Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Golden era books is not over. Currently, golden era books

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"The golden era books-over". So begins the post Jeff Bercovici to Fortune.com before he is somewhat self-contrapuntally continues in the list of top earning the authors of the previous year, including James Patterson (84 million United States dollars), Daniel steel (35 million United States dollars) and Stephen King (28 million dollars for the United States).

In fact, convincing as the lede mount this book Bercovici, statistics, which he uses to back it up – that sales of adult books down 23%-this is somewhat, well, stupid. For the reasons I explained earlier, the measure of "books", based on the number of hardcover sales, measuring the popularity of the music, based on how many people buy tapes.

Once upon a time books were the only way that fans of the book can read new titles. This has allowed publishers to charge premium for a product — a big, glossy hardback book is really not much more expensive to produce than soft. Today, most publishers released ebook edition of the new name at the same time as hard. EBooks are cheaper, more portable, faster way for fans to get hold of their beloved author's latest work so this is a completely unremarkable hardcore book buyers are moving to this format. Of course, the hardback sales dipped in the past 12 months, but in the same period rose eBook sales. In terms of sales (up to 4.1% from 2008) and income (5.6% from 2008) American Publishers experienced a bumper year in the past year.

The good news doesn't stop there: the Kindle and the iPad, people who three years ago, will never be moved within 500 feet of the bookshop (and still is) can now buy the latest James Patterson as easy as downloading angry birds. People who were reading for fun now. That's nice.

Even more interesting Amazon extracted from amber DNA brochures and short stories (and maybe even serial novels) and give them a chance for a new life in the form of a Kindle singles. A number of publishers run — particularly Byliner whose name debut three cups of deception made headlines in April — began to read the public hunger for essays and Long form journalism in the form of ebook. Twelve months ago, long form journalism was alive fans — today, it thrives on Kindle bestseller list one. Hell Ars Technica made $ 15000 in one day after the publication of their consideration of some thing Apple or as a single.

So yes, that's thriving publishing industry, new formats, the dead formats returned from the grave and top flight writers make tens of millions of dollars a year, this is a stretch to argue that the golden era books ended. In addition it is significantly less stretch argue that the golden era books now.


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Next generation 911 would support the text, photos, video and data

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No one ever wants to be in a situation that requires emergency services, but when you think all "dial 911" it really helps. Kind of. In truth, our emergency response system is pretty outdated when we consider all the different forms of communication, which will be the core. But fortunately, FCC Charmain Julius Genachowski has been tapped by the recently announced that five step plan is in place to bring text, photo, video and data to support next-generation 911.

"It's hard to imagine that airlines can send text messages if your flight is delayed, but you cannot send a text message 911 in an emergency," said Genachowski has been tapped by. "Unfortunately it is true that our emergency response communication has not kept pace with commercial innovation — has not kept pace with now do what ordinary people every day with communication devices."

This is a very sweet News considering there are many situations in which the phone support just doesn't cut it. Let's say you're in a kind of bank robbery hostage situation (knock on wood). You can't just whip out the old Smartphone and yammer in police wearing masks. But the text will definitely help you, and anyone who is young, had a cell phone in the classroom with them knows that the hidden text message isn't terribly difficult.

Another hypothetical: you are convenient to store one night ice cream when perusing through the selection of a mugger pulls out a gun and captures all the money from the register. You know, he's going to run for it, but if you can just snap a pic or grab some videos, the police can actually find it. For several years, photos and videos sent in via next generation 911 service may be one of the best ways to catch criminals.

The service does not roll out for another five to ten years, but at the same time, a set of 911 will do just fine.


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Buddy MEDIA raises $ 54 M for brand-oriented management platform of social media

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Buddy MEDIA, a company that provides Facebook page and social media brand management raises $ 54 million in series d funding led by GGV capital with institutional venture partners, Bay partners and Business Insight. This brings total financing MEDIA buddy just under $ 90 million. GGV partner Jeff Richards joined Buddy MEDIA Board of Directors. One of Facebook's first ad sales execs, Kevin Colleran, also joined the company's Advisory Board.

Buddy MEDIA is best known for its management all-in-one social media to help create, manage and track your social campaign on Facebook. In connection with the Facebook platform enables brand managers agencies create, manage and keep track of Facebook pages in different languages to drive and increase user and brand. Users should not have any prior knowledge of form to create pages on Facebook and can create sleek and interactive pages pretty easily.

But Facebook is not only social media platform that brands should participate; Twitter has also has a powerful communications tool. A buddy MEDIA also offers Twitter management system, as well as CEO and founder Michael lasers tells us it's not just about Facebook and how brands participate through various channels, buddy MEDIA will provide them with the SaaS to manage this. He added that Google + scaling and ultimately adds feature brand and company, the company will look to provide integration with social platforms.

Earlier this year, buddy MEDIA acquired social analytics tool Spinback, which develops social commerce widget allows users to share products and purchase through Facebook, Twitter and email. This product is currently integrated with Buddy MEDIA SaaS

Of course when more brands look to social media to interact with consumers, buddy MEDIA results. Company's profit more than doubled since the end of 2010. In the past year, lasers told us that buddy MEDIA is on the way to make 20 million dollars in sales, profits can be at least $ 40 million.

Buddy MEDIA added about 200 new customers in 2011, including brands, retailers and media companies such as Ford Motor Company, Haines, ESPN, Hearst Corporation (more about this partnership) and Virgin Mobile, United States.

Buddy MEDIA staff had increased from 40 employees in 2009 to nearly 200, and the company opened a London Office this year. The last hired include CFO, Dennis Morgan, who headed the corporate finance and acquisition efforts for Yahoo.

Lasers said, the company continuously evaluates a couple of things: how brands more focused content on Facebook or on twitter; as they get the right content to man, and how to use the social graph for all fixed assets, it will happen. He explains that for major brands and companies to monitor social media complicated delivery audit and scaling in different countries. MEDIA Buddy simplifies this process, said lasers.

Laser and said that the company continues to grow, this capital will help scale development, global expansion, recruitment, sales, purchasing and much more. One of the problems, said he will hire the right people, but he plans to double the number of employees in the following year.


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Microsoft patents the flat slider phone form factor, multi-touch gaming mice

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We've seen a lot of interesting patents from Apple in the last few days, but Microsoft loves patent stuff too — and they were given only a bunch of nice little designs for mobile phones in a special format and some Kinect slider and mouse tech for download.

They are patenting a simple slider, of course. They are patenting several specific designs of the sliding mechanism, which, after you finish sliding action, keyboard and screen are mostly similar to the plane. "i.e., mainly the flush. Check this:


Potentially, the advantage is more comfortable typing experience. Many complained to recruit around G1's "Chin", and other phones with sunken keyboards have similar problems. My problem with the design as it is that additional loops and such may increase weight and sturdiness. The second design looks more interesting, however, reduce the display, rather than increasing the keyboard. That actually could work.

I'd like to see is some patents on the slider keyboard with keys that are actually fun to type on. Or maybe a slide-out keyboard for tablets that do not increase the weight of the thing at 500%.

Microsoft also received a patent that explicitly refers to Kinect is the definition of the potential of space to gestures and track user's movement within a cone. I wouldn't say this is particularly interesting, but if you are interested in Kinect and Microsoft for its implementation, it could make for some fun reading this weekend.

More up my alley, Microsoft has patented a method of interaction with games through multi-touch mice. I'm very surprised this patent came because the games just a form of software, and must be hundreds of patents in the game on the interaction of the software and multi-touch surface. Mostly I liked looking at patent because they use illustrations that times back in the days of yore when multi-touch mice were a novel proposal.

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Peak soil: why Google will not bless Motorola as his favorite Android

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The basics: Google is buying Motorola, pending government approval. Everyone and their editor-at-large has written about it. Now I’ll take my shot at the soapbox.

I don’t know why Google acquired Motorola as opposed to simply licensing its trove of patents. My hunch is that it had more to do with fending off a threat from Microsoft than it had to do with Google’s hitherto unforeseen hardware ambitions.

But while I don’t know the why, I have some guesses as to what’s next. And I think that one of the prevailing theories — that Google is going to turn Motorola into its chosen House of Android, blessed with the latest and greatest releases before its competitors as it attempts to mirror Apple — is completely wrong.

Google CEO Larry Page, they say, has been inspired by Steve Jobs. He wants to completely own the Android experience, controlling both the hardware and the software from the ground up. Apple has reaped huge benefits with this strategy, and Google wants in on the action.

From where I’m sitting, the aforementioned scenario doesn’t make a lick of sense.

The way I see it, Android — and the smartphone industry in general — is still very much in a land grab mode. There are billions of people who are going to buy smartphones in the next five to ten years. Billions. Take every Android phone sold thus far, then multiply it by a factor of 10. Or 30. These phones will combine computing power and affordability in a way that has never been seen before. An $80 handset is selling like hotcakes in Kenya with no contract. Give it a few years and they’ll be selling for a fraction of that.

And that’s just the phones. Google allotted plenty of time at its recent I/O conference to discuss the future of Android — a future that includes Android-powered speakers, hardware accessories, and home appliances. There’ll be Android-powered car consoles, refrigerators, dishwashers, and clock radios. If it has an LCD screen, there isn’t much reason why it can’t be powered by Android.

But if Google wants to see this Android-powered future come to fruition, time is of the essence.

The Clock Is Ticking

All of the smartphone platforms have a strong lock-in effect. Those movies and app you’ve purchased on your iPhone? They’re not going to work on Android or Windows Phone any time soon, and vice versa. Switching between one of these platforms is painful for your wallet, and it’s only going to get worse as your growing library of DRMed content weighs you down.

And then there are the hardware ecosystems. Apple TV already runs on iOS; Google TV runs on Android. Xbox has Windows Phone integration. Each of these operating systems is going to get more promiscuous and spread to more devices. The mobile phones of today are hooks, luring you into the comfort of iOS or Android or Windows — and each of these devices is only friendly with other devices in the same ecosystem.

The point being, all of the of the customers who get snatched up by iOS, Web OS, or Windows today are going to be much harder for Google to convert down the line. Which is why it needs to get as many of them as it can, right now.

Which brings us back to the Motorola deal.

The Nexus Advantage?

HTC, Samsung, and the other OEMs have done an excellent job thus far at creating a diverse ecosystem of Android devices that have given Google’s OS a huge market share remarkably quickly. Yes, a few of the devices stink. But you know what? Most people don’t really care. Or, rather, they don’t know they should care, which is all the same to Google. And even the mediocre Android phones are still a huge leap over the ‘feature phones’ many people are transitioning away from.

In short, the system is doing exactly what Google needs it to. Android is spreading like wildfire. If the premature launch of the Xoom proved nothing else, it’s that Google cares far more about getting a solid foothold in the market than it does about the user experience.

Which is why it won’t be using Motorola to one-up the existing fleet of Android partners. There’s just no reason to release a suite of superior devices, because Android isn’t struggling. And besides, Google couldn’t pull it off even if they wanted to: being Apple is harder than it looks.

But what, you say? Hasn’t Google already proven that it can produce superior phones when it designs both the hardware and the software, as it has with its Nexus line?

Except, err, the Nexus phones aren’t that much better than their ‘normal’ counterparts. I’ve used both the Nexus One and the Nexus S extensively. From a hardware perspective, they’re good, but hardly revolutionary. The real reason people think these phones are superior has everything to do with their software. They have ‘vanilla’ Android installed and they receive system updates relatively quickly. Most people couldn’t care less about either of these things. And eventually the other OEMs may be able to make skins that are actually improvements over vanilla Android.

Of course, Google could still get ambitious and try to make a completely integrated fleet of Motorola Android devices that blow everything else (including the iPhone) out of the water. But it would only get one shot at it — such a move would infuriate its partners to the point that they would abandon the platform, or at the very least, begin to seek alternatives. I don’t think Google is going to take that chance.

Which is why, for the foreseeable future, Google is going to do everything it can to make Samsung, HTC, and other major OEMs happy. They will receive previews of upcoming releases of Android at the same time as Motorola. They will be chosen for Nexus releases when Motorola won’t be. And they will help ensure that Android permeates into every market and cranny it can.

So what changes will Google make to Motorola, if any? My guess is that we’ll see it start pushing the boundaries on what can be done with Android. Motorola will start aggressively testing the waters with new form factors and entirely new devices. The hits will be quickly copied by the other OEMs, who will enjoy the benefits of expanding into new markets. And Android will spread even further.

Of course, this land rush wouldn’t be possible if OEMs were concerned about Android’s future because of patent issues, and it could take years for them to be resolved. Which is why Google was willing to throw down $12.5 billion to make sure they were no longer a problem.

You Know What’s Cool?

Finally, I want to address the argument — if you can even call it that — that’s irked me most about recent analysis in Android-land. Namely, the notion that Android needs to start making more money immediately in order to justify this huge investment on Google’s part.

Any attempts by Google now to seriously monetize Android would be akin to Facebook doing a major ad push circa 2005. As I said earlier, this is still very much the land grab stage. Once it has billions of users on Android, Google will have plenty of opportunities to monetize them. It’ll know where its users are, who they’re friends with, where they’re going — and plenty of other information that is both a little creepy and very valuable.


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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Canon lens shot glasses, Drinkin' and Shootin'

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Lens-related ephemera seems to have a soft spot of mine. Canon thermoses, mugs, mugs, Nikon, Canon & Nikon bracelets-the fun never stops. Or, on the other hand, she never begins, if you are a user of Pentax. All you get is a great camera and an amazing selection of lens.

For a photographer who likes to drink from time to time, or just likes things that look like lenses, consider these graceful 24-105 mm zoom shot glasses. I can't vouch for image stabilization, but you can't fault them for their size.

Their power was 1.5 ounces (i.e. normal shot glass), they made out of sturdy glazed ceramic, and they cost $ 18 for set of three over at Photojojo.

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NewNewTwitter continues: Twitter profile mention rolling out to all

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Hot on the heels of their great activity update yesterday, Twitter is the preservation of the features coming. Today brings a smaller but nevertheless useful: the reference profile.

First noticed the Mashable in very limited testing for about a month ago, this feature is now rolling out to all users. Now, it looks like users with fewer followers get first, and it applies to persons with higher follower counts.

Feature is simple and, frankly, surprising Twitter did this for a long time ago. He puts the tweet box user profile pages, you can send Tweets to them directly from those pages (without the need to return to the main page of Twitter.com or to respond to the specific Tweet that user sent). This field contains the text of grey, which reads as follows: "Twitter @ username". When you click in the text box is replaced with the @ username in the intro, then the input to this user.

Yes, it's a bit like what Facebook is done forever, in order to write on someone's wall. Of course, unlike the Facebook Wall, your tweet will appear on your profile page even users just he will join main stream tweet.

I suspect that Twitter is testing a few other little tweaks, such as this, all in the name of the interaction. This seems to be the main theme of the NewNewTwitter. Yes, I just called him that.


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Journalist Crowdsources article on Crowdsourcing company, hilarity ensues

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Adam Penenberg aka the man who took down Stephen glass decided to write about Serv drop.IO, crowdsourcing content farm that allows publishers to request articles for rapid publication. They call it the "engineering," which does not bode well for my work as I have MA or MSc.

The article written with tongue in cheek firmly is an excellent example of the dangers of "content engineering". Unlike say, Bank programs, it is difficult to engineer. If you carefully, writing about the company is a hard slog and if you're not careful you need to at least be dynamic. Penenberg the crowdsourced PIN for Servio was, in fact, either.

He notes:

The basic facts are accurate; However, all that requires interpretation, is ripe for abuse. They simply avoided the questions that I have presented, which requested them to inform the company's greatest shortcomings and criticize their competitors, and I never learned that the company's revenues. Anything with the company's co-founders Jordan Ritter and Alex Edelstein painfully subservient. They were described as "hip, young businessmen" with "boyish good looks," so that "it's not hard to imagine how they became so successful in a hip world of Internet business.

You can paint-stained wretches as Penenberg (and presumably me) replace the contents of engineers? Absolutely. Most of the stories are rehashed press releases and, except sometimes scoop/investigative piece, it was thus with broadband. There is no money in shaking the Crown from the lowly perch. There's money in a novel information ravenous, neophilic audiences.

Penenberg article was a fool, of course, but it indicates that the element, we read online-even this one can be transferred or crowdsourced. Does it matter? Not much but it's nice to know that there's a real man behind the curtain ... Oz at least some of the time.

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uTest doubles down on security features, partners with Veracode

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In the News recently, software and computers compromised by hackers and Rogue left Centre (not to mention the recent attacks on Citibank and Sony) and the right of States this clearly would be meaningful, well check your systems, whether you are a big corporate or launch.

It is therefore time that testing uTest software market today increased security and localization testing services. This means that it will have an end-to-end suite of testing services for web, desktop or mobile applications, adding to existing services as functional, usability and load testing. uTest CEO, Doron Reuveni said that aspires to become a ' one stop shop ' for testing in the real world.

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Millennial: Android captures 53 percent of impressions in Q2; iOS is 27% of the shares

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The largest remaining independent mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its 50th report today and to celebrate this, a number of statistical data, comparison of the growth of manufacturers and operating system over the past few years.

For example, in March 2010 iOS was 70 per cent of the impression share in the mobile ad network Millennial compared with Android in 6 per cent. Fast forward more than a year, and in June 2011, Android over take iOS, with 54 percent share of impressions of ads with iOS, taking 26 per cent. RIM pretty much had the same resource (14 per cent in 2010, compared to 15 per cent in 2011) for the period of time.

As Smartphone share rose from 45 per cent in March 2010, up to 65 per cent in June 2011. Feature phones, on the other hand, decreased from 34 per cent in 2010 to 17 per cent in 2011.

Another STAT to note in the report — 60 per cent of the device in the Millennial network use the touch screen as an input device, while only 27% of touch screen devices in 2009.

While Android is growing like gangbusters, Apple saw the biggest growth in terms of producers at the millennial network. In 2009, Apple has increased their market share as the producer of the best almost 20 percentage points (from 11% to 30%). Samsung was previously a top producer.

Millennial also took a look at the growth in network in the second quarter of 2011. In the second quarter of 2011 smartphones grew 8 percent quarter over quarter and led a Smartphone feature phone & device is connected with 67 percent of impressions. Connected devices increase 13 percent quarter over quarter and amounted to 17 per cent of the Smartphone to feature phone & device is connected to the mix in Q2.

Android to retain its position as the leading Smartphone OS mix impression at the millennial network in Q2, with 53% of impressions. iOS has actually increased by 4% quarter over quarter and represented 27% of the Smartphone OS mix impression in Q2. This can significantly jump 5, if the iPhone will be released next year.


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The Federal Government wants you! (And your ideas App)

Chris Velasco — mobile enthusiast and writer who studied English and marketing at Rutgers University. Once upon a time he was a News intern for MobileCrunch, and between them, he worked in wireless sales at best buy. After graduation, he returned to the new TechCrunch for mobile as a full-time writer. He counts the advertising works, musical theater ... ? Read More

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The Government of the United States is not a stranger to the app game: they have already developed more than 50 Smartphone applications and mobile sites for daily use, ranging from applications to find local alternatives to petrol stations with those that may be a sign of leaves you photographed. The app runs the gamut of federal arsenal exactly, but it doesn't seem enough. USA.gov blog has announced that, before 15 September, ordinary citizens like you and I can submit ideas for the next application is big government.

This gesture of openness is now accepting materials on Google Moderator, and several people have already thrown their hats into the ring. My favorite so far? LarryM of Baltimore is a good one:

"Collect and publish the latitude and longitude coordinates of the current Government, which are open to the public (e.g., social security district offices) so that the mapping programs such as Google maps, Bing can display exactly".

Personally, I would like to see an application that uses the device's location services to determine which States and the district is in and display recent activity from the Congressman. Nothing like some local accountability in the Palm of your hand, right?

Since Google Moderator is used to manage all these materials, users can essentially upvote good suggestions, so inevitably vague or trollish views won't make it too far. There is already a question sentence or two (including one that no proposal at all) in the mix, which understandably not garned much love.

USA.gov blog does not say that the most popular proposals will certainly do so at the drafting stage, but if "win" choice is technically feasible and quite novel, it must stand a decent chance of becoming a reality. If you're chomping at the bit has a chance to have a Government to translate your app idea to life, then mosey on over to the site and release — I'd love to see that thoughtful audience like ours can come up with.


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Gillmor Gang 8.13.11 (TCTV)

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Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin marks, and Steve Gillmor — waxed and waned on the latest social media buildout. Most notable was Twitter @ mentions views that are not only your @ mentions but follow-up and favoriting signals in real time notifications and new activities. View action did the same thing for those who you follow, with the combined flow of their attention.

Yes, it's attention and gestures meme is finally coming home to roost, and with it a fascinating series of political pebbles, passed through the real-time stream. @ borthwick is the jury of the PlusPlex, @ scobleizer and @ kevinmarks discussion, not if, but when his lack of search + solve, filtering, and realnamification. @ jtaschek heard but not seen, as he returns to the brief Cameo to Comcast pulls the plug, but at least he returned to the Club.


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Kevin marks — software engineer. Kevin worked as an evangelist for OpenSocial and software engineer at Google. In June 2009, he announced his resignation.

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John Borthwick is CEO of betaworks. betaworks is a new form of Internet media company. To betaworks, John was Senior Vice President of alliances.

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Monday, August 29, 2011

Today it is a cheap Nintendo 3DS day

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Just a reminder: today, cheap Nintendo 3DS day and unfortunately, this is the end of availability for Nintendo's unusual "Ambassador" program. The device is now available for $ 169-down from its launch price of $ 249-and they will launch the 3DS in "flame" aka "Mario" Red in September of this year.

Why this is news? Well as in the case of many recent price reduction, Nintendo is exceeded. Despite the fact that, in theory, 3 DS technology wildly surpassed the previous handheld consoles, the fact remains that these same consoles were just fine for the vast majority of DS games. 3D-and still is – the trick, and although I found fascinating console at launch, I suspect, balking at paying parents another Nintendo console has two and a half.

$ 169 a device that significantly cheaper and far more accessible. However, I worry that the fall will create a negative perception in the market. Console makers have traditionally been very aggressive and faithful in their prices. Console prices to drop sales are far beyond the sales plateau that occurs during startup, the console. Deficit, grey market after sales and General Chatter, all combine to create a perfect storm of income and only when the storm dies down, we see no significant price reductions.

In the end I'm sure Nintendo will do just fine on the 3DS. They are old, more nostalgic market and they understand that the children are happy with the new title Pokemon every few years. However, for them to reduce prices so early is a negative sign in almost all respects, except for one – lower prices means that more people will be willing to try Nintendo's vision for the future of handheld gaming.


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Bart interference in underground protests, a step in the wrong direction for digital freedom

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As many may be known currently, Bay metropolitan area, also known as Bart and San Francisco version of the municipal subway, gently on the receiving end of quite a bit of criticism in the past 24 hours. The criticism stems from a temporary intervention service Bart, cells in four of its stations to control potentially violent protests around the earlier shooting police officer Bart.

The incident occurred on July 3, 45-year-old Charles Blair, who was shot by Bart after (apparently homeless) man pulled out a knife and rushed the officer and his partner, according to SFGate.com. Organizers and activists staged a protest in select Bart station to oppose what they considered another body rash and unwarranted reaction to violence in their transport systems.

Unfortunately this is what Bart has been through before, with much publicized murder of Oscar grant in 2009. After a brawl in the station of Bart officers tried to detain a grant, then an officer drew his gun and shot grant in the back. The entire incident was captured on a cell phone camera, then later posted on YouTube, reaired on the news and was viewed by hundreds of thousands of times.

As CNET at the time, many people have adopted Twitter and other forms of social media to get updated information on the incident and subsequent trial, in which the staff member was convicted of manslaughter. Many disagreed with the verdict, however, and a lot of protests and violence that followed the incident clearly due to the mass availability of information (including sensitive shots of the actual murder) on the Web and social media. It is good or bad.

This is not to say that Bart had reason to censor cell phone activity in this latter situation, but there is no doubt they were fully aware of the precedent, and it would be ridiculous to assume that this (and others like it) could affect their reaction.

Now on the legality of Barth cellular communications interference, as already reported, SFAppeal among others, Bart does not necessarily use the lock methods that explicitly prohibited by the FCC and, instead, according to the statement made by the authority of transit, simply asked for wireless providers to temporarily interrupt the service Bart to select one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform. "which is not necessarily go beyond.

However, as pointed out by CNET and tweeters, it's still hard to avoid comparisons to the dictator of Hosni Mubarak, who ordered the Egyptian carriers essentially transform the Internet to prevent citizens from the organization. Of course, Twitter has already established its own hashtag for Bart bustle mountains: # MuBARTek. Although the comparison can be a little sharp, this is quite understandable.

Even if one takes the position that Bart had acted in accordance with the law and recognizes that Bart will probably regret his actions (if not already), United States of America was opened in condemning Mubarak for Egypt's Government interference in digital communication, and although it is certainly not a incident almost the same scale, he pretends to United States United States Government as hypocritical pushes macro web liberty and freedom in all forms of digital communication. If we want to adhere to high standards themselves allegedly (or above), the actions of this kind is not really acceptable.

Marvin Ammori, often cited jurist and expert in the field of Internet law, media law, freedom of expression and cyber-security, indicated in an insightful and well written post, although many were up in arms over the BARTgate, is a vivid example of the flagrant violation of the first amendment in the big picture, it's hard to argue the case. There is a lot of maneuver in the courts for scenarios in which government agency suppresses freedom of expression are not of its content but in terms of content to protect civilians from violence or danger. The higher courts will often rule against him in a massive violation of first amendment rights.

As pointed out by Ammori, Bart officials believe protested at their stations "can lead to overcrowding of the platforms and unsafe conditions for Bart customers, employees and the demonstrators, who do indeed" sounds like a reason.

Of course as Ammori suggests Bart really off the telephone network at a specific time that she looked forward to protest and protest against the transit police. The transit authority and the reasons for doing so, of course, because they expect that the protests could turn violent. Thus, "when Bart tried to suppress the speech of its content or to put an end to the violence," he says, "it most likely cannot satisfy the constitutional test and violated the first amendment."

Whether Bart guilty of violating the first amendment rights and eventually brought to trial, many experts call on FCC further study of this decision and is likely to exist.

And, control, investigation and analysis of incidents slowly, especially when they include a government agency, many hackers certainly have started tweeting on protesters and Anonymous has already released a digital brochure with the hashtag # MuBARTek, as first reported by CNET.

In any case, many of us can agree that this is a step in the wrong direction for freedom of speech in the United States, particularly as it relates to freedom of communication in digital media and could not afford silencers or intervention of government agencies in protests and demonstrations. As if not for potentially violent demonstrations, will this country have any civil, philosophical or governmental progress forward?

Undermines the credibility of the Internet or cellular discourse, no matter how small the incident, the wrong precedent and sends mixed signals to other countries and burgeoning digital communities around the world. It's just not a good policy, and it makes us look stupid.


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Sincerely running iOS photo App monetization platform: image printing for all

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You may recall that back in April, Postagram started as a way to turn your Instagrams in physical picture postcards and deliver them for $ 0.99. A few months later, PopBooth, as a way to use your iPhone/iPad like photo booth comes with image print outs. These applications during the great were tests for sincerely — the platform. Platform, which today are open to all developers of iOS.

Sincerely ship Library built from the tools that the company used internally to build your application as Postagram and PopBooth. After developers sign up, they can add print and ship to their photo application in under an hour, sincerely notes. These developers will be able to use sincerely printing network, as well as network users (for connections already established through the Postagram and/or PopBooth). The result is a 300 dpi 4 × 6 postcard color iOS from any application that can be sent anywhere.

OK that's good, but why should developers sign up for this? Because this is also a potential platform for monetization. Sincerely requests that developers at least $ 0.99 fee on the images. But anything above $ 0.99, sincerely pays 70 percent of the back to the application developer. Sincerely obviously holds 30 per cent in the same Division Apple themselves do with developers.

So if the developer decides to charge $ 1.99 app for their photos, they will keep $ 0.70 this (again, the developer keeps 70 percent after an initial threshold $ 0.99).

For this fee sincerely handles all account and address the collection, as well as the actual logistics of printing and delivery of photos. They also support service around the whole process. And the platform allows developers to printouts of actual photos of the branded space.

Developers can sign up for genuinely ship library today, and the plan is for the platform fully translated in September. The company is also the author of hack day pictures in New York this weekend, the winner of which will get some good iGear and the best place where ship Library opens.

Given the huge number of photo apps flood the market (with more in the future), this seems like a smart idea. My only question is whether the payment of developers will be enough? Many will find it difficult to charge more than $ 1.99 for functionality, and some will probably want to use a price of $ 0.99, which uses Postagram, himself — but then they will make no money.

Even still, it's not like it will cost developers do sincerely to implement that decision. And they get to offer users this functionality in a simple way.

Below find some pictures from the implementation looks like for application developers.

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Sony lowers price of Google TV integrated HDTVs

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Google TV not exactly set the world on fire, and while we could argue all day about what exactly did not allow it to achieve greatness, expensive hardware should at least be part of the discussion. Logitech bit the bullet two weeks ago and lowered prices for their Revue from $ 250 to $ 99, and it seems Sony decided they could take a bit of that medicine too.

Their Google TV-powered HDTVs, which debuted in October, received cuts the hefty price tag. Sony also made it clear that they are cheaper because there are better ones coming out soon — they just want to grab more market share. This is the code for "they were too expensive to begin with.

Here's the breakdown (according to Amazon and confirmed by Sony), the size of the display:

24: $ 600 to $ 295
32 ": $ 800 to $ 498
40 ?: $ 1000 $ 723
46: $ 1400 to $ 961

Best savings are 24 version — and although Google TV was not exactly a hit among the TV watching public (they prefer to just watch), the Internet powered display as it can be a big hit in the dorm room or kitchen.

Google TV will probably be around for a while, so it's not bad investments (and not a bad price for 24 set anyway), and the platform should receive an update in the next few months, so you would do yourself a favor, picking up one right now.


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Ford to sell solar panel system along with electric cars

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Ford Motor Company is teaming up with solar panels on the basis of the San Jose maker of SunPower to offer option on the roof of the solar system, which will be sold along with the upcoming EV Ford focus. "Drive green for life", as it is called, includes installation of solar panels on the customer home.

These panels will not be used only to charge the focus, however. They really help offset the cost that comes with the need to charge the car, what most electric car owners do every night.

Solar panels 2.5 kilowatt system compensates for the cost of about 1000 miles per month, "said Ford. After the federal tax rebates, the cost would be around $ 10000. Some local and State benefits may also be available, but it's still pretty expensive system.

At least Ford and SunPower were relevant demographic. Parameter must refer to the environmentalists, who want to buy an electric car, but don't want to feel guilty about consuming all additional electricity to charge it. In the end it is not this "green" to drive electric when charging your car with the use of fossil fuels.

The solar system consists of 147-square-foot rooftop panels. There are 11 panels, size 4 to 2 feet. Customers will be able to monitor the work of the panels, online and through specially iPhone app. SunPower also provides you with a 25-year warranty for the system that is installed on the clients home Best Buy Geek Squad. Best buy also has a contract with Ford for installing home Chargers.

Pricing and exact launch date for the new Ford Focus 2012 is not yet available, but the car will go on sale first in California and New York in the 4th quarter of 2011. Ford also plans to start 5 other electric or hybrid electric models in 2012 in North America and in Europe by 2013.



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Acer Iconia tab A100: Dual-Core, cellular, starts at $ 329

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If Acer's previous tablet effort was a little too strong for you, then consider this: Acer has just announced that their 7-inch WiFi only Iconia tab A100 begins today in retail stores across the country.

This is the first 7-inch tablet to sport the latest cellular (Android 3.2 If you are tracking) and it weighs up to 1 pound of hair. A100 comes, taking your typical complement of ports: MicroUSB and micro HDMI (support mirroring) means that this tiny tab works just as well is connected to your TV and your computer.

Like its big brother A100 also supports streaming through Acer clear .fi service, allowing users to connect and wirelessly share media between DLNA-compatible devices. In the meantime, 5 megapixel camera around the back ensures that you will always have a cache of embarrassing photos are ready to share.

A100 is no slouch when it comes to horsepower of NVIDIA Tegra either: there are 2 dual core processor and 1 GB of RAM, running the show. I hope that the energy helps with Flash in the often lackluster Android performance as Flash 10.3 comes pre-installed.

Two models will be available at launch: $ 329 nets you 8 GB of onboard storage, while $ 349 bumps you up to 16 GB. Hoarders media among you may scoff, but both pills can accept MicroSD cards up to 32 GB — have fun filling it all up.


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TinyChat iPhone App allows you to video chat with up to 12 Facebook friends

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Video chat launch TinyChat released their first iOS TinyChat FB app, which allows you to transfer video chat with up to 12 Facebook friends from your Smartphone. TinyChat co-founder Dan Blake tells me that what sets TinyChat FB separately from other services like Fring or Tango or even Skype is the fact that end users do not need to have the service installed to participate in the chat. Facebook, which just launched video calling with Skype still does not have this functionality for mobile devices.

Users can connect to the app with Facebook after downloading, and he immediately show them a list of their friends. Clicking on user allows you to invite them to chat, send a link to a Facebook message I video chat on my iPhone, click on the link to the video chat with me. " To switch back to your friends list will allow you to invite other users to chat and you can delete users by clicking on their name on the users tab.

TinyChat FB works on the iPad, iPad, iTouch 2 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. Web Flash-based component.

My biggest problem with this is that I can't think of any reason why people like Facebook video chat with 12 people. Blake insists that people are doing, namely teenagers. "Tiny chat right now does not have a list of contacts and, where necessary," he said, "certainly Skype juggernaut. We are here to give you more creative use TinyChat via Skype.

He also said that this application is not all, end all mobile TinyChat, and that a full-featured client for the service in its path.

TinyChat makes more than 30 million minutes of video chat per day according to Blake, and 100 K new users per day. The App had raised $ 1.5 million in financing from the triumvirate of Ashton Kutcher, p. Diddy, Lady Gaga and others who think of it, will probably make a pretty interesting video chat.


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doubleTwist now has 1 million active users — every day

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doubleTwist, slick Media Player for Android is growing. A lot.

In February, we reported that the application has passed an important milestone, drawing one million users per month between mobile and desktop applications.

Today, the company uses much more: they get 1 million users per day between doubleTwist on Android phones and tablets.

Now, it is clear that this does not mean the user base increased by a factor 30 (some people are going to use several times a month). But it is a sign that the company receives significant traction, and that its users keep coming back for more. This is especially important for mobile, where users are notorious for being fickle and giving up on the application in a day or two.

doubleTwist President Monique Farantzos said that the increase stemmed from increased brand, the company received the start of construction for Android. The first version of their Android app was released in June 2010, and since they introduced numerous updates as excellent AirSync, which allows wireless sync photos, music and movies between Android device and the computer without the need for wires (you don't even have to sync it automatically initiates when you connect to a wireless network). Farantzos said that companies, in partnership with T-Mobile also provided an early boost.

Some other key stats: 84% of the users application from English speaking countries, and today the company is rolling out internationalized versions with support for Chinese, Korean, German, French and other languages to help boost international growth.

And it also has some great news to share: while doubleTwist has focused exclusively on Android for awhile, he's going to start expanding to other platforms. Intel said it has licensed its wireless synchronization technology for AirSync MeeGo platform, and it sounds like the application can come to Windows phone and possibly Web OS down the line (it is not confirmed, but pointed out that Android alternatives can see increased traction after the transaction, Motorola/Google).


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Sunday, August 28, 2011

OMG/JK: with Google, it's all big game

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Although this is at the end of summer and the beginning of a slow to a crawl tech news, there are actually quite a bit of talk about the OMG JK this week. In this episode, Jason and I focus on three key things: Amazon's Kindle reader web Messenger, Facebook and Google + games.

With Apple screwing Amazon? Facebook, screwing with SMS? With Facebook screwing Google? These are the main points of discussion. We are also a kind of VEER off into a debate about whether Google + all one big game in a more metaphorical sense.

And as a bonus, you can see our awkward transitions between stories.

Here are some of the key stories, we are talking about this week:

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The mystery of the Android vulnerability detailed reasonably hackers

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Shane Macaulay and Riley Hassell were all set to go on stage at Black Hat and describe several methods of hacking Android devices. But they never appeared: in the last minute they decided not to disclose the vulnerabilities they discovered. Why? "To avoid an unacceptable risk to consumers window throughout the world and to guarantee the loans, where he was."

As a very white hat! Yes indeed, Hassel and Macaulay were worried that going public with these vulnerabilities can lead to scientific discussion and plugging security hole, but holiday Haq as millions of mobile phones succumbed to an unpatched exploits. They also learned just before going onstage, opening them can replicate some of the earlier findings, and they wanted to make sure they have proper confirmation. So they no-showed.

What is vulnerability? They are not telling just yet. And according to Google, "identified no errors appear in Android." is very Illuminating! About this, we'll see, I am sure.

In the news these days, that I felt just right to draw attention to a couple of guys to do things right so much a relic of hackers and hacks. That happiness will fix this security hole (which does not exist), and we will all be a little more next week.


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EZOfficeInventory SMB allows you to easily track and manage the assets of the company (the cloud)

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Office list control systems: not exactly the world's sexiest software to be sure. Nevertheless, without inventory and asset management systems, many businesses likely will work similar pace DMV. Currently, small and medium-sized businesses have no shortage of funds to choose from when selecting a software system for tracking asset management and inventory; However, most of these settings requires working tirelessly with Excel or using a desktop product like TurboSystems data or, in the village of FoxFales, to name a few. If the company has more than a few dozen staff, however, Excel, and desktop solutions can be a pain in the ass.

Ali Sayeed, a former employee of Sun Microsystems (before the company was acquired by Oracle) and his team and software geeks, said that they were tired of having to deal with repeated instances of inventory of obsolete and mismanagement in the modern tracking solutions. Saeed said that he and his team collectively has worked with many different companies that, for example, actually keep property lists, but specific information related to who has what (as track records check outs) are often completely missing or worse deprecated — not to speak of the fact that the wrong assets often are assigned the wrong employee even may not work in the company anymore.

As you can imagine, very numerous. To help solve these problems, Syed and his team today are EZOfficeInventory, SaaS-based solution that untraditionally asset management approaches through the delegation model, in which responsibility is shared by the inventory, reducing the load on administrators.

The solution allows the assets of the joint bureaux will be tracked easily through check-in and check-out mechanism for staff members, as well as the activities of news to administrators, allowing them to review and take responsibility only when necessary. Employees can also find free tools that they need to carry out its work and can instantly access the guides and drivers.

Since the EZOfficeInventory live in the cloud solution uses QRCodes as asset tags so that asset with a unique URL in QRCode, employees can quickly provides links to information on capital assets and determine the rightful owner, if something is lost. And employees can do this with a quick scan of the iPhone or Android device with QRCode reader and Web client.

The decision also works to minimize efforts during inspections, as administrators can request photos of an asset or other custom workflows from employees by using a few mouse clicks. EZOffice also allows administrators to view reports, track the checkouts and checkins, total cost of ownership and even serve the story on their assets.

Companies can also change the security settings in their decision that it was compatible with existing business processes and add additional privacy features when needed.

Some readers may find the following images news like Basecamp (a well-known product released by 37Signals, the same company is home to David Heinemeier Hansson, the guy who created the Ruby on Rails). EZOfficeInventory is also implemented in Ruby on Rails, as Saeed said that he is an avid fan "in the Web development platform.

EZOfficeInventory offers a free trial of the two months of its cloud app with packages for more than two users, starting at $ 29 per month.

Asset management system is still in very early stage (seed and start-up) at the moment and there is work to be done on Web design and user interface (and name), but the software itself attacked a major pain for many small and medium-sized enterprises.

At the time of deposit of the responsibility for the management of the assets in the hands of staff (along with, of course, the system of checks and balances) may well be to increase the efficiency and confidence among these employees, it is risky. But Saeed said it was "part of the fun of mergers with Web development and the process of using Web technologies to target the problem of the enterprise. This shot of the status quo, and the Director-General believes that this shot is worth taking, despite the risk.

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