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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD: Cyberwar risk is exaggerated]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While governments need to prepare for cyberattacks involving espionage or malware, the likelihood of a sophisticated attack like Stuxnet is small, according to a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.In a cyberwarfare report (PDF) released today, the OECD said that the risk of a catastrophic attack on critical national systems has been exaggerated. The majority of cyberattacks are low-level and cause inconvenience rather than serious or long-term disruption, according to a co-author of the report, professor Peter Sommer of the London School of Economics.&quot;There are many scare stories, which, when you test, don't actually pan out,&quot; Sommer said. &quot;When you analyze malware, a lot is likely to be short-term, or fail.&quot;Read more of &quot;Cyber-war risk is exaggerated, says OECD study&quot; at ZDNet UK.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Soyuz blasts off with three bound for space station]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three crew members bound for the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today, kicking off a two-day flight to catch up and dock with the orbital lab complex.With Russian commander Dmitry &quot;Dima&quot; Kondratyev at the controls, the booster's first-stage engines roared to life on time and the rocket lifted off at 2:09:25 p.m. EST (1:09 a.m. Thursday local time), quickly climbing away from the same pad used by Yuri Gagarin at the dawn of the space age 50 years ago next April.The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, bound for a Friday docking with the International Space Station.(Credit:NASA TV)Live television shots from inside the cabin showed Kondratyev in the capsule's center seat, flanked by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on his left and NASA astronaut Catherine &quot;Cady&quot; Coleman on his right. All three appeared relaxed and in good spirits as the rocket streaked toward space.Nine-and-a-half minutes later, the Soyuz TMA-20 capsule separated from the rocket's third stage and slipped into its planned preliminary orbit. Solar arrays and antennas deployed a few moments later and Russian flight controllers said the spacecraft was healthy and on course for a docking with the International Space Station around 3:12 p.m. Friday.&quot;Everything's good on our side. Congratulations on the successful orbital insertion,&quot; chief flight director Vladimir Solovyov radioed after engineers assessed telemetry. &quot;Everything looks good, everything pressurized as it was supposed to, and the telemetry is nominal.&quot;&quot;OK, thank you for your good wishes,&quot; Kondratyev replied.Nespoli, a European Space Agency astronaut who flew aboard the space shuttle in 2007, is serving as flight engineer for the trip to the station, assisted by Coleman, a mother and retired Air Force colonel who flew aboard the shuttle in 1995 and 1999 and holds a doctorate in polymer science and engineering. She celebrated her 50th birthday Tuesday.&quot;As the right-seater, I don't have as many duties (during launch) and so I have a chance to watch these two at work and it's fascinating to see them solve problems together, usually in Russian, some English. I'm not sure we ever actually know what language we speak together,&quot; Coleman said during a pre-launch photo opportunity at Baikonur.&quot;But we do those things together and like a family, a little bit like brothers and sisters. It's quite a feat and Dima is a supreme leader in that capsule. I think Paolo and I feel very privileged to fly with someone with such good skills. My mother is glad (he has) those skills as well!&quot;The Soyuz TMA-20 crew (left to right): Catherine &amp;34'Cady&amp;34' Coleman, Dmitry Kondratyev, and Paolo Nespoli.(Credit:NASA)Kondratyev will oversee an automated docking with the space station's Rassvet mini-research module Friday afternoon. Waiting to welcome them aboard will be Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly, Alexander Kaleri, and Oleg Skripochka, who were launched to the station October 7.&quot;As soon as they get on board, my primary goal is to get them acclimated to the environment and get them comfortable enough to where they can work up here efficiently,&quot; Kelly told a reporter. &quot;One of the first things we do is a safety briefing, make sure they're aware and reminded of all the safety training they've had, but see it from the perspective of being on board here. Really, just to get them comfortable and ready to work starting the following Monday.&quot;The six-member Expedition 26 crew faces a busy timeline that includes research, normal maintenance, two Russian-segment spacewalks, and work to unload a variety of supply ships. A Japanese HTV cargo craft is scheduled to arrive in late January, followed by a Russian Progress supply ship, the shuttle Discovery in early February, and a European Automated Transfer Vehicle, or ATV, at the end of the month that will deliver another load of supplies and equipment.The shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to show up in early April along with another Progress later that month.&quot;There's a lot on our plate,&quot; Kelly said. &quot;A lot of it is logistics, with these cargo vehicles coming up and preparing the space station for its future beyond shuttle and all the science, not only the science that we conduct now but the science we'll be able to conduct here for the next 10 years aboard the International Space Station.&quot;Along with the government-sponsored supply ships and crew rotation flights, Coleman, Nespoli, and Kondratyev also may get a chance to oversee the first visit by a commercial cargo craft, the Dragon capsule developed by SpaceX. The company carried out a successful test flight earlier this month and is pushing to combine the next two test flights into a single mission that would deliver supplies to the station next spring or summer.&quot;We will be very prepared if they decide to make that a docking mission,&quot; Coleman said. &quot;Paolo and I have been training extensively for both the Dragon and the HTV, the Japanese supply vehicle. Both get captured by the robotic arm. They're different vehicles, but the principle is the same for our duties so we are, indeed, prepared for that.&quot;Kelly, Kaleri, and Skripochka are scheduled to return to Earth in the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft on March 16, leaving Kondratyev, Coleman, and Nespoli behind as the core members of the Expedition 27 crew. They will be joined on April 1 by Alexander Samokutyaev, Andrei Borisenko, and Ronald Garan, scheduled for launch March 30 aboard the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft.Kondratyev, Nespoli, and Coleman are scheduled to return to Earth May 16.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Would you read an e-book on a phone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bernydavia</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)I spent last weekend with the Amazon Kindle 3 and Apple iPhone 4, bought recently as part of my retail-therapy fix. One's an e-book reader with an experimental WebKit browser built in. The other's a smartphone popular with kids, grannies, and just about everybody in between. Both mobile devices serve distinctly different purposes, but there's at least one overlapping feature: electronic books. So far, I'm convinced I've made the right decision to go with the Kindle for reading. The 6-inch e-ink screen looks eerily like real paper and is easier on the eyes than a traditional LCD. The size is also just right to hold with one hand, although the leather case I bought added considerable heft. The display isn't a touch screen, though a couple of colleagues automatically starting swiping on it.  Of course, I have more to say about the e-reader, which I'll save for another day. But with the Kindle, I've joined the growing league of multi-device-toting consumers, a necessary sacrifice since I find it tiring to read on a small display like theiPhone's. Obviously, I haven't tried all the e-readers in the market to compare the differences. However, I'd stake my eyesight on e-ink and a bigger display over a LCD screen on a handset. What about you (Source: Crave Asia)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will the Real &''eBay of Social&'' Please Stand Up&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the venture business being ahead of your time can be almost as bad as being late to a market. But the other great thing about the venture business is there are exceptions to every rule. Craig Donato is hoping that Oodle is the exception to that one. He&amp;'s spent more than ten years building a social classified company, powering the marketplaces for Oodle.com, MySpace and Facebook and growing to more than 14 million unique users. It&amp;'s backed by some of the smartest investors on the Web like Reid Hoffman and David Sze from Greylock, who both invested in Facebook and LinkedIn so they know a thing or two about the social graph.Now one of Facebook&amp;'s other hot venture capital investors, Accel Partners, has funded Yardsellr which claims it&amp;'ll be the &amp;''eBay of Facebook'&amp;'' meanwhile Groupon&amp;'s runaway success has made everyone reevaluate social shopping. So what does all that mean for OodleFor one thing, the company isn&amp;'t slowing down. Last week, Oodle acquired Grouply.com to help people sell things beyond just their friend circles to the friend-of-friend circles. The deal underscores a core tension that has held online classifieds from becoming bigger faster: Do sellers and buyers want trust and relationship or do they want huge marketplaces of buyers and sellers Because by definition, only buying and selling from people you know limits the market.Donato joined us to talk about the market, the Grouply deal, why he says classifieds are &amp;''social but not viral,&amp;'' and why he has stuck with building out a market this hard for this long.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Duke Energy And ITOCHU Testing New Uses For Old Electric Vehicle&nbsp'Batteries]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Duke Energy and ITOCHU Corp. announced a partnership today through which they will evaluate and test new uses for old electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Once they are too spent for life on-the-road, EV batteries could store power and deliver a charge elsewhere, the companies reason.EV batteries falling below 80 percent of their original capacity when fully charged will be candidates for replacement and reuse. Duke and Itochu promised to begin their project by testing Ener1 lithium-ion batteries extracted from a fleet of 80 EVs in a Duke Energy facility in Indianapolis. The automaker GM embarked on a similar initiative with The ABB Group in September, specifically looking for ways to use spent Chevy Volt batteries in the smart grid. One vision of reuse for EV batteries proposed by GM would see them storing power from renewable sources in EV charging stations, which are used to charge plug-in vehicles. Other ideas (as reported by MSNBC.com and Gas2.org) include using the weakened EV batteries to keep cell phone towers up and running during blackouts, or to stabilize the grid by storing power generated either during off-peak hours or from intermittently available renewable sources, like wind or solar, finally dispensing it during peak demand hours. EV skeptics believe that production and recycling of EV batteriesa4&quot; at least until battery design and reycling related technology improvesa4&quot; might make electric vehicles more harmful to the environment than the highest-efficiency diesel models. That&amp;'s especially if a majority of electricity used to charge EVs comes from non-renewable sources, like coal. Giving batteries a new life beyond the vehicle, and using them to shift electricity production to renewables as much as possible would quiet many of these worries. At the same time, companies like GM, Duke, ABB Group and Itochu hope that increasing the total lifetime value of EV batteries would ultimately reduce the cost of producing them as well.CrunchBase InformationDuke Energy CorporationGeneral MotorsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google plans to fix broken Android Market with upcoming update]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Android Market on Google&amp;'s Android operating system has been broken for some time. Today, Google said it will fix some of the longstanding problems with an update coming in the next couple of weeks.In a blog post, Google executive Eric Chu said the update will apply to all Android phones running version 1.6 of the software or higher. That means it will go out to a majority of the devices on the market today. The changes will go a long way toward establishing the Android Market as a legitimate distribution vehicle. With that, developers should be able to build real businesses on Android.|Developers have been asking for a lot of these changes for months. The Android Market is Google&amp;'s equivalent of the Apple iTunes App Store. While commerce remains stalled on the Android Market, the App Store has sold billions of apps in the past couple of years.One of the problems was that Google allowed users to return apps a full 24 hours after purchasing them. That often meant that users would pay 99 cents for a game, play it, and then return it within the allotted time to get all of their money back. Now, Google will cut the return window down to 15 minutes. With that change, developers can be confident that when they make a sale on the Android Market, they can be reasonably certain that it will count as a sale.Google has also done what every good platform owner should do: make it easier for users to discover cool titles and purchase them. In the past, promoted apps would appear at the top of a screen in the market and change every few seconds. Now they will be featured in a way that highlights them in a more attractive way. A single window pane will show the details about the app, and there will be a content-rating system where users can review apps. The highest-rated apps will presumably be visible on a ratings chart.Apps can also be more easily targeted at phones with varying screen sizes. An app can be targeted for a 4-inch screen, for instance, or for phones with better graphics processing capabilities or larger memory sizes. Overall, the maximum size of an app will now be 50 megabytes instead of 25 megabytes. That will allow for richer applications.The Android Market is also going to have separate categories for widgets and live wallpaper apps. there is still no web version of the Android Market. But the improvements go a long way toward improving e-commerce on Android. In China, for instance, some 20 carriers have created their own markets on their phones because the Android Market was so weak.No exact date has been set for the rollout of the new market. If Google truly fixes the Android Market, Apple had better beware. The weakness of the Android Market was one of the major problems that was holding developers back from making money on Android. If Android becomes more attractive to developers, Apple runs the risk of losing some of its advantage with users because of its better content.Next Story: Spike TV&amp;'s Video Game Awards become the forum for debuting the big games of 2011 (trailers) Previous Story: Week in review: Why Google needs DRMPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, App Store, iPhone, iTunesCompanies: Apple, GooglePeople: Eric Chu          Tags: Android, App Store, iPhone, iTunesCompanies: Apple, GooglePeople: Eric ChuDean 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[Verizon takes 12 percent of iPhone market share in just a month]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The battle for market share is on between Verizon Wireless and AT&amp;amp'T. In just one month, Verizon took 12.7 percent of the iPhone market, according to ad tracking firm Chitika.That shows that Verizon probably sold a lot of phones in its first month working with Apple and AT&amp;amp'T is going to have to offer better services to users to hang on to them.Chitika can measure the number of AT&amp;amp'T and Verizon devices registering on its network. Just one day after the device launched to Verizon customers on Feb. 10, Verizon iPhones accounted for 3 percent of the U.S. iPhone base.Apple also debuted the second-generation iPad with Verizon as well as AT&amp;amp'T last Friday. While AT&amp;amp'T and Verizon slug it out, Apple is sitting pretty and could very well be gaining market share on Android.Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: Solar and wind stocks jump, cleantech funding rose in 2010PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: iPhoneCompanies: Apple, AT&amp;amp'T, Chitika, Verizon          Tags: iPhoneCompanies: Apple, AT&amp;amp'T, Chitika, VerizonDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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