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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “venturebeat”

• Stream live video to the iPhone with Livestream’s Procaster

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Livestream , a live video startup formerly known as Mogulus, just launched a service that will let you stream video to iPhone or iPod Touch users without having to build your own app. The iPhone can be troublesome for playing video, seeing as it doesn’t yet work with Flash web sites. (Flash powers about 75 ...
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• GreenBeat 2009: Meet your Innovation Competition judges

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  GreenBeat 2009 , the seminal executive conference on the Smart Grid, is just around the corner on Nov. 18-19. And one of the key pieces of the event — perhaps the one we’re most excited about — is the Innovation Competition, a chance for startups and big companies alike to go head-to-head showcasing their ...
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• Modern Warfare 2 sells 4.7 million copies in two regions on first day

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 had the biggest opening day of any video game, selling 4.7 million copies in North America and the United Kingdom alone in its first 24 hours. That generated an estimated $310 million in revenue at retail, according to game publisher Activision Blizzard. The sales in the rest of the ...
  5 hours ago

• Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion in legal settlement

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  The feuding Hatfields and the McCoys of the chip industry have buried the hatchet. Intel and Advanced Micro Devices announced today they have settled all antitrust and patent cross-license litigation between them. In the deal, Intel will pay $1.25 billion and “abide by a set of business practice provisions.” ...
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• Clicker Media launches a programming guide for Internet TV

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Video web site Clicker Media is formally launching its service today which gives online users a real TV Guide-style search engine for television content online. The goal is to give users access to a massive playlist of TV to watch on the web. The Los Angeles-based company indexes all available video online, from ...
  7 hours ago

• GreenBeat 2009: Meet your Innovation Competition judges

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  GreenBeat 2009 , the seminal executive conference on the Smart Grid, is just around the corner on Nov. 18-19. And one of the key pieces of the event — perhaps the one we’re most excited about — is the Innovation Competition, a chance for startups and big companies alike to go head-to-head showcasing their ...
  16 hours ago

• 5 O’Clock Roundup: Twitter adds built-in retweet, Facebook programmer quits iPhone app

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  (Tonight’s roundup is foreshortened so we can go meet with attendees at i9 NewTeeVee conference.) Twitter finally added a built-in retweet button today – Co-founder Evan Williams posted a long blog entry explaining the company’s thinking. Twitter users suffered from bugs and t In short, they’ve built ...
  18 hours ago

• Microsoft boots lots of Xbox 360 “modders” from Xbox Live

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Microsoft has dropped what it fondly calls the “banhammer” on a bunch of Xbox 360 gamers by banning them from playing multiplayer games on the Xbox Live online gaming service. The banning affected thousands of players with “modded” game consoles, according to published reports . Those are players who ...
  19 hours ago

• Details leak on Microsoft’s Project Natal game control strategy

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Microsoft plans to launch its Project Natal gesture-control system for the Xbox 360 in November, 2010, according to a published report. Microsoft announced the innovative new way to control games in June. The system one-ups the Nintendo Wii, since it has a camera that tracks your movements and enables you to ...
  19 hours ago

• Wi-Fi wants its piece of the Smart Grid

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  The Wi-Fi Alliance has created a task force to work on setting standards so that Wi-Fi can play a large role in future development of the cleaner, more efficient Smart Grid. Today, this new group released a white paper exploring all of the areas where Wi-Fi could aid in communication between the new electric ...
  21 hours ago

• Twitter temporarily disables retweets amid some bugs

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Twitter has temporarily suspended its new retweet feature as some problems are plaguing the launch. They’ll continue the rollout shortly once they iron out the kinks. The company reported: We’re working on a few problems related to the ongoing rollout. These should be resolved quickly and it will be back on ...
  21 hours ago

• Dems throw in the towel on Climate Bill for 2009

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Democratic leaders in the Senate have confirmed suspicions that the controversial Kerry-Boxer climate bill will not make it to a general vote before the end of 2009 . After being tabled for months, the legislation — which, would roughly establish a carbon cap and trade system and set national renewable energy ...
  21 hours ago

• 301Works teams up with Internet Archive to preserve shortened links

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  The Internet Archive and 301Works, a consortium of more than 20 URL shortening services, are partnering to preserve the millions of condensed links shared every day on Twitter and other streaming services. 301Works’ members are donating their URL mappings and sending regular back-ups to the Internet Archive for ...
  22 hours ago

• Why Droid was worth the wait

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  The dirty secret in the smartphone business is that it’s not marketing, but patience that makes a top-selling phone — the patience not to jump in until you’ve managed to couple great software with great hardware. Consider Apple, which made the insane figure of $1.67 billion last quarter. At a high level, to the ...
  22 hours ago

• Nominate your favorite companies for the Crunchies Awards

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Now that the end of the 2009 is in sight, it’s time for you to start thinking about the year’s coolest companies and products, and to tell us about them — because we’re opening nominations for the third annual Crunchies Awards . Just like we did for the past two years, VentureBeat will be co-hosting the ...
  22 hours ago

• A123Systems reports Q3 loss, but stays upbeat after IPO

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Lithium-ion battery maker A123Systems had a big third quarter. Its $380 million initial public offering exceeded expectations and got investors talking about cleantech exits again . Then it compounded that victory by winning a $249 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy — one of the largest sums ever ...
  23 hours ago

• Can AMD keep an upper hand on Nvidia in graphics chip war?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  The graphics chip war always has a moving front. Advanced Micro Devices has the upper hand now over Nvidia, but it may not be able to exploit that advantage to the fullest. AMD fired a great volley in September as it launched its Radeon HD 5000 series of graphics chips (PC with 5000 series pictured right), well ahead ...
  23 hours ago

• HP to acquire 3Com for $2.7B, to take on Cisco in networking

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Computer giant HP said today it has agreed to acquire networking company 3Com for $2.7 billion, in a deal it says will create a “networking industry powerhouse.” Significantly, the move is a frontal attack on Cisco , the Silicon Valley networking giant that has long dominated the business of selling routers ...
  23 hours ago

• Playdom raises $43 M for social gaming

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Playdom , one of three major social gaming companies, has raised $43 million with a huge valuation that reflects how hot the social gaming space has become. Techcrunch reported that the deal valued Playdom at $260 million, pre-money. Investors included New Enterprise Associates, Rick Thompson, Lightspeed Venture ...
  23 hours ago

• VC Jonathan Silver becomes Dept. of Energy’s new money man

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 784
  Kicked into overdrive by the federal stimulus package, the Department of Energy is handing out more money than ever before. Doled out in grants, prizes and low interest loans, the money is jumpstarting the American cleantech sector one industry at a time. And now Obama has selected a new leader for the loan program, ...
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