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		<title>Hisense Sero Tablet Breaks the $100 Barrier, but Beware the Battery</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/24/hisense-sero-tablet-breaks-the-100-barrier-but-beware-the-battery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never ceases to be surprising when the price of tablets drop to new lows. Take HiSense&#8217;s Sero 7 LT tablet, for example. The 7-inch Android tablet is on sale now through Walmart for a mere $99, undercutting bargain tablet front-runners like the Amazon Kindle Fire ($159), Barnes &#38; Noble Nook HD  ($199), Google Nexus 7 ($199) and HP Slate 7 ($170). Despite the low price, the Sero 7 LT doesn&#8217;t seem terrible on paper. It runs Android 4.1&#8211;not the newest version, but close&#8211;on a 1024-by-600 resolution display. It has a 1.6 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of storage and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. A micro-HDMI slot allows the tablet to connect to external displays, and a microSD card slot allows expandable storage. But there&#8217;s one big caveat with the Sero 7 LT, not listed on Walmart&#8217;s product page: According to Engadget, TechRadar and others, this tablet will only last for about four hours on a charge. Most other tablets last at least twice as long. Even if you&#8217;re not planning on hours of consecutive use, a big battery allows you to keep your tablet lying around for days at a time, using it on and off throughout. With a four-hour battery, you&#8217;ll need to be extra mindful about plugging the tablet in when it&#8217;s not in use. Also, keep in mind that while the Sero 7 LT&#8217;s microSD slot compensates somewhat for the measly 4 GB of built-in storage, it&#8217;s not a cure-all. Some Android apps and widgets can&#8217;t be installed to a microSD card, and juggling two sources of storage can be a hassle. If the Sero 7 LT&#8217;s weaknesses amount to dealbreakers, HiSense is also offering a $150 Sero 7 Pro model, with a 7-inch 1280-by-800 resolution display, a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 8 GB of storage and&#8211;best of all&#8211;a 10-hour battery, plus it runs Android 4.2. The specs are similar to Google&#8217;s Nexus 7, but with half the storage. On the plus side, the Sero has HDMI out, a 5-megapixel rear camera and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163444&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Star Trek Tricorder? &#8216;Scanadu Scout&#8217; Health Monitor Surges Past Indiegogo Funding Goal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/24/a-star-trek-tricorder-scanadu-scout-health-monitor-surges-past-indiegogo-funding-goal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Star Trek&#8216;s tricorder? The device Dr. McCoy usually whipped out and waved over people before declaring someone kaput? Yep, someone&#8217;s actually making one, or at least the early 21st century version of one. Meet Scanadu Scout, a small scanning device by California startup Scanadu (&#8220;scan&#8221; plus &#8220;Xanadu&#8221;?) that can quickly grab your vitals, then beam them to a smartphone. The Scout soared past its $100,000 Indiegogo funding goal just hours after launch, then proceeded to more than triple that figure with nearly a month to go What is it? A hockey puck-shaped object that can apparently measure your temperature, heart rate, oximetry (blood oxygenation), run an electrocardiogram, gauge heart rate variability, clock pulse wave transit time (related to blood pressure), perform a urine analysis and calculate a metric Scanadu refers to (vaguely) as &#8220;stress.&#8221; All you have to do to get these readings, urine analysis notwithstanding, is hold the Scout against your forehead and chest for a few seconds. &#8220;One of the problems with the current medical system is that you only connect with the system every now and then,&#8221; says Scanadu&#8217;s chief medical officer, Dr. Alan Greene, in the video below, followed by Scanadu CEO Walter de Brouwer, who makes a great point about the disparity between the recent explosion of personalized devices and biofeedback technology. &#8221;With your smartphone you can find out about anything, anywhere, but what you can&#8217;t find is information about your own body,&#8221; adds Greene. What typically happens first when you visit the doctor? Right, someone takes your vitals: blood pressure, heart rate, temperature and so forth. I&#8217;ve never knowingly had a pulse oximetry test before, but since I had a baby and that baby&#8217;s had chest colds, I&#8217;ve learned about this noninvasive procedure &#8212; a little clip that goes on his foot to check how well he&#8217;s oxygenating; the Scout can automatically grab that information, too. KurzweilAI reports that the device has a visible and near-IR LED and sensor (for the oximetry test), an ECG sensor, a far-IR sensor (for temperature) and a microphone (to gauge heart and breathing sounds). Scanadu<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163442&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You&#8217;re Obsessed With &#8216;Winning,&#8217; You Don&#8217;t Understand the Mobile Market</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/24/if-youre-obsessed-with-winning-you-dont-understand-the-mobile-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I wrote about the state of competition between Apple&#8217;s iOS and Google&#8217;s Android. Mostly, I rounded up scads of stats &#8212; market share, profits, app-store size and a lot more. I noted that lots of folks like to declare that either iOS or Android is winning, but that my conclusion was that iOS was winning the financial war, and Android was winning the market-share war. Which, come to think of it, was less a conclusion than a mere statement of obvious fact. Over at Techpinions, John Kirk has tackled the same topic. Unlike me, he did a lot of sophisticated analysis, and devised a formula &#8212; ratio of profits to market share &#8212; to benchmark who&#8217;s winning. It shows Apple with a sizable lead at 3.12 percent, Samsung doing well for itself at 1.30 percent and the rest of the Android pack straggling behind at .41 percent. Kirk&#8217;s piece is smart, meticulous and a great read. But by taking the question of &#8220;who&#8217;s winning?&#8221; seriously &#8212; and responding to pundits who contend that Android is &#8220;winning&#8221; over iOS &#8212; it also shows how inherently dopey the whole debate is. Grinding discussion of the mobile platform wars down to a debate over who&#8217;s &#8220;winning&#8221; and who&#8217;s &#8220;losing&#8221; dumbs down an otherwise fascinating topic. Here&#8217;s why: How can we talk about who&#8217;s &#8220;winning&#8221; if we can&#8217;t agree on what &#8220;winning&#8221; is? In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, the gadget business isn&#8217;t all that much like Formula One racing, Yahtzee or curling. There are no rules; there aren&#8217;t any well-defined opposing forces; the battle has no beginning or end. And zero-sum thinking &#8212; the assumption that one company doing well hurts another, or that all companies are even playing the same game &#8212; is often out of whack with reality. I&#8217;m not saying that it&#8217;s not possible (especially in retrospect) to declare winners and losers. Excel beat 1-2-3, Blu-ray beat HD-DVD, LTE beat WiMax. But when two platforms are flourishing, as iOS and Android are in their own ways, proclaiming that one is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163431&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Useful Mac Keyboard Shortcuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Robert E. Calem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In architecting its latest operating system (OS) for Macs — OS X version 10.8, also known as Mountain Lion — Apple liberally mimicked iOS, the operating system that runs the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Many functions and features in Mountain Lion are accessed and controlled by swiping, flicking, tapping and pinching on the surface of a trackpad (or on the top of Apple&#8217;s accessory Magic Mouse), as well as by pointing and clicking. But like operating systems of yesteryear, when trackpads and mice were far less integral, Mountain Lion also lets you use a keyboard alone to summon a feature or function. In fact, Mountain Lion contains so many &#8220;keyboard shortcuts&#8221; — combinations of key presses that invoke a command — that an Apple webpage lists hundreds of them. What follows here is our choice of the most useful keyboard shortcuts in Mountain Lion (and all OS X versions, starting with OS X 10.2 Jaguar), plus a selection of our favorite ways to control the Mac OS with trackpad swipes, flicks, taps and pinches. Keyboard Shortcuts Shortcuts for navigating among applications, open windows and the desktop Command Key + Tab – Move forward to the next most recently used application in a list of open applications Command Key + Q – Quit the frontmost application Command Key + W – Close the frontmost window F9 Key – Tile or un-tile all open windows (for quick selection and access) F10 Key – Tile or un-tile all open windows in the currently active (frontmost) application F11 Key – Hide or show all open windows F12 Key – Hide or display Dashboard (Note: Holding the F12 key when the computer is first starting up also ejects a removable disc — CD or DVD — from the drive) Shortcuts to use within open applications and windows Command Key + N – Create a new document in the frontmost application Command Key + P – Display the print dialog box Command Key + S – Saves the active document Command Key + Shift Key + S – Display the Save As dialog box Command Key + T – Opens<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163423&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amprius Begins Shipping a Better Smartphone Battery</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/amprius-begins-shipping-a-better-smartphone-battery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A company called Amprius is getting closer to delivering salvation from so-so smartphone batteries. As one of several companies trying to fix smartphone battery life, Amprius has begun supplying its first products to phone and tablet makers. The exact improvement in real-world performance is tough to quantify without testing  old and new technologies side-by-side in the same phone, but the company estimates a 10-25% improvement at first, Amprius CEO Kang Sun said in an interview. &#8220;This is already a substantial improvement from the batteries in the marketplace,&#8221; Sun said. What the company can quantify is Watt-hours per liter&#8211;in other words, how much energy can be stored in a given volume. Amprius&#8217; first smartphone battery, with 1850 mAh capacity, offers 580 Watt-hours per liter, compared to about 530 Wh/L for existing high-end batteries. Amprius is also offering a 4060 mAh, 600 Wh/L battery for tablets, and is working with phone makers on custom-sized batteries. That&#8217;s just for Amprius&#8217; first-generation technology. In 2014, Amprius is hoping to mass produce a second-generation battery with 670 Wh/L performance. A third-generation model, which CEO Kang Sun referred to as the &#8220;holy grail&#8221; of battery tech, could go into volume production the following year, and would provide upwards of 700 Wh/L. &#8220;We&#8217;re certainly very excited. The market is very excited too,&#8221; Kang said. The main problem facing conventional lithium-ion batteries for smartphones is that they rely on graphite, which stores energy in the anode of a battery cell. Graphite can only store so much energy, and battery makers are approaching the material&#8217;s theoretical limit. Amprius and other companies are trying to replace graphite with silicon, but silicon&#8217;s tendency to swell and crack the battery while recharging is a major obstacle. With its first-generation battery, Amprius isn&#8217;t offering a full silicon anode yet, but is using a &#8220;nanomatrix structure&#8221; with fine silicon particles and other active electrochemical materials. The company claims that its batteries meet phone makers&#8217; requirements of maintaining 80% capacity over 500 charges. In its third-generation battery, Amprius plans to use nanowire technology developed by Stanford University professor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163373&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Emergency Texts on Your Phone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/how-to-get-emergency-texts-on-your-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Mariella Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Winter Storm Nemo hit the Northeast earlier this year, a lot of people living in the area received warning messages on their cellphone—but not everyone. That&#8217;s because the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) program that sent the messages isn&#8217;t supported by all phones or all carriers&#8217; networks. WEA, (also known as Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), launched last year with all four major U.S. cell phone carriers and a handful of smaller ones as an effort to send important news straight to your device. WEA messages look like text messages and come with a unique audible sound and even vibration for the benefit of the hearing-impaired. They&#8217;re short descriptions of the situation (the time a blizzard will hit, for instance) and recommendations of any actions you should take. To ensure the messages won&#8217;t be delayed by cellular network congestion, the program uses a different technology from text messaging. There are three different types of WEA messages sent to all enabled devices: Presidential Alerts, Imminent Threat Alerts (natural disasters or any other situation that poses threat to life or property), and AMBER Alerts (information to help authorities find abducted children). The program sends you messages depending on your current location. So if you&#8217;d been visiting friends in Boston during Winter Storm Nemo, you&#8217;d still get an emergency alert even if your phone was purchased and registered in your home state. Since WEA messages aren&#8217;t text messages, you&#8217;ll get WEA messages even if you&#8217;ve blocked your number from getting text messages. You also don&#8217;t have to pay for any alerts you receive. Unfortunately, not every handset is WEA-enabled, so if you want to receive alerts, you have to make sure yours is. With tornado season upon us, it&#8217;s more important than ever to make sure your smartphone can receive official warnings (or at least have a tornado app installed and running.) If you recently purchased a new phone, whether it&#8217;s a smartphones or feature phone, it may receive emergency alerts. Check out the box your phone came in for a sticker that says &#8220;Wireless Emergency<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163388&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mailbox: Still Beautiful, Still Clever, Now on the iPad</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/mailbox-still-beautiful-still-clever-now-on-the-ipad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of nifty new iPhone apps are instantly greeted by enthusiastic throngs of users, but when an e-mail app called Mailbox debuted in February, being excited over its arrival became a particular obsession in iPhone nation. Its creators put prospective users into a reservation queue that grew enormous, helping to reduce the strain on its servers while also stoking demand even further. I wasn&#8217;t startled by the rapturous reception: Mailbox is a beautifully-designed piece of software with clever tools intended to help you grind your inbox down to zero. But I didn&#8217;t use it all that much myself: I do 95% of my e-mail on my iPad, not my iPhone. And now I can, without forgoing Mailbox. The app, which was acquired by cloud-storage superstar Dropbox in March, is arriving on the App Store today in a version that brings all the iPhone edition&#8217;s goodness to the iPad&#8217;s larger screen. I was briefed on the news by Mailbox cofounder Gentry Underwood and have been living with the new version for a few days. As before, Mailbox works only with Gmail (for now), supports multiple accounts and lets you see them all combined into one inbox. Four gestures let you wrangle messages right from the inbox list with a quick flick of your finger: Swipe a message a little to the right, and it gets archived; Swipe it further to the right, and it&#8217;s deleted; Swipe it a little to the left, and you can postpone dealing with it by telling Mailbox to put it back at the top of your inbox at a certain point in the future, such as Later Today, Tomorrow, Next Week or a date you specify; Swipe it further to the right, you can add it to a list &#8212; Mailbox&#8217;s version of standard e-mail folders. And other than standard stuff like the ability to compose new messages and reply to incoming ones, that&#8217;s almost all the features Mailbox has. But the ones it does have work great and look great; this is one of the most<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163325&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Xbox One Is All-New &#8212; But Familiar, Too</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/22/xbox-one-all-new-but-familiar-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New game consoles don&#8217;t exactly come along every week. Microsoft unveiled its current one, the Xbox 360, back on May 12, 2005 &#8212; an era when the newest version of Windows was XP, almost all forms of gadget input involved clacky little buttons and the fastest way to get Netflix into your living room involved a red envelope and the U.S. postal system. In the eight years since that announcement, the Xbox 360 has evolved &#8212; a lot. Microsoft has reworked its user interface repeatedly and added scads of features. Using Kinect, which arrived as an optional add-on in 2010, you can control the 360 with your entire body and your voice. And thanks to Netflix and other streaming services, Xbox owners spend more total time watching video than they do playing games. But at its heart, the 360 has remained a piece of hardware from another era &#8212; an old dog that works really hard to perform new tricks, and does them well. But it&#8217;s still an old dog. Microsoft On Tuesday, in a tent at its Redmond, Wash. campus, Microsoft introduced its new console, the Xbox One. Its specs reflect eight years of dramatic technological advancement since the 360&#8242;s debut: It sports a vastly more powerful eight-core processor, sixteen times the RAM of the original 360, a much more capable version of Kinect that now lets you make Skype video calls in HD, advanced Wi-Fi, a Blu-ray drive, HDMI input and output, and three &#8212; count &#8216;em: three &#8212; operating systems. (As Microsoft explained, the box has an Xbox OS, a special version of Windows and a bridging OS which melds the two into one experience.) But while the Xbox One is all-new from a technology standpoint &#8212; it won&#8217;t even play Xbox 360 games &#8212; it also feels like a continuance of the ideas that Microsoft has been adding to the Xbox 360 since 2005. There&#8217;s no radically new concept akin to the two-screen interface that Nintendo gave the Wii U. It&#8217;s just that all of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163237&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Xbox One, Microsoft Emphasizes TV over Games</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-revealed-microsofts-next-gen-console-emphasizes-tv-over-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From beneath gray skies, working a boisterous audience packed into a giant tent on its Redmond, Wash. campus, Microsoft this afternoon took the wraps off its third Xbox, dubbed Xbox One. But gamers tuning in to watch the live-stream event only caught glimpses of vaguely better-looking in-game footage, and then not until the presentation&#8217;s finale. Instead, Microsoft and its partners chose to spend most of the presentation talking about the future of TV-related entertainment as well as Xbox One&#8217;s much-refined voice command-driven interface. Kicking off the one-hour show, Microsoft president of interactive entertainment Don Mattrick helmed the stage, electric-green Xbox screens flanking him, to portray Xbox One as the center of an interactive media-verse. That universe is more heterogeneous than ever, said Mattrick, comprising casual games, live and recorded TV, sports and movies, multiple platforms, living rooms in flux with cloud-powered Internet services, voice and gesture controls and mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. &#8221;To continue to lead, we must provide compelling answers to new questions,&#8221; he said, then asking, &#8220;Can we take what you love and make it better? Can we improve a living room that&#8217;s become too complex, too fragmented and too slow?&#8221; Microsoft&#8217;s answer: a set-top console that looked less than ever like a stylized game console and more like a traditional, almost mundane piece of orthogonal, black, glossy hi-fi stereo equipment. The new console was joined by a revamped Kinect camera &#8212; included with each Xbox One &#8212; and a refined, slightly more angular version of the Xbox 360 gamepad (making it look a hair more like a batarang). &#8220;For the first time, you and your TV are going to have a relationship,&#8221; quipped Mattrick, a statement that sounds awkward at first blush &#8212; we&#8217;ve had a relationship with our TV sets for decades &#8212; until you realized he was hyping Microsoft&#8217;s considerable ramping-up of the Xbox brand as a media-platform first, and a games console second. TV &#62; Gaming Before delving into hardware specifics, Microsoft interactive entertainment marketing honcho Yusuf Mehdi demonstrated Microsoft&#8217;s vision of the Xbox One as a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163159&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun Fact: There Was Once a Yahoo DVD Player</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/fun-fact-there-was-once-a-yahoo-dvd-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, will you look this? Isn&#8217;t that a sight for sore eyes? Forget Yahoo the web portal, forget Yahoo the e-mail service, forget Yahoo the company that just bought Tumblr: Back in 2005, there was a Yahoo DVD player. As CNET&#8217;s John Falcone tweets: Remember when Yahoo made a DVD player? reviews.cnet.com/dvd-players/ya…&#8212; John P. Falcone (@falconejp) May 20, 2013 Yes, John Falcone. Yes, I do. But it&#8217;s been&#8230; oh, eight years since I&#8217;ve thought about it. Man, what a gem. Now, this was no ordinary DVD player. Well, it was sort of ordinary in its functionality, but it sure didn&#8217;t look like ordinary DVD players. Yahoo&#8217;s YDP-530 had two superfluous analog meters flanking the disc tray; one measured audio volume, its needle bouncing back and forth as dialogue ebbed and flowed. The other supposedly measured the bit rate of the video being played as it made its way from the DVD player to your TV set. To say that CNET&#8217;s 2005 review of the YDP-530 is interesting doesn&#8217;t do it justice. This quip, for instance, is marvelous: Facing pressure from Google on the search, maps, and e-mail front, Yahoo has decided to strike back with…a DVD player? While the $100 YDP-530 bears the Yahoo brand, it&#8217;s actually manufactured by Diamond Electronics, a company that, as its press release states, &#8220;supplied the DVD player that Forbes Magazine (September 2003) referenced as Wal-Mart de Mexico&#8217;s single largest dollar volume product in the entire country.&#8221; As for those cool analog meters? [W]hile they look pretty nifty and even light up, we can&#8217;t really imagine any practical purpose for them. Unfortunately for the geek who wants to know how many bits that last chase sequence averaged, the bit-rate meter is wildly inaccurate; it kind of just bounces up and down, even on still images. Standard OSD meters are much better for actually showing video bit rates. Do yourself a favor and read the entire review. It&#8217;s not long. The video embedded at the top of it shows off those funky meters, too. Yahoo YDP-530<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163127&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Opens Up About Glass Privacy, Zombification</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/google-opens-up-about-glass-privacy-zombification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, Google has stayed eerily quiet on the privacy implications of Google Glass, seemingly content to let the tech world debate the issue among themselves. But during a &#8220;fireside chat&#8221; about Glass at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, Google employees opened up. Their responses represent the company&#8217;s most thorough take yet on the privacy issues surrounding Google Glass. Google Glass, if you&#8217;re unaware, is a pair of mock spectacles with a mounted display, camera, microphone and touch panel. So far, Google has only sent out Glass to a couple thousand developers, along with a few members of the press. And over the last few weeks, there&#8217;s been a lot of discussion about whether society would be better or worse off with head-mounted displays and cameras. Steve Lee, the product director for Google Glass, offered a few responses to the criticisms so far: Google purposely mounted the display for Glass just above the eye, forcing users to look up at the screen. &#8220;Once you&#8217;re around someone with Glass, you&#8217;ll know they&#8217;re paying attention to you because they&#8217;re looking at you,&#8221; Lee said. Later in the session, Lee said the screen&#8217;s high placement makes it hard to look at for long periods of time, encouraging quick sessions instead. That was also by design. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to create zombies staring up at their display for long periods of time,&#8221; Lee said. Regarding the potential for surreptitious recording, Lee said Glass purposely requires &#8220;social queues&#8221;&#8211;that is, tapping the side of the device, or speaking&#8211;to snap a photo or start taking video. Engineering director Charles Mendis added that &#8220;you kind of notice&#8221; when someone&#8217;s staring at you. &#8220;If you walk into the restroom, even without Glass, and someone&#8217;s just looking at you, I don&#8217;t know about you but I&#8217;d get out of there,&#8221; Mendis said. Lee pointed out that when you use Glass, the display lights up, so other people will always know when Glass is active. Google won&#8217;t allow Glass apps that don&#8217;t light up the screen while the device is in use. Granted, a lot<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162942&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s New Hangouts App Has an AT&amp;T Caveat</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/googles-new-hangouts-app-has-an-att-caveat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google announced its new Hangouts app on Wednesday, it didn&#8217;t mention an exception for AT&#38;T customers: the app&#8217;s free video calling won&#8217;t work on AT&#38;T&#8217;s network. To use Hangout video chat on an AT&#38;T Android phone, you must be connected to Wi-Fi. Apparently, AT&#38;T is falling back on the same excuse it used to restrict the use of Facetime video chat on the iPhone last year. AT&#38;T believes that if a video chat app is pre-installed on a phone, the carrier can block it without running afoul of net neutrality rules. (The FCC says wireless carriers aren&#8217;t allowed to block apps that compete with the carriers&#8217; own voice offerings.) For that reason, Hangout video chat is not barred from AT&#38;T&#8217;s network on the iPhone. On Android, Google+ video chat works fine, because the Google+ app is not pre-installed. On my HTC One, I was also able to receive a pair of chat invitations from my editor Doug Aamoth&#8211;one from Google Chat on his desktop, and one from Google+ Hangouts. In a statement to the press, AT&#38;T reiterated its earlier claim that it can block video chat on pre-installed apps. But it also suggested that the ball is in Google&#8217;s court to make the app work over cellular: For video chat apps that come pre-loaded on devices, we offer all OS and device makers the ability for those apps to work over cellular for our customers who are on Mobile Share, Tiered and soon Unlimited plan customers who have LTE devices. It&#8217;s up to each OS and device makers to enable their systems to allow pre-loaded video chat apps to work over cellular for our customers on those plans. Unfortunately, this statement doesn&#8217;t offer much clarity. I&#8217;m not sure, for instance, if Google can enable Hangout video chat and have it work across all Android devices, or if phone makers like Samsung and HTC will also have to get involved. For that matter, what does &#8220;enable their systems&#8221; even mean, and why wouldn&#8217;t an OS or device maker just enable video<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162932&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the Point of Chromebooks Isn&#8217;t Chromebooks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/maybe-the-point-of-chromebooks-isnt-chromebooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, it&#8217;s safe to say that many attendees entered yesterday morning&#8217;s keynote expecting that it would involve the announcement of at least one or two major new gadgets. It didn&#8217;t, unless you count the pure-Android version of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4 that Google will begin selling on June 26. And the one gadget which was doled out to attendees, the Chromebook Pixel, wasn&#8217;t an I/O debutante: it was announced back in February. Some of the folks I chatted with after the keynote were disappointed by its lack of gadgetry. I wasn&#8217;t. As my colleague Jared Newman explains, this year&#8217;s keynote was mostly devoted to building out existing Google services and software &#8212; search, Android, Google Maps, Google+ and more &#8212; in ways which aim to make them more useful and appealing. The stuff the company has in store looks meaty and ambitious; add it all up, and it matters more than a new tablet or phone would have. And even though Google didn&#8217;t announce any new Chromebooks, I think I left the keynote with a better understanding of why Google thinks Chromebooks matter. Almost four years after Google unveiled Chrome OS, it&#8217;s had, at most, a modest impact. Chromebooks are hits on Amazon.com and have gained at least some traction at brick-and-mortar stores. There&#8217;s a market for these things, but they&#8217;re not going to drum conventional PCs out of business anytime soon. I wonder if Google might be perfectly fine with the possibility that Chromebooks will wind up occupying a niche rather than changing the world. When the company announced at the keynote that conference attendees were getting Chromebook Pixels, it said that the idea was to encourage development of great apps. But there really aren&#8217;t such things as Chromebook apps &#8212; that&#8217;s the whole point of a Chromebook, which offers a browser as its user interface and the Internet as its back end. If a developer uses a Chromebook to create something cool, it&#8217;ll be a web app &#8212; one which will also work in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162924&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP SlateBook x2: What the Netbook Should Have Been</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/hp-slatebook-x2-what-the-netbook-should-have-been/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Fox Van Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember netbook computers? They were all the rage for a couple years due, in part, to their inexpensive prices. But you got what you paid for – a portable, low-powered device designed to do the absolute bare minimum. These days, netbooks have largely been replaced by tablet computers. But Hewlett Packard is taking one more stab at the netbook market with the HP SlateBook x2, a tablet hybrid that doubles as a basic laptop computer. Powered by Android Jelly Bean, the device features a best-in-class 10.1-inch HD touchscreen, front- and rear-facing cameras, a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor, 64 GB of storage, and an included. What&#8217;s special, though, is the included detachable magnetic keyboard, which has a built-in touchpad for laptop-like computer and a second battery built right in. It’s the evolution of the netbook. Is the SlateBook worth your money? It&#8217;s a bit early to say whether it merits inclusion in our list of the best 10-inch tablets, but HP&#8217;s new hybrid certainly does have a lot going for it. The tablet-esque device starts at $479.99, and it carries many of the features you should expect at that price point. But it does go above and beyond – after all, the detachable magnetic keyboard with touchpad comes included in the price, and that&#8217;s something other manufacturers charge $150 for. And the inclusion of a second battery means you can squeeze up to 8 hours of fun out of the device, which is simply hard to beat. It’s terrific for traveling with kids, especially considering Jelly Bean’s built-in parental controls. The SlateBook x2 starts at $479.99, and will be available for sale starting August 2013. For more information on choosing the right tablet computer, be sure check out Techlicious&#8217;s How to Buy a Tabletguide. This article was written by Fox Van Allen and first appeared on Techlicious. More from Techlicious: How to Buy a Tablet The Best Kid-Friendly Tablets The Best 10-inch Tablets<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162902&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Poised to Show Off Latest Devices and Services</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/google-poised-to-show-off-latest-devices-and-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Michael Liedtke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; Google is expected to use its annual software developers&#8217; conference to showcase the latest mobile devices running on its Android software, while also unveiling other features in its evolving product line-up. The gathering, scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in San Francisco, provides Google Inc. with an opportunity to flex its technological muscle in front of a sold-out audience of engineers and entrepreneurs who develop applications and other features that can make smartphones and tablets more appealing. (MORE: Complete Google I/O Coverage on TIME Tech) Reporters from around the world also will be on hand, giving Google a chance to generate more hoopla about its latest innovations. The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., made a big splash at last year&#8217;s conference by staging an elaborate production to highlight the potential of Google Glass &#8211; an Internet-connected device and camera that can be worn on a person&#8217;s face like a pair of spectacles. Google co-founder Sergey Brin wowed the crowd last year by taking to the stage and then engaging in a live video chat with a group of skydivers who were in a dirigible hovering above the convention. When they jumped, the skydivers&#8217; descent to the rooftop was shown live through the Google Glass camera. Some of the developers in attendance last year paid $1,500 apiece for a Google Glass prototype that was delivered to them in March. Google hasn&#8217;t spelled out what its executives will discuss during this year&#8217;s opening keynote, which is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. PT and last for nearly three hours. Given that Google Glass is now being tested by the developers who bought the &#8220;Explorer&#8221; edition, the device might not be one of the featured attractions. It&#8217;s a safe bet the spotlight at some point Wednesday will shine on Android, which already has been activated on more than 750 million devices around the world. Google gives the mobile operating system away, making it easier for gadget makers to sell their devices at prices below Apple Inc.&#8217;s iPhone<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162813&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia Gives Thin and Light a Try with the Lumia 925</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/nokia-gives-thin-and-light-a-try-with-lumia-925/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Nokia debuted its first Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, the company has eschewed slim designs and opted for distinct, if clunkier, constructions. That&#8217;s all about to change with the Lumia 925. Rather than use a solid slab of polycarbonate, as it has with previous flagship phones, Nokia wrapped the edges of the Lumia 925 in aluminum. Polycarbonate &#8212; a durable form of plastic &#8212; still makes an appearance on the phone&#8217;s back panel. Possibly as a result of the new materials, the Lumia 925 is much thinner and lighter than its predecessors, weighing 4.9 ounces and measuring 0.33 inches thick. Nokia&#8217;s Lumia 920, by comparison, weighs 6.5 ounces and runs 0.42 inches thick. Nokia has managed to shave all that bulk without compromising tech specs. Compared to the Lumia 920, the 925 has the same 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage, an 8.7-megapixel camera and a 2,000 mAh battery. It also has the same 4.5-inch screen size and 1280-by-768 resolution as the Lumia 920, but with AMOLED display technology instead of LCD, promising deeper blacks. The only thing missing is built-in wireless charging. Users will have to strap on a separate case to get that feature. With so many of the same specs as the Lumia 920, the focus with the Lumia 925 was clearly on improving the design of the phone. (The phone has a few extra software features for the camera as well, such as a Smart Camera mode that takes 10 shots at once and can weave together the best elements from each photo.) The Lumia 925 even fares well against other high-end smartphones, as Gizmodo&#8217;s detailed spec comparison points out. It&#8217;s thinner than the HTC One, BlackBerry Z10 and Nexus 4; it&#8217;s also lighter than the HTC One, and it&#8217;s within an ounce of the Z10 and the Nexus 4. Now, you might argue that thinness and lightness don&#8217;t matter. There&#8217;s something to be said for a high-end phone with heft. But thin and light is what sells. Anecdotally, it&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162741&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Coverage of Google&#8217;s I/O Conference</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-io-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 15, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Francisco &#8212; the biggest three days of the year when it comes to news about Android, Chrome, Glass, search and other Googley matters. My colleague Jared Newman and I will be there for ongoing coverage, beginning at 12pm ET/9am PT on Wednesday, when the conference begins with a three-hour keynote. Join us then and throughout the week for our take on the show, its announcements and whatever new gadgets debut, all on this page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV-over-Internet Service Aereo Hits Atlanta Next Month</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/tv-over-internet-service-aereo-hits-atlanta-next-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Anick Jesdanun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Aereo, the startup that offers live television broadcasts over the Internet starting at $8 a month, said it will start service in the Atlanta market on June 17, following an expansion to Boston on Wednesday. Until this week, the service had been available only in the New York City area. Aereo said Tuesday that it will offer 27 Atlanta-area broadcast channels, plus the Bloomberg TV cable channel. Service will be limited to residents of 55 counties in Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. Those who had pre-registered will be able to start using Aereo on June 17. Others will be eligible a week later. Aereo converts television signals into computer data and sends them over the Internet to subscribers&#8217; computers and mobile devices. Subscribers can watch channels live or record them with an Internet-based digital video recorder. They can pause and rewind live television, just like using a DVR. Aereo sells its service as a low-cost alternative to cable or satellite TV, and it plans to target those who have dropped pay-TV service or never had it. Aereo offers far fewer channels than most pay-TV packages, but it could appeal to viewers who already turn to Hulu, Netflix and other online sources for TV shows and movies. Broadcasters see Aereo as a threat to their revenue, even though stations already make signals available for free. Broadcasters are increasingly supplementing advertising revenue with fees they get from cable and satellite TV companies for redistributing their stations to subscribers. If customers drop their pay-TV service and use Aereo instead, broadcasters lose some of that revenue. So far, federal courts have ruled against broadcasters&#8217; claims that Aereo&#8217;s service constitutes copyright infringement. Aereo claims what it is doing is legal because it has thousands of tiny antennas at its data centers and assigns individual subscribers their own antenna. According to Aereo, that makes it akin to customers picking up free broadcast signals with a regular antenna at home. Broadcasters argue that the use of individual antennas is a mere technicality meant<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162775&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BlackBerry CEO Announces Lower-Priced Phone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/blackberry-ceo-may-announce-lower-priced-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ORLANDO, Fla.) — Research In Motion unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry aimed at consumers in emerging markets on Tuesday, and said it will offer its once-popular BlackBerry Messenger service on iPhones and devices running Google&#8217;s Android software. CEO Thorsten Heins said the time is right to offer BBM on rival devices. He said iPhone and Android versions will be available for free, subject to approval by Google Play and the Apple App Store. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to bring BBM to a greater audience,&#8221; Heins said. &#8220;I cannot wait for the day when all of our BlackBerry fans can send BBM invites to all their friends on other platforms. They have asked us for this for years.&#8221; The BBM service was once a reason for BlackBerry users not to defect to other smartphones. Now, there are many rival messaging services. Still, there are more than 60 million BBM users worldwide. Heins said the lower-cost Q5 device will be available in selected markets this summer The gadget is part of RIM&#8217;s effort to regain market share lost to Apple&#8217;s iPhone and Android smartphones. It is the company&#8217;s third smartphone to run the new BlackBerry 10 system. The Q5 will have a physical keyboard, something that sets RIM&#8217;s devices apart from Apple&#8217;s iPhone and most Android phones. Heins said the &#8220;slim, sleek&#8221; device will be available in red, black, white and pink. He announced the phone to a packed ballroom to open RIM&#8217;s annual three-day conference in Orlando, Fla. RIM unveiled new BlackBerrys this year after delays allowed Apple and others to dominate. Heins, who became RIM&#8217;s CEO in January 2012, said the company has made a lot of progress in a short period of time, by moving a diverse collection of people into leadership positions. He restated BlackBerry&#8217;s committed to &#8220;mobile first&#8221; and took a subtle jab at industry predictions that he might not make it to this year&#8217;s conference as CEO because of the competitive mobile landscape. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy to say they were wrong,&#8221; Heins said. &#8220;We are not only still here. We<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162732&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABC Declares War on Cord Cutters with Live-TV App — Delayed Streaming to Follow</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/abc-to-stream-live-tv-in-fight-against-cord-cutters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABC is really hoping you&#8217;ll hang on to your cable subscription, and is taking a couple of new steps to make sure of it. This week, the network will add live streaming video to its iPhone and iPad apps, the New York Times reports. However, the feature will only work if you have a cable or satellite-TV subscription. That&#8217;s not all. The report also claims that in the future, ABC will &#8220;withhold its most recent TV episodes from the free versions of Hulu and ABC.com, further limiting access to paying subscribers of cable and satellite providers only.&#8221; ABC&#8217;s existing iOS app offers on-demand TV shows only. The addition of live TV will let cable and satellite subscribers watch local news or talk shows in real time, and from anywhere within their local broadcast area. The Times’ story mostly focuses on this new feature, describing the work that went into it and how ads will work. But the idea of delayed streams for ABC shows is more mysterious. The Times’ story doesn&#8217;t say when ABC will begin holding back its streams, or how long nonpaying viewers will have to wait to see new episodes. An ABC representative would not provide any additional details to us. At the moment, Fox is the only major broadcast network that delays new streaming episodes on Hulu and its own website. To get next-day streaming, you must subscribe to Hulu Plus or have a cable or satellite subscription. (Not surprisingly, the delay caused a big spike in piracy for Fox shows a couple of years ago.) ABC has been interested in the idea for a while. In 2011, Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of Disney (which owns ABC), said the company would &#8220;push the window back or make access to the programming more difficult or later, except if customers are authenticated as a subscriber.&#8221; If ABC follows through, it&#8217;ll amount to a big pushback against cord cutting, the concept of throwing out your cable or satellite subscription in favor of cheaper streaming options. Nielsen Although cord cutting isn&#8217;t new,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162641&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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