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<title><![CDATA[BlackBerry PlayBook demo shows zippy interface and touch-enabled bezels (video)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Amidst great looking Android tablets like the Motorola Xoom and the impending iPad 2, Research in Motiona4a4s BlackBerry PlayBook has an uphill battle to fight this year.But I dona4a4t think RIM is going to have much problem getting people excited about its device. The 7-inch PlayBook is a surprisingly sleek tablet entry from a company that I (and many others) had previously lost faith in after the release of the lackluster BlackBerry Torch. I had a bit of hands on time with the tablet on the show floor of the Consumer Electronics Show last week, and I was immediately struck by how fast and media-centric it was. The PlayBook definitely isna4a4t just for business users.In the video below, you can see for yourself just how responsive the PlayBooka4a4s interface is. The tablet is running an operating system based on software from QNX, a company RIM bought earlier last year, which looks nothing like the clunky BlackBerry software the company is known for. It feels like a modern OS, and ita4a4s definitely something that will be able to go toe-to-toe with the tablet-friendly Android 3.0 release and iOS on the iPad.The video also demonstrates how RIM has incorporated touch sensitivity into the devicea4a4s screen bezel. When inside an app, you simply have to swipe up on the bottom bezel to get back to your home screen. Swiping on the left or right bezel when playing media easily takes you to the next item. Ita4a4s not exactly intuitive for first-time users &amp;8212' both iOS and Android have taught users to look for a physical a4Ahomea4 button when inside an app &amp;8212' but I think it will be worth the learning curve for most.RIM still hasna4a4t announced how much the BlackBerry Playbook will cost, and ita4a4s expected to be available some time in the coming months.Next Story: Facebook investor Accel looks east with New York office Previous Story: Founders Den classes up San Francisco&amp;'s co-working scenePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: BlackBerry PlayBook, iPad 2, Motorola Xoom, tabletsCompanies: QNX, RIM          Tags: BlackBerry PlayBook, iPad 2, Motorola Xoom, tabletsCompanies: QNX, RIMDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.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[Josh Klein explains how &''Hacking Work&'' can build a smarter business (Q&038'A)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Josh Klein is a professional hacker who examines systems and helps people understand how to affect change within them. Speaking at conferences like TED and the World Economic Forum&amp;'s annual meeting in Davos, and to companies such as Microsoft and Oracle, he recently teamed up with Bill Jensen, President/CEO of The Jensen Group to write the new book, &amp;''Hacking Work&amp;''. Called one of the top breakthrough ideas for 2010 by the Harvard Business Review, a4Ahacking worka4 is all about working smarter by strategically working around bureaucratic processes. I caught up with Josh to talk about business innovation, key creative problem solving tactics, and his childhood negotiation with the tooth fairy.Nancy Garcia: Tell me a little bit about when and why you became a hacker. Josh Klein: Not sure how you determine this &amp;8212' it reminds me a lot of when my gay friends were coming out and we&amp;'d laugh about their parents trying to figure out when it had all happened. It&amp;'d just always been that way.One thing that was a pretty good indicator, though, was when I was six or seven and I had an altercation with the tooth fairy. Apparently, I wrote a note explaining that I understood that good teeth were in high demand, but that unfortunately due to inflation the price had gone up from $0.25 to $1.00. I even provided a couple of my friendsa4a4 addresses so the tooth fairy could check the market rate.I&amp;'m still not sure if I got a dollar or a quarter in the end (my folks refuse to tell me, stating that it cost them another night&amp;'s sleep trying to figure out), but the attitude sure stuck with me: Systems exist to be optimized, and that evolution can come from any of the participants within it.NG: For a lot of folks, hacking brings with it negative connotations. You focus on the positive side. Has it been difficult for you to convince people that you are not evilJK: Most people get it once they understand that the term &amp;''hacking&amp;'' comes from mechanical engineers, who would &amp;''hack&amp;'' (maybe from &amp;''hacksaw&amp;'') pieces of a car together in new and often unintended ways. For example, a glass-packed muffler was a lot less efficient in terms of mileage if you broke the glass, but it makes for a hell of a throaty growl when you&amp;'re cruising down the strip! Same with over boring your carburetor, or any one of thousands of other little things that optimize for whatever behavior you&amp;'re looking for.That&amp;'s the same sort of creative problem solving and innovation that characterizes hacking today. With the arrival of the internet as we know it today we&amp;'re seeing an explosion of this kind of hacking, both for good and for evil, because people everywhere have access to more information than ever before. Getting mastery over any given system is just a matter of interest and talent, rather than access.The result is like a hammer &amp;8212' you can kill someone with it, or you can build a house, but you wouldn&amp;'t call the former carpentry. Similarly, real hardcore hackers would rather demonstrate their chops for the benefit of everyone (white hat hacking) than just go about destroying things.NG: Many industries, especially traditional media industries, are in the midst of changing their infrastructures to more directly address shifting media consumption habits.  What are the most common mistakes you see companies/businesses make during these sorts of transition periods What kind of advice can you offer to executives in the midst of this sort of restructuring who are perhaps adjusting their perspectives, taking into account today&amp;'s new media landscapeJK: The biggest &amp;8212' and most common &amp;8212' mistake I see is traditional advertisers and corporations treating new, many-to-many media like traditional, one-to-many media. A Twitter account is not a billboard, and treating it as such will only earn you scorn.This extends pretty deeply into the entire shift towards new means of media consumption. Increasingly we&amp;'re seeing consumers that want a one-to-one relationship with a brand, and those companies that provide it &amp;8212' be that through a hyper-personal Twitter account, superior customer service, or radically transparent leadership &amp;8212' garner serious fans. Conversely, companies that attempt to hide corporate issues, obfuscate access to information of interest to customers, or deny responsibility for mistakes can get bitten pretty hard when the public decides to call bullshit.A lot of this has to do with the empowerment of the consumer, but it&amp;'s being met in the middle by the inability of large bureaucracies to innovate or respond fast enough to market shifts.NG: What are the top five hacking tactics you use regularly or that have made the most impact on you/your careerJK: My top 5 hacking tactics (at the moment):Make it normal. By getting comfortable enough with a system that its inhabitants accept you into it you can more readily exploit it.What&amp;'s &amp;''obvious&amp;'' Understanding people&amp;'s expectations of a system is almost always a great way to find vectors to tweak to produce unexpected results.Learn the basics. Presentation skills, good writing, and being able to work well with others are universal capabilities you&amp;'ll need to be successful in *any* tautology. Having those things down makes infiltrating other arenas a thousand times easier.Do your homework. Google someone before you meet with them' read their tweets, scan their Facebook page, and see if there&amp;'s any press you can mention in your meeting. Knowing what they&amp;'re interested in &amp;8211' and proud of &amp;8211' goes a long way in making for a productive conversation. This goes for companies, too!Think different. This sounds easy, but it isn&amp;'t. Human beings are social creatures who have been successful because of their ability to absorb and act within social norms. Hacking a system means understanding these norms well enough to be able to act, but resisting them enough to see outside them. Practice flipping things on their head a4&quot; take what&amp;'s good and describe it as bad, and vice versa, or take issues of largeness and describe them as being small. Inverting expectation is an easy way to examine a system in a new way and can lead to big insights.Nancy Garcia is digital strategist for Piehead.Previous Story: How many tablets will businesses buy in 2011 Try 10M (report)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Hacking WorkPeople: Josh KleinCalled one of the top breakthrough ideas for 2010 by the Harvard Business Review, a4Ahacking worka4 is all about working smarter by strategically working around bureaucratic processes. I caught up with Josh to talk about business innovation, key creative problem solving tactics, and his childhood negotiation with the tooth fairy.Nancy Garcia: Tell me a little bit about when and why you became a hacker. Josh Klein: Not sure how you determine this &amp;8212' it reminds me a lot of when my gay friends were coming out and we&amp;'d laugh about their parents trying to figure out when it had all happened. It&amp;'d just always been that way.One thing that was a pretty good indicator, though, was when I was six or seven and I had an altercation with the tooth fairy. Apparently, I wrote a note explaining that I understood that good teeth were in high demand, but that unfortunately due to inflation the price had gone up from $0.25 to $1.00. I even provided a couple of my friendsa4a4 addresses so the tooth fairy could check the market rate.I&amp;'m still not sure if I got a dollar or a quarter in the end (my folks refuse to tell me, stating that it cost them another night&amp;'s sleep trying to figure out), but the attitude sure stuck with me: Systems exist to be optimized, and that evolution can come from any of the participants within it.NG: For a lot of folks, hacking brings with it negative connotations. You focus on the positive side. Has it been difficult for you to convince people that you are not evilJK: Most people get it once they understand that the term &amp;''hacking&amp;'' comes from mechanical engineers, who would &amp;''hack&amp;'' (maybe from &amp;''hacksaw&amp;'') pieces of a car together in new and often unintended ways. For example, a glass-packed muffler was a lot less efficient in terms of mileage if you broke the glass, but it makes for a hell of a throaty growl when you&amp;'re cruising down the strip! Same with over boring your carburetor, or any one of thousands of other little things that optimize for whatever behavior you&amp;'re looking for.That&amp;'s the same sort of creative problem solving and innovation that characterizes hacking today. With the arrival of the internet as we know it today we&amp;'re seeing an explosion of this kind of hacking, both for good and for evil, because people everywhere have access to more information than ever before. Getting mastery over any given system is just a matter of interest and talent, rather than access.The result is like a hammer &amp;8212' you can kill someone with it, or you can build a house, but you wouldn&amp;'t call the former carpentry. Similarly, real hardcore hackers would rather demonstrate their chops for the benefit of everyone (white hat hacking) than just go about destroying things.NG: Many industries, especially traditional media industries, are in the midst of changing their infrastructures to more directly address shifting media consumption habits.  What are the most common mistakes you see companies/businesses make during these sorts of transition periods What kind of advice can you offer to executives in the midst of this sort of restructuring who are perhaps adjusting their perspectives, taking into account today&amp;'s new media landscapeJK: The biggest &amp;8212' and most common &amp;8212' mistake I see is traditional advertisers and corporations treating new, many-to-many media like traditional, one-to-many media. A Twitter account is not a billboard, and treating it as such will only earn you scorn.This extends pretty deeply into the entire shift towards new means of media consumption. Increasingly we&amp;'re seeing consumers that want a one-to-one relationship with a brand, and those companies that provide it &amp;8212' be that through a hyper-personal Twitter account, superior customer service, or radically transparent leadership &amp;8212' garner serious fans. Conversely, companies that attempt to hide corporate issues, obfuscate access to information of interest to customers, or deny responsibility for mistakes can get bitten pretty hard when the public decides to call bullshit.A lot of this has to do with the empowerment of the consumer, but it&amp;'s being met in the middle by the inability of large bureaucracies to innovate or respond fast enough to market shifts.NG: What are the top five hacking tactics you use regularly or that have made the most impact on you/your careerJK: My top 5 hacking tactics (at the moment):Nancy Garcia is digital strategist for Piehead.Previous Story: How many tablets will businesses buy in 2011 Try 10M (report)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Hacking WorkPeople: Josh Klein          Tags: Hacking WorkPeople: Josh KleinVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  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