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<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Miro 4 hopes to fill Android's iTunes void]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathdwinkz</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The open-source audio and video jukebox Miro debuts a new version today that wants to be iTunes forAndroid. Miro 4 for Windows (download), Mac (download), and Linux (download), adds simple and effective desktop-to-Android synchronization to the program, which also offers media file conversion, torrent management, podcast catching, and media discovery. The Android syncing features focus on music and videos and includes built-in app browsing and management via in-program access to theGoogle Android Marketplace and the Amazon.com Android Marketplace.Main interface of Miro 4(Credit:Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)&quot;We set the bar very high. We want to be the open iTunes,&quot; said Nicholas Reville, co-founder and executive director of the Participatory Culture Foundation, which publishes Miro and the Miro Video Converter, a separate program that also comes baked into the standard Miro. &quot;Millions and millions of people use iTunes and they do because they accept the restrictions, like with Internet Explorer. We see ourselves as the newFirefox.&quot; He also added that Miro has &quot;around two million&quot; monthly users.Except for the lack of over-the-air synchronization, the new Miro is basically the old Miro plus DoubleTwist. If you haven't checked out Miro in a while, since Miro 3's redesigned interface the feature-heavy program has gotten much easier to use. It heavily resembles iTunes, with a left nav for navigating between your audio, video, connected devices, Amazon MP3 store, and Android marketplaces. The new right nav links to recently watched videos, recently songs played, and recent downloads, while the center of the program is where your media discovery and playback happen.Music on an Android in Miro 4(Credit:Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Miro 4 both looks like iTunes and communicates quite smoothly with your iTunes library. Importing more than 10,000 tracks went quickly because Miro recognizes media libraries that are pre-existing on your computer. Also like iTunes and other media jukeboxes, Miro now lets you stream and share your files to other computers running Miro on the same Wi-Fi network. Basically, you use it to manage media libraries on more than one computer.App browsing is straightforward. Click the link in the left nav for either Google's or Amazon's market and you'll be able to access full marketplace features from within Miro. The same goes for Amazon's MP3 store.Android Market in Miro 4(Credit:Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Miro 4 does not yet support Wi-Fi syncing for Android devices, although that feature is coming said Dave Glassco, President of the Participatory Culture Foundation. Also in the works is an iPad app for media streaming and playback.Be warned that Miro's installation process not only opts you into the Bing toolbar, Bing search engine, and resetting Bing as your home page, but if you uncheck all three, Miro asks you if you're sure you want to harm their revenue stream. That's fairly aggressive for an open-source program, although this is unfortunately not new to Miro. It's not likely to change anytime soon, either. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ask Maggie: 5 smartphone apps to try before the rapture]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathdwinkz</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[If you believe the person standing in the rain in Times Square in New York City wearing a doomsday T-shirt, clutching a Bible, and handing out fliers about the end of the world, then Judgment Day is Saturday. That's tomorrow.Naturally, you're wondering: What smartphone apps should I try before the rapture Alright, I admit that may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But this week, I did get that question. So I thought I'd have a little fun in answering it. (Full disclosure: I personally don't believe that the end of the world begins tomorrow. In fact, I'm crossing my fingers to finally get some rays of sunshine in gloomy NYC.) Also in this week's Ask Maggie column, I answer a couple of more serious questions. First, I offer some recommendations for a replacement smartphone to a Verizon Wireless subscriber. And I explain to another reader what is happening with the so-called &quot;4G&quot; wireless technology WiMax.Ask Maggie is a weekly advice column that answers readers' wireless and broadband questions. If you've got a question, please send me an e-mail at maggie dot reardon at cbs dot com. And please put &quot;Ask Maggie&quot; in the subject header.Apps for the raptureDear Maggie, If the end of the world is really coming on May 21, what are the five smartphone apps you would recommend I use before the raptureThanks, JayDear Jay,Here's what I'd suggest:5. Games, games, games: The end of the world may be near, but everyone needs to have some fun. So I'd recommend downloading some games onto your smartphone, like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, or even Zombie Fight. At the very least these games will help you blow off some steam while you wait for the earthquakes to start and the plagues to get under way. There's nothing like catapulting those cute little Angry Birds at some pesky pigs or slashing up some fruit to make you feel better when you know the world will begin self-destructing in less than 24 hours. And if you really want to get into the spirit of fighting off the walking dead, try Zombie Fight. This game is free and lets you take youriPhone and &quot;beat the brains out of the walking dead&quot; by swinging your phone around.4. Pandora: I love the Internet radio app Pandora. And I particularly love using it when I have a party. So if you're thinking of hosting a rapture-themed party, this could be the app that sets the right mood. It's free to download. You simply type in an artist, a song, or genre of music, and voila! You're good to go for party music all night. You might want to consider: typing in &quot;Rapture&quot; by Blondie or REM's &quot;It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)&quot; and see what other fun songs you come up with to go along with your rapture-themed party. Trust me, your guests will love it.3. Foodspotting: My CNET News colleague Erica Ogg recommends Foodspotting. It's an app very similar to Yelp. But instead of rating an entire restaurant, people rate specific dishes at restaurants. Erica and I both agree that this app is a must-have to help you select your final meal before the world ends. After all, you can't ascend into heaven on an empty stomach. And it should be a meal to remember for all eternity.2. MotionX's GPS Drive: You may also want to consider downloading MotionX's GPS Drive app for the iPhone. It's 99 cents, but worth it. If you think there is a chance you won't be one of the chosen few selected by God to go to heaven Saturday, you'll have to sweat it out with the rest of us sinners for the next five months while the Earth self-destructs amid war, plagues, and earthquakes. So you may need directions to the nearest bomb shelter or other secure spot with plenty of food, water, and shelter. This app should be able to get you there easily.1. Rosary apps: Finally, last but not least, I'd download The Rosary Guide. It's a free iPhone app that offers a simple guide to praying the rosary. I don't know if the world will really end Saturday or not, but it can't hurt to get in good with the man above, right I mean, it's better to be safe than sorry. If you're not Catholic or can't remember how to pray the rosary, you might want to consider the Holy Rosary Deluxe. It costs 99 cents. But it gives you an interactive set of beads, lets you read the text of each prayer, and gives you inspiring images for each &quot;mystery&quot; along with some other goodies.I hope this helps answer your question. As I've disclosed in the intro, I'm not one of the believers who thinks the world will end tomorrow. Honestly, I'm more worried that it will rain all weekend, and I won't get a chance to ride my bike or play tennis. But just in case, I'm crossing my fingers that rapture believers got the date wrong again.I'd love to hear other readers' suggestions for the last apps to check out before the rapture. So feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section below.Recommendations for a Verizon smartphoneDear Maggie, I just lost my Verizon Motorola Droid (first edition) phone. If you were me, what would you buy to replace it I would appreciate your suggestion.Thanks, PBDear PB, Lucky for you, you came to right place for advice. My first instinct was to recommend theHTC Thunderbolt. It's Verizon's first 4G LTE smartphone. It's anAndroid phone just like the Motorola Droid that you've already been using. And the 4G network makes the data speeds super fast. So that's why I was going to suggest it. But then Bonnie Cha, senior CNET Reviews editor of smartphones, reminded me that the Thunderbolt has had some battery issues. She recommends the Samsung Droid Charge instead. It's another Android smartphone made for Verizon's speedy 4G LTE network. In her review of the phone, Bonnie called it a &quot;gorgeous Super AMOLED Plus touch screen&quot; device. The upsides of this smartphone are that it offers longer battery life than the HTC ThunderBolt and the call quality and camera are good. But she noted some downsides, too. For example, the Droid Charge is large. It's also pricey, especially considering it doesn't have some of the latest features, like a dual-core processor.Even though it's not the prettiest or most advanced smartphone out there, Bonnie said that the Samsung Droid Charges is a great pick because it takes advantage of Verizon's great 4G data speeds, while offering decent battery life. That said, if the HTC Thunderbolt is more to your liking, she recommends getting an extra battery with it. CNET Reviews editor Nicole Lee also suggested some Verizon Android smartphones that have a keyboard. So if you're looking to replace your previous first-generation Droid with another smartphone that has a keyboard, you might want to consider the Droid Pro or the Droid 2. If you're done with the Android operating system and you're looking for something new, you can always get an iPhone 4. Verizon began selling its version of the iPhone 4 in February. A new version of the iPhone is expected to come to Verizon and AT&amp;T later this year. What happened to WiMax Dear Maggie,Whatever became of the 4G technology WiMax It got a lot of buzz a few years ago, but lately all I hear about is LTE. What gives Thanks, Ike Dear Ike, WiMax is still around, albeit not as hyped as it once was. Clearwire, which is building a nationwide &quot;4G&quot; wireless network, is using the technology. This network is what Sprint Nextel has been using to offer &quot;4G&quot; wireless service to its subscribers. Clearwire is adding tons of new customers via its relationship with Sprint. But the company is struggling to find cash to continue building out its network. Meanwhile, most other major wireless operators around the world are using LTE to build their next-generation wireless networks. Verizon Wireless launched its 4G LTE network in December and it's now offering Mi-Fi devices, laptop cards, and smartphones that operate over this network. AT&amp;T is planning to launch its 4G LTE network this summer. Since it looks like the momentum in the wireless industry is clearly moving toward LTE, Sprint and Clearwire executives have each said that they are considering building LTE networks. Sprint is going through a major network upgrade and many speculate the operator could announce plans to build an LTE network this summer. Clearwire has also indicated that it is not wedded to any single technology, and it may also consider moving to LTE down the road. In a recent interview with CNET, Clearwire Chief Operating Officer Erik Prusch acknowledged that the wireless ecosystem has shifted toward LTE. &quot;WiMax has been very good for us,&quot; he said. &quot;We were able to take advantage of speed to market before LTE was even a glimmer in anyone's eye. But as the ecosystem changes to LTE, it's clear it will be larger than the ecosystem for WiMax. So we are conscious of that. And we will have to take that into consideration.&quot; Prusch indicated that it was only a matter of time before Clearwire would move toward LTE.  So what does that mean for WiMax as a technology I don't think WiMax will go away completely. But I do expect it to be more of a niche technology. There are still many smaller networks throughout the world being built with the technology. And Intel is still pushing it hard in places, such as India, where WiMax is used to bring wireless broadband to places that have never had any wired communications infrastructure. For the average consumer, whether it's WiMax or LTE won't likely matter that much. They both offer much faster wireless Internet access than 3G services. The only thing that might make a difference is if device makers manufacture products that can be used across 4G wireless networks. At this point, wireless operators haven't changed their business models and they still lock devices to their networks, even if they use the same wireless technologies as competitors. But if all the major carriers are using similar spectrum bands and the same wireless network technology, it's possible there could be more device interoperability for LTE devices. At the very least the cost of LTE devices should be less if most of the world is using the same technology. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ex-Apple manager pleads guilty in kickback case]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A former manager at Apple has pleaded guilty in a major kickback case that could land him 20 years in prison.Paul Shin Devine, once employed at Apple as a supply manager, admitted guilt yesterday in federal court in San Jose, Calif., on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. He was accused of taking kickbacks from Apple suppliers in exchange for information, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.Devine, who worked at Apple from 2005 through 2010, sent forecasts, roadmaps, product specifications, and other confidential information to Asian suppliers and manufacturers of Apple components, according to court documents. In return, he received payments from those suppliers based on the amount of business they were able to win from Apple. The confidential information that Devine provided helped suppliers negotiate better deals with Apple and cost the company more than $2.4 million, Devine admitted as part of his plea agreeement.In total, Devine was charged with 15 counts of wire fraud, 1 count of wire fraud conspiracy, 6 counts of money laundering, and 1 count of &quot;engaging in transactions with criminally-derived proceeds.&quot; The wire fraud charges stem from the various bank accounts both in the U.S. and abroad that Devine opened up to hide his proceeds. As part of yesterday's plea agreement, he pleaded guilty to one count of each violation.The plea agreement requires Devine to give up more than $2.28 million in money and property. Devine still faces a maximum prison term of 20 years on the wire fraud and money laundering charges. Sentencing is set for June 6.&quot;Mr. Devine is a good man who made a mistake, and now he's trying to make amends,&quot; his attorney, Raphael Goldman, said yesterday, according to Reuters.Apple itself has filed a civil suit against Devine, which has been on hold pending the outcome in criminal court.The investigation started last April when Apple discovered evidence of kickbacks on Devine's company-owned laptop. Devine was arrested in August. He initially pleaded not guilty to the charges. A search of his home in Sunnyvale, Calif., by federal agents uncovered more than $150,000 in U.S. banknotes hidden in shoe boxes along with $20,000 in other currencies.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Backup service MiMedia leverages U.S. mail]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathdwinkz</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Why would anyone want to be in the consumer data backup business Even if you have a great, useful, cheap product, most people simply won't bother to use it. You might as well be selling dental floss. It's got to be depressing.Erik Zamkoff runs a relative newcomer in this space, MiMedia. He likes selling dental floss. And he has two clever tricks to get more people to use his cloud backup service. First, he takes the data and media his service's users upload and gives it back to them online in a nice, organized Web viewer they can share with friends. His service segregates music, photo, and video files and gives everything a streaming player--a slideshow for photos, a shuffle-able streamer for music, and a streaming Flash video player for videos. The service transcodes all files for Web playback. There's a solidiPhone app, too. Zamkoff wants people to actually interact with their backups regularly. And by letting users easily share specific media files or directories with friends and families, he thinks they might do just that.The MiMedia Shuffle Drive, via the U.S. Postal Service, has great throughput. Latency, however, is measured in days. Second, Zamkoff says that many people don't upload all their data to online backup services. He says the average online storage account is under 10GB, yet the average media collection is over 60GB. It just takes too long to make the initial backup, Zamkoff says. Consumers like to shut down their computers at night, when the upload might otherwise be running. And they have, mostly, limited upstream bandwidth anyway. So when you sign up for MiMedia, the service calculates how long it's going to take you to do your first upload. If it's going to be a while, MiMedia can send you a preconfigured USB hard drive that you can dump your files onto and then send that back to the service in a preaddressed mailer. MiMedia uses the files on the drive to seed your backup set. (Update: Peer-to-peer backup service Crashplan also supports using a mailed-in hard disk as a backup set seed.) The &quot;shuttle drive&quot; service is no extra charge (although you do have to provide a security deposit via credit card), and the drive you get in the mail can't be used for anything other than backup. The drive arrives prekeyed to your specific MiMedia account and the data is stored under AES encryption.  I calculate (check my work) that if you have 250GB of data to back up (not unreasonable if you take a lot of photos and have healthy music and video libraries), and if the U.S. Postal Service takes three days to deliver the drive to MiMedia, that's bandwidth of about 8 megabits a second, which is, in fact, a lot better upstream performance than most people get at home. This service is a good way to get consumers to make a real backup, instead of a documents-only set that ignores their precious home videos--as competitor Carbonite does by default. MiMedia doesn't offer one-price unlimited backup, though. Plans start at $50 a year, but my 250GB example backup will run $245 annually. (Sugarsync, the sync tool I use for backup, has similar price points.) The service makes a very usable streaming media portal from your backup sets. You can add as many computers to your backup account as you want. The service does not offer synchronization features, though, and it lumps all your media files together in the Web player. That actually might be a benefit for some users and for families. The service isn't yet available forMac OS X. The Android mobile app is also forthcoming. The MiMedia Shuttle Drive gimmick is a good way to get users to actually back up what matters, and the service's strong portal for backed-up data adds daily utility to the service. Compared with most other cloud storage and backup services (I'm thinking of Mozy, Carbonite, Dropbox, Sugarsync, and Crashplan), MiMedia has more sensitivity to the way real consumers behave. It makes a compelling business out of selling something nobody really wants to pay for.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Future of Streaming and the Many Reasons Jeff Bewkes Is Wrong&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[a4AIta4a4s a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the worlda4sI dona4a4t think so.a4TimeWarner CEO Jeff Bewkes haughty dismissal of Netflix is still reverberating through the tech world, dominating Holiday party chatter and jokes around the metaphorical water cooler. (At least the nerdy parties I go to.)This would be Netflix, the company that already makes up 20% of peak Internet broadband. Netflix, the company that helped kill Blockbuster and the DVD purchase market. Netflix, the company that shrugged when Hollywood refused to cut them deals, bought DVDs wholesale and still won. Netflix the company led by Fortune&amp;'s top businessperson of the year Reed Hastings.Techies I&amp;'ve spoken with aren&amp;'t so much offended as much as they are confused. Really, Bewkes, you think Netflix is done Is it April Fool&amp;'s Day alreadyJoining me to discuss why Netflix pulled off the seemingly impossible &amp;8212' building a subscription digital media company the world increasingly can&amp;'t live without &amp;8212' and why it will continue to is David Pakman of Venrock who has been around the digital music block and has a few words for Mr. Bewkes. Video below.CrunchBase InformationNetflixInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[&8216'Boring&' Couple Beats Google In Court, Is Awarded&nbsp'$1]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Back in April 2008, married couple Aaron and Christine Boring filed suit against Google for &amp;''intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion&amp;'' of their privacy, because a Street View car drove down their Private road and snapped some photos of their house.Aside from giving the press an opportunity to go pun-crazy, the case has been notable for its longevity: most of the charges, which included negligence, were thrown out in February 2009, but Boring v. Google came back for an encore this year. The lone remaining charge Trespassing.Now, over two and a half years after the case got started, a judge has handed down her consent judgement, ruling that that Google was indeed guilty of Count II Trespass. The Borings are getting a grand total of $1 for their trouble. Ouch.In other news related to the case, the Borings tried to appeal to the US Supreme Court (yes, seriously).  The Court turned down the appeal in October.This is obviously good news for Google. The case may sound silly, but it could have blown up into a broader examination of Google and online privacy. That didn&amp;'t happen, and given the circumstances (it&amp;'s hard to believe the Borings had their privacy violated in any significant way), that&amp;'s a good thing.A Google spokesperson gave us this cheeky statement about the case:&amp;''We are pleased that this lawsuit has finally ended with plaintiffs&amp;' acknowledgment that they are entitled to only $1.&amp;''    View this document on ScribdCrunchBase InformationGoogleInformation provided by CrunchBaseTipTweet<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Art.sy Raises $1.25 Million From Schmidt, Murdoch, Dorsey, And Super-Artsy&nbsp'Angels]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[New York City art world startup Art.sy, which launched at our first TechCrunch Disrupt and won the Rookie Award, is raising $1.25 million from a very impressive group of super angels on both coasts.The investors include Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Wendi Murdoch (wife of News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch), Jack Dorsey (Twitter, Square), VC Jim Breyer, art &amp;''czarina&amp;'' Dasha Zhukova, Founder Collective, Keith Rabois (Square, Slide, PayPal), David Tisch, Charlei Cheever (Quora, Facebook), Dave Morin (Path, Facebook), and David Kidder (Clickable).  The round was led by Josh Kushner through Thrive Capital.  Some of these names were reported earlier by Business Insider, but not the amount.Art.sy previously raised about $160,000 in seed funding.  After launching at Disrupt, 24-year-old founder Carter Cleveland decided to take the site completely private again while he shifted focus from a general-interest art-buying site to one more focussed on high-end art dealers and collectors.  He signed up powerful New York city art dealer Larry Gagosian as an advisor and is negotiating with other world-class galleries to highlight their artists on Art.sy.Cleveland is also scrapping a lot of the original features originally targeted at a younger audience, and instead trying to make it more of an art discovery tool for wealthy, older collectors.  The new capital will go towards hiring engineers to help build out the startup&amp;'s &amp;''Art Genome&amp;'' algorithm, which is modeled on Pandora&amp;'s Music Genome, except for fine art.  The Art Genome algorithm breaks down artworks and artists into 170 different dimensions, and combines them into resultant vectors to help people find clusters of art similar to other works they might like.  The core technology is about making better art recommendations and making it easier to discover art.It is an ambitious project with many moving parts, but the art world definitely needs help becoming more Web-friendly.  Art.sy is now planning open up publicly in the spring of 2011.CrunchBase InformationArt.syThrive CapitalFounder CollectiveEric SchmidtJack DorseyInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[RockMelt Rolls Out Its First Big Update: Chromium 7, More Social, Better&nbsp'Gmail]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You remember RockMelt, right After the social browser launched two weeks ago, talk about it exploded a4&quot; then seemed to die down just as quickly. But today brings an update that may get people interested again.The service has just rolled out their first big update to their browser. Versiona4s0.8.36.74 (sexy name) contains a number of bug fixes and stability improvements. It also updates the underlying Chromium browser to version 7 finally (for those keeping score at home, the Chromium open source project is already well into version 9). But the real keys here are thea4sfunctionalitya4simprovements. Namely, the new RockMelt makes it even easier to be social.With the first version (there have been small updates since the launch), to tweet or leave a Facebook status update, you had to click on your icon in the main toolbar. Even though Twitter and Facebook were a part of the Edges, you could only viewa4supdatesa4sfrom there. Now you can actually tweet and update your status from Edge apps themselves. That&amp;'s a nice update that should have been there in the first place.You can also now right-click on any of your Facebook friends in the Edge to message them, write on their wall, etc.Perhaps even better is the new Gmail Notifier App that RockMelt has built. Previously, you could add Gmail to your right Edge, but it seemed to be using RSS to see when you had new messages. In other words, it was slow. Their new app seems to update in realtime, to let you know when you have new mail.With the update to Chromium 7, RockMelt does feel a bit snappier now. And the Twitter and Facebook updates seem to be rolling in more reliably. Overall, it&amp;'s good to see RockMelt moving quickly to address issues people are having.But there are still some underlying problems with the product itself. It&amp;'s the right idea, but the execution still seems a bit off. And don&amp;'t try using it if you have more than 3,000 friends on Facebook, there&amp;'s a bug there that hasn&amp;'t been fixed yet, but they&amp;'re working on it. Remember, it&amp;'s still in beta.You should be alerted to this new update automatically if you&amp;'re using RockMelt, or you can get it manually be clicking on the &amp;''About RockMelt&amp;'' are in the menu. The product remains in closed beta testing, but they&amp;'ve also updated the invite system, so perhaps you&amp;'ll be able to track one down.Here&amp;'s the full list of the changes listed in the latest version:New Gmail Notifier App to let you know when you have new email. To install, just go to gmail.com, sign in, and click on the a4AAdd Appsa4 button at the bottom of the App EdgeTweet directly from the Twitter App using the new a4Acomposea4 button at the topUpdate your status directly from the Facebook App by clicking on the new a4Acomposea4 button at the topSearch within the Facebook, Twitter, and News Apps by typing in the new filter box (Windows users press CTRL+F to invoke)Compose messages, write on walls, or go straight to a website through richer context menus when you right-click on a Friend or App in the EdgeFaster, more consistent Twitter and Facebook feed updates and notificationsLook for more invites and improved notifications in the enhanced Invite AppHide or show edges while in full-screen mode, just like in the normal viewUpgrade to Chromium 7 for improvements in speed and stability and better HTML 5 supportCrunchBase InformationRockMeltInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Digg CEO Jay Adelson finds himself at SimpleGeo]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=former-digg-ceo-jay-adelson-finds-himself-at-simplegeo</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathdwinkz</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=former-digg-ceo-jay-adelson-finds-himself-at-simplegeo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SimpleGeo, a service for adding location-based features to applications, just announced that former Digg CEO Jay Adelson will be its new CEO and join its board of directors.The company&amp;'s former CEO and co-founder Matt Galligan will now act as Chief Strategy Officer, so that he can focus on what he says are&amp;''company strategy, evangelism, and new concepts around the integration of location services.&amp;''In a post on SimpleGeo&amp;'s blog, Galligan goes on to outline Adelson&amp;'s career:Many people are familiar with Jay from his role as CEO of Digg, where he helped transform a relatively unknown startup into a global brand, and also as founder (and current Chairman) of Revision3, a leading Internet television network. However, I feel like Jaya4a4s time at Digg and Revision3 were really the outliers in his career.Previous to both Digg and Revision3, Jay founded Equinix, a billion dollar international company that operates data centers and provides network connectivity services for companies around the world. Currently, well over 70% of the worlda4a4s Internet traffic depends on Equinixto reach its destination. He also co-founded Digital Equipment Corporationa4a4s Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX), one of the largest Internet aggregation points in the United States. Before that, Jay was a founding employee of Netcom, one of the nationa4a4s first ISPs.SimpleGeo isn&amp;'t the only company looking to bring in seasoned veterans to help run their location-based services. According to Business Insider, Facebook grabbed early Foursquare engineer Nathan Folkman to work on its new Facebook Places feature &amp;8212' a good pick-up as the company ramps up its newly released &amp;''deals&amp;'' feature.SimpleGeo has been working hard over the past year. TheColorado-based company, founded in 2009,recently announceda second round of funding for $8 million and has been on a hiring spree &amp;8212' going from 4 to 23 employees in nine months, according to Galligan&amp;'s personal blog.Next Story: Ford Focus to zoom into 20 first-launch cities in 2011 Previous Story: How much is online-media baron Demand Media really worthPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: geo, geolocation, location, location based services, location-basedCompanies: digg, SimpleGeoPeople: Jaspn Adelson, Matt Galligan          Tags: geo, geolocation, location, location based services, location-basedCompanies: digg, SimpleGeoPeople: Jaspn Adelson, Matt GalliganCody Barbierri is a social and digital media consultant. He works for Piehead and blogs about social media at Social Tab. (None of his posts are about clients or their competitors.) Reach him at Cody@venturebeat.com. You can also follow Cody on Twitter.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[NSFW: Playing Hangman on&nbsp'Twitter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathdwinkz</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=nsfw-playing-hangman-onnbsptwitter</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On the afternoon of Halloween, a New York based blogger spotted a group of kids lined up at the side of a road, throwing rocks and eggs at passing cars. After calling 911, he went home and searched for the kids on Facebook, adding them as a4Afriendsa4. Sure enough, before long the tiny (alleged) thugs were boasting about their crimes in status updates, which the blogger shared with the world.Two days ago, another blogger &amp;8211' this time a woman who works at a major Internet company &amp;8211' was (allegedly, and that word is very important) sexually assaulted at a conference by a man who works at a different Internet company. Again, the (alleged) victim contacted the police, but again she then turned to social media to name and shame her (still alleged) attacker.In both cases, the Interneta4a4s response was swift &amp;8211' with bloggers and Twitterers and Facebookers leaping in to repost the allegations and to demand justice be done.Welcome to todaya4a4s cyber vigilantism.Of course, I &amp;8211' like most right thinking people &amp;8211' am appalled when I read comments suggesting that the victim of an alleged assault may have invented or exaggerated the incident. There is a special circle of hell reserved for those who assume, without evidence or legal finding, that someone would invent a sexual assault. Theya4a4re the reason why so many sex crimes go unreported.And yet, that same circle also has room for another group of folks: those who assume that everyone accused of a crime is guilty.As a Brit, one of the things that amazes me about American popular culture is Nancy Grace. I mean, obviously Grace herself amazes me &amp;8212' just, wow &amp;8212' but more than that, the first time I saw her show, I couldna4a4t believe my eyes and ears. Here was a woman, on prime-time television no less, openly discussing ongoing criminal trials and opining on whether the accused was innocent or guilty. Holy shit, I thought.Back in the UK (and, one might argue, in any just society) Nancy Grace would be in jail. The media is simply not allowed to opine on guilt or innocence while cases are still sub justice (after an arrest is made). To do so is considered contempt of court. Likewise, journalists are not allowed to report, or republish, or even reblog, other people making similar claims. There are loopholes, of course, once the case has gone to trial (statements made in court can be reported, as long as theya4a4re clearly marked as allegations) but by and large the principle of innocent until proven guilty in a court of law is held to be sacrosanct.Today, though, even in the UK that principle is fast being rendered meaningless. Thanks to social media, anyone can publish the name of someone accused of a serious crime before they have even been arrested (which used to be the first time an allegation was reported), let alone appeared in court.And when that naming happens, the case is over before ita4a4s begun: no matter whether the accused is guilty or innocent, they are handed a life sentence. Until the day they die, whenever a potential employer or a new friend Googles their name &amp;8211' up will come the allegation.  And, prison terms notwithstanding, that allegation carries the same punishment as guilt &amp;8211' a lifetime as an unemployable, unfriendable, outcast. There&amp;'s a reason why the Internet is a great way to ruin someone with false allegations &amp;8211' and it&amp;'s the same reason why falsely accused people are just as likely to harm themselves as guilty people.Of course, ita4a4s very possible that in any given case, the accused will turn out to be guilty. They very often are. And in those cases ita4a4s hard to argue that a victim did anything wrong by naming their attacker &amp;8211' especially if doing so encourages others to come forward. Certainly after guilt has been established in a court of law, ita4a4s open season on the perpetrator, both online and in traditional media: such is the price of crime.But in the meantime, for the sake of the mercifully small number of people who are falsely accused (by accident or design) of crimes they didna4a4t commit, surely ita4a4s beholden on all of us to resist our natural impulse to repeat potentially life-ruining allegations until the law has been allowed to run its course.Which brings me neatly to a brief backstage postscript.Some sharp-eyed readers have noted that TechCrunch was one of the publications that covered the alleged sexual assault story, shortly after it broke. The post has subsequently vanished from the site, leading to some slightly comical accusations that our new corporate owners had demanded that Mike Arrington pull the story (comical because Ia4a4m not entirely convinced anyone at AOL reads TechCrunch).In fact what happened is that, for all of the reasons above, Mike decided it was right to delete the post &amp;8211' and Alexia, the post&amp;'s author, agreed with his judgement. Mike has written before about how our community is better off without us reporting on unproven personal allegations, no matter how juicy the story. Deleting the post is consistent with that policy.Am I disappointed that the story appeared on TechCrunch in the first place For sure. But at the same time I know that the reporters here are under huge pressure not to miss stories, and ita4a4s impossible to get it right every time. At best, hopefully episodes like this make everyone pause a bit longer in future before posting things that could ruin lives.More than anything, though, Ia4a4m proud to write for a publication that firmly stands its ground when it knows it&amp;'s right, but is brave enough to do the right thing when it knows it isna4a4t.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New York City officials test-drive car-sharing with Zipcar - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathdwinkz</dc:creator>
<category>Government</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=new-york-city-officials-test-drive-car-sharing-with-zipcar---springwise</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Through a yearlong pilot program, 300 New York City Department of Transportation employees will share 25 Zipcar vehicles a4&quot; 23 hybrids and two vans a4&quot; for daily official business between the hours of 7 am and 6 pm on weekdays. The vehicles will be stored at several private garages in Lower Manhattan so as to reduce the number of City vehicles using on-street parking' participating employees will reserve them online and then retrieve them via Zipcard. Perhaps even more interesting, however, is that outside working hours, the vehicles will be made available to the general public through Zipcar. Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan explains: a4ACar share is an innovative way to do more with less and address the Citya4a4s environmental and fleet-reduction goals. This strategy helps meet those goals while opening up curbside parking, and by letting the public use the same cars that we use, it helps stimulate the Lower Manhattan car-share market.a4With potential savings of more than USD 500,000 over four years in reduced City costs for vehicle acquisitions, fuel and maintenance, the pilot could be expanded if it''s successful a4&quot; which it''s hard to imagine it wouldn''t be. Seems like only a matter of time before something like this comes to every thriving metropolis' how about getting involved and helping to make that happen (Related: Green car-sharing by the hour at Hawaii hotels a4&quot; More P2P car-sharing, now in London a4&quot; P2P car-sharing comes to Australia a4&quot; Person-to-person car-sharing service a4&quot; Smart use of the Smart brand: car-sharing by Daimler a4&quot; Zipcar and Zimride join forces on college campuses a4&quot; Parking operator launches car-sharing service.)Website: www.nyc.govContact: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/contactdot/assist.shtmlSpotted by: Raymond Kollau<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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