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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Have onboard Wi-Fi See what's happening below]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A new service called MondoWindow will make it possible for those airplane passengers with onboard Wi-Fi to see what&amp;39's on the ground below them in real time.(Credit:MondoWindow)Have you often looked out the window of a plane and wished you could find out about what you're seeing down below Thanks to a new service that went into alpha testing today, you could soon do just that.Known as MondoWindow, the service aims to let anyone onboard a Wi-Fi-enabled plane get real-time information about the places they're flying over. And as the service gets more sophisticated, it will likely add all kinds of additional features like audio programming, videos, and games, all related specifically to the places you can see five miles below you.MondoWindow comes from Greg Dicum, the author of a hit series of books called &quot;Window Seat,&quot; which has static information on a lot of the locations on popular plane routes. But with the new service, Dicum and his co-founder, Tyler Sterkle, are hoping to mash this general concept up with the power of the Internet and geo-tagged content.And with a third of U.S. flights now offering passengers Wi-Fi--and growing quickly--MondoWindow would seem to have a very large potential audience.The idea behind the service is that a user will be able to get real-time looks at content linked to the geography below. In its invite-only alpha stage, MondoWindow is showing just publicly-available content from Wikipedia and Flickr. Which means that so far, what you can see when you play with the site--it allows you to pretend you're on a flight, and shows you what you'd be seeing out the window right now--is heavy with pictures of people's babies, their cats, and other assorted and random things.A photo of MondoWindow being used onboard a Wi-Fi-enabled plane on a laptop, an iPhone, and an iPad.(Credit:MondoWindow)Indeed, because MondoWindow knows that sites like Flickr are so heavily populated with pictures of people's cats, it will eventually offer users a cats-on or cats-off option that will allow people to skip kitty pictures.For now, all the content that's available through the site is tied to specific geo-tagged locations. But in an interview with CNET, Dicum explained that soon, the service will also offer &quot;regional&quot; content, more in-depth information about, say, the high plains, or the state of Texas, or anything along those lines. In some ways, the general regional content promises to be more interesting than the geo-tagged information because it will have more context and more depth, while the location-based content will likely tend to have a heavier emphasis on people's personal photos and the like. The two combined, however, would seem to offer a wealth of information about what's on the ground below.Over time, Dicum said, MondoWindow hopes that it will be able to offer location-based audio and video programming, and even games. The games, Dicum explained, might task users with picking out points on the ground below, or other Risk-like gameplay. He joked that he wants to offer a &quot;bombing run&quot; type of game, but that gets shouted down in meetings when he brings it up.In the early going, MondoWindo hopes to make money with an ad-supported model. Dicum thinks that there is a lot of advertising opportunity when dealing with a captive audience onboard planes, especially when the advertisers will know precisely where the users are going.Later on, he continued, the company hopes to work with sponsors, including the airlines themselves, the providers of onboard Wi-Fi, and all manner of content companies. Dicum said the company feels its service offers these sponsors a very attractive way to reach passengers without having to go through the &quot;gatekeepers&quot; in the sloth-like onboard entertainment industry.At the same time, Dicum said he thinks that airlines will be eager to have passengers use MondoWindow because the service will offer them a concrete reason to pay for onboard Wi-Fi.And Dicum said he thinks that MondoWindow, especially when the service is fully fleshed out, will give passengers a compelling alternative to the onboard entertainment systems that he thinks are stuck in a pre-Internet mindset and which offer little more than &quot;dumb talking dog movies.&quot;In its early stages, MondoWindow will be available to anyone in the continental United States. Not long after, Dicum said, it should be rolled out on flights to and from European, and then the company will try to tackle the rest of the flying world. Over time, the service will offer the standard set of social media options, making it possible for passengers to tweet and update Facebook from within the MondoWindow application, and also to check in on Foursquare. As well, the service will feature content from Dicum's own books, and he hopes that it will also be able to include material from other books full of geographic content. Ultimately, we all find ourselves looking for ways to avoid reading the in-flight magazines when we're on a plane, and for those who are enthralled with what's on the ground 35,000 feet below, MondoWindow could well be among the first-ever way to truly keep us engaged and happy, even if we have to pay $25 to check in a suitcase.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Netflix trying to embarrass certain ISPs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Netflix really wants ISPs to share the costs of delivering streaming video. CEO Reed Hastings, shown here in a file photo, plans to get tough by publishing potentially embarrassing information about ISPs.  Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said it is &quot;inappropriate&quot; for Internet service providers to require his company to pay all the costs of delivering streaming video to a subscriber's home, and tomorrow he plans to do something about it. In a letter from Hastings to Netflix shareholders published today, he said it is only fair for ISPs to accept some of the financial burden since it is the ISPs' customers who have requested Netflix's content. Hastings made it clear that he hasn't received enough cooperation from ISPs. In response, Netflix plans to publish statistics about which ISPs are best at delivering &quot;the best, most-consistent high speed Internet for streaming Netflix.&quot; If you're an executive at Charter Communications, you've got nothing to worry about. The only early tidbit Hastings revealed about tomorrow's post is that Charter was the top-performing ISP. But for bandwidth providers further down on the list, the disclosure could prove embarrassing. How much do you want to bet that some of the poorer-performing ISPs are the ones giving Netflix the hardest time about streaming costs Hastings wrote: &quot;We think the cost sharing between Internet video suppliers and ISPs should be that we have to haul the bits to the various regional front-doors that the ISPs operate, and that they then carry the bits the last mile to the consumer who has requested them, with each side paying its own costs.&quot; In the letter, Hastings said he hoped to get some &quot;voluntary agreement&quot; on the issue. Following that, he lowered the boom and disclosed the plans to publish the performance list. Netflix's message was that either ISPs pay their fair share, or they're in for a fight. Netflix isn't a street brawler. It's rare for executives to go public with a disagreement, and they've been in plenty of them over the years' with film studios, Blockbuster, various partners. Taking this spat public is a sign that Netflix hasn't managed to budge some of the bigger ISPs on the issue and that the company may now be more willing to flex its muscles. Netflix is riding a wave of consumer interest. Hastings said today that for the quarter ending December 31, the company added 3 million new subscribers while rocketing past earnings expectations.In a public relations battle, Netflix is going to be tough to beat. This is the company that did away with the dreaded late fees for video rentals and was first to offer a compelling Web-streaming service, one that enables viewers to watch thousands of titles for only $7.99 a month. Much of the public consider that a better deal than traditional rental stores offer. When compared to pay TV services, a growing number of people argue Netflix wins there too, providing more bang for the buck. So, we'll see if Netflix can get its way on this issue. We'll post Netflix's ISP list as soon as it goes up. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Motorola Xoom as a test for life beyond the iPad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=motorola-xoom-as-a-test-for-life-beyond-the-ipad</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is theiPad a one-hit wonder or will thetablet market take off broadly in 2011 That's the question Motorola's Xoom tablet will likely answer. Motorola&amp;39's Xoom may determine how real the broader tablet market is. (Credit:Motorola)And this broader market, of course, includes Hewlett-Packard's WebOS tablet and RIM's PlayBook, among others. But Motorola's Xoom stands as the biggest potential consumer rival to the iPad 2 because Motorola is a first-tier supplier that has already competed mightily against Apple in the smartphone market (think Droid) and, more importantly, packs in plenty of eagerly awaited goodies, including: Google's Android Honeycomb operating system for tablets, a powerful dual-core processor, a high-resolution (1,280x800) display, dual cameras, and lest we forget, the Verizon 3G (and soon-to-come 4G) network. That said, tucked into a research note I received on Friday from Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman &amp; Renshaw, was this morsel: &quot;The magnitude of tablet opportunity beyond Apple is unclear.&quot; And he also writes that &quot;we believe that iPad volumes in the current quarter will dry up ahead of the iPad 2 launch.&quot; So, will we see long lines at Verizon stores the day of launch, like the iPad Or has the tablet novelty worn off enough that it's not a line-forming impulse-buy anymore And/or is it principally a phenomenon linked to the cachet of Apple products Based on my own experience, I believe that the media tablet is more than a one-hit wonder. The sheer utility of my iPad has cut my laptop use almost in half, as I've written before. (And the iPad trumps myiPhone too, in a number of respects, like mapping.)  So, what kind of numbers do we need to see Considering that the market is still nascent, that's a tough call. Kumar said that Apple shipped between 6 and 7 million iPads in the most recent quarter, &quot;with the lower end (Wi-Fi) dominating the mix.&quot; With Apple as the high-water mark, we can't expect those kinds of numbers from Motorola initially.  Asia-based rumors claim Motorola is aiming to ship as many as 800,000 out of the gate and RIM a bit more. Those would be healthy numbers.  And Motorola appears to be doing all it can do to make interesting accessories, too--like this speaker dock and Bluetooth keyboard, among other add-ons.  Who knows, the tablet, in one form or another, could eventually make the laptop obsolete. That would result in huge, market-upending numbers. But I'll leave that highly-speculative analysis for next year.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: HP, Toshiba give boost to AMD 'Fusion' chips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-hp-toshiba-give-boost-to-amd-fusion-chips</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are the latest PC makers to endorse Advanced Micro Devices' new &quot;Fusion&quot; laptop processors that are expected to make inroads into small, Netbook-class designs.HP&amp;39's 3.5-pound dm1 uses an AMD 1.6GHz dual-core E350 chip that integrates Radeon HD 6310M graphics.(Credit:Hewlett-Packard)AMD's new chips appear to be a certifiable hit. They are not only populating slick, featherweight 11.6-inch ultraportable laptops from Lenovo and HP but are also debuting in a larger 15-inch class laptop from Toshiba--the Satellite C655D starting at about $400. The &quot;Brazos&quot; series of Fusion processors are targeted at small, power-efficient laptop designs and include the dual-core 1.6GHz E-350 and the more power-efficient dual-core 1GHz C-50. At CES in Las Vegas this week, HP and Toshiba will be showing new laptops powered by Fusion processors. AMD's secret sauce is the integration of Radeon 6800 series-class graphics silicon directly on the main processor. Radeon 6800 graphics tech packs more performance than anything Intel is offering in its Atom series of processors, which is targeted at the same category of small laptops and Netbooks. And AMD's chips don't skimp on battery life. HP's dm1 promises up to 10 hours of battery life, not unlike what the most recent crop of Intel Atom-based Netbooks offer. Starting at $449.99, a standard dm1 configuration includes 3GB of memory and a 7200RPM 320GB hard disk drive. Lenovo has also adopted AMD's E series of Fusion processors in an 11.6-inch design and Sony is expected to follow suit at CES this week. The upshot: Intel's Netbook-centric Atom processor has met its match and the small laptop market will likely see a lot of changes in 2011. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This week in Crave: The Yuletide edition]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[And you thought only Ewoks decorated with Stormtrooper helmets.(Credit:Geektress)Too busy trying to fold paper into Star Wars-themed snowflakes this week to keep up with Crave Here's what you missed while you were decorating your tree with Stormtroopers, Wampas, and Princess Leias.  &amp;149' Forget DIY repair, sometimes you gotta call the pros. &amp;149' This is what it looks like when aniPad meets a blowtorch. &amp;149' Air-powered batteries--and other predictions.  &amp;149' Rumors of PC gaming's death have been greatly exaggerated.  &amp;149' Gadgets get cold too, you know.  &amp;149' Jazz robots don't play music, but they do teleport you.  &amp;149' The Kinect could be getting a lot more sensitive. &amp;149' Will the next PSP sport a touch screen&amp;149' Amazon Kindles appear to be having a very happy holiday (except for this). And from all of us here at Crave to all of you: Hope your holidays are even happier than the Kindle's. We'll be publishing on a limited basis from now through New Year's, but we'll back in full force Monday, January 3, and gearing up for CES. Bookmark this page now to keep up with all news related to the annual gadget blowout.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's Rubin shows off unannounced Android tablet]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=googles-rubin-shows-off-unannounced-android-tablet</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google&amp;39's Andy Rubin shows off an unreleased Motorola Android tablet at D: Dive Into Mobile.(Credit:Tom Krazit/CNET)A 3D version of Google Maps will accompany a Motorola tablet running Honeycomb, the next version of Google's Android, according to Google's Andy Rubin. Rubin showed off the unreleased prototype tablet at the opening session of D: Dive Into Mobile in San Francisco today, the same day that the company announced plans to ship Gingerbread, Android version 2.3. Honeycomb and the Motorola tablet will arrive at some point next year, Rubin said, showing off the Google Maps application and eliciting more than one &quot;oooh&quot; from the crowd of mobile professionals. He declined to provide any further details about the tablet. Rubin was grilled on many Android-related topics by hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of D: All Things Digital. He was granted a few minutes to show off the Nexus S, the new phone announced by Google this morning that will run Gingerbread on a Google-specified and Samsung-built smartphone. When pressed on Google's Nexus strategy in general, which has evolved in starts and fits throughout 2010, Rubin admitted &quot;we bit off a little more than we could chew&quot; when it came to trying to promote theNexus One as a start-of-the-art Google-designed phone and the centerpiece of a smartphone-buying strategy that was intended to match intriguing phones with the carrier of one's choice, which is a popular approach in the U.K., he said. However, U.S. carriers were less supportive of the idea. Google dropped the idea of the Web-only store for the Nexus S, scaling back its ambitions and working with Best Buy to distribute the phone, which is available either unlocked or with a two-year contract for T-Mobile's network.The carriers have a fair amount of control over how Android is presented to consumers, but that was always Google's intention, Rubin said. Google has been criticized for allowing carriers to clutter up the Android interface with pet apps that Mossberg charitably referred to as &quot;craplets,&quot; but Rubin said the carriers are starting to understand those practices alienate consumers, and he implied that Android carriers are rethinking that strategy. Still, &quot;those guys would be commoditized if I forced them to all look the same,&quot; Rubin said. One of the reasons Android has done as well as it has is because carriers and handset makers want an alternative to Apple'siPhone or Research In Motion's BlackBerry, but they don't want to turn into the HP, Dell, and Acer of the PC world, beholden to Microsoft and Intel for innovation and left with no other way to distinguish themselves from the competition other than price. Despite the rancor that often characterizes the once-close relationship between Google and Apple, Rubin took time to praise Apple for what he said Apple has done right, namely services like the App Store, and even going so far as to acknowledge that its developer program is relatively &quot;open,&quot; a word that Google's Vic Gundotra and CEO Eric Schmidt never use in referring to Apple in its approach toward third-party software development. A true Googler, Rubin went on to point out that Google is more &quot;open&quot; in its approach to how it allows outsiders to review the source code of Android in addition to unrestricted development. Still, it was a bit surprising to hear a senior Google executive use the word &quot;open&quot; with respect to Apple. In further discussion about the competition, Rubin said Microsoft'sWindows Phone 7 was &quot;a good 1.0 product,&quot; but he said if he was asked for advice, he would implore them to find a better way to allow the differentiation he referred to earlier among its hardware partners. The problem for companies like Microsoft, Nokia, and even RIM is that much of their code is simply old, dating back from a time before the smartphone revolution was fully realized by Apple's iPhone, he said. Rubin was very coy about discussions that Google may or may not have had with Nokia about the possibility of the world's largest smartphone vendor adopting Android under its new leadership, after an outgoing Nokia executive compared the strategy of using Android to that of young boys urinating in their pants to stay warm in cold weather. When pressed, Rubin declined to comment on any specific negotiations in either Finland or Mountain View, refusing to confirm or deny that talks had been held. Later, Rubin admitted that Android could do a better job when it comes to usability, lending weight to the notion that Android is an engineer's operating system as opposed to one designed for tech novices. He promised that future releases such as Honeycomb would do a better job of exposing vital functions to users without requiring them to navigate through a sea of menus. &quot;You'll see the fruits of that investment in the tablets first, and then the phones,&quot; Rubin said. &quot;We're aware of the problem and we're going to do better.&quot; Updated 9:20 p.m. PT throughout with additional information from the event. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[$89 Kindles gone in a flash]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=89-kindles-gone-in-a-flash</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Say hello, say goodbye.(Credit:Blog Kindle)The Blog Kindle blog has an amusing though serious story about how quickly Amazon's $89 Kindle Black Friday deal disappeared.Billed as a &quot;Lightening Deal,&quot; an undetermined number of $89 second-generation Kindles went on sale at 9AM Pacific Time and were gone in a nanosecond. In fact, the deal disappeared so quickly some accused Amazon of never having it.The story quotes an angry message-board post from Amazon customer Grebwatcher:Amazon knew it would be flooded with people wanting this product across the country. To have it NOT available from the SECOND it goes on sale is FRAUD. New laws are needed to govern this sort of sale situation. (And yes, I have done many auctions and understand that you can't get what you want. But to not even have enough for 5 minutes! Two minutes ONE minute!!!!! Bulls--.) It also cites a more level-headed comment from Emerald Coast:From the information I can dig up, Amazon is the worlds largest online retailer in the world. I know many people in England, Ireland, Brazil and Iceland shop on this site. Two that I know of that live in England got the Kindles yesterday. If Amazon had 2000 units for sale, it is a no brainer to figure out how fast they would sell out....about 2 seconds.People are being totally unrealistic. On the other hand, the odds truly were astonishing for some.Think of it as purchasing a lottery ticket.......the odds of winning are slim to none, but there are winners.Indeed, a lucky few did score discounted Kindles, but it remains unclear how many Amazon actually had available. Of course, you can always troll eBay for used Kindles or try convince your friend who has one sitting in her drawer to sell it to you cheap. Either way, there's probably no reason to get too emotional about this stuff. Unless, of course, you're a dealaholic.Source: Blog Kindle        David Carnoy     Full Profile E-mail David Carnoy   E-mail David Carnoy If you have a question or comment for David Carnoy, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Hunkered down in New York City, Executive Editor David Carnoy covers the gamut of gadgets and writes his Fully Equipped column, which carries the tag line &quot;The electronics you lust for.&quot; He's also the author of &quot;Knife Music,&quot; a novel that's available at Amazon, barnesandnoble.com, and as a Kindle or Nook e-book.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wolfram gives Mathematica 8 a human touch]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=wolfram-gives-mathematica-8-a-human-touch</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mathematica 8 can solve mazes.(Credit:Wolfram Research)Wolfram Research has released Mathematica 8, bringing some rudimentary human-language skills to the mathematics and scientific software by building in some abilities of the Wolfram Alpha search engine.It's an unusual combination. Mathematica can produce stunning graphical displays and dig into the murkiest data sets, but only for those who learn its control language.&quot;Free-form linguistics understands human language and translates it into syntax--a breakthrough in usability,&quot; said Chief Executive Stephen Wolfram in a statement.Well, the Alpha language can't exactly give Mathematica the ability to chat at cocktail parties. But it can understand the command &quot;pi 20 0digits&quot; and translate it into the more rigorous Mathematica command of &quot;N[Pi, 200].&quot;If you know how to estimate multivariate nonparametric probabilities and expectations, Mathematica 8 can help you along.(Credit:Wolfram Research)When the commands work, they're translated into Mathematica form for those learning its intricacies, the company said. And they improve as the Wolfram Alpha service improves, independent of the software. Wolfram Alpha also connects Mathematica to the service's curated data sets.On a more nuts-and-bolts level, Mathematica pushes forward into ever more arcane areas of math, engineering, and science--probability and statistics, group theory, waveform analysis, image processing, financial derivatives calculations, and constructing a Kalman filter for a stochastic system.Under the covers, Mathematica gets new hardware abilities. It now can tap into the power of graphics chips, either using Nvidia's CUDA architecture or the more general OpenCL interface developed by Apple and the Khronos Group.Mathematica is expensive. There are discounts for nonprofits, hobbyists, academics, and group uses, but the basic software for a single user is more than $3,000.Mathematica 8 can plot the structure of a corporate Web site.(Credit:Wolfram Research)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rumor: iOS 4.2 to arrive Friday]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Coming soon (perhaps very soon) to an iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad near you: iOS 4.2.(Credit:Apple)Apple iOS 4.2, which will bring multitasking theiPad, improved performance to the iPhone 3G, and features like AirPlay and AirPrint to all, may arrive as soon as this Friday.According to MacStories, an &quot;inside source at AT&amp;amp'T&quot; said that the update will be available for download on Friday, November 12, at 10 a.m. PT. And prior to that (possibly tomorrow), Apple will release iTunes 10.1.&amp;nbsp'Further evidence comes from iPhone Help, which cited the German blogiPhone-Ticker's discovery of Vodafone and O2 configuration profiles containing updated network operator settings predated November 12. (That's my takeaway of the somewhat murky translation.)&amp;nbsp'Needless to say, it's all just rumor at this point. However, historically speaking, an iTunes update usually does precede an iOS update by a few days. So if 10.1 does drop tomorrow, Friday may well be the day for 4.2.We'll know more tomorrow and in the coming days, so be sure to check back for updates. In the meantime, hit the comments and let me know which iOS 4.2 feature(s) you're most looking forward to!<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple secures future iPhone displays, joins Sharp for $1.2B LCD expansion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sharp is gearing up to spend around $1.2 billion on expanding its product lines for small and midsize LCD panels, most of which are meant for Apple&amp;'s iPhone, Reuters reports.Apparently, Apple will cover a large portion of the $1.2 billion investment and is going to purchase much of Sharp&amp;'s LCD output for the iPhone. Apple is clearly securing more displays in anticipation of high demand of it&amp;'s next-generation iPhone. It&amp;'s also likely trying to avoid display supply issues like Samsung and other display manufacturers faced this year.On Monday, Japana4a4s Nikkei business newspaper reported that Toshiba was making a similarly large investment in LCD production and that Apple would also be benefiting from it. Toshiba ended up denying that Apple would invest in the production of its new factory, but that still leaves the door open for Apple to be the primary buyer of its LCD panels from that plant.Both Sharp and Toshiba&amp;'s plants will focus on midsize displays, in addition to smaller displays for the iPhone, meaning they could also be producing supply for Apple&amp;'s iPad. By diversifying its suppliers, Apple is ensuring that issues with one plant won&amp;'t kill its ability to make iPhones and iPads completely.Via ReutersNext Story: Tumblr brings in $30M despite stability woes Previous Story: HTML5 vs. Flash: How will the battle play out in 2011PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: displays, iPad, iPhone, LCD, screens, smartphonesCompanies: Apple, Sharp, Toshiba          Tags: displays, iPad, iPhone, LCD, screens, smartphonesCompanies: Apple, Sharp, ToshibaDevindra 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[Justin.tv claims &''frame reinsertion&'' will cross the quality gap in mobile live video streaming]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Live video streaming site Justin.tv today announced an update that includes what it has dubbed &amp;''Frame Reinsertion,&amp;''which will allow users to upload the full resolution version of a video in the background, even as the video is being broadcast live.Justin.tv lets users stream content live to the internet, whether it is from their webcams, mobile phones or wired in from a TV. Its competitors include Ustream.TV, blogTV and Flixwagon.It is currently available on iPhone and Android smartphones. It has 3.6 million total mobile application installs, with 20 percent of JTV users using mobile apps and 27,000 hours of mobile video since their launch of mobile apps in September.Justin.tv says its new update means that the archive version is only constrained by the capabilities of the device, so that no matter what the network conditions, the archive version of the video will be very high quality.Live streaming has become a particularly popular form of media consumption, with live stream usage jumping 650 percent this year when compared to 2009.The company has made a major push into a the mobile space via a consumer-driven a4AYouTube modela4 for live streaming over the last eight months or so, a decision which led to the departure of former chief business officer David Aufhauser in October of this year.The broadcasting quality of live video via mobile device has always been constrained by the network conditions during broadcast, with broadcasters automatically adjusting for any given network conditions during broadcast. That means that when broadcast over 3G or WiFi, the quality can be very good, but when broadcast over slower networks like slower networks like AT&amp;amp'T&amp;'s EDGE, users can often be frustrated by the speed and quality of their downloads.But the San Francisco-based startup says it has now crossed that gap in quality &amp;8212' after it realized that 90 percent or more of their video views were post-live, archive views, not live viewing.That was the key they said they needed to make it easier for them to reconfigure their app to stream content more smoothly and at a much higher quality than it had before.&amp;''Quality has always been a major stumbling block for mobile live video, and something that is holding the technology back from broader adoption,&amp;'' Matthew DiPietro, vice president of marketing and communications told VentureBeat. &amp;''But now we really feel like we&amp;'ve cracked the code on this.&amp;''Next Story: S&amp;038'P 500 index welcomes Netflix, boots the New York Times Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: GE chooses ZigBee over WiFi, Deepwater proposes massive Atlantic wind farmPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, apps, iPhone, smartphones, Social MediaCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, BlogTV, Flixwagon, Justin Tv, Ustream.tv, YouTubePeople: David Aufhauser, Matthew DiPietro          Tags: Android, apps, iPhone, smartphones, Social MediaCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, BlogTV, Flixwagon, Justin Tv, Ustream.tv, YouTubePeople: David Aufhauser, Matthew DiPietroRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting.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[Social shopping site Lockerz goes mobile]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lockerz, a social shopping site aimed at users between 13 to 30, announced that it&amp;'s making its first move into the mobile world today with the launch of a new smartphone website.The Seattle startup launched the first version of its product back in February 2010. Founder and chief executive Kathy Savitt said that adding mobile support has been the number one demand by members &amp;8212' which isn&amp;'t surprising, since the site targets a young, tech-savvy audience, and also since one of Lockerz&amp;' big features is the ability to earn discounts on merchandise that&amp;'s only available for a short period of time.Lockerz allows users to earn points for doing what they  normally do online (sharing videos and other content, as well as  connecting with friends), which they then cash in for merchandise  discounts. The concept seems to be resonating: Savitt said the site has  18 million users, 93 percent of whom are between 13 and 30.The site should work on all major smartphone platforms. For now, it provides a limited set of features, which Savitt said the company will be expanding quickly. In this initial version, users will be able to view messages in their Lockerz Hallway and redeem their Lockerz points for merchandise. The second feature is the most important, Savitt said, because it means users no longer need to worry that they&amp;'re missing out on a great deal when they&amp;'re away from their computer, because they can still check out and redeem deals on their phone.Lockerz was among the first wave of startups backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers&amp;' sFund for social startups. Liberty Media is also an investor.Savitt said the company provides the first shopping experience aimed at Generation Z, which includes anyone born after 1992. It&amp;'s a demographic group that has incorporated technology into the fabric of its life, and it takes a &amp;''curatorial&amp;'' approach to both shopping and content, she said: Basically, it&amp;'s a more aggressive version of what their older siblings already did with music.&amp;''They&amp;'re turning the mall into a giant iPod,&amp;'' Savitt said.Not content to launch one mobile service today, Lockerz is also releasing an Android app for Plixi (formerly TweetPhoto), the photo-sharing app that it acquired last month.Next Story: How to turn R&amp;038'D work for Uncle Sam into a real business Previous Story: Intel &amp;''not blinking&amp;'' on MeeGo, despite Nokia&amp;'s abandonmentPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Plixi, social shoppingCompanies: LockerzPeople: Kathy Savitt          Tags: Android, Plixi, social shoppingCompanies: LockerzPeople: Kathy SavittAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. 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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