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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's Chrome browser gets do-not-track feature]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google&amp;39's new Chrome extension stores opt-out settings that users have placed with two ad-industry organizations.(Credit:Google)Google just released a new extension for its Chrome browser that will make it easier to avoid ads on the Web. &quot;Keep My Opt-Outs&quot; stores the settings that users lodge with ad industry opt-out programs like the Network Advertising Initiative and the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising in one place, ensuring you don't have to rely on cookies to track those preferences. It's a nod to the Do Not Track movement that has been gaining a little steam, which Google acknowledged in a blog post announcing the extension. &quot;A better &quot;Do Not Track&quot; mechanism is a browser extension that means you can easily opt out of personalized advertising from all participating ad networks only once and store that setting permanently,&quot; wrote Sean Harvey and Rajas Moonka, product managers at Google. The extension can be downloaded here.Mozilla also today released a proposal for allowingFirefox users to avoid ads, or at least ads placed by companies that would agree to Mozilla's ideas.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Evergreen Solar shutters costly U.S. plant]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Freefesed</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Evergreen Solar will close its Massachusetts factory, saying that the U.S. is at a disadvantage in the face of low-cost Chinese solar suppliers. The company yesterday said that its Devens, Mass., plant, a converted military facility, will be shut down by the end of the first quarter of this year. The move will result in 800 lost jobs, leaving about 100 in its Marlborough, Mass.-based headquarters.Evergreen Solar said it needs to close the facility to preserve its cash and remain in line with global solar panel prices. It will continue to make silicon cells in Michigan and in China. Evergreen Solar panels installed at Boston&amp;39's Logan Airport.(Credit:Broadway Electrical)The move is a blow to the efforts by Massachusetts to develop a growing industry around energy. Evergreen Solar was given $58 million in state aid, in the form of tax credits and direct grants. In an interview with the Boston Herald, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said that the state will recoup a significant portion of the investment and that he did not regret the aid Evergreen received over the last four years.Evergreen Solar has a unique &quot;string ribbon&quot; technology for making silicon solar cells and the company continues to lower its product costs, it said in a statement. But the company, which has been struggling financially for some time, cannot stay under manufacturers in China and other regions. It also expects that changes to solar subsidies in Europe could affect industry prices, too.&quot;Solar manufacturers in China have received considerable government and financial support and, together with their low manufacturing costs, have become price leaders within the industry. While the United States and other western industrial economies are beneficiaries of rapidly declining installation costs of solar energy, we expect the United States will continue to be at a disadvantage from a manufacturing standpoint,&quot; said Evergreen Solar president and CEO Michael El-Hillow in a statement.Greentech Media solar analysts said Evergreen Solar is shifting its manufacturing to lower-cost places was needed in order to continue supplying products. &quot;Although painful, shutting down Devens is the right move. For better or worse, Evergreen is now a Chinese wafer manufacturer with a headquarters in MA,&quot; said analyst Brett Prior in an article. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon uses visual search for shoe shopping]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Freefesed</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Amazon&amp;39's new shoe shape feature.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)Amazon has added a visual search component to its shoe shopping service.Starting today, customers can now browse all the shoes available on Amazon by the design of the shoe. The online retail giant hopes that the new feature will help customers find the &quot;styles they want easily and quickly.&quot;Overall, the premise is quite simple. When a person chooses either men's or women's shoes, they will be presented with several different shoe categories. Upon picking the appropriate category, they will find a new filtering option called &quot;shoe shape&quot; that features silhouettes of different shoe types. By clicking one of those options, they will see only those shoes that closely match that silhouette.According to Amazon, the filtering option is based on its own visual search technology. It also uses algorithms from A9, a search subsidiary of Amazon.I took the feature for a spin this morning and was somewhat pleased by its performance. Whenever I chose a silhouette for men's shoes, it returned the best results. Plus, it was quite fast, which made it all the better.However, when searching for women's shoes, I found the feature to be lacking at times. In some cases, I chose a specific shoe type that hardly resembled what I was looking at in the results. It didn't happen every time, but it happened enough for me to realize that some work still needs to be done to make the feature more accurate.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verbatim MediaShare NAS goes Mini]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The new MediaShare Mini NAS server from Verbatim.(Credit:Verbatim)If you like the MediaShare NAS server but are discouraged by its rather large size and heavy weight, there's now an alternative. Verbatim announced today the mini version of the home NAS server, aptly called MediaShare Mini Sharing Station, that's just about one-third the size of the MediaShare. Unlike the MediaShare that comes with built-in storage, the MediaShare Mini manages to stay &quot;mini&quot; by offering only four USB ports, into which you can plug USB external hard drives and turn them into the storage space of the home network storage system. This makes it very similar to the iConnect Wireless Station from Iomega.Other than that, according to Verbatim, the MediaShare Mini offers the same features as the full-size MediaShare NAS server:Remote access: users can access MediaShare Mini over the Internet to upload, download, and manage files, as well as view photos, play music, and watch videos. Photo album sharing: the ability to turn a photo album into a URL to share it with friends over the Internet.Handheld device support: the MediaShare supports theiPhone,iPod Touch,iPad, BlackBerry, Android, Palm Pre, and other smartphones.Social Web site integration: share content via Facebook.Media Streaming: the MediaShare Mini supports all DLNA-compliant media players, such as the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360. It also supports iTunes software. The MediaShare Mini comes with a three-year warranty and is available now. It's slated to cost $90.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kommons Launches Quora-Like Platform To Question Public&nbsp'Figures]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Leveraging on the success of Quora, niche Q&amp;amp'A sites are popping up everywhere. There&amp;'s a Quora for the enterprise, and even a Quora for the legal community. Even Facebook is throwing its hat in the ring with Facebook Questions. Today Kommons is launching as a Q&amp;amp'A site focused on eliciting answers from public figures on Twitter.The platform sits entirely on top of Twitter, so any question your present or follow on the site is Tweeted out (you sign in with your Twitter credentials). The idea of Kommons is to leverage Twitter to form a crowd around a question to a public figure and use that to pressure public figures to answer. You can see examples from Clay Shirky, Jay Rosen, and Jeff Jarvis.One distinction founder Cody Brown makes between Kommons and Quora is that every question on Kommons has a distinct target (a public figure) and only that target can answer the question once it is asked. Brown says this contributes to different dynamics on the site. For example, Brown could use Quora to create an open question and get a good set of guesses on who was at Bin 38 for Angelgate but he&amp;'d use Kommons to put pressure on those angel investors who were apparently at the meeting to publicly state whether they were there. Kommons allows you to pose a question to anyone on Twitter and firmly stands by the assertion that nothing posted to the site can ever be deleted. To me, Kommons sounds almost like a way to bully public figures (through social media) to answer a question. I guess another more-benign way to describe the mechanism behind the site is that Kommons crowdsources questions and answers. Brown says that he still hasn&amp;'t figured out the monetization angle yet. But the idea behind Kommons is compelling and it should be interesting to see if the startup can gain a following. Much of the startup&amp;'s traction will depend on whether public figures will actually respond to the questions posed by Kommons users. CrunchBase InformationKommonsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[TokBox raises $12M to jam Skype into your web browser]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[TokBox, a provider of streaming video conferencing over the web, announced today that it has raised $12 million in a third round of funding and is launching a new set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to embed video conferencing in any web site.The new APIs kill the need to launch a standalone application like Skype or a web application to host a video conference. Any developer can now embed up to 20 participants in a video conference directly into a web page. They can have many more people watching the conversations as well. TokBox is launching the new APIs at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco tomorrow.Using TokBox for something like a speed dating website seems like an obvious application, but there&amp;'s another potential giant target a4&quot; enterprise teleconferencing. Collaboration technology is already incredibly fragmented and in dire need of consolidation. Releasing a teleconferencing API that can be dropped into a site like Yammer a4&quot; a Facebook for businesses a4&quot; could prove to be a huge boon for businesses that have employees strewn across the country.&amp;''People are always invited to go to silo destination sites for video conferencing, and that&amp;'s just not the real world,&amp;'' said Micky O&amp;'Brien, vice president of marketing for TokBox. &amp;''They want to engage with others around an activity, and they want to do it immediately.&amp;''Once video is captured from a web-enabled camera, it&amp;'s sent over to the TokBox servers and compressed. It&amp;'s then streamed to people viewing a website with Flash.While the streaming technology is handled by Flash for now, the APIs are already prepared in a way that TokBox can shift over to HTML5 once the technology is ready, O&amp;'Brien said.To change major settings of a video conference in a website, a TokBox user will have to go back to the source code of the web page. So they can&amp;'t make any significant changes on the fly. But the APIs will allow TokBox users to do things like move around and scale video conferencing windows.TokBox users can also choose to chat with only a select group of people, like Facebook friends. Their conference can&amp;'t be viewed by anyone else, so if users need to have a private conversation they can do so.With this third round of funding, led by DAG Ventures, TokBox has raised a total of $26.4 million. Existing investors Bain Capital and Sequoia Capital also participated in the most recent fundraising round. TokBox is based in San Francisco, Calif. and was founded in 2007.Next Story: Meebo&amp;'s MiniBar offers a new take on website check ins Previous Story: Week in review: Apple&amp;'s daylight saving bugPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: enterprise teleconferencing, video conferencingCompanies: TokboxPeople: Micky O&amp;'Brien          Tags: enterprise teleconferencing, video conferencingCompanies: TokboxPeople: Micky O&amp;'BrienVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Proposed Food Safety Laws A Boon For Clean Tech&nbsp'Companies]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today, the senate voted to work on a bill called the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that would, among other things, require food producers, facilities and distributors in the United States to evaluate hazards more rigorously, undergo more inspections each year and implement preventive measures to keep food pathogen-free.Green tech companies that could benefit from higher standards for food safety provide: tests for e.coli, listeria, salmonella, and the geographic origins of food (IdahoTech, Picarro)' energy-efficient refrigeration (NanoICE, CamFridge)' and inventory management systems (Erply, OpenBravo).With films like Food Inc. and books like Jonathan Safran Foer&amp;'s Eating Animals winning praise for investigations that reveal how commercial food and farming exhausts natural resources, pollutes the air and soil, and hurts human health on a number of levels, the bill seems timely at least.If passed into law, it would empower the Food And Drug Administration to force food recalls. Today, food regulating agencies (the FDA and USDA) negotiate with food business owners who ultimately conduct recalls voluntarily, but are often too late to stop people and animals from getting sick, or too slow and ineffective to stop vast amounts of food waste.According to the author of American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom, about 25% of all food produced domestically is tossed and not eaten each year. The Center For Foodborne Illness Research And Prevention (CFI) reports that 76 million illnesses result domestically from bacterial contamination in food and water yearly, costing more than $10 billion, and leading to 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths.In food safety news this summer, Wright County Egg in Iowa recalled hundreds of millions of eggs contaminated with salmonella. The company&amp;'s owners in 1997 paid a $2 million fine to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for workplace violations' they&amp;'d forced workers to handle manure and dead chickens with their bare hands, among other things. More stringent inspections and food safety laws could make the dirtiest practices of factory farms cost-prohibitive. However, opponents of the senate bill (writing in Grist) believe the bill hurts the small farmer, and gives too much control to the FDA. They also worry that the regulations would cause untenable price hikes on food, thanks to increased fines for violations, and the cost of new technology and talent companies would have to attain and manage to become compliant. A senior consultant with Sparta Systems, Katie Dowling, says the food industry is well overdue for a tech makeover, and food businesses could actually save money by improving operations. Sparta&amp;'s TrackWise application helps highly regulated businessesa4&quot; like food, drug, pharmaceutical and medical device makersa4&quot; manage quality issues.Dowling says: &amp;''One of the biggest technological challenges faced by food manufacturers today is that they have to know where their food was produced, down to the longitude and latitude coordinates where something was grown for any ingredient they use, or product they distribute. If there was cattle next to lettuce, there could be e-coli contamination going on&amp;8230' They need to know where it comes from. Most of the systems food producers and facilities have been using until nowa4&quot; especially as you go back through the supply chain and get down to the farm levela4&quot;&amp;nbsp'they don&amp;'t talk to each other, they don&amp;'t record data in real time, and they dont&amp;' track some of the most important safety data. Smaller farms and food businesses think they can&amp;'t afford technology to do more than a manual report on Excel, but it is far more costly if they lose a major customer because they caused a problem, or if they have to pay fines if they don&amp;'t have appropriate documentation when the FDA shows up for an inspection.&amp;''Dowling believes software and systems that work on mobile devices, or that use temperature controls and sensors in food facilities could be in high demand if the senate bill becomes law. President Obama has expressed his support of the proposed regulation, and in March 2009 launched the Food Safety Working Group to advise him on how to upgrade the U.S. food safety system. Eggs image via: TheMonnieCrunchBase InformationPicarroERPLYSparta SystemsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A cheaper, greener fridge Phononic grabs $10M for thermoelectric cooling]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Phononic Devices has raised $10 million in a second round of financing to make your refrigerator cheaper and more energy efficient.The company plans to do this with its thermoelectric, energy-efficient module (pictured below), which could one day replace traditional refrigerator technology and has potential in other cooling and heating markets. Right now, most refrigerators use large air compressors, which are loud and &amp;''expensive compared to the amount of cooling they provide,&amp;'' said CEO Anthony Atti. Phononic, backed in part by a $3 million government ARPA-E award, wants to replace those with its thermoelectric materials and engineering. The company previously raised a $2 million round.&amp;''The idea is to take advantage of the very same quiet, compact, lack of moving parts [traits] that thermoelectric devices already have, but introduce a materials systems with more efficiency,&amp;'' Atti said.Thermoelectric technology basically harvests energy as heat is transferred from hot to cold. Waste heat can be converted to power, or, conversely, electricity can be used to remove heat for refrigeration or cooling purposes. Waste heat-to-energy isn&amp;'t a new concept, and in fact is capturing the attention of a few companies. GE, for example, last yearacquired Calnetix, a company whose systems can convert waste heat from industrial processes into electricity.Thermoelectrics isn&amp;'t a new thing, but in the past, it has been crippled by cost and low efficiency &amp;8212' it&amp;'s used today for applications like portable heaters. Atti says Phononic&amp;'stechnology can solve those issues with modules that manufacturers can integrate into their products.The company will be using the newly raised funds to create and test prototypes and prepare for commercialization. It plans to bring products to market in 2013.[Top image via Flickr/akeg]Next Story: Disconnect stops websites from tracking you Previous Story: SmartSynch raises $25M for smart grid via cell phone networks, aims for $33M totalPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cooling, energy efficiency, heating, refrigerators, thermoelectric, waste to heatCompanies: Phononic DevicesPeople: Anthony Atti          Tags: cooling, energy efficiency, heating, refrigerators, thermoelectric, waste to heatCompanies: Phononic DevicesPeople: Anthony AttiIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name). Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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