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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More T-Mobile Sidekick 4G details revealed]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G(Credit:T-Mobile)The T-Mobile Sidekick as we once knew it may be gone forever, but that doesn't mean it's the end of the franchise. Far from it actually.T-Mobile dished out fresh details about the upcoming Sidekick 4G this evening, and the smartphone mixes a bit of the old with the new to offer something that's both familiar to Sidekick fans and modern enough to keep it relevant in today's competitive smartphone market.Right off the bat, you'll notice that the design doesn't stray far from its roots. You get the swiveling display, the five-row keyboard, and even the navigation buttons are still located on the corners of the phone. However, don't think the Sidekick 4G is just a rehash of the previous design. Manufactured by Samsung instead of Sharp this time around, the smartphone is the first Sidekick to have a touch screen (a 3.5-inch WVGA touch screen, to be exact), a front-facing VGA camera for video calls, and a 1GHz Hummingbird processor. The Sidekick 4G is also 4G capable and can hit theoretical download speeds of 21Mbps, which puts it on par with the Samsung Galaxy S 4G and potentially faster than T-Mobile's other 4G smartphones, the T-Mobile G2 and MyTouch 4G. Hardware aside, the Sidekick 4G was really more about taking the product to the next level, and T-Mobile approached that in a couple of ways. First, it enhanced the messaging capabilities of the smartphone by adding Group Text and Cloud Text features. Group Text lets you send text messages to a group of people and allows you to reply-all, as well as save and manage groups for future communication. You can also share your location and images within the group. Meanwhile, Cloud Text is a Web app that allows you to send and receive text messages from the comfort of your computer, so you don't always have to be tied to your phone.Another step in evolving the Sidekick brand was moving the smartphone to the Android operating system. The Sidekick 4G will ship running Android 2.2 Froyo and along with the standard Google services, it will come preloaded with the Facebook and Twitter apps and the Qik video chat client (video calls can be made over Wi-Fi or the cellular network).There's also no shortage of entertainment, as the handset features a Media Room where you can find and organize all your music, videos, and movies, as well as apps like Slacker Radio, YouTube, and T-Mobile TV. Like Samsung's Galaxy S series, the Sidekick 4G is also compatible with Samsung's Media Hub video store, so you can rent and buy movies right from your phone.Other highlights include a rear-facing 3-megapixel camera, a jump key for easy multitasking, and T-Mobile's DriveSmart app, which will automatically send a customized message alerting any callers or contacts sending you a message that you are currently driving and will respond when it's safe. Two key details that were not announced today were availability date and pricing, but we do know that the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G is expected to ship this spring and will be available in two colors: matte black and pearl magenta. T-Mobile Sidekick 4G (photos) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WordPress hit by 'extremely large' DDoS attack]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Blog host WordPress.com was the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack earlier today described by the company as the largest in its history.As a result, a number of blogs--including those that are a part of WordPress' VIP service--suffered connectivity issues. That includes the Financial Post, the National Post, TechCrunch, along with the service's nearly 18 million hosted blogs.According to a post by Automattic employee Sara Rosso on the company's VIP Lobby (which had been down at the time of the attacks, though was archived by Graham Cluley over at Naked Security), the size of the attack reached &quot;multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second.&quot; Rosso had also said putting a stop to the attack was &quot;proving rather difficult.&quot; Rosso had also said the company would be handling its VIP sites ahead of general users.Denial-of-service attacks are designed to overwhelm Web sites with requests, effectively shutting them down. The ones that are distributed present a much larger challenge to combat, since they can come from a wider variety of networks and hosts.Update at 10:35 a.m. PT: In an e-mail to CNET, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said the attack had affected three of the company's data centers, and was the largest its seen in the company's six-year history. Mullenweg also said that the attack &quot;may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs,&quot; but that that detail had not been confirmed. Full e-mail below:There's an ongoing DDoS attack that was large enough to impact all three of our data centers in Chicago, San Antonio, and Dallas--it's currently been neutralized but it's possible it could flare up again later, which we're taking proactive steps to implement.This is the largest and most sustained attack we've seen in our six-year history. We suspect it may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs but we're still investigating and have no definitive evidence yet.The company has also posted a notice on its product uptime status blog:WordPress&amp;39' uptime notice.(Credit:CNET)Update at 11:47 a.m. PT: WordPress now says the problem's been fixed. &quot;Our systems are back to normal. We'll continue to monitor them and post updates here if needed,&quot; the company said on its status page. No word yet on if the company had gotten to the bottom of which of its blogs had been the target of the attack. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple sends out invites for March 2 iPad event]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paulsmith385</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[As anticipated, Apple issued invites today for an iPad event next week.(Credit:Engadget)Confirming a report from All Things Digital earlier this week, Apple this morning invited the tech press to aniPad-related event on March 2.Rumors have swirled for months about a pending iPad 2 announcement (recent stories suggested a delay until June). While Apple has not explicitly confirmed that the iPad 2 will be unveiled at this event, nor when the device would be available, an announcement next week would come roughly a year after the company released the original iPad. Also, Apple is not in the habit of announcing updates to existing products far in advance.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social links get higher billing in Google]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google&amp;39's Matt Cutts climbed Mount Kilimanjaro last year, and if he&amp;39's part of your social landscape, content that he has authored or shared could now rank higher in your personalized Google results.(Credit:Google)Google's putting a little more attention into social cues when it comes to returning search results. Over the course of the day Google will start rolling out new social search features that more prominently display content that connections on social networks like Twitter have shared. Google's been doing that for a while, but in the slums of the search results page: all the way at the bottom. Now those results will appear interspersed with regular search results when you're signed into Google and someone on a social network that you have connected to your Google profile shares a link, with a note under the result telling you who shared the link and where. Twitter seems to be the big winner here, but any account linked to one's Google profile can be featured in results. Those results won't be displayed to all searchers: you'll see individual results when signed into Google based off of friends and connections within the Google world (Gmail, Chat, Google Buzz) who publicly share sites through those services or externally linked services like Twitter or LinkedIn. Google's also making it possible for users to privately link accounts to their Google Profiles. It's all part of Google's ongoing and mostly fruitless attempts to make social-media connections a greater part of its search results. One of Google's biggest priorities at the moment is finding a way to stay relevant as an information source as more and more people share information in social networks, and as more and more sites try to game Google's results. This is a long-term problem, but it's a problem nonetheless that is getting a lot of attention internally. One huge issue is the closed nature of Facebook, the king of the social-media world: Google's all-seeing Web crawlers can't penetrate Facebook's services and that has caused tension between the two companies. Google is expected to roll out more social services over the coming year, having discussed plans to add social layers to existing products as opposed to trying to build a network of its own. Past attempts at that--such as Orkut and Google Buzz--haven't made an impact.Updated 11:05 a.m. PST to clarify exactly who sees the social results.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's 2010 report card and 3 new resolutions]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=googles-2010-report-card-and-3-new-resolutions</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As another year dawns, life is still pretty good for Google but ever more complicated. With that, let's reexamine the five New Year's resolutions we outlined for Google at the start of 2010 to see how the company lived up to that unsolicited advice, and offer more of the same for 2011.Google&amp;39's search team kept the gravy train rolling in 2010 with products like Google Instant, introduced in September by Marissa Mayer.(Credit:James Martin/CNET) First, last year's report card:1. Don't forget where you came from: This resolution involved priority No. 1 at Google: remain the world's leading provider of Internet searches by a comfortable margin. It passed this test with ease: despite significant investment on Microsoft's part into Bing, and Yahoo's declaration that its back-end outsourcing strategy would lead to front-end breakthroughs, Google ended 2010 pretty much where it started, actually gaining a slight amount of market share according to ComScore's November 2009 to November 2010 comparison.2. Get control of the engineers: Google probably wishes it had paid a little more attention to this one. Two 2010 incidents involving Google engineers gone wild--the now-infamous Wi-Fi Street View case and the quieter (and creepier) firing of David Barksdale--showed that Google's power to amass and organize vast amounts of data can be seductive to those with poor oversight or ulterior motives. Google also stepped on its foot in launching Google Buzz with the assumption that users always wanted their most-frequently e-mailed contacts to also be their friends in a social-networking setting. Privacy training has been increased and Alma Whitten was tapped to put a public face on Google's commitment to privacy, making it fair to say that keeping the trust of an increasing wary public in 2011 is essential to Google's well-being.3. Get HTML5 standards finalized: This one isn't really Google's fault, but its vision of the Web as the premier development platform of our time is still a ways off. Standards bodies are famously contemplative, but Google also struggled to prove its own case that the Web can be king by missing a deadline to ship a productive version of Chrome OS.4. Live up to the promise of Google Books: Amazingly, the Google Books saga will drag on into yet another year as Google's settlement with authors and publishers remains in legal limbo. By the end of the year Google did manage to launch its e-book store and release an interesting project on word usage over centuries, but is no closer to lifting the cloud of uncertainty over Google Books at the end of 2010 than it was at the beginning of the year.5. Clarify your mobile strategy: Google definitely got the message on this one, scaling back its ambitiousNexus One project after it proved unpopular with both phone buyers and its business partners alike. Freed from such distractions, Android is now poised to grow even more in 2011 than it did over the past year as theiPhone alternative, and Google is about to make nearly $1 billion a year on mobile advertising through Android and mobile search, it revealed toward the end of the year. Here are three more things Google might want to think about in 2011.Fight the government--and win Google is at the point in its story arc where nearly everything it will do in 2011 will be scrutinized by some branch of the U.S. government, although it's arguable it has already been there for years. Still, there's little doubt the supervision is taking a toll and these concerns are already on the table in Europe. The main problem--beyond the outcome of any potential regulation--is that larger start-ups aren't going to be as interested in joining Google if they have to put their life on hold for six months while the government dithers over whether or not the deal is kosher. A great deal of Google's success in 2010 came from larger acquisitions that might not have been approved if they were proposed in 2011, such as DoubleClick, AdMob, or YouTube. Groupon, the darling of the daily deals department, was said to harbor such concerns as acquisition talks broke down between it and Google. AdMob was also reported to have sought an enormous &quot;breakup fee&quot; should its acquisition by Google have been squashed by federal regulators. At some point, doing business with those larger start-ups will stop making economic sense. The hassle and distraction that a public government trial could present for Google executives is not exactly something to be welcomed. But at the same time, the uncertainty over what Google might and might not be allowed to do isn't good for business either, and it also makes regulators look silly: either put your cards on the table and prove an unchecked Google is bad for the country or stop listening to whining from its competitors. Google and the U.S. government are going to clash in a big way at some point: might as well break that ice in 2011.Find your soul--and your scheduler For many years, it was pretty simple to understand Google: it operated the best Internet search engine the world had yet seen, able to match quickly queries on virtually anything conceivable with relevant Web pages.Google and its partners have come a long way since the G1, but Google still needs to work on making software for everyone, not just geeks.(Credit:CNET) Google is so much more than that now. Search hasn't gone away, but Google is increasingly a consumer software company, with products that are used in mobile phones, televisions, offices, and an ever-increasing array of gadgets. One challenge highlighted by that growth is that Google needs to make prettier things. Google's products in these markets tend to come off to average consumers as geeky and over-complicated, as even Google's Andy Rubin, leader of the Android project, admitted late in 2010. For some reason, Google's Web design aesthetic--simple, uncluttered, and usable--doesn't always surface in its consumer software products. It's a little unfair to compare Google directly to Apple in this regard, since Apple has so much more control over how iOS software is presented to the end user, but fairly or unfairly, that's the benchmark for mobile consumer software at the moment and Google doesn't always measure up to that standard. Also, while &quot;launch and iterate&quot; is a fabulous product development strategy for the Web--where subtle changes can be made extremely quickly and your customers pay nothing for the experience--it doesn't always work in consumer electronics. The initial experience needs to be right--or at least not awful--the first time the buyer uses the product or negative associations start to set in no matter how quickly a patch is released. Google therefore needs to release beefier versions of its software more consistently to give users and partners a chance to catch their breath. For example, the dizzying pace of Android development has been great for consumers and phone makers in one sense but can also cause confusion regarding which version of Android runs the fancy whiz-bang app that was just advertised by Verizon, and when their phone maker might approve that version for their device. Likewise, a more fully baked Google TV might have prevented some of early criticism of the software.Be social or change the playing field Few companies are really trying to compete against Google in Internet search these days. Instead, those bent on capturing eyeballs and advertising dollars on the Web are organizing their users in social groups, building Web versions of coffee shops and night clubs where people enjoy spending time and learning about new things from their friends as opposed to building the libraries people need for research purposes but would rather not wind up on a Saturday night. Google is clearly aware of this trend but has little to show for efforts in 2010 to be more social. The Web is not a zero-sum game: people will always turn to the search box for things they can't or would rather not ask their friends, but they'll also ask their group of Web contacts for information about a lot of things that Google's bots can't quite duplicate, like whether or not the boutique on the corner has something that matches the colors in my living room, or that the one bar on the corner has a bartender who went to college with my sister and can totally hook us up with free drinks. Google needs to figure out a way to get people to share that kind of information on its domain or convince Facebook and its users to open much of that information to its search bots. It might be easier to do just enough in social to keep Facebook on its toes while getting busy developing the next Web organization matrix. Just as social networking has started to reshape how information is collected and stored on the Internet, something will come along to reshape how social networking operates. If Google wants to be a Web influencer for decades it can't miss out on that next development.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New tech holds tissue still for cellular imaging]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Motion can present major challenges in photography in general, not to mention with medical imaging techniques such as MRIs. But a new method using simple suction appears to stabilize living lung tissue without disrupting normal organ function long enough to image the live interactions of living cells, including immune response to injury.Lung cells, highlighted in green, are photographed using a cell-stabilization method of gentle suction and fast photography.(Credit:E. Thornton and M. Looney)With more than 20 articles about microscopy under their belts, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco publish their latest findings in this month's issue of Nature.&quot;The nature of disease is complex, so if scientists can observe in real-time what's happening in tumors or immune responses as they occur, we can find new ways to intervene,&quot; says senior author Max Krummel, associate professor of pathology whose lab developed the new technique.Using microscopes custom-built in their own lab, the researchers turned to their own light-based hi-res imaging technique--using infrared-pulsed lasers--to penetrate deep into tissue layers and observe immune cells in lymph nodes as small as a micron in diameter.This time, in an attempt to see living lung tissue in mice, they built a device that applied a &quot;gentle&quot; amount of suction to the surface of the region they wanted to view. Their super-fast imaging took 30 photos a second, giving them a view of cellular behavior that had previously been too blurry to be useful.&quot;As a result of achieving video-rate imaging of events within the lung, we've shown how the immune system behaves during normal function and how tissues are affected in acute lung injury,&quot; says Mark R. Looney, coauthor of the paper and assistant professor in medicine. &quot;For other disease processes in other organs, we hope to define how collections of cells participate and how they're organized.&quot;Next up The group plans to further tweak their suction device so that it is small enough to enable them to image live tissue biopsies.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mamma mia: It's the ABBA iPhone game]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you ever dreamed of doing ABBA sing-offsiPhone-style, your day has come. The new ABBA Singbox app just hit the App Store for $2.99, and it gives new meaning to mobile karaoke.Will every major band with a string of hits from yesteryear have an app like this someday Wouldn't shock us. Who's next, The Who Journey Huey Lewis Feel free to cast your vote in the comments section.(Via Gizmodo)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Windows Phone 7 home-brew app tool pulled]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paulsmith385</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Just a few short days after its debut, a tool that would allow anyone to install and run unauthorized applications on theirWindows Phone 7 devices has been pulled.ChevronWP7, which was the creation of developers Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh, Long Zheng, was released late last week and offered those who were not enrolled in Microsoft's Windows Phone developer program a way to install applications onto Windows Phone 7 devices without going through Microsoft'sZune software or the phone's built-in application installer.According to the trio, the decision to pull down the software was done in order to &quot;fast-track&quot; discussions with Microsoft, particularly Brandon Watson, director of developer experience for the Windows Phone 7 platform, who got in touch with the group about the tool. &quot;To pursue these goals with Microsoft's support, Brandon Watson has agreed to engage in further discussions with us about officially facilitating home-brew development on WP7,&quot; a post on ChevronWP7's site said. &quot;We are excited to explore the opportunity to become more involved with the shaping of the platform and to build a feedback channel for developers around the world,&quot; it continued. Even though the &quot;unlocking&quot; program is no longer available, the group continues to offer a custom ringtone management application, which can take up to five WMA files and send them to Windows Phone 7 devices for use as ringers--a feature not currently available as part of the phone's system software.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[25 best iPad games]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Madden makes its way to the iPad.(Credit:Screenshot by Scott Stein/CNET)Updated on November 30, 2010Wondering what games to buy for your newiPad Well, this early in the product's life, it's actually pretty hard to sort the really good stuff from the just decent stuff, particularly with the prices for many games being so much higher than theiriPhone counterparts. But we took a shot at putting together a list of top titles that we feel meet the criteria for a good iPad game.Just what does make a good iPad game We debated it for a while and narrowed it down to these five factors:It's gotta be fun (obviously).Ergonomics (are gameplay and control scheme well-suited to the iPad).Uniqueness (though many iPad games play well as upconverted, higher-resolution versions of their iPhone predecessors, we respect new iPad-exclusive games).Value (some of the best iPad games currently carry high price tags, but we also tried to include titles we thought were simply a good value).Show-off quotient (extra points if the game flat-out looks good). With that in mind, here are our current favorites, displayed in alphabetical order. Feel free to sound off with your own picks (or criticize our choices). With new games coming out almost daily, we will be updating this list frequently and taking your suggestions to heart. As more games are released, we may also expand the list to include more titles and, hopefully, surface some hidden gems.Click on any image to start the slideshow.25 best iPad games (screenshots) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can an iPad replace a laptop on a business trip]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paulsmith385</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[commentaryA recent multiple-city speaking tour in Asia gave me the opportunity to gain some real-world insight into traveling with aniPad rather than my usual laptop and Kindle. The business part of the trip was something of a whirlwind and then I was taking vacation for about a week. So I figured that if I weren't going to be creating or editing documents, I might as well keep my luggage as light as possible.My experience was mixed.On the positive side, the iPad is a great device for watching video and playing casual games. Crammed into an economy seat on a plane, the iPad is a much, much better video platform than a laptop, which can be hard to open at a comfortable angle and runs out of juice relatively quickly.Traveling light is hard to do.(Credit:Josh Janssen (Flickr/CC))If there's a downside to video on the iPad, it's getting the content onto the device. It's straightforward to purchase TV shows and movies through iTunes, of course. But manually ripping, converting, and transferring DVDs is time-consuming and messy relative to the straightforward process of ripping them directly to a laptop and viewing them with DVD player software.The iPad also serves as a credible e-book reader. It has some plusses and minuses compared with a Kindle or another e-paper-based reader, but I find it more than satisfactory. So long as I have the iPad with me, I certainly don't feel a need to bring a dedicated e-book reader as well.Before getting into the issues I experienced, I do want to emphasize one point. My intent here is not to critique a tablet for, essentially, not being a laptop. They are different devices for different purposes and they make trade-offs accordingly. Rather, I want to offer my experience using an iPad in a setting where I would normally take a full-blown computer.My experience was that in a business setting, it's far too easy to run into a situation where you can't really do what you need to do on a tablet. For example, when I was unexpectedly scheduled for a Webcast, I had to borrow a PC because the required Java plug-in couldn't run inSafari on the iPad.In another instance, I would have shown a few slides during an interview had my usual laptop been available. Given that various applications let you display and even edit certain file formats on the iPad, this needn't have been an insurmountable problem. However, it's another case where some advance planning may be needed and not everything ultimately will be possible.Another nit I encountered was that, in a couple places, wired Ethernet connections were available but no Wi-Fi and therefore I had no way to connect an iPad to the network. You can deal with this particular limitation by carrying an Airport Express to create a wireless network to which the iPad can then connect, but at some point carrying supplemental workaround gadgetry sort of defeats the purpose of going lightweight.Had the entire trip been personal, none of this would have particularly mattered. E-mail, social media, and browsing every day or two would be plenty and any tablet can handle that just fine--as indeed can my phone for the most part. But, in a business setting, you're working against the expectation that you have a laptop handy and can use it to perform the myriad unexpected tasks that arise.A tablet can indeed handle a variety of routine business jobs but there are also many things, too many, that it cannot do. As a result, I'm inclined to chalk this trip up as more of a learning experience than a particularly successful experiment.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Study: Fleet buyers can jump-start plug-in vehicles]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While it's unclear how many consumers are willing to pay more for plug-in electriccars, the case for fleet operators is a lot simpler to make, according to advocacy group the Electrification Coalition.The group, made up of CEOs from the auto and electric power industries, today released a road map for fleet electrification in which it argues that corporate fleets can help make plug-in vehicles more commonplace. The document, prepared in an effort to influence policy, was released by members at a press conference in Washington, D.C.Electrifying transportation offers the best means for reducing oil consumption, but there are significant barriers to bringing plug-in vehicles onto the road, including cost, said FedEx CEO Frederick Smith at the press conference. Combined with fuel efficiency mandates, the U.S. could decrease its oil consumption of light-duty vehicles from about 10 million barrels of oil today to 4 million barrels of oil in the next 25 years, Smith said. With just the fuel efficiency mandates, consumption in the U.S. will go to about 16 million barrels of oil a day by 2035, one factor leading to anticipated higher oil prices and price spikes. The cost of electrical components, notably the batteries in electric vehicles, is a very difficult barrier to overcome. But fleet operators have a few characteristics that make them more likely buyers than consumers, according to the Fleet Electrification Roadmap report, which was done in conjunction with management consulting company PRTM. Photos: Alt wheels for fleet drivers  Fleet operators tend to consider the total cost of ownership, rather the upfront costs, and pay higher electricity rates than consumers. And they tend to run predictable routes and often have centralized fueling. Buying is also centralized: the top 50 fleet operators manage more than half a million cars and trucks. There were 16.3 million fleet vehicles in operation in 2009.&quot;Fleets (offer) a possible pathway to get early adoption of electric vehicles that will drive scale and bring down the price of batteries for everyone,&quot; said Robbie Diamond, the CEO of the Electrification Coalition. He said the policy recommendations should appeal to both political parties because they address national security as well as economic and environmental issues.The analysis in the fleet road map document finds that EVs are cost-competitive in many fleet applications today without government subsidies. Traditional hybrids driven more than 20,000 miles per year are expected to be more cost-effective than internal combustion engines by 2012, it said. As the cost of batteries goes down in the next five to eight years, EVs become the most cost effective option, according to the report.Still, many fleet operators will find it difficult to get a return on investment or be willing to consider a multiple year payback. Also, some could find daily charging disruptive to their operations, according to the report.Some of the policy recommendations include tax credits for plug-in vehicles deployed in fleets and having federal agencies, such as the Postal Service, invest in electrification. Other recommendations including research and development spending on advanced batteries and a program to guarantee the residual value of large-format batteries put into service in the next three years. Used auto batteries can be recycled or refurbished for use as grid storage, but there is no marketplace yet established for handling spent lithium ion batteries used in the latest generation of plug-in vehicles.Last week, General Electric, which is a member of the Electrification Coalition, announced that it plans to purchase 25,000 electric cars for its sales people and to lease to its fleet management customers. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hybrid storage melds battery, ultracapacitor]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the geeky world of energy storage, there are well-understood limitations to plain old batteries and to ultracapacitors, devices able to store relatively little energy but also deliver big bursts of power.Energy storage company Ioxus on Monday plans to announce a hybrid storage device that combines the attributes of an ultracapacitor with a lithium-ion battery. In the first quarter of next year, it plans to make available a second generation of the device, which could potentially be used in auto applications, according to Ioxus CEO Mark McGough. Ultracapacitors: the unsung cousins of batteries in energy storage. (Credit:Ioxus)Its first hybrid will store more than twice the energy of traditional ultracapacitors, and charging is done on the order of seconds, rather than hours as in the case of traditional batteries, according to the company.The device, which is about the size of a C cell battery, won't propel a plug-in electric car. But it could be used for power tools, off-grid lighting, and handheld medical devices, according to McGough.If used in an ear probe for medical applications, for example, a doctor could fully charge the probe in 90 seconds or partially charge in 20 seconds, McGough said. The company is now providing sample to designers in different industries. &quot;What we've been able to do is take the fast charge/discharge of ultracapacitors and improve the energy density by designing in a lithium ion electrode and putting it all in the same device,&quot; McGough said. The device combines the activated carbon material of an ultracapacitor that stores charge and layers of lithium ion material wrapped in a cylinder form, he explained.The trade-off to the hybrid design is that it won't have the same cycle life--or charge/discharge cycles-- as ultracapacitors. People can expect 20,000 cycles versus millions of cycles for an ultracapacitor, McGough said.The long cycle life makes it suitable for use in places where replacing a battery would be difficult, such as off-grid lighting. Withincars, it could be used to run smaller motors, such as the ones that raise and lower power windows, in order to lighten the load and cabling from the main battery.The company's second-generation hybrid device could be used in hybrid cars for what is called &quot;start-stop&quot; technology, or microhybrids, McGough said. In this case, energy storage is used for regenerative braking to harvest energy and a give small burst of power when starting.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPhone 5, iPad 2 rumors abound: Dual-core processors, high-resolution iPad 2 display]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ita4a4s  been less than a week since the Verizon iPhone was announced, and not  surprisingly, it looks like the tech world is already hungry for Applea4a4s  next major products.Over  the past few days, details have begun leaking on Applea4a4s upcoming  iPhone 5 and iPad 2, including  reports of fast dual-core processors, as well as a higher resolution  display on the iPad 2 to compliment the iPhone 4a4a4s Retina Display.Given  that wea4a4re hearing about blazing dual-core processors like Nvidiaa4a4s  Tegra 2 on Android phones, ita4a4s to be expected that Apple would follow  suit for its next-generation phone and tablet. Engadget says that Applea4a4s new dual core processor, which will likely be called the A5 (the successor to the A4 in the iPhone 4 and iPad), spits out huge 1080p high-definition files a4Alike running water.a4 Meanwhile, AppleInsider is reporting that it will also sport dual graphics processing cores &amp;8212' something that even powerful upcoming Android phones dona4a4t feature.Basically,  we can expect the iPhone 5, iPad 2, and even the next iteration of the  slim Apple TV, all of which would run the new A5 processor, to be faster than  any Apple mobile devices wea4a4ve seen before. That means theya4a4ll support  even more graphically impressive games than the likes of Infinity Blade,  which is currently a shining achievement of whata4a4s possible with the  iPhone 4 and iPada4a4s current hardware. The next Apple TV will likely gain  support for 1080p video as well &amp;8212' the current model can only play 720p  HD video.The faster CPU will likely be put to good use in the iPad 2, which AppleInsider says could sport a massively high-resolution display. The 10-inch iPad 2 could potentially feature a display running at 2048  by 1536 pixels ,the site says. In comparison, many 24-inch monitors  today feature resolutions of around 1920 by 1200 pixels (around the size  of 1080p videos). Such a high resolution in a 10-inch display is  unheard of today &amp;8212' but if any company could make it happen, it would be  Apple. Even if the iPad 2 dosna4a4t reach the heights AppleInsider is  predicting, you can definitely expect it to be higher than the current  iPada4a4s 1024 by 768 pixel display.Surprisingly,  Engadget reports that the iPad 2 will also feature an SD card slot,  which would allow users to plug in SD memory cards for additional  memory. SD card expandability is something Android phones and tablets  currently tout, and ita4a4s also completely out of character for Apple, who  would much rather have consumers pay more money initially for bigger  amounts of unexpandable storage.Apple  will change things up when it comes to network chipsets in the  iPhone 5 and iPad 2 as well. According to Engadget, the iPad 2 will  sport a Qualcomm chipset that can run on both GSM and CDMA networks,  which would make it compatible on both AT&amp;amp'T and Verizon. The iPhone  5, on the other hand, will feature a Qualcomm chipset for GSM, CDMA, and  UMTS networks, making it compatible with every mobile carrier at the  moment. Therea4a4s no LTE 4G on the horizon yet for the devices, which  means we likely wona4a4t see it on Apple devices until 2012.The iPad 2 is reportedly on track to land in April, while the iPhone 5 is still set for the summer.Previous Story: Seeking Alpha unveils a new business model for financial newsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: dual-core, iOS, iPad 2, iPhone, Retina Display, smartphones, tabletsCompanies: Apple, Qualcomm          Tags: dual-core, iOS, iPad 2, iPhone, Retina Display, smartphones, tabletsCompanies: Apple, QualcommDevindra 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[LoKast and Qualcomm put more muscle into wireless file-sharing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[NearVerse, which makes the LoKast app that lets you share content from one mobile device to another within a 300-foot radius has partnered with Qualcomm to improve its service.NearVerse will use Qualcomm&amp;'s AllJoyn technology for  device-to-device communication, which uses Bluetooth and  WiFi. AllJoyn is similar to Apple&amp;'s Bonjour, which finds  services within a local network, such as printers and file-sharing  services in an office environment. LoKast uses AllJoyn to form ad-hoc  connections between devices, which is much of what LoKast has been  capable of before, for instance in sharing media (video, music) from one  device to another.So why the partnership with Qualcomm According to CEO Boris Bogatin, it&amp;'s a matter of upping the quality  of LoKast. Technology like AllJoyn, which uses Bluetooth and WiFi for  positioning and data transfer instead of GPS and 3G, will make sharing  content and discovering other devicesa4&quot;other peoplea4&quot;faster and more  accurate. And while LoKast benefits greatly from using a better wireless  technology, it needs a partner with bigger resources to actually  develop such technology.a4AWe are an enabling service and an application service that packages  technology like Qualcomm&amp;'s into a unified system. We start where  Qualcomm endsa4, Bogatin explains.Philadelphia-based NearVerse is announcing the partnership at Barcelona&amp;'s Mobile World Congress today. VentureBeat has previously covered LoKast here.With Qualcomm&amp;'s technology on board, Bogatin hopes NearVerse will be able to provide the proximity service of choice for the general public: a4AWe&amp;'d like to see LoKast become your answer to proximity interaction, just like SMS is your answer to distant, one-on-one interaction.a4That&amp;'s no small goal, as there are many other companies in the space &amp;8212' like Bump and Knocking Live, for example &amp;8212' doing similar things. Still, having a major player on your team is a clear advantage. Also, Bogatin says, LoKast is in the process of transforming itself from being solely a media sharing app to being a full-fledged instant social networking solution.The LoKast app is available for Apple&amp;'s iOS and Google&amp;'s Android, but NearVerse is running AllJoyn on the Android version for now. NearVerse will have a live demo of the technology at the Mobile World Congress' the event also marks the first time Qualcomm&amp;'s AllJoyn will be seen out of the lab.[Photo credit: Yandle]Next Story: Further demystifying the VC term sheet Previous Story: Chip maker Marvell debuts a cool mobile user interface with Kinoma PlayPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: location, location based services, proximityCompanies: Apple, Bump, Knocking Live, NearVerse, QualcommPeople: Boris Bogatin          Tags: location, location based services, proximityCompanies: Apple, Bump, Knocking Live, NearVerse, QualcommPeople: Boris Bogatin 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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<title><![CDATA[Can ShoeDazzle Finally Make Celebrity Co-Founders Pay Off&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[According to CrunchBase, we have never written about 18-month old ShoeDazzle despite the fact that the company has raised $23 million in two rounds of funding, expects it&amp;'ll do $100 million in revenues next year and has Kim Kardashian as a co-founder.Ok, maybe it&amp;'s partially because of that last factor. The Valley has always had an issue with LA and vice-versa. Let&amp;'s be honest: We loved it when MySpace fell to Facebook and love it even more when a celebrity fails at our game.But I don&amp;'t think we&amp;'ll have that guilty-pleasure with ShoeDazzle. Social commerce is the rage and Jeremy Liew called this company the most underrated in his portfolio. Here&amp;'s how it works: You sign up for the site and answer a fun survey about your style. And every month ShoeDazzle&amp;'s stylists pick some things out for you. The genius of the model is each pair costs just $39.95, and you can skip a month and pay nothing with noa4srepercussions.ShoeDazzle can be so cheap because it is manufacturing and designing all its own shoes, and allows celebrities and users to design shoes too. It&amp;'s like a combo of CD clubs, Zappos, Threadless and H&amp;amp'M.It was started by Brian Lee, whose first company LegalZoom is planning to go public next year. I caught up with him in Hollywood to find out more about the company and why he says more LA startups don&amp;'t make it big. Video is below.CrunchBase InformationShoeDazzleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple analyst: $200 billion in sales by 2015]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple could more than double its sales by 2015 to $200 billion, said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.That growth estimate, defying skeptics who believe iPhone sales will stumble, would come largely on the growth of iPhone sales, from a forecast of 36 million in 2010 to 185 million in 2015, according to Munster&amp;'s projections.The smartphone market won&amp;'t be like the PC market, where Apple never gained much market share against IBM PC clones running Microsoft&amp;'s Windows operating system. Instead, Apple&amp;'s iOS operating system for the iPhone and other mobile devices will share a large part of the market with Google&amp;'s rival Android operating system, squeezing out smaller players like BlackBerry and Symbian, and should have more than a quarter of the smartphone market by 2015.Apple will also benefit from its range of devices, from the iPod Touch, which is popular with younger users as a music and games device, to the iPhone, to the iPad, which is better-received by older users. Few competitors have that range of compatible devices that appeal to different age demographics, said Munster.Munster made the remarks at the Business Insider&amp;'s Ignition 2010 conference in New York today.Next Story: Will OnLive squash game retailers with $9.99-a-month online games Previous Story: Henry Blodget: New media and old media are &amp;''neck and neck&amp;'' in valuePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Ignition, Ignition 2010, iOS, iPhone, mobile operating systemsCompanies: Apple, Piper JaffrayPeople: Gene Munster          Tags: Android, Ignition, Ignition 2010, iOS, iPhone, mobile operating systemsCompanies: Apple, Piper JaffrayPeople: Gene MunsterOwen Thomas is the executive editor of 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[TextPlus brings social features to group texting app]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[TextPlus, an application that letsgroupseasilytexteach other for free,today announced it has submitted its 4.4version to Apple. The new version willallow users not only to text for free but also to search for people (see image), bringing a new social aspect to group texting. We&amp;'ll be sure to let you know when the new version gets approved.When I last spoke withTextPlus about its new photo feature back inSeptember, the company claimed 8 million application downloads. Today, it&amp;'s claiming 11.5 million downloads. That&amp;'s a whopping 3.5 million downloads in a fewmonths, which makes sense, as chief executive Scott Lahman notes that the company is seeing around 50,000 new users per day.A deeper dive into numbers shows that during 2009, TextPlus users sent713 million messages and had a total of 8.7 million users. As we close in on the end of 2010, the company claims usershave sent5 billion messages (2 billion in Q4 alone) and has close to 32 million total users. The overall number includes apps downloaded on a smartphone as well as users sendingtexts through simple non-smartphone phones.Several companies are providing group texting services, including CallVine and TextFree. However, TextPlus appears to be the first to add several social features, including user profiles and search.The Marina Del Ray, Calif. based company, founded in 2007, has raised a total of $13.2 million in funding. Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers participated in both rounds.Next Story: Google&amp;'s do-it-yourself Android App Inventor opens up to all Previous Story: Viximo&amp;'s game service reaches 100M users on dozens of small social networksPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: free texting, group text, group texting, sms, social texting, textCompanies: Callvine, TextFree, TextPlusPeople: Scott Lahman          Tags: free texting, group text, group texting, sms, social texting, textCompanies: Callvine, TextFree, TextPlusPeople: Scott LahmanCody 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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