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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Woman hangs up on $10,000 call from Apple]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Technology facilitates intrusion. People weasel their way into our lives in order to sell us cable TV, a zoo membership, or enhanced reproductive organs.So who could be surprised when Gail Davis, a woman in Orpington, England, picked up the phone, listened to someone offering her a prize, and immediately replied, &quot;Thank you very much' I'm not interested&quot;The only problem was that the caller really was someone from Apple and Davis really had won a prize. For her household was, indeed, the one from which the 10 billionth app had been downloaded from Apple's app store.As the Cult of Mac tells it, Davis was brought to her senses by her daughters, one of whom had downloaded the free PaperGlider app, which is so utterly useful to humanity that Warren Buffett is probably playing it as we speak.The 10 billionth app. One of the finest.(Credit:Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)Davis was distraught when she called Apple back and somehow the person on the company's helpdesk reportedly proved to be less than helpful. Perhaps Davis was already a marked woman. Perhaps it had been Apple COO Tim Cook himself calling to tell her she had won a $10,000 gift card.Davis was mired in shame. As she told the Cult ofMac: &quot;The more I thought about it, the more I realized it was a genuine call. The girls were getting quite tense. They never would have forgiven me. They would have held it against me for all eternity.&quot;Children hold all sorts of things against their mothers for all eternity, from looks to luck. But this would have been too much to bear.Her eternity was made sweeter when she received another call from Apple. This time it was a colleague of Eddy Cue, Apple's VP of iTunes.You might wonder why Cue himself didn't make the call. It could have been because it had, indeed, been Cue, rather than a telemarketer, who had made the original call and received a polite British brush-off.So now Gail Davis and her family can download more apps and enjoy their fame. And Apple can content itself that it is now only Toshiba being rude to the company, rather than the woman whose family downloaded the 10 billionth app.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Barnes & Noble's Nook server woes rectified]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nook owners couldn&amp;39't download e-books on Christmas Day.(Credit:Barnes &amp;amp' Noble)Over the last couple of weeks we've been writing about how all the e-reader manufacturers have been talking up their robust holiday sales. Well, there can be some downsides to success, as Barnes &amp; Noble's servers apparently couldn't handle the influx of new users on Christmas Day and continued to experience trouble into Sunday. This is the second year in a row that Barnes &amp; Noble's server issues have kept new Nook owners from buying e-books on Christmas Day.Across the Web and on Twitter, people were complaining about the problems. For instance, CNET user Ridermom wrote a scathing review of the Nook Color, which received an Editors' Choice award and has had mainly very positive reviews from CNET readers: I have a product that can not be used because Barnes and Noble server is not working. So all I hear from customer service is to be patient and it should be working by Monday afternoon. So I have a $250.00 product that can not be used and Barnes and Noble will not [give] any compensation to their customers. So after 2-days/6 hours of trouble / and 2 hours of phone calls. I think the Nook is going back to the store tomorrow!!!!We can't tell you why this inexplicable snafu happened again. But suffice to say that while Barnes &amp; Noble was presumably prepared for the onslaught, the technology didn't cooperate as planned. The good news for Nook owners is the system is working fine now, a day or two late for some.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Android 3.0 for tablets looks like a leap beyond iPad for Google (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google today previewed its upcoming tablet-friendly Android 3.0 update at the Consumer Electronics Show, and it looks unlike any version of Android we&amp;'ve ever seen.The video shows off a slick new user interface that Google describes as a &amp;''truly virtual holographic interface&amp;'' built specifically for large-screen devices. We&amp;'re not sure if that means it won&amp;'t be available for phones, but I would honestly find it surprising if Google made that sort of restriction. At the very least, much of what we see in Android 3.0 will make it into the next major update for Android phones.Android 3.0 will sport a revamped home screen, browser, and email all optimized for tablets. Additionally, there&amp;'s a new YouTube interface and support for the new version of Google Maps that first appeared on Android 2.3. The OS will also let Google Talk users video chat between tablets and computers &amp;8212' a feature we definitely expect to see on phones soon as well.Most impressive to me is the vast leap Android 3.0 demonstrates beyond earlier versions of Android running on tablets. With Android 3.0, Samsung&amp;'s Galaxy Tab will be much more compelling and an actual competitor to the iPad &amp;8212' something that will hold true for all Android 3.0-powered tablets.Next Story: Microsoft demos future Windows version running on Intel and ARM chips (video) Previous Story: Zynga buys social browser Flock &amp;8230' or maybe just its engineering teamPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android 3.0, CES, CES 2011, tabletsCompanies: Google          Tags: Android 3.0, CES, CES 2011, tabletsCompanies: GoogleDevindra 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[VCs roared back in 2010, investing the most money since 2007]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Venture capitalists invested the most money last year since 2007, pumping $21.8 billion into 3,277 deals in 2010, according to a MoneyTree Report released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.Using data from Thomson Reuters, the study showed a spike of 19 percent in dollars and a 12 percent rise in deals over the prior year, with almost all sectors showing double-digit gains.Investments in the fourth quarter of 2010 alone totaled $5 billion in 765 deals, a 2 percent increase in dollars, but a 3 percent decrease in deals from the prior quarter, when $4.9 billion went into 789 deals.The stats are welcome news for an industry that had struggled at times in 2010 to prove it was no longer spooked by the credit crisis and was ready to jump back into the fray.The software industry roared back to reclaim its status as the single largest investment sector for the year, rising 20 percent over 2009 to $4 billion in 2010, which was poured into 835 deals.The investment was a 21 percent rise over the prior year and helped make software the number one sector for both dollars invested and total number of deals in the fourth quarter.It was also the only industry sector to receive more than $1 billion during that same period.Overall, software investing leapt in the fourth quarter of 2010 to the highest quarterly dollar level since the third quarter of 2007, with $1.1 billion going into 218 deals.Other sectors reaping the benefits of less cautious VCs included the clean technology and Internet-specific categories, which both saw double-digit increases.Investment dollars also increased across every stage of development, except seed-stage investing, which fell 2 percent.However, first-time financings rose in 2010 compared to the prior year, despite a fourth quarter drop in both first-time dollars and deals when compared year-over-year.All of this bodes well for VC financing in 2011, said Mark Heesen, president of the NVCA, who said the community is clearly in recovery mode with investment levels reflecting the economic reality of the VC business overall.a4AContinued fundraising and exit market challenges have greatly reducedthe probability ofinvestment bubbles in specific sectors as there simply is not enough capital to overinflate any particular market,a4 said Heesen.a4AThe year&amp;'s increase in first time deals and early stage investment is encouraging as this trend suggests that the venture community is doing more with less.a4Previous Story: Will Googlea4a4s Groupon clone swap out algorithms for good writingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Venture CapitalCompanies: national venture capital association, pricewaterhousecooper, Thomson ReutersPeople: Mark Heesen          Tags: Venture CapitalCompanies: national venture capital association, pricewaterhousecooper, Thomson ReutersPeople: Mark HeesenRiley 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. 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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