by Mohr Davidow Ventures and Deep Fork Capital. The company also received another $500,000 from unnamed angels.Next Story: Developers: We want your apps for VentureBeat&amp;'s Mobile App Spotlight Previous Story: Zumbox raises $9.7M to kill the post office with a digital mailboxPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: apps, Casual gaming, Flash, fragmentation, HTML5Companies: LolApps, Moblyng, Playdom          Tags: apps, Casual gaming, Flash, fragmentation, HTML5Companies: LolApps, Moblyng, PlaydomMatthew 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[OpenFeint Connect lets gamers socialize across different smartphones]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If your friend has an Android phone and you have an iPhone, it isn&amp;'t that easy to play a mobile game together. But with today&amp;'s launch of OpenFeint Connect, that could change. The software is like social glue, allowing gamers to play games with friends on any platform and enabling developers to write social games on any platform.Much like Scoreloop&amp;'s announcement last night, OpenFeint&amp;'s new initiative will make it easier for mobile phone users to interact with each other in a multi-platform world. OpenFeint&amp;'s move is part of a trend to unleash games from consoles and allow them to be played anywhere.&amp;''This is the first year that a platform other than the iPhone really matters,&amp;'' said OpenFeint chief executive Jason Citron. &amp;''We think this will be the year of cross-platform games.&amp;''Game developers are creating games that run on a variety of devices and app stores. But they haven&amp;'t had a social gaming network that connects players across the platform divides.Citron (pictured) says OpenFeint Connect resembles Facebook Connect in that it allows users to connect with their friends across platform barriers.OpenFeint Connect means that developers can now make games that work across platforms such as the Mac App Store, the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Palm Pre 3, Windows Phone 7, Android and other platforms. Players can compete to get achievements and leaderboard rankings that work across platforms. The OpenFeint platform lets developers communicate directly with their fans by setting up forums and getting feedback.Burlingame, Calif.-based OpenFeint has 65 million users spread across the games of 4,700 developers who have implemented the OpenFeint software development kit. The company has 50 employees, and its investors include Intel, DeNA, The9, and YouWeb. Rivals include Scoreloop, PapayaMobile, and DeNA/Ngmoco.Next Story: Intel looking for new MeeGo partners &amp;8212' good luck with that Previous Story: IBMa4a4s Watson moves to health care after conquering JeopardyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: OpenFeint ConnectCompanies: OpenFeintPeople: Jason Citron          Tags: OpenFeint ConnectCompanies: OpenFeintPeople: Jason CitronDean 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. 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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