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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>Jennifer Lopez to Open Cellphone Stores</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/jennifer-lopez-to-open-cellphone-stores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Peter Svensson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; &#8220;Jenny from the Block&#8221; wants the block to buy Verizon phones from her. Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez on Wednesday announced she&#8217;s opening a chain of 15 cellphone stores and a website under the Viva Movil brand. The aim is to sell Verizon phones and services to Latinos. The first store will open in New York on June 15, with others following in Los Angeles and Miami. The stores will have bilingual staff and provide a &#8220;culturally relevant shopping experience,&#8221; Viva Movil said. Viva Movil will be an authorized Verizon reseller, with the same prices and plans as regular Verizon stores. Lopez is the majority owner and &#8220;chief creative officer&#8221; of Viva Movil. She said Viva Movil and its Facebook page will be a way for fans to connect with her. &#8220;Latinos need a place to go and they need to be catered to because it is such a growing, growing demographic and market and people want to capture that, and they deserve to be catered to,&#8221; Lopez said in an interview. Lopez is no stranger to business. She owns a film and television production company and has launched clothing and perfume lines. She said she wasn&#8217;t looking specifically to get into wireless &#8211; &#8220;it was just one of those things where you sit down with people and you start spitballing.&#8221; Marketing cellphone service specifically to Latinos has not been a winning formula so far in the U.S. One company targeting Spanish speakers, Movida Communications, raised $40 million in 2007 and filed for bankruptcy the following year. Most attempts to cater to Latinos have focused on low-cost, no-contract service. By partnering with Verizon, Lopez is hitching her business to a company that&#8217;s focused on premium, contract-based service, backed by a top-rated wireless network. The U.S. wireless market does have a large but low-profile Latin American presence: Mexican cellphone company America Movil owns Tracfone, the largest provider of no-contract service, with 23 million phones active. That service isn&#8217;t marketed specifically to Latinos. &#8212; AP Entertainment Writer Sandy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163379&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Tim Cook Faces Senate Questions on Taxes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/21/apples-tim-cook-faces-senate-questions-on-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Marcy Gordon and Peter Svensson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world&#8217;s most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes. Cook said the subsidiaries have nothing to do with reducing its U.S. taxes, a message he struggled to convey to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. (MORE: Senate Panel Says Apple Uses Firms Outside the U.S. to Avoid Taxes) &#8220;We pay all the taxes we owe &#8211; every single dollar,&#8221; Cook said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t depend on tax gimmicks.&#8221; The senate subcommittee released a report Monday that held up Apple as an example of the legal tax avoidance made possible by the U.S. tax code. It estimates that Apple avoided at least $3.5 billion in U.S. federal taxes in 2011 and $9 billion in 2012 by using its tax strategy, and described a complex setup involving Irish subsidiaries as being a key element of this strategy. But Cook said the Irish subsidiaries don&#8217;t reduce the company&#8217;s U.S. taxes at all. Rather, the company avoids paying the 35 percent federal tax rate on profits made overseas by not bringing those profits back to the U.S., a practice it shares with other multinationals. Apple&#8217;s enormous, iPhone-fueled profits mean that it has more cash stashed overseas than any other company: $102 billion. Cook reaffirmed Apple&#8217;s position that given the current U.S. tax rate, it has no intention of bringing that cash back to the U.S. Like other companies, it has a responsibility to shareholders to pay as little as possible in taxes. In effect, Apple is holding out for a lower corporate tax rate, and Cook spent some of his time in the spotlight to advocate for one, accompanied by a streamlining of the tax code to eliminate deductions and credits. Cook, who is more accustomed to commanding a stage in front of investors and techies than facing a congressional committee, took a defensive tone with his opening statement. He punched out words when stressing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163183&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Tumblr?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/19/what-is-tumblr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, old-timer. In light of the recent Yahoo-buys-Tumblr news, my overlords at TIME have asked me to put together a guide of sorts explaining what Tumblr is. A Tumblr for Dummies, if you will. (Note: there is an actual Tumblr for Dummies book already. I did not write it.) If you&#8217;re a regular reader here at TIME Tech, you can skip this post entirely, as you already know what Tumblr is. For the rest of you, make sure your Depend elastic-leg undergarments are cinched really, really tightly, because what you&#8217;re about to read can only be fairly categorized as a technoerotic thriller. Let&#8217;s begin. What is Tumblr? Before there was social networking, there were blogs. And in an effort to muddle things, at one point in time the concept of blogging without trying too hard became known as microblogging. Tumblr is part microblogging, part social networking. If you want to write a several-thousand-word opus about something, Tumblr isn&#8217;t the place to do it. If you want to share a moving picture of a little kid acting like a detective as quickly and easily as possible, Tumblr is a good place to do it. That&#8217;s the microblogging aspect to Tumblr. Then, other Tumblr users who like moving pictures of little kids acting like detectives can follow you on Tumblr so they&#8217;re sure to see every moving little-kid-acting-like-a-detective picture you post. That&#8217;s the social networking aspect to Tumblr. For very little information about what Tumblr does, visit the main page of Tumblr.com. For more information, visit Tumblr&#8217;s About page, which says: Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, e-mail or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme&#8217;s HTML. Why is the E in Tumblr missing? Tumblr Yes, it&#8217;s very unprofessional. For a website to try to convince people that it&#8217;s cool, sometimes it will drop a random vowel from its name. You&#8217;ll notice the Tumblr logo also has a cool period at the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163048&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo-Tumblr: It&#8217;s Not What You Buy, It&#8217;s What You Do With It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Yahoo first approached us eons ago, we were pretty skeptical. But after meeting the people on the Yahoo team and getting a picture of where they were going, we got religion. Maybe that&#8217;s too strong. We realized we were all eating at the same church potluck. The things that were important to us were: being open, building innovative stuff and kicking ass. Were these people our people? Yes. See the stuff Yahoo&#8217;s announced recently [including, of course, this]? They&#8217;re evolving in really interesting ways — and from our look inside, we know that there&#8217;s a lot more coming. Yahoo won&#8217;t be the Yahoo you&#8217;ve come to take for granted. Nope, that isn&#8217;t David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, talking about Yahoo&#8217;s $1.1 billion acquisition of the microblogging service he co-founded. Kara Swisher of All Things D is reporting that the deal is done and that her sources say it&#8217;ll be announced on Monday. We&#8217;ll hear from Karp then, presumably. Flickr in 2004, before it was a Yahoo property But the sound bite above is from March 2005, and the start-up founder who&#8217;s explaining a Yahoo buyout is Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr. At the time, the photo-sharing start-up was as cool as any site on the Web; just as buying Tumblr is allegedly a gambit to make Yahoo cool again, buying Flickr was supposed to help reboot Yahoo, a company that was feeling a tad shopworn even eight years ago. The Flickr acquisition came at a time when Yahoo was snapping up interesting small companies by the carload — among the other ones it purchased in 2004–05 were Dialpad, del.icio.us, Konfabulator, Musicmatch, Stata Labs and Upcoming.org. All came with cool reputations, innovative services and smart people. Some of the acquisitions instantly stopped mattering under Yahoo ownership; others did O.K., at least for a while. (Flickr continued to boom at first, but eventually became staid and backward-looking; it was only in December that it released a really first-rate iPhone app.) None of them had a transformative effect on Yahoo, which is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163033&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Stock Price Is the Least Important Thing About Facebook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/18/facebooks-stock-price-the-least-important-thing-about-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey is only one percent finished. Even if you quibble about the exact percentage, he&#8217;s right that his company&#8217;s vision is boundless and that the service, in its current incarnation, is nowhere near done exploring its potential. The man is nothing if not both ambitious and patient. Wall Street, unlike Zuck, is famously bad at taking the long view of things. When Facebook went public, a year ago today, shares were snapped up by speculators hoping to make an insta-windfall from a pop in its stock price. At the end of the first day of trading &#8212; bedeviled by NASDAQ technical gremlins &#8212; the stock flatlined rather than popping. In the year since, as my colleague Sam Gustin reports, it&#8217;s bumped around without ever returning to the initial offering price of $38. Some people are still brooding about it. If you&#8217;ve lost money on Facebook stock, I feel for ya. Really. But the fact that it didn&#8217;t turn out to be a convenient way to turn a quick buck doesn&#8217;t have much bearing on the company&#8217;s importance to the world. It doesn&#8217;t even say much about the its long-term prospects to do well by investors. Plenty of tech companies have had happier IPOs than Facebook did, but a happy IPO has never been a reliable sign of a bright future. Consider Netscape, the browser pioneer which went public in 1995, in what may remain the most iconic tech-company IPO of them all. In 2003. Jim Cramer, now the host of CNBC&#8217;s Mad Money, wrote a wistful remembrance of it for TIME: We didn&#8217;t know what it was. We had never opened a browser. We had never gone on the Net. But we had heard that the deal would be hot, so we at Cramer &#38; Co., my $250 million hedge fund, dutifully put in our share of stock in the initial public offering of Netscape. We got several thousand shares. And we, along with most everyone who got some,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163011&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Square&#8217;s Second Hardware Product: A Decidedly Square-esque Cash Register</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/square-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February, innovative payment-processing startup Square introduced Business in a Box, a bundle which turned an iPad into a cash register. It included a third-party stand and a third-party cash drawer; it looked really useful, but I was a bit surprised that a company as interested in controlling its user experience was willing to outsource so much of it to existing products designed by other companies. Turns out that Business in a Box was a stopgap. At an event at San Francisco&#8216;s Blue Bottle Coffee this morning, the company introduced Square Stand, a $299 iPad-as-cash-register device which it designed itself. It&#8217;s Square&#8217;s second hardware product, after its tiny headphone-jack card Square Reader swiper, and will replace Business in a Box in July. (The first version is for the iPad 2 and third-generation iPad; a version for the current iPad, with Lightning connector, is due later this year.) Square Stand exudes style: it&#8217;s white, sleek and gorgeous. With the iPad installed, it&#8217;s tough to tell where the tablet ends and the stand begins. And as with Apple products, even the packaging is an artistic statement. But Square co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said that how it looks is less important than how it works. Speaking of existing cash register systems for small merchants, he said that &#8220;nothing works together, nothing is seamless, nothing fits. We thought we could do better.&#8221; The overall goal, he said, was to help merchants ring up more transactions in less time, thereby making larger quantities of old and new customers happy. As with other Square variants, merchants pay a flat 2.75% transaction fee for sales made through Square Stand. Square Unlike Business in a Box, it doesn&#8217;t use Square&#8217;s headphone-jack swiper &#8212; instead, there&#8217;s an oversized, two-way swiper designed for easy, fast swiping in busy environments. &#8220;You don&#8217;t even have to look &#8212; you can look at your customer,&#8221; Dorsey said. The headphone jack is used to secure the iPad, like an improvised Kensington spot, and the whole thing swivels. It&#8217;s designed, of course, to be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162745&#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>A Brief History of Windows Sales Figures, 1985-Present</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/a-brief-history-of-windows-sales-figures-1985-present/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 05:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may maintain that the fact that Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses in six months doesn&#8217;t mean much. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that Windows sales figures aren&#8217;t interesting. In fact, Microsoft&#8217;s news moved me to rummage around in Google Books, Microsoft&#8217;s press site and elsewhere for past sales data for various major editions of Windows dating back to version 1.0, which debuted in November 1985. Paying too much attention to the exact numbers I quote below would be nuts. Some are from Microsoft; some are from other sources; some refer to all licenses sold while others relate only to boxed software. What&#8217;s fascinating is the overall trend and what it says about the number of PC users in the world. Back in 1990 &#8212; 15 years into Microsoft&#8217;s existence &#8212;  the fact that Windows 3.0 sold four million copies in its first year made it one of the industry&#8217;s biggest smashes until that time. Today, Windows 8 is selling 50 times as fast, and we&#8217;re trying to figure out whether that&#8217;s an encouraging sign or evidence that it&#8217;s a disappointment. And now the numbers, all of which are for unit sales in copies or licenses: Windows 1.0 sales from its November 1985 launch to April 1987: 500,000 (Computerworld) Windows sales in 1988 (Windows 2.0 shipped on December 9, 1987): 1 million (InfoWorld) Windows sales, all versions, 1985 to January 1990: less than 2 million (InfoWorld) Windows 3.0 sales, first year: 4 million (InfoWorld) Windows 3.1 sales, first 3 months or so: 3 million (InfoWorld) Windows 95 sales, first year: 40 million (Network World) Windows 98 sales, first four days: 530,000 boxed copies through retail channels (New York Times) Windows 2000 sales, less than a month after launch: 1 million (Microsoft) Windows ME sales, first three days: 200,000 boxed copies through U.S. retail channels (Network World) Windows XP sales, first three days: 300,000 boxed copies through U.S. retail channels (Network World) Windows XP sales, just over two months after launch: 17 million (Microsoft) Windows Vista sales, one month<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162215&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft: 100 Million Windows 8 Licenses Sold, Windows Blue This Year</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/microsoft-100-million-windows-8-licenses-sold-windows-blue-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Windows &#8212; perhaps more than any other major tech product &#8212; it&#039;s difficult to come to definitive conclusions about how it&#039;s doing based on raw numbers. A gigantic number of new PCs are going to ship with the current version of Windows no matter what; sales figures don&#039;t tell you what people think of Windows 8 once they get it, and convey only so much about whether typical consumers see it as an inducement to buy a new computer, or an argument against doing so. That said, some numbers are better than no numbers &#8212; and in a new Q&#38;A blog post, Tami Reller, the Microsoft executive responsible for the business side of Windows, has disclosed some new ones, while failing to mention one meaningful metric. Reller says that Microsoft has sold more than 100 million copies of Windows 8 since the operating system shipped on October 26. That means that the new version has matched Windows 7&#039;s performance rather precisely: that version also sold 100 million licenses in the first six months. Again, it&#039;s tough to know what to make of this fact. You could argue that Windows 8 should be outpacing Windows 7 given that there are now more PCs in the world than there were in 2009, when Windows 7 debuted; then again, you could also make the case that stable Windows sales are an accomplishment given that PC sales have been plunging lately. Me, I&#039;ve said all along that Windows 8&#039;s sales during its first few months didn&#039;t matter much. If we end up looking back at Windows 8 as a success, it&#039;ll be because it turned out that its radical change helped Windows stay relevant in the post-PC era. If history judges it a failure, it&#039;ll be because the reinvention didn&#039;t work. Either way, this thing is so much of a departure that it&#039;ll take more than six months before we know. (Disclaimer: by &#8220;post-PC era,&#8221; I don&#039;t mean an era in which the PC doesn&#039;t matter. I just mean that it&#039;s no longer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162202&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe Says Goodbye to Its Suite. Is Microsoft Next?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/adobe-kills-its-suit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 22:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, Adobe started selling Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and its other creative software in a new way: as a service called Creative Cloud. They&#8217;re still big, powerful applications that you download and install on a Windows PC or a Mac. But paying one monthly fee — $50 for the standard version, or $30 for people who already own Creative Suite CS3 or higher — gets you access to all of the company&#8217;s creative apps, plus cloud-based services that tie them together and let you store your projects in one online repository. Today, at its MAX conference in Los Angeles, Adobe announced a big upgrade to Creative Cloud. Among other changes, it involves even more cloud-related features, like the ability to sync a program&#8217;s settings across all the computers you use it on, and the option to download 175 type families offered by the company&#8217;s excellent Typekit web fonts service for use on your computer. But equally noteworthy was what Adobe didn&#8217;t announce: an upgrade to Creative Suite 6, the conventional, boxed, pay-one-time version of its bundle of software. While the company will go on selling CS6 and issuing bug fixes, anything new will be available only to Creative Cloud customers, in new CC versions of the apps, like Photoshop CC. It&#8217;s at least as striking a shift as when Adobe introduced the first version of Creative Suite in 2003, thereby winding down its era of stand-alone apps. And even though today&#8217;s news is less about technology than it is about purchasing options, it&#8217;s still big — not just for Adobe, but for the software industry, period. It&#8217;s another nail in the coffin of the whole business model of software, as it existed in the pre-Internet days. Even software that isn&#8217;t a web-based service is now being priced, sold and upgraded as if it were one. It&#8217;s not hard to see why Adobe likes the idea of Creative Cloud: it gets people into a mode of paying ongoing fees, year in and year out, to get access to Adobe products. The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162188&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>eBay&#8217;s $35 Million Mess</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/05/ebays-35-million-mess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 05:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Edwards of The Business Insider has a long, fascinating piece on eBay&#8217;s top two affiliates &#8212; one earned $28 million in commissions for sending customers to the auction site, the other $7 million &#8212; and how eBay eventually concluded that they were defrauding the company: Affiliate marketers place ads or links for eBay on their own networks, or on other people&#8217;s sites, and they collect a cut of any sale the online auction company generates from them. eBay has about 26,000 of them, or more, at any one time, feeding traffic to its auctions. But recently Hogan had fallen out with eBay, and the company had sued him, accusing him of fraud. eBay had also been cooperating with the FBI since June 2006 to root out affiliate marketers whose success was a bit too good to be true. The company had even created a piece of software to monitor Hogan&#8217;s internet traffic — an online sting operation the company named &#8220;Trip Wire.&#8221; eBay alleged that what Hogan did to earn the sting operation and the knock at his door by the FBI was to rig eBay&#8217;s system so that it falsely credited him for sales he did not generate. He did it by seeding unknowing users with hundreds of thousands of bits of tracking code, or &#8220;cookies.&#8221; If any of those people bought something on eBay, the code signaled to eBay that Hogan should get a cut of the sale — even though he had done nothing to promote eBay. The sting also netted Brian Dunning, eBay&#8217;s second biggest affiliate marketer. The company had paid Hogan and Dunning a combined $35 million in commissions over the years, court papers say. Both men have since pleaded guilty to wire fraud. It&#8217;s a great read.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162087&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barnes &amp; Noble Puts Google&#8217;s Play Store and Apps on the Nook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/barnes-noble-puts-google-play-and-google-apps-on-the-nook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The walls around Barnes &#38; Noble&#8216;s Nook walled garden are tumbling down. The company&#8217;s Nook HD and Nook HD+ are credible content-consumption tablets &#8212; remarkably credible, actually, considering that they come from a 127-year-old bookseller. But they sold so poorly over the holiday season that it raised questions about whether B&#38;N would end up being forced to de-emphasize its hardware business in favor of selling content on other platforms. The Nooks use Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s own custom version of Android and provide its own stores for books, magazines, newspapers and apps. And therein lies an oft-raised argument against buying a Nook: the Barnes &#38; Noble application store has had only 10,000 pieces of software &#8212; mostly for-pay ones &#8212; vs. the hundreds of thousands of choices in Google&#8217;s Google Play. So with one fell swoop, in the form of a software update being rolled out today, B&#38;N is eliminating that downside. It&#8217;s giving both Nooks the Google Play stores for apps, music, movies and books, plus key Google apps which the tablets have lacked until now: Chrome, Gmail and YouTube. (Google&#8217;s policies for its apps are an all-or-nothing proposition for device makers &#8212; if they want Google Play, they also have to pre-install Google&#8217;s apps.) New Nooks sold at Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s bookstores and elsewhere will also carry the updated software. The bottom line: if something&#8217;s available for Android, it&#8217;s now available for Nook, assuming it&#8217;s compatible from a technical standpoint. Among other things, that means you&#8217;ll be able to install Amazon&#8217;s Kindle app on a Nook and read books you&#8217;ve purchased from Amazon. For the first time, the notion of someone with a heavy investment in Kindle books buying a Nook doesn&#8217;t sound completely impractical. Apps you bought from Barnes &#38; Noble will be marked with an &#8220;n&#8221; label (for Nook). And if you&#8217;ve bought Google Play apps for another Android device, they&#8217;ll be downloaded to your Nook at no extra charge. The arrival of the standard Android stores and apps doesn&#8217;t mean that the Nooks are becoming plain-vanilla,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161752&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Chooses COO Krzanich as New CEO</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/intel-chooses-coo-krzanich-as-new-ceo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Peter Svensson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Intel said Thursday that it has chosen its chief operating officer, Brian Krzanich, as its new CEO. He will steer the world&#8217;s largest chipmaker in a world where PC sales are cratering while smartphones and tablets thrive. Krzanich, who is 52, will replace Paul Otellini on May 16, at the company&#8217;s annual meeting. Otellini had announced his decision to resign in November. Otellini, 62, will be ending a nearly 40-year career with Intel, including an eight-year stint as CEO by the time he leaves. Krzanich isn&#8217;t inheriting Otellini&#8217;s title of president. It will go instead to software chief Renee James, 48, creating a two-person &#8220;executive office&#8221; at the head of the company. James had been another candidate for the CEO post, along with Stacy Smith, chief financial officer and director of corporate strategy. Krzanich started at Intel Corp. in 1982 as a process engineer and worked his way up through the manufacturing side of the business to become COO in January 2012. &#8220;His open-minded approach to problem solving and listening to customers&#8217; needs has extended the company&#8217;s product and technology leadership and created billions of dollars in value for the company,&#8221; Intel said in its announcement. The COO job is the traditional stepping-stone to the CEO post at Intel. Both Otellini and his predecessor, Craig Barrett, held that job before becoming CEO. The change in command comes at a critical time for Intel. After thriving for decades as the dominant seller of PC microprocessors, the company is scrambling to prove that it can make chips that work well on smartphones and tablet computers. Qualcomm Inc. and other chipmakers have been more successful in the mobile-device market so far, undercutting Intel&#8217;s financial performance and standing among investors. Last year, both Intel&#8217;s earnings and stock price fell by 15 percent from 2011. Last month, Intel said it still expects its sales to grow this year, propped up by sales of chips to business PCs and servers. It&#8217;s also counting on a new generation of power-sipping processors to boost<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161691&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Noteworthy Startups from TechCrunch Disrupt NY</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/five-noteworthy-startups-from-techcrunch-disrupt-ny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lombard</dc:creator>
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		<title>T-Mobile Completes MetroPCS Acquisition</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/01/t-mobile-completes-metropcs-acquisition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 12:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; T-Mobile USA, the country&#8217;s fourth-largest cellphone carrier, has completed its acquisition of smaller rival MetroPCS. T-Mobile is adding 9 million MetroPCS customers to its own 34 million. The combined company will still lag No. 3 Sprint Nextel Corp. in size. No immediate changes are expected for customers of either company. However, T-Mobile plans to shut down MetroPCS&#8217;s network over two years, which means MetroPCS phones will eventually stop working. T-Mobile will use the space freed up on the airwaves to boost its own coverage and data speeds. T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Germany&#8217;s Deutsche Telekom AG, will gain its own U.S. stock listing by merging with Dallas-based MetroPCS Communications Inc. The combined company will be called T-Mobile US Inc. and will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday under the ticker symbol &#8220;TMUS.&#8221; Under terms of the deal, MetroPCS shareholders are getting $4.08 per share in cash, or $1.5 billion. They&#8217;re also getting half a share of the new company for each MetroPCS share, resulting in a 26 percent ownership stake. The rest will be owned by Deutsche Telekom. MetroPCS&#8217;s board agreed to sell to T-Mobile in October, but shareholders and shareholder advisory firms called the offer inadequate. T-Mobile improved its bid three weeks ago by reducing the amount of debt it would transfer to the new company and reducing the interest rate on the debt. The improved offer won shareholder approval last week. The combined company&#8217;s President and CEO is John Legere. Former MetroPCS Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer J. Braxton Carter will serve as CFO. It will have 11 board members, including two of MetroPCS&#8217; existing directors. Deutsche Telekom Deputy CEO and Chief Financial Officer Tim Höttges will serve as chairman. The combined company will be based in Bellevue, Wash., and keep a significant presence in Richardson, Texas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161450&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Still Trying to Figure Out Qwikster</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/26/im-still-trying-to-figure-out-qwikster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#039;t given a nanosecond&#039;s thought to Qwikster &#8212; the weird name Netflix gave to its aborted plan to spin off its DVD-by-mail business &#8212; since 2011. But it comes up in a New York Times story today by James B. Stewart, in which Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says he felt horrible about the whole debacle, which also included an unpopular price hike. I admire Stewart&#039;s work and hoped that his article would finally explain how a company as smart as Netflix could have come up with an idea as terrible as Qwikster. But it doesn&#039;t. In fact, the whole issue is a bit of a muddle in the piece. It lauds Hastings for an apologetic 2011 blog post and links to a mea culpa video. But the post and the video only apologize for doing a bad job at explaining the price hike &#8212; and then they segue into announcing Qwikster. (The video is misleadingly labeled on YouTube &#8212; it&#039;s called &#8220;Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Apologizes for Mishandling the Change to Qwikster.&#8221;) In other words, Hastings, who was trying to undo a mistake, ended up digging himself deeper into a hole. A month later, Netflix decided that Qwikster wasn&#8217;t such a hot idea after all. Today, Netflix has more than recovered: it&#039;s back to being beloved and is doing interesting and innovative things such as going head-to-head with HBO via exclusive programming like the U.S. version of House of Cards. I hope Hastings doesn&#039;t spend much time feeling guilty about the company&#039;s midlife crisis of 2011. But I&#039;d still love to understand just what happened.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161198&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Does One Fake Tweet Cause a Stock Market Crash?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/24/how-does-one-fake-tweet-cause-a-stock-market-crash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 1:07 p.m. on Tuesday, the Twitter feed of the Associated Press told us that Barack Obama had been injured in an explosion at the White House. The tweet was fake. Read more: http://business.time.com/2013/04/24/how-does-one-fake-tweet-cause-a-stock-market-crash/#ixzz2RTeOKHIG<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161041&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple: What’s Eating America’s Favorite Tech Company?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/24/apple-whats-eating-americas-favorite-tech-company/?iid=biz-main-lead</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple’s quarterly earnings report, delivered yesterday after the stock markets closed, was anxiously scrutinized by investors and Apple loyalists for signs of a turnaround. For the most part, they were disappointed. via Apple: What’s Eating America’s Favorite Tech Company? &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160950&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient History: My Press Badge from Apple&#8217;s Final COMDEX</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/22/ancient-history-my-press-badge-from-apples-final-comdex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t tend to salt away memorabilia from the (countless) events I&#8217;ve attended as a tech journalist. So when I was rummaging through a box of old papers in my garage and came across my press badge for Apple&#8217;s event at the COMDEX conference in November, 1996, I was startled. I hadn&#8217;t kept it so much as forgotten to get rid it. I hadn&#8217;t, however, forgotten the event itself, a press breakfast held immediately before Steve Jobs returned to the company he co-founded. A month later, Apple would acquire Jobs&#8217; NeXT for $400 million, thereby initiating the sequence of events which would eventually make it the tech industry&#8217;s most successful company. But at COMDEX, Apple was still floundering and edging ever closer to disaster. The breakfast didn&#8217;t go well. A mob of journalists showed up, apparently more than Apple was prepared to deal with. (Even when Apple was in bleak shape, a lot of people were really interested in it.) I also recall a bizarrely long delay, once we were all seated, before the briefing began. Once it did, Ellen Hancock, Apple&#8217;s chief technology officer and its second-highest profile executive after CEO Gil Amelio, gave a presentation that didn&#8217;t impress me. One thing I had forgotten was the topic of Apple&#8217;s COMDEX 1996 news. An InfoWorld article over at Google Book Search reminded me: Hancock said that Apple was going to release a server capable of running Windows NT as well as its own Mac OS. Yup &#8212; Apple was betting that its future rested, in part, on building Windows boxes. At the time, it wasn&#8217;t an insane strategy &#8212; plenty of supposedly savvy pundits were telling the company that it should reinvent itself into a high-end Windows PC company &#8212; but I left the breakfast feeling dejected even though I had no particular emotional investment in Apple&#8217;s fate. The badge itself neatly conveys that it was created by an Apple very different from the one we know today. It has the old rainbow-colored logo that Jobs killed in 1998.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160740&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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