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<title><![CDATA[Analyst: BlackBerry PlayBook sales beat forecasts]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Research In Motion may have sold more BlackBerry PlayBooktablets than analysts expected, as many as 50,000 on the first day alone, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky.(Credit:RIM)In a research note sent to investors yesterday, Abramsky said he and his team checked with 70 different retail stores, including Best Buy, Staples, and RadioShack outlets, to ask about PlayBook sales on the first day. The team found a range of responses from light sales to 11 percent of the stores sold out, but overall leading to an estimate of 50,000 sold on opening day this past Tuesday, including presales.Abramsky also used Best Buy's online inventory tool to check 180 other retail stores, according to Boy Genius Report. That analysis found the 16GB version of the PlayBook unavailable at 13 percent of the stores, the 32GB edition unavailable at 87 percent, and the 64GB model unavailable at 91 percent. Of course, as BGR points out, these figures alone can't tell the whole story because they don't indicate how many units of each model were initially in stock.Abramsky believes the PlayBook's launch may have been stronger than those seen for both the Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Overall, the analyst expects RIM to ship 500,000 PlayBook tablets during its first fiscal quarter, ending in May.The PlayBook has earned a fair share of negative reviews based on some of its current shortcomings. Abramsky believes some of those issues may be largely resolved through wireless updates and new 4G versions of the tablet that RIM is planning for later this year.Currently available in a Wi-Fi-only version, a 4G edition of the tablet is headed to Sprint this summer. RIM is also planning 4G versions that can run on Verizon Wireless's LTE network and the HSPA+ networks from AT&amp;amp'T and T-Mobile (PDF).For now, however, the company is running into some initial difficulties with both AT&amp;amp'T and Verizon.AT&amp;amp'T has so far refused to support RIM's Bridge app that lets BlackBerry users pair their phones with the PlayBook over AT&amp;amp'T's 3G network. That piece is critical, as RIM has been touting the syncing capabilities between its BlackBerry phones and the new tablet.Verizon seems to be on the fence about carrying the PlayBook at all, despite RIM's initial expectations. Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Brenda Raney sent CNET the following statement:&quot;We are still evaluating the Blackberry Playbook and have not made a determination as to whether or not we're going to distribute it.&quot;Abramsky believes that the AT&amp;T Bridge issue will need to be resolved before the PlayBook can reach &quot;critical mass.&quot; Even further, RIM has to achieve some momentum with its own mobile app market at the same time that more testing of the tablet is done among potential enterprise adopters.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Electronics retailer facilitates secondhand sales - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sufwanminnice</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Last month came word of IKEA facilitating secondhand sales of its furniture. It turns out that IKEA isn''t the only Swedish retailer experimenting with used products a4&quot; electronics chain Siba recently added a classifieds section to its website, enabling customers to sell and buy pre-owned products.Siba, which has 56 stores in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, launched secondhand.siba.se because it realized that sometimes customers specifically set out to buy a used product, for example when buying a TV for a holiday home. Meanwhile, others need a place to offload their camera or game console before upgrading to a new one. The company doesn''t charge listing fees, and hopes the service will attract visitors to its website, as well as garnering good will by helping consumers find what they''re looking for, be it new or used. (Related: Online marketplace for secondhand IKEA furniture a4&quot; Swedish fashion brand launches its own secondhand store.) Website: secondhand.siba.seContact: secondhand.siba.se/ContactUsSpotted by: Robert Olzon<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The hallmarks of a great boss]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of bad bosses. There are fewer good ones. But ita4a4s especially rare to find a great boss.Stanford professor and author Bob Sutton looks at the hallmarks and strategies of that rare breed in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given at Stanford University. While traditional management theory indicates that monitoring employee monitoring and processes is the path to greatness, his own research shows just the opposite. Over-management, in fact, can stifle the creative process.(Cana4a4t see the video Click here)Next Story: Hydrogen refueling ramps up in Norway Previous Story: Kurani Interactive gets a shot of angel funding to get the Internet&amp;'s opinion on the flyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: leadership, Stanford University          Tags: leadership, Stanford UniversityChris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLargeVentureBeat 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[Screach takes social TV beyond check ins]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[British startup Screen Reach today unveiled a social TV platform called Screach that should answer the question, a4AWhy would you bother checking in to a TV showa4Companies large (like Comcast) and small (like Miso) are experimenting with ways that users can check in to TV shows and share what they&amp;'re watching with friends. Screach is pursuing similar goals, but chief executive Paul Rawlings said the answer isn&amp;'t just a simple check in.Instead, Rawlings wants to make the check in a byproduct of some other, more engaging activity. For example, if youa4a4re watching a game show, the show could offer a reward if you play along at home' then as a side effect, the app would also post a message on Facebook saying that you were watching and playing.Screach can connect to real-world locations and events too &amp;8212' the company tested the Screach app with a museum, where users could enter codes into the app to bring up additional information, plus audio and video content. And advertisers could offer coupons and other rewards to viewers when they watch and check in to ads.Ita4a4s an exciting vision, so my real question was whether Screen Reach, rather than a more established media player, is the company that will make it a reality. The company is just unveiling its platform today (there was a test application available for the iPhone earlier), and now ita4a4s starting to look for app designers and content partners, so it doesna4a4t have any big deals to announce yet &amp;8212' which means consumers can&amp;'t download the app and immediately start interacting with their favorite shows.One of the features Rawlings emphasized was ScreachXML, a language the company has also developed for creating interactive content. Designers without any previous programming experience can supposedly learn the language in an hour, meaning that they can create apps themselves, rather than going through a developer. All of those interactive experiences are aggregated with the Screach app, which the companya4a4s website describes as a a4Asuper appa4. Partner shows can provide you with a code that you enter into the app in order to bring up the content associated with that show.Screen Reach was part of the Difference Engine incubator program and has raised $420,000 in funding. Right now Screach works on iPhone and Android devices, but the company is working to add other devices.Screach Trailer from Screach on Vimeo.Next Story: OPower raises $50 million from Kleiner, Accel &amp;8212' cash it says it doesn&amp;'t need Previous Story: Microsoft says 2.5M Kinect motion-sensing units sold in first 25 days on marketPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: ScreachCompanies: Screen ReachPeople: Paul Rawlings          Tags: ScreachCompanies: Screen ReachPeople: Paul RawlingsAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat 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.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[Is &''Google Me&'' Codenamed &''Emerald City&'' And Why Is Google Baraza Copying&nbsp'Quora]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Follow the yellow brick road&amp;8230'It&amp;'s no secret that Google is working on a new social project that is thought to be a layer which will be spread over many of their properties. Actually, it is supposed to be a secret. But everyone knows about it. At first, it was known as &amp;''Google Me&amp;'', but that&amp;'s probably not what it&amp;'s going to end up being called when it rolls out at some point next year. And if you believe an anonymous answer on Quora, that&amp;'s not what Google is internally calling it. And based on what we&amp;'ve heard, they may just be right.According to this post from November 4, Google is in the process of internally testing the product they&amp;'re calling &amp;''Emerald City&amp;''. The fact that the anonymous user says it&amp;'s being dogfood tested shouldn&amp;'t be a surprise to anyone a4&quot; Google tends to do this with most of their big products before launch. What&amp;'s interesting is the detail the user goes into:Emerald City has been integrated into numerous products and is being actively used internally.Emerald City is the project name for what people outside of Google refer to as &amp;''Google Me&amp;''. Lots of existing projects like youtube, google docs, search, calendar, groups, picassa, etc have had significant social integrations added to them. This is an ongoing project that will launch as a major initiative across multiple services at once and many of the hooks endusers will see are currently being tested internally. It is by no means done and is extremely ambitious in nature.Here&amp;'s the thing, we had actually heard that nickname before as well. Well, actually we heard &amp;''Emerald Sea&amp;'', but this makes more sense (update: see below, nope, it&amp;'s &amp;''Emerald Sea&amp;'' after all). Further,a4sthe other details are inline with what we&amp;'ve been hearing about the project. Of course, the fact that it&amp;'s thought to work with YouTube, Google Docs, Search, etc, would be an easy and obvious guess to make.Still, unless we have the same source, the anonymous Quora user may be on to something.But perhaps even more interesting may be the fact that the exact same answer was posted almost two weeks later to Google Baraza. Wait. What the hell is Google BarazaIt turns out, Baraza is a service that Google very quietly launched in late October. In fact, the blogs that closely watch Google didn&amp;'t pick it up until a couple weeks ago a4&quot; see here and here. Google states that Baraza is a service meant intended to be used in Africa to bring more locallya4srelevanta4sinformation online.So why is there a question and an answer about Google&amp;'s new social product on Baraza Because some people are using it like Quora.a4sProbably becausea4sit is a lot like Quora a4&quot; you even search and ask a question in the same box. While Google talks about Africa, anyone in the world (who speaks English or French) can use it. I just set up an account simply by asking a question. And even the idea behind it sounds like Quora a4&quot; to get things out of people&amp;'s heads and onto the web.Anyway, back to the matter at hand. Someone has posted the exact same answer about Google&amp;'s social product to both services. Could it be a Google employee Certainly that would explain how they knew what Baraza was in the first place. But why would a Google employee go out of their way to answer the question and out a secret project on not just Quora, but also on another Google-run projectMaybe it&amp;'s more likely that someone simply copy &amp;amp' pasted the answer from Quora. It is interesting just how much action there is around the question though.So, we now have two new pieces of Google intrigue. First, Google may be internally testing their social product which they&amp;'re calling &amp;''Emerald City&amp;''. Second, Google is definitely testing a Quora competitor. And while it may have meant the test for Africa, clearly others are using it as a universal Google Q&amp;amp'A service.Google just better hope that Emerald City doesn&amp;'t end up like Google Answers.Update: Actually, we were right,a4sGooglea4a4s Social Product Is Definitely Codenamed a4AEmeralda4sSeaa4CrunchBase InformationGoogleQuoraInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google App Engine Now Streamlines Push, Boosts API Limits And&nbsp'More]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google&amp;'s App Engine, a platform that helps developers build web applications by streamlining some of the work they&amp;'d typically have to do themselves, is getting a big upgrade today.The App Engine team is calling today&amp;'s 1.4.0 release the biggest they&amp;'ve done this year, with features that include: a new Channel API that makes it much easier to build real-time Push events into your app' &amp;8216'Always On&amp;', which lets developers pay $9 per month to keep three &amp;8216'instances&amp;' of their application alive at all times' and Warm Up Requests, which automatically load instances of applications just before they&amp;'re needed, which helps reduce load times when users begin accessing the application.App Engine is also increasing some of its API limits. Developers will now be able to run background tasks (like cron jobs) that have a 10 minute limit, instead of the existing 30 second limit for user-based tasks. Size limits on URLFetch, Memcache, and Image API have all been boosted from 1MB to 32MB' the Mail API limit for outgoing attachments has been boosted from 1MB to 10MB.Finally, there&amp;'s a new &amp;8216'high replication datastore&amp;' that&amp;'s being rolled out, that will minimize how often developers&amp;' data is inaccessible due to scheduled downtime.App Engine&amp;'s Technical Lead and Manager Kevin Gibbs and Product Manager Sean Lynch say that the new changes will help minimize developer headaches across the board a4&quot; the previous API limits, they say, were frustrating to some developers, while scheduled downtime could draw the ire of their customers. And the new push capabilities and file size limits open the door to new kinds of apps that can be built on App Engine.In addition to today&amp;'s new features, the App Engine team is also announcing some of its recent stats. The platform now serves 1 billion page views per day across all of its applications, and is used by 100,000 developers per month. Below is a graph showing how the number of page views has increased over time.CrunchBase InformationGoogle App EngineInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Andy Rubin At Dive Into Mobile: The Consumers Have&nbsp'Spoken]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Speaking at the Dive Into Mobile conference today, Google&amp;'s Andy Rubin (besides showing off Honeycomb) had a few interesting, but not too controversial, things to say about Android and its competitors. The primary message he seemed to be pushing was that the consumers were being allowed more than ever to shape the market, and that Google is subject to their whims as much as anyone else, though perhaps (in his opinion) more willing to accommodate.Although Android is a runaway success by many measures, it has its weaknesses, a couple of which were probed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, who were conducting the interview. First on their minds seemed to be the small impact, not to say failure, of the Nexus One, and the efforts of carriers to &amp;''personalize&amp;'' Android.Rubin&amp;'s response to the Nexus One issue was the sentiment that&amp;'s been adopted for some time now, that they bit off more than they could chew. The European model (as he called it) of choosing a phone and then a service to go with that phone isn&amp;'t ready to be adopted here yet. He says they&amp;'re shooting a little lower with the Nexus S in that they&amp;'re selling through normal retail channels.As for the bloatware found on so many phones, including the Nexus S&amp;'s forbear, the Galaxy S, Rubin said that consumers are voicing their opinions and voting with their wallets, which I think was his way of tacitly admitting that Carrier garbage is a bad decision and people will reject it one way or another. I suspect once there&amp;'s a really consumer-friendly root or just vanilla install available, people might start doing that to rid themselves of the dozen sponsored apps on their new phone.Rubin had nothing but kind words for Apple, praising them faintly but clearly avoiding any real opinions. He reserved a fair amount of venom for Microsoft, actually, disagreeing with their design decisions and mentioning that even the ultra-modern Windows Phone 7 is saddled with &amp;''this package of stuff that was invented before the Internet.&amp;'' I suspect there&amp;'s plenty of legacy code in Google&amp;'s borrowed libraries as well, but that&amp;'s neither here nor there. He softened these remarks later by calling it &amp;''a good 1.0 product.&amp;'' I&amp;'m sorry Andy, did you see Android 1.0On the business and income side of things, he stated that if Android were to break off of Google right now, it&amp;'d be profitable, though that&amp;'s kind of a hard statement to justify. We can probably just take it to mean that their revenues from ads served through Android devices and such are greater than the costs of development and administration. He adds, though, that he would never have made it as a start-up.Mossberg pressed Rubin on a potential Nokia connection, but Rubin was coy, saying only that the company has new leadership and is evaluating options. Damn, they better be. They&amp;'ve been cruising for a long, long time now.On tablets, he makes this excellent analogy to cars: once you learn to drive one car, you can pretty much drive them all, reflexively (it helps to learn on a manual, though). We&amp;'re not at that stage yet, as I tend to point out whenever this issue comes up, and it&amp;'s not until we develop a relatively standard gesture and UI language that tablets will be able to be truly pick up and play.It was pointed out, and correctly if you ask me, that Google has a reputation for being voracious for user data, collecting every little scrap it can. By reputation, though not necessarily in practice. Being a company that deals in this kind of information has a cost, though, and Rubin said the only way to combat it was to be open and transparent about it. Consumers (hopefully) will eventually recognize anything else as FUD.For this post, I was working from the All Things D liveblog here' I&amp;'ll update if a full transcript or video becomes available.[image credit: Asa Mathat, All Things D]<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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