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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>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>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>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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		<title>Zact: Build Your Own Wireless Plan, Down to the Last Detail</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/zact-build-your-own-wireless-plan-down-to-the-last-detail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to wireless service, every individual and family has different needs &#8212; and oftentimes, those needs vary from month to month. But you wouldn&#8217;t know that from the plans offered by the big U.S. carriers. Even at their most flexible, they just don&#8217;t offer enough options, and they generally encourage you to pay for more service than you actually need for fear of overages. And then there&#8217;s Zact. It&#8217;s a new wireless provider which, judging from a demo I recently received, comes as close as any I&#8217;ve ever seen to providing absolutely custom service plans. Rather than making you choose from one of a few offerings, it lets you choose from lots of them &#8212; and then allows you to refine those options further until you&#8217;re paying for exactly the service you use. It&#8217;s like a purveyor of beautifully custom-tailored suits in a world of S, M, L and XL. Zact&#8217;s service, which will be available next month, runs on Sprint&#8217;s network. But if you sign up, you&#8217;re a customer of a startup named ItsOn. Zact is ItsOn&#8217;s own consumer brand, but the company has built a software-and-service platform designed to let other companies provide similar offerings; if it&#8217;s a success, there could be many Zact-like services around the world. Zact offers contract-free service, which means you pay full price for phones but can leave whenever you like without paying an early termination fee. In some broad respects, it&#8217;s reminiscent of other price-conscious alternative wireless providers which don&#8217;t own their own networks, such as Ting and Republic Wireless. But it&#8217;s doing multiple things which are genuinely new. For instance, it gives you so much control over the services you pay for that you can choose to use a particular app without splurging on a full-blown data plan. $5 a month will get you access to Facebook &#8212; and nothing else. $1 a month lets you play Candy Crush with friends. And so on. More general-purpose options &#8212; voice, data and text &#8212; are available in multiple quantities, starting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162651&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France Mulls Culture Tax on Smartphones and Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/france-mulls-culture-tax-on-smartphones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS (AP) &#8212; The French government is considering creating a new tax on smartphones and tablets in a bid to raise millions to support the creation of digital cultural content inside France. The proposal, handed to President Francois Hollande Monday, outlines a 1 percent tax on the sale of Internet-compatible devices, targeting companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon. The tax would yield about 86 million euros per year. The revenue would help cultural industries create French content such as music, images and videos. The proposal is part of France&#8217;s &#8220;cultural exception,&#8221; a policy that protects French cinema and music industries, and other creative sectors, against foreign &#8211; often American &#8211; competition. The French government will meet leading figures of the cultural sector in the next few weeks before any decision is made.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162645&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Reservations About Samsung&#8217;s 5G Speed &#8216;Breakthrough&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/some-reservations-about-samsungs-5g-speed-breakthrough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a shop owner anticipating Christmas in July, Samsung Electronics is this morning touting new technology it claims will allow it to usher the world into the 5G era by 2020. If you can stand to wait seven years, the company&#8217;s talking about core &#8220;adaptive array transceiver&#8221; technology that delivers so-called fifth generation speeds &#8220;up to several hundred times faster&#8221; than today&#8217;s 4G networks. What&#8217;s that translate to in download speeds? Up to &#8220;several tens of Gbps per base station,&#8221; says Samsung, adding that this could allow users to sling around vast data files and ultra-HD movies &#8220;practically without limitation.&#8221; (In other words, Shazam!) The new technology reportedly solves limitations with millimeter-wave bands (operating at high frequencies) transmitting data over long distances due to atmospheric attenuation. (I don&#8217;t pretend to understand the atmospheric physics, but it involves, among other things, radio signals and the resonance of oxygen molecules, as well as &#8220;rain fade,&#8221; where radio signals are absorbed by ice, rain and snow.) Samsung says it&#8217;s been able to successfully work around this by using 64 antenna elements transmitting data at 1.056GBps at a frequency of 28GHz for up to 2 kilometers (a little over a mile). All well and good, but before we get all rapturous about downloading ultra-HD content in a blink, let&#8217;s revisit an arguably bigger problem we haven&#8217;t solved still, today &#8212; a problem higher speeds will only exacerbate. Imagine you&#8217;re zipping down the Interstate, and say the speed limit&#8217;s 80 m.p.h., but you&#8217;re &#8212; did I say zipping? &#8212; actually creeping along at half that because, you know, two lanes and rush hour &#8212; a real bumper-to-bumper slog. That&#8217;s what my smartphone&#8217;s data connection sometimes feels like living in a college town, say on (football) game day, during any of the city&#8217;s big summer festivals or, you know, when school&#8217;s in primetime session seven months a year. The trouble&#8217;s not that my 4G smartphone or tablet connection isn&#8217;t fast enough (in theory) to instantly stream high quality videos and music &#8212; even a 3G connection&#8217;s capable of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162634&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hangtime: a Better Way to Find Facebook Events</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/hangtime-a-better-way-to-find-facebook-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With details on millions of events of all sorts all over the world, Facebook is &#8212; among many other things &#8212; the closest thing the world has to a universal repository of things to do, such as concerts, parties, book readings and a whole lot more. But Facebook Events doesn&#8217;t seem to be all that high up on Facebook&#8217;s list of priorities. The feature hasn&#8217;t changed much over the years, and isn&#8217;t radically different on a phone than it is on a PC browser. Enter Hangtime. The product of a startup of the same name, founded by veteran entrepreneur Karl Jacob, it&#8217;s an iPhone app &#8212; and web-based service &#8212; which aims to make it much easier to find stuff you&#8217;ll like to do among all the options in Facebook Events and other sources. The app debuted for the SXSW conference in March; version 2.0, a substantial upgrade, arrived on the App Store this week. Overall, Hangtime has a nicely done interface: with a few swipes of your thumb, you can view the events in your vicinity on a given day, pull up specific information on a particular activity, see which of your friends are attending or considering doing so and RSVP. Using a map, you can also pinch-and-zoom to specify how big (or small) a geographic area you want to cover. In all cases, the Facebook events you&#8217;re seeing are ones with settings that make them visible to you. But you&#8217;ll probably see plenty of events you wouldn&#8217;t have otherwise encountered &#8212; they&#8217;re a lot more browsable on Hangtime than they are on Facebook. The app is aimed especially at young people with active social lives, but even not-so-young types should find activities of interest. The new version of the app pulls in the billboard-like artwork associated with an event from Facebook. It also includes events listed on Eventbrite, although with less detail than for Facebook events. You can now specify interests &#8212; such as Rock, Comedy, Dance and Books &#8212; so other topics you don&#8217;t care about are winnowed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162575&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on MoviePass</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/more-on-moviepass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March, I wrote about MoviePass, a service which lets you pay a flat fee and go to dozens of movies a month, at almost any theater in America. Its creators aren&#8217;t partnering with theaters; instead, they&#8217;ve come up with a clever system involving a location-aware smartphone app and a Discover debit card configured so that you can only use it to pay for movies, and only after you&#8217;ve checked in using the app. The company ends up paying full price for tickets, but hopes to turn a profit by selling related items such as DVDs, providing data to marketers and maybe, eventually, striking deals with theaters. Brent Lang of The Wrap has a good story on the service and how the movie-theater business is reacting; it was unhappy about an earlier incarnation but isn&#8217;t actively fighting this new version, at least for now: A previous test of the service in San Francisco came undone when theaters refused to accept vouchers that MoviePass gave its customers. The concern at the time was that MoviePass would try to influence ticket prices. AMC Theaters publicly decried the service, while Landmark Theatres CEO Ted Mundorff told TheWrap, &#8220;We are not interested in outside entities setting ticket prices for us.&#8221; The debit card under the new plan works independent of exhibitors. Users will pay $25 to $40 a month, based on geography, for which they can see one 2D movie a day at 93 percent of theaters nationwide. All they need to do to set up the card is download an iPhone or Android app. Using a card provided by MoviePass, I&#8217;ve gone to a couple of movies in the San Francisco area in the past few weeks: the whole process worked without any hiccups and was no more complicated than buying tickets from a service such as Fandango. You have to be an avid filmgoer for this to make sense &#8212; if you go three or more times a month, you should save money &#8212; but if the startup manages to make<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162563&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia Lumia 928: Verizon Gets Another High-End Windows Phone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/nokia-lumia-928-verizon-gets-another-high-end-windows-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 19:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nokia and Verizon Wireless began teasing the Lumia 928 earlier this week, but now it&#8217;s official. The flagship Windows Phone will launch on May 16 for $100, counting a $50 mail-in rebate. As expected, the Nokia Lumia 928 is similar to the Lumia 920 that launched on AT&#38;T late last year. Both phones have 4.5-inch, 1280-by-768 resolution displays, 1.5 GHz dual core processors, 1 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage, wireless charging and the ability to use the touch screen through gloved fingers. They also both have Nokia&#8217;s 8.7-megapixel PureView camera, which offers solid low-light performance and image stabilization. So what&#8217;s different? Verizon&#8217;s Lumia 928 is a little bit narrower, thinner and lighter than AT&#38;T&#8217;s Lumia 920, but also it&#8217;s slightly taller. The look of Verizon&#8217;s phone is more traditional, with a tapered backside and only black or white color options, whereas AT&#38;T&#8217;s model has five color choices and rounded edges. Although this isn&#8217;t the first high-end Windows Phone 8 handset Verizon has carried&#8211;that distinction goes to HTC&#8217;s Windows Phone 8X&#8211;the Lumia 928 does have the advantage of Nokia HERE Maps. Nokia&#8217;s mapping service is more useful than Microsoft&#8217;s built in software, because it can provide live turn-by-turn directions. (Correction: Since February, Nokia&#8217;s HERE Maps app has been available for all Windows Phone 8 devices, and its turn-by-turn navigation app is available in beta.) Nokia has some other unique software features as well, such as the Internet radio service Nokia Music and City Lens, which lets you look through the phone&#8217;s camera for nearby points of interest. Windows Phone fans who aren&#8217;t on Verizon should sit tight; Nokia is holding a press event in London next week, where the company may announce its first aluminum-clad Windows Phone.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162546&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung&#8217;s Next Galaxy Phone Could Have Optical Zoom Lens</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/samsungs-next-galaxy-phone-could-have-optical-zoom-lens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although smartphone cameras have made some huge leaps over the last few years, they remain handicapped by a lack of optical zoom. The perennial advantage for dedicated digicams may not last long, however, as phone makers look to cram optical zoom lenses into smartphones. This week, Russian site Hi-Tech.Mail.Ru reported that Samsung is readying a &#8220;Galaxy S4 Zoom&#8221; phone, with a 10x optical zoom lens. Previously, the same site had accurately reported on the Galaxy Core low-end handset, and now a listing for the Zoom has appeared on the Bluetooth SIG&#8217;s website. Sammobile has reported that this will be a camera-focused spinoff from Samsung&#8217;s popular Galaxy S series, coinciding with the launch of mini and rugged variants. Optical zoom describes a lens that physically extends outward from the body of the camera, much like a telescope. Digital zoom, by comparison, is basically just a cropped and enlarged image. Virtually every phone on the market offers digital zoom, but using this feature is no different than enlarging and cropping the photo in post-production. If the rumor about the Galaxy Zoom is true &#8212; and it&#8217;s looking pretty likely at this point &#8212; it won&#8217;t be the only effort to duplicate, or at least approximate, the optical zoom experience on a smartphone. At Mobile World Congress in February, Huawei said to expect phones with optical zoom lenses within a year. &#8220;This is a feature for the compact camera, but we want to design this on our smartphones,&#8221; Kevin Ho, president of Huawei&#8217;s handset division, told Trusted Reviews. Nokia, meanwhile, has come up with a way to make digital zoom mimic the benefits of optical zoom. The company&#8217;s 808 PureView phone has a 41-megapixel camera, but it automatically crops images down to about 5 megapixels. Because the camera is gathering so much data, it can zoom and crop without causing a noticeable hit to image quality. Nokia is widely expected to offer the technology in a Windows Phone later this year. (The company&#8217;s existing Lumia 920 carries the PureView label, but doesn&#8217;t have the huge megapixel count.) As<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162532&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Home: More Stuff on the Way</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/facebook-home-more-stuff-on-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month ago, when Facebook released Facebook Home, its Facebook-centric home screen for Android phones, the company said it planned to update it every month. And, good to its word, it plans to release an update later today. The update is actually a new version of the Facebook app for Android, and don&#8217;t get too excited: it swats bugs and improves performance rather than introducing new features. But at a press event at Facebook headquarters today, the company provided quick peeks at meatier additions it plans to add in the coming months. They include folders for apps (which preserve any organizing you did before installing Home), a dock that lets you place four favorite apps at the bottom of the launcher, and the ability to easily launch chat sessions in Chat Head mode as well as respond when a friend messages you. There&#8217;s also a new tutorial in the works to help new Home users figure everything out. Folders and the dock might help Home&#8217;s user rating on Google Play, which is currently a dismal two stars overall. Facebook says that&#8217;s an average of very high reviews and very low ones, and that many of the unhappy campers are nonplussed because installing Home hasn&#8217;t provided robust features for organizing apps. Right now, it just dumps all the contents of any folders you&#8217;ve created into one pile of apps. The company is also working on other stuff it didn&#8217;t show at the event, including support for widgets and compatibility with additional Android phones. It also says it plans to offer a version optimized for Android tablets. How&#8217;s Facebook Home doing so far? Well, HTC&#8217;s First, the first phone with Home preinstalled, is now 99 cents with an AT&#38;T contract, which suggests that it hasn&#8217;t been a blockbuster. But at today&#8217;s event, Facebook revealed that Home has been downloaded for other phones a million times so far, and that folks who use it spend 25% more time on the service &#8212; which adds up to a lot of time given that Facebook is already<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162497&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Reportedly Working on 3D Smartphone with Eyeball Control Interface</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/amazon-reportedly-working-on-3d-smartphone-with-eyeball-control-interface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is working on &#8220;a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for 3-D images without glasses.&#8221; This rumor comes to us courtesy of &#8220;people familiar with the company&#8217;s plans,&#8221; according to the Journal. Whether true or not, it shouldn&#8217;t come as an earth shattering surprise that Amazon might be working on some sort of smartphone &#8212; the company has found success in hardware devices such as its Kindle e-book readers and Kindle Fire tablets. Oh, and speculation about an Amazon smartphone has been going on since what seems like the day after the first Kindle Fire tablet was introduced (see here, here and here, for starters). However, to tout glasses-free 3D in 2013 as a major feature of a smartphone seems downright insane. We saw a handful of glasses-free 3D smartphones trickle out a few years ago, consumers yawned, and now &#8212; surprise, surprise – we don&#8217;t hear much about glasses-free 3D smartphones. The Journal&#8216;s description of this miraculous glasses-free 3D technology certainly sounds impressive &#8212; especially the bit about being able to navigate stuff with your eyeballs: One of the devices is a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for 3-D images without glasses, these people said. Using retina-tracking technology, images on the smartphone would seem to float above the screen like a hologram and appear three-dimensional at all angles, they said. Users may be able to navigate through content using just their eyes, two of the people said. But a somewhat less enthusiastic gadget user *might* read into that as a gimmick paired with a second gimmick. If the phone itself is cool and the gimmick-plus-gimmick 3D thing turns out to be a nonessential added feature, so be it. Actually, what the hell: make it the main feature and promote it heavily. I want to see what happens. The Journal also reports that Amazon is working on a second smartphone, along with &#8220;an audio-only streaming device.&#8221; The audio device would make sense given Amazon&#8217;s ownership of Audible.com; another smartphone<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162490&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>T-Mobile Sells 500,000 iPhones in a Month</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/t-mobile-sells-500000-iphones-in-a-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 11:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / David McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) &#8212; T-Mobile US Inc., the last of the major U.S. carriers to start carrying iPhones, is selling them at a brisk pace, it reported Wednesday. T-Mobile US, the No. 4 U.S. carrier, said it has sold half a million iPhones since it started on April 12. That puts its sales at roughly the same rate as Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 carrier, which has far more customers. The company said late last year that it planned to sell the iPhone, which helped it keep customers in the first three months of the year. As previously reported, it saw a small increase in customers under its own brand for the first time in four years. Analysts believe the customers were holding out for the iPhone. T-Mobile US&#8217;s parent Deutsche Telekom AG, discussed the U.S. business as it reported a 3.5 percent increase in net profit in the first quarter to 564 million euros ($739 million) from 545 million euros in the same quarter a year ago. Earnings rose in part because the company saw smaller deductions for the depreciation of its U.S. business. Deutsche Telekom completed a merger of T-Mobile USA with MetroPCS Communications Inc. on April 30, creating the new T-Mobile US Inc. Deutsche Telekom owns 74 percent of the new company, while the rest went to MetroPCS shareholders. T-Mobile USA, which had been losing contract customers, switched to a new &#8220;Un-carrier&#8221; approach in March and started selling phones on installment plans. Deutsche Telekom AG also said it had 300 million euros less in accounting-related reductions related to the merger, which is part of a turnaround effort. As the No. 4 mobile provider, T-Mobile USA has struggled against bigger competitors. Otherwise, sales and earnings slipped at Deutsche Telekom. Revenue fell 4.5 percent to 58.7 billion euros, while adjusted operating earnings &#8211; which exclude financial items such as depreciation related to the merger &#8211; declined 4.3 percent to 4.29 billion euros. That still exceeded the analyst predictions for 4.24 billion euros compiled by financial information provider FactSet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162455&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What You Need to Know About Mobile Security</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/what-you-need-to-know-about-mobile-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 09:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Mariella Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There might&#8217;ve been a time when you weren&#8217;t overly worried about your mobile devices getting infected by malware &#8211; after all, viruses and spyware were a threat mostly to computers. But as smartphones and tablets become increasingly popular, so do threats that target mobile devices exclusively. According to a 2013 report by Web security provider Blue Coat Systems, an increasing amount of malware is making the jump from desktops to mobile. Security company McAfee also warned in February (PDF) that it detected over 36,000 malware threats, most of that number targeting Android devices. Though it&#8217;s not just Android. If you have a mobile device, you need to know how malware is targeting it and what you can do about it. If malware sneaks on to your phone or tablet, it can install adware, activate SMS Trojans that send out expensive text messages from your phone without you knowing, and even let othersspy on your emails, texts and web browsing. How malware infects your mobile devices The most common way malware infects a phone or a tablet is through downloaded apps masquerading as a popular title or as a useful utility program. You&#8217;d think you wouldn&#8217;t fall victim to that if you&#8217;re careful, but some malicious programs are very well disguised as legitimate apps. In 2012, for instance, fake Angry Birds and Assassin&#8217;s Creed apps hit Google Play, and many Android users unknowingly downloaded the malicious programs that charged them a premium rate &#8211; roughly $22 &#8211; for each app. That modus operandi, however, might soon change. Security researcher Chris Astacio warns that it&#8217;s very likely for attackers to start tweaking mobile malware to infect devices via web pages instead of through apps. At a presentation at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco in late February, he revealed that software that exploits vulnerabilities on computers has been starting to look out for web hits made by iPhones, iPads and Android devices. Which indicates that, although it&#8217;s not yet an actual threat, this method might be used to attack mobile devices in the future. Abundance of Android<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162424&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The HTC Facebook Phone Is Now a Buck</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/the-htc-facebook-phone-is-now-a-buck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 20:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that didn&#8217;t take long. You may recall Facebook Home, the heavily modified Android experience launched by the world&#8217;s most popular social network a little over a month ago. While Facebook Home is available for download on several existing Android handsets, Facebook also partnered with HTC to launch a midrange smartphone preloaded with Home – the HTC First. The phone went on sale for $99 with a two-year contract through AT&#38;T and became available on April 12. Now, less than a month later, AT&#38;T has dropped the price of HTC First to $0.99 with a two-year contract. Surely, this means the end of Facebook Home as we know it, right? What a flop, huh? It&#8217;ll probably ruin all of Facebook in general, too, and we&#8217;ll all go back to using Friendster. Or not. “We do promotions like this all the time,” AT&#38;T&#8217;s Mark Siegel told AllThingsD&#8217;s Ina Fried. Of course, the reviews for Facebook Home in the Google Play store haven&#8217;t exactly been mind-blowing, but these are still early days for software that Mark Zuckerberg himself promised would be updated monthly. If I were a betting man – and I&#8217;m not – I&#8217;d bet that people have probably gone into the AT&#38;T store, seen the HTC First, and decided to pony up an extra $100 for a higher-end Android handset knowing they could just load Facebook Home onto it anyway. At $0.99, the HTC First becomes a much, much, much more compelling phone, though, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if people start walking around with these things.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162426&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Google Search Is Going</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/google-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smartphones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tablets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1998, a new search engine from an obscure startup launched. It featured a logo, a text field and buttons for search and &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; &#8212; and not much else. Its name, as I don&#8217;t actually have to tell you, was Google, and it changed the way that the world interacted with information. It&#8217;s tempting to think of Google search as something that hasn&#8217;t evolved radically over the years, in part because the Google.com homepage hasn&#8217;t changed much &#8212; the logo, search field and dual buttons are all still there. Even the results, which now weave in images, videos, Knowledge Graph summaries and other elements, are still dominated by straightforward text results of the sort that many a would-be Google rival has derided as &#8220;ten blue links.&#8221; Under the surface, however, Google has changed plenty, in increasingly profound ways. The way we interact with it has also evolved. And if the company&#8217;s ambitious plans pay off, the Google of just a few years from now could be a new kind of search engine. In a recent visit to Google&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters, I discussed the future of Google search with Amit Singhal, a 22-year veteran of the search field and the company&#8217;s senior vice president in charge of search, and some of his colleagues. They didn&#8217;t clue me in on any top-secret projects. (I didn&#8217;t even get to try on Google Glass.) But I did leave with a greater understanding of where Google thinks search should go, and the steps it&#8217;s taking to get there. Google Amit Singhal As Singhal stresses, all Google is doing is continuing a journey it&#8217;s already on. &#8220;Over the 12 years I&#8217;ve been here, we have changed Google every two to four years,&#8221; he says. &#8220;There have been four or five huge milestones &#8230; Google&#8217;s beauty is what hides behind that simple interface: incredibly complex mathematics.&#8221; For search research, Singhal says, &#8220;these are supremely interesting times.&#8221; But when he describes his ideal version of Google, it doesn&#8217;t sound all that much like Google as we&#8217;ve<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162339&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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