Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 15 Billion

CUPERTINO, California—July 7, 2011—Apple? today announced that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store? by the more than 200 million iPhone?, iPad? and iPod touch? users worldwide. The App Store offers more than 425,000 apps and developers have created an incredible array of over 100,000 native iPad apps.
“In just three years, the revolutionary App Store has grown to become the most exciting and successful software marketplace the world has ever seen,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Thank you to all of our amazing developers who have filled it with over 425,000 of the coolest apps and to our over 200 million iOS users for surpassing 15 billion downloads.”
“We sparked musical magic when iPhone users experienced Ocarina three years ago,” said Dr. Ge Wang, a Smule co-founder and assistant professor at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. “And now with iPad, we’ve created the Magic Piano and Magic Fiddle apps. Who could’ve dreamt an iPad would make its way into the San Francisco Symphony?”
“iPad provides us with an unparalleled mobile device for creating gorgeous, immersive games,” said Mark Rein, vice president and co-founder of Epic Games. “Infinity Blade has been a runaway hit with customers around the world and we couldn’t be more excited about our success on iOS devices.”
“We’re bringing Martha Stewart, Angelina Ballerina, Sesame Street and many more of the world’s most popular books and magazines to iPad,” said Nicholas Callaway, CEO of Callaway Digital Arts. “We knew the iPad was going to be a revolutionary storytelling device, but never could have anticipated it would become so popular, so quickly.”
More than 15 billion apps have been downloaded from the revolutionary App Store and more than 425,000 apps are available, including more than 100,000 native iPad apps, to consumers in 90 countries. Users of the more than 200 million iOS devices around the world can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, education, sports, health, reference and travel. Apple has paid developers over $2.5 billion to date.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

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Satellite TV Programming

Satellite TV providers get programming from two major sources: national turnaround channels (such as HBO, ESPN and CNN) and various local channels (the ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and PBS affiliates in a particular area). Most of the turnaround channels also provide programming for cable TV, and the local channels typically broadcast their programming over the airwaves.
Turnaround channels usually have a distribution center that beams their programming to a geosynchronous satellite. The broadcast center uses large satellite dishes to pick up these analog and digital signals from several sources.
Most local stations don't transmit their programming to satellites, so the provider has to get it another way. If the provider includes local programming in a particular area, it will have a small local facility consisting of a few racks of communications equipment. The equipment receives local signals directly from the broadcaster through fiber-optic cable or an antenna and then transmits them to the central broadcast center.
The broadcast center converts all of this programming into a high-quality, uncompressed digital stream. At this point, the stream contains a vast quantity of data -- about 270 megabits per second (Mbps) for each channel. In order to transmit the signal from there, the broadcast center has to compress it. Otherwise, it would be too big for the satellite to handle. In the next section, we'll find out how the signal is compressed.

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Satellite Receiver

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The end component in the entire satellite TV system is the receiver. The receiver has four essential jobs:
It de-scrambles the encrypted signal. In order to unlock the signal, the receiver needs the proper decoder chip for that programming package. The provider can communicate with the chip, via the satellite signal, to make necessary adjustments to its decoding programs. The provider may occasionally send signals that disrupt illegal de-scramblers as an electronic counter measure (ECM) against illegal users.
It takes the digital MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 signal and converts it into an analog format that a standard television can recognize. In the United States, receivers convert the digital signal to the analog National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) format. Some dish and receiver setups can also output an HDTV signal.
It extracts the individual channels from the larger satellite signal. When you change the channel on the receiver, it sends just the signal for that channel to your TV. Since the receiver spits out only one channel at a time, you can't tape one program and watch another. You also can't watch two different programs on two TVs hooked up to the same receiver. In order to do these things, which are standard on conventional cable, you need to buy an additional receiver.
It keeps track of pay-per-view programs and periodically phones a computer at the provider's headquarters to communicate billing information.
Receivers have a number of other features as well. They pick up a programming schedule signal from the provider and present this information in an onscreen programming guide. Many receivers have parental lock-out options, and some have built-in digital video recorders (DVRs), which let you pause live television or record it on a hard drive.

These receiver features are just added bonuses to the technology of satellite TV. With its movie-quality picture and sound, satellite TV is becoming a popular investment for consumers. Digital cable, which also has improved picture quality and extended channel selection, has proven to be the fiercest competitor to satellite providers. The TV war is raging strong between satellite and digital cable technologies as well as between the providers who offer these services. Once considered luxuries in most households, satellite and digital cable are becoming quite common as providers bundle TV with Internet and phone services to offer competitive deals and win over customers.
For more information on satellite television and other broadcast systems, see the links on the next page.

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Foursquare Closes $50M at a $600M Valuation

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Foursquare has just closed one of the most secretive rounds of venture capital TechCrunch has seen.
The company is raising $50 million, and all of it will go towards building out the company, no secondary sales here. The valuation had been rumored to be as high as $1 billion, but our sources say it settled out at $550 million pre-money, $600 million post.
Part of that is because the round was mostly done by insiders. Leading it was Andreessen Horowitz, still the only major Valley firm invested in the company. Ben Horowitz did the deal and is remaining a board observer only. Union Square Ventures, OATV also reupped in this round and Spark Capital came in as a new investor, but not the lead. Bijan Sabet is joining as a board observer as well. The money will be used to build out the merchant platform, the San Francisco office and fuel international expansion, said founder Dennis Crowley in an interview.
Foursquare’s ten million users are impressive for a mobile app, but small compared to numbers other major social networks. Its revenues are scant. Some firms said they shied away from the deal, because they felt monetization was only more unclear now. With the local space on fire, Foursquare’s target advertisers are already beset with sales people from Yelp, Living Social, Groupon, Google and others calling on them. There’s going to be a level of retailer fatigue, and business-wise Foursquare is late to the party.
Crowley emphasized that Foursquare has a very different value proposition from competitors and is focused on not only rewarding loyal patrons but tracking how their referrals snake through the social graph offering different kinds of rewards to new customers, repeat customers, referred customers and of course the mayors in a way that only Foursquare can. The company is still working on the merchant platform and will get aggressive on selling through direct sales and partnerships once they feel it’s perfect, Crowley said. “We know what it’s going to be, we just haven’t flipped the switch on it yet,” he said.
A $600 million valuation is a big but not unreasonable step-up from Foursquare’s last round which was priced at $120 million. That’s still rich, but that’s the market. Plus, from the venture firm’s perspective, a heady valuation only matters so much. Only slightly more than $20 million has been invested so far in the company, and any investor will have a liquidation preference, meaning they get paid first in the event of an acquisition. So a $50 million deal at any price wouldn’t lose money unless Foursquare winds up being worth less than $70 million.
One of the most remarkable things about this round was how deadly quiet Foursquare was able to keep the news. A few of the big Valley firms like Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark weren’t in the bidding for competitive reasons and very few others were invited to take a look at it. Few of Foursquare’s angel investors were even briefed about it. “Loose Tweets sink companies,” Crowley said. “The series B played out very publicly and it was hard for the company, so we came up with a better process this time.”
We have heard the company might be working on an additional round to cash out some early investors, to be closed at a later date. Crowley didn’t have a comment on that, other than to emphasize all of this round is going towards building the company and the door is open to future secondary deals if it’s the right thing for investors and the company

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Supporting choice, ensuring economic opportunity

At Google, we’ve always focused on putting the user first. We aim to provide relevant answers as quickly as possible—and our product innovation and engineering talent have delivered results that users seem to like, in a world where the competition is only one click away. Still, we recognize that our success has led to greater scrutiny. Yesterday, we received formal notification from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it has begun a review of our business. We respect the FTC’s process and will be working with them (as we have with other agencies) over the coming months to answer questions about Google and our services.
It’s still unclear exactly what the FTC’s concerns are, but we’re clear about where we stand. Since the beginning, we have been guided by the idea that, if we focus on the user, all else will follow. No matter what you’re looking for—buying a movie ticket, finding the best burger nearby, or watching a royal wedding—we want to get you the information you want as quickly as possible. Sometimes the best result is a link to another website. Other times it’s a news article, sports score, stock quote, a video or a map.
Instant answers. New sources of knowledge. Powerful tools—all for free. In just 13 years we’ve built a model that has changed the way people find answers and helped businesses both large and small create jobs and connect with new customers.
Search helps you go anywhere and discover anything, on an open Internet. Using Google is a choice—and there are lots of other choices available to you for getting information: other general-interest search engines, specialized search engines, direct navigation to websites, mobile applications, social networks, and more.
Because of the many choices available to you, we work constantly on making search better, and will continue to follow the principles that have guided us from the beginning:
Do what’s best for the user. We make hundreds of changes to our algorithms every year to improve your search experience. Not every website can come out at the top of the page, or even appear on the first page of our search results.
Provide the most relevant answers as quickly as possible. Today, when you type “weather in Chicago” or “how many feet in a mile” into our search box, you get the answers directly—often before you hit “enter”. And we’re always trying to figure out new ways to answer even more complicated questions just as clearly and quickly. Advertisements offer useful information, too, which is why we also work hard to ensure that our ads are relevant to you.
Label advertisements clearly. Google always distinguishes advertisements from our organic search results. As we experiment with new ad formats and new types of content, we will continue to be transparent about what is an ad and what isn’t.
Be transparent. We share more information about how our rankings work than any other search engine, through our Webmaster Central site, blog, diagnostic tools, support forum, and YouTube. We also give advertisers detailed information about the ad auction and tips to improve their ad quality scores. We’ve recently introduced even more transparency tools, announcing a major change to our algorithm, providing more notice when a website is demoted due to spam violations, and giving advertisers new information about ads that break our rules.
Loyalty, not lock-in. We firmly believe you control your data, so we have a team of engineers whose only goal is to help you take your information with you. We want you to stay with us because we’re innovating and making our products better—not because you’re locked in.
These are the principles that guide us, and we know they’ll stand up to scrutiny. We’re committed to giving you choices, ensuring that businesses can grow and create jobs, and, ultimately, fostering an Internet that benefits us all.
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Bernanke passes early media test, challenge to come

(Reuters) - Ben Bernanke used his second-ever news conference on Wednesday to teach the world's financial markets a lot more about the thinking at the Federal Reserve than they could glean from its usual statements.
But the Fed chairman and former Princeton professor has yet to face one of the most important oral exams of his career: justifying and defending a change in the Fed's extraordinary monetary policy, when the time comes.
"There haven't been any big surprises or shifts in policy for Bernanke to sell," Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics said on Thursday.
"When this will earn its money is when the market response to the (earlier) statement is one way and he is able to correct any misperceptions. That will be when the press conference really pays off."
Bernanke's news conferences mark an important departure from the Fed's approach to communications that for decades used to put a premium on secrecy.
The Fed's focus is now on clarity after the its decision last year to embark on a second $600 billion round of bond-buying touched off a political firestorm with politicians accusing the central bank of jeopardizing the U.S. dollar with its bold experiments in monetary policy.
Looking less nervous than in his first news conference in April, Bernanke took questions from reporters for an hour on Wednesday and, displaying his professorial background, sounded confident and calm in his answers.
Bernanke's former number two said the gamble of exposing the world's most important monetary policymaker to the glare of the media was worth taking, given how hard it was to defend the Fed against the barrage of criticism over recent policy moves.
"I thought the circumstances were sufficiently unusual and the Fed was being sufficiently misunderstood and misinterpreted that giving the chairman cheap wholesale another shot, another couple of shots of explaining what the Fed was doing was very much worth the risk of an occasional misstatement or distraction," Former Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn told Reuters in an interview.
On Wednesday, Bernanke and the top Fed officials kept interest rates near zero and, using the same language they have for two years, said they will stay exceptionally low for "an extended period."
Asked exactly how long that is, Bernanke said "at least two to three meetings ... and I emphasize at least."
That unusually precise answer, for a central banker, helped calm financial markets worried about the slow pace of the U.S. economic recovery, said Todd Colvin, a futures broker at MF Global in Chicago.
Short-term U.S. interest rates are expected to stay below 1 percent until August 2013, according to futures trading on Thursday.
Bernanke also used the hour-long news conference to calm fears that inflation is getting out of hand, ahead of a hawk-heavy line-up of top Fed officials speaking next week that includes Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota and Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig.
"It's reasonable to think that core inflation will fall back toward mandate-consistent levels," Bernanke said on Wednesday.
At times last year, markets took their cues from the vocal hawks whose outspoken concerns that Fed policy would fuel inflation complicated attempts to create the sense of a Fed consensus that Bernanke now promotes.
"It gives markets a better context in which to interpret what they are hearing later from other members of the Committee," Kohn said of Bernanke's news conferences. "So I think it's a very positive development."
An analysis of Bernanke's comments show he talked more about unemployment on Wednesday than at his first news conference, signaling growing concern over the labor market (For a graphic please see: here )
"(Former Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan was famous for needing a secrete decoder ring for trying to understand what he was saying," said Michael Hanson, a senior economist at Bank of America/ Merrill Lynch in New York. "I think Bernanke is much more willing to say what is on his mind."
While arguing that rising inflation leaves little scope for another round of stimulus, Bernanke listed several tools the Fed could use to ease monetary conditions further should it need to do so.
"There were definitely things that one learns," said Michael Feroli, an economist at JP Morgan Chase.
(Reporting by Ann Saphir, with additional reporting by Mark Felsenthal in Washington and Alexandra Alper in New York)

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Apple Preparing Faster IPhone for September

Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to introduce a new iPhone in September that boasts a stronger chip for processing data and a more advanced camera, according to two people familiar with the product.
The device will include the A5 processor, the more powerful chip that Apple added to the iPad 2 earlier this year, along with an 8-megapixel camera, up from the 5-megapixel model in the iPhone 4, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the details aren’t public. Apple is also testing a new version of the iPad that has a higher resolution screen, similar to the one now used in the iPhone 4, one of the people said.
The iPhone is Apple’s top seller, accounting for half of revenue last quarter. A faster chip will enable speedier loading of programs and help the device vie with handsets being introduced by rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co. that are powered by Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android software. The iPhone’s gains versus the BlackBerry partly explain why Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) last week forecast its first-ever quarterly sales decline.
The new phone will run the iOS 5 operating system Apple previewed at a developer’s conference this month. Codenamed “Telluride,” it will feature already-announced features such as improved messaging and photo-sharing, one person said. It’s also designed to run on all of Apple’s mobile devices, this person said. Until late last year, iPads, iPhones and iPod touches used slightly different versions of iOS.
Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Cupertino, California- based Apple, declined to comment.
Google’s Gains
Apple pushed back the release of the next iPhone -- its fifth -- to coincide with the release of the new iOS 5, the people said.
Apple has not kept pace with Google in the smartphone market, projected by researcher IDC to reach almost 1 billion units by the end of 2015. This year, Apple is projected to account for 18.2 percent of the global market, compared with 38.9 percent for devices running Android, according to IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts.
The release of a new iPhone may help Apple cut in to Android’s market share, Charlie Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co. in New York, said in a report this week. He said Android customers are waiting for the next-generation iPhone, especially those on the Verizon Wireless network, which added Apple’s handset this year.
Cheaper iPhone
Apple is also working to finish a cheaper version of the iPhone aimed at attracting customers in developing countries, the people said. This device would use chips and displays of similar quality to today’s iPhone 4, the people said. Apple’s work on a smaller, lower-priced version of the device was discussed by people familiar with the matter in February.
The screen resolution on Apple’s new iPad would be about one-third higher than that of the iPad 2 and will boast a more responsive touchscreen, one of the people said.
The new iPhone will closely resemble the iPhone 4, the people said.
As Apple upgrades its mobile operating system it may eventually stop guaranteeing that all iOS apps run on older models, such as the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, one person said.
Apple, the second-largest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index behind Exxon Mobil Corp., fell 93 cents to $324.37 at 12:02 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. It has gained less than 1 percent this year before today.

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Yahoo Is Quietly Looking For Replacements For Carol Bartz, Says Report

Yahoo has a shareholders' meeting this week, and it promises to be a doozy.
According to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, Yahoo has already been quietly thinking about replacements for CEO Carol Bartz, including Fox Digital head Jon Miller and Yahoo board member David Kenny.
Arrington also talked to investor Eric Jackson, who said he's hoping for a major shakeup that puts Softbanks' Masayoshi Son or Alibaba's Jack Ma in the driver's seat.
Shareholders are also apparently upset with Chairman Roy Bostock and may be pushing for an ouster -- although Yahoo's board can override a shareholder vote -- and are also concerned that Bartz promoted former research chief Prabakhar Raghavan to chief strategy officer despite his lack of business experience.
Worst of all, Yahoo is expected to have an even tougher second half of 2011 than previously anticipated, although the stock probably won't go down much since investors have already discounted most of its business outside the Asian assets like Alibaba.

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Hulu Plays Along With Apple’s New Rules. Who’s Next?

Apple’s new subscription rules could have posed a problem for services like Hulu. But when Steve Jobs changed his mind earlier this month, life got a lot easier.
Here’s the old version of the Hulu Plus subscription app for the iPad:
And here’s the new version, built to comply with Apple edicts that kick in at the end of the month:
Easy, right? All Hulu had to do was strip out the link that sent potential subscribers to its Web site, because Apple’s new rule will ban “apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app.”
That means that the app can no longer function as an effective advertising tool for the video service, which is a bummer for Hulu (which is owned by Comcast’s NBC, Disney’s ABC and News Corp.’s Fox; News Corp. also owns this Web site). It’d be quite useful to offer a smattering of free content on the app, then encourage users who want more stuff to click through to Hulu.com to pony up $8 a month.
But that’s much better than the previous choice Apple offered app developers that wanted to sell access to content: Use Apple’s in-house purchase system — and give Apple 30 percent of all sales that flow from that — or don’t do it at all.
Lots of developers have no problem using Apple’s system, which gives them access to a customer base of 225 million people. But others won’t want to give up that much revenue.
So now we’ll see how other content companies that currently use external links in their apps decide to play it over the next couple weeks.
My hunch is that digital video and music companies like Netflix and Rhapsody will follow Hulu’s lead and drop their “buy” buttons. The New York Times has already said it would work with Apple’s rules, but that was back when it announced its paywall/subscription plan in March, when it had a different set of options. I asked Times officials about their plans 10 days ago, and they declined to comment.
Also not commenting: The Wall Street Journal — which again, like this Web site, is owned by News Corp. The Journal hasn’t said a peep about its Apple subscription plans, which seems a bit odd, given that News Corp. and Apple rolled out the first iteration of Apple’s subscription offering, via The Daily, back in February.

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Rival business daily the Financial Times, meanwhile, has quite clearly signaled what it plans to do: It has built an HTML5 Web app so it can control every part of the subscription process itself.
Then there’s Amazon, which seems to be one of the clear targets of Apple’s revised rules – note that they specifically rule out the use of a “buy” button that goes to a Web site to purchase a digital book. Hard to believe that Amazon will get rid of its Kindle iOS apps altogether, since they’re a key feature of the Kindle ecosystem. But dropping the app’s “buy” button will be a real drag for the bookseller, too.

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The New Silicon Valley Douchebag

Anyone who was in the Valley during the late 1990s knows exactly the guy I’m about to describe. He wore blue shirts and khakis. He was a regular at the Bubble Lounge. He always insisted on grabbing the check, throwing down the dot com AmEx for everyone’s drinks, making sure everyone knew he did and later bragging about dropping “several C notes last night.”
He was a business school drop out, who thought that gave him enough cool points to negate the fact that he was lame enough to enroll in business school in the first place.
He hogged the Razor scooter at your cavernous loft-like office, was way too loud when he won at foosball, took up all the restaurant reservations and cabs in the city, drove up the rents to unsustainable levels and generally made everyone else’s life miserable. Worse: He was frequently seen as the most important person in the startup.
Thank God he left in droves once the bubble burst. Even better: He never came back.
But as happens with hot markets, there’s a new douchebag in town. We’ve written several times about how easy it is now to start a company in the Valley, and this new gold seeker isn’t the biz dev guy. He’s the knock-off wunderkind.
Paul Carr has described him as the Mark Zuckerberg tribute band: The kid who wears a hoody and tells people his company will be worth $1 billion dollars, but won’t give you any details on what they do. I’ve described him as the tribute band for the Aaron-Sorkin-fictionalized-version of Mark Zuckerberg: The kid who tries to talk fast, sound witty, but say absolutely nothing. The guy who thinks it’s fine to screw people over, because the startup journey is all about you, the almighty founder. The kid who shows up at 10:30 am for work and plays video games until late at the office, forgetting he was supposed to be building a company all day. He elevates cliched millennial entitlement to an art form.
Fashion-wise, he’s a hipster, frequently with floppy hair ala Kevin Rose and Dennis Crowley. The BMW the biz dev guy drove around has become a bike. (At least that’s a win for the environment.) And if my morning coffee run is any indication, he’s always at the Creamery talking just a bit too loudly about his company. Once I overheard two of them in a heated debate over whether or not Farmville was the most important development we’d seen in our lifetimes.
But here’s the real problem with him: Like all gold-rushing douchebags of any era, he’s not starting a company because he believes in it. You can tell because there’s no great idea there, rather it’s a collection of buzzwords and phrases like “We’re the (fill in the blank) of (fill in the blank). With badges.” And he’s happy to abandon his company if something shinier comes along. Like a wet Gremlin, he’s multiplying like crazy right now. And like all gold-rushing douchebags of any era, there are plenty of people who can’t wait until he leaves. Don’t worry, he will. They always do, and the great entrepreneurs stay and continue to build awesome stuff.
In case you don’t know the guy I’m talking about, the good people at College Humor have done a pretty good job of capturing him in this video. Embedding is disabled on it, which is — appropriately– kinda douchey.
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The New Silicon Valley Douchebag

Anyone who was in the Valley during the late 1990s knows exactly the guy I’m about to describe. He wore blue shirts and khakis. He was a regular at the Bubble Lounge. He always insisted on grabbing the check, throwing down the dot com AmEx for everyone’s drinks, making sure everyone knew he did and later bragging about dropping “several C notes last night.”
He was a business school drop out, who thought that gave him enough cool points to negate the fact that he was lame enough to enroll in business school in the first place.
He hogged the Razor scooter at your cavernous loft-like office, was way too loud when he won at foosball, took up all the restaurant reservations and cabs in the city, drove up the rents to unsustainable levels and generally made everyone else’s life miserable. Worse: He was frequently seen as the most important person in the startup.
Thank God he left in droves once the bubble burst. Even better: He never came back.
But as happens with hot markets, there’s a new douchebag in town. We’ve written several times about how easy it is now to start a company in the Valley, and this new gold seeker isn’t the biz dev guy. He’s the knock-off wunderkind.
Paul Carr has described him as the Mark Zuckerberg tribute band: The kid who wears a hoody and tells people his company will be worth $1 billion dollars, but won’t give you any details on what they do. I’ve described him as the tribute band for the Aaron-Sorkin-fictionalized-version of Mark Zuckerberg: The kid who tries to talk fast, sound witty, but say absolutely nothing. The guy who thinks it’s fine to screw people over, because the startup journey is all about you, the almighty founder. The kid who shows up at 10:30 am for work and plays video games until late at the office, forgetting he was supposed to be building a company all day. He elevates cliched millennial entitlement to an art form.
Fashion-wise, he’s a hipster, frequently with floppy hair ala Kevin Rose and Dennis Crowley. The BMW the biz dev guy drove around has become a bike. (At least that’s a win for the environment.) And if my morning coffee run is any indication, he’s always at the Creamery talking just a bit too loudly about his company. Once I overheard two of them in a heated debate over whether or not Farmville was the most important development we’d seen in our lifetimes.
But here’s the real problem with him: Like all gold-rushing douchebags of any era, he’s not starting a company because he believes in it. You can tell because there’s no great idea there, rather it’s a collection of buzzwords and phrases like “We’re the (fill in the blank) of (fill in the blank). With badges.” And he’s happy to abandon his company if something shinier comes along. Like a wet Gremlin, he’s multiplying like crazy right now. And like all gold-rushing douchebags of any era, there are plenty of people who can’t wait until he leaves. Don’t worry, he will. They always do, and the great entrepreneurs stay and continue to build awesome stuff.
In case you don’t know the guy I’m talking about, the good people at College Humor have done a pretty good job of capturing him in this video. Embedding is disabled on it, which is — appropriately– kinda douchey.
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10 Languages (OSG & Menu): English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, -German, Italian,
Turkish, Arabic, Parsi and Russian
Extended EPG and Program Reservation through EPG
Teletext Support (OSD and VBI Insertion)
Last Channel Memory Function
Total 5,000 Channels Programmable
Pre-Installed Channels (Option)
Multi-Satellite Search
Various Games with Stereo Sound
CVBS Video & Audio Output via RCA
Component Y/Pb/Pr Output
S-VHS Video Output
Dolby Digital bitstream audio output via S/PDIF
Software & Channel Database Upgrade via RS-232
Multi-picture Display
Zoom Function in Pause
Parental Lock / Installation Lock . Receiver Lock
Universal Remote Control
Smart Card Reader (Option)

Specifications

Power Supply
Type : SMPS
Input Voltage : AC 95V~240v 50Hz/60Hz
Fuse Rating : 250V/T2A
TUNER
Input Connector F-type, IEC 169-24, Female
Loop throughout F-type, IEC 169-24, Female
Frequency Range 950 MHz ~ 2150 MHz
Input Impedance 75 unbalance
Signal Level -65 to -25dBm
LNB Power & 13.5V/18V, max. 400mA
Polarisation
22KHz Tone (22+2) KHz, (0.6+0.2)V
DISEqC Control V1.0/1.2/USALS Compatible Deodulation QPSK
Input Symbol Rate 2 ~ 45 Ms/s
FEC Decoder 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, and 7/8
with Constraint Length K=7

RF Modulator
RF Connector IEC 169-24, Male/Female
Frequency CH 3: 61.25 MHz
CH 4: 67.25 MHz
Output Channel CH 3 / CH 4
TV Standard NTSC-M
Preset Channel CH 3 (or TBD)
Software changeable by Menu

Tuner & Channel Decoder
Input Connector F-type, IEC 169-24, Female
Loop throughout F-type, IEC 169-24, Female
Frequency Range 950 MHz ~ 2150 MHz
Input Impedance 75 unbalance
Signal Level -65 to -25dBm
LNB Power & 13.5V/18V, max. 400mA
Polarisation
22KHz Tone (22+2) KHz, (0.6+0.2)V
DISEqC Control V1.0/1.2/USALS Compatible Deodulation QPSK
Input Symbol Rate 2 ~ 45 Ms/s
FEC Decoder 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, and 7/8
with Constraint Length K=7
Front Panel
3-Keys Channel UP/DOWN, STANDBY
4-Digit 7-SEG Channel No. or Time Display
2-LED STANDBY, REMOTE
MPEG Transport Stream A/V Decoding
Transport Stream MPEG-II ISO/IEC 13818
Profile Level MPEG-II MP@ML
Input Rate Max. 15Mbit/s
Video Formats 4:3 Letterbox, 4:3 PanScan, 16:9
Video Resolution 720 x 576, 720 x 480
Audio Decoding MPEG/MusiCam Layer I&II
Audio Mode Stereo/ Joint stereo/ Mono
Sampling Rate 32 KHz, 44.1 KHz and 48 KHz
Power Supply
Input Voltage AC 90 ~ 250V, 50/60Hz
Type SMPS
Power Consumption Max. 20W
Standby Power Max. 8W
Protection Separate Internal Fuse
The input shall have
lighting protection
Main System
Main Processor Conexant Brazos
Memory Flash-ROM: 2MB
SDRAM: 8MB
EEPROM: 256KbROM
Physical Specification
Size (WxHxD) 260mm X 54mm X 232mm
Weight (Net) 1.8Kg
Operating Temperature 0 Celsius ~ +45 Celsius
Storage Temperature -10 Celsius ~ +70 Celsius
Audio & Video Data IN/OUT
Video CVBS Video Output (RCA)
S-Video Output (Mini-DIN)
Y/ Pb/ Pr Video Output (RCA)
Audio L/R RCA (Volume and Mute Control) x 2
AC-3 Dolby Digital (RCA)ital
(RCA)ital (RCA)

Dreambox not reading a card?

Dreambox not reading a card?
Hi i hope some one will know what is going on.
I did brough a brand new dreambox 500s not clone.
As far as i have been told dreamboxes reading all of encryptions with cardreader.
I have UPC Direct (0.8W) card and satellite is on thor i can scan for channels. But
Problem is i Cant get it work. It is on Common Interface with bluepannel. On gemini Image.
But card is activated i made sure it is before i have done anythink.
Im turning a scrambled program on and as far i plug card into reciever it should descramble it yea? but nothinks happen i dont know does dreambox work with cryptoworks cards. Please help. Thanks a lot.
That is Cryptoworks for sure. On oryginal upc box is working but not on my dreambox  i dont know even how to check if it is loaded this card or not.

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[SOLVED] Problem was with that the card on Dreambox 500s have to be plugged in up-side down, LOL i did not even released to try on that way.. working now, Thanks a lot anyway!
Well i am totally new user of Dreambox'es. Never have been using it before. But seriously who could think about up-side down orientation of reader.  same as a human would walk by hands xD. That's why i was confused. I did tried 100's of images to get a card working over three days, morning to evening.. never been even think about turn a card up side down. That wos the reason to get in touch by proffesionals  Who did or trying to help. But thanks for TRY
If you have been paying for a commercial (paid for) card share or a receiver with a "gift"then its your own fault if you get caught and you wont get any sympathy on any forum if the local police come asking awkward questions..
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dream elite image dm8000

The Dream Elite staff after receiving so many request for the new image has decided to release a beta version to involve all our users into the testing stage.
Our very new born team has been working hard to provide the Dream Multimedia comunity a user friendly image focusing mainly on stability.wholesale
We are ready to listen to any proposal and taking in account any positive or negative feedbacks, as we want improve our image to use the full potential of our decoders.
Our team is associated with DMM and we only support their original products, any suggestion or reference to a non original product will not be taken in consideration and will be immediately removed from this board.
We are still working to improve our image and we will release a final version soon, hoping to implement your suggestion..
Main features of the Dream Elite 2.0

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Lo staff DREAM ELITE vista la richiesta da parte di tanti user, ha deciso di rendere pubblica la prima versione BETA della propria immagine.
Il team, nato solo pochi mesi fa, ha cercato di dare alla comunita' Dream Multimedia una immagine con due caratteristiche principali, una notevole stabilità e una grande semplicità di utilizzo. Questo per rendere l' utilizzo immediato e intuitivo, ovvero "user friendly". Naturalmente ci aspettiamo vostri suggerimenti, feedback e anche critiche, in quanto crediamo che saranno costruttivi, ma sopratutto ci aiuteranno a migliorare e sfruttare al massimo le potenzialita' dei nostri decoder.
Come ben sapete, la board supporta unicamente i decoder Dream Multimedia originali, pertanto tutto quello che verrà scritto sulla nostra immagine con riferimento a decoder non originali (c l o n i) non sarà preso in considerazione, anzi, verra' cancellato. Vi chiediamo, cortesemente, di fare riferimento ai soli decoder originali Dream Multimedia. Il team sta comunque continuando a lavorare sul miglioramento dell'immagine e a breve sara' pubblicata una versione finale che potrà essere implementata anche grazie ai vostri consigli.
Dopo questa breve premessa, passiamo alla presentazione e alle caratteristiche della Dream Elite 2.0
Enigma2 CVS date
20110217
Drivers date
20110510
Second Stage
#83

Main Function

Button OKx1 = Infobar Light
Button OKx2 = Infobar Extra
Button Blue = Dream Elite Manager
Button Blue x2 = Dream Elite Addons Manager
Button Blue-Long-Push = Extensions
Button Blue+Yellow = Script Executer
Button Blue+Green = Url Cript
Button Red = Start Record
Button Yellow = Time Shift
Button Green-Long Push = Plugins Browser
Button Green+Red = Extensions Menagement
Addons
Dedicated Addons Server
Download and install additional packages from DE
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tuxboxcomand load to gemini,how to

tuxboxcomand load to gemini,how to.
I have forget the password, so i am interesting to loud tuxboxcomand at gemini image.How to ?Thanks.
ABOUT THE FORUM FROM YOU HELPS ME TO FIND IN ONE password? DreamBox 500 S. Mud DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM THE PAR DreamBox password is not correct AKA ANY way to find Password ME OR TELNET FTP password not knowing unscented
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DM7020

Powerful receiver for digital TV and Radio programs.

Main features are a 250 MHz PowerPC (350 Mips), Linux OS and the dreambox DM7020 supports standard Linux API

• 10/100MBit compatible Ethernet Interface
• DSL communication port
• embedded analoge modem

technical features

• 50 MHz PowerPC Processor
• Enigma, Linux Operating System
• Big-size LC-Display
• MPEG-2 Hardware decoding, DVB-S
• 1 x DVB Common-Interface Slot
• 2 x Smartcard-Reader (Dreamcrypt CA)
• V.24/RS232 Interface
• Integrated Compact Flash Slot
• 10/100 MBit compatible Ethernet Interface
• analog modem
• 1 x USB
• S/PDIF Interface for digital bit stream out (AC-3)
• 2 x Scart-interfaces
• RF modulator
• Audio/Video cinch out
• 32 MByte Flash, 96 MByte RAM
• integrated IDE Interface
• Support for internal IDE HDD 3,5" in any capacity
   
• unlimited channel lists for TV/Radio
• channel-change time < 1 second
• automatic service scan
• directly bouquet-lists
• EPG (electronic program guide)
• Videotext Decoder
• multiple LNB-Switching control (DiSEqC)
• OSD in many languages and skin-support

DreamBox DM7020 technical data

DBS-Tuner:
Frequency Range 950 . 2150 MHz
Signal Level - 65 dBm . - 25 dBm
Signal-to-Noise Level 12 dB max.
DBS-Tuner Input Connector F-Type female
Input Impedance 75 Ohm
AFC +/- 3 MHz
Demodulation Shaped QPSK
FEC Viterbi and Reed-Solomon
Viterbirate 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8
Roll-off Factor 35 %
Demultiplexing according ISO 13818-1
Common-Interface:
Common-Interface Power Consumption max. 0,3A/5V
Video decoder:
Video Compression MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 compatible
Video Standard PAL G/ 25 Hz
Video Formats 4:3 / 16:9
Letterbox for 4:3 TV-Device
Audio decoder:
Audiokompression MPEG-1 &mp; MPEG-2 Layer I and II
Audio Mode Dual (main/sub), Stereo
Frequency: 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 16 kHz, 22.05 kHz, 24 kHz
Output analog:
Output Level L/R 0,5 Vss on 600 Ohm
THD > 60 dB (1 kHz)
Crosstalk < -65 dB
Output digital:
Output Level 0,5 Vss on 75 Ohm
Sampled Data Filtering 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz
S/PDIF-Output optical (AC3)
Video parameter:
Input Level FBAS 1 Vss +/- 0.3 dB on 75 Ohm
Teletext filter in conformity with ETS 300 472 Standard>
TV-Scart:
Output: FBAS, RGB, S-Video over OSD selectable

VCR-Scart:
FBAS
Serielle Interface RS 232:
Typ RS232 bidirectional
Bitrate 115,2 kBit/s max.
Plug Connector SUB-D-9
Function: Update of Firmware
Ethernet:
10/100 MBit compatible interface
Function Update of Firmware
USB:
USB 1.2 connector
Mini DIN:
I2C for steering of external devices
IR funktion
 
Pins:
  1    5V
  2    SDA (I2C-Kanal 2)
  3    SCL
  4    3,3V
  7    GND
  8    IR-Output
  9    GND
UDMA66 IDE Interface:
Intern for connect HDD
Compact Flash - Reader
LNB power and polarisation:
LNB Current 500mA max. ; short-circuit-protected
LNB Voltage vertical < 14V no load, > 11,5V at 400mA
LNB Voltage horizontal < 20V no load, > 17,3V at 400mA
LNB shut-off at Standby-Mode
Count of active satellite position:
DiSEqC 1.0/1.1/1.2 and USALS (Rotor Control)

Power consumption:
< 20W (in operation, horizontal polarization / 400mA LNB current)
< 11W (in operation, no LNB)
< 1W (Deep-Standby-Mode)
Input voltage:
230V / 50 Hz alternating current +/- 15%
Physical specification:
Ambient Temperature +15°C...+35°C
Humidity < 80%
Size (W x D x H): 374 mm x 230 mm x 75 mm
Weight: 1,8 kg  without HDD