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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's Windows Azure turns one]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Today marks the one-year anniversary of Microsoft's Azure platform being available for public consumption.To celebrate, Microsoft has announced two additional companies that have made use of the platform for consumer- and business-facing services. One of those is T-Mobile, which used Azure to speed up the development time for its Family Room collaboration tool for mobile phones. The other is Xerox, which used Windows Azure and SQL Azure to help build its cloud-based printing service dubbed Cloud Print. Microsoft first unveiled its Windows Azure platform a little more than two years ago at PDC 2008. Then chief software architect for Microsoft, Ray Ozzie, positioned the cloud services platform as both a transformation in the company's software as well as in its overall strategy.The product, which lets developers write programs that live inside Microsoft's data centers, competes with similar offerings from cloud heavyweights like Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, and Google. Microsoft has pushed it to both developers and customers alike, as a way to get the latest version of its server technologies on demand, and in a way that can be scaled up or down depending on the size of their business, or the needs of their applications.Azure had stayed under Ozzie's leadership until the Azure and Server teams got wrapped into Microsoft's Servers and Tools Business in late 2009. Since then, Microsoft has continued to make improvements and additions to the service, as well as to work toward moving Azure beyond its own data centers, with plans to let businesses run their own private clouds with on-premises Azure appliances. As far as Azure uptake, or how many companies the technology platform has attracted, Microsoft has opened up on those metrics as the platform has continued to evolve. Shortly after the free trial for businesses ended, Microsoft had said that many of the free-trialers had stayed on as paying customers, but it would not go into specifics. According to The Seattle Times, the official number now stands at 31,000 customers, up from 20,000 last July' that's a 55 percent increase inside of seven months. Prior to that, Microsoft said during its fiscal first-quarter earnings call that it had seen Azure subscriptions grow 40 percent quarter-over-quarter.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tesla Model S Alpha shows off for the camera]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Tesla features an Alpha version of its upcoming Model S electric sedan in this recently released video.(Credit:Tesla)Tesla Motors, manufacturer of the Roadster electric sportscar and supplier of EV components, has released information about its upcoming Model S sedan's development cycle.Tesla is breaking the S' preproduction testing into two phases, alpha and beta. Within each phase the automaker will be building multiple test mules as it attempts to home in on its targeted performance, range, and crash safety. Tesla also notes that the Alpha development phase has been in progress since last year, quoting its Vehicle Dynamicist Graham Sutherland when he states, &quot;The first Alpha is amazingly agile for a car of its size. It has great handling balance and poised ride with communicative steering. Just goes to show what combining a low center of gravity with a very stiff body structure can achieve.&quot;Of course, the Model S can attribute its low center of gravity to its flattened battery pack acting as a ballast just below the vehicle's floor.Along with this statement, Tesla has released video of a Model S Alpha whipping silently along a country back road. Check out the footage below.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo announces Livestand digital newstand for tablets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yahoo announced today on a conference call that it&amp;'s getting into the digital newstand business on tablets with Livestand.a4ATablets are great for a laid back experience, but most magazine content remains trapped online,a4 Yahoo chief product officer Blake Irving said on the call. a4ABut consumers dona4a4t want a digitized. They want a do-over. They want rich media, they want connections beyond just commenting.a4He went on to say that it&amp;'s tough for publishers to take advantage of tablets while managing the cost. He also describes most content for tablets as &amp;''PDFs with some video&amp;'', which is a &amp;''shallow and unrewarding experience&amp;'' for consumers.With LiveStand, publishers will be able to easily deliver personalized content to consumers. Basically, it sounds like it&amp;'s Yahoo&amp;'s take on the popular iPad magazine app FlipBoard. Eventually Livestand will make its way to smartphones as well.&amp;''Don&amp;'t think of this as an app, think of this as a platform,&amp;'' Yahoo&amp;'s Irv Henderson said on the call.The Livestand iPad app features typical news categories, and Yahoo says it will be starting out mostly by featuring its own content offerings like Yahoo Finance, and Flickr. Surfer magazine is one partner the company already has on board, and it plans to offer other magazine subscriptions as well. Henderson said it would also be possible for &amp;''two guys in a garage&amp;'' to put together their own magazine and publish it with Livestand.Yahoo faces some mean competition in the digital newstand business. Google is reportedly trying to court publishers for its Android newstand, and Apple is bringing news subscription capabilities to the iTunes store, starting with News Corp&amp;'s The Daily iPad newspaper. We can expect entrenched e-reader companies like Amazon and Barnes &amp;amp' Noble to ramp up their offerings as well.Yahoo says that Livestand will launch some time in the first half of the year. It&amp;'s aiming to launch on Apple devices first, but the company is also looking at Android 3.0, which is built specifically with tablets in mind.Via Business Insider, PaidContentNext Story: Seven reasons why video games will grow in 2011 Previous Story: Inq debuts Facebook-focused Cloud Touch, Cloud Q phonesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: digitial newstand, Livestand, tabletsCompanies: Yahoo          Tags: digitial newstand, Livestand, tabletsCompanies: YahooDevindra 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. 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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