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<title><![CDATA[The Tramp takes over Google]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[To celebrate the 122nd birthday of silent film star Charlie Chaplin, Google created a live-action Chaplinesque video (see below) to replace its standard logo Friday.(Credit:Google)First came a great search engine. Then a world-beating ad platform, a hugely popular e-mail service, a great news aggregator, and then a customized Pac-Man game. And now, meet Google's latest masterpiece, it's first--and maybe last--silent film.To help commemorate Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday today, Google's Doodle team decided to go where it's never gone before, and offered up, as a replacement for the search giant's standard logo, its homage to the Tramp.A storyboard used to make the Chaplinesque short movie.(Credit:Google)The short silent film that's gracing Google today was the brainchild of Ryan Germick, the Doodle team's creative lead, an attempt to celebrate Chaplin and portray him in a &quot;respectful and authentic way&quot; that also brings the Tramp squarely into 2011 and Google's world.Made with the blessing of the Chaplin estate and the help of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, Germick said, the film opens on a faux-Chaplin trying to make a home in a park &quot;much to the chagrin of a police officer who escorts him out,&quot; Germick said.Stumbling out of the park, the Google Tramp next gets in the way of an artist trying to paint a still life of a set of large letters spelling out &quot;Google&quot; and then somehow interferes with a humble muffin seller. But here, before wandering off at the end of the film, he manages to fleece the cop by tricking him into paying too much for a muffin.According to Mike Dutton, a member of the Doodle team who played the Tramp in the short film, preparing for the role meant an intensive course in Chaplin films so that he could feel comfortable playing such an iconic character faithfully. Dutton said he wanted to play the Tramp in a way that honored the common themes from Chaplin's films: with dignity but also with a sense of living &quot;under contradictory circumstances,&quot; and of course, with a &quot;pretty lady he's trying to impress.&quot;While the Doodle team has over the last year been ramping up the complexity of some of the animated logos it has produced--the famous Pac-Man game, a John Lennon animation, and a Jules Vernes doodle come to mind--the Chaplin project may well be the biggest project it's taken on yet.&quot;We're always trying to humanize the Google brand,&quot; Germick said. &quot;In this case, we actually put humans in the doodle.&quot;And will the team do another live action film any time soon Dutton said that &quot;the sky's the limit as to what we do next, but I'm going to go back into character now, and, like Chaplin, be silent [on the question] and say, Wait for it.&quot;Related links&amp;149' Why is Google doodling about ice cream sundaes&amp;149' At Google, doodling is real world &amp;149' Google gets Pac-Man fever<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimus Prime: Hero, guardian, lousy car parker]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>RobertsAccs</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[&amp;34'Autobots! Transform and roll...Ah, crap, really I told you all this was a metered spot.&amp;34'(Credit:@terrordrome)Optimus Prime is maybe the most famous Transformer of all. Nearly every rendition and interpretation of the Autobots has him in charge. He's wise, loyal, heroic, and, apparently, a crappy car parker.Indeed, the truck that occasionally portrays Optmius in Michael Bay's insane Transformers films is in NYC this week to promote the latest at Toy Fair 2011 (which we're all over), and a Twitter user with the awesome handle @terrordrome tweeted a photo of him outside (though the tweet is now missing). And later he noticed something: a parking ticket, as BoingBoing pointed out.We're not sure if the parking attendant didn't realize what he or she was doing, if there was some forgotten permit, or if Prime is just too badass to care about a ticket, but it's funny all the same. We're hoping the leader of the Autobots challenges it in court. Who's going to ask a 65-foot-tall heavily armed alien robot to pay the $110 fine Not any judge I've met.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hitachi and Molycorp plan rare earth joint venture]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>RobertsAccs</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. rare earth metal supplier Molycorp today said that it is planning a joint venture with Hitachi Metals to produce rare earth metals in the U.S.No definitive agreement has been signed but the talks envision production of neodymium-iron-boron alloys and magnets, according to Molycorp. If conditions are met, the companies could start producing rare earth magnets in the latter half of 2011.Molycorp is in the process or reopening a mine in Mountain Pass, California to extract and process rare earth metals, which would be the only mine in the U.S.(Credit:U.N. Environment Program)The supply of rare earth minerals has caught the world's attention because China produces about 95 percent of these metals which are used in a range of products growing in demand. A few pounds of permanent magnets made using neodymium are used in hybridcars. To build efficient and reliable direct driver wind turbines, manufacturers needs hundreds of pounds of permanent magnets from these materials. Smaller amounts of rare earths are also used in consumer electronics, disk drives, and flat screens. These minerals are also used as phosphors to produce pleasing light in efficient lighting. Earlier this year, supply of rare earth metals from China to Japan was restricted, raising alarm around the world. Last week, the Department of Energy released a report (click for PDF) listing many materials crucial for the economy, which included rare earth metals. Molycorp now produces some metals but is in the process of rehabilitating the Mountain Pass mine, which it expects to do by the end of 2012.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[By suing popular chat app Kik, is RIM poisoning its own ecosystem]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>RobertsAccs</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[RIM has filed suit against Kik Messenger, a small company that has built a tremendously popular chat application, claiming patent infringement.We&amp;'re still trying to get more details about the case, which was filed in Canada&amp;'s Federal Court in Toronto. But our best guess is that it stems from Kika4a4s imitation of RIM&amp;'s own chat service for its Blackberry phones, called Blackberry Messenger (BBM). Kik uses the same &amp;''sent,&amp;'' &amp;''delivered,&amp;'' and &amp;''read&amp;'' flags when a message is sent. RIM may be concerned because Kik does BBM one better by allowing chat across multiple smartphone platforms, including Android phones and iPhones. Kik is also blazing fast, and its adoption by 2 million users in just a few weeks threatens to outshine RIM&amp;'s own service.This all puts a nail in the coffin of Kik&amp;'s chances to serve RIM&amp;'s Blackberry phones, and it seriously endanger&amp;'s the company&amp;'s chances of survival overall.However, it&amp;'s still not clear why the service hurt Blackberry per se. According to our understanding, RIM isn&amp;'t suffering any loss of revenue if users adopt Kik instead of BBM. On the contrary, a fast, enjoyable chat application like Kik was one of the first apps built that worked really well on Blackberry, showcasing a great experience on the RIM platform at a time when most developers are focused more on the iPhone and Android platforms.Evidently, RIM must feel its BBM service still has some sort of quality edge on its main rivals and that it must fight to protect its patent to protect that lead. But by moving to protect an app within its walled garden, RIM is fighting a questionable battle, now that we&amp;'re in an age where cross-platform apps are more relevant.Here&amp;'s the bigger worry for RIM: With this move, is it inadvertently poisoning its own ecosystem If people know they can work at RIM and then start a successful startup that rides on top of the BlackBerry platform, RIM becomes a more attractive place to work and BlackBerry becomes a more attractive platform to develop on. By making an example of Kik and its chief executive, Ted Livingston, a 23-year-old former strategist at BBM who set up shop across the street from its headquarters, RIM could be shooting itself in the foot for extremely questionable gain. Yes, RIM&amp;'s always been protective of its intellectual property, but as Apple&amp;'s iPhone and now more recently Google with its Android platform have shown, you have to leave something on the table for innovators to seize.We&amp;'ve requested comment from both sides and will update if we hear back. [Update: Kik's Livingston has blogged about the suit.]Next Story: Study says training with video games can help you do your job better Previous Story: FindTheBest hints at social plans with Kleiner Perkins fundingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Blackberry, BlackBerry Messenger, patent infringementCompanies: Kik, RIMPeople: Ted Livingston          Tags: Blackberry, BlackBerry Messenger, patent infringementCompanies: Kik, RIMPeople: Ted LivingstonMatt Marshall is editor and CEO of VentureBeat. Follow him on Twitter at @mmarshall, 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[Intel wins over Apple with graphics-processor combo chip]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>RobertsAccs</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[In a blow to graphics chip maker Nvidia, Apple has decided to use Intel chips for its MacBook laptops in 2011, according to CNET. The chips, code-named Sandybridge combine 3D graphics and a microprocessor in a single chip.Intel has not commented, and Nvidia declined comment, but a source familiar with the matter confirmed the CNET story to VentureBeat.As the No. 3 computer maker, Apple is an important Nvidia graphics chip customer. Even worse, Apple is a trendsetter and its acceptance of the Intel combo chip shows that Intel&amp;'s big bet on combining the functions of two normally separate chips may pay off. Intel chief executive Paul Otellini is expected to formally announce Sandybridge at the Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 5. He has already said that Sandybridge is one of the most popular products Intel has ever had in terms of acceptance by computer makers.While lots of computer makers will talk about Sandybridge-based computers at CES, Apple is not expected to do so, since it never makes announcements at CES.The CNET story says that Apple will use the Intel processor in new low-end MacBook laptops. But that doesn&amp;'t necessarily mean that all Apple products will use Sandybridge, whose performance is targeted at the low-end of the spectrum. Advanced Micro Devices is also creating a series of combo chips, dubbed Fusion, that are debuting early next year.Nvidia&amp;'s problem is that it has the leading graphics chip capability, but it does not have a microprocessor that is compatible with Intel&amp;'s computer chip designs. In the mobile market, Nvidia has the Tegra combo processor based on ARM technology, but that kind of chip isn&amp;'t likely to be used in PCs anytime soon.For Nvidia, the challenge remains to race far ahead of its rivals with graphics technology. If it can do that, it can hang on to the high end of the market even as rivals take the low end. Historically, combo chips haven&amp;'t had great performance, but Anandtech estimates that Sandybridge will have twice the graphics performance of its predecessors.Intel doesn&amp;'t have its integrated graphics chip sets in Apple&amp;'s laptops now. Nvidia pretty much knocked Intel out of MacBooks a couple of years ago.Next Story: Epic releases groundbreaking 3D game Infinity Blade on App Store Previous Story: Chinese startups profit big from US IPOsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Fusion, Sandy BridgeCompanies: advanced micro devices, Apple, Intel, Nvidia          Tags: Fusion, Sandy BridgeCompanies: advanced micro devices, Apple, Intel, NvidiaDean 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[Wi-Fi Alliance fires back at GE endorsement of ZigBee]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>RobertsAccs</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, GE officially endorsed ZigBee as the wireless standard of choice for smart appliances in a white paper, but the Wi-Fi guys aren&amp;'t having any of it.The Wi-Fi Alliance released a statement yesterday denouncing the white paper as &amp;''flawed&amp;'' and &amp;''inaccurate.&amp;'' Though their response isn&amp;'t exactly a surprise, their counterargument merit a look.First, the Wi-Fi Alliance argues that GE&amp;'s test of power consumption used an older protocol of ZigBee (Smart Energy Profile 1.0) that lacks the security and IP communications required for smart grid use. The alliance also took issue with the study&amp;'s use of the 802.11b chip, which it says is based on decade-old Wi-Fi technology' it argues that Wi-Fi based on the newer 802.11n standard would have yielded better and more realistic results since it&amp;'s the one currently used in real-life smart grid rollouts. Finally, the statement pointed to what it said was a more comprehensive study by the Association of Home Appliances Manufacturers (AHAM)that ruled in Wi-Fi&amp;'s favor.Update: The back-and-forth continues &amp;8212' Zigbee&amp;'sspokeswoman emailed to say that the AHAM study didn&amp;'t only rule in Wi-Fi&amp;'s favor, but also singled out ZigBee as one of the top performers in its test. (HomePlug Green Phy was also in the top).A spokeswoman for the ZigBee Alliance responded to Wi-Fi&amp;'s salvos with a statement pointing out the use of ZigBee in about 40 million smart meters to date, as well as the technology&amp;'s ability to &amp;''securely transfer data at very low power rates.&amp;'' She added, &amp;''There are more than 100 &amp;8212' and growing &amp;8212' competitively priced ZigBee Certified products available today, all of which are made by different companies who performed their own due diligence before creating a product.&amp;'' It is a high-stakes fight for relevance inwhat will be a big and important pie. Pike Research estimates that the smart-grid services market will be worth $4.3 billion by 2015, and Zyprme estimated the smart grid market at $21 billion last year and forecast that it will double to nearly $43 billion by 2014. Although GE is just one customer in the smart grid market, it is a behemoth and leads as an aggressive player in smart appliances and an investor in cleantech ventures. The issue seems to mirror the protocol war in the smart grid, where cellular networks, proprietary networks and the WiMax standard continue to battle for adoption, with no hands-down clear winner yet evident.It&amp;'s also not entirely clear who to believe in this battle. GE has already integrated ZigBee into many of its home appliances, Greentech Media notes.The GE paper tested the two technologies via custom firmware and found that ZigBee consumed less power in a 24-hour period than Wi-Fi, with Wi-Fi having a larger baseline power consumption (chart from the paper is pictured, right). It also found that ZigBee&amp;'s simple processors were $11 cheaper than its Wi-Fi counterparts and argued that ZigBee&amp;'s mesh network topology was superior to Wi-Fi&amp;'s star network topology. The paper was authored by the folks at GE&amp;'s Appliances &amp;amp' Lighting division, and looked at ZigBee, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for home area networking for smart appliances. Bluetooth was dismissed for its limited range and itsstar network configuration, which relies on devices connected to a central hub, as opposed to mesh networking, where each device can act as a node.This was evidently the same hangup GE&amp;'s writers had for Wi-Fi. While the paper notes that both ZigBee and Wi-Fi &amp;''can meet data performance needs,&amp;'' it argues that ZigBee&amp;'s mesh network topology is better for reliability and ability to communicate and that it also allows some devices to remain in sleep mode while other parts of the network are active.Both sides have made their case. What do you think[Top image via Army.mil]Next Story: How VentureBeat connects: Sutus&amp;'s private cloud Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: Wind turbines could help crops, Trilliant expanding to AsiaPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: smart appliances, Smart Grid, smart grid networking, Wi-Fi, wireless communciations, wireless networking, ZigBeeCompanies: GE, Wi Fi Alliance, ZigBee, ZigBee Alliance          Tags: smart appliances, Smart Grid, smart grid networking, Wi-Fi, wireless communciations, wireless networking, ZigBeeCompanies: GE, Wi Fi Alliance, ZigBee, ZigBee AllianceIris 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[Endomondo raises $800K to make cardio training virtually social]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>RobertsAccs</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This post is sponsored by Sprint, the Now Network. Learn more here.  As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. Sprint had no involvement in the content of this post.Mobile fitness tracking application Endomondo launched additional features geared toward making a social network for cardio training today and announced that it has raised $800,000 in a seed funding round at the CTIA Wireless 2011 conference in Orlando, Fla.It&amp;'s one of a new series of applications that are trying to turn fitness into a game by giving users the chance to compete with friends and earn points for their fitness achievements, such as Runmeter and Nike GPS+. Endomondo tracks runs, cycling circuits and other cardio exercises and records distance, time and a few other health elements. Users can then see how they match up with their friends through the app&amp;'s network.The company added voice feedback to the application, it announced today. The voice-over tells users how far they have run and, if they are competing, tells them how much faster or further they have to go to beat their friends.The company is also adding a &amp;''social support&amp;'' feature, which lets other Endomondo users cheer on their friends with short messages through the application. The idea is to use the application to encourage people to workout harder and faster a4&quot; although I would probably find myself using that feature to trash talk the competition as much as possible.I&amp;'m a big fan of cardio-tracking applications because they gives me the opportunity to post times whenever I break a personal record. But more importantly, they let me brag to people whenever I lay a solid beat-down on a previous record-holder for a running circuit. Earning points for being healthy is great, but the biggest opportunity for these applications lies in creating competitions amongst users a4&quot; that by itself will inspire runners and cyclists to push themselves even harder.Endomondo launched in November 2007. The application is currently available on Android devices but will launch on the iPhone in the next few months, said Endomondo founder Mette Lykke.Next Story: Q&amp;038'A: Crysis 2 pushes the extreme edge of graphics in video games Previous Story: 5 tips for building a well-oiled sales and marketing machinePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cardio, cardio training, competition, cycling, fitness, fitness application, race, runningCompanies: Endomondo          Tags: cardio, cardio training, competition, cycling, fitness, fitness application, race, runningCompanies: EndomondoMatthew 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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