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Six Apart poised to assist bloggers hard cash in

Six Apart, the Internet startup that tallies blogging chopine Vox, Movable Type and TypePad, said Monday that it desires to assist bloggers do money from their sites.

Just as in an advertisement network, bloggers will be able to subscribe up and take part in advertisement political campaigns managed by Six Apart.

One of two new concern units, Six Apart Media, will be available to bloggers on Six Apart chopine as well as bloggers using other services.

Six Apart said it acquired Apperceptive, a New House Of York societal mass media agency, as portion of its new strategy, but declined to let on the fiscal footing of the deal. It also is teaming with advertisement federal agency Adify.

"What we've seen is folks who started blogging as a avocation and it have turned it into a career," said Six Apart chief executive officer Chris Alden.

And as blogging is becoming more than mainstream, Six Apart also is starting a concern unit, Six Apart Services, to offer consulting, support and designing services for publishing houses and would-be publishers.

- Ellen Lee
Virtualization coming to mobile phones

Maybe you've heard of virtualization for waiters and computers, the material that assists hardware tally more efficiently and manage multiple operating systems. But what about for mobile handsets?

It's an thought whose clip have come, said VirtualLogix's chief executive officer Simon Peter Richards. He's putting together a software system merchandise that may travel into most hereafter handsets.

A batch of large companies are betting on VirtualLogix, including Intel, Lake Herring Systems and Lone-Star State Instruments, all of which have got invested in the Sunnyvale company.

Motorola said on Monday that it also is investing in the firm, making it the first large telephone maker to back up VirtualLogix.

So why are so many large companies lining up to give VirtualLogix money? Because VirtualLogix is poised to let go of virtualization software system that tin aid bend regular telephones into smart telephones and smart telephones into something even more than robust.

Here's how it works: A maker of, say, a traditional characteristic telephone can put in a thin layer of VirtualLogix software system onto the telephone as it's being manufactured. That lets you to run multiple operating systems off of one set of hardware, essentially sharing the resources in a very efficient manner.

Why would you desire to make this? You could make a telephone that plant off a manufacturer's bequest operating system, but can also back up Linux, which is fast becoming a favourite of mobile developers. Both systems can work side by side seamlessly, without even turning off the phone. A device that mightiness have got been too underpowered to take on advanced mathematical functions can aim to more than smart phone-style abilities using this software.

But it can also assist smart telephones make more.

"I have got a blackberry and an iPhone," I. A. Richards said. "In a virtualized world, there's nothing fillet you from combining those personalities."

Also, you can have got the virtualization software system divider certain functions, making them procure while allowing other countries to be freely used. This mightiness be helpful for information engineering directors who might desire to protect certain information on an employee's phone.

Richards said he anticipates the software system could travel into telephones by adjacent year. He's been talking to Samsung and Nokia and now Motorola. The greatest challenge, he said, is just getting people's caputs around virtualization for mobile phones.

- Ryan Kim