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<title><![CDATA[Cloud Girlfriends teach you how to fake it]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sorry guys. CloudGirlfriend.com is currently little more than a &amp;quot'coming soon&amp;quot' screen... garnering thousands of hits.(Credit:Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET)When we at CNET first heard about Cloud Girlfriend--a yet-to-launch service that creates your dream girl and then puts her on display so all your social-networking connections can admire her witty status updates and wall posts--we turned a wary eye to the calendar. Less than a week to April Fools' Day. What are the odds that a start-up that creates fake Facebook girlfriends is itself a fake We found a couple of red flags: 1. The Web site is currently a polished but simple &quot;launching soon&quot; placeholder that looks to have taken about two minutes to put up using a new service called Launchrock.2. The purported business model completely misses out on the substantial market for cloud boyfriends: Step 1: Define your perfect girlfriend. Step 2: We bring her into existence. Step 3: Connect and interact with her publicly on your favorite social network. Step 4: Enjoy a public long-distance relationship with your perfect girl.But then we found the brains behind the operation, a financial analyst for San Diego-based wireless company Remec named David Fuhriman who swears it's the real deal. We had a number of questions for Fuhriman, and he answered most of them, kind of...As Fuhriman put it in an e-mail to CNET, the premise behind Cloud Girlfriend is all about boosting your online persona:&quot;CloudGirlfriend.com's tagline is, 'The easiest way to get a girlfriend is to already have one.' Providing social proof is important part of the dating process. We all look to cues to help us navigate through life,&quot; he said. &quot;People who use the site don't want to be labeled, so they can use the site to jump-start the process of changing social perceptions about themselves.&quot;In other words, your pretend Facebook girl will use your wall to make you look a little more... date-able. This is sounding more and more like an Ashton Kutcher movie.Fuhriman goes on to declare that &quot;CloudGirlfriend.com is not a new virtual porn site or an adult chat service,&quot; but instead a means for fulfilling the top tiers in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Yes, he's serious.&quot;CloudGirlfriend.com can fulfill Maslow's higher needs, even though the users know that the interaction is virtual. They will interact with a real person and see real profile images of the girl with whom they interact. This interaction can build confidence and esteem as well as provide real training experiences in navigating a friendship and a relationship.&quot;Fuhriman says the service will be operated by real people, not bots, and promises that it won't ruin the legitimacy of your favorite social network, making the very prescient observation that &quot;...there will always be more profiles of dogs and cats on social networks than there will ever be of Cloud Girlfriends.&quot; The Cloud Girlfriend co-founder did leave many of our questions unanswered, though. No word on when the service will launch, how much it might cost, or what considerations are given to the poor dude who is inadvertently outed as a &quot;cloud dater.&quot; Also no word on plans for &quot;Cloud Boyfriends&quot; any time soon. Then again, who needs one when &quot;Text Boyfriends&quot; are already available for two bucks a weekSo while the ladies can look forward to those romantic 140-character sonnets, the gentlemen among us will continue to wait for perfection from the cloud and take our other virtual girlfriends on fancy beach vacations.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CTIA 2011 preview]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Just a month after we returned from Mobile World Congress, the wireless trade show marathon continues with CTIA 2011. As the larger of two annual events held by the industry's trade group,CTIA always delivers a batch of new handsets and a welcome focus on the U.S. market. After a few sessions in Las Vegas, the spring jamboree returns to Orlando, Fla., this year where it last made camp in 2007. CNET's entire team of wireless reporters and reviewers will be on the ground in Orlando to bring you the hottest news including a keynote address by the CEOs of the big four U.S. carriers. The fun begins March 22 and runs through March 24.For a review of last year's show, check out Jessica Dolcourt's feature on &quot;CNET's Best of CTIA 2010: Where are they now&quot;So what does CTIA have in store for us Admittedly, in past years the show has been a bit quieter thanCES and Mobile World Congress--we know that we're a little tired by this point, so we don't doubt that manufacturers feel the same way--but we guarantee that there will be lots to see at the shiny Orange County Convention Center. Android,tablets, and smartphones with dual-core processors should continue as popular themes, of course, but wireless news will come from all corners of the industry. Here's what we see developing. The HTC Flyer could arrive at Sprint as the HTC EVO View.(Credit:Kent German/CNET) HTCHTC doesn't have a press conference scheduled for CTIA, but that doesn't mean we won't be hearing from the handset manufacturer. The company will most likely leave it up to its carrier partners to announce any news it has and already, there are rumors that Sprint will unveil the HTC Evo 3D and the HTC Evo View (the CDMA version of the HTC Flyer tablet) at the show. Indeed, Sprint has scheduled a 2.5-hour media event for Tuesday afternoon. We can't imagine what the company could talk about for that long, but we'll be there to find out. The HTC Droid Incredible 2 for Verizon also has been snapped in the wild, so perhaps it will make its official debut at CTIA. Hopefully, we'll also get some updates (read: availability date and pricing) on the HTC ChaCha and Salsa Facebook phones, which are due out with AT&amp;T later this year.  SamsungSamsung has already let it be known via its Facebook page that it will have some sort of tablet news at CTIA. The popular thought is that Sammy will reveal an 8.9-inch tablet to sit in between its 7-inch Galaxy Tab and recently announced Galaxy Tab 10.1, but we'll have to wait till March 22 to find out. Samsung's press conference is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. PT.  It's unclear right now if the company will also debut new phones, but CTIA will be our first opportunity to take a hands-on look at the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G. Designed by Samsung, the Sidekick 4G keeps some aspects of the old messaging handheld but also adds a touch screen, a front-facing camera, Android 2.2, and 4G support, among other things. NokiaNokia made a big splash right before Mobile World Congress by announcing its partnership with Microsoft, but we still have a little while to go before we see any Nokia handsets running Windows Phone 7. In the meantime, the Finnish handset manufacturer has restated its commitment to Symbian, and it looks like Nokia will focus on this at CTIA. The company has sent out invites for an event on Monday evening, which reads, &quot;We promised to sell millions more Symbian devices. Join us as we spotlight our latest solution for U.S. consumers.&quot; OK, we're intrigued Nokia. We hope it's worth it. Could the Optimus 2X come to T-Mobile as the G2X Maybe.(Credit:Nicole Lee/CNET) LGLG and T-Mobile should become even closer friends at CTIA. As we see it, the Optimus 2X, which the company announced at CES, will make an appearance as the LG G2X for T-Mobile. Like its sibling, the G2X also should offer a 4-inch WVGA display, Wi-Fi with portable hot-spot capability, full HD video playback and recording, a gyro sensor, DLNA support, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and HDMI mirroring. Sony EricssonUnlike in Barcelona, Spain, where Sony Ericsson kicked off Mobile World Congress with a high-profile press conference, the company is assuming a lower profile in Florida. We'll be meeting with the company on Wednesday and we'll check out any new offerings it may have. If anything, we hope to get a Verizon Wireless release date for the Xperia Play. And if we're really lucky, we'll get the scoop on when the Xperia Neo, Xperia Pro, and Xperia Arc might come to North America.  All the restMost of the other big manufacturers remain a mystery at the moment. Motorola, for one, hasn't scheduled any press conferences, which strikes us a little odd. Though its low-key presence at Mobile World Congress was understandable after it took CES by storm, Moto needs to give us a little something next week. At the very least, why not a release date for the Droid Bionic On the same note, we'd love to hear more availability details for the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook and the HP Pre 3. We don't expect much news from PCD, Pantech, ZTE, and Huawei. No doubt we'll get a chance to revisit some of their recently announced products, but that should be it. And lastly, don't count on any iPhone 5 news. Apple never comes to trade shows, and it's not about to start now. As we said, our full coverage of CTIA will begin in earnest on Tuesday. Check back then for blogs, photos, and videos. See you in Orlando! <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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