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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Aquaris' lets you snorkel with your hearing aid]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Siemens is unveiling a suite of new products at the American Academy of Audiology 2011 conference in Chicago this week, including what it claims is the world's first fully waterproof (and dustproof, and shock-resistant) digital hearing aid.Aquaris is the first truly waterproof, dustproof, and shock-resistant digital hearing aid.(Credit:Siemens)Called Aquaris, the aid's housing is made of one solid piece, so the only opening is to the battery compartment, which is fitted with a membrane designed to let air in but keep water out.Siemens lists a whole range of activities that have until now been difficult for those wearing hearing aids that can be ruined by not just water but sweat and dust: sailing, swimming, kayaking, golfing, gardening, cycling, and jogging.Because the device can be fully submerged in water up to 3 feet deep for 30 minutes (rendering it more than merely water-resistant), shallow snorkeling should be added to the list. Whether we will ever be able to scuba dive with hearing aids remains to be seen.Aquaris also features a non-slip, textured surface that holds the Aquaris behind the ear' a &quot;sport clip&quot; to further secure the device during intense activities' and a water-resistant Aquapac for added protection.Siemens has yet to release pricing or availability details.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Room 77 locates choice hotel rooms, new biz angle]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sufzireJulliTy</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Room 77 shows you a list of rooms that match your preferences, with Google-generated views out the windows.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET)When checking in to a hotel, the old advice goes, see the room before you accept it. Don't like it Sniff dismissively at the bellhop, and talk your way into a better room.  Who has time for this Start-up Room 77, launching at the Launch Conference, is building a system that gives hotel guests a look at their potential room before they check in.  In a nutshell, the company is building a database of individual hotel rooms, including for each information like distance from elevators, what floor they're on, subjective ratings from people who have stayed in them, and--the sexy feature--a Google Maps image, with 3D buildings, of the view out the window.  If you get the upcoming Room 77 smartphone app, when you're checking in to a hotel you'll be able see if the room you're offered matches what you like, and also check out the view. Bad-for-you rooms will come back red-tagged. You can request another before you leave the desk.  Better yet, when you're booking a hotel room online, you can tell Room 77 what's important to you and it will rank the rooms in the hotel based on your preferences. You can jump between entries and see their views, and possibly interior pictures. It's very cool, just the thing for the control-freak traveler. The mobile app will let you know if the room you&amp;39've been assigned is a match with your preferences.(Credit:Room 77) The thing is, though, there's no programmatic way yet to request a given room. Category of room, yes. Room number, no. Most hotels don't assign actual rooms until 24 to 48 hours before check-in. Guests sometimes request a given room in a booking, but in the global network of hotel services--hotel sites, travel booking sites, and trip planners--there's no standard way to pass room number requests through to hotels. If Room 77 is to really succeed, booking systems need to get finer-grained, so they can work with this data.  Assuming for the moment that Room 77 can build a good database of hotel room information, using its own services as well as customer-provided images and reviews, the company's future hinges on how successful it can be in inserting this database into the travel economy.  The first way the company will make a buck is straightforward: From booking fees, just like any other travel site. If you book through the site, the company will get its cut. You have to call the hotel to make sure you get the room you want, though. Room 77 provides a cheat sheet for doing so.  In the future, Room 77 may offer a premium &quot;room request guarantee&quot; feature. The best way to get the room you want currently is to contact the hotel a day or two before you arrive, and make sure some human matches your request with the room you like, or one very much like it. That's a pain for travelers who may have booked their stay weeks before. Room 77 may offer a paid service where it will make the call for you. As time goes on, the company may start to make these requests automatically, but that will require a fair bit of backroom negotiating with booking software companies. (Negotiations with Starwood are underway.)  Eventually, though, Room 77's real value will be in bulk transactions around its database--in selling the room-specific data back to hotels or allowing other travel sites or hotel sites to use the Room 77 database through a paid API. If Room 77 ends up with a lock on this data, this is the killer business.  Projecting the economics of Room 77 out a bit, this service could have an impact on how hotel rooms are priced. With granular data available to travelers about each room, it stands to reason that pricing could get granular as well. Instead of just booking a deluxe room at a hotel, you'd book a room by view quality and proximity to elevator, if that's what matters to you. An algorithm could end up pricing hotel rooms by demand, similar to how airfares change frequently based on booking flow, availability, and other projections. I'll leave the implications for Priceline and other semiblind booking sites as an exercise for the reader. Not all the Google views are clear.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) Room 77 has a smallish number of hotels at launch, but it's expanding. Users with the smartphone app will be able to help by taking pictures, reviewing rooms, and sending in snaps of the emergency exit maps on their hotel room doors. The company uses those to fill out its database.  In my quick review of the prelaunch site, I found that the Google-generated views from hotels' upper floors were useful and illustrative, but that Google's images from low floors (with blocked views) were more muddy than useful, due to the mostly poor quality of the photographs of building facades that Google projects onto the 3D models in its map database. Also, the service doesn't have the information that matters the most to the geek traveler: Wi-Fi signal strength in the room. I asked my contact at the company if they could add that feature ASAP.  Room 77 is a useful, fun, and economically interesting start-up. A few turns of the development wheel as the product grows up and this travel company could become very important. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP snaps up real-time data management provider Vertica]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sufzireJulliTy</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard announced today that it will acquire Vertica, a provider of analytics and data management software, for an undisclosed sum.Vertica develops software that&amp;'s used to index and call up information on databases with massive amounts of data. The software works on both in-house servers and cloud infrastructures a4&quot; meaning the data is stored on remote servers and accessed through the Internet. The company also provides its clients with a set of analytics tools to find problems in the storage systems and quickly address them.The data management company serves as a nice complement to HP&amp;'s other recent acquisition, cloud storage provider 3Par. HP has been ramping up its cloud storage services to stay competitive with the likes of Amazon and Salesforce, which are rapidly becoming more popular because they offer cheap alternatives to companies that would otherwise have to buy and manage large servers in house.It&amp;'s all part of HP&amp;'s strategy to hold its own in the enterprise space. Oracle hasn&amp;'t kept secret that it wants to take down HP and claim its number two spot in the server manufacturing business. Oracle and HP have a bit of a catty history a4&quot; HP chief executive Mark Hurd joined the database manufacturer after a public scandal forced him to step down from his top spot at HP. But Oracle has made it clear that it wants to focus on in-house databases and servers for large gobs of data a4&quot; so there&amp;'s some wiggle room for HP if it offers cloud storage.The deal with Vertica is expected to close in the second quarter this year. Billerica, Mass.-based Vertica has around 300 customers and has clients like Twitter, Aol and Groupon. Vertica has raised $30.5 million across two rounds of funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers and Highland Capital Partners.HP also remains one of the largest manufacturers of computers and devices  for typical consumers. The company announced a new lineup of smartphones  running on Palm&amp;'s WebOS mobile operating system a4&quot; the Pre 3 and HP Veer  a4&quot; and a WebOS tablet computer a4&quot; the HP TouchPad.[Photo: Docklandsboy]Next Story: Kleiner Perkins adds Facebook to its social lineup Previous Story: Building the next great mobile software developer opportunityPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cloud computing, cloud storage, enterpriseCompanies: Hewlett Packard, HP, Vertica          Tags: cloud computing, cloud storage, enterpriseCompanies: Hewlett Packard, HP, VerticaMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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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