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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scream at your phone to recharge it]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought the answer to our renewable-energy quandaries might lie in the predominantly pointless nonsense spewing from our collective pie hole (Credit:Josh Miller/CNET) The Korea IT Times is reporting that &quot;new research promises a way to recharge phones using nothing but the power of voice.&quot; A researcher at a South Korean university proposes using the sound of our voices and the cacophony around us to &quot;trickle charge&quot; batteries.Sang-Woo Kim of the Institute of Nanotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul is doing this pioneering work in the field of &quot;scavenged energy.&quot; Evidently, the science identifies power sources generated by everyday life--such as the electricity generated by cars passing sound walls near busy freeways.The technology turns sound into electricity by employing strands of zinc oxide sandwiched between electrodes. &quot;A sound-absorbing pad on top vibrates when sound waves hit it, causing the tiny zinc oxide wires to compress and release,&quot; Kim reports. &quot;This movement generates an electrical current that can then be used to charge a battery.&quot;    A prototype system was able to convert around 100 decibels--the equivalent of noisy traffic--to 50 millivolts of electricity, The Telegraph reports. The technology could prove useful, for example, if you forgot to charge your phone and could do so just by chatting with a friend on the way to work.   Related link&amp;149' Heart-powered iPod hertz with every beat Of course, Kim worries about an already noisy world growing louder so we can all get an extra jolt out of life. He envisions people shouting louder into their phones (and into people's ears) to keep their phones up and running. Could this lead to an energy race searching for the loudest and most annoying people to keep our batteries charged Such revolutionary thinking could promote the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Rosie O'Donnell into energy moguls on par with OPEC.If we could somehow hook up power cells to next year's presidential debates and collect both endless noise and any related hot air, we might not need to ever build another windmill or solar panel. If the noise of a happy, boisterous crowd can be employed to keep the lights on, we could set up mikes and batteries in the booze-lubed amphitheaters of fabulous Las Vegas. But we'll avoid the Charlie Sheen live tour stops to avoid a nationwide blackout. And Carlos Mencia shows are off the menu. Ditto for Dane Cook. We'll work on that.The imagination overheats ticking off all of the options. I had a girlfriend a few years back who could've kept Seoul lit up like a Kia's high beams. I'll keep an eye out for her, too. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nasdaq shift to lighten Apple's weighting]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Nasdaq stock exchange will cut the weighting it gives to Apple on a key index at the same time that it boosts the weighting for tech titans including Microsoft and Cisco Systems.In a major rebalancing of the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index, which will go into effect ahead of the market open on May 2, the exchange aims to better reflect the current market values of several significant companies. For example, Apple's weighting on the Nasdaq 100 is currently more than six times that of Microsoft, even though Apple's market value is only 46 percent larger, according to data from Bloomberg.As a result, Apple will see the portion that its shares represent on the index drop to 12.33 percent from 20.49 percent, a decline of more than 8 percentage points and the largest individual change. Microsoft's weighting will increase to 8.32 percent from 3.41 percent, a gain of almost 5 percentage points and the largest increase.The need to rebalance the index was driven partly by the huge gains in Apple's stock price over the past couple of years, says The Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Overall, the move will affect mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other instruments that mirror the performance of the Nasdaq 100 and is likely to result in a flurry of trading as money managers scramble to rejigger their holdings.Apple, in particular, could be in store for some aggressive selling. Its shares fell more than 3 percent today in early morning trading just past 6:30 am EST, according to Bloomberg, though they've since climbed back up.&quot;This would probably affect international funds, given that Apple is such a big company globally,&quot; Pengana Capital money manager Tim Schroeders told Bloomberg. &quot;Passive funds in particular will be forced to reweight into those stocks that have had increases in weightings, and in the short term we will see some selling pressure on Apple.&quot; Other tech players, including Cisco, Google, Intel, and Oracle will see their weightings grow by several percentage points. Every company on the index will be affected by the rebalancing, though the weightings of most will go up or down by only a fraction of a percentage point. Overall, only 18 of the 100 companies tracked will see an increase in their weightings.In a presentation on its Web site (PDF), the Nasdaq explained that it started looking into rebalancing the Nasdaq 100 index early last year after it found that the weightings assigned to certain stocks were no longer accurately reflecting their real market values following an initial rebalancing in 1998.The new rebalancing will go into effect May 2 and be based on the shares in the Nasdaq-100 as of March 31.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google to spar in Spain court over privacy rights]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>PestControlWorthing</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Google is facing yet another challenge over privacy rights--this one to be played out in a Spanish courtroom, starting tomorrow.The search giant is up against a legal test from the Spanish government's data protection agency. Established to field complaints from citizens over how their personal information appears online, the agency has demanded that Google remove links to sites that it claims violate people's privacy rigths, according to The Wall Street Journal.The agency contends that under Spanish law, Google is required to remove such links--a claim that Google has challenged. Specifically, the agency wants more than 90 online articles to be deleted from Google's search engine in response to requests from citizens who object to having their personal information appear among search results.In an e-mail to CNET, the agency said the cases involve the publication of administrative sanctions, notices of financial debt, and details of victims of domestic violence.Google argues that the agency is off base by requiring search engines to remove such data rather than asking the actual newspapers and other Web sites to remove the information. The company also has pointed out that other countries go after the actual sources of the data, not the search engines.&quot;We are disappointed by the actions of the Spanish privacy regulator,&quot; Peter Barron, Google's director of external relations for Europe, said in a statement e-mailed to CNET. &quot;Spanish and European law rightly hold the publisher of material responsible for its content. Requiring intermediaries like search engines to censor material published by others would have a profound chilling effect on free expression without protecting people's privacy.&quot;In response to the question of why it doesn't target the actual sources, the agency told CNET that the privacy laws can run into conflict with freedom of expression.&quot;In this context, the problem arises when the page that hosts the information cannot erase the data because there is a law that protects the publication or a conflict with another fundamental right (freedom of expression), as it happens mainly in cases of official gazettes and media,&quot; the agency said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: BodyMedia FIT armband to use Sprint's 3G network]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>PestControlWorthing</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:BodyMedia)Once upon a time, we mortals could make resolutions and, as quietly as we wanted, get busy ignoring them. Those days are numbered. Which is a good thing for personal health and wellness, rightThis week, Sprint gets more heavily involved in the your-phone-knows-when-you're-lying game by partnering up with BodyMedia, enabling the FIT armband to transmit such personal data as vital signs and sleep patterns using Sprint's 3G wireless network.To mark the occasion, Sprint will be showcasing its suite of apps (dubbed the Sprint ID BodyMedia Pack) for its Android-based phones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The apps are intended to make sense of the data collected by the armband, as well as to enable users to set goals, create workouts, and track progress in excruciating detail.&quot;Embedded devices with always-on Internet connectivity represent the obvious evolution for many of today's Wi-Fi- and Bluetooth-enabled devices,&quot; says Wayne Ward, vice president of Emerging Solutions at Sprint. &quot;We are pleased to assist BodyMedia in the development of these next generation mobile health solutions.&quot;The BodyMedia ID pack will be available in the first half of 2011' the new wireless embedded products will be launched this year.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt doesn&'t want to be a YouTube star]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[He&amp;'s barely dipped his toes in the TV waters. But already, outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting laughed off the airwaves.The rumor, courtesy of the New York Post, is that Schmidt is pursuing a post-Google career as a TV talk-show host. (He announced last week that he was stepping down as CEO effective April 4.) Google and Schmidt wouldn&amp;'t comment for the story, but the Post has collected convincing details &amp;8212' namely, that CNN producer Liza McGuirk helped Schmidt film a pilot.Is no one picking up the irony here At Google, Schmidt has made a career of overturning old media models. Why isn&amp;'t he aiming to follow in Lonelygirl15&amp;'s footsteps and become a star on YouTube After all, he spent $1.65 billion of his shareholders&amp;' money on it. He might as well give it a whirl. Literally, nothing&amp;'s stopping him. Isn&amp;'t that the point of broadcasting yourself &amp;8212' that you don&amp;'t need a CNN producer&amp;'s help to reach millions And isn&amp;'t that why Google &amp;8212' from Schmidt on down &amp;8212' has been pushing Google TV so hardBut one could make the same argument for Blogger, the blog-publishing tool Google acquired much earlier in Schmidt&amp;'s tenure as CEO. Schmidt, with the prestige of Google behind him, could have ruled the blogosphere by now.The truth is Schmidt is enamored of conventional media. He&amp;'s long railed against blogs and other online publishers, dismissing their output as a &amp;''sewer.&amp;'' And in his new role as executive chairman, he&amp;'s going to continue his media-schmoozing role, as Google&amp;'s ambassador to the olds.No wonder Google is flailing to find a social strategy: Its CEO of the past decade has notably abstained from using all the new publishing tools his company has enabled. (His feeble Twitter output barely deserves notice.)Schmidt&amp;'s media obsession is a bit of a shame. He may not be TV-host material, but he&amp;'s clearly a brilliant thinker on green issues and a backer of clever startups. Those are both more promising post-Google career venues for him.If he soldiers on with this TV attempt, he may soon be facing a harsh reality: Absent his title of CEO, no one may want to pay attention to what he has to say. And given his track record of putting his foot in his mouth, perhaps that&amp;'s a good thing.Next Story: Former Facebook exec backs BlipSnips social video service Previous Story: Hit the deck! 2011 enterprise sales may be in trouble, says VMwarePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: talk shows, TVCompanies: GooglePeople: Eric Schmidt          Tags: talk shows, TVCompanies: GooglePeople: Eric SchmidtOwen Thomas is the executive editor of 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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