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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Road Trip Pic of the Day, 6/13: What is this]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kethy</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
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<description><![CDATA[If you know what this is and where it is located, you could be eligible to win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day contest.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)Welcome to the Road Trip Picture of the Day contest. This is your chance to win some cool prizes as you test your skills at recognizing pictures.Each day, I'll be posting a new photograph from my various travels, and your job is to try to correctly identify it using any means at your disposal. Throughout Road Trip 2011, which will take me to a number of countries in Western Europe, there will be a new challenge each and every day, and the opportunity to win some great prizes.And now on to today's challenge. If you know what this is and where it's located, please send me an e-mail with both pieces of information (to daniel*dot*terdiman--at--cbs*dot*com) by 6 p.m. Pacific time today. Please note: in order to be considered, you must include the phrase &quot;Picture of the Day challenge&quot; in the subject line of your e-mail. No other methods of entering are guaranteed to be considered.And please forgive me if you don't hear from me if you're not the winner. I get dozens of responses each day. Also, I've turned off comments because otherwise people will post the correct answers there. I hate to shut down discussion, but I want you to figure out the answer on your own. The giveawaysThis year, I'll be giving both a weekly prize and one grand prize at the end of my Road Trip project. Here's how it will work:For the weekly prize, I'll pick a winner at random from among all those who correctly identified one of that week's daily challenges. You get one entry into this drawing for each correct entry you submitted that week. For the grand prize, which is a major brand video game console, the winner will be the person who answers the most daily challenges correctly during the entire project. So there's definitely an incentive to play every day and to answer correctly as often as possible. Be warned: last year, there was no shortage of people who had the right answer most of the time, so the competition for the grand prize will be stiff.Given the constraints of the work I'll be doing on Road Trip, I have to minimize the complexity of the Picture of the Day challenge, so if you want to accumulate right answers and compete for the grand prize, you must use the same e-mail address and name each time. If you use a different name or e-mail address, your answers won't be counted together. For complete information and rules about the Picture of the Day challenge, please click here. Good luck today, and throughout the summer. The disclaimer: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MUST BE A LEGAL RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR D.C., 18 YEARS OLD AND AGE OF MAJORITY OR OLDER IN STATE OF RESIDENCE AT DATE OF ENTRY INTO SWEEPSTAKES. VOID IN PUERTO RICO, ALL U.S. TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. SWEEPSTAKES ENDS 11:59:59 PM PT ON 8/7/11. SEE OFFICIAL RULES FOR DETAILS.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Aging Japan squeezes out another robot baby]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kethy</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=aging-japan-squeezes-out-another-robot-baby</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Babyloid is perfect for caring humanoids. (Credit:Aichi Prefecture)The nightmare of robot babies continues apace in Japan, a rapidly aging society where human babies are going out of style. Babyloid is the latest cyber-tot to spring from the minds of engineers with little apparent regard for how scary their progeny are. (Credit:Aichi Prefecture)Creator Masayoshi Kano of Nagoya's Chukyo University and Ifbot fame has been showing off Babyloid, developed two years ago, in presentations sponsored by the local government. He recently explained the robot in a talk at the Artificial Intelligence Research Promotion Foundation. Inspired by a baby beluga whale, Babyloid is designed to be a therapeutic robot for depressed seniors, similar to Takanori Shibata's robot seal Paro. Studies have suggested that caring for dolls can improve the lives of adults suffering from dementia. Kano's baby is 17 inches long and weighs about 4.8 pounds. It can only move its arms, head, mouth, and eyelids and make little robot baby sounds. LEDs on its face can mimic emotions such as sadness. It has microphones, and optical and pyroelectric sensors to detect people. Babyloid is still a prototype but has been used in a small trial with elderly people in an intensive-care nursing home. Five subjects were evaluated on how they accepted and maintained interest in the machine, and apparently results were positive. Kano apparently wants to sell the robot for roughly $600. Along with Affetto, CB2, Yotaro, and Kindy and Noby, Babyloid reflects Japan's love of making robot babies instead of human babies' the population peaked in 2004 and will contract by about a quarter by mid-century.  Of course, Babyloid will have grown up by then and had kids of its own. (Via Plastic Pals, Robonable) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PS3, iPhone hacker sets sights on Windows phones]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kethy</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ps3-iphone-hacker-sets-sights-on-windows-phones</guid>
<description><![CDATA[LG&amp;39's Quantum, one of the first Windows Phone 7 devices.(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)Although Microsoft gave the team that created theWindows Phone 7 home brew unlocker ChevronWP7 a very friendly &quot;please stop doing this&quot; several months ago, it's gone in a slightly different direction with the infamous hacker who cracked both Sony'sPlayStation 3 and Apple'siPhone wide open. Earlier this week, hacker George Hotz, who is better known as &quot;GeoHot,&quot; announced that he was beginning work on a jailbreak for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform. Shortly thereafter, Brandon Watson--who runs developer platform product management for Microsoft, offered Hotz a Windows Phone over Twitter, saying &quot;geohot if you want to build cool stuff on wp7, send me e-mail and the team will give you a phone--let dev creativity flourish wp7dev.&quot;Microsoft now says the two exchanged a few notes following the tweets.The move marks yet another occasion where Microsoft has publicly--instead of legally--dealt with people who've sought to go around boundaries the company has set up to protect its products. As with the previously mentioned ChevronWP7 tool, which was designed to let users install home brew software on Windows Phones, Microsoft's Watson got in touch with the creators to get them to come to company's Redmond, Wash., headquarters to talk about bringing such functionality to the platform. In return, the ChevronWP7 team agreed to take their tool down. There's also Kinect, Microsoft's hot-selling accessory for the Xbox 360, which tinkerers cracked open a few days after its release. In that case, Microsoft originally threatened the strong arm of the law, before relenting and admitting during a radio interview that, on an hourly basis, the team was receiving videos of &quot;cool, neat, creative experiences&quot; people had tinkered together. Besides the PS3, Hotz is famous for developing a number of jailbreaks for Apple's iOS devices, as well as a tool that would let iPhone users unlock the device for use on multiple phone carriers. Though last July, Hotz said he would be &quot;retiring&quot; from further iOS hackery, citing that people were taking his work too seriously and that it had just been a hobby' even so, Hotz continued to put out beta releases of his &quot;limera1n&quot; iOS jailbreaking tool. More recently, Hotz's involvements have centered around Sony's PS3. Hotz created a software tool that would let users re-enable the &quot;other OS&quot; option, which Sony had removed as part of a system firmware update. Sony, in turn, took legal action against Hotz, claiming that Hotz's jailbreak violates both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud Abuse Act. Last week Hotz appeared on G4TV's Attack of the Show to discuss Sony's restraining order against him, which was filed earlier this month. Hotz argued that while Sony was going after him because the company viewed his tool as an exploit that would allow game piracy, his tool had been designed only for home brew applications. Assuming those are Hotz's intentions with Windows Phone 7 platform, we could see an alternative to Microsoft's Marketplace application akin to what ChevronWP7 first promised. The real question is whether Hotz will follow Microsoft's lead and play nice, or if he'll try to crack the company's newest smartphone platform wide open.  Update at 12:10 p.m. PT: A Microsoft spokesperson further elaborated on the company's exchange with Hotz, saying: &quot;Brandon Watson and GeoHot exchanged a few notes following Brandon's Twitter posting yesterday. They discussed providing GeoHot with a device. Microsoft in deeply invested in sustaining strong relationships with a wide range of developers and enthusiasts and are always interested in what we can learn from those communities.&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Opera 11 joins the add-ons club]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kethy</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=opera-11-joins-the-add-ons-club</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mobile Opera may be driving the Norwegian browser company's growth, but that doesn't mean that the desktop browser is getting ignored. Debuting today, Opera 11 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, has only gotten more stable since the beta version of the browser launched last month. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SAP witness: You owe Oracle $40M and me $14M]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=sap-witness-you-owe-oracle-40m-and-me-14m</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kethy</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=sap-witness-you-owe-oracle-40m-and-me-14m</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says SAP owes it $4 billion in damages for infringing its intellectual property. Paul Meyer, Oracle's damages expert, puts that sum at about $1.7 billion.And SAP damages expert Stephen Clarke argues it shouldn't be more than $40.6 million. This is ironic considering SAP paid Clarke's firm $14 million in fees to determine how much the company owes Oracle for infringing its IP. That's more than 25 percent of the $40.6 million figure that Clarke ultimately determined that SAP owes Oracle (and $10 million more than the fee that Oracle's damages expert collected for testimony).According to Clarke, calculating damages accurately requires a certain detached objectivity. Evidently it comes at a price. &quot;There's no anger or punishment allowed,&quot; Clarke said yesterday. &quot;What happened as a result of that infringement is what matters. The only way to do that is focus on the actual number of contracts at issue here.&quot;And that number is just 358 contracts, well shy of the &quot;thousands&quot; of contracts SAP hoped to win away from Oracle. Too bad there's no dollar value on SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott's apology to Oracle.Oracle's cross-examination of Clarke is expected to continue into tomorrow, after which SAP will likely show a bit of testimonial footage and then rest its case. Presumably that will be followed by some rebuttal witnesses from Oracle on Friday and closing arguments sometime the following week.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Unforgettable' iTunes announcement tomorrow]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kethy</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=unforgettable-itunes-announcement-tomorrow</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple is advertising an &quot;exciting announcement&quot; for iTunes that the company claims will make tomorrow a day you will never forget. The intriguing ad says that the news will be revealed at 7 a.m. PT on Tuesday, November 16.Until now, there has been no consensus on which features will come next for iTunes. Some industry insiders have speculated that Apple will announce a cloud-based music management system--perhaps related to new data centers it's building in North Carolina--but others suspect that Apple will announce a subscription-based streaming service.Apple&amp;39's announcement suggests the new features coming to iTunes will be &amp;34'unforgettable.&amp;34'(Credit:Apple)Apple's acquisition of the Lala streaming service about a year ago initially suggested a move to the cloud for iTunes. Apple shut down LaLa, however, making many wonder whether iTunes would see a merge with these technologies.Regardless of the specifics, Apple's wording of this announcement suggests that we may hear answers to these questions Tuesday morning.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will the IT guy learn to love Apple]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kethy</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=will-the-it-guy-learn-to-love-apple</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When you're listening to music, it's likely your earbuds are plugged into an Apple device. Making a phone call One out of every five people buying a smartphone are choosing aniPhone. And Apple's share of consumer laptop sales jumped to 10.6 percent in the last quarter.Now here's the big question: Does your IT department, the guys who think it's just fine that you're still using a Windows XP laptop (and P.S., stop whining about it), give a hoot about all this Apple stuffApple executives hope so. The pitch the company has been making in recent months is simple: Employees are already using plenty of Apple products on their own time and like them, and theiPad is a great, lightweight tool for Web-based corporate software. If you thought this was just lip service, Apple is even now working with the decidedly old-school consultants at Unisys to approach big corporate and government customers. If Apple can make these sorts of corporate inroads, it could be Steve Jobs' greatest trick yet, because he's got a lot going against him in the corporate market. As of the third quarter of 2010, Apple sold 1.4 million of the 40.8 million computers sold to commercial customers, according to data gathered by IDC. That's 3.6 percent of all corporate computer sales.Apple is pitching the iPad and iPhone as corporate productivity tools, and more and more companies are beginning to try them out.(Credit:Joshua Goldman/CNET)Blame history...and inertia. Large companies usually have a contract with a Windows-based PC seller, often a third party. Switching contractors could result in higher costs and a lot of hassle, and can also be stymied by an old-school perception among the often conservative IT outfits at large companies that Macs are &quot;toys,&quot; and can't integrate easily with Windows-based systems. On the mobile side, corporate IT shops long ago became comfortable working with Research In Motion's Blackberry' supporting the iPhone could add new complexity and potentially more cost to their work. Many people don't even know Apple sells servers. (It does.) And the iPad Well, you could argue the touch-screen tablet computing market didn't exist a year ago.Andrew Kaiser, a former Apple business sales manager who hawked enterprise systems to companies of all sizes until recently, said often the biggest barriers in selling were opinions formed sometimes decades ago, before Office forMac, before virtualization, and before Apple switched to Intel chips. &quot;Some had no idea Apple could integrate into a Windows platform,&quot; he recalled. Employees like Thomas Caleshu, an interactive producer for educational software maker WestEd, have seen that firsthand. Caleshu is an iPhone and Mac user outside of work, and though he said there were no technical issues in getting his company's IT guys to add his iPhone and MacBook to the network, they were definitely skeptical.  &quot;Some of the established IT people didn't trust or believe that I could sync my calendar on my phone, and on iCal on my Mac, and in a (corporate) Web interface,&quot; he said. &quot;I had to prove it to them.&quot;That skepticism is almost always rooted in something real--bad past experiences with Macs before the technology improved, or in times before Apple products were properly compatible with Windows-based hardware. And even though much of that has changed, the features that now are selling points for consumers with the iPhone or the Mac--the focus on design, the cachet of the Apple brand, the idea of a unique experience--doesn't go over as well with the guy who's managing that stuff at work.&quot;IT managers in the past have said, 'I don't want unique experiences,'&quot; pointed out Richard Shim, analyst for IDC. For IT department managers, people on different systems often just translates to a huge headache.Plus, there's the reality of enterprise applications not being written with the Mac in mind, which is a huge hindrance for companies who've invested in software for their employees, Shim added. &quot;Especially because some custom, propriety applications are expensive to create and maintain, as is having to come up with an alternative when people are used to using the old version.&quot; And many people are simply averse to change.Apple's recent announcement that it is unlikely to support Java in future versions of the Mac is also sure to irritate plenty of IT folks. Though others might say not that much has changed anyway.Apple is pushing the Mac Pro Server for business customers, now with the help of contractor Unisys.(Credit:CNET)&quot;As far as I'm concerned, they don't support it today,&quot; said Robert Pickering, vice president of Information Services for the auto club AAA. He expects it will mean his employees will have to patch and update their software on their own, which he says they were already doing because Apple doesn't support the most up-to-date version of Java anyway. And of course, there's a rich tradition of labeling Apple products as unnecessarily expensive.All of those things amount to big hurdles, but Apple has one very important thing going for it: The end users are often very familiar with their stuff. And with its momentum in mobile devices and the overall &quot;consumerization&quot; of technology, now is the time to make this kind of move.Apple has sold more than 12 million iPads worldwide in the first six months--for comparison's sake 170 million PCs shipped worldwide during the same time period. And the iPhone, already a success, has even beaten the workhorse of corporate smartphones, the BlackBerry, in unit sales for the first time ever. IDC counted 12.4 million BlackBerrys sold during the third quarter, compared to 14.1 million iPhones. The people buying those for personal use have jobs, and like Thomas Caleshu, are increasingly asking their corporate IT folks to connect their new Apple device to their network. And more recently, large companies appear to be complying: Apple COO Tim Cook said recently that two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies are testing or deploying the iPad on their networks, and 85 percent are testing or deploying the iPhone. Those companies reportedly include Citigroup and Bank of America. More employees asking for Macs Now it looks like the Mac is starting to make inroads too. The Enterprise Desktop Alliance, a group of enterprise software companies that integrate Mac and Windows systems for businesses, said that during its recent survey of more than 460 IT administrators that more and more employees are asking their IT departments for Macs.Pickering, who manages all employee computers at AAA, said there's been a noticeable change in the nature of employee requests just this year. &quot;This is the first year, based on four years of supporting Macs, that we've received requests for Macs from what I would consider 'non-standard' Mac users,&quot; he said. The Mac's stronghold in commercial sales has traditionally been to graphics and marketing departments, and that's long been the case at AAA. &quot;But also now my membership department, which doesn't have a traditional reason for having a Mac other than they like the hardware&quot; wants them, said Pickering. The travel department is now asking too.&quot;Our executive vice president for travel wants it mainly for the form factor,&quot; added Pickering. &quot;He wants a MacBook Air.&quot;That's not a unique story: Executives are frequently the reason Macs become an option at all for some companies.  &quot;High-level people will have a Mac at home and they say I need to connect it here, and they have a wake that pulls other people (like the IT department) into providing the option.&quot; --T. Reid Lewis of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance &quot;High-level people will have a Mac at home and they say I need to connect it here, and they have a wake that pulls other people (like the IT department) into providing the option,&quot; said T. Reid Lewis, president of enterprise software company GroupLogic, and of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance.When people in the executive suite make a request they usually get it, no matter the cost. But now even regular employees are getting the choice of something besides a PC, as the idea of Macs being more expensive may also be fading. AAA's Pickering, who reports to his company's chief financial officer, says he and his boss are increasingly taking a longer view of the money they're putting down on computers for their workers. They don't mind paying a little more money up front for a Mac, a computer that, he says, doesn't require as many support resources dedicated to it over the years.Ben Hanes, a senior systems analyst for Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, echoed that attitude. He says his department doesn't focus on the initial cost. Rather, &quot;it's on over time how much it's going to cost us on support. We spend a lot more time supporting Windows OS than Mac OS,&quot; he said, pegging it to about three times as many man hours used supporting a PC as a Mac. So Hanes finds the initial investment worth the extra cash they spend at the beginning. As these attitudes have begun to change, the Enterprise Desktop Alliance is predicting that Macs will climb from 3.3 percent of all systems at companies last year to 5.2 percent in 2011. That's still small, but it represents sizable growth: between 2009 and 2011 one of every four new systems added at companies will be Macs, though much of that will come from companies already deploying Apple machines, according to the IT administrators they surveyed. But to make some real headway, Apple is going to have to convert non-believers too. That's likely where Unisys comes in. Unisys' contract to sell and support Macs and other &quot;iDevices&quot; to large enterprises and governments could be an experiment for Apple, a testing of the waters. But the timing is good as the commercial market for computers is finally starting to rebound after a couple years of spending cutbacks driven by a weak economy.But how much heft Apple will put behind this over the next few years is still a big question. This is, after all, a traditionally consumer-focused company, and the projects that Jobs himself is interested in--like the iPad--get the most attention internally. It's not clear how energized Jobs might be about the comparatively stale subject of commercial sales. But there are some signs that will indicate in the next months and years how Apple is viewing this business, said IDC's Shim. &quot;What will ultimately determine how dedicated they are to this space is what sort of applications they commit to it. That's what we learned in the consumer space: What differentiates you is a unique experience, and they nailed it on the consumer side,&quot; he said. &quot;They've done better than anyone else. The question is, how do you do that on the commercial side or on the large enterprise side&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Web star Felicia Day speaks up for online anonymity]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kethy</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=web-star-felicia-day-speaks-up-for-online-anonymity</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A day after 4chan founder Christopher Poole argued for the importance of online anonymity (and even called Facebooka4a4s approach a4Atotally wronga4), online video star Felicia Day offered similar sentiments on-stage at the South by Southwest Interactive conference.Poole and Day were both keynote speakers at the huge Austin tech event. Daya4a4s comments were just an aside in a longer talk about The Guild (the Web TV show that she writes and stars in), but I was surprised to see such visible pro-anonymity sentiment at SXSW, an event that I consider the capital of online oversharing. This is where an early adopter audience fueled the success of social networking services like Twitter and Foursquare, and where many social startups (including a number that tie into Facebook) are hoping to get a boost this year.Poolea4a4s comments were less surprising, since the 4chan image board is well-known for its anonymous community. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has argued that encouraging the use of a single, real identity online leads to greater authenticity, but Poole countered that anonymity gives users the freedom to be more unfiltered and more willing to experiment.Day clearly embraces social networking services &amp;8212' she has nearly 2 million followers on Twitter, and she said she loves to join new social apps so she can claim the a4Afeliciaa4 username before anyone else. She also acknowledged that anonymity can encourage some unpleasant, trollish behavior. Still, she said, anonymity has an important role to play online, because it frees people from the worry of being judged personally.a4AA lot of us are prevented from doing things because of failure and being shamed,a4 she said.And while Day didna4a4t refer to Facebook explicitly, it was clearly one of the sites she had in mind when she warned against a4Aputting all our eggs in one basketa4 and trusting one company with our online identity &amp;8212' especially if that company wants to a4Awall us offa4 into one site and then market to us using our social data.Next Story: So long Zune, thanks for all the tunes Previous Story: HP to focus on cloud, connectivity and softwarePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: anonymity, The GuildCompanies: FacebookPeople: Felicia Day          Tags: anonymity, The GuildCompanies: FacebookPeople: Felicia DayAnthony 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[Epic Games shows jaw-dropping graphics for next-generation consoles (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kethy</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the best technology demos at the Game Developers Conference last week came from Epic Games, which created an incredible-looking futuristic fight scene that pushed the boundaries of 3D graphics.Nvidia executives also showed off the technology today at their analyst meeting (which we covered here) and we&amp;'ve captured video of it below. The 3D graphics represent a new peak in realism and give us a good idea of what Epic thinks the next generation of console games &amp;8212' whenever they come &amp;8212' should look like.&amp;''This next-generation technology preview is what we would like to see from the next-generation of gaming hardware,&amp;'' said Alan Willard of Epic Games, which is the well-known developer of games such as Unreal Tournament, Bulletstorm and Gears of War.The cinematic video shows graphics that are running in the Unreal Engine in real-time. It is real-time computer graphics, not a video of pre-fabricated computer graphics.The scene depicted resembles the futuristic, gritty city in the film Blade Runner. You can see cool effects in the glowing blow torch, the smoke rising from the cigarette, the detailed facial hair and wrinkles, and the morphing of the man&amp;'s skin. The guy takes out a bunch of cops beating up an old woman. As he does so, the screen freezes to slow motion and you can see all of the details that would otherwise be a blur.Willard said that one of the effects is called bouquet depth of field, where you see a bright spot that is out of focus and then it is replaced with another image. You can also see reflections on all surfaces, such as the water on the streets reflecting light from the street lamps. Those reflections do not show through objects that are blocking it from view.When the light hits a human face, you can see an effect called sub-surface scattering, when light penetrates through the layers of skin and makes skin glow as the light bounces around inside the skin. You can see the water trickling down a man&amp;'s face. The man&amp;'s jacket tail sways and moves as he does, thanks to an Nvidia clothing rendering technology.The demo ran on a PC with an Intel Core i9 microprocessor with three Nvidia GeForce 580 GTX graphics cards connected through SLI technology. The demo took about three months for 12 programmers and artists to build.Epic Games&amp;' vice president Mark Rein said the demo is considered ideal for next-generation console technology. But the three major console makers, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft haven&amp;'t yet acknowledged they&amp;'re building anything to replace the Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3, or the Microsoft Xbox 360. See the video below.And check out our links to other stories from the GDC: Uncharted 3 Drake&amp;'s Deception preview' the GDC in pictures (photo gallery)' Brenda Brathwaite&amp;'s rant against social game haters' Loot Drop&amp;'s take on social game development' the Battlefield 3 demo from Electronic Arts' and Spoon&amp;'s new cloud-gaming service.Next Story: Adobe&amp;'s Wallaby brings Flash to iOS days before iPad 2 release Previous Story: Foursquare 3.0 will recommend where to check inPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: next-generation console, UnrealCompanies: epic games, Intel, NvidiaPeople: Alan Willard, Mark Rein          Tags: next-generation console, UnrealCompanies: epic games, Intel, NvidiaPeople: Alan Willard, Mark ReinDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. 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[ZenRobotics robot recyclers go for green in the CleanTech Open]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For such an essential part of the green economy, recycling remains a dirty, messy business. EnterZenRobotics, which adds artificial intelligence to industrial robots to enable them to recycle construction waste. The company recently won Finland&amp;'s CleanTech Open competition and will represent the country at this week&amp;'s Cleantech Open Global Ideas Final.Off-the-shelf industrial robots can only operate in very constrained environments where the objects being manipulated are uniform and the movements required can be pre-defined. This makes them unsuitable for recycling objects in multiple materials and of different shapes and sizes. Current automated systems can only handle one material at a time. As a result, much recycling is still done manually and in hazardous conditions.The ZenRobotics recycler is designed for commercial and industrial waste, municipal solid waste and construction waste but the first prototype product is for demolition and other construction waste. The unit weighs about six tonnes and a four-robot unit is about 33 feet long. SITA Finland, a subsidiary of the largest environmental services provider in Europe, plans to trial the recycler.Typical construction materials which can be recycled are concrete, wood, metals and plastics. Recycled metal and plastics, for example, are worth upwards of $200 per tonne. Concrete production is a Co2-intensive process. According to a report from LUX research, cement production consumesroughly 3 percent of the worlda4a4s primary energy, including nearly 10 percent of the primary energy used for global industry. In total, cement productionaccounts for roughly 6 percent of global carbon emissions.ZenRobotics develops biologically-inspired, machine learning software which can be used to operate standard industrial robots and train them to separate multiple raw materials from waste. A plethora of sensors like visible spectrum cameras, near infrared cameras, 3D laser scanners, X-rays, metal detectors and weight detectors can be used to recognise materials of different types. ZenRoboticsalso uses sensors like 3D scanners and touch sensors to improve the robot&amp;'sgripper.Software which learns is rarely 100 percent accurate at performing the task it is trained to do. The false positive and false positive rates are therefore important measures of the effectiveness of a machine learning algorithm. In this case, those measures translate into the rate at which materials are mis-identified or not reycled when they should be. ZenRobotic&amp;'s CEO Jaakko Sarela declined to give exact figures but said that the &amp;''accuracy is very high. In the end of the day, the purity rate of the recycled material depends mostly on the customer needs.&amp;''ZenRobotics is based in Helsinki, Finland, has 20 employees and has received 0.7 million EU in private funding.Next Story: Google chief shows off unannounced Android phone with near-field communication Previous Story: Battle for your texts: Facebook Messages vs. Kik mobile chatPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cleantech, recycling, robotsCompanies: zenrobotics          Tags: cleantech, recycling, robotsCompanies: zenroboticsCiara Byrne is a full time techie and part-time writer. She has worked as a software developer, team lead, engineering manager and mobile standards expert. Ciara is based in Amsterdam and her interests include creative companies, useful technology, torture by piano and cycling in high heels. Follow her on Twitter at @deciara. 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[Can we really trust the cloud]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Software architects like to shorthand the spaghetti of interconnected networks that make up the Internet as &amp;''the cloud&amp;'' &amp;8212' an amorphous entity, somewhere distant, that you don&amp;'t need to fuss over.But events around the world have brought cloud advocates back to Earth. From Egypt and Canada to Capitol Hill and beyond, we&amp;'ve been reminded that what we call the cloud is just a bunch of computers, in buildings, tied together by fiber-optic cables, and ruled by other human beings.Just like the rest of the Internet, cloud computing a4&quot; services run on remote servers and deliver files and computing power over the Internet a4&quot; are vulnerable to the whims of regulators and governments. Residents of Egypt learned that lesson the hard way when the government abruptly shut off most Internet service providers in a frantic attempt to gain control of its rioting populace after rising unrest.With a flick of a switch (or, in reality, a few phone calls) most services were crippled or disabled in Egypt. Twitter and Facebook were gone. All that information stored in the cloud on services like Dropbox and Box.net was suddenly unavailable.  Salesforce, which has long championed the cause of Web-based software with its &amp;''no software&amp;'' sloganeering, suddenly seemed less visionary.In at least one country, the cloud, which analysts and businesses have been evangelizing for years now, was vaporized.Companies have been marching into the cloud for years, whether through storing massive amounts of information or using high-powered servers to deliver better performance at a lower price. What seems to be lost in all the excitement is that companies still have to connect to the Internet for the cloud&amp;'s magic to work &amp;8212' and pay someone for all that data and bandwidth. Those same companies that are the gatekeepers to the Internet are the cloud&amp;'s gatekeeers as well. They can impose rules &amp;8212' or have rules imposed on them. And those rules can change, often abruptly.If Egypt&amp;'s woes weren&amp;'t enough, some new laws passed in Canada are going to enforce bandwidth caps for broadband access. Bell Canada, the &amp;''incumbent&amp;'' provider, can now meter independent Internet service providers using its copper wiring to homes and businesses, and charge any independent ISP that wants to provide more bandwidth. The after-effects range from some Canadians losing the chance to download large games through digital distribution services like Steam to inadvertently using up an entire montha4a4s worth of bandwidth on Skype.Suddenly, an entire consumer market has a whole new set of questions to ask cloud service providers. Take Dropbox, for example. It makes it easy to upload files to the cloud and access them as needed. But if a user can only afford 25 gigabytes of data each month, that &amp;''automagical&amp;'' service is now a liability that restricts the rest of their usage a4&quot; which can range from entertainment like video or games to mission-critical applications like voice-over-Internet calls.At the same time, therea4a4s concern over a proposed bill in the U.S. Congress that would give the government an Internet a4Akill switch.a4 Sen. Joe Lieberman is sponsoring the bill as a way to protect U.S. infrastructure from an attack that would cause irreparable harm. Lieberman has published a fact sheet covering a number of the points of contention surrounding the bill in an attempt to dismiss some fears about the government a4Ataking over the Internet.a4It stretches credulity that a kill switch in the U.S. would be used for something as sinister as quelling public unrest a4&quot;at least as the actual bill is currently formulated. But it would give the U.S. government the ability to, by extension, regulate parts of the Internet. That could come down to disabling some cloud services, if it turned out they had security flaws that, say, opened up the U.S.&amp;'s energy grid to cyber attacks.The news from the past weekend has served as a huge reality check for cloud computing. It isn&amp;'t something amorphous, miles away from reach. It&amp;'s a very real service sitting in some very real data centers across the world and connected by, you guessed it, very real cables. And, just like everything else, it can be shut down, regulated and otherwise subjected to the whims of those in power.Recent events don&amp;'t spell the death of the cloud. I won&amp;'t trade my Google Docs, Box.net, OnLive or Pandora accounts in just yet. But it does remind us that the cloud is of earth, not ether.Front photo via Cometstarmoon on FlickrThis post was sponsored by WatchMouse, a service which monitors websites, Web applications, and web API&amp;'s for availability and performance from an external perspective. WatchMouse delivers a self-service monitoring solution utilizing an infrastructure of over 50 monitoring stations in 30 countries. Multi-step monitoring, Real Browser Monitoring and Public Status Pages are included in all plans. Learn more here. As always, VentureBeat maintains strict adherence to its principles of editorial integrity and WatchMouse had no input into the content of this post.Next Story: Samsung comes clean on a4Aquite smalla4 Galaxy Tab sales Previous Story: Affectiva wins government backing to measure your emotions onlinePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Canada, Egypt, metered Internet, tweets, UBB, usage-based billingCompanies: Bell Canada, Salesforce.comPeople: Joe Lieberman          Tags: Canada, Egypt, metered Internet, tweets, UBB, usage-based billingCompanies: Bell Canada, Salesforce.comPeople: Joe LiebermanMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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[Apple surges, Android stalls in enterprise activations]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple&amp;'s iOS devices, including iPhones and iPads, are increasingly being bought for use in companies. They now account for 65 percent of all devices activated for enterprise use after discounting activations of Research in Motion&amp;'s BlackBerry enterprise phones, according to a report by Good Technology.The report&amp;'s methodology ignores that little Canadian company called Research in Motion and its line of BlackBerry enterprise mobile phones. If those were included, Apple and Android would be completely dwarfed by Research in Motion&amp;'s 55 million plus customers a4&quot; a large chunk of which are enterprise users who rely on its BlackBerry Messenger and email services. Massive assumptions and fringe cases aside, the numbers definitely show some growth on Apple&amp;'s end. The survey was taken across a few thousand companies, including 40 on the Fortune 100 list.Android devices held close to 30 percent of enterprise activations. Symbian devices and those running Windows Mobile had an almost negligible number of activations at this point a4&quot; dropping down from around a 5 percent share in activations each.The iPhone 4 accounted for nearly 35 percent of all mobile devices activated for enterprise use in December, down from around 40 percent of all devices activated in October. 30 percent of all enterprise devices activated in December were iPads a4&quot; which accounted for about 15 percent of all enterprise devices activated in September. The iPad now accounts for 22 percent of all enterprise devices activated in the fourth quarter.Android device activations haven&amp;'t grown much since the last report was released. Motorola&amp;'s Droid X still accounts for the most enterprise activations with around 5 percent. Android devices accounted for 40 percent of all smartphones activated for enterprise use, but the operating system&amp;'s performance on tablets was less than stellar due to the iPad&amp;'s dominance in the space.A majority of activations continue to be in the financial services space a4&quot; which accounts for around 30 percent of all enterprise activations. That&amp;'s no surprise as Apple and other companies have enlisted the likes of JP Morgan and Wells Fargo to either test or deploy iPad, iPhone and Android applications. Usage of iOS and Android devices in health care actually dropped off between September and December, accounting for only around 15 percent of all activations.Apple&amp;'s success in the enterprise space isn&amp;'t necessarily a fluke a4&quot; though it has been rather quiet. Applea4a4s iPadmade a serious pushinto the enterprise space in the fourth quarter last year, and 80 of the largest companies in the world on the Fortune 100 list are now testing or deploying iPads. The iPhone also increased its presence in the enterprise space, with 88 of the companies on the Fortune 100 list either testing or deploying applications on it. Apple also picked up someformer Research in Motion talent to help turn its devices running on the iPhone operating system into viable enterprise tools.Next Story: GM bets on cheaper electric car batteries with Envia, leads $17M round Previous Story: How well did Microsoft do with Windows Phone 7 Try 2 million units shippedPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Blackberry, Droid X, enterprise, iOS, iPhoneCompanies: Apple, Google, Research In Motion          Tags: Android, Blackberry, Droid X, enterprise, iOS, iPhoneCompanies: Apple, Google, Research In MotionMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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[Time Warner digital guru says Netflix will have to raise its prices]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time Warner vice president Olaf Olafsson said today that new media services haven&amp;'t figured out sustainable pricing models yet.As an example, he pointed to Netflix, which just announced a streaming video service for $7.99 a month. That might work for now, he said, since most of the movies and TV shows on Netflix are older, so the studios charge less for them. However, if Netflix wants to compete with network and cable TV companies in offering new content, that model starts to break down. Acquiring the first-run rights to a single TV episode can cost millions of dollars, he said.Olafsson made the comments at Business Insidera4a4s Ignition conference in New York.a4AIt&amp;'s just not going to happen at $7.99,a4 he said. a4AWe&amp;'re fooling ourselves [if we think it is].a4That doesna4a4t mean Time Warner isna4a4t open to online distribution. After all, Time Warner cable made the leap to satellite television. But these Web companies need to offer a lot more money before Time Warner is willing to sell its best content.a4AWe encourage all of that stuff, as long as people pay for the content,a4 Olafsson said. a4AThat&amp;'s why we&amp;'re not on Hulu.a4Next Story: In 7th deal in seven months, Zynga acquires mobile game company Newtoy Previous Story: New Twitter tool, ReSearch.ly, lets you conduct searches on older tweetsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Ignition, Ignition 2010, streaming movies, streaming televisionCompanies: Netflix, Time WarnerPeople: Olaf Olafsson          Tags: Ignition, Ignition 2010, streaming movies, streaming televisionCompanies: Netflix, Time WarnerPeople: Olaf OlafssonAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat 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.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[CloudBees&' Java dream team lands $4M from Matrix Partners]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[CloudBees, which offers cloud services for Java developers, just announced $4 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners with participation from individual investors, including JBoss founder Marc Fleury and JBoss/HP/Bluestone veteran Bob Bickel. CloudBees was founded by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey in August this year.A typical Java development team uses a range of software life-cycle tools for source control (stores the latest version of the code and manages changes), builds (compiles and tests code and produces an executable release) and continuous integration (schedules and manages builds on multiple servers and environments). These tools are usually hosted, configured and maintained on local servers.CloudBees aims to provide a Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) that covers all these areas. Instead of having servers locally hosting Java life-cycle tools like Subversion for source control, Maven for builds and Hudson for continuous integration, CloudBees provides them all in the cloud in a product called DEV@cloud.The advantage of DEV@cloudis that life-cycle tools no longer need to be configured and maintained in-house, builds can be run in parallel and there is no restriction on the server capacity. Often, IT departments don&amp;'t want to handle development tools so the developers themselves end up managing these tools, costing valuable coding time.A release may need to be built and tested on both a Windows and Linux environment, which currently requires multiple servers or virtualization.CloudBees&amp;' services could be particularly useful for stress and performance testing, which determine the capacity and speed of the software and how robust it is when it is running on multiple machines under high load. This type of testing tends to be performed intermittently and requires a much higher number of servers than normal builds.CloudBees charges a monthly subscription fee and a fee per minute when builds are in progress.Linux and Windows environments are available. A source control repository can be hosted locally and still built by DEV@cloud. Amazon EC2 provides the cloud servers. CloudBees plans to release a new product in Q1 2011 called RUN@cloud. While DEV@cloud is a set of services that will help developers during development time, RUN@cloud comes once you want to deploy your apps in production or test them publicly.I queried CEO Sacha Labourey on howsome companies may hesitate to put  their primary asset, their code, in the cloud. He said &amp;''Some developers  are afraid to put their code in the cloud, yet, they do not realize that  their company already puts ALL of their sales pipeline, lead contact  information, etc. in the cloud at salesforce.com.What&amp;'s the  difference&amp;''I asked Labourey about competitors. He says that the current closest competitor is Google App Engine but it will be VMWare&amp;'s Code2cloud once that is released in Q1, 2011. Many developers have complained about the restrictions Google App Engine imposes on the Java environment, and it is designed for running applications rather than developing them.CloudBees recently acquired InfraDNA, therebyadding its founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of theHudson continuous integration server, to the team. Hudson is the most-used continuous integration tool in the Java development world. The InfraDNA acquisition also brought with it a new product, Nectar, which is a on-site version of Hudson for enterprises that need a more scalable deployment than is possible with &amp;''vanilla&amp;'' Hudson.CloudBees is based in Boston (although Labourey is in Switzerland) and has 15 employees.Next Story: Mary &amp;''Queen-of-the-Net&amp;'' Meeker joins Kleiner Perkins as partner Previous Story: The Economist for iPad is barebones and featureless, but that&amp;'s okayPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cloud, hudson, Java, linux, Maven, subversion, WindowsCompanies: cloudbees, JBoss          Tags: cloud, hudson, Java, linux, Maven, subversion, WindowsCompanies: cloudbees, JBossCiara Byrne is a full time techie and part-time writer. She has worked as a software developer, team lead, engineering manager and mobile standards expert. Ciara is based in Amsterdam and her interests include creative companies, useful technology, torture by piano and cycling in high heels. Follow her on Twitter at @deciara. 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[Computer worm that hit Iran&'s nuclear equipment is also taking out other industrial systems]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Confirming months-long suspicions, Iran&amp;'s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted today that his country&amp;'s uranium enrichment centrifuges had been affected by a malicious computer worm. Western Diplomats said last week that the Stuxnet virus had damaged Iran&amp;'s centrifuges, which could be used to make fuel for nuclear power or nuclear weapons.The Stuxnet computer worm was discovered in June by a Belarus-based security firm. The worm spies on and reprograms industrial control SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) computers made by German conglomerate Siemens.Transmitted through shared universal serial bus (USB) memory modules, the worm can reprogram computers and hide its changes. The worm uses the USB transmission technique because many industrial computers are not connected to the web. The original target of Stuxnet wasn&amp;'t clear, as it appeared it could attack any device. But news reports suggest that the particular target was Iran&amp;'s nuclear facilities in Natanz and its Bushehr nuclear power plant.&amp;''They succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges with the software they had installed in electronic parts,&amp;'' said Ahmadinejad. &amp;''But the problem has been resolved.&amp;''Russian security company Kaspersky Labs said that the worm was one of the most sophisticated ever created, suggesting that it might have been created by an intelligence agency with cyber know-how. Stuxnet exploited multiple unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows, relied  on stolen digital certificates to disguise the malware, and hid its code  by using software known as a rootkit. Microsoft hasna4a4t fully fixed the  vulnerabilities.At one point in September, some 60 percent of infected computers worldwide were in Iran, suggesting that the intended target was in Iran. The problem with creating a virus to attack one particular target is that it can be modified to attack any target. With Stuxnet, the genie is out of the bottle. Now the worm can be modified to attack any sort of industrial equipment.In its own bulletin today, antivirus firm Symantec said, &amp;''This specialized malware written to exploit physical infrastructures will continue in 2011 driven by the huge sums of money available to criminal enterprises at low risk of prosecution. These attacks will range from the obvious targets like smartphones, to any number of less obvious yet critical systems like power grid controls or electronic voting systems.&amp;''Meanwhile, antivirus vendor McAfee has said, &amp;''More detailed analysis found that Stuxnet is more than just a spy worm, but a weapon written to sabotage critical infrastructure. Stuxnet has infected thousands of computers of unintended victims from all over the globe.&amp;''Next Story: What does Kleiner&amp;'s drift from cleantech mean for green investing Previous Story: Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference to explore distributed generation &amp;038' microgridsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: nuclear weapons, StuxnetCompanies: Kaspersky Labs, McAfee, symantecPeople: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad          Tags: nuclear weapons, StuxnetCompanies: Kaspersky Labs, McAfee, symantecPeople: Mahmoud AhmadinejadDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.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[Groupon needs the human touch, not Google&'s robots]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The next wave of e-commerce is clearly going to be social &amp;8212' and there are a raft of players looking for an angle on the business.Google is thinking about buying Groupon for $3 billion or more, the Chicago-based daily-deals site whose rocket-ship growth has captivated Internet investors, according to Kara Swisher of AllThingsD.Business Insider&amp;'s Henry Blodget thinks it&amp;'s a great idea &amp;8212' for Google.I think it&amp;'s a terrible idea &amp;8212' for Groupon.Sure, a deal would let Groupon&amp;'s investors cash out at a multibillion-dollar valuation. And perhaps they&amp;'d be smart to sell now, if the group-buying phenomenon is just a fad. Yahoo has been interested in Groupon in the past, and Amazon.com is rumored to be considering an investment in Groupon archrival LivingSocial.I don&amp;'t think it&amp;'s a fad, though. Nor is it time for Groupon to sell. That&amp;'s because Groupon really doesn&amp;'t have much to do with group buying, despite the name. It&amp;'s about giving small, local businesses, which depend on acquiring new customers, a cheaper, more effective way to do so, through cleverly written, deeply discounted offers distributed mostly by old-fashioned email.That business requires an army of humans, from salespeople who solicit businesses, to city planners who curate the best offers, to copywriters who craft marketing messages on behalf of businesses that could never afford to hire an advertising agency.In broad strokes, it makes sense for Google to look at a business like Groupon, which is expanding rapidly into cities across the U.S. and countries around the world, fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars raised from the likes of Lightbank, NEA, Accel Partners, and DST, the Internet-investment firm of Russia&amp;'s Mail.ru.But the strategic fit is awful. Google has bought two businesses, dMarc Broadcasting and FeedBurner, right at the point that they were getting traction selling specialized advertising products &amp;8212' Internet-brokered radio ads and RSS-feed ads, respectively &amp;8212' to curious if reluctant customers. Google ripped out the sales forces, replaced them with self-service Web sales, and watched as their acquisitions fell apart.Some products are sold, not bought. Groupon, which has run into bad publicity when a handful of small businesses got overwhelmed by the reaction to their discount offers, needs a hands-on approach and consultative sales, not Google&amp;'s classic automated approach.True, Groupon needs to build up its technology over time and explore ways to make its sales process more efficient so it can run a higher volume of deals and target them by neighborhood and demographic, not just cities. But that&amp;'s not so difficult a technological problem that it requires Google-scale servers and algorithms.The cultural fit is even more dreadful to consider. While Google likes to think of itself as quirky and nerdy, it&amp;'s got nothing on the off-kilter atmosphere created by Groupon CEO and founder Andrew Mason, who&amp;'s said he pulls pranks on his staff like hiring a man to walk around the office in a ballerina&amp;'s tutu. Google&amp;'s idea of a creative environment are lava lamps, exercise balls, and cartoon logos. Nice try, Googlers.Groupon&amp;'s human touch may be its ultimate poison pill to technology&amp;'s big acquirers. There&amp;'s an ongoing debate over whether Groupon would have thrived in Silicon Valley, with its emphasis on computer servers over customer service. Perhaps the company&amp;'s too one-of-a-kind to draw such broad conclusions. But I don&amp;'t think Google has much to offer Groupon. Besides cold, hard cash.[Pic via Give Up Internet]Next Story: Salesforce&amp;'s micro-blogging app Chatter jumps on the freemium bandwagon Previous Story: Amazon now lets you gift Kindle ebooks to anyonePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: e commerce, social buyingCompanies: Amazon.com, Google, Groupon, Livingsocial, YahooPeople: Andrew Mason          Tags: e commerce, social buyingCompanies: Amazon.com, Google, Groupon, Livingsocial, YahooPeople: Andrew MasonOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat.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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