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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hackers target Sony, Nintendo and FBI partner Web site]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The InfraGard Atlanta site was defaced, and a non-English language video was on the front door. Hackers went on a rampage late today, targeting Sony Europe, Nintendo, and the FBI-affiliate InfraGard Atlanta in a series of intrusions and security compromises that appears to have exposed passwords of some Sony and federal government employees.The moves follow reports of hacks hours earlier that involved Acer Europe, Iran, NATO, and the United Arab Emirates.  Sony, whose business units globally have suffered what amounts to about a dozen different computer intrusions already over the past two months, was again targeted. Someone identified as Lebanese hacker Idahc, who targeted Sony Ericsson last week, appeared to have compromised the e-commerce site for professionals owned by Sony Europe and released phone numbers and e-mail addresses for about 120 people, according to The Hacker News. The site, apps.pro.sony.eu, was redirecting to Sony.co.uk.  Sony Europe representatives did not return an e-mail seeking comment late today.  Separately, a hacker group called LulzSec that targeted Sony Music Japan last week, said it hacked into the Web site of InfraGard Atlanta, defaced it and released 180 usernames and passwords of members. InfraGard is an FBI program that serves as a public-private partnership dealing with cybersecurity. The site, InfragardAtlanta.org, which appears in some FBI press releases, was displaying a non-English language video and the banner &quot;Let it flow you stupid FBI battleships.&quot;  Passwords apparently from government agencies including the FBI, the FAA, the USDA, and the Nuclear Regulatory commission appeared in the public data dump. &quot;All of them (log-ins) are affiliated with the FBI in some way,&quot; the group said in a statement. &quot;Most of them reuse their passwords in other places, which is heavily frowned upon in the FIB/Infragard handbook and generally everywhere else too.&quot;  LulzSec said it took the action because of a plan by the Obama administration to classify cyberattacks as acts of war.  The group also released e-mails of an InfraGard member whose personal Gmail account and corporate Google Apps account used the same password. Karim Hijazi, chief executive of Unveillance, confirmed the attack to CNET. He said the hackers had threatened to go public with his data if he didn't provide information his firm collects from customers about compromised computers and command-and-control servers that is used to neutralize botnets. He said he had reported the intrusion and alleged extortion to the FBI and that the only harm was that his personal and work e-mails were exposed.  &quot;In spite of these threats, I refused to pay off LulzSec or to supply them with access to this sensitive botnet information,&quot; he said in a statement that was later posted on the company's Web site. &quot;Had we agreed to provide this data to them, LulzSec would have been able to grow the size and scope of their DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack and fraud capabilities.&quot;  LulzSec later disputed the extortion allegation in a statement and accused Hijazi of offering to pay the hackers to destroy his competitors and seeking their help in finding &quot;enemy&quot; botnets and botnet trackers. &quot;To clarify: it was not our goal to extort anything from Karim at @Unveillance--we were merely testing if he would fold or not,&quot; the group said in a Tweet, followed by another: &quot;The goal was to get him into a position of wanting to fold to extortion, and then exposing that weakness publicly. :D&quot; Unveillance had contributed to a report entitled &quot;Cyber Dawn: Libya&quot; from the nonprofit Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI) that is available for download from the CSFI Web site. LulzSec apparently came across e-mails pertaining to that research and claimed in its statement to have &quot;uncovered an operation&quot; involving the U.S. government funding CSFI &quot;to attack Libya's cyber infrastructure,&quot; but it was not possible to independently confirm this. &quot;In light of recent NATO actions to protect Libyan civilians, the primary media focus has been placed on the elimination of Libyan military equipment that has been, or could be, used to suppress and oppress, through the use of lethal force, the civilian population,&quot; says the unclassified report. &quot;It is hoped that the analysis and research presented in this report will increase awareness of cyberwarfare as both a threat to be aware of, and an effective tool that if used appropriately, may expedite the resolution, or reformation to a postconflict and stable Libya by a reduced loss of civilian life and minimal negative impact to global economic stability.&quot;  Representatives from CSFI did not return an e-mail seeking comment late tonight.  LulzSec released Internet Relay Chat logs that Hijazi confirmed were communications between him and several members of the group. In them, the hackers bully and toy with Hijazi, who was using the alias &quot;moondog,&quot; offering to help him and his firm in exchange for information such as &quot;government portal/info searches&quot; or &quot;inside FBI alerts.&quot; At one point, Moondog says he provided CSFI information about compromised hosts in Libya. &quot;I didn't know the intent and was in marketing mode,&quot; Moondog says. &quot;I am truly starving guys.&quot;  In his statement, Hijazi released an excerpt from an IRC log with the group in which one of the hackers says &quot;The point is a very crude word: extortion... Let's just simplify: you have lots of money, we want more money.&quot;  Separately, LulzSec released data it identified as a Nintendo configuration file, typically used to configure Web server or other settings and not considered a serious data breach.  &quot;We're not targeting Nintendo. We like the N64 too much--we sincerely hope Nintendo plugs the gap. This is just for lulz. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Recycled plastic ties coming to some U.S. railroads]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jasmine01</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[M1A1 70-ton tank crossing a bridge at Camp Mackall in North Carolina made from Axion's recycled plastics material.(Credit:Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army/Dawn Elizabeth Pandoliano)The U.S. railroad is about to get a minor makeover.Axion International has won a $15 million contract to make railroad ties made from recycled plastic, the company announced yesterday.The railroad ties will specifically be made of Recycled Structural Composite (RSC), the signature recycled plastic composite developed by Axion in conjunction with Rutgers University. RSC is a thermoplastic composite produced from 100 percent recycled consumer plastics (such as milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles) and industrial plastic waste.Axion's deal to provide replacement railroad ties over the next three years is with an unnamed company purported to be &quot;one of the largest railroads in North America,&quot; according to a recent SEC filing by the company.About 20 million railroad ties per year are replaced in the U.S. by the railroad industry as a whole, according to Axion. But that could change once these replacement ties are in place, as Axion claims its RSC railroad ties are longer-lasting than typical creosote-treated wood railroad ties.The New Jersey-based company got the chance to publicly prove the strength of its plastics after scoring an almost $1 million contract in 2009 to make bridge parts from recycled plastic for the U.S. Army at Fort Eustis in Virginia. A now famous photo of a heavy U.S. military tank crossing the recycled plastic bridge made its way around the Internet at the time, gaining attention. The bridge spanned 40 by 80 feet, and had a high-load rating of 130 tons. Since then, Axion has been commissioned for two more bridges, the most recent one announced last month for U.S. Army's Camp Mackall installation at Fort Bragg, N.C. The company provides the bulkheads, pilings, I-beams, I-beam girders, and ties for the bridges.&quot;Axion's RSC is inert and contains no toxic materials. It will not leach, nor warp and is impervious to insect infestation. Because it is lighter than traditional materials, transporting RSC is less expensive and reduces energy costs,&quot; Axion said in a statement.The plastic railroad ties themselves are also recyclable, according to Axion.&quot;This contract represents our first sizable order in the domestic rail tie market and the entire management team is extremely proud of this achievement,&quot; Axion President and CEO Steve Silverman said in a statement.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More details about sale of Apple, Dell secrets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jasmine01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=more-details-about-sale-of-apple-dell-secrets</guid>
<description><![CDATA[CNET has obtained a copy of the FBI's complaint against four men who had access to vital trade secrets belonging to such tech companies as Apple, Dell, and AMD, and are accused of repeatedly violating securities laws by selling this information to hedge funds, according to the FBI. Shame shame: Decade's 10 biggest tech scandals (images) As a result of a sophisticated sting operation that involved wiretaps and recorded phone conversations, FBI agents have arrested the four men on a score of charges that include securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy. The government's complaint, filed this week with U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses the suspects of acquiring and selling a shocking amount of trade secrets involvingApple's iPad,iPhone, andiPod, as well as sales figures, sales projections, and revenue data for the other companies. The government alleges that the case centered on Primary Global Research, a company that sold consulting services to investors about the tech industry. The government accuses James Fleishman, a exec at the Mountain View, Calif.-based company, of creating a reservoir of insider information by paying three men employed at top tech firms. &quot;[Apple,] you know, they're very secretive, right So I don't have an exact time frame but I've concluded we'll start building modules probably in March.&quot;--Walter Shimoon, former Flextronics employeeThose insiders allegedly are Walter Shimoon, (Flextronics International)' Mark Anthony Longoria (Advanced Micro Devices) and Manosha Karunatilaka (U.S. division of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing).The operation was simple, according to a copy of the complaint against the men. Hedge fund managers paid big bucks to Fleishman to speak with the &quot;consultants.&quot; According to the government's complaint, here's a sample of the kind of information--taken from recorded conversations--the hedge funds received for their money: Later in the call [from an October 1, 2009 conversation] Shimoon told [cooperating witness from a hedge fund] that Apple was going to be producing a new iPhone...that would be &quot;coming out early next year,&quot; and that the new iPhone &quot;is gonna have two cameras.&quot; When Shimoon told [the cooperating witness] this information, [the cooperating witness] asked when the new iPhone was coming to market. Shimoon replied: &quot;I was being asked the same question by my boss this morning. Um, cause we're working with them on the camera. They [Apple] you know, they're very secretive, right So I don't have an exact time frame but I've concluded we'll start building modules probably in March. Um, so you give it one to two months, April, May. So probably sometime in May, um, they'll have a big you know big launch.&quot; Later in the call Shimoon explained, it'll be a neat phone cause it's going to have a five megapixel autofocus camera and it will have a VGA forward facing video conferencing camera.Later in the call Shimoon told [the cooperating witness] about an Apple product in development &quot;[Apple has] a code name for something new,&quot; Shimoon explained. It's totally...it's a new category altogether. And, uh, I speculate, it doesn't have a camera in it, what I figured out. So I speculated that it's probably a reader...something like that...I believe it's called K, K48. You can get fired for saying K48...outside of a meeting that doesn't have K48 people in it. It's important to remember that the above conversation took place about eight months before the iPhone launched in June. Some of what Shimoon spoke about, was by that point being speculated about by the tech press but nothing was certain. And nothing was publicly known about K48, which was Apple's code name for the iPad, the computing tablet Apple launched in April. &quot;I am sending this e-mail as a gentle reminder to all of us that [Flextronics] and Apple are covered under...a nondisclosure agreement.&quot;--Walter ShimoonThe FBI also alleges that Shimoon provided a hedge fund employee with a sales forecast for the iPhone 4. AMDThe FBI accuses Longoria of selling out his own employer. On July 21, 2009, the FBI alleges that Longoria, 44, told a cooperating witness, who at that time worked for a hedge fund, that he worked with AMD's processors and was privy to such information as forecasts, build plans, and original equipment manufacturers and boasted that he had &quot;quite a bit of insight into how things are trending.&quot; Longoria told the hedge fund employee that demand for AMD's products were strong and to prove it Longoria told the man he would &quot;rattle off some numbers...because I have my report.&quot; The FBI alleges that Longoria provided the hedge fund employee with specific sales figures for sales of desktop PCs, notebooks, servers and embedded processors to the hedge fund employee. None of the information had been made public, the FBI said in its complaint. Longoria also gave up revenue figures, according to the FBI. He allegedly told the hedge fund employee that he thought revenue for the then upcoming quarter would be $1.18 billion. The hedge fund employee allegedly asked if Longoria was confident in that number and Longoria responded: &quot;Yes, I've got a buddy that works in finance that, uh, gives, uh, me all the nitty gritty details, probably more than I understand.&quot;According to the Associated Press, a U.S. magistrate judge ordered Longoria released on $50,000 unsecured bond. Karunatilaka's bail was set at $250,000, and Shimoon has yet to appear before a judge. Daniel Devore, a former Dell employee, pleaded guilty December 10 to wire fraud and conspiracy charges. The FBI showed that the defendants allegedly knew the kind of information exchange they were engaged in was unlawful. For example, Shimoon sent an e-mail in November 2009 to employees of Apple and those that worked at a specific Flextronics business unit. &quot;I am sending this e-mail as a gentle reminder to all of us that the [Flextronics business unit] and Apple are covered under both a nondisclosure agreement and [Master Development and Supply Agreement] This...will protect the work we have done with them up until now as well as the joint work we are doing with Apple...on process improvements for the [next generation] of iPhone.&quot;  Shimoon Et Al Complaint                  Greg Sandoval     Full Profile E-mail Greg Sandoval   E-mail Greg Sandoval If you have a question or comment for Greg Sandoval, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for CNET News. He is a former reporter for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GameStop: Kinect 'in short supply' for the holidays]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=gamestop-kinect-in-short-supply-for-the-holidays</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jasmine01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&amp;39's Kinect will be in short supply this holiday season.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)GameStop isn't pulling any punches with its expectations of product supply this holiday season.Speaking to investors during an earnings call yesterday, GameStop president Tony Bartel said that customers shouldn't wait to get their hands on Kinect, Microsoft's motion-gaming peripheral that allows users to control on-screen action with only body movement.&quot;[Kinect] will be a hot item through the holiday season and the key opportunity will be just to continue to keep them in stock,&quot; Bartel said during the call, according to a transcript provided by SeekingAlpha. &quot;So, whenever consumers do see Kinect and they want Kinect for the holiday season, they should pick it up because it will be in short supply in the holiday.&quot;Bartel went on to say that Sony'sPlayStation Move will also be &quot;in short supply&quot; during the holiday season.He wouldn't provide exact sales figures for either the Kinect or the Move, but he did say that GameStop was seeing that Kinect Sports and Dance Central were the most coveted titles among Kinect buyers.In Bartel's estimation, according to the SeekingAlpha transcript, demand could rise high enough that this holiday season might match that of theWii's initial launch when customers followed UPS and FedEx trucks to stores to ensure they could get their hands on Nintendo's platform.&quot;[With] the Wii phenomenon, we had customers following UPS trucks to our store,&quot; Bartel said, according to SeekingAlpha's transcript. &quot;I think you are going to have the exact same thing with new [Move] controllers and with the Kinect Bundle that goes out. I think you are going to have consumers following the UPS truck to our stores to pick up that product as soon as they can find it.&quot;Finally, Bartel said that GameStop's in-stock guarantee on its products will not apply to the Kinect this holiday season.Bartel's comments on the Kinect seem to follow what Microsoft has been saying. Microsoft revealed earlier this week that it sold 1 million Kinect units in the device's first 10 days of availability. It took Sony's PlayStation Move 30 days to reach that figure. Moreover, Microsoft said earlier this week that it's currently on pace to sell 5 million Kinect units by the end of the year.Microsoft did not immediately respond to request for comment on how it plans to maintain supply to meet demand this holiday season.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Electronics recycling: Dealing with skeletons in the closet]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jasmine01</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=electronics-recycling-dealing-with-skeletons-in-the-closet</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With America Recycles Day coming around on Monday, it's a good time to consider the impact of digital technology on waste.It doesn't require too much imagination. Just visualize the obsolete cell phones, computers, TVs, modems, and tangle of wires sitting somewhere in your home--I suspect many of us have electronic stuff that's basically just baggage. The EPA estimates that nationwide there were 2.25 million U.S. tons of PCs, peripherals, TVs, and phones discarded in 2007, and e-waste is the fastest growing category of waste.Now, think about what this tech equipment is made of. More than 1,000 materials go into the making of electronics, some of which are nasty chemicals, according to the Electronics Takeback Coalition. Heavy metals, including lead, mercury, and cadmium, are standard fare for the insides of TVs, computers, and other electronics, as well as brominated flame retardants in computers. There are health risks during the production of these goods, but the greatest potential health impact is at the end of life, according to ETC. So to avoid getting these toxins from leaching at landfills or being burned at incinerators, it's important to recycle or donate them.So what do you do The first step is to collect and recycle the electronics you already have. That's getting easier to do, with more drop-off locations and online tools. But a lot more can be done, both to keep bad stuff out of the landfills and to reclaim valuable metals. In 2007, about 18 percent of TVs and PCs were recycled, and about 10 percent of cell phones were, according to the EPA.The Electronics Takeback Coalition last month released its annual report card on how different consumer electronics and computer companies fare in their efforts to take back and recycle electronics. No company in any category got an &quot;A&quot; grade, and with the exception of Hewlett-Packard, printer companies in particular have a long way to go, it said.Get the e-junk outCell phones are probably the easiest thing to donate or recycle, since many manufacturers will pay for shipping to return old phones and many stores now offer drop-off bins. Recellular will pay for your old phone and has handy instructions for how to erase personal data. Here is a list of few places where you can donate old phones. If it's too old to be refurbished, you can drop it off for recycling at stores, such as Radio Shack, Best Buy, Office Depot, and Staples. You can also try Call2Recycle, which lists places to recycle cell phones and batteries.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[London Tube stations start rolling out Wi-Fi]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jasmine01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=london-tube-stations-start-rolling-out-wi-fi</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Crave UK)The dream of a London Underground network that's totally Internet-connected is getting a step closer to reality, as BT announced that Charing Cross would be the first Tube station to have Wi-Fi access. The service is due to start today and will be trialed for six months, allowing people to log on to the Internet from Charing Cross ticket hall area, as well as the Northern and Bakerloo line platforms. There won't be access in the actual trains, apart from a few seconds when the doors are open--or if your train is stuck.Read more of &quot;Charing Cross is the first London Tube station to receive Wi-Fi&quot; at Crave UK. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is China a supercomputer threat (Q&A)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jasmine01</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=is-china-a-supercomputer-threat-qa</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jack Dongarra, a professor at University of Tennessee&amp;39's department of electrical engineering. China&amp;39's supercomputer is a &amp;39'wake-up call.&amp;39'(Credit:University of Tennessee)With China expected to officially take the supercomputer performance crown next month, I asked an expert about the state of supercomputing in the U.S. and whether China poses a long-term threat to the United States' current preeminence in supercomputing. Nvidia announced yesterday that its chips are powering the &quot;Tianhe-1A&quot; Chinese supercomputer that achieved 2.507 petaflops, beating a U.S.-based system that is currently ranked No. 1 on the June Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world. The Chinese system is a unique hybrid design that uses approximately 7,000 Nvidia graphics chips along with 14,000 Intel Xeon CPUs. The graphics chips are what give the system the extra oomph to catapult it into the top supercomputer spot. I spoke with Jack Dongarra, university distinguished professor at University of Tennessee's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and part of a group from the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and Georgia Tech that recently purchased a hybrid system. It is important to note that Oak Ridge houses the supercomputer, dubbed &quot;Jaguar,&quot; cited above that is currently ranked No. 1 in the world based on the Top500 June list: it is not a hybrid system.Q: Does Oak Ridge have anything analogous to the Chinese hybrid systemDongarra: Oak Ridge has a small version of a machine that is hybrid in nature. So, this is an acquisition that just took place...out of a grant from the National Science Foundation. It involved Oak Ridge National Labs, University of Tennessee, and Georgia Tech. But it's much, much smaller than the Chinese system. The machine is in place and testing is being carried out at Oak Ridge. A node has two Intel Westmere chips and three Nvidia Fermi boards. There are  120 nodes in the system. What makes the Chinese supercomputer so fastDongarra: The Chinese designed their own interconnect. It's not commodity. It's based on chips, based on a router, based on a switch that they produce. Is that in essence the secret sauce Dongarra: It's similar to Cray. Cray's contribution, besides the integration and software, is the interconnect network. They have a very fast interconnect that makes that machine perform very well. Though [the Chinese] project is based on U.S. processors, it uses a Chinese interconnect. That's the interesting part. They've put something together that is roughly twice the bandwidth of an InfiniBand interconnect [which is used widely in the U.S.] Will the Chinese system in fact take the No. 1 spot on the Top500 list in November Dongarra: Yes. I saw the machine. I saw the output. It's the real thing. Why doesn't Oak Ridge do what the Chinese are doing Dongarra: Oak Ridge doesn't have the ability or technology to develop an interconnect or a router. We don't make computers. We buy computers and use them. It's not within our scope or mission to be in the computer design business. What's your advice Dongarra: You have to remember that you have to not only invest in the hardware. It's like a racecar. In order to run the race car, you need a driver. You need to effectively use the machine. And we need to invest in various levels within the supercomputer ecology. The ecology is made up of the hardware, the operating system, the compiler, the applications, the numerical libraries, and so on. And you have to maintain an investment across that whole software stack in order to effectively use the hardware. And that's an aspect that sometimes we forget about. It's underfunded. We fund the hardware but we don't fund the other components. The ecosystem tends to get out of balance because the hardware tends to run far ahead of what we can develop in terms of software. We have machines that have a tremendous level of parallelism. We currently have a very crude way of doing programming. Who would do that Dongarra: The research is performed under the auspices of the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense. Is this a red flag for the U.S. Dongarra: Yes, this is a wake-up call. We need to realize that other countries are capable of doing this. We're losing an advantage. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Breezy raises $750K for easy mobile printing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jasmine01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Breezy, a mobile startup that helps users print and fax documents from their phones, just announced that it has raised $750,000 from big-name investors.I last wrote about the Oakland, Calif. company in December, under its old name, BreezyPrint. Founder and chief executive Jared Hansen told me he changed the name because he doesn&amp;'t want to be limited &amp;8212' the app already allows users to fax as well as print documents from their phone, and Hansen said he&amp;'s interested in adding a scanning feature too.It&amp;'s pretty easy to see why the app might be useful &amp;8212' if you do a lot of work on your phone, particularly reading emails, then it can be a pain to have to switch to your computer when you need to print something out. Breezy removes the intermediate step, and Hansen has estimated that the app can save seven minutes in the process. (Hansen is a former corporate lawyer, and he said he created in the app out of frustration with the lack of a print feature on the BlackBerry.)The bigger question is whether Breezy can turn into a viable business, especially when it&amp;'s competing with built-in features like AirPrint on the iPhone. For a consumer, the most promising thing about Breezy is probably its partner network, which will allow users to print in hotels, copy shops, and other partner locations. The network hasn&amp;'t launched yet &amp;8212' in part, Hansen said, because he&amp;'s been more focused on fundraising for the past few months.For a business that wants to offer Breezy to its employees, Hansen said Breezy can do more than a service like AirPrint because Breezy works on multiple devices (BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone right now, with an iPhone app in the works), and because it provides analytics about who&amp;'s printing what, which can be useful for security and controlling costs.The funding comes from well-known investor Jeff Clavier&amp;'s firm SoftTech VC, Accel Partners (whose partner Rich Wong previously invested in successful mobile companies like AdMob and GetJar), and Felicis Ventures (whose founding partner Aydin Senkut invested in mobile startups Erply and Bump, and who is also an investor in VentureBeat).Breezy is a graduate of the Founder Institute, an entrepreneur training program and incubator led by TheFunded&amp;'s Adeo Ressi.Next Story: Nvidia CEO: Mobile computing poised to disrupt PCs and servers Previous Story: Learn more about the convergence of IT and cleantechPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: mobile printingCompanies: Accel Partners, Breezy, BreezyPrint, Felicis Ventures, Softtech VcPeople: Aydin Senkut, Jared Hansen, Jeff Clavier, Rich Wong          Tags: mobile printingCompanies: Accel Partners, Breezy, BreezyPrint, Felicis Ventures, Softtech VcPeople: Aydin Senkut, Jared Hansen, Jeff Clavier, Rich WongAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. 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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<title><![CDATA[Smartdate scores another a4s3.5 million with the PriceMinister boys]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Smartdate announced a a4s2 million round in February of this year so that you could stop poking and start actually dating the friends of your Facebook friends. But now the company is kicking it up a notch and announcing that it&amp;'s raised an additional a4s3.5 million with the fonders of PriceMinster, Pierre Kosciuscko-Morizet and Pierre Krings. Oh, and just in case you forgot, French Ebay competitor PriceMinister went to Rakuten in June for a4s200 million (about $250 million) so maybe that&amp;'s why the founders have a bit of cash to spare.As with a number of French dating sites, like the likes of Adoptaguy and Meetic, Smartdate is rapidly developing and already has a 25 person team in place. The Paris-based company founded earlier this year is very similar to Zoosk in that it is basing its online dating service on Facebook, although there&amp;'s no Zoosk-like application for users to install directly on Facebook. Smartdate has users connecting via Facebook Connect and requires that you be at least 18 in order to access the Smartdater community. In addition, you have to be willing to share your height.Smartdate&amp;'s site &amp;8211' currently available in 6 languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German) &amp;8211' also physically looks like Facebook in many ways with a central newsfeed on the user&amp;'s homepage, status updates and a recommendation tool called &amp;''Smartmatch&amp;'' (photo). In the same way that Pandora radio gets smarter the more you use it, Smartmatch also tries to understand your taste &amp;8211' you pretty much just have to say yes or no to the profiles you see. And along the same lines as the Facebook poke, users can send winks to each other.The site counted some 300K members back in July and should be making the 650K mark by the end of this month. According to Alexa, Smartdate also counts more monthly unique visitors than French online dating giant, Meetic, but definitely still has a way to go to reach the number of registered users.There are no surprises in terms of Smartdate&amp;'s Freemium business model' starting at a4s9.99 per month for 12 months, users can buy additional personalization options, unlimited communications features and access confidentiality parameters to control who sees what on their profiles.Having raised a4s5.5 million since the beginning of the year, Smartdate is definitely one of the few newer French startups to have raised so much capital in such a short period of time from France-based investors. Apparently, Kosciusko-Morizet and Kring&amp;'s Kernal Holdings is planning to make further later-stage investments over the next 3 years.CrunchBase InformationSmartdateInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yet Another Hot Startup Leaves A Gaping Security Hole In Its iPhone&nbsp'App]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s no secret that most people are remarkably lax when it comes to online security. They&amp;'ll reuse the same password everywhere, and will connect to open Wi-Fi hotspots without a second thought as to who might be sniffing their traffic (Firesheep, anyone). Which makes it all the more frustrating when startups launch their products without industry-standard security features that help keep consumers a little safer.The most recent offender is Instagram, the hot photo sharing app that managed to get hundreds of thousands of users in a matter of weeks. Unfortunately the app sends its passwords in plaintext, and it&amp;'s doubly bad because it also asks for your Tumblr and Foursquare credentials, which are also sent in the clear.Now, Instagram is hardly the first startup to have this flaw. We&amp;'ve seen identical issues from the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla, and there are surely countless less well-known iPhone applications that commit the same offence. On the other hand, this problem was making headlines only three months ago, and yet again we have another application with hundreds of thousands of users that made security a secondary priority. This sort of thing really needs to stop, especially as hacking tools like Firesheep make stealing this kind of data easier than ever.Instagram says that the issue has already been resolved in its next release, which sends password information via SSL for both your Instagram account and any third-party services (the company expects Apple to approve it in the next day or so). We considered holding this post until after that update was approved so as to minimize any possible abuse of the exploit, but this flaw has actually been listed on the company&amp;'s GetSatisfaction page since November 4, and was one of the top stories on Hacker News over the weekend. In other words, the &amp;8216'bad guys&amp;' already know about it, but consumers may not.Let&amp;'s hope other startups stop making the same mistake. No, Instagram, and even Foursquare, aren&amp;'t sharing information that&amp;'s especially sensitive (after all, many people broadcast their posts to the public). But when so many people reuse their passwords everywhere, that isn&amp;'t a good enough reason to put security second.CrunchBase InformationInstagramInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: GE to buy 25,000 electric cars, Ascent Solar raises $20M in public offering]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Here are the top cleantech stories today on the GreenBeat:GE will buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 in the largest order of its kind. It&amp;'s purchasing 12,000 cars &amp;8212' including the Chevrolet Volt &amp;8212' from GM, and some of the cars will be used for leases in the GE Capital unit, BusinessWeek writes.Thin-film photovoltaic solar company Ascent Solar announced a public offering of common stock yesterday at $4.15 per share. The company offered 5.25 million shares last night which are expected to net a little over $20 million. The share prices have slipped in trading, Forbes writes.GE has pledged $2 billion to the Chinese cleantechindustry, CleanTechnica writes. Half a million will go toward research and development, and $1.5 billion will go toward joint ventures in technology and financial service.SunPower&amp;'s third quarter earnings, announced yesterday, beat analyst&amp;'s expectations and showed rises in revenue and profit.Facebook will be opening a $450 million data center in North Carolina, which will require the center to adhere to greener standards.U.K. green energy company Ecotricity launched an electric sports car, the Nemesis (pictured),that&amp;'s faster than the Ferrari V12 and will run solely on energy generated from wind.The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced it will extend a program that fast-forwards patent applications related to green technology. The extension will hold until the end of the year.Next Story: Nvidia CEO: Oh, the places those magical Android tablets will go Previous Story: Facebook to launch &amp;''Gmail killer&amp;'' webmail on MondayPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: China, cleantech, data centers, electric cars, electric vehicles, green data centers, patents, photovoltaic, Solar, thin-filmCompanies: Ascent Solar, Ecotricity, Facebook, GE, GM, SunPower          Tags: China, cleantech, data centers, electric cars, electric vehicles, green data centers, patents, photovoltaic, Solar, thin-filmCompanies: Ascent Solar, Ecotricity, Facebook, GE, GM, SunPowerIris 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).VentureBeat 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[This isn&'t Pets.com: PetFlow scores $5M for automatic pet food delivery]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jasmine01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[New York-based PetFlow is aware of the stigma around pet-centered startups, but it believes it can avoid the fate of spectacular flameouts like Pets.com. The company announced today that it has landed $5 million in funding from Westwood Ventures.PetFlow offers automatic pet food delivery. The company offers flat-rate $4.95 shipping for any order over $20, and it offers simple tools to let you easily choose food, treats, litter, and other pet supplies. Once you&amp;'ve built your order, you can schedule it to automatically ship to you every 2 to 14 weeks.The site has over 70 brands of pet food and treats (thankfully, it has all of my spoiled cat&amp;'s favorite stuff). The benefits of a service like PetFlow are obvious to anyone who has had to lug hefty bags of litter and food home in the rain, while using public transportation. Best of all, you&amp;'ll never have to deal with trekking to a store only to find that your pet&amp;'s brand of food isn&amp;'t in stock. The company tells us that most of its customers are women above 40, but I honestly have no shame in admitting that I&amp;'m currently preparing an order of my own.PetFlow is definitely eating shipping costs to get large items shipped for $5, but co-founder Alex Zhardanovsky tells us that it&amp;'s not doing anything stupid like selling food below cost. And unlike Pets.com, it doesn&amp;'t have any expensive Superbowl ads on the horizon. Instead, the company is hoping to hook repeat customers. With 80 percent of its customers opting for auto-delivery, PetFlow may be on to something.Photo via XuillaNext Story: On the GreenBeat: A123 posts sharp Q3 losses, Sage gets $80 million for smart building glass Previous Story: ARM promises mobile phone graphics that won&amp;'t stinkPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: eretail, pet food, petsCompanies: PetFlow, Pets.comPeople: Alex Zhardanovsky          Tags: eretail, pet food, petsCompanies: PetFlow, Pets.comPeople: Alex ZhardanovskyDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.VentureBeat 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[Medical comic books for kids explain serious diseases - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Children affected by serious diseases and medical conditions either personally or in their families often don''t really understand those illnesses or the treatments required to fight them. New Zealand-based Kidzcomics aims to change all that with a series of comic books designed to explain medical information for children.The Medikidz series features five superheroes by the same name, each of them a specialist in a different part of the body. With stories designed to be fun and appealing, the comics aim to entertain as well as educate children about serious medical issues. Conditions covered in the Medikidz line so far include leukemia, epilepsy, diabetes, HIV and ADHD, among many others' rather than a4Asugar-coatinga4 the topics, Kidzcomics'' books aim to empower and educate children for better self-management and less fear. All content is written by professional medical writers and doctors and then peer-reviewed.  Pricing is GBP 6.99 per comic book. There are currently more than 50 million children afflicted by illness in English-speaking countries alone, Kidzcomics says. Who will offer something similar in other languages for other parts of the worldWebsite: www.kidzcomics.comContact: www.kidzcomics.com/contacts/Spotted by: Kendall Flutey<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kabbage Gives eBay Sellers Working Capital Through PayPal To Grow Their&nbsp'Businesses]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Many sellers on sites like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon have created profitable small businesses out of opening up online storefronts on these e-commerce platforms. But these storefronts aren&amp;'t conventionally considered small businesses by the financial community and it can be difficult for them to raise working capital from banks. Kabbage is entering the space as a way for online merchants and sellers on eBay and Amazon to get capital they otherwise wouldn&amp;'t qualify for at a bank. Kabbage uses technology to analyze online merchants&amp;' sales and credit history' customer traffic and reviews' and prices and inventory compared to competitors. Via PayPal&amp;'s Adaptive Payments API, Kabbage will make cash advances available to eBay and other online marketplace sellers fairly quickly (Kabbage says that many transactions take as little has ten minutes).Kabbage makes money off of fees charged to merchants for the working capital. Fees depend on how long the online merchant keeps the capital (6 month maximum) and the customer&amp;'s repayment risk. Rates range from 6 percent to 16 percent of the original advance amount. While the startup only supports eBay for now, Kabbage, which has raised $2 million in funding, plans to extend its services to Amazon and Etsy sellers in the near future. It actually seems like a pretty good idea, that is, as long as sellers continue to pay Kabbage back. CrunchBase InformationKabbageInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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