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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 07:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AT&T named 'most valuable' telecom brand--huh]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 07:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In a bit of news that could drive someiPhone users to gnaw their own legs off at the knees, AT&amp;T has been named the &quot;world's most valuable telecom brand,&quot; according to Millward Brown's BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2011 study. Not since Marisa Tomei's Oscar victory or President Obama's early win of the Nobel Peace Prize has an accolade generated such an immediate &quot;huh&quot;.It's not a Watergate-caliber scoop that AT&amp;T's network struggles have held many iPhone users back from enjoying their smartphones to the fullest. So, today's announcement of the telecom provider's victory comes with an inch-thick slab of sweet beefy irony as Apple--the iPhone's trendsetting manufacturer--sits atop that very same list as the world's top global brand of any category. En route, Apple beat out Microsoft, IBM, McDonalds, and Coca Cola. Valued at $69.9 billion, AT&amp;T is No. 7 in the overall global ranking.Related links&amp;149' Apple bumps Google as most valuable brand&amp;149' AT&amp;T still No. 1 on dropped calls, but iPhone owners seem satisfiedOf course, &quot;most valuable&quot; doesn't mean &quot;most reliable&quot; or &quot;most satisfactory.&quot; In the case of AT&amp;T's network struggles over the last few years, &quot;most valuable&quot; also doesn't mean &quot;most likely to prevent thousands of insanely frustrated iPhone users from hurling themselves naked and on fire off of buildings in Cupertino.&quot; We're talking money and global influence on the Brandz list, which is derived from both financial performance and interviews of consumers about their perceptions of brands and why they go with one over another. To be fair, AT&amp;T's value is not based solely on its hosting of iPhone service--and the overall network capacity appears to have improved over the last year. But to me, this victory lap for AT&amp;T ranks up there with such unexpected accolades as Mel Gibson's Tolerance Trophy and my win for 2010's Top Male Model. What's your experience been like with AT&amp;T<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The wait for a Mac with 3G/4G continues]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>qaziopper</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Apple)With Apple's most recent MacBook update in the rear-view mirror, now's as good a time as any to think about what could be headed to the next generation of the company's notebook lineup. Of particular interest is embedded mobile broadband, a notable omission to theMac laptop range that's now stretched into a waiting game of its own. This is the technology that lets your computer tap into cellular networks and use broadband data while on the go, sans a dopey USB adapter or wireless puck. While seemingly a luxury feature aimed at business travellers a decade ago, embedded 3G, and now 4G, have become increasingly prevalent in PC laptops aimed at consumers. Apple has also embraced the wireless technology in itsiPad, having jumped it from theiPhone to the original iPad on AT&amp;T's GSM network, then later, on Verizon's CDMA network with the iPad 2. So what's the holdup in bringing that same technology to Macs Is Apple waiting for somethingTo the company's credit, it has provided a product that gives its own laptops wireless 3G service, though it's nowhere as seamless as a built-in modem. Since iOS 3.0, users with iPhones and a carrier data plan that supports tethering, can share their phone's connection with their computer over a USB connection or Bluetooth. In the Verizon version of the iPhone 4, Apple introduced a slightly more elegant feature that would let users turn the phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot, something that was later brought to GSM iPhone users in iOS 4.3. The easiest explanation to throw in at the moment is that the timing has been off on the network side of the equation: 3G as we know it is on the road to being replaced by 4G, which offers a big speed improvement. Speed becomes especially important on computers versus phones because of the things people tend to do on them, like stream videos' download files and e-mail attachments' and run multiple applications that can slurp up data at a faster clip than smartphone apps. But the carriers and service providers have not made it so easy to get to that promised land of fast, wireless data. 4G as it's been marketed in the States is not truly 4G by the strict definition. There are different flavors of that &quot;4G,&quot; like WiMax, HSPA+, and Long Term Evolution (LTE). Providers have placed bets on the competing parts of the spectrum, creating a situation where there's no easy way to buy hardware that will work with them all--though tech is on the way that can do that. 4G-chip maker Beceem, which was acquired by Broadcom back in October, has a chip in development that does both WiMax and LTE. Apple uses Broadcom's wireless chips in the iPad as well as the iPhone, and for Wi-Fi on its Macs. A similar dual-mode chip initiative was put forth by Sequans at Mobile World Congress last month. Intel, which supplies chips for Apple's notebooks and desktops is also said to be working on a similar solution of its own. In the interim that leaves device makers like Apple, as well as consumers, having to pick a standard and stick to it.   The 4G laptop scene On the PC-side of things, the vast majority of machines with embedded WWAN chipsets have already made the move to WiMax. A quick search on retailer Best Buy's site shows that 47 of its 151 PC laptops for sale have WiMax, with just one opting for the older 3G. According to one broadband-chip expert CNET spoke with, the simplest explanation for that is that Clearwire, which serves up WiMax, beat others to the punch by setting up its network fast and wide, leaving device makers to respond in kind. But that could change going forward. &quot;We expect LTE to be the most successful 4G standard, but right now it's Clearwire that got out there early,&quot; Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at chip consulting firm The Linley Group, said in a phone interview last week.Gwennap downplayed the importance of built-in WWAN chipsets, saying carriers made both joining and changing platforms an easy affair with USB modems that are cross platform and can be used on multiple machines. This approach has also lent itself to better 4G battery life than what's been seen on some early 4G phones, since laptops had a higher capacity battery.&quot;Typically the way this works with the laptops is you get a USB stick and you plug it in, so it draws power from the laptop. In that case, the power draw isn't significant,&quot; Gwennap said. &quot;What people are complaining about is trying to put 4G into a smartphone, where you draw it down from a cell phone battery. Then the power draw is going to be a problem.&quot;Gwennap did say that like any other piece of technology, embedded broadband chipsets will get cheaper, draw less power, and take up less space inside of computers. However that would be over &quot;the next couple of years.&quot;  The long rumor Signs that Apple is mulling a broadband modem in its notebook computers have swirled for years, from pure conjecture to patent filings to company job postings that sought out wireless experts. None have offered a clear picture' several have hinted that it's tantalizingly close.  The patented notebook with the antenna.(Credit:Google) Last August, Apple filed for a rather interesting patent of a notebook computer with an antenna that could be installed and removed from the top lid. Similar to the Smart Cover that's available for the iPad 2, or the company's remote control on the side of the iMac, this would simply latch on or break away using magnets, making the accessory a temporary fixture. In a new patent that was filed just last week, the company offered up a slightly different design, building a space for the removable antenna module right into the lid, so the antenna wouldn't stick out, and so there'd presumably be a way to store the antenna when on the go. Three years ago, following the MacBook Air's introduction, a USA Today interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs made note that the company had explored putting 3G into the first generation MacBook Air, but eventually decided against it based on how much extra room it took up, and that computer buyers would be restricted to a carrier. Both of those hurdles seem to have been overcome with the iPad 2, given that Apple sells versions for both CDMA and GSM phone networks in a device that's slimmer than the iPhone, and manages to get 9 hours of rated battery life while surfing the Web.Following the introduction of the first generation MacBook Air, it was widely expected that Apple would then bring the feature to the next iteration of the laptop, though with its release back in October, that proved not to be the case. Interestingly enough, a survey put out by Apple last month, which was nabbed by AppleInsider, suggested that the company still had a model of the Air with WWAN in mind. The survey offered up several wireless data related questions, including a detailed section on situations where participants would use 3G versus Wi-Fi while computing on the go. Apple has also increased its WWAN footprint, posting, back in 2009, Mac Hardware Group job listings for a quality assurance engineer with expertise in 3G wireless WAN. This was followed months later by the release of Mac OS X 10.6 (dubbed &quot;Snow Leopard&quot;), which dramatically increased the number of supported WWAN products. These were the aforementioned USB modems that have been one of the only ways to get 3G and 4G service piped right into a Mac. So where does that leave us now If those patents for a neat, removable antenna turn out to bear fruit, such technology is likely to come as part of an all new MacBook design. Since the last big one was in late 2008 with the move to the unibody enclosure, it's likely another major laptop generation will come sooner rather than later. Until then, consumers don't seem to mind too much though. Mac sales continue to grow, and even outpace those in the PC market.Something that could certainly change things is the recently announced planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&amp;T, which promises to speed up the deployment of its 4G LTE network to what the company says will be 95 percent of the U.S. population when finished. AT&amp;T has been Apple's business partner since the rollout of the first iPhone, and had been the phone's exclusive carrier in the U.S. up until the device was brought to Verizon earlier this year. Even so, the AT&amp;T and T-Mobile merger deal still needs to clear regulatory hurdles, and the combining of those networks will likely take even longer. Not to mention the fact that that still doesn't solve the original problem of keeping computer buyers from being stuck with a provider, or the issue of making a product that can work around the globe. Until all that's cleared up, the situation will continue to be a game of wait and see--though that's one Apple has gotten pretty good at. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LaCie announces Thunderbolt external hard drive]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The new Thunderbolt-enabled Little Big Disk from LaCie.(Credit:James Martin/CNET)Intel announced a completely new I/O peripheral protocol today called Thunderbolt, which had previously gone by the code name Light Peak. In a nutshell, Thunderbolt is a superfast peripheral standard with the speed of 10Gbps (1.25GBps) and almost no overhead. This means devices can be connected at a real-word throughput speed of around 1.25GBps. Thunderbolt is compatible with DisplayPort 1.1 and later.The LaCie Little Big Disk comes with two Thunderbolt ports.(Credit:James Martin/CNET)Currently, the technology is available only in Apple's new MacBook Pro (which comes with one Thunderbolt port) and can be used only with DisplayPort devices, such as Apple's Cinema display. But that will change soon.Today, LaCie announced an external hard drive, the LaCie Little Big Disk, that will be one of the first storage devices to support Thunderbolt technology. A prototype of the drive was used at the Intel demo today. The Little Big Disk has two solid-state drives inside. The drive comes with two Thunderbolt ports and can be used to daisy-chain with other Thunderbolt-enabled devices, such as a display or additional storage device.LaCie says that thanks to the support for Thunderbolt, the Little Big Disk can deliver multiple streams of HD video plus hours of content in just minutes--instead of hours, as in the case of USB 2.0 or FireWire. Basically, the external hard drive now offers speeds previously available only from rack-mounted storage arrays, allowing general and professional users to access a large amount of data in real time in a matter of seconds. Owing to its two Thunderbolt ports, the Little Big Disk can also be daisy-chained for storage expansion or connection to up to six other peripherals.The LaCie Little Big Disk will be available by this summer. Currently its pricing and capacities are still to be determined.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hubble spies faint glow of oldest, most distant galaxy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Using a powerful new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what appears to be the most distant object ever observed, a small proto galaxy some 13.2 billion light-years away that dates back to just 480 million years or so after the Big Bang birth of the universe.The object was found in &quot;deep field&quot; images taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 that combined scores of optical and infrared exposures to capture a cosmic core sample showing nearby and increasingly distant galaxies. Showing up only in infrared light, the proto galaxy appears as a small, blurry smudge at the limits of Hubble's vision.But careful analysis indicates it likely is a collection of hot, young stars, a cluster 100 times smaller than Earth's Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers believe such proto galaxies combined to form the larger, more familiar galaxies seen later in the evolution of the universe.The Hubble Ultra Deep Field-Infrared image, showing the location of a small proto-galaxy believed to be the most distant object ever seen.(Credit:NASA)&quot;We've gone back through 96 percent of the life of the universe, to when the universe was only 4 percent of its current age, through 500 million years after the Big Bang,&quot; said Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz. &quot;The team searched through these wonderful data looking for galaxies at these extremely early times. We and others have found galaxies at 650 million years, quite a lot, close to 50 of those galaxies.&quot;We thought that this new camera could teach us more about earlier times, so we looked very hard at the data and managed eventually to find an object. This galaxy, 500 million years after the Big Bang, is extraordinarily faint, a very blue, dynamic object, full of stars forming. Not only did we find an object, we also looked at the data extremely carefully to try and estimate what the total amount of star birth was at that time.&quot;We were astonished to find star birth at 500 million years was dramatically less than it was at 650 million years,&quot; he said. &quot;So in a very short period in the life of the universe, star birth had increased by 10 times. Not only did this image tell us about, or show us a glimpse of a galaxy at very early times, but it also told us about how the star birth was increasing in the universe. And that has very important implications.&quot;Rachel Somerville, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute who was not part of the team that made the discovery, said &quot;perhaps the most interesting part of this research is the dog that didn't bark.&quot;&quot;Scientifically, it's difficult to learn that much from a single object because we don't know how typical it is,&quot; she said. &quot;However, what this showed, which is very important, is that if the properties of galaxies and the population had remained the same as they were just 200 million years later, then they should have found at least 10 times more galaxies. That's a statistically significant result, and that means galaxies as a population were evolving very rapidly over this time period.&quot;One of the major questions in astronomy is how long it took the first stars to form in the wake of the Big Bang and then assemble into galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope has played a key role in that research, taking what amounts to long time exposures with increasingly sensitive cameras to capture light from the early ages of the universe.Hubble's first deep-field image was unveiled on January 15, 1996, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Hubble was aimed at an empty region of space in the northern constellation Ursa Major, imaging an area about the size of a grain of rice held at arm's length. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 snapped 342 exposures over 10 days between December 18 and 28, 1995.Successive &amp;34'deep field&amp;34' images by the Hubble Space Telescope show galaxy formation apparently was well underway as early as 480 million years after the big bang.(Credit:NASA)The image was a bit of a gamble given the high value of observing time on Hubble and the lack of any certainty about what the telescope might find.But the gamble paid off. The resulting image--the original Hubble Deep Field--astonished astronomers and the public alike, showing more than 3,000 galaxies in various stages of evolution, some of them dating back to around 1.5 billion years after the birth of the universe 13.7 billion years ago. A second deep-field image was assembled three years later using a southern hemisphere target.But Hubble was not done. In 2004, the Space Telescope Science Institute unveiled the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a 278-hour series of exposures using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, or NICMOS, that revealed an estimated 10,000 galaxies in a small area of the sky below the constellation Orion.A careful analysis showed the oldest galaxies in the image dated back to within about 800 million years of the Big Bang.Using the new Wide Field Planetary Camera 3, installed in the most recent Hubble servicing mission in 2009, researchers have discovered nearly 50 small proto galaxies dating to around 650 million years after the birth of the universe.The discovery announced today was based on an exhaustive review of the data collected to date. The infrared images that were combined to show the faint object amounted to a 41-hour time exposure.&quot;We are really pushing Hubble to its limits here,&quot; Illingworth said. &quot;We can try and get more data and look for more of these 500-million-year-old galaxies, and we should be able to find some, but we won't be able to go to earlier times.&quot;For that, astronomers must wait for the James Webb Space Telescope, an infrared observatory scheduled for launch later this decade that is optimized for studying the early universe.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel: Dell, Toshiba, Acer tablets coming in 2011]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Intel CEO Paul Otellini said today that its chips will be in more than 35 different tablet designs in 2011, while clarifying that two lines of Atom processors will be used in tablets. &quot;We're going to make sure we support all of the viable operating systems that are in the marketplace,&quot; Otellini said at the Barclays Capital 2010 Global Technology Conference. The conference audio was streamed live over the Internet. Intel listed more than 15 brands, including upcoming consumer tablets from Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, and Motion Computing. &quot;A number of them on Windows. A number of them on Android--both Froyo and Honeycomb [versions of Android],&quot; Otellini said. Intel CEO Paul Otellini said the Atom chip will be in at least 35 tablet designs in 2011. The above slide showed some of those upcoming brands.(Credit:Intel)&quot;We have two flavors of products,&quot; Otellini said, speaking about the two lines of Atom processors for tablets. &quot;One carries our PC legacy, the codename is Oak Trail. This is for the Windows environment. That's important for people who want the advantage of PC peripheral compatibility. All the printers in the world work, all the USB drivers in the world work. Any PC peripheral will work perfectly well with Oak Trail. [It is a] very solid, high-performance, low-power version of Atom,&quot; he said. Otellini continued. &quot;We have an even more optimized [Atom] version called Moorestown. For people who want the most lightweight, longest battery life, thinnest machine. It doesn't carry the PC compatibility. It's got the x86 instruction set, so Internet compatibility is there, but we're not worrying about legacy support [in Windows],&quot; Otellini said. &quot;Consumer [tablet] products will roll out in the first half of next year on all three operating systems,&quot; he said. Otellini also reiterated that getting Intel's chips into smartphones will take time. &quot;It's a marathon, not a sprint.&quot; He said the second-generation Atom processor for phones, dubbed &quot;Medfield,&quot; is &quot;in customer sampling...for shipment [in phones] in 2011 and 2012. You will see smartphones from premier-branded vendors in the marketplace in [the second quarter of] 2011 with Intel silicon inside them.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPad 2 to get new back, better speaker, smaller bezel (rumor)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The next-generation iPad 2 rumors are in full gear. Today, the Japanese Apple blog MacOtakara reported that the new device from Apple, rumored to be coming in February, will get a new flat back panel, a wide-range speaker (pictured at bottom) and a smaller bezel, or border.Whatever Apple does with the next-generation iPad, you can expect it to be big. Apple is now selling millions of the devices and dominates the overall tablet market.The screen is expected to stay the same size at 9.7 inches. That makes sense because so many content creators are targeting their apps to run on an iPad screen of that size. The new tablet will be 3 millimeters smaller, measuring 293 millimeters by 168 millimeters, thanks to the smaller bezel.The back of the iPad will also be flat like the back of an iPod Touch. The ambient light sensor has been moved to the top part of the rear panel and the new wide-range speaker is on the lower left, covered with metal mesh.Other rumors have suggested that the device will have two cameras, one pointing at the user and another in the back, enabling video phone communication. Apple is expected to increase capacity at its subcontractor Foxconn to more than 6 million units per month.[photo: MacRumors]Next Story: FCC to approve Comcast-NBC merger with some conditions Previous Story: Viacom won&amp;'t get fooled again, drops Rock Band developer as music game sales falterPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: iPad, iPad 2Companies: Apple          Tags: iPad, iPad 2Companies: AppleDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Last-minute green gifts for cleantech fans]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[This year has seen the launch of a number of cool green gadgets and gizmos &amp;8212' it&amp;'s also been a big year for electric car launches. If you want to put something really green under the tree, here are some ideas that may inspire you &amp;8212' and that also show how green has become a big business, targeting consumers&amp;' desire for sustainability at a range of price points.GadgetsLogitech Wireless Solar KeyboardIf you use a computer and sit near a window, then here&amp;'s a cool, affordable gift idea. For $79, you get a sleek, wireless keyboard with an app that tracks solar and ambient light. The keyboard can stay charged for three months without electricity.JOOS OrangeThis portable, durable, waterproof solar charger (pictured, right) is ideal for adventurous, outdoorsy types and family camping or boating trips. It&amp;'s a flat panel that soaks up juice from the sun and can charge up to four smart phones at one time. But you can also use it to power up your iPad, digital camera, Kindle or portable DVD player.It sells for $99.95, but, bad news: you have to sign up to be notified when it becomes available (which could be after the holidays). The company reported it began turning out modules in late September and promised &amp;''full production is just around the corner!&amp;'' on its blog.Novothink Surge For times when your battery starts to die and you&amp;'re not around a charger, Novothink has a solar solution for iPhone and iPod Touch users &amp;8212' the Surge case for your iPhone costs $79.95, and the version for the iPod Touch costs $49.95. It&amp;'s a nice way to make sure you always have charge, provided you live somewhere dependable sunny.Cars and transportationChevrolet VoltDespite coming under withering attack from Rush Limbaugh, the Volt (pictured, left) has the admiration of veteran venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and recently won Motor Trend&amp;'s Car of the Year. It will, however, cost you $41,000 before federal and any state incentives.(I&amp;'d put the Nissan Leaf on this list, but reservations are closed and deliveries of the 20,000 cars ordered so far have been sharply delayed. But for future gifting, Nissan is planning to come out with 250,000 electric vehicles a year &amp;8212' one will be an electric Infiniti.)Tesla Model S sedanPlunk down a deposit &amp;8212' sorry, &amp;''reservation payment&amp;'' &amp;8212' for $5,000. Tesla says deliveries begin in 2012, and about 3,000 people have reserved one. You could also rush to buy the Roadster before it&amp;'s discontinued.Brammo electric motorcycleThe all-electric Enertia has a range of 40 miles, goes up to 60 miles per hour and can charges in about 3.5 hours' it retails for $7,995. The Enertia Plus costs $1,000 more and has a range of up to 80 miles. Or you could pre-order the Empulse (pictured, right), which has a top speed of 100 miles per hour and a range of 60, 80 or 100 miles depending on which model you choose (priced respectively at $9,995, $11,995 and $13,995)PiCycleThis electric bicycle has an head-turning arch structure and relies on a lithium-ion battery for its electric mode, which has a 20-mile range and top speed of 20 miles per hour. You can also opt for the pedal or hybrid modes to save juice. There&amp;'s a holiday sale' so the bike is $2,495 rather than its usual price of $2,995. If you&amp;'re looking to save up for one, they&amp;'ll be available in Best Buy stores early next year.ShippingEven if you&amp;'re not buying something cleantech-related, you can make your packages greener by purchasing carbon credits to offset the emissions caused by your shipment. UPS lets you purchase credits at the time of shipment. And GreenShipping offsets any shipment made by UPS, USPS, or FedEx.[Image via Flickr/laffy4k]Previous Story: Amazon offers free one-day shipping for last-minute holiday shoppersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Leaf, Model S, Solar, solar gadgets, VoltCompanies: Brammo, Chevrolet, GM, Joos, Logitech, Novothink, Picycle, Tesla          Tags: Leaf, Model S, Solar, solar gadgets, VoltCompanies: Brammo, Chevrolet, GM, Joos, Logitech, Novothink, Picycle, TeslaIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).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[David Sacks: Yammer Wasn&'t a Pivot and I Still Love Geni&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yammer founder and CEO David Sacks came all the way from his office upstairs from us to talk about his new $25 million round of funding. We discuss a lot of interesting things in this clip including why Sacks says Yammer wasn&amp;'t everyone&amp;'s new favorite word, a pivot' why he still loves Geni, the company Yammer spun out of that we don&amp;'t hear nearly as much about' why more social-media-for-the-enterprise companies haven&amp;'t taken off' and his defense of the freemium business model.Make sure you stay to the end, when I ask Sacks about a rumor floating around Silicon Valley that he tried to put a deal together with Yammer and Twitter back before the company even launched. Bonus: Sacks- as tactfully as possible- says what TechCrunch&amp;'s Yammer usage tells us about our company culture.CrunchBase InformationYammerInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Should Use This Groupon For Groupon&nbsp'[Humor]]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-should-use-this-groupon-for-grouponnbsphumor</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Okay this is just awesome. Internet marketer John Boyle has taken creative liberty with the rumors circulating about a Google Groupon acquisition and mocked up a meta &amp;''Groupon for Groupon,&amp;'' which is exactly what it sounds like.The Fine Print:Expires &amp;8230'Site may be a fadLimit 1 per customerStock &amp;amp' Earnout not includedNot valid with other offers.Highlights:$350 Million in RevenueTurned down Yahoo!Featured on TechCrunchGlobal reachSo far the counter says &amp;''0 bought&amp;'' but that might change in the coming weeks. And at negotiation prices reportedly reachinga4supwards of $3 billion, the search engine could probably use the discount.On a more serious note: We still haven&amp;'t heard anything official on the matter from Groupon CEO Andrew Mason and Google has returned our inquiries into the matter with the usual &amp;''we don&amp;'t comment on rumors&amp;'' schtick. Heh.We&amp;'ll keep you posted if we hear anymore information, humorous or otherwise.CrunchBase InformationGrouponGoogleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[OMG/JK: The Path To A World With No Subject&nbsp'Lines]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the weekend, it&amp;'s time for another episode of TechCrunch TV&amp;'s OMG/JK. Even better, this is a special episode, because we spend the show talking about two especially big topics, instead of our usual three. Get excited.This week&amp;'s show focuses primarily on the new Facebook Messages, the social network&amp;'s take on the future of communications. It&amp;'s got chat, SMS, and email, bundled in a package that will probably make teens leap for joy (the word&amp;'s still out on everyone else).We also talking about Path, the new photo sharing service started by long-time Facebooker Dave Morin. Make sure to check out our launch coverage here.Subscribe to us on iTunes!<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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