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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Play Halo all night with Lexus, win MS Points]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>superedatingrus</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Lexus is marketing its CT 200h to a younger audience than its normal demographic.(Credit:Lexus)Lexus is partnering with online gaming serviceXbox Live to promote its new 2011 Lexus CT 200h hybrid hatchback by giving away Microsoft Points to lucky gamers. To be eligible to win, users must log on to the Xbox Live service, download the free Lexus All-Nighter Gamer Picture, and then just play Halo: Reach on the night of Saturday, December 18. According to Lexus, the longer you play, the better your odds of winning will be. Of course, that means that people who play all night long will have the best chance of snagging a prize.Every hour between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. (Pacific Time) on the night of the promotion, Lexus will award eight random players 4,000 Microsoft Points--the currency of the Xbox Live service used to make purchases within the Xbox Live ecosystem. For those unfamilar with the Microsoft-Points-to-dollars conversion rate, 4,000 Points is worth approximately $50 and will get you either five Arcade games, three movie downloads, or 50Zune songs.If Lexus' previous marketing efforts are an indication, the Japanese luxury automaker's target demographic tends to be well-heeled baby boomers, which is why its latest partnership with Xbox Live strikes us as a bit odd. But perhaps it shouldn't, as Lexus has been making strides to lower the average age of its target audience with its Dark Ride online advertising campaign for the CT 200h hybrid and its Darkcasting online lifestyle show, which launched last month--a sort of younger, more painfully hip video version of the Lexus Insider lifestyle audio advertorials available as part of the automaker's Enform infotainment suite.The partnership with Xbox Live will also enable people to download and view episodes of the Darkcasting show from their console's dashboard. (Right about now, you're probably thinking, &quot;That's exactly what Xbox Live needed, more ads!&quot;)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. appeals court backs Blizzard in WoW bot case]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>superedatingrus</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=u-s--appeals-court-backs-blizzard-in-wow-bot-case</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a World of Warcraft-playing bot violated the online game's terms of use, upholding a lower court's 2008 decision against the so-called Glider software, and issuing a permanent injunction against its use.The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled (PDF file) that the MDY's Glider bot--which helps WoW players by automatically playing early levels of the massively popular game--is a breach of a contractual covenant. In a post on their Virtual World Law Blog, lawyers at the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman explained that the decision largely follows that of U.S. District Judge David Campbell, which enjoined the use of Glider in 2008. But the Pillsbury Law firm--which represents ActivisionBlizzard in other matters, but isn't involved in this case--argued that the Ninth Circuit's conclusion that the Glider software was a breach of a contractual covenant means that Blizzard has different remedies available to it for breach of contract and copyright infringement than it did under the district court's original decision.World of Warcraft is one of the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing games in the world, with more than 11 million players. Last week, Blizzard released Cataclysm, the third major WoW expansion. In the first 24 hours of its release, Blizzard sold 3.3 million copies of Cataclysm. The decision, Pillsbury's bloggers wrote, rested on the Ninth Circuit's determination that Glider circumvented Blizzard's Warden anti-bot detection programAccording to Pillsbury, Glider did violate dynamic non-literal elements of WoW under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), but did not violate the DMCA &quot;with respect to WoW's literal and individual non-literal elements.&quot;&quot;The Court also found that the tortious interference with contract claims were not preempted by the Copyright Act,&quot; the Pillsbury blog read, &quot;but that factual issues prevented a proper summary judgment finding. As a result, it vacated the district court's summary judgment ruling on this issue and remanded the issue of personal liability for [Glider maker] MDY's CEO.&quot; Prior to Blizzard's original lawsuit, MDY had sold 100,000 copies of the $25 bot software.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Windows at 25: A tech king with growing competition]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>superedatingrus</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=windows-at-25-a-tech-king-with-growing-competition</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Windows 1.X in action. Note the two floppy drives. (Credit:Microsoft)When the first Windows operating system was introduced by Microsoft, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, John Hughes was introducing touching teen stereotypes in &quot;The Breakfast Club,&quot; and a young singer named Madonna was hitting the road with &quot;The Virgin Tour.&quot; Twenty five years later, Windows, Reagan, Hughes, and Madonna are still very much at the center of our tech, political, and pop culture discussions.Since we are a technology site, however, let's take a moment to focus on the sheer breadth of Bill Gates' achievement with Windows and to ask: how long can this go on Now in its seventh major version, Windows can be found on about 9 out of every 10 of the world PCs, its server version is on 70 percent of the world's servers, and, of course, Gates is the richest person in America, and, until recently, the world. Microsoft is the world's largest software company thanks largely to the Windows franchise and has extended its products to everything from gaming consoles and mobile phones to corporate financial software and databases.But there are cracks in the Windows business, some self-made, some the result of too much success. As Microsoft watchers look back in amazement at the last 25 years, the old Chaucer expression &quot;There is an end to everything&quot; is starting to look more and more relevant to a company that for many years looked invulnerable.Competitors like Apple that once seemed like a blip on the radar are now seeing huge growth in computer sales--computers that are not shipping with Windows. In fact, numbers from IDC released last month had Apple growing at eight times the rate of PC competitors during the third quarter. There are also been signs that devices like theiPad, with their new form factor, are making a shift in people's decision about whether to buy something more traditional, like a laptop. Not to mention the looming threat that is Google's Chrome OS, something that Gates compared to Linux in an interview with CNET last year, but that could still cut a dent out of Windows PC sales when it arrives as soon as next month.Images: What Windows 7 might have looked like No, this is not a &quot;sky is falling moment&quot; for Microsoft, but it could be a defining one as it moves further from the leadership of Gates into the era of CEO Steve Ballmer: Microsoft must correct its miscues in the mobile market, and define just how it will keep customers as they move more applications to the &quot;cloud&quot; computing environment.To understand why that market share number is in jeopardy over the next few years, one has to look at other challenges facing Windows as a platform. Moving 25 years of customers along to new things isn't easy, of course. Generations of old software must have some sort of upgrade path. In effect, the bigger you get, the more baggage you have to drag along. And the disappointment of Windows Vista didn't help matters.But one of the most immediate threats is existential, the notion of what exactly is a personal computer. Is it a desktop or notebook device built around Intel's ubiquitous x86 semiconductor architecture that runs Windows software Or is it something else Is it a device as small as a smartphone Or is it something more like the iPad Or is it all of the above Does it run on x86 or the increasingly popular ARM architecture And how exactly does Microsoft maintain control of that heterogeneous worldOne spot where you can see some seeds of change is withWindows Phone 7, which Microsoft created to replace the Windows Mobile platform. That understanding that people were looking for something different and dropping an existing platform to achieve a result was no small feat, but in large part it took Microsoft losing ground to competitors like Apple and Google. Could Microsoft do that same thing for something as large, and as entrenched as Windows, but before it gets to that point of necessity In the case of Windows, it might just be difficult to want to make too big of a change. We have a product that was created for and continues to be steeped in a usage model that is defined by form factor. But as that idea changes, Windows has to as well. Microsoft's complete reboot of its mobile platform with Windows Phone 7 is certainly a sign that the company isn't afraid to make some big changes. The real question is how to do that with something like Windows, where one of the key attractions continues to be a large library of applications--something you don't just drop.Therein lies another problem: with developers moving applications to the cloud, the reliance on what operating system you're using becomes less relevant. Microsoft continues to do well on the other side of the equation: licensing server software and its Windows Azure platform that powers those apps. But even so, that's only half of the solution. As a developer, do you continue to invest in a platform like Windows, or focus on the Web so that your product or service can be used from any platformThe road to Windows 7 So how did we get here On November 20, 1985, Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0 as a replacement for the DOS-prompt computing experience. The idea was that users would no longer have to remember commands to do things like browse through file directories, install programs, or simply launch programs. They could instead navigate with a keyboard and mouse. More importantly, the system brought multitasking, so users could run more than one application at a time.While multitasking is something we now take for granted, at the time this was a killer productivity hook for computing. Even so, Windows didn't really catch on until its third iteration, some five years after the launch of the version 1.0. Windows 3's success, which can be measured in the 10 million copies it sold over two years, was based largely on the look and feel of the OS, along with backward compatibility for legacy software. Doing more than one thing at a time on your computer seems obvious, but back then, it wasn&amp;39't. (Credit:Microsoft)Following the Windows 3 era, the company went on to launch Windows 95, which included the start button and the task bar and a massive ad campaign featuring The Rolling Stones. This was followed by Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, then XP--all within six years of each other. XP then lived a very successful, though what could be considered a longer than anticipated lifespan, due in large part toWindows Vista--XP's successor, which was released five years later. Vista was met with a lukewarm reception both from consumers and companies alike, despite posting solid sales numbers. This was further complicated by Microsoft effectively conceding to device manufacturers, who were able to continue selling new computers with Microsoft's older operating system, XP, even though Vista had been on the market for more than a year. After Vista came Windows 7, which brings us up to now. Windows 7 has proven to be a big success for Microsoft, with the company having sold more than 240 million copies of the software since its launch last October. It's also been a faster seller than Vista, selling 234 percent more boxed editions than Vista did during the same initial release period.Much of 7's success can be attributed to Microsoft soliciting feedback from PC makers and users, as CNET documented at the operating system's launch. According to PC makers, Microsoft's longstanding development process had been very secretive, but with Windows 7, the company opened up, and exchanged information so that the product would be more compatible and customizable when it was first launched--something Vista had issues with. Where does that leave us with Windows 8--or whatever Microsoft chooses to call it Recent rumors have pegged it as having some serious virtualization prowess--enough to the point where much of the hard work that has driven the pace for the processor arms race and limited things like battery life and performance--could be done in the cloud. Such an architecture would give Microsoft and device manufacturers alike a little wiggle room to experiment with a wider variety of form factors and UI possibilities, as well as tack on new ways to deliver software and security updates. The real question then, is how to to keep that from being too jarring an experience for both developers and users alike. Such a system may be delivered to us with that next version of Windows, but that still doesn't answer the question of the long term. What comes after that, and then again after that And will Microsoft have the right people at the helm to guess that next step and plan ahead The recent departure of Ray Ozzie certainly puts that into question. Ozzie played a crucial part in moving the company's focus and revenue stream onto the cloud. How much that factored into the development road map of Windows will certainly be interesting to watch. One thing that's clear though is that Windows is a tough franchise--one that has gone through a constant cycle of refinement and re-evaluation. While it's easy to look back on some of the stumbles, it's always harder looking forward. It's also hard to argue at 25 years, with most of that being spent at the very top, that Microsoft isn't doing a lot of things right. And who knows Maybe one day Madonna will get tired of making new albums. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Meet Cody, the robot that gives sponge baths]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>superedatingrus</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
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<description><![CDATA[One thing we can probably all agree on is that in the future, robots will be everywhere. But will they play the role of master or servantSexy times!(Credit:Healthcare Robotics Lab/Georgia Tech)With luck, the latter will come to pass, and Cody, a concept robot from Georgia Tech, is an example of what we should hope for (or fear). Simply put, it's a sponge bath robot, three words I never thought I'd type in the same sentence.The best part is it appears to do the job well, though it certainly takes all the sexiness out of the endeavor. The autonomous robot uses lasers--because, really, robots all have lasers, or at least should--to specify a body part that needs to be scrubbed.A camera then feeds the information to a microprocessor which, in turn, commands the robot's arm to wipe the selected area, which it swabs first.  In tests conducted by Georgia Tech's Healthcare Robotics Lab, Cody used image processing to determine the hue of the &quot;debris&quot; (which we're guessing includes dead skin cells--and possibly bedbugs and dignity) and thus ascertain how much remained on the arm after the robot completed its task. Cody effectively removed 96 percent of the stuff.  Fortunately, it performs its duties using &quot;relatively low force&quot;--less than three newtons, which is science speak for, &quot;Oh, yeah, right there, baby.&quot;  So let's recap: If you're in the hospital of the future, instead of a sexy nurse or orderly giving you your daily sponge bath, you will get a sterile, unthinking robo-doc named Cody. Sometimes progress isn't all it's meant to be. And just so you know what's coming, there's a video of Cody in action below. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Money for nothing: Free apps pay off for 1 out of 3 top iPhone developers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[About a third of the top grossing apps in the Apple App Store are now making their money through the sale of virtual goods within the application after being free to download, according to research done by tech blog GigaOm.The free-to-play model has so far served as a good way to entice users with free apps and then make money off the sale of virtual goods. Apple finally caved to developers and created a system to allow iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users to makepurchases from within apps last fall.The design allows developers to create a free app and then get the user to purchase a very cheap virtual good, such as a better weapon in a game. It then becomes much easier to convert a non-payinguser into a paying one.Freemium applications are making a good bit of money. In January, mobile analytics firm Flurry said that the freemium games it tracked generated revenues of $9 per user per year, on average. In June, that number had risen to $14.66 per user per year. Previously, these games were generating around 99 cents to $1.99 per user per year. 34 of the top 100 apps are free, but make their money through in-app purchases of mostly virtual currencies as well as other premium features, according to GigaOm&amp;'s report.Apple takes a 30 percent cut of all purchases made within applications. That&amp;'s the same amount that Facebook, another large host of social games (including Zynga&amp;'s Farmville), charges its game partners.Apple&amp;'s App Storenow has around 300,000 apps for sale and for free download. And the App Store is growing by around 1,000 apps every day. The Android marketplace, which has applications for phones running on Google&amp;'s Android operating system, only has around 113,000 applications according to some metrics.Score another one for social games developer Zynga, which first brought the freemium model to the forefront as a significant source of revenue for games and other applications. Its games have become insanely popular, and the company is now worth as much as Electronic Arts a4&quot; one of the largest publishers in the world a4&quot; by some metrics from its virtual good sales alone.Next Story: Microsoft and Cisco throw down the gauntlet for living room teleconferencing Previous Story: Nintendo: the gaming landscape has changed forever, but console&amp;'s are doing just finePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Android Marketplace, App Store, Apple App Store, free-to-play, freemium, social gamesCompanies: Apple, Google, Zynga          Tags: Android, Android Marketplace, App Store, Apple App Store, free-to-play, freemium, social gamesCompanies: Apple, Google, ZyngaVentureBeat 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[Cloud gurus say Oracle just doesn&'t get the cloud]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>superedatingrus</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=cloud-gurus-say-oracle-just-doesnrsquot-get-the-cloud</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Flash back to just about two months ago. Larry Ellison, Oracle&amp;'s CEO, walked on stage on the first evening of Oracle OpenWorld 2010 and unveiled the Exadata server. It was about three times the size of his speaking podium.&amp;''This is the cloud,&amp;'' Ellison said. &amp;''You can have it for a million bucks.&amp;''Not really. According to a number of heavy players in the cloud computing space, Oracle, a new player in the computer-hardware world thanks to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, is going about promoting cloud computing the wrong way a4&quot; because it doesn&amp;'t &amp;''exist in a box.&amp;''A panel consisting of Marc Benioff, CEO of customer resource management provider Salesforce, Paul Maritz, CEO of virtualization software provider VMWare, and Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Web services with Amazon.com, slammed Oracle for its focus on promoting cloud computing as a product a4&quot; not as a service a4&quot; at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco today.And Oracle&amp;'s strategy has a lot of that has to do with Ellison, Benioff said. He likened the sometimes-bombastic Ellison to Ken Olson, the man who said there would be no reason for any individual to own a personal computer. Oracle is still trapped in a reality where cloud computing is provided as some kind of a product a4&quot; in the form of a server or a high-powered computer a4&quot; and not as a service, he said.Cloud computing has exploded in popularity because it gives any developer an insane amount of computing firepower without having to sink a ton of money into building a personal cluster of servers. Instead, application developers can simply tap into a number of servers run by companies like Amazon and Rackspace to handle all the back-end computing.And cloud computing has grown so popular is because it is so easy to access it. Jassy called it the democratization of the cloud. He said developers are no longer constrained by having to pick up their own equipment or being &amp;''locked in&amp;'' with a company to develop their software. Instead, they can take their ideas to whichever cloud computing provider offers them the best deal.&amp;''What cloud computing is to me is this sacred thing of being able to run things as a service,&amp;'' Benioff said. &amp;''I think it&amp;'s post-traumatic stress disorder from Microsoft and how they used to control things, but we have to abandon the points of control metaphor a4&quot; no one controls the cloud.&amp;''Benioff called on Dropbox&amp;'s Drew Houston, a graduate of theMassachusettsInstitute of Technology, as a prime example of how successful the democratization of the cloud has been. Houston was able to create a truly disruptive service a4&quot; the ability to share files and download them to computers effortlessly a4&quot; thanks to the power of cloud computing.The panelists called on each other a4&quot; and other cloud computing providers a4&quot; to abandon the thought of cloud computing as some kind of a product and look to it as a service they can provide developers to help augment their own cloud offerings. Cloud computing providers have to focus on creating attractive applications for developers and other potential customers on top of managing data efficiently and offering a powerful development suite.&amp;''This is becoming mainstream, the shift is happening whether we want it to or not,&amp;'' Benioff said. &amp;''And the role of Ken Olson, this time around, is being played by Larry Ellison.&amp;''Next Story: Yakaz brings location to social classified ads Previous Story: GM to raise whopping $20 billion in IPO, Chevy Volt riding highPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cloud, cloud computing, democratization, web 2.0, Web 2.0 SummitCompanies: Amazon, Dropbox, Oracle, salesforce, VMWarePeople: Andy Jassy, Larry Ellison, Marc Benioff, Paul Maritz          Tags: cloud, cloud computing, democratization, web 2.0, Web 2.0 SummitCompanies: Amazon, Dropbox, Oracle, salesforce, VMWarePeople: Andy Jassy, Larry Ellison, Marc Benioff, Paul MaritzVentureBeat 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[Motorola brings streaming video to mobile devices via mystery gadget]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>superedatingrus</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Get your iPads ready to kick back on the couch. Motorola intends to bring streaming video to tablets and mobile phones in the home via a set-top box, according to Reuters.At first, the idea is to provide streaming video (movies, TV programs) to devices within a wireless network at home, but eventually Motorola wants to enable its customers to watch any content, anywhere.Reuters organized the Global Media Summit event on Wednesday where Motorola unveiled the product. The biggest obstacle to the product is not the technology, but the deals Motorola has to work out with content providers to allow users walk around with copyrighted programming in their pockets. This is the reason why the still-unnamed Motorola product will at first be restricted to streaming video within the home.But legal technicalities will not confine on-demand video in mobile devices to just the home, says Motorola.According to the president of Motorola Mobility, Daniel Moloney, streaming video will make its way to mobile devices due to consumer demanda4&quot;in fact, he said it is a a4Aconsumer proposition that will come sooner rather than later.a4Offering only a glimpse for now, Motorola will showcase the product in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The product will be released as a separate device that service providers will offer to their customersa4&quot;to possibly serve as an incentive for consumers to stay with a certain service providera4&quot;but eventually it will be integrated in set-top boxes.It seems that Motorola is only just jumping on board, though: There already is the Slingbox which allows users to watch TV shows streamed from their set-top boxes to a computer or mobile device wherever they are, not just at home. And there&amp;'s the bigger question for streaming video from set-top boxes &amp;8212' is there really a need for it After all, you can just opt to use a service like Hulu or Netflix and watch your favorite TV programs online whenever, wherever.Next Story: Mobile sync company Funambol appoints telecom vet as new CEO Previous Story: eBay&amp;'s $75 million Milo buy: Another reason e-commerce is set to boomPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: on-demand, set-top box, streaming videoCompanies: Hulu, motorola, Netflix, slingboxPeople: Daniel Moloney          Tags: on-demand, set-top box, streaming videoCompanies: Hulu, motorola, Netflix, slingboxPeople: Daniel MoloneyVentureBeat 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[Ticket upstart Ticketfly accelerates with the Baltimore Grand Prix]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ticketfly, a startup hoping to challenge Ticketmaster with its social media savvy, said it has had a good year &amp;8212' and it&amp;'s capping the year off with a new partner, the Baltimore Grand Prix.The grand prix is a big IndyCar race, and it&amp;'s projected to draw more than 150,000 visitors over the 2011 Labor Day weekend. Beyond the pure numbers, the deal is significant for Ticketfly because it marks the company&amp;'s first big partner outside the concert industry.&amp;''Ticketfly has had a lot of success in large-scale, outdoor music festivals, so now ita4a4s time for us to continue our growth into new segments and to apply our skill set to those segments,&amp;'' Ticketfly chief executive Andrew Dreskin said in a press release.The San Francisco startup was founded by Dreskin and Dan Teree, who previously led TicketWeb, which was acquired by Ticketmaster. They said they saw an opening for a service that not only sold tickets, but also helped concert promoters create a presence on sites like Facebook and Twitter. The company says it now serves more than 100 venues and is on-track to sell 1.2 million tickets this year,Ticketfly raised $3 million from High Peaks Venture Partners, Contour Venture Partners, The NYC Seed Fund, and angel investors including Howard Lindzon and Roger Ehrenberg.Next Story: Google Maps 5.0 for Android now available with 3D buildings, offline support Previous Story: Rackspace picks up cloud performance monitoring startup CloudkickPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Boston Grand Prix, ticketingCompanies: TicketflyPeople: Andrew Dreskin, Dan Teree          Tags: Boston Grand Prix, ticketingCompanies: TicketflyPeople: Andrew Dreskin, Dan TereeAnthony 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[To save your phone from hackers, Lookout raises $19.5M]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There&amp;'s a gold rush going on in security investments, and Lookout Mobile Security is cashing in on it. The smartphone security company is announced today it has raised $19.5 million in a third round of funding led by Index Ventures.Security investments have been hot for a while since it&amp;'s clear that, with the daily reports of malware attacks, users still need a lot more protection when it comes to cruising the internet. Lookout is positioning itself in one of the hottest parts of the market, mobile security.San Francisco-based Lookout has seen its app grow from 100,000 users less than a year ago to more than 4 million today.Many of those users download the free version of the app on the Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone 7 platforms. But the company is having success upgrading users to a $3-a-month premium service that includes features such as Privacy Advisor, data backup, and missing-device locator, said John Hering, chief executive of the company, in an interview.&amp;''Smartphones are the next computer for billions of consumers and ita4a4s clear that, just as in the PC world, consumers and their phones need protection,a4 said Volpi.During the past year, Hering said his company has seen mobile threats multiply from about four per 100 users to more than 10 per 100 users. The incidence of attacks aren&amp;'t as bad as they are on PCs yet, but they are growing.One recent attack hit more than 1 million cell phones in China and resulted in $300,000 in damages per day. And a Trojan Horse attack disguised as a &amp;''movie player&amp;'' app was released on the Android Market' it sent premium text messages and charged a user&amp;'s phone bill without notification. Also, in November, flaws in banking apps exposed the security of iPhone and Android users.As for the gold rush, Hering said he believes that mobile security just set up its foundations as a business in 2010 and is poised for faster growth in 2011.Meanwhile, global smartphone sales in the third quarter were up 96 percent from a year ago. With hundreds of thousands of apps, it&amp;'s harder to screen all of them properly. Hering noted the recent Wall Street Journal investigation that found lots of mobile apps routinely violate privacy policies by sending your phone&amp;'s data to advertisers.The Lookout Privacy Advisor can protect users against that, he said. Lookout has been chronicling all of the things that apps do in its App Genome Project, largely because of concerns about what kinds of things apps do without notifying users.&amp;''In the last six months or so, consumers have started to become aware of the privacy and security issues,&amp;'' Hering said.Lookout&amp;'s app is now on more than 400 mobile networks in 170 countries. But it still isn&amp;'t on the iPhone. Hering said the company is watching the iPhone closely and is encouraged at Apple&amp;'s recent relaxation of restrictions on apps.Hering said the company was not actively soliciting funding and still has money in the bank from its last round. The company was founded in 2007 and has 50 or so employees. Hering said the company plans to hire as many as 50 people in 2011. Rivals include McAfee and Symantec. But the main challenge for the company at the moment is that most people don&amp;'t think they need mobile security.Lookout&amp;'s introductory video is below.Next Story: Foursquare launches new Android app earlier than expected Previous Story: Facebook&amp;'s Zuckerberg meets with China&amp;'s tech leadersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: malware, mobile security, securityCompanies: Lookout Mobile SecurityPeople: John Hering          Tags: malware, mobile security, securityCompanies: Lookout Mobile SecurityPeople: John HeringDean 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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