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<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sleeved iPad 2 run over by car, survives]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>maxhillbert</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The $59.99 G-Form &amp;39'extreme&amp;39' sleeve comes in yellow or black.(Credit:G-Form)Last month, in a marketing stunt, aniPad 2 encased in a $59.99 G-Form &quot;extreme&quot; sleeve was tossed out of a plane and survived just fine. So what, right Who drops their iPad out of a planeWell, the folks over at the Canadian Web site Mobile Syrup decided to do a more practical test: they ran a G-Form-protected iPad 2 over with acar.In a bit of drama, after they ran it over, they discovered that the video they had running during the test had stopped playing. But once the sleeve came off, the iPad ended up turning on just fine. Note to Android fanboys who will take issue with us writing up another Apple story: the Motorola Xoom should fit inside the G-Form sleeve. (Source: Mobile Syrup via 9to5mac)More: Ultimate iPad 2 case roundup<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zynga, Disney embrace Web game technology]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>maxhillbert</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Disney is the new owner of Rocket Pack, with its Rocket Pack Web-based game engine.(Credit:Rocket Pack)When it comes to the competition between Flash and Web technologies, the latter camp has two big new allies in the online gaming industry: Zynga and Disney.Zynga today mostly uses Adobe Systems' Flash technology as a foundation for its widely played CityVille and FarmVille online games. But an acquisition of a German company last fall is paving the way for a new foundation using technology that uses a browser, not a browser plug-in.Zynga joined the World Wide Web consortium this week and will share the fruits of its Web-based gaming experience, said Paul Bakaus, chief technology officer of Zynga Germany, in a blog post Wednesday. Bakaus is creator of the jQuery UI library of user-interface elements for sophisticated Web pages, and Zynga acquired his company, Dextrose, last year.And Disney Interactive Media Group, part of Walt Disney, acquired Finnish start-up Rocket Pack, TechCrunch reported today. Rocket Pack has been developing another foundation for Web-based games called Rocket Engine.There's more, too. Motorola Mobility Ventures announced today it invested in Moblyng, which develops Web-technology games for mobile devices and social networks.Those developments aren't enough to unseat Flash. But they exemplify the increasing attention paid not just to using the technology for Web games but for developing the underlying standards. Competitively, Flash is a powerful incumbent, and games is one of its strong suits. Many experienced programmers use Flash already, often employing the serious coding tools Adobe sells. And Flash is a moving target: Just this week Adobe released a test version of its &quot;Molehill&quot; technology for hardware-accelerated 3D Flash graphics. Even as Adobe begins embracing Web technologies, for example by contributing to jQuery, it's also investing heavily in Flash.Web standards have their advantages, too. Some reach iOS devices where Flash is banned and Android devices where Flash apps can struggle. And a large group of companies is working on bettering those Web standards.At Dextrose, Bakaus was working on a game foundation called the Aves Engine based on Web technology, not Flash. Now Zynga wants to share its work involving those Web technologies, including the JavaScript programming language and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), with others, he said in the post. Zynga has recently started investing heavily into the open Web stack. While most of our current games (CityVille, FarmVille) still run on Flash, our subsidiary in Germany is exclusively focussing on JavaScript driven game technology. We are building a new-generation engine to power future games that run platform independent and cross-device...As we're doing something that (likely) hasn't been done before, a lot of our time is spent on research. Every day, we encounter new issues with the web stack, and we eventually realized that it doesn't make sense to keep all of it to ourselves. By joining W3C and actively contributing back and sharing our unique perspective, we hope to kill two birds with one stone: Improving our games, and improving the web for anyone building games.Facebook, where millions of people play Zynga games, is paying close attention. It's been working on a Web gaming benchmark and last week released JSGameBench 0.3, a third incarnation of the work in progress. The test measures how fast a browser can show animated &quot;sprites,&quot; graphical elements such as alien spaceships that move around the screen.Web technologies use a wide variety of standards for browser games. One coming with HTML5 is called canvas for two-dimensional graphics. A canvas drawing area also can accommodate accelerated 3D graphics using another standard, WebGL. The Facebook benchmark engineers found dramatically faster sprite drawing performance using WebGL.SVG is another important Web technology, and Bakaus now is a member of the W3C's SVG working group.SVG is very useful for some types of graphics such as logos and icons, and it's got an important advantage over bitmapped graphics formats such as JPEG and PNG in that it can gracefully be zoomed to larger or smaller scales. For an illustration, visit an SVG demo site and use Ctrl+ and Ctrl- to zoom the browser in and out.That SVG zooming is important for the varying screen sizes and pixel densities of smartphones,tablets, PCs, and TVs. Also nice: SVG rendering can be accelerated with graphics chips and, crucially, SVG is built into IE9.But Bakaus is interested in SVG for another reason: seeing what can be applied to yet another Web technology standardized at the W3C, Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is getting more sophisticated as a way to draw drop shadows or to animate transitions such as moving photos around a screen.&quot;While we do not use SVG currently mainly due to implementation performance reasons, I'm looking forward to see what knowledge is hidden within the SVG spec than could be ported over,&quot; Bakaus said.The new Web standards are at times rough around the edges, unstable, and inconsistently supported in browsers. But they're real, now. Mozilla, on the brink of releasing its first release candidate forFirefox 4, is promoting the new standards on its Web O' Wonders site, joining other envelope-pushing demos from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.Programmers have plenty of choices, and it's unlikely any single technology will win out. The Web technologies, though, clearly are a strong force that's growing stronger.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Apple to open store in Grand Central]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>maxhillbert</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple is reportedly planning to open its largest-ever retail store in New York's Grand Central Terminal.(Credit:MTA)Citing &quot;a source close to the company,&quot; Cult of Mac today said it confirmed Apple will make an internal announcement in the next month or so about the new retail location. Apple is said to have chosen Grand Central to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its first store opening.The store, which will open in the fall, will reportedly be the largest Apple store in the world when completed. Currently the company's largest retail store is the Regent Street store in London at about 25,000 square feet, according to ifoAppleStore.com.Grand Central is host to 68 shops--including Kenneth Cole, Banana Republic, and Swatch--and has 35 places to eat. Apple currently has four retail locations in New York City: Fifth Avenue, SoHo, Upper West Side, and West 14th Street. The company has over 300 stores worldwide.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Roku adds first linear feed cable channel]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>maxhillbert</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Roku)Roku has inked a deal with WealthTV to bring a linear feed of the television network's programming to its set-top boxes.If you're unfamiliar with the term, &quot;linear feed,&quot; it's because Roku hasn't had anything of the sort until now. Unlike the other channels on the company's platform that provide on-demand access to programming, WealthTV's offering, which costs $2.99 per month, will act as a television channel, letting users drop in to see what's on. The network will be sending out its programming to Roku devices 24 hours a day, seven days a week just as it does on Verizon's Fios TV service, among others.Roku, which recently announced that more than 1 billion pieces of content have been streamed through its set-top boxes, said that those who prefer on-demand programming from WealthTV will be able to access that, as well.The addition of WealthTV might not be enough to get users to jump at buying a Roku--the channel is hardly known to television viewers, since its programming isn't available to Time Warner Cable or Comcast subscribers. However, its impact on television providers and the way in which consumers access programming could be profound. If more linear feed programming comes to set-top boxes, the need for cable or satellite service could diminish. More importantly, such a shift could cut out cable and satellite operators, and create a more direct business relationship between networks and consumers.At least for now, the chances of that happening anytime soon seem slim, since WealthTV is just one of several providers that would need to make the jump to have any sizable impact on the industry. But in the coming months, more networks might follow WealthTV's lead. A Roku spokesperson said in a phone conversation with CNET today that the company is confident that it will ink similar deals with providers in 2011.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[With medical leave, more questions about Jobs' successor]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>maxhillbert</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=with-medical-leave-more-questions-about-jobs-successor</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs has increasingly been sharing the stage with Tim Cook (left) at major events. Here the two, plus Bob Mansfield (right), take questions during a press conference regarding the iPhone 4&amp;39's antenna.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)Though Steve Jobs' presence at Apple is almost universally regarded as essential to the company's long run of amazing success, we've seen that--in small doses, at least--it can do pretty well without him. Back-to-back blowout quarters in early 2009, a successfuliPhone 3GS launch, and the finishing touches on a new iPhone OS, Mac OS, and new lineup of iPods all took place while Jobs stepped away from the company for six months beginning in January 2009 to get a liver transplant. The man credited for making Jobs' absence minimally felt was Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.In an e-mail to employees today announcing an indeterminate break to focus on his health, Jobs has again tapped the same man to take the reins for him temporarily. While Jobs is gone, Cook will handle the day-to-day duties of running Apple--which is what he basically does anyway--which will in all likelihood make the adjustment inside the company very small. Jobs is the founder, the visionary, the public face of the company. (In today's e-mail, Jobs said that he would be involved in strategic decisions during his leave.) Cook is the one who makes sure Jobs' very specific, detailed, often grandiose, and always secret visions for consumer technology are turned into products that people want to buy and that continue to add to the company's sizable cash pile.&quot;Tim Cook did a good enough job covering for Steve for his leave of absence in 2009 to the point that Apple recognized that with a bonus,&quot; Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said today. &quot;I think this speaks of how pleased the company was with his work. There is a lot of respect for Tim Cook internally at Apple and externally and he has proved to be able to drive the company well.&quot;But the next obvious question then becomes, is this the person who could, if called upon, take over entirely for Jobs someday While Cook has the full confidence of his boss and has demonstrated an ability to execute on Jobs' big-picture plans already in place, it's the long-term prognosis for the eventual reality of an Apple without Jobs that makes investors nervous. Cook focuses on the nuts and bolts of operations, like cost management, supply chain, and sales. He very likely does not sit up late obsessing over concept designs, natural user interfaces for computers, how technology and liberal arts are intersecting, or envisioning the next move by Google, Amazon, or Research In Motion. That's what makes Jobs who he is and Apple what it is.And that is what gives investors pause when considering how Cook or anyone else will take over for Jobs someday. &quot;I think it's more of a longer-term question,&quot; DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim said. &quot;There's a lot of indication that Apple is set up for the future. They have a lot of talented personalities. The problem is that all these talented people report to one of the most charismatic and influential guys in technology.&quot;How good they as a group--that can only be determined over a long stretch of time without Jobs in the mix. Besides Cook, that group includes Phil Schiller, the head of marketing, who hones Apple's sales pitch' CFO Peter Oppenheimer who manages Apple's bottom line' Jobs' design guru, Jonathan Ive' the senior vice president of Apple's vast retail operation, Ron Johnson' and the men who head up hardware engineering (Bob Mansfield) and software engineering, (Bertrand Serlet).  In the near term, some Apple investors may want to take a break while Jobs is out, Greg Taylor, a money manager at Aurion Capital Management in Toronto, told Businessweek. Jobs did not say how long he would be away, and it's not clear that Cook--or anyone else off the bench--can replicate what Jobs does, putting Apple far ahead in what consumers want from tech products.  &quot;As much as any company has been associated with one person, it's Apple,&quot; Taylor told the magazine. &quot;He has portrayed himself as the guiding light behind the company and one of its key innovators. The fact that Steve Jobs is taking some time off could be enough of a concern that people want to take some money off the table ahead of this quarter.&quot;  Wall Street will likely react negatively tomorrow when the stock market opens following today's public holiday.Tomorrow is also the day that Apple is due to report its fiscal first quarter 2011 earnings, after the close of trading on Wall Street. Investors will have opportunity to ask Cook and other executives about what Jobs' specific health concerns are now, and when he will return. If it's anything like last time, Apple probably won't take many questions on the matter. But Cook's recurring prominence at major Apple events, his solo turn as the face of Apple at the high-profile New York City introduction of the Verizon iPhone last week, and his by-now familiar and calming southern drawl on earnings calls should also serve to make him a reassuring presence for investors who could somewhat dampen the blow to their confidence in Apple's immediate future.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: Bridgelux raises $21 million, Nissan says it&'ll deliver Leafs by summer]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>maxhillbert</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest action we&amp;'re following today on the GreenBeat:Bridgelux raises $21 million &amp;8212' According to an SEC filing, the LED company has raised $20.7 million of a $21 million fundraising goal. The company recently announced a new line of LEDs that it said doubled the light output of commercially available products today, making its line usable in retail-type settings. It also nabbed a deal with major electronics manufacturer Tyco, which will fold Bridgelux&amp;'s new products into a set of lighting components designed for a retail setting.Nissan to deliver Leafs by summer &amp;8212' The company has delivered only around 100 of its all-electric cars to the U.S. but says it is ramping up production in March and April and plans to satisfy all orders by the end of the summer. Of the 20,000 customers who&amp;'ve reserved a Leaf, 40 percent have decided to buy the car, which would mean Nissan has sold about 8,000 cars, Reuters writes. Autoblog Green reports the ramp up will entail Nissan producing 4,000 cars a month by March and notes that 981 Leafs &amp;8212' the bulk of the 1,100 or so sold so far &amp;8212' have been delivered to Japanese customers.Solar stocks drop on oversupply worries &amp;8212' Shares of solar companies dropped today, which Bloomberg attributes to a warning from an analyst that 2011 could see an oversupply in the solar market. While North American demand for solar is expected to exceed supply, Wedbush Securities analyst Christine Hersey said it wouldn&amp;'t be enough to make up for a slowdown in European demand. Demand from Europe and in particular Germany has made up a huge portion of global demand in the past.Obama to propose electric car tax credit to dealers &amp;8212' The president called for one million electric cars on the roads by 2015, and this proposed initiative would give electric car buyers the $7,500 federal tax credit when they buy, rather than when they file their taxes, as is currently the case.Next Story: Verizon plans voice and video calling over 4G with VoLTE Previous Story: Top reasons to attend DEMO Spring 2011PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: electric cars, LEDs, SolarCompanies: BridgeLux, Nissan          Tags: electric cars, LEDs, SolarCompanies: BridgeLux, NissanIris 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). 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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