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<title><![CDATA[SXSW responds to Japan disasters]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Gaming</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The SXSW community reacted quickly to the Japanese disasters by creating a Web site asking attendees to make donations.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)AUSTIN, Texas--There may not be a more Net-connected group of people than the tens of thousands that have descended here this week for the South By Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW). And in an attempt to harvest the collective power of these digital powerhouses to help out with relief for the disasters that hit Japan on Friday, conference organizers quickly took action.Today, SXSW Interactive director Hugh Forrest announced SXSW4Japan, a Web site where conference attendees are being asked to donate a total of at least $10,000 for relief efforts in Japan.&quot;Can the SXSW community raise $10,000 for Japan in 4 days Of course we can,&quot; the site urges attendees. &quot;We at SXSW Interactive can make a difference. We can raise funds for the American Red Cross to provide disaster relief in Japan. Donate now to the American Red Cross or create a fundraising page to raise support.&quot;On the site, there's a button for creating a personalized fundraising page, and there's also a general donation button. In the early going, it's hard to tell if the community is going to be able to meet the call for $10,000 in donations. By 3:15 p.m. CST Friday, only $530 had been pledged. But as word of the campaign spreads, it's likely that the connective power of the thousands on hand here this week will meet the challenge.Clearly, though, people who are in Austin for SXSW are paying attention to what's happening in Japan, as a scan of the thousands of tweets coming out of the conference revealed.&quot;If you were able to afford to attend sxsw or buy aniPad today, consider saving a few $$$ for Japan earthquake relief,&quot; tweeted David Bisset. &quot;Just sayin.&quot; And Twitter user Eric Nakagawa added his own sentiment, &quot;I just read death toll reached 1,000. I have donated my ENTIRE SXSW drinking budget to Japan Red Cross.&quot; That may seem to some as an empty gesture, but what's evident is that many people on hand here are feeling the responsibility to do something to help out.Perhaps the most welcome approach was a Web site someone set up to take advantage of hysteria started earlier this morning over the fake launch of a beta site called Hoodlez.com by investor Chris Sacca. As reported by TechCrunch, dozens of people tried to get in on the beta, only to discover that it was a hoax by Sacca. But now, someone has actually registered Hoodlez.com and those visiting the site to try to get in on the beta are met with this message: &quot;There's no beta...there's something better. While we know you're probably here to try to get a beta invite thanks to Chris Sacca's tweet, we have something much better for you: an opportunity to make a difference by donating to the American Red Cross.&quot;To which Sacca himself tweeted, &quot;Okay, this is entirely amazing.&quot;At the same time, Twitter user Leigh Duncan-Durst tweeted that she and others are encouraging all SXSW speakers to add the hash tag sxswcares to &quot;mobilize support&quot; for Japan. There are already hundreds of tweets being posted from here with that hash tag.If you're in Austin, or if you're watching coverage of SXSW and are concerned about the people of Japan, please consider making a donation. You'll surely be able to build up your drinking budget again soon enough.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pentagon: Space junk could knock out your cell phone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sweacyaccindy</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[You have probably become used to dropped calls. It is a fact of life, like sofas that won't stay clean and bankers who won't be reasonable.I would, however, like to warn you that there might soon be a new reason for your conversations about bars,cars, and Mars to be rudely curtailed. Yes, even if you have aVerizoniPhone 4.You see, space debris might have simply smacked into your Verizon satellite, rendering it just another exploding piece of metal.I am passing this along from the Telegraph, which passed it along from the Pentagon.This information has apparently been bouncing around for a little while, thanks to the U.S. Defense Department's interim Space Posture Review. And yet no one is sure what can be done about it. What&amp;39's going on up there could spoil our fun down here.(Credit:CC Raven Vasquez/Flickr) The Telegraph quotes Bharath Gopalaswamy, who sits at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and behaves like a rocket scientist, as saying that there are, as you read this, 370,000 pieces of space junk floating in an area between 490 and 620 miles above us.In that same area, there are only 1,100 satellites.So a swift calculation suggests the area might appear a little like the Long Island Expressway on a Friday night, where a mere single figure percentage of drivers are following highway rules.All this junk is apparently made up of satellites that have had their day and split apart, rockets that have been thrust out to pasture, bits of missiles, debris from space missions, and, who knows, a couple of characters from &quot;Space Jam.&quot;Just one little collision might knock out not only your cell phone conversations but also, perhaps, even your reality TV pleasure or your closest family dependent--yes, your GPS.The most troubling aspect of all this is that it seems very hard to control. Authorities are begging those who send things up into space not to litter. But the situation doesn't appear all that easy to police--which risks a doomsday scenario, a sort of multiple fender bender called by the scientists an &quot;uncontrolled chain reaction,&quot; with which any interstellar AAA will not be able to cope.Space, it seems, may be the final frontier for annoying, destructive garbage. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Study finds automaker-consumer disconnect on EVs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sweacyaccindy</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[There's significant interest in all-electric vehicles amongcar buyers, but automakers have a few obstacles to navigate in order to satisfy consumers, according to an IBM study.IBM's Institute of Business Value, an internal IBM think tank, on Tuesday is expected to release results of a survey it did with both consumers and auto executives, which found that the industry's bet on electrification has some market pull from consumers.The electric-car all-stars come out (photos) Nineteen percent of 1,716 U.S. drivers said they were likely or very likely to consider an all-electric vehicle for their next car. The average driving range per day is between 30 miles and 40 miles, which held true even in rural areas, said Kal Gyimesi, IBV automotive lead and co-author of the study. Thirty percent of people said that a 100-mile range, which is what many automakers are targeting, is sufficient.But even if there is demand, automakers should realize that consumer awareness of EVs is still relatively low and that EVs will challenge the conventional way of doing business, said Gyimesi.&quot;The business model is going to determine success just as much (as products). If you think about an auto company's traditional sales, manufacturing, and development model, they really need to reach outside of that and start making partnerships,&quot; he said.For example, even though most consumers will primarily charge at home and possibly work, many in the survey expressed interest in EV charging ports at malls and other retail outlets. The cost of adding a faster, 220-volt car charging port to homes, which can cost $1,000 or $2,000, is also a potential barrier to consumer adoption.Consumers are sensitive to purchase price and the price of gasoline, but the survey also found many were willing to pay more for a more environmentally friendly car. Forty percent said they would be willing to pay up to 20 percent more for an electric-only car.Auto and utility industry executives, meanwhile, appear to think that rebates and tax credits are a strong motivation for buying an EV. Although there's a great deal of buzz around the Nissan Leaf and other plug-in cars coming to market, most analysts expect battery-electric cars to represent a small fraction of total auto sales in the next 10 years. Large batteries make EVs relatively expensive, although the cost per mile is cheaper. They also face ongoing competition from more fuel-efficient, gas-only vehicles or hybrids.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bebo launches Meebo instant messaging, in effort to win over Chat-starved users]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sweacyaccindy</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Bebo just launched Meebo&amp;'s web-based instant messaging client across the social network and the company says a million messages have been sent alreadyThis is Beboa4a4s first step towards a much more real-time, interactive platform since they sold to AOL for $850 million in 2008.  Right after that AOL let the platform languish, eventually shutting it down for tax purposes and selling it for about $10m to Criterion Capital Partners. True story.The new team of 20 or so employees has &amp;8211' surprise surprise &amp;8211' made the site profitable and it&amp;'s now coming back in user numbers.Mike Arrington&amp;'s recent interview with CTO Akash Garg suggested they&amp;'d be going for &amp;''Self expression, mobile and video will be strong components.&amp;''Clearly IM and Meebo is part of that.In addition a company spokesperson told me that &amp;''sharing/conversation are huge factors in theproduct roadmap&amp;'' so this will cover video, music, gaming, and all the niche communities of Bebo&amp;'s largely teenage audience. Meebo allows users to sync up their other profiles (Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook etc) alowing them to keep up with people outside the platform. It&amp;'s a cruel irony since there was a suggestion after the sale to AOL that it was Bebo&amp;'s IM platform was what AOL wanted inside the fold. Apparently not.I gather Chat has been the most requested functionality by users for over a year. Well no wonder. It&amp;'s all over Facebook, and yet Bebo didn&amp;'t have this Amazing.CrunchBase InformationBeboInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Doesn&'t Facebook Look Like This Because Twitter&nbsp'Does.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Back in April of this year, I put up a post with a simple question: Why Doesn&amp;'t Facebook Look Like This The post contained screenshots of a Facebook redesign that Japanese design firm iA had done for the company back in late 2006/early 2007.&amp;nbsp'Facebook didn&amp;'t end up using the ideas, but there&amp;'s no denying that they looked great. In fact, looking over them again, they now look familiar. They look like New Twitter!Well, technically, the overall concept is a bit more like Twitter for iPad (with the three-pane view). But that shares many of the same design concepts as New Twitter, so they all sort of look alike. And if you remove the first pane on the Facebook concept, you&amp;nbsp'essentially&amp;nbsp'have New Twitter: a two-pane experience in which the update stream folds out into the conversation stream. It&amp;'s uncanny.Now, I&amp;'m not suggesting that Twitter borrowed anything improperly here a4&quot; I&amp;'m sure this pane design concept is quite old a4&quot; but it&amp;'s interesting that Twitter, a Facebook rival, now looks like this popular Facebook redesign concept that was seen the web over. Perhaps that&amp;'s why I liked both Twitter for iPad and New Twitter immediately when I saw them a4&quot; as I wrote back in April, I loved this pane design concept, and wish Facebook would have gone in that direction.Instead, Twitter did.CrunchBase InformationTwitterFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bing Gordon says Kleiner Perkins is staffing up for the coming tech boom]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sweacyaccindy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Bing Gordon, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, says that his venture capital firm has to gear up for the coming tech boom. That&amp;'s one reason that his company hired famous Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker as a new partner on Monday.Meeker&amp;'s investing focus at the firm will be on the Internet and how the shift to mobile will create huge new opportunities, Gordon said in an interview. Gordon is sitting pretty himself as the backer of Kleiner&amp;'s investments in mobile gaming firm Ngmoco, which was bought by DeNA for $403 million, and Zynga, the hot social gaming company that is valued at $5.6 billion.&amp;''She thinks big and thinks global,&amp;'' Gordon (pictured right) said. &amp;''Among the analysts, she is my favorite personality. She makes fearless macro bets and is right most of the time.&amp;''Gordon said he sees a big boom coming, not a bubble, much like Kleiner&amp;'s managing partner John Doerr, who said that we&amp;'re in the midst of yet another boom for internet investments at the recent Web 2.0 Summit. The reason is that he sees a lot of technologies that are changing the way we live.&amp;''The world of digital media is being transformed,&amp;'' Gordon said. &amp;''A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies. Mary has the right stuff to help people take advantage of the opportunities.&amp;''As for his own focus, Gordon said he is fascinated how users are dealing with the information overload from the social internet and how users are building their own social capital. He is also interested in the &amp;''new algorithms, data structures and network topologies of the social web.&amp;'' He is looking at the intersection of mobile operating systems, the social web, and entertainment. He is also interested in gamification, or making non-game applications more fun and engaging by making them more game-like.Beyond spotting trends, Meeker will now have to pick the right companies and entrepreneurs that are riding those trends. Meeker will focus on Kleiner&amp;'s digital investments, which largely means the social and mobile Internet. But Gordon said that renewed emphasis on internet companies doesn&amp;'t mean that the company is backing off completely on big cleantech investments.&amp;''If you look at our cleantech and life science press releases, you can see there are other partner recruitments happening there too,&amp;'' he said.Kleiner has a new fund, the sFund, to invest in social Internet companies. But Gordon said it isn&amp;'t easy to predict whether Kleiner will invest more money in 2011 than it will in 2010.[photo credit: SF Business Journal]Next Story: LinkedIn joins the article-sharing party Previous Story: NewsBasis: Death to the bad PR pitch!PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: sFund, Venture CapitalCompanies: Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' ByersPeople: Bing Gordon, Mary Meeker          Tags: sFund, Venture CapitalCompanies: Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' ByersPeople: Bing Gordon, Mary MeekerDean 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[AOL&'s new editor comes from Foxnews.com]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We know one thing about the new executive editor of AOL.com: he&amp;'s not afraid to prevaricate, or at least to parrot his bosses.Stephen Bromberg, formerly the editor of Foxnews.com, told Mediabistro.com soon after he took that job in 2004 that neither the cable channel nor its Web site was meant to appeal to &amp;''any specific conservative or liberal audience.&amp;'' And: &amp;''I think that our viewers and our readers clearly have an interest in fair and balanced newsa4&amp;''That he ran editorial operations for the Web site of a propaganda network, of course, doesn&amp;'t mean he&amp;'ll do the same at AOL.com. Before Foxnews.com, Bromberg worked for newspapers (for a long time &amp;''at a Gannett paper in the suburbs,&amp;'' according to Business Insider, meaning the suburbs of New York.)And Foxnews.com is much more of a news site than Fox News is a news channel. The site runs a lot of straight wire copy, for example, and much of the repurposed television material and original Web content is presented in straight-ahead, traditional fashion. (The nutty stuff is saved for Foxnation.com). The site is far less garish and ugly than the cable channel, too. There is nothing to indicate that AOL is joining the Tea Party by hiring Bromberg.Forbes&amp;' Jeff Bercovici reported last week that AOL.com has set a goal to double traffic to its homepage. A &amp;''potential overreach,&amp;'' says Bercovici. A &amp;''pretty insane goal,&amp;'' says Business Insider&amp;'s Jay Yarrow. Insane, indeed, especially if the goal is to double homepage traffic before the warm weather comes, which apparently is the idea since the program has a codename: &amp;''Winter Luge.&amp;''Luges, of course, speed downhill fast. Bercovici notes that AOL&amp;'s homepage visits are up in recent months, after a year of declines. But he wonders whether &amp;''increasing homepage visits ought to be a priority given AOL&amp;'s other stated goals of diversifying its sources of traffic and finding new audiences for its many content Web sites other than readers who get there via links on the welcome screen.&amp;''In other words, homepages of &amp;''portals&amp;'' are increasingly irrelevant a4&quot; just ask Yahoo.Next Story: Motorola pushes for 1M Xoom tablet shipments in first quarter Previous Story: Verizon iPhone watch: AT&amp;038'T trash talks Verizona4a4s networkPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: News, websitesCompanies: aol.com, Fox News, News CorpPeople: stephen bromberg          Tags: News, websitesCompanies: aol.com, Fox News, News CorpPeople: stephen brombergVentureBeat 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[Does Google get games Kongregate mobile arcade banned from Android Marketplace]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Whispers of Googlea4a4s social gaming service had gone quiet since Facebook marched to the top of the hill and planted its feet at the front of the social gaming pack. But it might still be alive and in the works.That, or Google just doesna4a4t know what the heck to do with games.Kongregate a4&quot;a GameStop-owned online site that hosts independently developed flash games a4&quot; released a mobile app this week that brought most of its flash games to devices running Googlea4a4s Android mobile operating system. But the application was pulled from the Android marketplace for violating Googlea4a4s terms of service less than a day later.Google said the Kongregate Arcade app behaved like an app store, violating the non-compete clause in Googlea4a4s terms of service agreement, said Jim Greer, Kongregatea4a4s CEO and co-founder. That isna4a4t exactly how the Kongregate Arcade app works a4&quot; the flash games are cached inside the Arcade app, not directly downloaded and saved a4&quot;but the argument makes some sense.a4AIt does seem like a pretty extreme distortion to call something that plays content in a browser to be the same thing as an application store,a4 Greer said. a4ABy this definition, we don&amp;'t see why apps like the Kindle or other music apps arena4a4t across the line.a4But the fiasco does seem like another one of Googlea4a4s ham-handed attempts to work its way into the gaming space. The Kongregate Arcade fills a nice niche for a constant source of free online games that make money off advertising and the sale of virtual goods. Ita4a4s the same niche Facebook struck gold in when it brought Zynga and other companies in to make games. And ita4a4s a space Google has been trying to break into in a number of ways (like investing $100 million in social gaming company Zynga). Ita4a4s not quite clear, though, how serious the search giant is based on its executive activity.Killing Kongregatea4a4s application leaves the door wide open for Google to step in and take over that niche with its own version of a mobile game marketplace. Ita4a4s also a very Apple-esque move for Google, which has traditionally been seen as a much more open development partner that caters to the independent crowd. Ita4a4s pretty out of character for the search giant, which has allowed quite a few shady apps into the marketplace. That was one of the reasons Kongregate decided to work with Android originally, Greer said.a4AIt&amp;'s weird to me that at the same time Apple is becoming more transparent and more open about their app store policies Google would be kind of shutting down on games,a4 he said.There hasna4a4t been any additional contact from Google as to whether the Kongregate app will reappear on the Android marketplace, Greer said. Ita4a4s been nearly a full day since the site last spoke with Google, and Greer said he doesna4a4t necessarily have very high expectations at this point. The application is probably being blocked at a lower level of the approval process where it isna4a4t fully understood, he said.The Kongregate Arcade was one way to bring a huge swath of Kongregatea4a4s 13 million gamers to devices running Android. Most of the engineers Kongregate spoke with were really enthused by the application for that exact reason, Greer said. It does seem like a bit of a no-brainer to bring the app onto the marketplace to compete with Apple, which has become a bit of a powerhouse in the mobile gaming space. But this could also be a case of the left arm not really communicating with the right arm, as Googlea4a4s Android segment is traditionally blissfully unaware of the rest of Googlea4a4s interior workings.Or maybe Google Games is still in the works and Google is keeping this one uncharacteristically close to the chest. The whole deal does reek of the same kind of muscle Apple has traditionally flexed when pulling applications from the App Store to stave off competition. By contrast, Apple has allowed an app from iSwifter, which brings a limited number of Flash games into its portal-like app on the iPad.For the time being, GameStop has decided to go ahead with marketing the application regardless of whether or not ita4a4s on the Android Marketplace. The app is featured on the GameStop website and will be pitched in its brick-and-mortar stores across the country. Kongregate is also launching the app on GetJar, a third-party marketplace for Android applications. Android users can also directly download the app from the companya4a4s website.Next Story: PayPal keeps on rolling as eBay posts solid fourth quarter Previous Story: Private equity firm General Atlantic takes $200M stake in security software vendor Kaspersky LabPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Kongregate Arcade, Mobile gaming, social gamesCompanies: GameStop, Google, KongregatePeople: Jim Greer          Tags: Kongregate Arcade, Mobile gaming, social gamesCompanies: GameStop, Google, KongregatePeople: Jim GreerMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[OnLive will give you a free console if you buy a game]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Normally, you get free games when you buy a video game console. But with OnLive, the cloud gaming service, it&amp;'s going to be the other way around.OnLive is announcing today that anyone who pre-orders the THQ video game Homefront from Feb. 25 to Mar. 14 will get a free version of the OnLive Game System &amp;8212' a $99 value. The customer will also get access to THQ&amp;'s Metro 2033 video game for free. It&amp;'s not a bad way for OnLive to get a wider reach for its game system, which allows users to play high-quality games on any PC or TV. And it&amp;'s the kind of deal that competitors won&amp;'t be able to match. Homefront will cost $49 on OnLive.Homefront is one of THQ&amp;'s biggest games of the year. It&amp;'s a futuristic first-person shooter game where North Korea invades the U.S. and the war-ravaged citizenry fights back after the U.S. is occupied. The deal will last while supplies of the MicroConsole last. OnLive has created a server-based online gaming service that allows you to instantly play games that are stored and computed in OnLive&amp;'s data centers. The video and game actions are transmitted over a broadband connection to wherever you are playing. That allows you to play high-end games on low-end computers, while the MicroConsole lets you play high-end games on big-screen TVs.a4AThis is a watershed event: Ita4a4s the first time a game system has ever been given away with the purchase of a game,a4 said OnLive chief executive Steve Perlman. a4AHomefront is one of the biggest games coming out this quarter, and we wanted gamers to see just how incredible is to have the hottest title playable with the instant-play, massive spectating experience on their HDTV that is only possible through OnLive.&amp;''The MicroConsole TV adapter and a wireless controller allow gamers to play high-end computer games on flat-panel displays in 1080p high-definition running at 60 frames per second, or faster than a blink of the eye. OnLive started shipping the Onlive Game System in December, and at that time it offered a free game with purchase.OnLive launched its instantly playable server games in June. If customers truly like it, the cheap MicroConsole hardware could potentially eliminate the need for players to keep buying more and more powerful and expensive game consoles. OnLive has more than 70 games in its online games library now. If the company can grow that number, then it will have a bigger impact on consumers.OnLive has been working on its server-based technology for more than  eight years and has a team of 200 people. It has raised a considerable  amount of money for the task from investors such as Warner Bros. and  British Telecom. Most recently, it raised $40 million from HTC in a deal that could possibly value OnLive at $1.8 billion.Next Story: Web site hints that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 will be announced soon Previous Story: Watch out, Tesla and Fisker! More luxury carmakers go electricPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: games on demand, Homefront, MicroConsole, OnLive Game SystemCompanies: OnLive, ThqPeople: Steve Perlman          Tags: games on demand, Homefront, MicroConsole, OnLive Game SystemCompanies: OnLive, ThqPeople: Steve PerlmanDean 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. 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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