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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Priceline founder targets tech giants in patent suits]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>smithadam</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A group of lawsuits filed yesterday by Priceline founder Walker Digital take aim at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and more than 100 other companies for infringing on key parts of its patent portfolio. The 15 lawsuits, filed in U.S. District Court of Delaware, say these companies are infringing Walker Digital-owned patents covering things like e-commerce, private social-networking communications, online auctions, and a driving directions tool with visual cues. &quot;A number of great companies can trace their genesis to technology that was first developed at Walker Digital in the mid-to-late 1990s,&quot; Walker Digital's Chairman Jay Walker said in a statement. &quot;We are proud of our inventions and the number of innovative businesses and activities founded on these inventions. These businesses have not only changed the way people around the world live, work, travel and interact socially and commercially, but also have given rise to numerous American jobs.&quot;Walker Digital is the founder of Priceline.com, and has more than 200 U.S. patents as part of its intellectual property portfolio. Chairman Walker is named on more than 450 issued and pending U.S. and international patents, the company said in its suits. Through its IP licensing business, the company says it generates more than $200 million in licensing revenue from these patents. In its statement about the wave of suits, Walker Digital's CEO Jon Ellenthal said the move had come after negotiations with companies over establishing a licensing deal had fallen through. &quot;Filing these lawsuits is not a step we sought or preferred,&quot; Ellenthal said. &quot;We have reached out to a wide range of companies that are engaging in commercial activities that clearly depend on inventions created and owned by Walker Digital. Unfortunately, many of these companies have refused to engage in meaningful negotiations that acknowledge the market value they derive from the use of our property.&quot;As part of the suits, Walker Digital announced it's teamed up with the IP Navigation Group, which will serve as the company's IP advisor. Together, the group seeks to &quot;realize a fair return on the use of our property,&quot; Walker said. Back in January, Walker Digital targeted social-gaming company Zynga and gaming giant Activision Blizzard for infringing on its &quot;Database driven online distributed tournament system&quot; patent. Just months before, it had sued Facebook for its friending mechanism, saying the longstanding feature was infringing on its patent for &quot;establishing and maintaining user-controlled anonymous communications.&quot; Facebook is once again named in this latest wave of lawsuits, alongside Amazon, Fandango, Expedia and others for doling out bonuses for online shoppers. The news comes at a time when intellectual property litigation is an increasing threat among tech companies. Just last week, Google announced it bid $900 million in an effort to acquire Nortel's 6,000 some patent portfolio. That move, the company said, was to serve as defense against patent litigation. Meanwhile, pending regulatory hurdles, Novell's 882 patents, which went on the market as part of a sale to CPTN Holdings LLC late last year, will be split up between Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC, and Novell's parent company Attachmate, giving each of the companies a greater IP war chest. Last month the U.S. Senate passed legislation for restructuring the country's patent system, changing the filing rights system to a &quot;first to file&quot; system, as well as giving the office power to set its own funding. Technology companies like Microsoft, which is once again at legal odds against I4i in a $200 million patent-related suit, had pushed for the reform, saying it would bring the U.S. up to speed with patent efforts abroad.Correction at 12:46 p.m. PT: A reference to IP technology was mistakenly spelled out during the editing process as Internet Protocol. In this reference, it stands for intellectual property.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stanford tweaks recipe for quantum dot solar cells]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=stanford-tweaks-recipe-for-quantum-dot-solar-cells</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>smithadam</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[To improve solar cell efficiency, Stanford researchers added a self-assembling monolayer (SAM) of an organic molecule to a titanium oxide semiconductor and cadmium sulfide quantum dots.(Credit:Stanford University)In the search for cheap and efficient solar cells, Stanford University researchers are mixing in new ingredients.Chemical engineering professor Stacey Bent on Sunday presented the results of a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that showed how a new combination of materials boosted the performance of solar cells made with quantum dots. The research is in very early stages, but it could provide clues on how to make solar cells with relatively inexpensive materials that have higher efficiency than is currently possible. Many researchers are trying to use materials with quantum dots as a replacement for traditional semiconductors, such as silicon, in a solar cell. Quantum dots are tiny crystals only a few nanometers in size and can be far cheaper to produce than a silicon wafer or thin-film solar cell. Quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells can also be tuned for different wavelengths of light.But the efficiency of quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells is very low, making them impractical for commercial use. Bent and her research team added an organic molecule to a solar cell using titanium oxide semiconductor and cadmium sulfide quantum dots in an effort to improve the conversion of light to electricityAlthough the efficiency is still very low, researchers found that inserting the additional material improved the efficiency threefold. Surprisingly, the size of the organic molecule mattered, but not the type of material, according to Stanford. When sunlight hits a solar cell, an electron gets excited and &quot;jumps&quot; to another layer of material and carries an electric charge. Bent's theory is that the added layer to quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells helps keep that free electron separated, rather than recombining and losing its energy.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google plans Chrome OS event for Tuesday]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>smithadam</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Tuesday could see the arrival of a new preview of Chrome OS, but consumer Netbooks aren&amp;39't thought to be ready just yet.(Credit:Google)Google could finally be ready to shed a little more light on the progress of its Chrome OS project. The company sent out invitations to an event next Tuesday, December 7, in San Francisco &quot;where we plan to share some exciting news about Chrome,&quot; according to a copy of the invitation. No further details were provided. Chrome OS Netbooks were once expected to arrive before the end of the year, but that timing appears to have slipped over the last several weeks, as Google is now expected to merely have a beta software version ready by the end of the year, with consumer-oriented systems not ready until 2011. The idea behind Chrome OS is to create a lightweight browser-based operating system that would run just Web applications, as opposed to native ones. Another possibility for the event is that Google is ready to show off the Chrome Web Store, which was also expected earlier in the year but has slipped. CNET will be there to provide coverage both during and after the event.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Panasonic invests $30 million in Tesla]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>smithadam</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=panasonic-invests-30-million-in-tesla</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Japanese electronics giant and battery manufacturer Panasonic has invested $30 million in Tesla Motors, the U.S. automaker best-known for its all-electric luxury sportscar, both companies announced Thursday.Per the terms of the deal, Panasonic, which already has a working relationship with Tesla through their battery pack collaboration, purchased Tesla common stock at $21.15 per share, acquiring approximately a 2 percent stake in the company.Tesla and Panasonic had an existing relationship before today, signing a deal in January to develop lithium-ion battery packs for Tesla cars.(Credit:Tesla Motors)Tesla, which also builds power trains for use in electric vehicles in addition to manufacturing cars, has previously used battery components from a variety of companies. But the company announced Thursday that it &quot;has selected Panasonic as its preferred lithium-ion battery cell supplier for its battery packs.&quot;The investment coincides with Panasonic's changing dynamic and vow to reshape itself around new core businesses. It's been expanding its battery business into EV batteries since 2008, is in the process of overhauling its lithium-ion battery cell research and production facilities, and announced in 2009 that it would invest $1 billion in developing products focused ongreen tech by 2012, including technology for home-energy monitoring systems.The deal is a feather in the cap of Tesla, a relatively new car company that has been slowly building a following and brand, but until August 2009 had not yet turned a profit.&quot;It is an honor and a powerful endorsement of our technology that Panasonic, the world's leading battery cell manufacturer, would choose to invest in and partner with Tesla,&quot; Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk said in a statement.Panasonic is not the only stalwart to put money into the start-up car company. Toyota invested $50 million in Tesla in June shortly after Tesla's initial public offering. The two companies signed a deal under which Tesla will produce two car models for the Japanese automaker, and to that end both have invested in a new Tesla factory in the U.S.Tesla's assembly plant, which opened in Fremont, Calif., last week, will produce those cars for Toyota as well cars for the Tesla brand. The new manufacturing plant was converted from a closed New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI) factory and will produce Tesla's Model S, an all-electric sedan that is expected to have a larger reach than the company's flagship model, the Tesla Roadster luxury sports car.Tesla has also expanded into making power trains for other automakers, signing a partnership with Daimler to make the power train for 1,000 of its Electric Smart EVs.Tesla opens doors to electric auto factory (photos) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Major security bug fixed in Firefox]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Mozilla is advising fans ofFirefox to update the stable version of the browser after it released a patch for a security bug marked &quot;critical&quot; today. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Firefox 3.6.12 patches a heap buffer overflow that could allow for remote code execution. Mozilla notes that the bug affects the current version 3.6 branch of Firefox, the legacy version 3.5 branch, and could potentially affect Thunderbird users who load Web pages in the RSS reader.The bug has not been found in the upcoming version 4, currently in beta development and behind schedule. Firefox 4 beta 7 was originally due in the middle of September, then pushed back to the end of September because of a stability bug. Mozilla has since initiated a code freeze on the next generation of its browser but has yet to update the schedule because of multiple critical bugs. It's expected that Mozilla's updated JavaScript engine will land in the seventh beta. Called JaegerMonkey, it's currently available for testing in the Firefox nightlies.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon rumored to launch Droid Incredible HD on November 23]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>smithadam</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=verizon-rumored-to-launch-droid-incredible-hd-on-november-23</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is this the Droid Incredible HD(Credit:Boy Genius Report)Back in August, the Boy Genius Report posted the first images of what was said to be an Evo 4G-like device destined for Verizon. Described as polished and being at the &quot;very upper-end of the market,&quot; the images of the phone revealed a sleek handset with a 4.3-inch touch screen, an 8-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, and a front-facing camera. But just as quickly as the phone came onto our radar, it went away.Now, however, it's back on our scope after an administrator on Droid Forums tapped the phone with the name of Droid Incredible HD and a November 23 release date. The source of the info, Miami1683, says he has personally held the device and will have pictures for everyone next week. Though we've seen plenty of leaked Verizon news over the last few weeks, and even a roadmap or two, we haven't seen any hint of a Droid Incredible followup. So why would we believe Miami1683 Simply put, he has a proven track record. He was the first person to predict the release of the Droid Incredible early in the year. The hardware of the supposed Droid Incredible HD matches up with the Evo 4G, but it likely has more in common with HTC's new Desire HD. Filling in the gaps, we might also expect 768MB of RAM, Dolby Mobile and SRS virtual surround sound, and a kickstand. It's very possible that it will run Android 2.2 and carry the new version of HTC Sense, adding weight to the successor rumor. As many of you know, the first Droid Incredible also ran the custom user interface.Regardless of what name this phone ends up with, I'm sure this will sell fairly well with Verizon. The nation's largest carrier has yet to offer a phone with a front-facing camera, so that feature alone should find an audience. Releasing this during the prime shopping season when many customers come up for contract renewal won't hurts either. With many of the Android handsets favoring Motorola over the last few months, it will be a nice change of pace to see a big HTC announcement.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: Boeing makes first solar push' 58 million smart meters to be deployed in U.S.]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=on-the-greenbeat-boeing-makes-first-solar-push-58-million-smart-meters-to-be-deployed-in-u-s-</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>smithadam</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Here are the top cleantech stories we&amp;'re following today on the GreenBeat:Boeing announced itwill deliver its first high-efficiency solar cells for commercial sale in January. The cells, originally developed for outer space use, have an efficiency rate of 39.2 percent.Chinese solar leader Yingli Green Energy has released another strong earnings report, reporting a 33.3 percent gross margin that approaches the 40.2 percent reported by industry leader First Solar. Yingli&amp;'s success showcases how Chinese solar companies, fueled by easy money and government support, are quickly rising in the sector, the Motley Fool writes.After struggling with getting its technology to work quickly, venture-funded solar startup Wakonda appears to be approaching the end of its days, Greentech Media reports.After the failure of cap-and-trade carbon emissions legislation, a group of executives from utilities like Exelon and Oncor are pushing ahead with self-initiated efforts to green their operations, the WSJ reports.Smart meters are ramping up quickly &amp;8212' 90 U.S. utilities have 57.9 million smart meters planned for deployment, according a new report from Pike Research, Earth2Tech reports.California regulators have temporarily withdrawn approval of a proposed 663.5-megawatt Calico solar plant by NTR&amp;'s Tessera Solar after opponents criticized that it had been improperly licensed, Reuters reports. (Update: Tessera spokeswoman Janette Coates emailed to say &amp;''the approval has not been withdrawn&amp;8230'Rather, the Commission stayed the effective date of the approval, and scheduled a vote for December 1 to address the clerical errors, which have to do with the effective date of the decision.&amp;'') The full text of the decision is available on the California Energy Commission site, and says the CEC will withdraw its previous notice of decision' stay the &amp;''provisions&amp;'' of the Calico decision, pending reconsideration' and will consider granting a petition for reconsideration (filed by the California Unions for Reliable Energy) on Dec. 1.Greener data center technology company Smooth-Stone has changed its name to Calxeda. The company raised $48 million just three months ago and recently added a new executives.Next Story: Skyfire launches first mobile browser for &amp;''the social networking generation&amp;'' Previous Story: myThings raises another $6M for better targeted advertisingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: China, data centers, Smart Grid, smart meter, Solar, utilitiesCompanies: Boeing, Calxeda, Exelon, NTR, Oncor, Pike Research, Smooth-Stone, Tessera Solar, Wakonda, Yingli Green Energy          Tags: China, data centers, Smart Grid, smart meter, Solar, utilitiesCompanies: Boeing, Calxeda, Exelon, NTR, Oncor, Pike Research, Smooth-Stone, Tessera Solar, Wakonda, Yingli Green EnergyIris 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[Puralytics CEO On Cleaning Water With Light, Winning The Cleantech&nbsp'Open]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>smithadam</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Cleantech Opena4&quot; a prestigious annual competition for U.S. tech startups that protect, restore, and reduce the negative impact of humans on the environmenta4&quot; announced its 2010 winners this week. Puralytics, a clean water startup from Beaverton, Oregon, took first prize.The Puralytics team invented and sells a nanotechnology-based, photochemical water purification system that, in comparison to other available systems, can purify water more quickly, remove more impurities from it, and requires less electricity to do so. With 15 percent of the world&amp;'s total estimated 6.5 billion population lacking freshwater enough to live a healthy life today, companies with promising water technology are in demand, and could help abate a global water and humanitarian crisis.The executive director of the Cleantech Open Rex Northen said, &amp;''Puralytics stood out because they have developed something that will have a tremendous environmental and social impact. Their technology lets you use LED light or sunlight as a mechanism to clean water, and it lacks the toxic output many others have. The team was also very strong.&amp;'' Puralytics&amp;' chief executive and founder, Mark Owen, is a serial entrepreneur and inventor whose thirty-some successful patents (according to his own calculations) have generated over one billion dollars in revenue for companies he has worked for and founded. Owen spoke with TechCrunch about winning the Cleantech Open 2010 National Business Competition, and how his latest innovation cleans water with light. An edited transcript of the conversation follows below.  TC: What environmental problem does your company solve MO: Purifying water has been a dirty process using filters, membranes, cleaning chemicals and mercurcy lamps.  The systems in use today waste most of the water they&amp;'re trying to purify, and require a lot of electricity. With reverse osmosis systems, for example, about 80% of the water that could be purified goes out into the sewer. We have a different way to purify drinking water or water for light-industrial and commercial use. Our system processes all the water, using half as much electricity, and doesn&amp;'t require you to produce anything toxic. It also removes things from the water that others cannot, like pesticides and pharmaceuticals. The EPA just released a list of 169 endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) that they will track from now on in domestic drinking water. These are things that even in small quantities can cause health problems for some people [and animals] including caffeine. Our system removes them from the water.TC: How does Puralytics&amp;' technology work MO: If I was explaining Puralytics to a classroom full of kids, I&amp;'d say, &amp;''There are little things in your water that may not be good for you. We use a special light to make those go away.&amp;'' We use LEDs to illuminate a nanotechnology coating we&amp;'ve developed, that&amp;'s on a mesh where the water flows through a main system. This technology is not filtering at all. What it is doing instead, is creating a chemical reaction that causes molecules to break apart and break down in the water. The right wavelengths of light and this nanotechnology coating cause five photochemical processes that work to pull contaminants out of the water onto the surface of the mesh, then dump the energy of whata4a4s been absorbed into the molecules to break them apart.  Most organic molecules are lots of carbons, hydrogens, and oxygen and a few other things. Essentially we break a long molecule apart, all the way down, and reform it as CO2 and water and minerals. We actively destroy contaminants in the water, but leave the minerals that are good for you in it. Other treatments take out minerals that are good for you. But ours does not. TC: Can you see the process MO: It isn&amp;'t really visible. You see a kind of purplish light. If you could, you might see something that looks like water turning into steam and dissipating in the air. Something is changing form in there. TC: Where did you get the idea for thisMO: My previous company was Phoseon Technology. I&amp;'m still a director. We actually make light emitting diode (LED) drying equipment that can dry inks, coatings and adhesives very quickly using little energy. If you have any Ikea furniture, they spray on the coatings to make it look good, and make it durable, and Phoseon lamps dry it in about three seconds. I got to thinking about what else I could do with LEDs. The original idea was to replace mercury lamps that are used to kill germs in hospitals and in water with an LED array. It didn&amp;'t turn out to be efficient. There are other good solutions to killing germs, I learned. But there weren&amp;'t efficient solutions to take out chemicals and heavy metals and other things of concern from water.Another thing that inspired me was a building I saw in Japan, within Tokyo&amp;'s Expo City. It had been sprayed with a coating that kept it from getting dirty. Sun activates the coating to break up dirt and chemicals on the surface, so it mostly stays clean. I asked myself if instead of making the building clean, you could make the water clean. I brought together a teama4&quot; experts in chemistry, optics and physicsa4&quot; and we started figuring out which wavelengths of light were optimum, what kind of nanotechnology we could use, what kind of coating was optimum, and all the other things that could commence this idea around 2007. TC: Do you have customers already Who are they MO: We began shipping to customers in 2009. The majority have been industrial process customers. They need water that&amp;'s ultra pure for use in the lab, or in processes they use to make their products. Tap water isn&amp;'t clean enough. We are useful to pharmaceuticals, biotech and semiconductor manufacturers, and coffee franchises alike. We have several Fortune 500 clients. TC: What&amp;'s next for PuralyticsMO: I told you about our primary product, the Puralytics Shield, which uses LEDs to purify water for light industrial and commercial use. We have another one called the Solar Bag. It uses the same technology but without the LEDs. So, you have a nanotech coated mesh inside of a bag. You fill the bag with water, stick it in the sun, and the nanotech purifies the water over the course of several hours instead of a few minutes. This is going to be important for getting clean drinking water to people without access in the developing world. One of our partners, Hydration Technologies humanitarian water division, is helping us sell the Solar Bag to nonprofits that can distribute it. We also work with different aid organizations around the worlda4&quot; including one in Kenya, and another one in Bangladesha4&quot; to supply our technology in developing world applications. We&amp;'ll be figuring out how to do more of this. We&amp;'ve been funded by four government grants, a seed round, and now some prize money. We&amp;'ll be using that develop a next generation product and expand our market presence. But we&amp;'ll also be looking to raise growth capital, soon.[Editor''s note: The national competition prize included $150,000 worth of business services, and $100,000 in the form of a seed investment from a consortium of investors: Wilson Sonsini Investment Company, Stiefel Family Foundation, and the Cleantech Open.] Images courtesy Douglas Schwartz PhotographyMore information about the 2010 Cleantech Open National Business Competition winners is available via the competition&amp;'s winners site and competition&amp;'s Youtube Channel. CrunchBase InformationCleantech OpenWilson Sonsini Goodrich &amp;amp' RosatiInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[With Angry Birds at the top, Apple releases its top iTunes content of 2010]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple has released a list of the top-selling apps of 2010 across its iTunes store, with the hit game Angry Birds topping the list of paid apps.Apple said that games were the top paid apps in the iPhone App Store in 2010. Angry Birds took the top spot, followed by Doodle Jump, Skee-Ball, Bejeweled 2 + Blitz, and Fruit Ninja.The victory for Angry Birds shows that games continue to be the most compelling paid content on the App Store. That game has become such a cultural phenomenon &amp;8212' all of the kids in my immediate family were playing it obsessively at Thanksgiving &amp;8212' that it has probably done a lot to draw attention to the iPhone as a game platform. Just like any other platform, Apple needs a Killer App to sell its iPhones and other devices. Angry Birds is as close to that as anything.Apple does not provide the actual sales numbers, but Rovio, the maker of  Angry Birds said it has sold more than 12 million paid copies of Angry  Birds. With free downloads, Angry Birds has surpassed 30 million to date. In the game, green pigs steal the eggs of the birds, who get angry and use a sling shot to launch themselves into the fortresses of the pigs.For songs, consumers bought Hey Soul Sister by Train the most. That was followed by Katy Perry&amp;'s California Gurls, Eminem&amp;'s Love the Way You Lie, B.O.B.&amp;'s Airplanes, and Taio Cruz&amp;'s Dynamite. For album&amp;'s Eminem&amp;'s Recovery was No. 1, followed by Kesha&amp;'s Animal and Lady Gaga&amp;'s The Fame.For TV shows, Apple said that Glee: The Power of Madonna was the top-selling episode. That was followed by the finale of Lost and iCarly: iSave Your Life Special Extended Edition. The fourth season of Mad Men was the most popular series on iTunes, followed by Glee season 2, Doctor Who season 5, Dexter season 4, and Futurama season 7.On the iPad, Apple&amp;'s Pages app was the most-downloaded title, followed by GoodReader for iPad, Apple&amp;'s Numbers app, Angry Birds and Apple&amp;'s Keynote. The top movies were The Hurt Locker, The Twililght Saga: New Moon, Hot Tub Time Machine, Iron Man 2, and Zombieland. For overall free apps, Facebook was No. 1, followed by Angry Birds Lite, Words With Friends, Skype and Tap Tap Revenge 3.Next Story: Google to lure enterprise users by copying Microsoft Exchange data to the cloud Previous Story: Saplo&amp;'s API reads text so you don&amp;'t have toPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Angry Birds, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, iTunes top contentCompanies: Apple, Rovio          Tags: Angry Birds, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, iTunes top contentCompanies: Apple, RovioDean 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[Want a Nexus S from Best Buy this Thursday Prepare to fight for it]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We know that many of you are excited to get your hands on Google&amp;'s latest flagship Android phone, the Nexus S. But until now, it was unclear how you could go about getting your hands on one.Now Best Buy has unveiled its plan to sell the phones this Thursday, December 16. The big takeaway You should prepare to fight in-store and online crowds if you really want one.Best Buy is forgoing a pre-order program and is instead selling the Nexus S on a first-come, first-served basis. Stores will open at 8AM on Thursday, and that will also be the point when you can make an online order on the company&amp;'s website. The unlocked phone will be available for $199 with a two-year T-Mobile contract ($249.99 if you&amp;'re activating a new line on your account) and $529 without contract. Best Buy is limiting purchases to two devices per customer.Stock of the Nexus S will vary from store to store, but every Best Buy store (including smaller Best Buy Mobile locations) will have demo units of the phone to play with.The phone is hitting just in time for the holidays, and it&amp;'s also landing far off from any recent major Android phone releases &amp;8212' so I suspect sales to go swimmingly. The Nexus S is poised to be the last great Android release of 2010, which should also work in its favor. We&amp;'re getting our hands on one soon, so look out for our review.Via EngadgetNext Story: MicroVentures opens up new opportunities for investors Previous Story: Another delay for Nokia: E7 smartphone pushed to early 2011PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Nexus S, smartphonesCompanies: Best Buy, Google          Tags: Android, Nexus S, smartphonesCompanies: Best Buy, 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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