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<title><![CDATA[Google testing new search results pages]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)When it comes to change, sometimes it's hard to believe in. And sometimes it's just hard to believe your eyes.Some people have begun to notice that their Google search pages look different from those they had come to know, love, and take for granted.Suddenly, the pages seem cleaner. Suddenly, there's more white space. And suddenly the colors are greener and the underlinings beneath each search result have disappeared.Naturally, this has led to troubling words from troubled minds.Some have called the potential new look &quot;ugly.&quot; Yes, ugly. &quot;What the heck was wrong with the old design&quot; asked a distraught Twitterer.When it comes to design, though, sometimes things just get old. Partly because you've looked at them too often and partly because the world has moved and new designs offer new ways of looking at things.(Credit:Twitpic: Ian Chan)To my own eyes, the intention behind the new design is to make the pages more elegant and perhaps, therefore, to make you feel as if the results are actually more considered and accurate, rather than the morass that seems to rain down currently.Moreover, perhaps the new design emphasizes white space because Google wants to experiment more with the placement of more challenging types of advertising--you know, the sort you might enjoy rather than merely endure.There appear to be several versions popping up in different corners of the Web, so perhaps some of you might let me know what you have been seeing and how you have been seeing it.Taste is always a subjective thing. But wouldn't you like just a little more elegance and breathing room on your Google search pages<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nvidia: Gaming on Intel's next-gen chip]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Graphics-chip supplier Nvidia says it will do just fine despite claims by Intel that its next-gen chip will offer a higher-octane gaming experience. Nvidia discrete graphics chips are in Apple&amp;39's 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros.(Credit:Apple)Slated to debut at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 5, the Second Generation Intel Core--aka, &quot;Sandy Bridge&quot;--boasts improved graphics performance, allowing PC makers to offer low-cost laptops that are more adept at games and multimedia. In short, no extra graphics chip from Nvidia or Advanced Micro Devices will be required in certain laptop models.But Rene Haas, general manager, notebook products, at Nvidia, says the need for standalone GPUs, or graphics processing units, to handle increasingly demanding games and multimedia data streams above and beyond the capability of Intel's built-in--or integrated--graphics won't change next year. &quot;As we get into 2011 and look at Sandy Bridge, our perspective is that the world is not going to change very much relative to our discrete (standalone) GPUs,&quot; Haas said. Haas continued. &quot;We've talked to a lot of [PC makers] about this. The feedback that we received is that many of the same issues still exist relative to [Intel's graphics] performance. If you look at the ability to play next year's games, what's going to be the future-proofing component for integrated graphics For example,Windows 7's DX-11 (DirectX 11) does not run on Sandy Bridge integrated graphics. And GPU acceleration is now coming to browsers--IE9, Mozilla (Firefox), Chrome (Google). [Browser acceleration] is not all there yet, but having that ability to offer it is going to be pretty huge,&quot; he said. To back its assertion that demand for GPUs is healthy, Nvidia quoted an analyst in a release sent out on Thursday. &quot;Demand from [PC makers] for discrete graphics solutions remains strong and above historic levels,&quot; according to the statement from Dean McCarron of Mercury Research, which tracks the graphics-chip market. &quot;Mercury Research forecasts that discrete GPU shipments will double between 2009 and 2014.&quot; And Haas says its Optimus technology, that can seamlessly switch between Intel's integrated graphics and Nvidia's discrete GPUs--depending on power-savings and performance requirements, respectively--will be offered on most of the 200 plus Nvidia-equipped laptop models coming in 2011. Optimus toggles the system between Intel and Nvidia silicon based on the application, Haas said. &quot;Optimus decides, based on the classification of application, what processor (Intel or Nvidia) to run on. For example, any game will run on the GPU. If it's standard-definition video, such as DVD, it will run on integrated graphics because the integrated graphics will run standard definition at lower power. High-Definition video will run on the GPU,&quot; he said, as just a couple of salient examples. Nvidia says it has verified design wins at Acer, Alienware, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba in 2011. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to boost security of Office 2003, 2007]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SgratfZaro</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft plugged 40 holes with 17 patches today and said it will improve the security of Office 2003 and Office 2007 by adding a feature to the older versions of its productivity software that opens files in Protected View. Customers should focus on the two critical bulletins that are part of Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday security update, says Jerry Bryant, group manager for response communications in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. The first is MS10-090, a cumulative update for Internet Explorer. It fixes seven vulnerabilities in the browser and affects IE 6, 7 and 8. There have been attacks targeting IE 6 on Windows XP, Bryant said.  The other critical bulletin is MS10-091, which fixes several vulnerabilities in the Windows Open Type Font driver. It affects all versions of Windows, primarily on third-party browsers that natively render the Open Type Font, which IE does not, according to Bryant. The other bulletins are not critical and &quot;could potentially be put off until after Christmas,&quot; he said in an interview with CNET. Windows (all supported versions), Office IE, SharePoint, and Exchange are affected by the bulletins. Details are in the security advisory here and in the Microsoft Security Response Center blog post.  Meanwhile, the company will be porting Office File Validation, which is currently in Office 2010, to Office 2003 and Office 2007 by the first quarter of next year, Bryant said. It will be an optional update.  The move will help protect customers from attacks that target about 80 percent of the Office vulnerabilities, Bryant said. Attackers typically create a document that uses an exploit and e-mail the maliciously crafted document to potential victims or host it on a Web site and prompt people to open it.  Office File Validation checks the file-format binary schema, such as .doc or .xls, and opens the file in a protected view if it detects a problem. &quot;If the user wants to edit or continue to open the document then there are severe warnings about what that might mean&quot; and that it could be dangerous, Bryant said. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Baidu CEO considered his own run to Hong Kong]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SgratfZaro</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO--Baidu CEO Robin Li was also frustrated by Chinese censorship when he returned to his native country to found a search engine, but he said he didn't have the same options that Google had earlier this year.Baidu CEO Robin Li(Credit:Baidu) Li, speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit here in what host John Battelle said was his first U.S. appearance before an industry conference, fielded several friendly questions but was also asked about Google's decision to leave the Chinese mainland earlier this year in favor of a Chinese-language search operation based in Hong Kong, where censorship laws are different. A similar thought crossed his mind back in the earlier part of the decade before it was dismissed, he said. &quot;I'm Chinese, I don't have any other choices,&quot; Li said. &quot;If I were to move to Hong Kong, they would call me some type of anti-government person. If a U.S. company moves to Hong Kong, (the government) can still call them strategic partners.&quot; The decision to stay has clearly paid off for Li, the subject of a lengthy profile in Business Week in the days leading up to the Web 2.0 Summit. Baidu is a runaway success in China, especially now that Google's operation is hobbled by having to pass through the Great Firewall of China. Li claimed that Baidu was used by 99 percent of all Chinese Internet users, who currently number around 420 million. Baidu processes more search queries in China than Google does in the U.S., he said, and there's still a ton of room for growth in its home country. However, Li side-stepped questions about working with government censors, which Baidu is said to do more adroitly than even some of its competitors based in China. He did acknowledge that the Chinese government is working on its own search engine, a situation that would be &quot;unthinkable&quot; in the U.S., Battelle said, expressing disbelief (and rightly so) that the U.S. government would consider competing against private companies in Internet search. In what might have been the understatement of the decade, Li said &quot;China has a very strong government and the government can do a lot of things.&quot; He shrugged off any suggestions that Baidu would lose any ground in China as a result of the government's entrance into the market.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Save energy with Veutility&'s &''appliance DNA&'']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SgratfZaro</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Veutility is a new addition to the crowded energy management market. The company&amp;'s main selling point is that it uses data from a single smart meter to calculate a signature for each appliance drawing electricity. Veutility calls this signature &amp;''appliance DNA&amp;''. This signature is then used to track that appliance&amp;'s energy consumption via a web interface.Most energy management systems cannot measure the consumption of an individual appliance without using asmart-plug (an intelligent outlet that can measure power usage)for each device. Building management systems often deploy a large number of sensors attached to circuits in the building to pinpoint consumption more accurately.Veutility recentlywon the &amp;''Ireland&amp;'s Innovator&amp;'' award at the Globe Forum&amp;'s Pitch competition.Veutility CEO, Antonio Ruzzelli, is a researcher at University College Dublin&amp;'s Clarity centre, working on sensor technologies. The algorithms used to identify individual appliances and calculate &amp;''appliance DNA&amp;'', were developed there.Veutility&amp;'s system works with any off-the-shelf smart meter, and only one meter is required per building or business. It also does not require any training (some energy management systems require appliances to be switched on and off to train the system). Another feature it offers is benchmarking, which allows facility managers to compare their consumption to that of similar businesses, e.g. compare the energy consumption of several hotels in a chain.Veutilitytargets businesses with large electricity bills. It is currently running a series of pilots in Dublin with hotels, banks, restaurants and a pharmaceutical company. In hotels, the pilots are already showing results of 20-40 percent reductions in consumption. Ruzzelli gave an example from a pilot where a new chef in a hotel was not told to turn off an extra fan in a restaurant kitchen. That single appliance costs thousands of euros a month to run and was quickly identified by Veutility&amp;'s system as a major energy consumer.As the system matures, Ruzzelli hopes to build up a database of appliance DNA profiles that can be used to provide recommendations to facility managers such as suggestions for more energy-efficient equipment. Veutility will also track how the signatures of appliances change over time, since they get less efficient as they age.Competitors include startups like AlertMe, TED, Powersavvy and Ecofactor, but none of these seems to track energy consumption at the appliance level. Veutility&amp;'s business model is based on subscriptions, whose costs will vary depending on the size of the customer.Veutility is based in Dublin, Ireland and is currently raising funding.Next Story: Call of Duty Black Ops multiplayer blows away other video games on engagement Previous Story: Forecast: Online ad spending to nearly double by 2014PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: building management, energy management, sensorsCompanies: AlertMe, ecofactor, Powersavvy, TED, veutility          Tags: building management, energy management, sensorsCompanies: AlertMe, ecofactor, Powersavvy, TED, veutilityCiara 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[Twitter&'s Year In Review Begins With A Tweet&nbsp'Tree]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s that time of year, just before the holidays, when every Web company feels the need to sum up the year.  Google has its Zeitgeist as captured by our collective searches and Twitter . . . well, Twitter has the Tweet tree.  Twitter is preparing its own year in review and so far the Tweet tree is the only part that is live.What is the Tweet tree (my name)  It&amp;' s a tree highlighting some of the major figures of Twitterdom who joined the service this year, along with their first Tweets on different branches for each month.  Some of the people featured on the &amp;''Who&amp;'s New On Twitter 2010: celebrity Edition&amp;'' (actual name) include Bill Gates (January), the Dalai Lama and Conan O&amp;'Brien (February), Queen Noor and Billy Idol (March), Kanye West (July), . . . you get the idea.  Yeah, it&amp;'s pretty lame.  But wait, Twitter gets four more chances to wow us with its hindsight.  There are four more circles on the Twitter In Review page which have yet to link to whatever will come after the Twitter tree.  Right now, they just indicate that something will be &amp;''coming soon.&amp;''  What will they be  Best Tweets of the Year, Tweets Heard Round The World, Most Retweeted Tweets  Give us your best guesses in comments.CrunchBase InformationTwitterInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Best Buy should double down on mobile and entertainment]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Alright, Best Buy, it&amp;'s time to get rid of the washing machines. You are a consumer electronics store. You always have been.Best Buy&amp;'s revenue fell 1.1 percent as in-store sales fell 5 percent in its most recent fiscal quarter when compared to the same quarter a year earlier.The declining revenue is largely a result of declines in video game and TV sales.That shouldn&amp;'t come as much of a surprise. Video game sales have been declining for several months, despite a spike last month thanks to Call of Duty and Microsoft&amp;'s new Kinect motion controller. Big-name televisions are largely seen as big-ticket items that can be a tough sell during economic hardship, especially when stores like Walmart can sell less popular brands on the cheap.But Best Buy&amp;'s appliance sales, while stable when compared to the same quarter a year ago, only represent about five percent of the company&amp;'s total revenue. Compare that to the massive amount of space appliances take up, which requires additional real estate and staff. There also doesn&amp;'t seem to be a real synergy between a fridge and a plasma television.The real estate boom a4&quot; arguably the best time to sell appliances a4&quot; is already over, and it&amp;'s now time to lean down and focus on one specific sector. Best Buy&amp;'s niche has always been consumer electronics and gadgets. Sales at its Best Buy Mobile stores a4&quot; which focus solely on gadgets and consumer electronics a4&quot; saw healthy growth and helped buffer the company&amp;'s profit in its most recent quarter, according to the company&amp;'s most recent earnings report.Best Buy is even showing signs of putting a lot of focus on mobile by offering the iPhone 3GS for free for a day and is confident enough tolaunch Google&amp;'s next phone running its Android mobile operating system, the Nexus S, without a pre-order sale beforehand. Its online sales on its consumer-facing website, which largely focus on electronics and gadgets, were up 7 percent in the third quarter when compared to the same quarter a year ago.Times are tough all around. With the success of Best Buy Mobile, it seems like a pretty good time to strip off some of the fat that Best Buy has been carrying around. Imagine what the company&amp;'s profit would be if it shaved off all the costs associated with housing and selling those appliances, compared to the just about $600 million in revenue appliances bring in.Next Story: WikiLeaks roundup: Assange granted bail but still jailed, 3 hackers arrested, Air Force blocks access to cables Previous Story: After big layoffs, can Yahoo find its focusPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: Best Buy          Companies: Best BuyMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[Toshiba unveils glasses-free 3D on a laptop]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Toshiba is announcing today that it has created a prototype for a glasses-free 3D laptop. So far, nobody else seems to have this technology so Toshiba may have an  edge on rivals if it brings the machine to market.The Japanese tech company is making the announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show.Toshiba has designed the laptop with the same kind of screen it has used in 3D TVs on sale in Japan. With these models, you don&amp;'t need to wear special glasses to see images in 3D. They will allow users  to view 3D applications such as games and movies.Toshiba launched a 12-inch 3D TV that can display stereoscopic 3D images without the need for 3D glasses in Japan in December. The company plans to introduce a 40-inch version in the spring.To see the 3D effect on the TVs, users have to sit within a 40-degree angle of the front of the TV. Otherwise, they won&amp;'t be able to see the images properly. The same is likely true for the 3D laptop.I saw a demo of the screen and it worked fine, although it&amp;'s clear the image quality is still undergoing refinement. The prototype had a 15-inch screen which operates at 120 hertz, meaning it flashes images on the screen 120 times a second. It does so to create the slightly offset images of a scene necessary to experience the images in three dimensions. The product will debut sometime in 2011.In another first for Toshiba, the company is showing off its concept design for an all-in-one PC. Right now, Toshiba focuses only on selling laptops, not desktop computers. But the all-in-one is becoming much more popular and Toshiba believes it can offer a good product in that segment, said Phil Osaki, product marketing manager at Toshiba&amp;'s U.S. division.Such experimentation is one byproduct of the company&amp;'s decision to merge its U.S. TV and PC businesses into one division.&amp;''We think that the merger of consumer electronics and laptops is a fantastic one that will use technology from both sides,&amp;'' Osaki said.The 21.5-inch all-in-one PC has a TV tuner, built-in speaker bar at the bottom of the unit, and almost looks more like a consumer electronics device in its design than a PC. For now, Toshiba is not using a touchscreen in the device, which may be a disadvantage compared to Hewlett-Packard&amp;'s TouchSmart all-in-one PCs. The all-in-one is expected to be introduced in the second half of 2011.Previous Story: Investors bet $35M on AdKeepera4a4s a4Akeepablea4 adsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: 3D, 3D TV, all-in-one PC, laptopCompanies: Hewlett Packard, ToshibaPeople: Phil Osaki          Tags: 3D, 3D TV, all-in-one PC, laptopCompanies: Hewlett Packard, ToshibaPeople: Phil OsakiDean 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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