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Despite the proverbial “the customer is always right,” the relationship between the customer and the company has long been organized for the benefit of the latter. But the ability for companies to completely control this relationship has disappeared. Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management , a report from the Altimeter Group released earlier this month, serves to help companies and organizations understand the changing territory.

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‘Breathe Social’: The New Rules of Relationship Management

In a recent conversation here at ReadWriteStart we were talking about what readers want most. Beyond stories about where the latest funding opportunities are found, and beyond wanting to know what startups are doing that works, we know that sometimes our startup readers just want some simple practical advice. Towards that end we’ve posted many a list

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6 ReadWriteStart Lists: Our Best Startup Advice

Panda Security is reporting a second incident of malware on Vodafone’s HTC Magic, a Google Android smart phone. it provide a clear example for how smartphones are prime targets to become botnets once connected to a user’s personal computer. The incidents provide real-world examples of how companies can inadvertently spread malware

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Provider Fail: Vodafone Sells HTC Smartphone Loaded With Malware

The Web has hit a point where tracking pageviews is useless for startups. There was a time when all you needed to succeed on the Internet were lots and lots of eyeballs, and the best way of measuring those eyeballs was by tracking pageviews (measuring exactly which pages on a website are viewed by individual visitors). The dot-com crash showed us that the eyeball-based business model was a failure

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The Death of the Pageview

In the wake of the financial meltdown, a new set of financial regulations proposed by Senator Christopher Dodd aimed at plugging the “too big to fail” loopholes could have some negative side effects for the angel investment community.

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Proposed Financial Regulations Could Cripple Angel Investing

At the RSA Keynote a few weeks back, Amazon’s Security Lead, Steve Riley participated on a panel with other security leaders of the industry. We were impressed with the openness of all of the participants, and particularly excited with the new concepts coming from at Amazon

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Future: Amazon’s ‘Think Clouds’ are Data Aware

It’s far and away one of the most genius concepts we’ve seen in the past year, and we couldn’t possibly be happier for one Min-Kyu Choi. Said designer, who recently graduated from the Royal College of Art, was recently showered with laud after the above-pictured Folding Plug nabbed the gold in the Brit Insurance Design contest. Unfortunately, we’re still no closer to understanding when some moneyed manufacturer will pick this up and start producing it, but hopefully this prize will reinforce its awesomeness and catch someone’s eye.

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UK Folding Plug takes home design award, emerges in USB-infused flavor

While America is trying to figure out how to connect Disney and Vegas with a maglev train, China is going forward with plans to connect a whopping 17 nations with a high-speed rail network. The plan right now is for three major lines: one that connects Beijing to London via the Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel) and continues on to Singapore; a second line that covers Malaysia, Burma, Vietnam, and Thailand; and a third that would bridge China, Russia and Germany to other European railways. And, just when you thought it wouldn’t get crazier: China wants to get this done in the next 10 years.

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China plans massive high-speed train network across Asia and Europe

For years, heat issues have plagued (or have been said to plague) the Xbox 360, with fans and foes alike claiming that they have been a leading cause of the infamous Red Rings of Death. Now, a Chinese forum member has reportedly snapped a picture of an upcoming motherboard, with an integrated CPU and graphics chip. Naturally, if the performance can be maintained, the integrated controller should provide a single thermal hotspot to cool

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"Xbox 360 Slim" May Have Leaked on Chinese Forum

We know, BJ Snowden is an American artist — but since her song “In Canada” is probably on every iPod and computer up north, we have to wonder whether a proposed amendment to the Canadian Copyright act will help her finally get what’s coming to her. The brainchild of the New Democratic Party’s Charlie Angus, the bill would extend 1997’s Private Copying Levy “to the next generation of devices that consumers are using for copying sound recordings for personal use.” Proponents of the plan says that it ensures that artists get paid for their work — essentially, the government wants you to pay upfront for the music you’re likely to steal anyways by taxing your next digital audio player purchase. Of course, much about the plan doesn’t make sense (it doesn’t address digital video, for instance, or the computers that people use to download and store their music in the first place) but we guess we’ll let the Canadian government hash that one out

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Is Canada’s iPod tax back? And if so, will BJ Snowden get her cut?

It’s not much fun grilling burgers in the middle of a snowstorm. That’s why we’d like to plug in this Flama Chakall Grill, place it under our super-powerful range hood that can practically suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, and see if the grill can leave those luscious carbon stripes on our slaughtered animal flesh — no matter what the weather. It’s unclear whether it’s even possible or safe to use this grill inside, but there’s certainly enough power on board to properly fire up those meats — there’s a 2.3kW heating element blazing away under the grates.

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Chakall Grill brings char-broiled goodness inside

At TED2010, Chef Dan Barber drew a standing ovation with his unlikely love story about fish: sustainably farmed, outrageously delicious fish, which offers a model for the future of food production. A key figure in the farm-to-table movement, Dan occupies an unusual space as chef-scholar: His op/eds appear regularly in The New York Times and elsewhere; and he prepares genius menus nightly at his two Blue Hill Restaurants — one in New York City and one at the Stone Barns farm in Pocantico Hills, NY. We caught up with Dan in New York to better understand the meaty issues he raised in his talk

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Q&A with Chef Dan Barber: Can organic farming feed the world?

I would say that the bulk of attention in the industry is paid to the handful of big vendors and multitudes of smaller ones that create products and solutions, and then sell them direct or through partners, and systems integrators. The industry and analysts talk about “the channel”, but don’t talk a lot about the channel, typically because of the vast amount of announcements that require our attention from the big manufacturers, such as the Cisco’s, Avaya’s and IBM’s of the world

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A Look at the Importance of the channel and mobility applications

Google just launched a new stable version of Google Chrome , the company’s increasingly popular browser, which introduces a number of new features and more advanced privacy controls.

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Latest Version of Google Chrome Adds Auto-Translation and New Privacy Features

If you have an HP MediaSmart Server and a TiVo, you’ll be happy to know the two companies just made it a lot easier for you to view video recorded on your TiVo from any Mac or PC on your network. We installed the free HP MediaSmart Expander for TiVo add-on to our MediaSmart Server EX495, and transferred TiVo recordings to the server for playback all over the network. Let’s see how well it works

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TiVo everywhere: MediaSmart Expander moves shows to server

Back in early February, while aboard a red-eye to New York, Dave McClure wrote a long, humorous, rambling, profanity-laden rant of a blog post that focused on startup business models. While it makes for an entertaining read, McClure’s post is also very insightful and makes a solid case for why startups should shift from advertising models and instead build their new businesses on subscriptions and micropayments. Earlier this month I had the chance to visit the headquarters of ZooLoo , a startup that witnessed this very shift first-hand with their own business model

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Micropayments and Subscriptions: How Business Models for Startups are Shifting

You may now be able to choose from a wide assortment of protective screen films at Apple’s online or retail stores, but it looks like that won’t be the case for much longer. As iLounge is reporting from multiple sources (and we have also heard), Apple will apparently stop selling all protective screen film products starting in May.

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Apple said to be pulling all protective screen film products from its stores

Blockbuster is bringing its OnDemand service to both Windows Mobile and Google Android phones, starting March 24th with the launch of the T-Mobile HTC HD2 smartphone. On that device, Blockbuster customers will be able to download and watch new releases directly on their mobile phones while also gaining access to queue management and movie locator tools similar to those found in Blockbuster’s iPhone application. The company has also confirmed that they’re working on an Android app, which is likely to launch on the “select Motorola phones” Blockbuster previously hinted at when they partnered with the handset manufacturer last summer

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Blockbuster Brings New Releases to Android, Windows Mobile Phones

Last night, we asked folks if they’d rather have cash or services (like marketing, development and HR services) to help their early stage startup grow. While our readers’ responses were pretty evenly split, the split between startups that seek capital first far outweigh those that seek to make equity-for-services deals. Also, the number of VC firms (well in excess of 700 in the U.S.

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Why Aren’t There More Venture Services Firms? POLL RESULTS

When Baseline , maker of green irrigation control technology, wanted to created some excitement about its new controller, it turned to custom bike builder Chris Olson. They didn’t know just how edgy a product they’d be getting. “We make the coolest irrigation controllers on the planet, but they basically look like circuit-breaker boxes,” says Jon Peters, director of sales at Baseline

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BaselineX-Series: Now That’s a Badass Sprinkler System