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<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[LG Revolution to launch May 26 as well]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[LG Revolution(Credit:Nicole Lee/CNET)May 26 is looking to be a big day for Verizon Wireless. Not only will the Motorola Droid X2 make its debut, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will come out to play as well. We're now hearing from various sources that the LG Revolution might join in the party with its own launch that same day. We called Verizon for confirmation of this, and all they would say is that they don't confirm rumors, so take this news with a grain of salt.As a reminder, the Revolution ships with Android 2.2 and boasts a 4.3-inch WVGA display along with a 5-megapixel rear camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, 720p HD video recording, and HDMI-out. Though it does not have a dual-core processor, it does have a decent 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and it supports Verizon's 4G LTE network. It is also one of a few Android devices to support Netflix right off the bat. (Via Boy Genius Report)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mission impossible: A bona fide audiophile headphone amp for $219]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I don't remember who told me about Bottlehead, but I'd like to thank whoever it was that made the introduction. I review and play around with a lot of audio gear, and as much as I love great budget stuff, the best-sounding products are always a lot more expensive. Not this time' the Bottlehead Crack amplifier I'm reporting on today goes for just $219, and it sounds like it's five times that price. Bottlehead has been selling electronic kits for 17 years. The Bottlehead Crack amplifier(Credit:Steve Guttenberg)First things first' $219 buys the Crack as a build-it-yourself kit, but Bottlehead's founder Dan Schmalle assures me the kit is super easy to build by anyone who knows which end of a soldering iron gets hot. It should take an evening or two to complete. The Crack is an output transformerless amp, specifically designed for high-impedance (100 ohms or higher) headphones like many Sennheiser, AKG, and Beyerdynamic models (Bottlehead offers other amps tuned for low-impedance Grado, Audio Technica, etc., models).  Most Bottlehead customers buy the kits, but the company sells factory-assembled Crack headphone amps for $369, and considering the Crack's build and sound quality, it's still a major deal. The amp's chassis, real wood base, power transformer, PC boards, and even that nifty little Bottlehead badge are all made in the U.S.A. The Crack is a bit bigger than most desktop amps--it's 7 inches wide and 11.25 inches deep--and it was designed by Paul Birkeland. I first tried the Crack with my high-impedance Sennheiser HD 580 full-size headphones. I bought these at least 10 years ago, and played 'em with countless receivers and headphone amps, but the Crack took the HD 580's sound to the next level. The sound was pure and clear, but never hard or bright. That's what the best tube amps do, you hear more of what's going on in the music, minus the edge or false hyped &quot;detail&quot; of typical budget-priced headphone amps. The Crack delivers bona fide high-end sound.Now sure, good quality solid-state amps will produce greater detail and superior bass definition, and if accuracy is what you want, buy a solid-state amp, like Schiit Audio's $249 Asgard amp I raved about last year. But the Crack's added warmth and richness somehow makes everything sound better. Is it adding &quot;coloration&quot; to the sound Probably, but I like it. Late in the review I received a pair of Sennheiser HD-650 headphones, which blew away my old HD 580s. The HD 650's bass is tauter, the sound is significantly more transparent and better focused than the HD 580s. Comparing the tube Schiit Audio Valhalla amp and Crack with the HD 650 while listening to the superb &quot;Preservation Hall Hot 4 With Duke Dejan&quot; CD, the Crack sounded more like live music, period. The sound was natural and pure, and the Valhalla was tonally brighter, but that brightness sounded artificial compared with the Crack. To my ears the best tube amps' effortless sound closely mimics the sound of unamplified live acoustic music. The Duke Dejan CD is one of the best sounding New Orleans jazz CDs I own.With more contemporary music, like Thom Yorke's &quot;Eraser&quot; the HD-650/Crack combination still connected the dots better than the Valhalla. Yorke's textures and bass beats had more meat on their bones, and Yorke's vocals sounded more humanly present. The Crack's bass isn't as tightly defined as the Valhalla's, but there's more body to it. The Schiit Valhalla, left, the Bottlehead Crack, right(Credit:Steve Guttenberg)I recently heard another Bottlehead kit amp at a Head-Fi event in NYC. The amp, the Single Ended eXperimenter's Kit ($469), had a pair of Grado RS-1 headphones plugged into it, and the sound was absolutely gorgeous. I own the same model Grados, but they never sounded like this! Rich, warm, and sweet, with oodles of detail!I didn't know it at first, but it turns out my Crack has the $99 Speedball upgrade kit, and since I didn't hear the standard version I can't say how that changes the Crack's sound. Bottlehead sells its amps direct worldwide. Tell us about your experiences with tube headphone amps in the Comments section.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cyber Monday spending up, surpasses $1 billion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Online retailers rang up more than $1 billion in sales this past Cyber Monday, according to data released yesterday by ComScore.Adding up to a 16 percent gain in sales over the same day last year, Monday's cybershopping spree was the heaviest online spending day in history, said ComScore, and the first to cross the billion-dollar mark. Overall, the start of the holiday season has brought good cheer to online retailers. More than $13.5 billion was spent online from November 1 to 29, a gain of 13 percent from last year.(Credit:ComScore)The growth in Cyber Monday sales was driven more by higher spending per person than by an increase in shoppers. On average, consumers spent 12 percent more than they did last year, while the number of shoppers rose just 4 percent to 9 million. But promotions and discounts on the part of retailers have also helped cook up holiday sales so far.&quot;The online holiday shopping season has clearly gotten off to a very strong start, which is welcome news,&quot; ComScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni said in a statement.&quot; At the same time, it's important to note that some of the early strength in consumer spending is almost certainly the result of retailers' heavier-than-normal promotional and discounting activity at this early point in the season. So, while we anticipate that there will be more billion-dollar spending days ahead as we get deeper into the season, only time will tell if overall consumer online spending remains at the elevated levels we've seen thus far.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Level 3 takes spat with Comcast public]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Internet backbone provider Level 3 is accusing cable giant Comcast of violating Net neutrality principles as it takes public a dispute over network peering between the two companies.Level 3 issued a statement Monday that said Comcast plans to charge it a &quot;recurring fee&quot; to carry video traffic on the Comcast broadband network. Level 3 said that charging such a fee violates the Federal Communications Commission's Net neutrality principles.&quot;By taking this action, Comcast is effectively putting up a toll booth at the borders of its broadband Internet access network, enabling it to unilaterally decide how much to charge for content which competes with its own cable TV and Xfinity delivered content,&quot; Thomas Stortz, chief legal officer of Level 3, said in a statement. &quot;This action by Comcast threatens the open Internet and is a clear abuse of the dominant control that Comcast exerts in broadband access markets as the nation's largest cable provider.&quot;But Comcast says Level 3 is being disingenuous in its portrayal of what is a typical network peering negotiation between two network providers.&quot;Level 3 has misportrayed the commercial negotiations between it and Comcast,&quot; Joe Waz, Comcast's senior vice president for external affairs, said in a statement. &quot;This has nothing to do with Level 3's desire to distribute different types of network traffic. Comcast has long established and mutually acceptable commercial arrangements with Level 3's content delivery network competitors in delivering the same types of traffic to our customers.&quot;The news comes on the heels of Netflix turning to Level 3 to handle its streaming video. Earlier this month, Netflix announced the deal that would send the bulk of its content-distribution business to Level 3 and Limelight and less to rival Akamai. This was a huge win for Level 3 in terms of its content delivery network (CDN) business, but it also means that the company will now be carrying a much higher traffic load on its network. Subsequently, it means that it will also ask its peering partners to accept much higher traffic loads than previously. Prior to the Netflix deal, Comcast and Level 3 had a typical industry peering arrangement. Level 3 is an Internet backbone provider and it regularly carries traffic that originates and terminates on Comcast's broadband network. Under their previous arrangement, the companies essentially swapped traffic since both networks generated equal amounts of traffic.But with the Netflix deal, the balance of traffic between the two companies will shift dramatically. Netflix has been said to generate 17 percent of traffic on the Internet at peak times in the U.S. Comcast said in its statement that it expects to receive five times more traffic from Level 3 as part of this new arrangement.Unlike the peering relationship between Level 3 and Comcast, Comcast and Akamai, which had previously delivered Netflix's streaming video, had a commercial arrangement, a source close to Comcast confirmed. In other words, instead of swapping traffic between Comcast and Akamai for free, Comcast charged Akamai a fee to deliver its traffic including the Netflix video content. Comcast said in its statement that all it has been trying to do in its negotiations with Level 3 is to work out a similar deal as the one it had originally had with Level 3's content delivery competitors.&quot;Comcast offered Level 3 the same terms it offers to Level 3's CDN competitors for the same traffic,&quot; Waz said. &quot;But Level 3 is trying to undercut its CDN competitors by claiming it's entitled to be treated differently and trying to force Comcast to give Level 3 unlimited and highly imbalanced traffic and shift all the cost onto Comcast and its customers.&quot;It has accused Level 3 of trying to get a free ride by crying foul over Net neutrality.&quot;What Level 3 wants is to pressure Comcast into accepting more than a twofold increase in the amount of traffic Level 3 delivers onto Comcast's network--for free,&quot; Waz said in the Comcast statement. &quot;In other words, Level 3 wants to compete with other CDNs, but pass all the costs of that business on Comcast and Comcast's customers, instead of Level 3 and its customers. &quot; But Level 3 claims it was bullied into accepting a deal that it says violates the &quot;spirit and letter &quot;of the FCC's proposed Internet Policy principles and other regulations and statutes, as well as statements Comcast has made previously about favoring an open Internet,&quot; Stortz said. Level 3 executives are asking Comcast to reconsider its position and are approaching regulators and policymakers, asking them to take action to &quot;ensure that a fair, open, and innovative Internet does not become a closed network controlled by a few institutions with dominant market power that have the means, motive, and opportunity to economically discriminate between favored and disfavored content,&quot; the company said. Representatives from Level 3 did not return calls seeking further comment based on Comcast's assertions.Public interest organizations were quick to take Level 3's side in its fight against Comcast. &quot;Comcast's request of payment in exchange for content transmission is yet another example of why citizens need strong, effective network neutrality rules that include a ban on such 'paid prioritization' practices,&quot; said Andrew Jay Schwartzman, senior vice president and policy director of the nonprofit law firm Media Access Project. &quot;It is also yet another clear demonstration of why Comcast should not be permitted to acquire NBC Universal, given its clear tendency to exercise control in the video marketplace.&quot; &quot;This is exactly the sort of anticompetitive harm that opponents of Comcast's merger with NBC-Universal have warned would happen--that Comcast would leverage its network to harm distribution of competitive video services, while raising prices on its own customers,&quot; said Harold Feld, legal director of Public Knowledge. &quot;Policymakers should see this as the third strike for Comcast, following the BitTorrent complaint, the complaint by Zoom modem manufacturers over treatment of their products and now this.&quot; But other experts say that Level 3 may be exploiting the tension over Net neutrality to negotiate more favorable business terms for itself. &quot;If this turns out to be a fight over peering arrangements, then this clearly has nothing to do with Net neutrality,&quot; said Larry Downes, a consultant and author, who has contributed columns regarding Net neutrality and other Internet issues on CNET. Level 3's complaint comes at a time when the Net neutrality issue is bubbling to a head at the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC, which has been promising to make Net neutrality rules official regulation for more than a year, is expected to lay out its final plan for those rules next month at its December open meeting. The FCC is also considering the merger between Comcast and NBC Universal. And some industry watchers have speculated that the FCC may include Net neutrality provisions as conditions in the merger. Last September, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed making four of the Net neutrality principles official regulation. He also proposed adding two new principles. It is these original four principles that Level 3 accuses Comcast of violating. The existing principles can be summarized this way: Network operators cannot prevent users from accessing lawful Internet content, applications, and services of their choice, nor can they prohibit users from attaching nonharmful devices to the network.The additional principles, which the FCC hopes to make part of the regulation, would prevent Internet access providers from discriminating against particular Internet content or applications, while allowing for reasonable network management. The second principle would ensure that Internet access providers are transparent about the network management practices they implement.It's unclear what type of action Level 3 expects the FCC to take, since the FCC's authority to enforce these principles has already been called into question by a federal court. In 2008, the FCC gave Comcast a slap on the wrist for violating its principles when the company throttled Bit Torrent traffic on its network. Earlier this year, a U.S. appeals court threw out the FCC ruling. Judges in the case said that the FCC had no authority to regulate an Internet provider's network management practices.(CNET's Greg Sandoval contributed to this report.)Updated 6:42 p.m. PST with background and reaction.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Angry Birds On Android Projected To Generate $1 Million Per Month In&nbsp'Advertising]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ One of the most successful mobile games right now is Angry Birds, which has been downloaded more than 30 million times across different mobile platforms, with 12 million of those being paid downloads on iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.  But on Android, the game is free, and is supported by advertising.  Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 5 million times on Android since that version launched in October.  &amp;''By end of year, we project earnings of over $1 million per month with the ad-supported version of Angry Birds,&amp;'' says Peter Vesterbacka, the &amp;''Mighty Eagle&amp;'' behind the game at Rovio Mobile.He appears in the video above taken by Google&amp;'s AdMob team, which kicks off a mobile developer series.  In the video, he doesn&amp;'t mention the $1 million a month figure, but he does reveals some other stats, such as the fact that the apps have an 80 percent retention rate, measured by the number of people who download updates.  And on the iPhone alone, people spend a collective 65 million minutes a day playing the game. He also talks about different ways to make money from mobile gamesa4&quot;whether that is paid downloads, advertising, or toys.  (Expect to see ads for the Angry Birds plush toys in the game itself).CrunchBase InformationAngry BirdsRovio MobileInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Skype CEO offers update on outage that affected tens of millions]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tony Bates, the chief executive of Skype, posted a YouTube video today explaining what the company is doing to fix the outage that brought down Skype communications for tens of millions of users.He said the company has been working hard to restore communication for all of its users who were hit with the outage in the past 24 hours. Skype offers free internet calling between users and a paid service for those calling regular phone networks.He said that usage has been restored to about 16.5 million people, which for this time of day is about 80 percent of normal. Users on the U.S. East Coast and Europe are fully restored.Also the instant messenger, video and audio services are back up. But offline instant messenger and group video calls are taking longer to bring back to normal. Skype said the problem was caused by the failure of &amp;''supernodes,&amp;'' or the directories of Skype users. Skype has had to replace those supernodes with its own dedicated servers. That means there are fewer servers to handle the group calls and other services that are still down.&amp;''Ita4a4s been a tough 24 hours for many of you a4&quot; and Ia4a4d like to thank you for your patience as we bring Skype back to normal,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''I realise that ita4a4s difficult to compensate you for not being able to talk to or see your friends, family or colleagues, but wea4a4re planning to offer Skype Credit vouchers to all of our loyal paying customers.&amp;''More updates are coming later today. [Update:] Bates has offered another update, saying that Skype has now successfully stabilized its service and is operating at 90 percent of normal user volumes. Offline IM and group video calling are still offline. It is also offering 30 minutes of free calling to landlines anywhere in the world.Next Story: Viacom won&amp;'t get fooled again, drops Rock Band developer as music game sales falter Previous Story: In danger of being an also-ran, Atari names a new CEOPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: SkypeCompanies: SkypePeople: Tony Bates          Tags: SkypeCompanies: SkypePeople: Tony BatesDean 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[Spin out an iPhone app prototype ASAP with Cabana]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cabana, an online service that lets developers quickly create a mobile application for the iPhone or other mobile devices, announced today that it is coming out of beta at the Launch conference in San Francisco.The application lets developers drag buttons and other simple functions onto a test screen for a mobile application. They can then dive into a flow-chart style interface that basically lets them program the app with some simple functions. They can add external services, like a Twitter or Instagram module, or simple functions like a refresh button or paging to the previous screen.Cabana is essentially trying to be the WordPress of mobile app development. Just as WordPress and other simple blogging services made it easy to quickly create websites, Cabana is trying to make it easy to quickly create a mobile application if a designer has a good idea. That&amp;'s because many of the best ideas come from designers, not programmers, said Reeve Thompson, Cabana&amp;'s founder.But the best use case for Cabana would be turning out a prototype for an iPhone or Android application as quickly as possible, said Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams, one of the event&amp;'s judges. If someone has a good idea and they want to pitch it to a potential client or investor, Cabana might be the best way to go about getting the idea onto the iPhone and in front of an investor, he said.Cabana makes money by charging its users for the individual tools they used in their application when they decide to publish the app. That means they pay a flat fee for including a Twitter module, an advertising widget or adding the camera application. But it&amp;'s free to try out the service and play around with its interface. Cabana also plans to start up a marketplace where users can share functions and widgets for app development.Next Story: Overstat: The easiest way to test your website Previous Story: Apple shareholders fail to force management to talk about succession planPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, app development, HTML5, iPhone, launch2011, mobile appCompanies: Cabana          Tags: Android, app development, HTML5, iPhone, launch2011, mobile appCompanies: CabanaMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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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