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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[White iPhone 4 slips into wild in U.K.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>qeqapqa</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The mysterious white iPhone 4, in the wild.(Credit:Engadget)Adding extra legitimacy to credible reports that the white version of theiPhone 4 would arrive within the next few weeks, the unit has already popped up at a Vodafone UK retail store, and has even been sold to a customer before stock was pulled.Engadget has a photo from a reader who claims to have purchased the 16GB model of the yet-unreleased device from a Vodafone store in the U.K. Following the sale, the carrier is said to have sent a message to stores telling them to hold the stock until next week.The white version of the iPhone 4 was supposed to launch alongside the black one in 2010, but manufacturing difficulties have pushed its release back nearly a year. Following the original iPhone, the iPhone 3G and 3GS were both available in black and white, though with the iPhone 4, Apple radically changed the manufacturing process and added color to the front of the device as well as the back.According to Engadget, the model number on the white iPhone 4 the customer purchased (MC604B/A) is only slightly different than that on the currently available black version (MC603B/A). This suggests that any major differences between the two phones, other than color, are unlikely. Reports emerged last week that Apple planned to get the long-delayed white iPhone in stores by the end of the month. Apple later confirmed it was nearing its targeted launch timeline of &quot;spring.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft names new ad chief, reorganizes division]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lasirman4</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-names-new-ad-chief-reorganizes-division</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft, which has had a bit of a turnstile at the top of its online advertising business, just replaced its top boss.The software giant today named Frank Holland to the job of corporate vice president in charge of Microsoft's global advertising sales business, the newly created Advertising and Online organization. Holland will report to Microsoft's chief operating officer, Kevin Turner.Though the division is new, Holland is taking most of the responsibilities from Darren Huston, corporate vice president of the Consumer and Online organization. The other piece of Huston's job, the marketing of Microsoft itself, will fall to Chris Capossela, who was named senior vice president of the Consumer Channels and Central Marketing Group two weeks ago.Microsoft&amp;39's Frank Holland(Credit:Microsoft)With Holland's hiring, Microsoft won't be filling the job Carolyn Everson vacated as corporate vice president of global ad sales and strategy when she left to run sales for Facebook. She'd been on the job at Microsoft for only nine months. Facebook hiring Everson led Microsoft to consider taking legal action to block the move, according to AllThingsD.Holland has worked for Microsoft for 13 years, most recently as corporate vice president of Microsoft's worldwide operations. That job had little to do with ad sales. Instead, Holland led the company's agreement processing and invoicing, sales operations, and business planning groups, and was also responsible for the incentive compensation and training of the global sales force.Holland has some heavy lifting ahead of him. Just yesterday, in Yahoo's quarterly earnings call, Chief Executive Carol Bartz blamed Microsoft's adCenter technology, the system for buying and delivering online ads, for failing to generate revenue the company expected for its alliance with Microsoft. &quot;adCenter isn't yet producing the (revenue per search) we hoped for and are confident is possible,&quot; Bartz said.For its part, Microsoft took the fall. It acknowledged that adCenter isn't delivering the amount of revenue to Yahoo that the companies expected. One problem: the bidding system isn't generating high enough yields on ad words.&quot;We remain confident about the benefits of our combined search marketplace, and we are working very closely with Yahoo on an aggressive road map to improve (revenue per search) through better monetization, relevance, and advertiser-facing tools,&quot; David Pann, general manager for the Search Network at Microsoft, said in a statement.That said, Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan dove deep into the Yahoo news and found that Microsoft wasn't entirely to blame. Yahoo's ad business had been plummeting before it began using Microsoft adCenter six months ago. And Sullivan wrote that &quot;neither of the last two quarters have shown any growth for reasons that have nothing to do with Yahoo's outsourcing payments to Microsoft.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple sues Samsung for 'copying' smartphones, tablets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>limlimadsssssasd</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-sues-samsung-for-copying-smartphones-tablets</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Samsung&amp;39's Galaxy Tab stacked on top of Apple&amp;39's first-generation iPad.(Credit:Donald Bell/CNET)Apple has filed a lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that the consumer electronics giant has violated Apple's intellectual property in the design of its mobile devices.The suit, which was filed last week and picked up on by The Wall Street Journal, takes aim specifically at the Galaxy series of smartphones andtablets, as well as other Samsung smartphones, for &quot;copying&quot; Apple's user interface and design features. In it, Apple--the maker of the trend-settingiPhone andiPad--claims Samsung is infringing on its patents and is practicing unfair competition. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though an Apple representative told AllThingsD: &quot;It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging,&quot; adding that &quot;this kind of blatant copying is wrong, and we need to protect Apple's intellectual property when companies steal our ideas.&quot; In a statement e-mailed to CNET, a Samsung representative said this: &quot;Samsung's development of core technologies and strengthening our intellectual property portfolio are keys to our continued success. Samsung will respond actively to this legal action taken against us through appropriate legal measures to protect our intellectual property.&quot; The lawsuit is of special interest given the relationship between the two companies. Samsung is the supplier of components in a handful of Apple devices, including part of Apple's A4 and A5 processors, which can be found in the company's iOS devices as well on the Apple TV product. Findings by AnandTech from earlier this morning also suggest that Apple has moved away from Toshiba to Samsung as the provider for solid-state storage in its MacBook Air notebooks. Apple invested $100 million in Samsung back in 1999 to help boost the company's production of flat-panel displays. Even so, the two companies have traded blows at one another publicly. In 2005 Samsung promised to knock Apple from its top spot with the iPod, launching a massive ad campaign the following year. More recently, during Apple's iPad 2 unveiling, Apple CEO Steve Jobs knocked Samsung's tablet efforts, misquoting Samsung vice president Lee Young-hee as saying that sales of the company's 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet had been &quot;small.&quot; Apple has been a large customer of Samsung's over the years, working with the company to buying up large orders of flash memory for use in devices like the iPhone. In February the two companies were said to be working on a contract agreement with one another worth $7.8 billion, yielding parts like processors, flash memory, and LCD panels for future devices. Updated at 3:15 p.m. with comment from Samsung. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet poker giants indicted in U.S. crackdown]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zanlalaana</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=internet-poker-giants-indicted-in-u-s--crackdown</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This was the message displayed after U.S. authorities seized the domains of the online poker sites. Several founders of the three largest Internet poker companies doing business in the U.S. have been arrested as part of an indictment that includes charges of bank fraud, money laundering, and other online gambling-related offenses, the U.S. Attorney's office said today. The three offshore companies--PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker--are accused of circumventing a 2006 U.S. law that prohibits financial institutions from handling transactions for online gambling sites. Prosecutors say they allegedly tricked U.S. banks and credit card issuers into processing billions of dollars in transactions that appeared to be legitimate sales on hundreds of fake online retail sites purportedly selling jewelry and golf balls. One-third of the money allegedly went directly to the poker companies as revenue through a fee charged to players on each poker hand played, according to the indictment, which was unsealed today in U.S. District Court in New York. After U.S. banks and financial institutions detected fraudulent bank accounts and shut them down, the defendants allegedly paid a few small, financially troubled banks money as investments in return for processing the payments, according to the indictment. The deals allegedly included a $10 million investment in a private Utah bank that gave the poker companies more than a 30 percent ownership stake, prosecutors said. The indictment and civil lawsuit seek at least $3 billion in money laundering penalties and forfeiture from the defendants. The federal court issued a restraining order on about 76 bank accounts in 14 countries and seized five Internet domain names allegedly used for operating the illegal games.  Two of the 11 defendants were arrested this morning in Utah and Nevada and authorities are looking for the others, some who may be in other countries, authorities said. Restraining orders were issued against more than 75 bank accounts allegedly used by the defendants and their payment processors. Five Internet domain names used to host the games were seized by federal authorities. Representatives from the poker companies named in the indictment could not be reached for comment. The Web sites displayed messages saying &quot;This domain has been seized by the FBI pursuant to an arrest warrant.&quot; &quot;These defendants concocted an elaborate criminal fraud scheme, alternately tricking some U.S. banks and effectively bribing others to assure the continued flow of billions in illegal gambling profits. Moreover, as we allege, in their zeal to circumvent the gambling laws, the defendants also engaged in massive money laundering and bank fraud,&quot; Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. Foreign firms that choose to operate in the United States are not free to flout the laws they don't like simply because they can't bear to be parted from their profits.&quot; Updated 4:50 p.m. PTto clarify that the law prohibits financial institutions from conducting transactions for online gambling sites.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HTC profit triples on huge smartphone demand]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aalina387</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=htc-profit-triples-on-huge-smartphone-demand</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Smartphone maker HTC took home record profits and revenue in the first quarter thanks to surging consumption of its smartphone lineup.HTC&amp;39's Evo 4G(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)For the quarter ended March 31, the Taiwanese company earned $14.8 billion in Taiwan dollars (US$513 million), almost triple the NT$5 billion profit from the year-ago quarter. Net income easily surpassed the average analyst estimate of NT$12.8 billion as compiled by Bloomberg.Revenue soared to NT$104.2 billion, a gain of almost 175 percent from the prior year and a leap over the NT$95 billion forecast by the average analyst, said Bloomberg.Related links &amp;149' Best Buy to sell Wi-Fi HTC Flyer &amp;149' Gartner: Android market share to near 50 percent &amp;149' Ask Maggie: HTC Thunderbolt vs. Droid BionicHTC has been a major beneficiary of the rising demand for Android phones, especially those offering higher 4G speeds. Sold through Sprint, the HTC Evo 4G was the first 4G phone to hit the market. Adding to its high-speed lineup, the company recently unveiled the Thunderbolt through Verizon Wireless and the Inspire through AT&amp;amp'T.Though HTC didn't reveal the number of smartphones shipped during the first quarter, it had announced in January that it expected to ship 8.5 million handsets, up 157 percent from a year ago. Looking ahead, HTC is branching out into thetablet market with its upcoming 7-inch Flyer, aka Evo View, slated to launch this spring.HTC's market value recently surpassed that of global leader and rival Nokia, reported All Things D and other sources. The company is now worth around $33.8 billion, inching past Nokia's market capitalization of $32.84 billion.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sprint's Common Cents plan to become Virgin Mobile PayLo]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gsambermgm</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Sprint)Sprint will discontinue its Common Cents prepaid plan, CNET learned today, and will instead transition existing customers into the PayLo plan run by Virgin Mobile, a different Sprint prepaid brand. Related links Sprint and Wal-Mart offer cheap prepaid plan Sprint expands Common Cents serviceSprint and Wal-Mart launched Common Cents as an in-store brand last May to compete against retail handsets like TracFone's StraightTalk brand, but the program wasn't rolled out nationally. Existing Common Cents customers will join Virgin Mobile this May, cutting off the plan's lifespan at one year.&quot;Current Common Cents customers need not make any change, but will now have access to more options for plans and handsets under payLo as well, a Sprint spokeswoman told CNET in an e-mail. &quot;Common Cents is due to move out of Wal-Mart in mid May' those pegs will be taken over by Virgin Mobile's Beyond Talk plans, which have already seen solid success in Wal-Mart.&quot;Sprint is promising an automatic shift for current customers, and will continue offering 7-cent-per-minute calls, plus access to Virgin Mobile top-up cards to refresh minutes. There is some information of the Common Cents Web site, and Sprint has promised more details in the coming weeks.In addition to Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile and Assurance Wireless are also Sprint prepaid brands.[Via Fierce Wireless]Article updated at 1:11pm PT: With a quote from Sprint.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New technology could slash airplane delays]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckter3d22</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=new-technology-could-slash-airplane-delays</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A system in development by aerospace giant Honeywell could make it possible for planes to land even with cloud cover as low as 100 feet.(Credit:Honeywell)If a technology being developed by aerospace giant Honeywell that helps airplanes land in very cloudy conditions wins regulatory approval, it could make a huge dent in weather-related delays throughout the aviation system. The technology is called Enhanced Visual System/Synthetic Vision System (EVS/SVS), and it is designed to give pilots the information they need to land safely even when there is cloud cover as low as 100 feet off the ground. Current U.S. rules require clouds no lower than 200 feet and for pilots to either abort a landing or to circle around and try again if they encounter such conditions.According to Bob Witwer, vice president of advanced technology for Honeywell aerospace, cloud cover below 200 feet was responsible for six entire days' worth of delay at a single airport--New York's La Guardia--in 2010. And as anyone who flies in the United States knows, delays in one city can easily roll over and cause slowdowns or even flight cancellations throughout the country.For years, Witwer said, airlines have relied on a Honeywell's Synthetic Vision System, which provides pilots with a database and 3D graphical representation of their flight paths, complete with detailed imagery showing terrain and obstacles and automatic warnings triggered when their planes get too close. The idea was that the system could offer pilots a better sense of situational awareness, especially when flying into areas where the terrain is &quot;aggressive,&quot; such as mountainous destinations like Aspen, Colo.Related links&amp;149' After flight delays, FAA may add backup system&amp;149' U.S. flight delays pegged to FAA computer woes &amp;149' Can technology solve air travel woesAll told, Witwer said, airlines have flown 800 million hours using SVS. But the system can't do anything to help pilots when clouds are too close to the ground. At least not by itself.However, with Honeywell's new EVS technology, Witwer said, pilots trying to land in cloudy conditions can look at their instrument displays and see a graphical representation of the area that &quot;makes it look like a sunny day.&quot;EVS works, Witwer said, with the aid of an infrared sensor mounted on the nose of an aircraft that can capture real-time imagery of the ground and blend it with SVS data. Together, the two sets of data can provide a clear view of the ground, he explained, so long as the clouds don't go below 100 feet. &quot;Infrared can pick up things with thermal signatures that the eye can't,&quot; like runway lights, Witwer said. &quot;Those are the kinds of things that infrared can pick up, even if vision is obscured to the naked eye.&quot;Witwer said that even the 100-foot limitation could disappear over time, but that it is in place in the EVS technology today due to issues like signal accuracy around airports and general system redundancy. And in any case, Honeywell believes that if clouds are no higher than 100 feet, it's often possible to see the runway anyway.Ultimately, Honeywell is betting that airlines and the aviation industry in general will see the value of the EVS/SVS marriage and that the technology, when and if it is approved by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, will help the industry cut down on delayed landings, save fuel, and generally improve the flying experience. So far, Witwer said, pilots have test-flown about 100 hours using the technology, with thousands more hours in engineering tests. Still, Witwer said that it's far too early to know if or when the FAA will approve the technology or how many more hours of testing the agency will require before it considers the system ready for prime time.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tickets for sold-out WWDC fetch a high price]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ramirolesi</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Apple)It seems theiPad 2 isn't the only thing fetching a premium online. A short supply of tickets for Apple's sold-out Worldwide Developers Conference in June has led some people to sell theirs at a premium.A quick check on eBay at the publish of this post shows 10 such listings, though as of yesterday, more had been available prior to being sold. The one ending soonest is hovering just north of $3,000, while Computerworld reports that one posted earlier this week was listed at $4,599, both well above the original price of $1,599. WWDC is Apple's annual event for developers, and kicks off June 6 at Moscone West in San Francisco. At the show Apple has said it will give developers &quot;a preview of the future of iOS andMac OS X.&quot; Though knowing Apple, there could be a surprise or two. Within 10 hours of going on sale Monday, Apple halted WWDC ticket sales, saying that the event had sold out, making it the fourth consecutive show to run out of spots. Worth noting is that online buyers who want a ticket can't be just anyone. Apple's system requires that WWDC attendees be a registered developer with the company to activate the code that was given out to those who managed to snag tickets. That code is what's being sold as part of these auctions. Even then, such a detail is unlikely to stop someone who's willing to pay double or even triple the price.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robot arm scoops goop spills like magic]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jprettnere</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Switl in action. No word yet on whether it scoops dog poop.(Credit:Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET)Got messy kids Or perhaps you're just clumsy with ketchup. If so, Japan's Furukawa Kiko has just the thing for you--a robot scooper that can scrape up gooey spills without leaving a smidgen behind.  The Niigata-based factory equipment maker says its Switl &quot;robot hand&quot; is the first of its kind in the world and it's patent pending. As seen in the vid below, it scrapes up mayonnaise and ketchup spills completely, and can then deposit them. The Furukawa Kiko Web site has no details on how it works, or what its name means, but there is another video showing it being used in a manufacturing line for baked buns. Furukawa says the technology could be used outside the food industry. I could see an even smaller handheld Switl being very useful around the home. All they need is the ShamWow guy to get behind this. (Via Pink Tentacle) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon stymies Lendle e-book lending service]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>advavouck</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=amazon-stymies-lendle-e-book-lending-service</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lendle was forced to shut down after Amazon revoked its API access.(Credit:Screenshot by David Carnoy/CNET)It may be game, set, and match for Lendle. No, not Ivan Lendl, the former tennis great. Lendle, the newly hatched e-book lending service.Lendle first reported the news via Twitter: &quot;Amazon has revoked Lendle's API access. This is why the site is down. It's sad and unfortunate that Amazon is shutting down lending sites...According to Amazon, Lendle does not 'serve the principal purpose of driving sales of products and services on the Amazon site.'&quot;Reached by CNET, Lendle co-founder Jeff Croft, who's based in Seattle, had this to say:They [Amazon] shut the API access off, and without it, our site is mostly useless. So, we went ahead and pulled it down. Could we build a lending site without their API Yes. But it wouldn't be the quality of product we expect from ourselves.How does e-book lending work Well, while publishers only choose to make certain e-books lending-enabled, plenty of e-books are available to loan out on a very restricted basis, with both Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble now supporting e-book lending. If you own a lendable e-book (they're labeled as such), you can loan it to one person, one time, for 14 days.Lendle is not the only e-book lending site that has come online in recent weeks. Last week, eBook Fling went live and BookLending has been operating for several weeks. The sites all work in much the same way, each offering free membership into their respective lending &quot;clubs.&quot; In the case of eBook Fling, which hasn't shut down yet, you sign up and list the titles you have available for lending, then wait for requests to come in. You lend an e-book by simply sending an e-mail invite to the requesting borrower and in return, you earn credits for each &quot;successful fling.&quot;Lendle's Croft says that no legal action was threatened. Amazon simply revoked Lendle's access to the API, which cut Lendle off from Amazon's database infrastructure. Croft has been trying to get in touch with Amazon to see what--if any--changes he could could make to his service that might meet Amazon's approval, but he's yet to hear back.He notes that at least two other Kindle lending services got the same message today. &quot;They may not be reacting as fast as us, or they may be a bit more defiant,&quot; Croft said. &quot;I can't speak on their behalf. But we've been in touch with their owners, so I do know they got the same message.&quot;It's unclear at this point whether those other sites were using Amazon's API--or how dependent they were on it--so we'll wait and see whether they have trouble continuing to operate. Currently, Barnes &amp; Noble doesn't have an API, so eBook Fling, which also offers swap lending of Nookbooks, may not be affected on that side of its service.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[preGame 44: Nintendo 3DS in-studio' Yakuza 4' Homefront]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>icolorcy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[On Call: A bridge for T-Mobile and Sprint]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>udanikaspencerb</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=on-call-a-bridge-for-t-mobile-and-sprint</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On Call runs every two weeks, alternating between answering reader questions and discussing hot topics in the cell phone world.Bloomberg today revived a long-simmering story in the wireless world when it reported that Deutsche Telekom is considering selling its T-Mobile USA subsidiary to Sprint Nextel. A deal is nowhere near definite, sources told Bloomberg, but the two companies are debating a valuation for the country's fourth-largest carrier.More merger maniaMergers between wireless carriers do happen--remember that Sprint and Nextel got hitched almost six years ago--and the possibility of a T-Mobile/Sprint marriage has been bounced around since 2009. The rumor received a lot of fuel last summer after Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said he sees &quot;logic&quot; in consolidation. Hesse didn't elaborate much on his point, but that was all many analysts needed to begin comparing balance sheets.At the time, I wrote a column on why I saw a merger as unlikely. Disparate technology was one reason, and I didn't savor the idea of meshing T-Mobile's relatively strong corporate identity with Sprint's, well, not-so-great image. I still stand by my second point, but I've come around a bit on the technology side.Though many tech journalists, myself included, rightly point to Sprint's struggles to mesh Nextel's iDEN network with its CDMA technology, it's a different world than it was in 2005. As carriers move exclusively to bridging 4G technologies over the next few years, terms like CDMA and GSM won't matter as much. So in the long term, a T-Mobile/Sprint merger could make sense.So how would it workIn short, it could all come down to LTE. Sprint is firmly on board with WiMax at the moment and it will presumably continue that way for the near future. In a few years, however, the carrier should move to LTE as Hesse has indicated.T-Mobile, on the other hand, still is riding the HSPA+ train. True, it's not a real 4G technology--despite T-Mobile describing it as such--but HSPA+ is offering data speeds that can match its rivals at least for the time being. Yet, at some point T-Mobile will need to move on to LTE as well. And if Sprint is walking the same path, then things could work.Sure, I'm simplifying things a bit and making predictions that may not turn out to be true, but the point is that integrating the carriers' CDMA and GSM networks doesn't have to happen. A real 4G technology like LTE Advanced can act as a bridge. I think Sprint has learned a lot from the Nextel integration--and it finally appears to be getting the mess in order--though those lessons may be irrelevant. I'm still not excited by the prospect of blending the two brands, but mergers deemed good for a company usually move forward, whether they're good for customers or not.Updated March 9 at 10:55 p.m. PT: While speaking at the Deutsche Bank AG Media &amp; Telecom Conference on Wednesday, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said &quot;every option&quot; for the carrier's future include Clearwire and WiMax. Bloomberg also said that Hesse refused to comment on a possible merger with T-Mobile.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Manilla vs. PageOnce: Building better bills]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tithasperie</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=manilla-vs--pageonce-building-better-bills</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Manilla collects all your bills and financial statements. Its accuracy is good--but not good enough.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET)The bill organizing service Manilla launched at Demo this week. The pitch: it's a portal for your household bills. It will collect bills from your service providers, as well as bank statements and other financial data for you, and remind you what's due, to whom, and when. Furthermore, it'll keep records of all your bills and statements for you securely. It should work with nearly any billing company, and in some special cases, you can use it to turn off your paper bills, doing your bit for the environment.  Using Manilla to receive and file electronic statements (called &quot;bill presentment&quot; in billing industry lingo) is far superior to asking your service providers to send your statements to e-mail, where they're highly likely to get ignored or accidentally spam-filtered (trust me on this). That's probably why only a small percentage of consumers allow their paper bills to be turned off. Having a single, dedicated, junk-free site for financial transactions makes more sense. That's what Manilla is.  It also makes some bottom-line sense for business. It costs about 73 cents to process and mail a paper bill, according to Manilla CEO George Kliavkoff, compared with nearly nothing for providing Web access to show the consumer an online statement.  On the other hand, businesses do get something for that 73 cents. They get to stuff your bill envelope with upsells, marketing materials, and pitches from partners. Manilla will offer an online version of that channel to businesses that decide to use it (like Comcast, at launch). For other billers, the service will just log in to users' accounts on their behalf, get their billing data, and present it to them on Manilla.  Those other, non-signed-up billers, which make up the enormously vast majority of businesses, in fact might find that Manilla is not such a fantastic deal for them. Customers who sign up for Manilla are likely already online-savvy users. They're already going to business Web sites to view, and maybe pay their bills. On those Web sites, business cannot only market to their customers (as they can via snail mail), but can also track what they're doing, offer surveys, and learn more about them. Once a middleman presentment service like Manilla is their online destination, the businesses lose that direct channel to the customer--until they get on board, like Comcast did, and start using the marketing channel.  So while the businesses of America figure out whether they should do a deal with Manilla, should you consider using it Maybe, but you can probably do better. PageOnce has iPhone and Android apps that let you see your financial to-dos anywhere. Once the service adds bill pay, you&amp;39'll hardly need a computer for managing your money.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET)Manilla is not a new pitch Manilla is a compelling idea and will likely be a strong and highly usable product fairly soon' hopefully it'll be better when it comes out of its invite-only beta. If you're really interested in consolidating your bills into one online portal right now, I'd recommend using PageOnce, a two-and-a-half-year-old, but recently updated product that I found just as easy to set up, but more useful for tracking the really important data: what you owe now and whether you have enough money to cover it.  While Manilla acts a great repository for statements and bills--it's a really good electronic filing cabinet--PageOnce does a better job of parsing your current financial status. It can get details from bank statements and bills, where Manilla will only link you to your online account or show you an un-digested Web version of most of your statements.  PageOnce is almost Mint-like in its capability to dig into your finances and get useful data from them. It doesn't have all of Mint's historical or analytical chops, but it's still quite useful--and Mint doesn't do bill presentment at all.  Unfortunately, just like Manilla and Mint, PageOnce doesn't have a direct bill payment function. Yet. One is coming, though, and from what I know of it, it'll be unique and useful. Manilla does at least dump you onto the biller's site when you want to pay a bill.  PageOnce has extremely good mobile apps, something Manilla hasn't yet shown. PageOnce makes it easy and clear to see what's happening in each of your accounts on a smartphone's small screen. There's even a calendar view that shows bill due dates. Manilla CEO Kliavkoff told me that when the company comes out of closed beta, it will also have a dedicated mobile product.  I do have to note that neither PageOnce nor Manilla are 100 percent accurate. In my tests, while most accounts I added worked perfectly, both services indicated that I had an overdue balance on my Comcast account. Genuinely concerned (I'm far too OCD to let this happen), I logged onto the Comcast Web site, only to find that my payment had been received earlier this week. Similarly, both threw an error when trying to access my Schwab account, although neither would say exactly what was wrong. Other paper-replacement optionsThere are other emerging ways to get paperless bills, but they're not quite ready for real users. Doxo, in particular, has a Manilla-like focus on replacing your paper filing cabinet with an electronic one. Customers of businesses on the Doxo network get full access to their accounts as well as all the marketing materials the businesses want to send out--the same business benefit as Manilla. Doxo is also adding a centralized payment system. Doxo, like Manilla, is in invite-only beta test now, and has only three billers set up on its system: Sprint, Kansas City Power &amp; Light, and Puget Sound Energy. For billers not on the network, Doxo does little more than provide their customers a place to store user IDs and passwords, and whatever documents they opt to scan in themselves, like Evernote with a focus on home documents.  Likewise, Zumbox is trying to replace paper bills with electronic ones. It makes it easy for billers to send bills to you without knowing either your Zumbox account ID or your e-mail. Zumbox instead creates accounts based on your postal addresses. The service seems to be fallow, as it has no way that I could see to request that billers send statements to your Zumbox &quot;address.&quot; But it's still an intriguing idea.  If you want to get and actually pay your bills online on one service today, you can look to Intuit's Paytrust. The service costs $9.95 a month, though, which is too much to pay when you consider how much money you're saving billing companies by using it. Intuit's Aaron Patzer (the founder of Mint), told me that the company is working on new consumer bill management services, but he wouldn't give a time frame for a feature or product release. It's still too earlyPageOnce CEO Guy Goldstein told me that the annual American cashflow through consumer bills is $3.7 trillion. There's limited direct revenue to be made by just showing customers those bills. It is, though, not too hard to make a few pennies each time you facilitate an actual bill-pay transaction. With that amount of money in the balance, expect to see more companies try to get a piece of that big, fat, cash pie.That's the future. If you want to use a service today to consolidate your bills, and you can live with less than perfect accuracy, PageOnce is your best bet.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon launches 100G Ethernet network]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cameroccre</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=verizon-launches-100g-ethernet-network</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Verizon this week successfully deployed a 100G Ethernet network on a large section of one of its Internet backbones in Europe.This deployment makes Verizon the first backbone carrier to deploy the new Ethernet standard with speeds of up to 100 gigabits per second, according to Verizon. The company was able to establish the 100-Gigabit Ethernet network between routers on a 555-mile stretch between Paris and Frankfurt.In Verizon's words, this marks the first &quot;standards-based, multivendor 100G Ethernet link for an IP backbone,&quot; and it will increase capacity for business customers and organizations that tap into the backbone.Internet Protocol backbones use high-speed fiber-optic lines to connect the major routers across the Internet, enabling different networks to talk to each other. Separate IP backbones are maintained by different companies and organizations, including telecom providers such as Verizon and AT&amp;amp'T. Providing a major performance boost over the older 1G and 10G Ethernet and the more recent 40G Ethernet, the 100G Ethernet standard itself was ratified by the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) last summer.To learn more about the new deployment, I spoke with Glenn Wellbrock, director of optical transport network architecture and design for Verizon.Wellbrock confirmed that although different enterprises may be launching 100G Ethernet networks within their own organizations, Verizon believes it's the first backbone carrier to successfully deploy it. But Verizon was not alone in the effort as two other companies contributed critical pieces, making this a true multivendor project.Juniper Networks provided the actual routers, while Ciena offered the technology that allows the link to stretch across a distance as far as 555 miles, according to Wellbrock. Known technically as 100G Ethernet coherent optical transport equipment, Ciena's hardware operates from both sides of the connection to allow traffic to move at 100 Gbps from Paris to Frankfurt and back again without having to regenerate. And that was a crucial part of the equation.&quot;The IEEE [100G Ethernet] standard is only a 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) standard,&quot; explained Wellbrock. &quot;It doesn't allow you to go distance. So you couldn't use it as a method to get you from Paris to Frankfurt. So the Ciena portion of this takes that short-reach interface on the client side and uses coherent transmission on the line side or the trunk side to get you down to Frankfurt.&quot;As a comparison, most backbone carriers are still using 10G Ethernet, though a lot of the Tier-1 carriers, such as Verizon and AT&amp;amp'T, are using 40G, Wellbrock said. However, the 40G is not the IEEE 40G Ethernet standard, as that was approved only last year. But no matter what type of connection carriers and companies are offering, the 100G Ethernet offers a giant boost in performance as well as other benefits.Consolidating network traffic onto a single 100G channel rather than multiple 10G channels, as is currently done, is cost effective as it allows backbone providers to easily ramp up capacity as more customers hop onto their networks. It's also considered less error-prone as it can better handle intermittent bursts of traffic. Upgrading existing backbone networks from 10G to 100G Ethernet can also be done fairly quickly and easily as it doesn't require any changes to the underlying fiber optic infrastructure.Upgrading Internet backbones to a faster speed doesn't translate into a direct performance boost for the average Internet user, explained Wellbrock. That's because the congestion for most people is in the last mile closer to home. But it does give Internet providers and large enterprises the ability to handle more individual customers.What are the next steps The 100G deployment between Paris and Frankfurt was the first step and showed that the right parts and systems could all be put into place. Verizon is now looking to adopt the faster network standard in other areas, however, Wellbrock acknowledged that 100-Gigabit Ethernet won't go everywhere and its deployment won't happen overnight.&quot;That's a whole lot of bandwidth,&quot; Wellbrock said, &quot;and networks don't need 100-Gigabit everywhere. But certainly it is the kind of thing that we look to leverage going forward. We really think that 100G will become the new industry standard for large connections in the core of the network.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Canadian cyberattack traced to China]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-canadian-cyberattack-traced-to-china</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>doqmexe</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-canadian-cyberattack-traced-to-china</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A cyberattack against Canada that tried to access classified government information and forced two key departments to go offline has been traced back to China, according to a story today from CBC News.Sources told the CBC that the attacks were initially discovered in early January but that it's unknown whether the attackers themselves were in China or just directed their attacks through the country to hide their true source.Specifically, the attacks reached computer systems at the Canadian government's Finance Department and Treasury Board in an attempt to capture passwords for government databases. In response, the government was forced to shut down all Internet access for the two departments, according to the CBC, and only now are public employees slowly getting that access back.In a brief statement released by the Treasury Board, the Canadian government did confirm an &quot;unauthorized attempt to access its networks,&quot; but provided few other details beyond that, according to AFP.In response to a request for comment, Canada's Public Safety Department e-mailed CNET the following statement on behalf of its minister, Vic Toews:&quot;We do not comment on the details of security related incidents. That said, our government takes threats seriously and has measures in place to address them. The next phase of our economic action plan is still in development and we have no indication that Budget security has been compromised.&quot;On its end, China has denied any involvement in the attacks.&quot;What you mentioned is purely fictitious and has an ulterior motive,&quot; Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told a new briefing in Beijing, according to Reuters. &quot;China attaches great importance to computer security and consistently opposes and cracks down on hacking activities according to relative laws and regulations.&quot;Though cyberattacks are used as weapons today by many different countries and organizations, China has often been fingered as a major source of online attacks against other nations. A report released in November by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission pointed to Chinese government involvement in a number of hacking attempts and computer exploits.Specifically, the USCC found that a Chinese state-run telecommunications provider had redirected traffic for U.S. military and corporate data in April. The group also reported that a China-based spy network was accused of targeting government departments and other groups in India in an attempt to steal sensitive information.And China was traced as the source behind the cyberattacks launched against Google and other companies in 2009 as a way of targeting human rights activists.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nielsen: U.S. smartphone ownership higher among minorities]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>abnusiredf</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=nielsen-u-s--smartphone-ownership-higher-among-minorities</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Almost a third (31 percent) of all mobile phone users in the United States own smartphones, but their adoption is higher among specific minority groups, says a report out today from Nielsen.Based on a survey conducted in December, Nielsen found that 27 percent of white mobile phone users in the U.S. currently own smartphones. But that rate was lower than the 45 percent of Hispanics, 45 percent of Asians/Pacific Islanders, and 33 percent of African-American mobile users polled who said they have a smartphone.(Credit:Nielsen)The adoption rates for smartphone ownership are also rising, especially among minority groups. Over the past six months, 42 percent of white users who bought a mobile phone opted for a smartphone, while 60 percent of Asians/Pacific Islanders, 56 percent of Hispanics, and 44 of African Americans made the same choice.Which mobile platforms are proving the most popularAmong those who currently own a smartphone, Nielsen discovered a three-way tie among Research In Motion's BlackBerry, Apple's iOS, and Google's Android. However, ownership of a BlackBerry has dropped around 10 percentage points over the course of a year and iOS has remained the same, but Android has shot up 25 percentage points.(Credit:Nielsen)Further, more people who picked up a smartphone in the past six months went for an Android device, with 43 percent ownership compared with 26 percent for Apple's iOS and 20 percent for BlackBerry.A report out yesterday from research firm Canalys noted similar trends in worldwide smartphone ownership, with Android surging to become the top smartphone platform across the globe.Finally, Nielsen found that theiPhone was the top choice among Asians/Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, and white users. But among African-American smartphone owners, the BlackBerry pulled into the lead, owned by 31 percent of those polled.Nielsen surveyed a total of 56,719 people to obtain the data on current smartphone ownership and 13,258 of them to get the stats on those who bought a smartphone over the past six months.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kit lets you cook like a scientist]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Clonejaic</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=kit-lets-you-cook-like-a-scientist</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mmm, science.(Credit:ThinkGeek)Molecular gastronomy: Saying it just rolls off the tongue. As it should--a process that turns solid food into little &quot;caviar&quot; spheres should roll off the tongue when you say it. However, as much as molecular gastronomists like to turn their food into squishy balls of goo, they also happen to like gel and foam equally as much. But where and how does one learn how to do all this spherification, gelification, and emulsificationThinkGeek's Molecular Cuisine Starter Kit offers a way for cook/scientists of all skill levels a chance to play with their food. The kit arrives with preportioned sachets of thickeners, emulsifiers, and binders along with the associated tools necessary for food transformation. That would include things like pipettes, silicone tubing, a syringe, and, of course, measuring spoons. As for the magic ingredients themselves: that would be agar-agar, calcium lactate, sodium alginate, soy lecithin, and xanthan gum.Texture, being a huge part of the eating experience, plays a major role in how food is perceived. With each chemical portioned out into 10 sachets of 20 grams each, there are plenty of experiments in taste and texture waiting to happen. Oh, and there's no worry about going blindly into the brave new world where playing with food and chemicals together at the same time is the goal' an instructional DVD complete with 50 demonstrations is included.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can't find your car This mall knows where it is]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=cant-find-your-car-this-mall-knows-where-it-is</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>suspicaan</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=cant-find-your-car-this-mall-knows-where-it-is</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kiosks to help shoppers locate their car were installed at Santa Monica Place shopping mall.(Credit:ParkAssist.com)For all the apps, gadgets, and gizmos on the market, a simple solution to finding a yourcar in a large parking lot is still a tall order. A Los Angeles mall seems to have figured out a way to reduce the number of wandering car owners with keys in hand searching for their vehicles, but it borrows technology normally reserved for government agencies.License plate scanners are widely used by police departments to help locate stolen vehicles, or by transportation agencies to snag drivers who breeze through tolls without paying. But a few shopping malls are now using them to help people remember where they parked their car. Santa Monica Place is one of the latest shopping malls in California to use license plate scanners. A system of networked high-resolution cameras record the license plate of parked cars along with their location. When a shopper can't remember where they parked their car, they can key in their license plate in a kiosk that will tell them on which floor and row their vehicle is parked. It's a high-tech solution to an age-old problem and reduces the demand for mall security to drive around forgetful owners until they finally spot their parked car, but some privacy advocates say that it's a little overkill.Users enter either a full or partial license plate on the kiosk screen, and the system shows where the car is parked.(Credit:Park Assist)Although the kiosk information is intended for car owners only, there's nothing stopping jealous exes or other stalkers from using the device to keep tabs on where drivers have been. I can see a valid use for this technology (especially in airport long-term parking), but just because there's no expectation of privacy on the open road, it shouldn't mean any Joe off the street can look up license plates to find out who's been where. In fact, the kiosk works with just a partial license plate, requiring only the first few letters or numbers to return matches. Adding a security layer, such as making the kiosk accessible only to security personnel, is needed to solve this dilemma. And license plate scanners aren't the perfect solution--they've been known to misread license plate numbers. It's also much harder to remember the numbers of a license plate than the floor on which you parked your car.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Coal-to-natural gas outfit Ciris Energy funded]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=coal-to-natural-gas-outfit-ciris-energy-funded</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>stephen001</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=coal-to-natural-gas-outfit-ciris-energy-funded</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ciris Energy today said it raised a series B round to build its first commercial plant for converting underground coal to natural gas.(Credit:Ciris Energy)Khosla Ventures led the funding, which also brought in existing investors Braemer Ventures, Rho Ventures, and GE Energy Financial Services. An SEC document from last week showed that Ciris raised $23.9 million, out of a planned $63.9 million.Ciris has developed a process to biologically convert underground coal into methane, the main ingredient of natural gas. The company has said that its technology is less expensive than conventional natural gas production and other gasification processes. As an energy source, natural gas has become one of the favorite options in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. The U.S. has large reserves, including relatively recent finds in shale rock. Natural gas also emits about half of the carbon dioxide as burning coal and has fewer other air pollutants. The process of converting underground coal to natural gas--called coal bed methane extraction--is being pursued by other companies, including Luca Technologies. Luca plans to do it by injecting a nutrient-rich solution into coal beds to stimulate growth of bacteria that digest coal to make methane. The methane is then captured and pumped into natural gas pipelines. In addition to producing a cleaner-burning fuel, methane can be extracted from coal seams that are no longer productive enough for mining.In a statement, the Centennial, Colo.-based company said the series B round will allow it to deploy its technology in the field.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Lenovo IdeaPad updates across the board]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-lenovo-ideapad-updates-across-the-board</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>michael7806</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-lenovo-ideapad-updates-across-the-board</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Lenovo IdeaPad Y570 rounds out the top of the pack.(Credit:Lenovo)For larger laptops, CES 2011 seems to be more about gradual improvements than whole-scale innovation. Lenovo's newly-announced IdeaPad lineup updates seem to confirm this theory quite well: better processors, improved graphics, and Lenovo Enhanced Experience 2.0, an engineering tweak that Lenovo promises will offer extremely fast boot times. Though it can be pretty difficult to suss the differences out among the various lines of IdeaPads, we'll give you a rundown. The IdeaPad Y570 and Y470 lead the pack, with second-generation Intel Core processors, and GPU options including Nvidia's new GeForce GT555 switchable graphics. These laptops have 15.6- and 14-inch screens, up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, hard drives up to 1TB, and up to 64GB of SSD storage assisting the rapid-booting process. Multimedia features include Blu-ray drives and JBL speakers. The new Y series laptops also have a metallic finish and improved keyboards. The Y570d has Nvidia 3D Vision, and is an update to the Y560 we reviewed last fall, but it still uses polarized glasses instead of active-shutter glasses. CPU options range from a second-generation Intel Core i3-2310M up to a second-generation Intel Core i7-2620M. The Y series starts at $899, and will be available in May.The affordable G series has expanded to 14-, 15-, and 17-inch models. The IdeaPad G770, G570, G470, G575, and G475 use AMD graphics, topping off at the AMD Radeon 6370M (6650M on the 17-inch G770), and comes in AMD and Intel flavors: up to a Core i7 or an AMD Fusion Brazos processor. Hard drives cap at 750GB, and DDR3 RAM at 8GB.The IdeaPad Z570, Z470, and Z370 laptops &quot;are designed for consumers who desire a PC with features that can keep up with their exciting lifestyle,&quot; and come in fuschia, sky blue, and dark brown colors. Launched last summer, they slot between the G and Y series as midrange laptops. Optional Blu-ray drives and Dolby advanced audio lend the machine some entertainment-friendly appeal. 1,366x768 resolution displays, Nvidia GeForce graphics up to 2GB 525M, a maximum 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and up to 1TB 7,200rpm hard drives round out the package. Processor options range from a 2nd Generation Intel Core i3-2310M to a Core i5-2520M.The IdeaPad V series is a small business-oriented laptop line with sharp edges and aluminum touches. The V570, V470, and V370 are 13.3-inch to 15.6-inch laptops with 1,366x768-pixel displays, second-generation Intel Core processors up to Core i7, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and up to 1TB hard drives. The Z series updates start at $599 and will be available in April.Finally, the IdeaPad B570 and B470 are a new line, targeted for &quot;use at the office or while relaxing at home.&quot; To that end, they're a bit of a hybrid design between small business and consumer, with most of the same specs (second generation Intel Core processors, Lenovo Enhanced Experience) as the other laptops. The B series starts at $499 and will be available in April as well.Editors' take: Expect a ton of Sandy Bridge Intel Core i-series laptop updates all over CES' this is Lenovo's batch of updates, and the lines all seem too similar to one another to really discern differences. Too many letter lines, too much confusion: for 2012, our IdeaPad wish is for line simplification.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Could Apple ship 65 million iPads next year]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resuckmargrocy</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Apple)Some of the companies that manufacture parts forApple's iPad are anticipating the company may ship 65 million of the tablet devices in 2011, according to an article in today's DigiTimes.That number far outstrips current market estimates of about 45 million. As recently as this past summer, 25 million iPads in a year was considered a staggering number.The estimates come via LG Display and Samsung, two of the companies that Apple has enlisted to build the display technology for the iPad. Looking at the 65 million figure as well as the fact that LG shipped 1.5 million iPad panels in November and Samsung shipped 1.2 million that month, DigiTimes assessed that this reflects not just Apple's optimism about the growing popularity of tablets but also potentially the sense that Apple may be &quot;overbooking&quot; its orders of panels.The iPad debuted in April. Analysts have guessed that Apple's total 2010 iPad sales will turn out to be around 10 million, outpacing sales of the original iPhone.DigiTimes, which is based in Taiwan, has been keeping a close eye on iPad parts manufacturers of late, primarily because of the likelihood that details may emerge about the technical specifics of a rumored second-generation iPad that may be released before spring.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2010 Car Tech awards: And the winner is...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>BestyMerryBMW</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)CNET TechCar of the Year for 20102011 Nissan LeafEarlier this month we invited you to vote for the 2010 Tech Car of the Year from our five nominees. This year proved an upset, though, as our staff judges came down on the side of the 2011 Nissan Leaf, these votes overruling the general support for the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid and the Audi A8. The MKZ Hybrid is an excellent car, although its very close relative, the Ford Fusion Hybrid, won last year's award. Audi came out this year with a phenomenal flagship sedan in the new A8, which exploited many interesting technologies. But we gave the edge to the Leaf, as it is likely a herald for a sea change in the automotive market. As a tech car, its pure electric power train shows simplicity and economy. Although limited in range, many people will find that the Leaf meets the majority of their driving needs. Staff judge Brian Cooley had this to say about his choice: &quot;The Leaf is a very livable and fun little commuter that has new-era efficiency without any serious space, cost, or other sacrifices--aside from range anxiety, and that is very real with all current EVs.&quot;Nissan's infotainment features in other models are cutting-edge, and we see the same electronics here, with added capabilities specifically to address the electric power train. According to judge Antuan Goodwin, &quot;Nissan has cleverly integrated a number of tools into the infotainment system that should help drivers to be realistic about the vehicle's capabilities.&quot; Likewise, the Carwings telematic system offers unprecedented connectivity. The Leaf earns the Tech Car of the Year award for pushing the boundaries of automotive technology beyond any competitor.The Car Tech 10There was a lot more going on in the past year besides five really, really good tech cars. So that's why we have The Car Tech 10, a set of inconsistent awards for various achievements in automotive technology. Most popular(Credit:Josh P. Miller/CNET)2011 Hyundai Sonata SEOut of 24 reader reviews for the new Hyundai Sonata, it scored an overall 4 stars, or 8.3 out of 10. Most reviewers were very impressed with the Sonata, giving it a perfect 5 stars, but there were a few dissenters. The flaw Snoopy_62 found with the car was a weak horn, while gigirn66 could find nothing bad about it whatsoever. On the flip side, BMXLaurier complained about its weak engine and mediocre handling.Rock crusher(Credit:Wayne Cunningham/CNET)2011 Jeep Grand CherokeeSome people may think the addition of high-tech accoutrements and the adoption of unibody design made the Jeep Grand Cherokee a soft-roader. Those people did not pilot it down a steep, sandy road, or maneuver it over a trail paved with boulders. We did and can assure you that Jeep capabilities are alive and well. Even among current four-wheel-drive vehicles, few could compete with the Grand Cherokee in this regard.Lowest-tech car(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)2011 Mazda Mazda2Taking a maverick approach, the Mazda2 entered the market stripped of any real tech. No navigation,iPod port, or even a Bluetooth phone system. The Mazda2 is a back-to-the-future kind of car, seemingly coming to us straight from 1985. Its only Doc Brown feature is the MP3-compatible CD player.Attention getter(Credit:Josh P. Miller/CNET)2011 Cadillac CTS CoupeWe had a few cars that attracted more than their fair share of attention, such as the Ford Shelby or the Dodge Challenger, both of which made pedestrians take note. But people treated the CTS Coupe like a car from another planet. Keeping much of the concept design, the CTS Coupe has a unique look you wouldn't expect from Cadillac. If there is any car that will change this venerable American automaker's image, it is the CTS Coupe.Fake carbon fiber(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)2010 Scion xDRight off the lot, the Scion xD would not have made us give it this award. But the one we saw was tricked out with Toyota Racing Development accessories, which included carbon fiber appliques on the B pillar. We had a good laugh over how this treatment did exactly the opposite of what real carbon fiber does: shave weight. That carbon fiber look continued on the inside, but only on the console, not on the more visible center stack.Least trunk room(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)2010 Infiniti G37 ConvertibleMost convertibles lose some trunk space when the top is down. But the Infiniti G37 Convertible left less space than most. With its retractable hard top stowed, there was a mere narrow channel, enough space for a few umbrellas. Convertibles can be fun, but less so when you have to put all your luggage in the rear seat to enjoy open-top driving.Most improved tech(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)2011 Subaru Impreza WRXWe've always liked the driving character of Subaru cars, but the company was slow to adopt cabin electronics, and in our tech-oriented reviews that proved fatal. But Subaru has more recently seen the light, so not only can we enjoy raising up rooster tails with the WRX on a dirt road, we can also note the very nice sound quality from the stereo and the useful navigation system.Living room on wheels(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)2011 Toyota SiennaMinivan makers have been heating up the competition, fitting out their vehicles with new tech features and big, comfy chairs. Wide-screen rear-seat entertainment systems, which we saw on the Toyota Sienna and Honda Odyssey, have become de rigueur. But we are giving the nod to the Toyota for this award, as it came out of the gate first.Ugliest duckling(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)2010 Porsche Panamera 4SNo car inspired more controversy over its looks than the Panamera. Some on staff grew to like its odd looks, but most couldn't help deriding its oddly bulbous rear. There was some strong competition in this category, as the Nissan Cube showed up with an asymmetrical design, and some suggested the Acura ZDX should be called the WTF. But the Panamera stuck out like the sorest thumb.Oil burner(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)2010 Audi A3 TDIVolkswagen and Audi have just about earned this award in perpetuity. Volkswagen makes the most popular diesels in the U.S., and the Audi gives Jetta TDI owners something to which they can aspire. With our average of almost 40 miles to the gallon, the A3 TDI makes a good argument for practicality. And then there's that premium Audi interior. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digital City 109: Gawker hacked, prank presents, and the Blabber Meter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ingmarbug02</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[WikiLeaks supporters attack MasterCard site]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nelson74carr</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=wikileaks-supporters-attack-mastercard-site</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Activists fighting on behalf of WikiLeaks brought down MasterCard's Web site today, according to the BBC and other sources.The hacking group Anonymous is taking responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the credit company's site in retaliation for MasterCard's decision on Monday to block donations and payments to WikiLeaks, which was first reported by CNET.MasterCard's main site was at times either offline or extremely slow to load this morning. Ping requests to the site also timed out, an indication that the site was unreachable.Early this morning, the Anonymous group, which uses the Twitter account Anon_Operation, tweeted the following statement:&quot;WE ARE GLAD TO TELL YOU THAT http://www.mastercard.com/ is DOWN AND IT'S CONFIRMED&quot;MasterCard claimed its site was still functioning but just experiencing heavy traffic on its external corporate site, according to the BBC. The company added that there was &quot;no impact&quot; on the ability of customers to use their credit cards for transactions, the BBC further reported.The decision to target MasterCard follows attacks by Anonymous against PayPal and other sites for their actions against WikiLeaks.On Saturday, PayPal cut off access to WikiLeaks to prevent people from donating money to the site. In response, the Anonymous group used a DDoS attack to hit the PayPal blog that announced the payment cutoff.PayPal was given a chance to explain its decision at LeWeb conference in Paris today. Osama Bedier, PayPal's vice president of platform, mobile, and new ventures, was asked by a reporter why the company cut off access to WikiLeaks, according to TechCrunch. In response, Bedier discussed PayPal's accessible use policy designed to protect customers but also seemed to put the onus for the decision on the U.S. State Department's designation of WikiLeaks as &quot;illegal.&quot;WikiLeaks has come under fire repeatedly--most recently by the U.S. government for its release of classified U.S. State Department documents. Some in government have even called for the site to be classified as a terrorist group.Arrested in London yesterday, WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange is currently being held without bail as he waits to be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. Assange has denied the accusations, which his supporters claim have been trumped up as a way to silence him.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trendnet intros new four-port wireless N media bridge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kocdeba</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[TrendNet&amp;39's new wireless N bridge, the TEW-640MB.(Credit:TrendNet)If you're looking to connect those Ethernet-ready game consoles or set-top boxes to your wireless network, there are two ways: get a wireless dongle from the original vendor or get a wireless bridge. For the latter, there's now another choice. Trendnet, just announced Thursday a new 300Mbps Wireless N Media bridge, model TEW-640MB, that supports the dual-stream wireless N with a cap speed of 300Mbps. The device works with any wireless router. It is designed to hook any device with a network port into the wireless network. The new bridge is one of a few on the market that comes with four network ports, meaning it can handle four Ethernet-ready devices at a time right out of the box. This is a great feature if you want to connect multiple devices to one place, such as to your entertainment center.According to Trendnet, the TEW-640MB sports the latest in wireless encryption technology to ensure security, advanced Multiple Input Multiple Output antenna technology, and Quality of Service features that prioritize Internet traffic for gaming, Internet calls, or video streams. The device also supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup, which allows it to be hooked to a wireless network via the press of a button. The TEW-640MB comes with a three-year warranty and is available this month at the estimated price of around $70.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This week in Crave: The such-a-deal edition]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ahmadmmaam</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=this-week-in-crave-the-such-a-deal-edition</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Too busy plotting your Black Friday strategy to keep up with Crave this week Here's what you missed, deal seekers.  &amp;149' Acer showed off a new phone, dual-screen laptop, and tablets. Acer&amp;39's Iconia looks like it's aiming to get the best of two worlds. Click the image for CNET's hands-on review.(Credit:Acer) &amp;149' Speaking of tablets, should you wait to buy one  &amp;149' See how Katzmaier is faring a week after cutting the cable TV cord.  &amp;149' Angry Birds is flying over to consoles. &amp;149' Anybody playing games on the Kindle  &amp;149' Donkey Kong Country Returns has, well, returned.  &amp;149' We wish iOS 4.2 could do these things on theiPad.  &amp;149' 'Tron'-inspired watch needs to get real.  &amp;149' Get a Ph.D. in LED-based monitors. &amp;149' Sorry, but these TSA-blocking briefs will probably land you right in the pat-down line.  Got a great story tip for us Put down those shopping bags and how-to manuals and write to us at crave at cnet dot com. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hybrid storage melds battery, ultracapacitor]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paulsmith385</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=hybrid-storage-melds-battery-ultracapacitor</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the geeky world of energy storage, there are well-understood limitations to plain old batteries and to ultracapacitors, devices able to store relatively little energy but also deliver big bursts of power.Energy storage company Ioxus on Monday plans to announce a hybrid storage device that combines the attributes of an ultracapacitor with a lithium-ion battery. In the first quarter of next year, it plans to make available a second generation of the device, which could potentially be used in auto applications, according to Ioxus CEO Mark McGough. Ultracapacitors: the unsung cousins of batteries in energy storage. (Credit:Ioxus)Its first hybrid will store more than twice the energy of traditional ultracapacitors, and charging is done on the order of seconds, rather than hours as in the case of traditional batteries, according to the company.The device, which is about the size of a C cell battery, won't propel a plug-in electric car. But it could be used for power tools, off-grid lighting, and handheld medical devices, according to McGough.If used in an ear probe for medical applications, for example, a doctor could fully charge the probe in 90 seconds or partially charge in 20 seconds, McGough said. The company is now providing sample to designers in different industries. &quot;What we've been able to do is take the fast charge/discharge of ultracapacitors and improve the energy density by designing in a lithium ion electrode and putting it all in the same device,&quot; McGough said. The device combines the activated carbon material of an ultracapacitor that stores charge and layers of lithium ion material wrapped in a cylinder form, he explained.The trade-off to the hybrid design is that it won't have the same cycle life--or charge/discharge cycles-- as ultracapacitors. People can expect 20,000 cycles versus millions of cycles for an ultracapacitor, McGough said.The long cycle life makes it suitable for use in places where replacing a battery would be difficult, such as off-grid lighting. Withincars, it could be used to run smaller motors, such as the ones that raise and lower power windows, in order to lighten the load and cabling from the main battery.The company's second-generation hybrid device could be used in hybrid cars for what is called &quot;start-stop&quot; technology, or microhybrids, McGough said. In this case, energy storage is used for regenerative braking to harvest energy and a give small burst of power when starting.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Clean-energy action shifts to states postelection]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>TheBestHawaiiSite</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[BOSTON--For clean-energy businesses, the mantra to think globally and act locally now resonates more than ever.The advance of Republican politicians in yesterday's national elections means that state-level efforts to encourage green technologies become more important, according to speakers on a panel at the Sixth Annual Clean Energy Conference here today. The political shake-up means that national policies to cap carbon emissions and stimulate alternatives to fossil fuels are less likely to happen, they said.&quot;Policy via mandates is going to have serious problems in the House of Representatives and the Senate,&quot; Melanie Kenderine, the executive director of the MIT Energy Initiative, said during a panel this morning. &quot;We are bringing leaders into the House and Senate who are serious climate deniers and I think that's very problematic.&quot; In a ballot question California voted to keep in place a global warming bill to cap emissions and voters there elected Jerry Brown as governor, who has said he will support clean-energy industries. In Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, whose administration has backed green tech businesses, was re-elected. But policies in other states, notably state-level renewable portfolio standards, will be challenged in places, such as Colorado, said Peter Rothstein, the president of the New England Clean Energy Council. About half of the states now have mandates that require utilities to get a percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.Even if many state-level programs stay in place, entrepreneurs who work in green technology need to contend with a patchwork of programs, Rothstein said. What's preferred is a unified national energy policy, something other countries are doing, he said. &quot;The rest of the world is out-investing us,&quot; Rothstein said. &quot;Part of the story now will be whether companies will be able to grow and have access to early markets here in the U.S. Or will they be founded by universities and start-ups and need to go elsewhere to scale&quot;Energy efficiency is one area where states and cities can continue to make advances, said Henrietta Davis, the vice mayor of Cambridge, Mass. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which puts a cap on carbon emissions from utilities, has successfully put most of that money towards energy efficiency efforts, said Rothstein.Meanwhile, several national programs already in place may not be renewed. The ARPA-E program, which has proved popular with scientists and entrepreneurs, was funded by $400 million in the stimulus plan, but now needs to be funded as part of the budget, panelists noted. Vincent DeVito, a partner at law firm Bowditch &amp; Dewey, said that the change in the political picture at the national level won't have that much impact, particularly with regard to carbon emissions, given that the last Congress failed to pass a comprehensive climate and energy bill. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Logitech Revue with Google TV: Tons of potential, but too many caveats and bugs for now]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Adam01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)When we first saw the Logitech Revue demos, we were sold on the idea of a single set-top box that could search all our content sources--online or offline--and control our home theater components. Now that we've had our hands on a unit for nearly a week, we still love the concept, and the Revue has an undeniable amount of potential, but it's hard to give it an unqualified recommendation with all of its current issues and caveats.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[YC-Funded Fabricly Is A Threadless For High Fashion, And It Just Raised&nbsp'$400K]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mharpsterr</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=yc-funded-fabricly-is-a-threadless-for-high-fashion-and-it-just-raisednbsp400k</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I can&amp;'t say I know a whole lot about fashion. But, having accidentally walked into a few boutiques over the years, I&amp;'ve gathered one thing: it&amp;'s expensive. And I&amp;'m told it&amp;'s also a very competitive market a4&quot; designers vie to have their products manufactured by clothiers, who in turn have the question of whether consumers will actuallya4sbuy their productsa4slooming large. These clothing companies do have outlets like Gilt Groupe in case they wind up with excess inventory, but there&amp;'s always significant risk involved whenever a new item is produced.Now Y Combinator-funded startup Fabricly wants to reverse and improve the model, by crowdsourcing designs and using a voting process to only manufacture pieces that people actually want, all while saving customers a bundle.  The company also has some funding news to announce: it&amp;'s recently raised a seed round of $400,000 from Atomico Ventures.Here&amp;'s how it works: first, designers submit their product ideas to the site'a4sdepending on the product, it will either become part of a &amp;8216'competition&amp;' where users vote on which item they like best, or it will go straight to a &amp;8216'pre-order&amp;' stage. Note that it doesn&amp;'t simply go on sale a4&quot;a4sthere&amp;'s a pre-order process that acts a bit like Groupon&amp;'s deals. When you place a pre-order the site will take down your credit card information, but you&amp;'ll only get charged if a certain number of people also pre-order the item, at which point Fabricly has it manufactured. If this threshold is not met, then the order is canceled.Assuming the tipping point is reached, Fabricly then works with factories in Los Angeles and New York to have their items produced (founder Ari Helgason says you can expect to get something you&amp;'ve ordered within a few weeks). Because these goods are being produced on demand, Fabricly doesn&amp;'t have excess inventory to deal with, and Helgason says that users can also expect steep discounts, because it doesn&amp;'t have to maintain any retail outlets either.a4sEach time a designer&amp;'s item is purchased, they receive a 5-15% commission. And Helgason says this model opens the doors to tapping into undiscovered talent:The unwillingness of buyers (retailers) to take risks means that many great designs never get produced. In my experience going around fashion trade shows over the years buyers wait for a few seasons before placing orders to see if the designer stays in business and can consistently deliver on time, even when their products are great and likely to sell. Often designers give up before they get a chance to prove themselves.This model could potentially be disruptive, but it&amp;'ll need to attract both designers and customers, which, as always, is no given. a4sIt&amp;'s still much too early to tell how much traction Fabricly will geta4&quot; Helgason says that the site currently has nine items available for pre-order, but they won&amp;'t ship til late December. After that things will pick up, and it has a handful of designers that will be added in January.CrunchBase InformationFabriclyInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Picplza4a4s new features arena4a4t a business model a4 yet]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>stonkse</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[If youa4a4ve been wondering how someone can turn a mobile photo application into a real company, well, the answer became a little clearer today with some new features from Picplz.The company has announced an application programming interface (API) that will allow developers to build apps using Picplz photos. The company released a slideshow app, an embeddable widget for photos, and a photo feed that requires a login as examples of the kind of potential the API provides. Yes, pretty much every social networking startup releases an API, but Picplz seems to have beaten its competitors to this particular milestone. (Instagram shut down an unofficial API and said it plans to build an official one.)(Update: Well, Picplz was ahead of Instagram by a few hours anyway.)As my headline suggests, it doesna4a4t look like todaya4a4s announcement will  make the San Francisco startup any money right away. But the news points to how Picplz can be more than just another mobile app.Picplz has made another change, too: It now lets users share their photos through a Creative Commons license. This may seem like a minor addition, but it could help users feel more comfortable making Picplz the main repository for all their images. Not only will they be able to share those photos on a range of other social sites, but they can also set the terms by which those photos are republished by others. (Many of the images on VentureBeat come from Creative Commons-licensed photos that we find on Flickr.)Finally, Picplz announced a dashboard that allows businesses like Madison Square Garden and the LA Lakers to track the number of views, likes, and comments they receive on each image. This seems like something Picplz might be able to charge for, but co-founder Dalton Caldwell told me ita4a4s free for now:We developed this as a direct response for what our early brand partners asked for.  I am not sure whether this is the beginning of a monetization option for brands, or just another interesting reason for people to adopt picplz.I think we would need to add quite a bit more functionality before it would be something a brand would be willing to pay for.  At any rate, we will get a better idea once it gets more adoption.Caldwell previously led music service Imeem, and he gave a memorable talk last year where he laid out all the reasons why he wouldna4a4t want to create another music startup &amp;8212' basically, the financial side just doesna4a4t add up. So ita4a4s probably safe to assume that he chose his new industry with a little more care. Todaya4a4s news shows a vision that goes beyond the app, one that turns Picplz into a resource for developers, publishers, and brands.But to be a successful platform, Picplz will probably need to be a successful consumer app too. And Instagram seems to be providing some formidable competition on that front.Picplz recently raised a $5 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz. (Andreessen invested in an earlier version of Instagram, but he said he will take a more passive role now.)Next Story: Mobile cyber threats are getting worse Previous Story: Keith Olbermann may be joining Current TVPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: mobile photo-sharing, mobile photosCompanies: PicPlzPeople: Dalton Caldwell          Tags: mobile photo-sharing, mobile photosCompanies: PicPlzPeople: Dalton CaldwellAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site 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. 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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<title><![CDATA[Movea&'s motion-sensing chips will make TV remotes smarter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Motion-control technologies are a hot commodity. Microsoft&amp;'s Kinect motion-control system has proven to be a big hit, and Microsoft&amp;'s been scooping up companies such as 3DV Systems and Canesta to expand its capabilities.Now Texas Instruments has endorsed a technology from motion-control startup Movea that will let consumers use gestures to control things on a TV screen or  other consumer electronics gear in a way that is more interactive and  engaging than a simple button-based remote. Dallas-based TI is using Movea&amp;'s motion-sensing chips in its reference design (a master design that others will use) for a remote control. The companies made the announcement today at the Consumer Electronics Show, where motion-control systems are expected to make a big splash.Sam Guilaume, chief executive of Grenoble, France-based Movea, said the reference design makes it easy to build a working system for motion-sensing control systems. The chip technology includes wireless radio, micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) chips that can detect acceleration, and processors.One of the reasons that TV remotes are getting more complicated is that users are buying connected TVs, which require the user to navigate an interface not only for watching TV but also for surfing the web. The motion-sensing remotes allow users to operate from farther distances and without the need for a line-of-sight connection, as required with today&amp;'s infrared remotes. Movea has a U.S. headquarters in Milpitas, Calif. It already makes devices such as an &amp;''air mouse,&amp;'' (pictured), where users can point the mouse at a screen and make things happen on a screen through gestures.Yesterday, Movea also announced that Free, an internet TV service provider in France, will use Movea&amp;'s MotionIC technology in new remote controls that will accompany the Freebox set-top boxes being deployed late this year. Free has 4 million IPTV subscribers. Movea says it has more than 250 patents.The company was founded in 2007 and has 48 employees. Movea&amp;'s Gyration brand has also sold more than 3 million pointing devices to date. Rivals include Hillcrest Labs and Sensor Platforms. Investors include Technicolor, GIMV, I-Source, and CEA Investissement. To date Movea has raised $9 million in two rounds.Previous Story: Cars connected to the cloud: The all-electric Nissan LeafPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CES, CES 2011, Consumer Electronics ShowCompanies: Movea, Texas InstrumentsPeople: Sam Guilaume          Tags: CES, CES 2011, Consumer Electronics ShowCompanies: Movea, Texas InstrumentsPeople: Sam GuilaumeDean 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[Just When You Needed To Know Whether Prop. 19 Will Pass, CA.gov Results Page Goes&nbsp'Down]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Amihan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Man, it looks like Silicon Valley is getting its butt kicked at the Califonia polls, with forecasted losses from former eBay CEOa4sMeg Whitman, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina and the heavily tech industry supported Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana in California. And you know what else is getting its butt kicked Vote.Sos.CA.govApparently the entire Internet is really invested in today&amp;'s California midterm elections, because the official California Secretary of State site has been either down or more spotty than Twitter for the last 20 minutes. While it may appear functional, any attempt to view specific results is met with the following error message:&amp;''Due to an extremely high volume of traffic, the page you have requested is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience, please try your request again shortly.&amp;''Internet users dying to watch the votes as they e-trickle in can catch them on CNN&amp;'s CA State Results page, where it looks like the Fiorina vs. Barbara Boxer race is the only one of the big three that is even remotely close.Image: Kevin Rose via InstagramCrunchBase InformationCarly FiorinaMeg WhitmanInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneur Corner: Modern marketing and smart hiring]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Snundafoula</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Herea4a4s the latest from VentureBeata4a4s Entrepreneur Corner.M&amp;amp'A: Can you back out when a better deal comes along a4&quot; If youa4a4ve agreed to a deal and another, better offer comes along later, can you back out Attorney Scott Edward Walker looks at the restrictions of letters of intent a4&quot; and offers advice on things you should keep in mind when drafting one.Mastering the art of modern marketing a4&quot; Marketing is as much about analysis as it is about creative work these days. Byron Deeter, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, looks at new trends in the marketing world a4&quot; and how they could redefine the role of CMO.5 things to ask yourself when hiring a4&quot; Your team is your most important asset. Serial entrepreneur Will Herman offers five questions to keep in mind as you look to expand and interview candidates.Think your start-up doesn&amp;'t have IP risks Think again. a4&quot; Patent infringements can be the death knell for a startup. Jonathan Fritz, a partner at Michael Best &amp;amp' Friedrich, LLP, tells you how best to protect your company from inadvertently stumbling into a lawsuit.Essential qualities of a successful business &amp;8211' Startup success comes down to two things: Execution and people, says serial entrepreneur David Marshall. Ideas have little to do with it a4&quot; and business plans are even less important.Next Story: How GetGlue plans to dominate TV check-ins (and more) Previous Story: Sony&amp;'s Home virtual world hits 17M users and finds a business model in virtual goodsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: entrepreneur corner          Tags: entrepreneur cornerChris 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[Hey, We&'re Social Too!  YouTube Passes One Billion Follows, Er,&nbsp'Subscriptions]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google gets a bad rap for missing the boat on social.  You know, all that stuff Facebook and Twitter do with friends, followers, and activity streams.  But many of its products have had social features for a long time.  YouTube reminds us of this fact by pointing out that people have subscribed to other people&amp;'s video channels more than one billion times.  They are even celebrating the milestone on the YouTube logo today.If you think about it, the subscribe button on every YouTube video is very much like a follow button on Twitter.  By subscribing to another user or video producer, you get all of their new videos in your personalized homepage stream when you are logged in.  And you also get an email notification.  It&amp;'s not quite the same as a status update, but one billion emails a week is quite a lot.There are 15 video YouTube video producers who have more than one million followers, er subscribers.  To encourage more subscriptions, YouTube is releasing a subscribe widget that people can put in their blogs and websites.CrunchBase InformationYouTubeInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rejoice: Stewart, Colbert back on Hulu]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When I saw the headline last night thatThe Daily Show and The Colbert Report had returned to Hulu, the timing couldn&amp;'t have been more perfect. I was trying to watch The Daily Show at Comedy Central&amp;'s site and had just refreshed the page again after the video had failed some five times. The people at Comedy Central have proved themselves utterly, hopelessly incompetent at running a video site, where Hulu knows what it&amp;'s doing.Both shows were yanked from Hulu nearly a year ago when the video streamer and Viacom couldn&amp;'t come to terms. Now they&amp;'re back, with the same terms for viewers as before a4&quot; they&amp;'ll be on Hulu, for free, the day after they air.Other shows, such as Jersey Shore and many other inane offerings from VH1 and MTV, as well as fare (inane and not) from TV Land, Comedy Central, BET, etc., won&amp;'t appear until 21 days after airing on cable. Those shows will be available for a fee via the Hulu Plus subscription service.The deal also includes paid access for some archived shows through Hulu Plus. All Things Digital reports that the deal iscosting Hulu between $40 million and $50 million.Shows like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show get passed around online a lot, in large part because they&amp;'re pegged to the day&amp;'s news. That means it makes more sense to make them available in as many venues as possible right after they air, and it means that free Internet distribution is more lucrative for them than it is for, say, a reality show. Hence their near-immediate, and free, availability.Joe Flint of the Los Angeles Times&amp;' Company Town blog notes that many of Viacom&amp;'s shows, including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report,were available online all along, &amp;''so I&amp;'m not sure what the big deal is about this.&amp;'' Perhaps he never tried to watch anything on Viacom&amp;'s own terribly designed, technically hopeless Web sites.Whereas I&amp;'d had few problems with video on Hulu before the shows were yanked, I have spent the past year having the video freeze, necessitating a reload, or just fail to load at all, as happened last night. I had some kind of major problem about a third of the time. After I saw the news about the deal, I headed over to Hulu and found that Tuesday&amp;'s Daily Show was already there. I watched without a hitch.[image via Comedy Central]Next Story: Confirmed: Hipmunk raises $4.2M to &amp;''de-agonize&amp;'' flight search Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: Cleantech investing hits $4 billion, car makers cana4a4t hit 1M electric cars by 2015PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: online video, the colbert report, The Daily ShowCompanies: Hulu, ViacomPeople: jon stewart, steven colbert          Tags: online video, the colbert report, The Daily ShowCompanies: Hulu, ViacomPeople: jon stewart, steven colbertDan Mitchell covers media and technology for VentureBeat,  Fortune.com, and anyone else who will pay him. He previously covered the rise of the Internet for Wired, Cnet News.com, Red Herring, the Industry Standard, Business 2.0 and other  publications and was a Web producer for National Public  Radio. For three years he wrote the column &quot;What's Online&quot; for The New  York Times' Business Day. His popular blog &quot;Daily Bread,&quot; about the  business and political economics of food, ran for two years on Slate's  business site, The Big Money. 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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<title><![CDATA[Can News Corp.&'s iPad publication The Daily succeed from behind a wall]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sources who have seen News Corp.&amp;'s iPad newspaper, The Daily, tell All Things Digital&amp;'s Peter Kafka that the app is &amp;''both old fashioned and cutting edge.&amp;'' In that way, it sounds a lot like Rupert Murdoch, a man with newspaper ink for blood but who, for example, saw the potential for satellite television way before others did.As The Daily prepares for its hoopla-filled launch Wednesday at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, pundits are debating the app&amp;'s chances in a news-soaked marketplace, and details are leaking out. For example, The Poynter Institute&amp;'s Damon Kiesow has amassed a partly speculative, but fairly exhaustive list of the publication&amp;'s editorial staff, which includes former employees of the New York Post, the Associated Press, The Atlantic, AOL News, and lots of other national publications.Kafka says The Daily is &amp;''almost defiantly anti-Web,&amp;'' given its standalone nature, its lack of aggregation, and its barebones Web site, which will be free but will feature only a &amp;''grudging sample&amp;'' of about 10 of the day&amp;'s stories. The actual iPad version of The Daily is apparently very newspaper-like, though, with six sections and an early morning, once-daily publication schedule (though there apparently will be some minimal midday updating). It will cost 99 cents per week, although the first two weeks after Wedneday&amp;'s launch will be free as a promotion.Some of The Daily&amp;'s stories, according to people who have seen the app, look like any other newspaper story, but others a4&quot; some of them with no text at all a4&quot; are graphics-heavy and sport interactive capabilities like a zoom function. Reportedly, the app will feature 3D video, but that&amp;'s apparently coming sometime down the line.Much is made of The Daily&amp;'s walled-off nature. Some critics have said this will be its downfall. And it could be. But it&amp;'s also the case that people who work online (like media pundits and journalists) tend to think of everyone else as reading news online all day, too. It could be that there is a large audience for a single daily online publication.If so, it has to be high quality, argues news industry analyst Ken Doctor. &amp;''Our time is lots more valuable than 99 cents a week,&amp;'' he writes, &amp;''and reading The Daily means adding a new daily habit, replacing some other news reading, wea4a4d think, or some other activity to be sure. To displace other habits, newsy and otherwise, it must compel our attention.&amp;''Doctor notes that events in Egypt this week will provide the perfect test for Murdoch&amp;'s insistence on publishing once a day with minimal updates. &amp;''If it has yesterdaya4a4s Egypt news, as the revolution goes down, it will read like yesterdaya4a4s paper, while CNN excels live from the street. Thata4a4s the advantage the Journal, the Times and every newspaper has &amp;8212' a print compilation still valuable as a package to tens of millions and the ability to do continually updated news.&amp;''Given the public-relations blitz, the app&amp;'s unprecedented endorsement by, and promotional help from, Apple and the ease of subscribing via iTunes, The Daily is almost certain to do well at first. But Doctor, like Kafka, wonders what will happen when the buzz dies down. Again, the app&amp;'s walled-off nature comes into play here: most online media marketing is based on Web search and referrals from Facebook and Twitter links. How will those things work with The Daily And &amp;''what might it do with a Flipboard&amp;'' Doctor asks.Clayton Morris of the News Corp.-owned Foxnews.com has five wishes for his sister publication&amp;'s app &amp;8212' nearly all of them to do with his desire for links to outside publications, the ability to tweet articles, etc. But it seems Murdoch is betting that there is a substantial audience of non-tweeters out there &amp;8212' people who just want to sit back and read the news without feeling the need to go hopping around online.Next Story: Box.net CEO: Honeycomb will put Android tablets on top in enterprise Previous Story: Why console game makers can&amp;'t rely on digital sales &amp;8212' yetPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: apps, iPad, newspapers, The DailyCompanies: Apple, News CorpPeople: Rupert Murdoch          Tags: apps, iPad, newspapers, The DailyCompanies: Apple, News CorpPeople: Rupert MurdochDan Mitchell covers media and technology for VentureBeat,  Fortune.com, and anyone else who will pay him. He previously covered the rise of the Internet for Wired, Cnet News.com, Red Herring, the Industry Standard, Business 2.0 and other  publications and was a Web producer for National Public  Radio. For three years he wrote the column &quot;What's Online&quot; for The New  York Times' Business Day. His popular blog &quot;Daily Bread,&quot; about the  business and political economics of food, ran for two years on Slate's  business site, The Big Money. 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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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo announces Livestand digital newstand for tablets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>superip</dc:creator>
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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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<title><![CDATA[Developers: Get ready for your closeup in VentureBeat&'s Mobile App Spotlight]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>smopzefeNeuse</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Are you an app developer with a creation that&amp;'s ready for the klieg lights VentureBeat has partnered with Intel to provide a new showcase for your mobile app: VentureBeat&amp;'s Mobile App Spotlight.Why did we create this program Fundamentally, we want to help connect our readers with the latest innovations in the mobile and app worlds, and boost the efforts of entrepreneurs and inventors who are coming up with great new ideas. There&amp;'s been an explosion of creativity in mobile apps in the past few years &amp;8212' but that very fecundity has posed new challenges to developers.Here&amp;'s how it works: If you have a new app, submit it for consideration to the Mobile App Spotlight. VentureBeat&amp;'s editors will pick three apps to profile over the coming months, and they&amp;'ll be highlighted on VentureBeat&amp;'s homepage. (Note: To qualify as new &amp;8212' at least to our audience &amp;8212' the app must not have previously been written about in VentureBeat. If this program isn&amp;'t a fit, you can still keep us in the loop with your news &amp;8212' we&amp;'re glad to hear from you.) Apps written for any major smartphone platform are welcome.Why did we team up with Intel to create this program At VentureBeat, we&amp;'ve long tracked innovation in the mobile industry, before there was an App Store, iPads, or Android tablets. When we noticed that coaxing users to download an app was a growing challenge, we started covering app discovery and created the DiscoveryBeat series of events to discuss the technical and marketing challenges and the business opportunities in getting your hot app noticed. And Intel, our sponsor for the Spotlight, is increasingly interested in helping mobile-app developers solve the challenge of discovery, too.There are all kinds of tips and tricks that help you get your app out there. But one thing we consistently heard from developers is that it sure doesn&amp;'t hurt to get recognition from a publication like VentureBeat to get influential users&amp;' attention. Flattery aside, we get the message!And we hope you do, too: Submit your app today!The Intel AppUp Developer Program is sponsoring VentureBeat&amp;'s Mobile App Spotlight. However, VentureBeat&amp;'s editorial staff selects apps for the program according to its customary editorial standards, without input from Intel.Next Story: AT&amp;038'T finally gets a MiFi wireless hotspot of its own for $50 Previous Story: Rumors swirl over Twitter funding &amp;8212' but who&amp;'s getting a piece of the piePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: app discovery, app stores, Mobile App Spotlight, mobile apps          Tags: app discovery, app stores, Mobile App Spotlight, mobile appsOwen Thomas is the executive editor of 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[Let a thousand sports blogs bloom: SB Nation raises $10.5M]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UpdatedSB Nation, a network of local sports blogs (thata4a4s what the a4ASBa4 stands for), has raised $10.5 million in new funding led by Khosla Ventures.  After news of the funding was leaked to All Things Digital, chief executive Jim Bankoff confirmed it over email.The Washington, D.C.-based company has been around since 2003, when it was known as Athletic Nation. The companya4a4s big idea is that the audience for sports news is fragmented &amp;8212' fans care less about general news than they do about their specific sport and team. So SB Nation has built out a massive network of focused sites &amp;8212' the company says there are currently 289 blogs in the network. At the same time, it keeps costs down by just paying its contributors a monthly stipend, acccording to an Inc magazine profile of the company.Prior to joining SB Nation in 2008, Bankoff had plenty of experience in the blog world &amp;8212' he was an executive at AOL, where he oversaw the acquisition of blog network Weblogs.SB Nation has been growing quickly. It sees 8 million unique visitors and 40 million pageviews per month, Inc reported. (Ia4a4ve asked Bankoff if he has updated traffic numbers, and Ia4a4ll update if I hear back.) And PaidContent says that the company has almost reached the break-even point.Previous investors Accel Partners and Comcast Interactive Capital both participated in the new round, which brings SB Nationa4a4s total funding to $23.5 million.Update: Bankoff just emailed me to say that SB Nation&amp;'s Google Analytics numbers put SB Nation at 17 million monthly uniques, while Quantcast says 9 million. Either way, the company has had consistent growth, usually doubling or tripling its traffic every year.Next Story: Call of Duty Black Ops is a test for game studio coming out of the shadows Previous Story: Attention, flight-search startups: Priceline, Expedia say hotels are where it&amp;'s atPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: blog networks, hyperlocal news, sportsCompanies: Accel Partners, Comcast Interactive Capital, Khosla Ventures, SB NationPeople: Jim Bankoff          Tags: blog networks, hyperlocal news, sportsCompanies: Accel Partners, Comcast Interactive Capital, Khosla Ventures, SB NationPeople: Jim BankoffAnthony 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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