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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bezos hints at Amazon tablet in interview]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Ok, this is just a Samsung Galaxy Tab running the Kindle app, but you get the picture.For months we've been talking about the impending arrival of an Amazon Android tablet and Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos didn't quite let the cat out of the bag--but he came close.In an interview with Consumer Reports, when asked about the possibility of Amazon doing atablet, he replied, &quot;stay tuned.&quot;Bezos also said that if Amazon were to do a tablet, it wouldn't replace the Kindle but be sold alongside it. That seems rather obvious, but that he was even talking hypothetically about such a scenario strongly indicates that a tablet is coming' it's only a matter of when, what size it will be, and how much it will cost.Earlier this month, Taiwan-based Digitimes reported that notebook maker Quanta Computer had received OEM orders from Amazon for a &quot;reported tablet PC,&quot; and that it would start shipping that product as soon as the &quot;second half of this year.&quot;The tablet will almost assuredly have a color LCD, a fact that Bezos also hinted at in his conversation with Consumer Reports. He said that color e-ink &quot;is not ready for prime time...the colors are very pale&quot; (we agree) but &quot;it makes a lot of sense for there to be a low-power, reflective color display. I think that's something you could build a fantastic product around.&quot;Ironically, E Ink, the company behind the monochrome e-ink displays in the Kindle and other e-readers, has a subsidiary called Hydis that makes LCD displays with Fringe Field Switching (FFS) technology that improves the color gamut and viewing angles. The Nook Color and Samsung Galaxy Tab reportedly have these FFS screens and the new Amazon tablet probably will, too.We have a hunch Amazon wouldn't call this potential new tablet the Kindle Color (or Kindle Kolor). Instead, it would keep its dedicated e-reader brand separate from a multipurpose tablet and obviously hitch that tablet's wagon to its recently launched Appstore for Android. As it stands, Amazon invested too much brand messaging and ad dollars into the notion of an e-reader that is lightweight, can be viewed in direct sunlight, and has long battery life. An LCD-based Android tablet would have to be marketed differently.As Mr. Bezos says, stay tuned. We should be hearing lots more about an Amazon tablet in the days and weeks ahead.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Energy Dept: Obama's plug-in autos goal on track]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=energy-dept-obamas-plug-in-autos-goal-on-track</guid>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's goal of having 1 million plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015 is on its way to being met, a Department of Energy official said today.&quot;It's looking good,&quot; said Assistant Energy Secretary David Sandalow when asked by reporters on the chances of meeting the goal set by Obama.&quot;If you look at the plans of the major automotive manufacturers, there's a clear pathway to a million vehicles,&quot; Sandalow said.Sandalow spoke to reporters after his keynote address to the Society of Automotive Engineers in Detroit.Obama's goal of 1 million plug-in electric and hybridcars by 2015 was a campaign pledge that he has restated since becoming president in January 2009. The goal was widely seen as well beyond optimistic forecasts for expansion of the alternative vehicles at the time, and there is skepticism that it can be met.&quot;The pace of innovation in this industry is extraordinary, and the interest around the world is extraordinary,&quot; he said. &quot;But, partly it depends on American entrepreneurship and innovation. That's always served us very well in the past and I think it will do so in the future.&quot;The DOE will soon announce how it will handle cuts to its energy efficiency and renewable energy program. He said he was not ready to say how much of those cuts will come in the automotive sector.The cuts will not slow the Obama administration's effort on energy efficiency, he said.&quot;We will march forward aggressively to promote clean energy, and we've got the budget to do it,&quot; Sandalow said.Story Copyright (c) 2011 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IE9 release candidate tops 2 million downloads]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Internet Explorer 9&amp;39's release candidate.(Credit:Microsoft)Microsoft says the release candidate for Internet Explorer 9 has been downloaded more than 2 million times since its release late last week.Microsoft first released the software to the public last Thursday, after a five-month beta run with a total download count that topped 25 million. Later this month the company will offer an upgrade through the Windows Update software to those beta users who have not yet updated to the release candidate. Included in this new version of the browser software are some 2,000 changes made since the last beta. The build also includes two new security and privacy features: tracking protection, and ActiveX filtering, alongside performance and UI enhancements, which you can read more about here.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Green asphalt' layers cool surface on school lot]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[What's light green, sprayed on top of asphalt, and lowers the temperature of parking lots by 30 degrees If you went to school at Robert L. Duffy school in Phoenix, you'd know the answer. Late last month, the charter school became the testing ground for &quot;green asphalt,&quot; a concrete-based reflective covering designed to make asphalt surfaces cooler and more durable.A school 'goes green' with cooler pavement (photos) View the full galleryPhoenix-based Emerald Cities installed the coating at the school to demonstrate the viability of the technology to city leaders and contractors, company CEO Sheri Roese said yesterday.As part of its efforts to be carbon neutral, the school had its parking lot resurfaced to lower the energy needed for cooling adjacent buildings and make the parking lot more comfortable for students during lunch and recess. On very hot days, temperatures of lots can get so hot--sometimes topping 200 degrees Fahrenheit--that the asphalt will begin to soften and offgas, Roese said. The lighter &quot;cool pavement&quot; can reduce temperatures by 30 degrees to 40 degrees, according to Emerald Cities.The idea of using reflective materials to lower temperatures locally and as a tool against global warming is gaining ground. Last month, the Department of Energy installed a &quot;cool roof&quot; on one of its buildings, a white-colored coating that replaced a roof in need of replacing. A cooler roof can mean a 10 percent to 15 percent reduction in the cooling load, DOE under secretary Cathy Zoi said in a blog.In aggregate, cool roofs (PDF) can make a significant difference on energy use and act as a way to reflect heat back into space, according to researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They estimated that if just over three quarters of commercial buildings were covered with cool roofs, the reduction in air conditioning load would be the equivalent of taking a millionscars off the road, or 6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, Zoi said. Lawrence Berkeley now is working with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and he California Energy Commission on the Cool Colors Project to research and develop cool-colored roofing materials. Nano-engineered concreteEmerald Cities' Roese said she was inspired by the cool roofs' work at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs to make a reflective material for pavements.The company has developed a line of coatings with colors ranging from gray to a sage green that can be used to cover existing asphalt. It is also working to develop a clear, reflective coating that would address concerns over glare on roadways, Roese said &quot;After researching it, we realized [reflective materials] would be a wonderful way to curb CO2 and heat and prevent smog [from offgassing]. It's just that people are not focused on it. They don't realize that color holds the key to some carbon emission and heat reductions,&quot; she said.To make the coating, reflective pigments are dissolved in a special type of concrete engineered to be much stronger than traditional concrete, Roese said. This concrete is nano engineered to create a dense silica structure of tiny crystals that makes concrete stronger. Because it's stronger than regular concrete, a thin layer, just a fraction of an inch thick, can be applied to surfaces and last for five to eight years, Roese said. The cost is one dollar per square foot, plus labor.  The coating can be sprayed on, rolled on with painting rollers, or pressed on with a squeegee-like applicator, depending of the thickness. The installation at the school was done with sprayers similar to those used by swimming pool professionals and house painters.For municipalities, cool pavements can be part of sustainability efforts and address the urban heat island effect, where built-up areas are hotter than rural areas. Colors can be chosen for decorative purposes and put on pavement such as crosswalks or bike paths and even walls, said Roese, a former surface designer who worked with architects. &quot;When I saw you could paint with this and we could stop this march toward destroying the Earth, that was it. This is a calling for me,&quot; she said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft warns of Windows flaw affecting image rendering]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Microsoft)Microsoft warned today of a Windows vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take control of a computer if the user is logged on with administrative rights. To be successful, an attacker would have to send an e-mail with an attached Microsoft Word or PowerPoint file containing a specially crafted thumbnail image and convince the recipient to open it, Microsoft said in its advisory, which also contains information on workarounds.  An attacker also could place the malicious image file on a network share and potential victims would have to browse to the location in Windows Explorer.  The flaw, which is in the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine, could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the security context of the logged-on user, meaning that accounts that are configured to have fewer user rights would be affected less. The vulnerability affects Windows XP Service Pack 3, XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2, Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2, Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based systems, Vista Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2, Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2, Server 2008 for 32-bit, 64-bit, and Itanium-based systems and Service Pack 2 for each.  Microsoft said it is not aware of attacks exploiting the vulnerability or of any impact on customers at this time. The company is working on a fix but did not indicate when it would be available. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Six things not to love about the Nexus S]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy S(Credit:Samsung)As promising as the new Samsung Nexus S sounds, there are a few notable issues that might give some potential buyers pause for concern. Yes, the Nexus S could rank as a premier smartphone when it arrives given its new NFC chip, contour display, and Gingerbread, but the advantages over its Nexus One predecessor aren't many. I think it's only fair to point out some of the items that aren't quite what I expected out of Google. I've spent considerable time playing with various iterations of the Galaxy S line of phones and have found them to be some of the best devices Android has to offer. If you ask me, any one of them would be worth your money, and I hoped that the Nexus S will be on par with its Samsung siblings. But after I compiled the below list, I'm not so sure.Here six reasons why I'm disappointed with the unveiling of the Nexus S. While none of these are deal breakers for me personally, they might be for someone else.No microSD expansionLet's face it, 16GB should be more than enough storage for the average smartphone user. Unless you're loading tons of music and full-length films, you're not going to come close to reaching capacity. Even so, the Nexus S doesn't allow for additional customer choice. And there may be people who just need more than 16GB.  Indeed, the capability to add storage is one of the features we've seen consistently since on every Android phone since the G1. As memory card speeds and capacities increased, I was getting comfortable with the idea that storage would never be an issue. Now, however, I'm not so sure. Hopefully, Sammy isn't copying Apple's move of not adding external memory to theiPhone.No LED notificationsMany Android users, myself included, rely on the LED indicator of our handsets to notify us of missed calls, new e-mails, and texts. As silly as it sounds, it feels almost tedious to power on the phone every once in awhile to see if I have a new message. What's more, theNexus One has a cooler option that allows users to trick out their handset with different trackball indicator colors for various notifications. Being that the Nexus S doesn't have that either, one must resort to manually checking for messages. That's just so 2008.5-megapixel cameraYes, today's Galaxy S series of phones offer 5-megapixel cameras that take excellent photos and record terrific video. However, I would have liked to have seen an 8-megapixel camera in the Nexus S. HTC and Motorola have dropped higher-resolution shooters in their high-end phones throughout the year. Even last year's Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has an 8.1-megapixel camera. But to Samsung's credit, at least this wasn't a 3.2-megapixel camera like Motorola's new Citrus. No HDMI outout/DLNAAnother hardware feature that has become popular over the course of 2010 is the ability to run HD videos out to a television or supported device. Two of the most common ways to do so are HDMI-output and Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). HTC has been integrating HDMI output into its phones such as the Evo 4G and upcoming Merge, while Motorola uses DLNA for the Droid 2 and the recent Bravo. What happens when you want to share those HD videos with a room full of friendsSingle-core processorAsk any Android enthusiast what the buzzword for 2011 will be and you'll hear dual-core processor. As the 1GHz Snapdragon chipset defined 2010's super phone, next year will be all about the dual-core Tegra 2 from Nvidia. Samsung unveiled its Orion processor earlier in the summer, promising it for select devices by the end of this year. Of all handsets to debut this chipset with, the Nexus S should have been the one. On the other hand, that Hummingbird processor is a screamer and still runs circles around the competition.No 4G/HSPA+ supportT-Mobile and its competitors are in a tight race to build out their next-generation data networks, but the Nexus S can't join that party. As we've learned by the slew of press releases and the ad campaign, T-Mobile's recent G2 and myTouch 4G are capable of working on the HSPA+ network, so we don't understand why such a highly anticipated device doesn't have that ability as well. And like the Nexus One, the Nexus S is optimized only for T-Mobile's 3G network even though it's sold unlocked. That means that if you want to use it on AT&amp;T, you'll have to be satisfied with 2G connection speeds. When taken as a whole, and especially when you compare it with the Android handsets expected in early 2011, the Nexus S lacks a few important hardware features. But as I mention above, I don't think they're deal breakers and I still might recommend the Nexus S to new Android customers if it performs well. But in a sector that changes as rapidly as Android, this one could potentially leave you with buyer's remorse.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jaguar's supercomputing reign coming to an end]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[A timeline of supercomputing speed.(Credit:AMD)The Jaguar supercomputer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, has been the fastest supercomputer on the planet for almost a year. But is it about to lose that title and place atop the podiumEvery six months, the Top500 project releases the rankings of the most powerful supercomputers. The current pace of technology development means the list does tend to reorder every half a year or so. But Jaguar has been poised at the top of the food chain for almost a year. Though the Top500 list doesn't get released until next week, it's been widely assumed that Jaguar will be taken down by a supercomputer built by China's National University of Defense Technology, located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin.Jaguar narrowly avoided being overtaken in June, the last time the rankings were released. The Nebulae supercomputer, located at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, came in second, achieving 1.271 petaflops/s (1.271 quadrillion floating point operations per second) running something called the Linpack benchmark. But it appears that Jaguar's lead has been overcome this time. There have been reports about it over the last few weeks, and President Barack Obama even mentioned it during a speech last week:&quot;And we just learned that China now has the fastest supercomputer on Earth--that used to be us. They're making investments because they know those investments will pay off over the long term,&quot; he said.The supercomputers are ranked on many factors, but the the Top500 list is ordered based on the results of the Linpack benchmark. Even if it places the Tianjin supercomputer above Jaguar, it doesn't necessarily mean the U.S. is getting bumped from its perch atop supercomputing, argue two scientists who work at Oak Ridge.&quot;What you find historically with these supercomputers is they become the normal machines 5 or 10 years later that everybody uses.&quot;--Jeremy Smith, Center for Molecular Biophysics&quot;China might have the largest number of cores in one computer, so theoretically they have the most powerful computer. But they maybe don't have the most powerful scientific codes yet that use that computer,&quot; said Jeremy Smith, director of the Center for Molecular Biophysics at the University of Tennessee, in an interview. &quot;So from that perspective, they may not be at the same level as Oak Ridge.&quot;Jaguar is comprised of more than 250,000 AMD Opteron cores, running extremely sophisticated computer programs that try to answer complex questions like why ribosomes (components of cells that create amino acids) are dependent on magnesium, how to simulate making more environmentally-friendly ethanol out of plant material, and how to predict climate change. Jaguar's specialty is getting all those cores running together extremely efficiently, which is a separate and perhaps harder task than just building a really powerful computer.Smith says that the projects at Oak Ridge National Laboratory run extremely efficiently on Jaguar, and the scientific value of the computing is therefore very high.While China's supercomputer is based on GPUs (graphics processing unit) (in this case, built by Nvidia), and it's faster technically because the CPU (central processing unit) uses the GPU to accelerate its speed. But if you don't get the software to run on it properly, it's actually harder to use, Roland Schultz, graduate student at the University of Tennessee's Center for Molecular Biophysics, said.What Schultz says he is much more interested in is the Gordon Bell Prize, which is awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery to the most innovative scientific application of supercomputing. Teams from Oak Ridge have won most recently in 2008 and 2009 for research into high-temperature superconductivity, or sending electricity over long distances in high temperatures with no loss of transmission.But do we make too much of who's faster Smith put it in perspective.&quot;What you find historically with these supercomputers is they become the normal machines 5 or 10 years later that everybody uses,&quot; said Smith. &quot;The Jaguar machines that we're so amazed at right now, it could be every university or company has one&quot; eventually.We'll know exactly how things have shaken out next week when the Top500 List is released. But even if Jaguar does get hunted down by a Chinese supercomputer, it's not as if the folks at Oak Ridge are sitting still. The Department of Energy, which owns Oak Ridge's supercomputer, is already looking at moving from the current peta-scale computing (a quadrillion floating point operations per second) to exa-scale computing (a quintillion floating point operations per second), a speed one thousand times faster than Jaguar is currently capable of processing at.&quot;To get there in the next 5 to 10 years, to get to 10 million cores in one room, is a major technical challenge,&quot; noted Smith. &quot;It's going to be fundamentally different than before. It's a hardware problem, and getting the software working is a major challenge indeed.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook holding mobile event next week]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook&amp;39's event invite(Credit:Facebook)The much-rumored and quickly denied Facebook phone could finally be unveiled next week--or at least something new relating to using the social network on mobile devices.Earlier today the company began sending out invites to members of the press for a mobile-focused event next Wednesday at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.Back in September, rumors began swirling that the company was working with device manufacturers on a Facebook-branded handset. A Facebook spokesperson quickly responded by saying that it was flat-out false, and that &quot;building phones is just not what we do.&quot;Recent numbers made public by the company had said more than 150 million of its 500 million active members use the site from their phones. Facebook maintains both a mobile-friendly version of the site, and native software applications--both of which could end up being the focus of Wednesday's event, among possible hardware developments and partner tie-ins. CNET will be on the scene to bring you the news.See also: Why a Facebook Phone may not be nuts<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hawaii aims for microthermal solar utopia]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It's not every solar project that gets its own ground-blessing ceremony.But the Kalaeloa Solar One project will pay back native Hawaiians with both energy and rent through a partnership with Keahole Solar Power, Hawaiian start-up Sopogy, and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL).Which is why there was a ground-blessing ceremony held for the project yesterday in Kalealoa, Oahu, west of Honolulu. Sopogy is supplying its micro-concentrated solar panels (MicroCSP) for the 5-megawatt thermal solar plant that will tie-in to a new plan for the Kalealoa community near Honolulu./p&gt; Sopogy's panels are actually small solar troughs with reflective coating that direct sunlight onto a pipe running through it carrying oil. That hot oil is then run through an Organic Rankine cycle: the oil is directed to a boiler where it's converted into steam then directed to power a turbine to generate electricity, after which it's re-condensed and sent back through the pipes for reuse.Sopogy's proprietary system also has built-in storage that enables it to retain electricity for later use, allowing the thermal solar plant to still supply electricity for a portion of time at night or on cloudy days.Aerial view of Kalealoa(Credit:State of Hawaii)While the 5-megawatt project may seem small compared to the 392-megawatt or 1,000-megawatt thermal solar projects reported about in recent weeks, this is Hawaii's largest concentrated solar project to date. The MicroCSP Sopogy system that has been operating in Kona, Hawaii, since 2009 is 2-megawatts.The project will contribute, of course, to Hawaii's now well-known goal to get 70 percent of its energy from renewable resources by 2030.But in addition to supplying enough electricity, the solar project also seems to be a test case for the DHHL, the state agency trust that manages and develops the protected lands for native Hawaiians and has leased out the land for the solar project. Kalaeloa, where the solar plant will be located, consists of 3,700 acres of land. It encompasses the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station lands, which were recently handed over to the state, and remain largely undeveloped.The solar plant is tied to the Kalaeloa Master Plan development project consisting of 6,350 residential units, as well as commercial, retail, and office space estimated to create 7,000 permanent jobs as part of a partnership with the DHHL.In addition to supplying solar energy, the Kalaeloa Solar One project will also pay rent to the DHHL for the space its solar arrays occupy. That income will be used to build residences and fund programs for native Hawaiians.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese startups profit big from US IPOs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Suzana</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Was there a clear signal when the British Empire was eclipsed by its colonies When the New Economy pushed aside the oldIn the digital world, we may have just witnessed such an event.Wednesday  saw two of Chinaa4a4s most visible Internet players go public on US  exchanges. Despite raising the filing ranges on both, and pricing each  above those ranges, both shot up to levels that provide a clear signal  that Chinese Internet companies are increasingly in the pole position.  It has been a decade in the making, but investors are now not only  willing to concede that Chinaa4a4s players are worth more (per dollar of  revenues or earnings) than their Silicon Valley counterparts, theya4a4re  willing to bet on Chinese businesses without first having seen the  movie play out before in the US. The message: growth rules.Investors will pay more for the Amazon.com of China (Dangdang) than  for Amazon itself. The YouTube of China (Youku) is welcome to tap  the US markets even before its Silicon Valley counterpart. Investor  demand drove shares of both companies far higher in the aftermarket,  with Dangdang (DANG:NYSE) rising 86.9% to close at  $29.91 and Youku (YOKU:NYSE) climbing 161% to close at $33.44.  Youku set the record for the biggest one day gain since Baidua4a4s  blockbuster IPO in 2005.While  not the first Internet IPOs out of Asia to go public this cycle and  immediately trade up, these two stand out. At the very beginning of  each upturn, Asian Internet IPOs are priced in line with a4&quot; or lower than &amp;8212' their US counterparts. However, investors pay up for growth  and immediately bid those shares up in the aftermarket to reflect it.  As it becomes clear what type of premiums investors are willing to pay  for varying levels of growth, underwriters usually narrow the gap over  time by pricing the next IPOs at higher multiples. That  usually implies a decline in first day pops (before allowing for  individual company differences).Wednesdaya4a4s debuts, however, were anything but typical. Their performances reflect unique attributes.  Dangdang,  Chinaa4a4s No. 1 bookseller online, is, like Amazon.com, more than just a bookseller. The Dangdang.com  flagship site is well established across the consumer market. Backed by top venture firms in Silicon Valley and China such as DCM, it has been a long-anticipated listing, as its competitive position is  solid, it has a meaningful operating history with significant revenues  and it has turned a profit. Most importantly, it is seeing top-line  growth north of 50% off of that base.  For  investors, Dangdang represents a chance to invest in a known business  model, a proven team, and participate early in a rapidly growing, and,  ultimately, a very large market.At  the first day close, DANG is valued at $2.3 billion, which represents  7.7x latest 12-month revenues (vs. 2x for AMZN). However, the  rapid growth makes a 12-month comparison stale. The spread narrows  when looking at the third quarters annualized, and presumably converges if  growth continues at a reasonable pace into the near future. Youku  is also No. 1 in its market a4&quot; online video &amp;8212' and has an experienced management  team led by founder Victor Koo (previously COO of SOHU). It has blue chip  backers including firms such as Sequoia. From there the comparison with Dangdang diverges. A younger company in a younger sector, Youkua4a4s ad-based business model yields a smaller base of revenue  ($17.2 million in Q3), but is growing at an even faster pace (over  100% year-over-year). The company is not yet profitable. At its first  day close, it has a market capitalization of $3.3 billion, implying a  multiple of around 100x latest 12-month revenues.Even annualizing its latest  quarterly revenue of $17.2 million still implies a revenue multiple of  around 50x. Even so, other  China net listings have gone on from high initial double a4&quot; or even  triple a4&quot; digit revenue multiples to yield strong returns over time  (NTES, BIDU, CTRP etc.). With that higher multiple comes an expectation to deliver exceptional rates of growth.Although  somewhat of a hybrid model with elements of YouTube, Hulu and possibly  Netflix, Youku is regarded as the &amp;''YouTube of China&amp;''. Without a close  public US comparable off of which to value the company, the offering is  unprecedented. Instead of representing a source of negative  uncertainty, Youku actually benefitted as the first major vehicle to  satisfy worldwide investor interest in the Internet video space, and has now set the bar against which US players may be measured.Over  the last few years, leading US Internet players have tended to wait as  long as possible to go public. However, as lines between national  markets continue to blur over time, the Facebooks and YouTubes of the  world may conclude that allowing others the advantage of tapping the US  equity markets &amp;8212' the most affordable capital available a4&quot; while limiting  themselves to the private markets, is an unacceptable risk to take for  any meaningful period of time.Chinaa4a4s  digital elite have demonstrated time and again how difficult it is for  foreign firms to compete in a very local market. While both Dangdang and Youku are focused on the Chinese market near-term, now that they have access to US  capital at inexpensive levels, perhaps the relevant question going  forward is how difficult will it be for Chinese companies to play in the  US marketDavid  Williams is founder and CEO of Williams Capital Advisors, LLC, an  investment banking firm serving emerging growth companies. David has  invested in pre-IPO and/or acted as lead IPO underwriter for a number of  Asian Internet companies including NTES, BIDU, and SIFY.[Top image credit: Futureatlas.com]Previous Story: Google looks to lure in more enterprise users by copying Microsoft Exchange data to the cloudPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: China, IPOsCompanies: Amazon, DangDang, Youku, YouTubePeople: David Williams          Tags: China, IPOsCompanies: Amazon, DangDang, Youku, YouTubePeople: David WilliamsVentureBeat 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[Nintendo says its sold 1.5M Wii and DS game systems during Black Friday week]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nintendo sold 1.5 million Wii console and DS handheld video-game systems during Black Friday week, according to the Japanese company.The announcement by Nintendo&amp;'s American arm shows the company&amp;'s determination not to be counted out against heavy competition from Sony and Microsoft in the battle for consumers&amp;' living rooms and pockets , a competitive landscape that&amp;'s growing ever more cluttered as smartphones and smart TVs add game and entertainment features which were once the sole province of set-top video-game consoles and portable game players.Nintendo said it sold more than 600,000 Wii consoles and 900,000 DS units between Nov. 21 and Nov. 27 in the U.S., according to its internal sales estimates. Nintendo offered multiple new colors for the Wii and bundled games and hardware to lure shoppers. The Wii costs $199 bundled with a Wii Remote Plus and two Nintendo games. The DSi XL comes with three games and sells for $179. The DSi is bundled with one game and sells for $149.Those one-week numbers are a lot more than Nintendo sold in the whole month of October, according to sales data from market researcher NPD. But Nintendo did not say whether those numbers beat last year&amp;'s Black Friday week. In general, sales of the Wii and the DS have been much weaker than a year ago, as both systems have begun to show their age (The Wii launched in 2006 and the DS launched in 2004). Microsoft&amp;'s Xbox 360 console, by contrast, has had a stellar year, with sales up considerably from a year ago.Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and signals the beginning of the holiday sales season. But bargains were available throughout the week at most retailers (Black Friday refers to the day when retailers traditionally swing into the black, or a profit, for the year).Reggie Fils-Aime, president of the Nintendo of America, said that Nintendo sold about 9,000 hardware systems for every hour during every day of Black Friday week. The Wii has had a relatively weak title line-up this fall, particularly since Nintendo delayed a new Zelda game for the Wii. But other big titles include Wii Party, Kirby&amp;'s Epic Yarn, FlingSmash, GoldenEye 007, and Disney Epic Mickey.Next Story: Google acquires Groupon for $2.5B Previous Story: 5 pitfalls of online advertisingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Disney Epic Mickey, DS, DSi, DSi XL, wiiCompanies: Microsoft, nintendoPeople: Reggie Fils-Aime          Tags: Disney Epic Mickey, DS, DSi, DSi XL, wiiCompanies: Microsoft, nintendoPeople: Reggie Fils-AimeDean 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[Gillmor Gang 11.20.10&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Gillmor Gang convened this week in the wake of the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco. Much of the conversation, however, concerned TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington&amp;'s water crisis. We did get a chance to intermingle some attitude about Facebook&amp;'s new Message platform, which apparently only Robert Scoble has wangled an active account.The Gang was split down the middle on Facebook&amp;'s credibility in the data portability space, with Arrington and searchengineland editor Danny Sullivan arguing that Facebook are a bunch of liars and salesforce.com Cloudblogger John Taschek saying everybody in Silicon Valley was challenged in the truthiness department. Gillmor, of course, argued back and forth just for the sake of it. Arrington eventually veered off into a discussion of virtual reality, leaving us with the thought that whoever invents that will get all the money.CrunchBase InformationSteve GillmorMichael ArringtonRobert ScobleDanny SullivanJohn TaschekInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Groupon: clueless as Kenneth Cole]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The scene: a conference room at Groupon HQ, last Thursday.Marketing Guy One: &amp;''Hmm. Kenneth Cole tweeted something jokey today about Egyptians going crazy for his spring collection and he&amp;'s being pummeled mercilessly online for being &amp;''extraordinarily tin-eared&amp;'' &amp;8212' whatever that means.Marketing Guy Two: &amp;''Uh-oh. Do you think maybe our Super Bowl Tibet ad will be similarly pilloried by people for what they call &amp;''bad taste&amp;'' and what we call &amp;''advertising&amp;''Marketing Guy One: &amp;''Well, the $3 million is already spent, so the point is moot. Better have PR prepare an apology statement for Monday, just in case. But don&amp;'t worry, dude: buzz is buzz, bro!. High five!http://www.youtube.com/watchv=vVkFT2yjk0A&amp;amp'feature=player_embeddedNext Story: Aircell raises $35M to fuel its in-flight Internet Previous Story: Violin Memory raises $35M for cloud storage usersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: advertisingCompanies: Groupon, kenneth colePeople: kenneth cole          Tags: advertisingCompanies: Groupon, kenneth colePeople: kenneth coleDan Mitchell covers media and technology for VentureBeat,  Fortune.com, and anyone else who will pay him. He previously covered the rise of the Internet for Wired, Cnet News.com, Red Herring, the Industry Standard, Business 2.0 and other  publications and was a Web producer for National Public  Radio. For three years he wrote the column &quot;What's Online&quot; for The New  York Times' Business Day. His popular blog &quot;Daily Bread,&quot; about the  business and political economics of food, ran for two years on Slate's  business site, The Big Money. 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[So long RIM: Dell to dump 25K BlackBerrys' Bank of America, Citigroup look to iPhone]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In an inauspicious start to the day for Research in Motion, three major BlackBerry clients have announced that they&amp;'re moving to new devices.Dell is planning to move its 25,000 employees away from BlackBerry, and towards its own devices, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Dell employees will initially be moved to the company&amp;'s Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 smartphone and will eventually have the choice of moving to Dell&amp;'s high-end Thunder Android phone.&amp;''Clearly in this decision we are competing with RIM, because we&amp;'re kicking them out,&amp;'' Dell chief financial officer Brian Gladden told the WSJ. He goes on to say that the switch, which will begin next week, will save Dell 25 percent in mobile costs &amp;8212' mostly because it won&amp;'t need to pay for BlackBerry servers any longer. Dell is also in discussions with T-Mobile to buy bulk voice minutes and mobile data that can be carried over monthly.Dell is also planning services &amp;8212' like network setups and asset management &amp;8212' that could lure other businesses to dump BlackBerrys en masse as well. Now that Dell is offering some very desirable smartphones of its own, the move is a way for the company to help promote its own devices. Dell also isn&amp;'t afraid of selling competing mobile devices, since it will see higher margins through its service offerings, according to Gladden.In other news, two of the largest banks in the U.S., Bank of America and Citigroup, are looking to dump BlackBerrys in favor of iPhones, according to Bloomberg. Sources tell the paper that both banks are testing software that will make the iPhone secure for company messages.The banks are also testing Android devices, but it sounds like iPhone testing is further along at this point. The sources say the banks are looking to expand the variety of device choices for employees, instead of just dropping BlackBerrys cold-turkey like Dell.The news follows a report from last month that showed the iPhone outmatched its business competition in activations. Apple also revealed in its most recent earnings call that it was seeing widespread adoption for the iPad and iPhone among enterprise users. Apple recently announced that it will work with Unisys to expand its enterprise offerings.The reports are a one-two punch for RIM, but they certainly didn&amp;'t come out of the blue. RIM&amp;'s most recent flagship device, the BlackBerry Torch, was a decent upgrade for BlackBerry users, but it still wasn&amp;'t compelling enough to compete with the iPhone 4 and new Android devices. And while RIM is stagnating, Google, Apple, and even Microsoft, are targeting the now vulnerable mobile enterprise space.Next Story: Explore the intersection of electric vehicles and smart grids at The Networked EV Previous Story: Is it downhill for the chip industry now Wall Street thinks so (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, Blackberry, enterprise, iPhone, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: Apple, Bank of America, Citigroup, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Research In Motion, RIMPeople: Brian Gladden          Tags: Android, Blackberry, enterprise, iPhone, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: Apple, Bank of America, Citigroup, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Research In Motion, RIMPeople: Brian GladdenDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel looking for new MeeGo partners &8212' good luck with that]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Once the love child of Intel and Nokia, the MeeGo mobile operating system may be dead in the water now that Nokia has partnered with Microsoft to use its Windows Phone operating system in its phones.But Intel isn&amp;'t ready to throw in the towel yet. CEO Paul Otellini said in a meeting with analysts this morning that Intel is seeking out new partners for MeeGo, Reuters reports.Prepare yourself for a long search, Paul.The deck was stacked against MeeGo since Nokia and Intel first announced it early last year. At the time, it theoretically sounded like a promising competitor to the iPhone and Android operating systems. But both of those platforms made significant strides forward in 2010 while MeeGo remained quiet. Nokia reportedly scrapped its first planned MeeGo device, and now it only has plans to release a single MeeGo phone as an experiment.Intel said last week that it is &amp;''not blinking&amp;'' on MeeGo, and it proceeded to demonstrate its tablet interface for the OS at the Mobile World Congress conference this week. Intel also plans to support Android and Windows Phone 7 in the mobile arena but clearly wants a mobile platform to call its own.There&amp;'s little reason I can think of for any company to jump into Intel&amp;'s MeeGo quicksand pit. Most companies have already decided to support Google&amp;'s Android OS in lieu of their own, and there simply wouldn&amp;'t be anything to gain from pouring money into MeeGo. It doesn&amp;'t offer any features that competing platforms don&amp;'t, something that even Palm&amp;'s beleaguered WebOS managed to do last year with its slick multitasking interface.So why continue this charade Otellini says that &amp;''carriers still want a third ecosystem and the carriers want an open ecosystem, and that&amp;'s the thing that drives our motivation.&amp;'' He went on to say, &amp;''Some closed models will certainly survive, because you can optimize the experience, but in general, if you harness the ability of all the engineers in the world and the developers in the world, open wins.&amp;''Indeed, open will win, but that open champion will be called Android.Next Story: Nokia Plan B: Journalists fooled by &amp;''one very bored engineer&amp;'' Previous Story: OpenFeint Connect lets gamers socialize across different smartphonesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: meegoCompanies: Intel, nokia, PalmPeople: Paul Otellini          Tags: meegoCompanies: Intel, nokia, PalmPeople: Paul OtelliniDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra. 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[Junar:a4sthe dashboard for cheap Web content production]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple tried to create a data-specific search engine called OpenDoc way back in the day a4&quot; but that didn&amp;'t turn out too well.Junar wants to try it again, this time attempting to solve the problem with a Web-based dashboard that lets users search the Web for data streams and plant the streams directly on a landing page. The company announced that it is launching today at the Launch Conference in San Francisco.Users basically search for any kind of data a4&quot; such as the stock price for Apple or what the standings in the NBA East conference are a4&quot; and can add widgets to a Web page that automatically updates those data streams. Users can then export that data out to Excel or create an embed code that they can drop into another Web page. They can also share the data through Facebook and other social networks.The data-searching problem is a logistical nightmare. It requires either incredibly complex interfaces like those seen in financial terminals from companies like Bloomberg or Reuters. That, or the user interface isn&amp;'t complex enough a4&quot; so there aren&amp;'t enough ways to manipulate and export the data. And it&amp;'s hard to find streams of information that are constantly updating.&amp;''OpenDoc had this same exact vision and it didn&amp;'t work a4&quot; the messiness of humans interacting with data, it just didn&amp;'t work,&amp;'' said Joyent founder David Young, a Launch Conference judge. &amp;''I wish the best of luck to you, but the standard is the hardest part of this.&amp;''Junar gets around that problem by constantly pinging sites for information, rather than storing it. The data comedirectly from the website when it is accessed, so it shouldtheoreticallyalways be up to date. There are also &amp;''top dashboards&amp;'' for the most popular data sets on the site that users can quickly access a4&quot; such as a collection of data regarding the crisis in Egypt a4&quot; so they don&amp;'t have to constantly look for new data.The service seems extremely useful for journalists and other companies that regularly access that kind of data to produce new content. The easier it is to access the data, the more quickly those sites can push out new content.The site is free to use and will release a number of premium features that will require a $12.95 per month subscription.Next Story: NeuAer uses radio signals to make your smartphone smarter Previous Story: Uh-oh: Graphight reminds salespeople to stay in touchPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: data mining, data search, OpenDoc, terminalsCompanies: Apple, Bloomberg, Junar          Tags: data mining, data search, OpenDoc, terminalsCompanies: Apple, Bloomberg, JunarMatthew 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[At Vermont workshop, make your own hyperlocal dinner table - Springwise]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If consumers like to make their own pancakes, bicycles and wedding rings, it stands to reason that they might enjoy crafting their own dinner tables, too. The appeal gets even stronger, however, when those tables are sourced entirely from the local environment, with an opportunity to meet everyone involved. Such, in fact, is exactly what''s delivered at a new series of workshops by Vermont furniture purveyor ShackletonThomas.Six months prior to each Naked Table event, 100-year-old Sugar Maple trees are locally harvested from a sustainably managed forest in Vermont. They are logged, sawn, dried and machined by various local artisans until they''re ready to be made into tables. Then, on the designated weekend, 15 guests arrive for an experience focused on a4Aconnecting people to each other and the environment, making things by hand,a4 as the company puts it. Assisted by several ShackletonThomas furniture makers and finishers from Vermont Natural Coatings, participants spend the first day assembling, smoothing and finishing their tables. The weekend culminates the following day when people gather around the completed tables (joined to make one 75-foot-long table) for a celebratory, locally grown feast.Participants also get to visit the woods with a professional forester to see the source of their lumber and identify a replacement seedling tree. The GPS coordinates of that tree are then recorded and attached to the base of the signed, numbered and finished Naked Table. Each table also comes with a certificate stating the origins of the wood and a list of the people who helped create the table a4&quot; from the logger who cut the tree to the furniture maker who applied the final finish. Following a Woodstock community weekend event in late August, there is a one-day workshop coming up on Sept. 25' pricing starts at USD 1,600 per couple, including lunch and a t-shirt. Another weekend workshop is planned for October, with pricing starting at USD 3,200 per couple including also a two-night inn stay, meals, demonstrations and delivery of the resulting table within 300 miles.It''s hard to imagine any better embodiment of (still) made here appeal than a table one makes oneself in this way, and the status stories participants gain along the way are surely valued just as highly. Experience economy, meet the hyperlocal trend a4&quot; go forth and multiply! '-)Website: www.nakedtable.comContact: info@shackletonthomas.comSpotted by: Mark Hexamer <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cognito Comics launches its first graphic novel for the iPad]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, Cognito Comics and gaming company Tall Chair demonstrated one of the coolest media experiences that I&amp;'ve seen on the iPad &amp;8212' Operation Ajax, a graphic novel created specifically for the device. At the time, the idea was still very much in development, but today the Operation Ajax application has gone live in Apple&amp;'s App Store.The major startups in digital comics, ComiXology and Graphic.ly, have focused their energies on making deals with publishers to transfer existing comics to the iPad or other devices. Operation Ajax, on the other hand, was created with the iPad in mind, avoiding some of the issues that come with transferring from print (the iPad screen is slightly smaller than a standard comic book page, for starters), and also making the supplementary material that can&amp;'t be delivered in print a natural extension of the experience.In this case, the comic in question is based on Stephen Kinzer&amp;'s nonfiction book All the Shah&amp;'s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, which recounts the 1953 coup in Iran. Cognito gives the story dramatic shape by telling it through the eyes of a fictional CIA operative, but the company says it worked with Kinzer to make sure that the underlying facts are correct.Operation Ajax is a comic, but it features lots of animation to move readers from panel to panel and page to page. Like I said, it&amp;'s an impressive experience, but it&amp;'s not a perfect one &amp;8212' it can be hard to figure out exactly when each animation is over and it&amp;'s time to turn the page. Readers can also tap on drawings to see extra material like character biographies and photos of real-life locations. They can refer to all that material later on through folders that they can access from anywhere in the story.The Operation Ajax app is free (download it here) and includes the prologue for the story. After that, each chapter (which is about the length of a normal comic book) will cost $2.99, and Cognito plans to release a new chapter each month (or slightly more frequently).Tall Chair, meanwhile, built the underlying platform and says that it could be used to create iPad-centric content beyond the political comics that Cognito is interested in &amp;8212' but we&amp;'ll have to wait for an announcement sometime early next year to hear the details.Cognito and Tall Chair are both based in San Francisco.Next Story: TV app Tunerfish checks in to Android Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: Abegnoa finalizes $1.45 billion DOE backing, oil refiners refuse to sell E15PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: comics, iPadCompanies: Cognito Comics, comiXology, Graphic.ly, Stephen Kinzer, Tall Chair          Tags: comics, iPadCompanies: Cognito Comics, comiXology, Graphic.ly, Stephen Kinzer, Tall ChairAnthony 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.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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