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<title><![CDATA[What happens when pros try iMovie on an iPad 2]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Goldilocks Episode 9 was edited on and uploaded from an iPad 2.I first ran into Anna Elizabeth James and Michael Koerbel, the aspiring movie-industry duo of Majek Pictures, through the short film &quot;Apple of My Eye&quot; recorded and edited last year entirely on aniPhone 4.Since last June, the team has been busy. They've since produced eight installments of similarly produced action series called Goldilocks and an app that lets people download new episodes. And starting Friday, they upgraded their editing studio: two iPad 2s running Apple's new tablet version of iMovie were used to produce Goldilocks episode nine.iPad 2: an editing studio(Credit:Josh P. Miller/CNET)&quot;TheiPad 2 is definitely more fun than editing on an iPhone,&quot; James told CNET in an e-mail. Regarding iMovie, &quot;the feature requests we posed to Apple were pretty much all addressed in this version.&quot;Apple's product demonstrations are designed to elevate people's expectations and aspirations, but don't expect average Apple product owners to be able to reproduce what Majek Pictures did easily. But do take it as evidence that the &quot;post-PC era,&quot; no matter how much I don't care for that particular term, will extend well beyond playing Angry Birds and posting updates on Facebook.Majek Pictures bought two iPad 2s within the first hour after they went on sale, one for James and one for Fawaz Al-Matrouk, the team's Goldilocks editor. They had the video imported, edited, and posted Saturday after a 35-hour sleepless rush.iMovie ran on the iPhone 4, but of course the iPad 2 has a more powerful processor and a much larger screen. What else is better with the new gear for the serious video editor James' list:&amp;149' You can now have three tracks of editable audio! (we only had one for Apple of My Eye)&amp;149' There is a fourth track of audio that is enabled if you import an audio clip over 1 minute&amp;149' More themes (including iCNN report)&amp;149' Upload directly to Vimeo, YouTube, etc. This was amazing. The video literally never was on a &quot;real&quot; computer. [It was] shot, edited, and uploaded on iOS devices!&amp;149' Import directly from iPhone 4 with camera connection kit. This was a big thing we were worried about, and literally a $29 adapter let us plug both iPhone 4's in and super easily upload to the iPad 2.&amp;149' Slicker user interface and the multi-touch is flawless It's not perfect, but it's got what it takes for serious use, James said.&quot;I think one of the drawbacks could be you can't separate audio from clips, so [there's] no way to put B-roll over other video footage,&quot; she said. &quot;But I can definitely see someone finding a story, shooting it on their iPhone 4 or iPad 2, and editing it, [then] uploading it for the nightly breaking news.&quot;And the project is helping Majek.&quot;Even though we haven't made any huge monetary leaps yet, it seems like every door is opening,&quot; James said. Among other things, the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences invited Majek to its annual retreat to speak about &quot;this new revolution,&quot; she said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Soros joins private equity heavy in clean energy fund]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>robinjackson</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[There have been hundreds of green technology start-ups funded by venture capitalists but a new fund with an impressive pedigree is looking to scale up clean energy technologies.Private equity company Silver Lake today said that it has joined with George Soros' Soros Fund Management to create Lake Kraftwerk, a fund designed for late-stage investments in energy technology companies.Former Foundation Capital venture capitalist Adam Grosser will head the fund. Cathy Zoi, which recently resigned as acting under secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy and assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, is part of the investment team. Silver Lake Kraftwerk will focus on companies involved in energy efficiency, waste and emissions reduction, renewable energy, and better use of natural resources. The point is to provide &quot;growth capital&quot; for companies that already have developed technology and a proven business model, Grosser said in an interview today. It will stay away from traditional project finance, the type of investments used to finance building new factories. Specific areas that Silver Lake Kraftwerk expects to invest in are in the grid, such as sensors or software for more efficient operation, Grosser said. Efficient LED lighting, low-carbon content building materials, and alternative solar technologies are also of interest as well as remediation methods for the coal and oil industries, he said.There have been billions of dollars of venture capital invested in the clean tech category in the past decade but there have only been a handful of companies which have successfully gone public and remain profitable, in part because energy businesses are typically require lots of capital to get to large scale. Investors often say there's a funding gap between the money that's needed to develop products and get first customers and capital to expand. Grosser said that Silver Lake Kratwerk aims to be the &quot;last money&quot; in before a company is self sustaining. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Qteros to bring ethanol-making bug to India]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>robinjackson</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Qteros, which has a method for creating ethanol from naturally occurring microbes, has signed a partnership to bring its technology to market in India.The Marlborough, Mass.-based company is expected to announce on Wednesday a joint product development deal with Pune, India-based Praj Industries. Qteros initially plans to make ethanol from the byproduct of sugar cane processing.(Credit:CC Will Ellis/Flickr)In two years, Praj and Qteros aim to develop a system using Qteros technology which can be licensed to companies that build cellulosic ethanol plants. In addition, Qteros said it has raised $22 million, which is the first tranche of a series C round of funding. Qteros was started as a University of Massachusetts spinoff in 2006 to make ethanol from non-food feedstocks, such as agricultural residue and wood chips. The company founder, Susan Leschine, identified a microbe which has properties that promise to short-cut traditional ethanol production.The microbe produces the enzymes needed to convert plant matter into sugars and ferment them into ethanol, explained CEO John McCarthy. That streamlined process, called Consolidated Bioprocessing, makes it cheaper than many competing methods, he said. In the deal with Praj, the two companies will develop an engineering design package which can be licensed to other companies that build ethanol refineries, McCarthy said. Both companies will share in any revenue from licensing, he explained.Praj has already built about 450 ethanol mills in India, which means that its current customer base is a likely customer for the cellulosic ethanol technology, McCarthy said. Instead of using sugar cane as a feedstock, those plants could create an additional facility to convert bagasse--the by-product from sugar cane ethanol processing--as a feedstock.The development of cellulosic ethanol on the whole has been disappointing in the U.S., with many companies, including Qteros, falling short of their original targets. In 2007, the U.S. set aggressive targets for &quot;advanced biofuels&quot; which covers ethanol not made from corn but the technology is still not done at commercial scale. McCarthy said that progress of cellulosic ethanol companies in the U.S. is unlikely to move ahead rapidly given the dependence on government loan guarantees and grants. He expects the first commercial-scale deployments will be done in Brazil, China, and India where ethanol producers can add cellulosic ethanol refineries to existing plants. Initially, Qteros expects its process to work with sugar cane bagasse and other agricultural residue but ultimately dedicated energy crops will be used.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Lenovo IdeaPad S205 and S100 are the future of Netbooks in a nutshell]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[11.6-incher: Lenovo IdeaPad S205.(Credit:Lenovo)They may not be shocking, but they're certainly sleek. Lenovo's new 10- and 11-inch IdeaPads feel like a side-by-side comparison of where ultraportable laptops are heading in 2011. 11.6 inch is the new 10, and we'd better get used to it.Lenovo IdeaPad S100 and S205 (photos) Announced today, the IdeaPad S205 is yet another 11.6-inch laptop using AMD's Fusion CPU series. The design looks a bit like a ThinkPad, with a 98 percent full-size &quot;Accu Type&quot; keyboard that's new to Lenovo this year. An AMD dual-core E-350 CPU comes with integrated graphics and promises more of that upgraded performance we've been hearing about the AMD Fusion processors. Its specs are more laptop than Netbook: up to a 750GB hard drive and 8GB of DDR3 RAM, HDMI, and optional 3G.The IdeaPad S100 is an update to last year's IdeaPad S10-3. It's a standard Netbook: Atom CPUs up to N570, up to 2GB of RAM/320GB hard drive, and an attractive design.The S205 doesn't have a price yet, but the S100 will start at $329. Both will be available in March.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AdGrok aims to take the headache out of search engine marketing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>robinjackson</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A new startup called AdGrok says it wants to make life easy for businesses running ad campaigns through Googlea4a4s AdWords service.AdWords is a huge, lucrative system, said AdGrok co-founder Antonio Garcia-Martinez, but it can be hard to tell exactly how an ad campaign is performing &amp;8212' especially if youa4a4re a small business that doesna4a4t understand search engine marketing. Garcia-Martinez said he wants to be the a4ATurboTax of search advertisinga4, namely the service that simplifies a complicated process for a wide variety of customers.The San Francisco company first announced its service last summer, but today ita4a4s coming out of beta testing and announcing its pricing model.The most attention-grabbing feature is probably the a4AGrokBara4, which lets customers look at any page on their website and see data about all the AdWords campaigns pointing to that page. (Garcia-Martinez said one of the rookie mistakes in search advertising is to direct all your ads towards your home page, rather than the specific page where a shopper can buy a product or register for your site or whatever.) Customers can see exactly how much theya4a4re paying for each campaign and how well ita4a4s performing. Then they can kill ads that arena4a4t working and create new ones. Garcia-Martinez said that if AdGrok is successful, customers will never have to interact with AdWords directly.Another cool feature involves integration with Shopify, a service that powers online stores. Sites that use Shopify can upload all of their inventory into AdGrok, create ad campaigns around each product, and then immediately end the campaign once theya4a4ve sold out of a specific item.Again, Garcia-Martinez said he hopes to serve the full spectrum of search engine marketing customers. If youa4a4re an agency running a mind-boggling number of campaigns, you might use a search marketing tool like Marin Software to manage all of them but still sign-up for AdGrok to get a quick, high-level view of how those campaigns are doing. On the other hand, if youa4a4re a small business that feels overwhelemed by AdWords, AdGrok can make the process manageable, and you can even hire the company to run your campaigns for you.AdGrok offers free and paid services &amp;8212' the &amp;''standard&amp;'' package is $20 per month.The company was incubated at Y Combinator and has raised $470,000 from Chris Sacca, Russ Siegelman, Ben Narasin, and TriplePoint Capital. Customers include Eventbrite and Kiva.Previous Story: Event app HurricaneParty comes out swinging against competitorsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: AdWords, search advertising, search engine marketingCompanies: AdGrok, Google, TriplePoint Capital, Y CombinatorPeople: Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Ben Narasin, Chris Sacca, Russ Siegelman          Tags: AdWords, search advertising, search engine marketingCompanies: AdGrok, Google, TriplePoint Capital, Y CombinatorPeople: Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Ben Narasin, Chris Sacca, Russ SiegelmanAnthony 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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