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<title><![CDATA[Shuttle Endeavour grounded by electrical glitch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--An electrical glitch with the shuttle Endeavour's hydraulic power system forced NASA managers to scrub today's planned launch on a space station assembly mission, disappointing thousands of spectators and spoiling a visit by President Obama and his family.The shuttle Endeavour atop pad 39A shortly after a launch scrub was announced. NASA hopes to make another attempt as early as Monday.(Credit:NASA TV)It also was a disappointment to commander Mark Kelly's wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who flew to Florida on Wednesday to watch the launch. Giffords has been recovering after being shot in the head during a shooting in January.&quot;But as we always say in this business, we will not fly this machine until it's ready,&quot; said Launch Director Mike Leinbach. &quot;And today, it was not ready to go.&quot;NASA managers do not yet know what it will take to resolve the problem, but they are hopeful a faulty thermostat in a heater circuit is to blame. If so, the shuttle could be ready for another launch attempt as early as Monday at 2:33:56 p.m. EDT.But if the problem requires a cockpit fuse panel swap out, or installation of a replacement electrical box in the shuttle's aft engine compartment, Endeavour's launch on its 25th and final mission likely will be delayed until May 9 or 10, after the planned May 6 launch of an Atlas rocket carrying a missile early-warning satellite.Because of a conflict with the planned undocking of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the International Space Station at the back end of the shuttle's mission, &quot;we'd probably move to the 9th, maybe even the 10th as our first launch attempt on the other side of Atlas,&quot; Moses said.&quot;We're going to have to go do some homework there and talk to the Russians about exactly the right way to deconflict that,&quot; he said. &quot;But we're not going to do too much on that just yet because we think we've still got a shot in front of Atlas.&quot;President Obama and his family toured tornado-damaged Tuscaloosa, Ala., early today and continued on to Florida, landing at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as planned shortly after 2 p.m. The first family then boarded a Marine helicopter and flew to the nearby Kennedy Space Center, flying past launch pad 39A for a bird's eye view of Endeavour.The president and his party toured an orbiter processing hangar, getting a close-up look at the shuttle Atlantis, before moving onto the Launch Control Center where he met with Endeavour's crew, Giffords, and other astronaut family members.Endeavour commander Mark Kelly and President Barack Obama share a light moment after launch on a space station assembly mission was scrubbed because of an electrical glitch.(Credit:NASA TV)The president's meeting with Giffords was not recorded and a few minutes later, Obama flew on to Miami.Endeavour's problem cropped up during fueling when engineers noticed apparent problems with two heater thermostats used by one of the ship's auxiliary power units. Space shuttles are equipped with three APUs to provide the hydraulic muscle needed to move wing flaps, main engine nozzles, landing gear brakes, and other critical systems.While a shuttle can safely fly with a single APU, NASA flight rules require all three to be operating normally at launch to ensure redundancy. In this case, the concern was the possibility a fuel line could freeze, leaving APU No. 1 just one failure away from a shutdown.As engineers were assessing the problem, Kelly and his crewmates--pilot Gregory H. Johnson, Michael Fincke, Gregory Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel, and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori--were preparing for launch, going through final medical checks and donning their pressure suits before heading to the launch pad.But they knew a potentially serious issue was under discussion and a few minutes after noon, Leinbach called off the countdown and ordered a scrub. The &quot;astrovan&quot; carrying Kelly and his crewmates stopped at the Launch Control Center, paused briefly for a call from Leinbach, then turned around and headed back to crew quarters.Engineers, meanwhile, drained Endeavour's external tank and held meetings to review data from the ship's hydraulic power system.Mike Moses, chairman of NASA's Mission Management Team, said it is possible the problem can be explained by a single faulty thermostat. If so, engineers should be able to install a replacement in time for a second launch attempt Monday.&quot;If there's a thermostat that's failed such that it might have an open circuit in it, not necessarily a short circuit but just an open, that would open up to ground,&quot; he said.&quot;These things are wired together such that all the heaters on the front half of that string share a common ground...So a single failure on one thermostat could still cause this problem.&quot;That's the best-case scenario for NASA. &quot;The troubleshooting involves taking in a can of (compressed air) and spraying it on the thermostat to see if we can force a lower temperature on the thermostat and have it kick on,&quot; Leinbach said. &quot;If that works, we might have just a thermostat that's out of kilter and we can replace that thermostat and we'll be in good shape.&quot;If it's more than that, then it could be in a box called the LCA. the load control assembly, which is essentially a box full of switches. If there's something wrong in that box and we have to change out that box, that's a much more extensive job. It would take us quite some time to do that.&quot;Engineers hope to climb in the aft compartment tomorrow afternoon to begin troubleshooting. A final decision on how to proceed is expected by midday Sunday at the latest.NASA's Endeavour on cusp of final flight (photos) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[KissInsights: Gather Customer Feedback Exactly When You Want&nbsp'It]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the summer, we saw the launch of KissMetrics, a service that lets website owners optimize their sites using conversion tunnel tools that let you determine exactly where in your signup flows users are dropping off.  But KissMetrics founder Neil Patel says that there&amp;'s one more piece to the puzzle: KissMetrics can track quantitative data, but it doesn&amp;'t do anything as far as qualitative data.  That&amp;'s where KissInsights comes in.The service has some similarities to GetSatisfaction and UserVoice in that it asks users to express their opinions about the site. But there are a few key differences: first, everything on KissInsights is private a4&quot;a4sPatel thinks it&amp;'s a bad idea to expose your customer feedback to competitors (GetSatisfaction doesn&amp;'t have a private setting' UserVoice will allow you to restrict the visibility of your feedback forums to customers, but it&amp;'s possible that your competitors will simply sign up for your service to get access).The second key difference for KissInsights involves the way users actually leave their responses. a4sa4sKissInsightsa4sis all about context a4&quot; it allows site owners to display a popup prompt when a user hits a certain portion of a webpage. For example, if you&amp;'re tweaking your signup flow and are concerned that a certain section is confusing, you can display a popup survey just as users are working through that section of the site. You can also target these surveys at specific sets of users.Installing the service is simple, requiring one snippet of Javascript on your site a4&quot;a4sfrom after adding it you can tweak your surveys from the KissInsightsa4sdashboard, without having to adjust your website&amp;'s source. Patel says that during the KissInsights beta period it&amp;'s seen strong engagement with users, with an overage of over 40 customer responses.This is a standalone product from KissMetrics (in other words, if you want both the company&amp;'s products and you&amp;'ll need to pay for them separately).  KissInsights offers a free package with basic functionality' the full service runs $30/month, with a discount if you sign up for a year at a time.CrunchBase InformationKISSmetricsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple fails to fix iPhone Daylight Savings Time alarm bug for US]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you live in the US, don&amp;'t rely on your iPhone&amp;'s alarm clock to wake you up on time Monday morning.Apple has failed to fix a Daylight Savings Time bug in the iPhone&amp;'s Alarm app that has already disrupted mornings for many users in Europe and Australia. Even though your iPhone&amp;'s internal clock may automatically fall back an hour Sunday morning, a bug in the Alarm app causes it to ignore the Daylight Savings change, which in turn leads certain alarms to go off an hour late.The bug specifically affects repeating alarms that are scheduled to go off on certain days. Alarms set to repeat every day, or one-time alarms, are reportedly unaffected by the bug.Apple recommends that users delete existing repeating alarms and rely on one-time alarms until after the Daylight Savings change to Standard Time (2 a.m. EST, Sunday morning). After November 7, you can recreate your repeating alarms. The glitch will be fixed permanently in Apple&amp;'s upcoming iPhone operating system 4.2 update, which is slated to land later this month.European users (and some US users, inexplicably) dealt with the Daylight Savings Time bug last week, which gave Apple only a few days to release a fix in time for the US. Still, Apple doesn&amp;'t have much of an excuse &amp;8212' users in Australia and New Zealand first reported the bug several weeks ago.The company likely doesn&amp;'t consider the issue big enough to warrant a software patch of its own, but I&amp;'m sure many unhappy iPhone owners who rely on the device as their only alarm clock would disagree.Via CNNPrevious Story: GreenBeat in pictures: John Doerr, Vinod Khosla, and morePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: bugs, Daylight Savings Time, iOS, iPhoneCompanies: Apple          Tags: bugs, Daylight Savings Time, iOS, iPhoneCompanies: AppleDevindra 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[Accel Sold Big Chunk Of Facebook Stock At $35 Billion&nbsp'Valuation]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the last week or so, we&amp;'ve heard from multiple sources, Accel Partners has sold very significant chunks of Facebook stock. So significant, in fact, that their ownership percentage has dropped to a point where they are no longer the largest venture shareholder in the company. Prior to the sale they had somewhere around 10% of Facebook. They paid just $12.7 million for that stock, in 2005. Our understanding is they sold somewhere around 20% of that position, meaning they own 8% or so of Facebook now.So who bought it, and what was the priceOne source said TCV purchased some $200 million of the stock. And another source says Andreessen Horowitz purchased $80 million in Facebook stock out of their massive new fund.The price A year ago Elevation Partners bought $90 million in Facebook stock at a roughly $9 billion valuation. Then earlier this year they invested $120 million more at a $14 billion valuation.We&amp;'ve heard these current trades occurred at a $35 billion valuation from one source. Another said $40 billion, and yet a third said &amp;''way lower.&amp;'' Whatever the price, it&amp;'s likely half a billion dollars or more that Accel is taking off the table. Our guess is the valuation is somewhere between $20 billion and $35 billion.To be clear, we haven&amp;'t confirmed some of this. But it&amp;'s pretty clear Accel is selling a lot of Facebook stock right now, and that at least Andreessen Horowitz is one of the buyers &amp;8211' they confirmed to us that they have begun buying shares, but won&amp;'t comment on price or number. Update: More information from a new source with knowledge of the deal. Accel has sold a substantial amount of stock Something less than 20% of their total holdings, and the sale(s) are occurring at a $35 billion enterprise valuation. That&amp;'s a 247x return on Accel&amp;'s initial investment. Our best guess is it was total sale of around $500 million. It&amp;'s still unclear if Accel or DST is now the largest venture shareholder of Facebook.Andreessen Horowitz confirmed that they purchased stock from Accel, but it was just a fraction of the total stock sold by Accel.It&amp;'s also worth noting that Accel Partner Jim Breyer&amp;'s personal stake in Facebook is worth some $350,000,000 (minus dilution for subsequent venture rounds and employees since 2005) at this new valuation. He purchased 1% of Facebook for himself at the time Accel invested. Not a bad day at the office.CrunchBase InformationFacebookAccel PartnersInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg founder Kevin Rose embraces email]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Digg founder Kevin Rose is joining the ranks of entrepreneurs who are jumping on to the old-school newsletter format. He just announced his latest project, a newsletter called Foundation that will feature a4Avideo interviews, product reviews, rants, and early access to pre-launched websites.a4Over the past few years, Rosea4a4s involvement in Digg has varied. He seemed to step back from Digg while focusing on his Diggnation show on Web TV channel Revision 3, then he took over as interim CEO earlier this year, then he stepped down again and has been vague about his future involvement. Meanwhile, the social news aggregation site remains very popular, but it has also seen a big backlash from fans over the recent launch of Digg version 4.The Foundation newsletter is apparently a mutated version of Rosea4a4s previously announced project Fforward. Subscribers will need to pay $3.99 per month &amp;8212' Rose said the money will go toward a4Aequipment, travel, and editing.a4 The videos will eventually be posted publicly (generating more attention for the show), but subscribers will get access a week before everyone else.It seems like therea4a4s been a bit of a renaissance in the startup world&amp;'s use of email recently.  Weblogs and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis has been sending out most of his thoughts via email, rather than on a blog, as has Path founder Dave Morin.Ia4a4ve embedded the first video below, which features Rosea4a4s interview with Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter and CEO of mobile payments startup Square.Next Story: Ford Sync car tech now in 3 million vehicles Previous Story: BitTorrent hits 100M monthly active usersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Fforward, FoundationCompanies: digg, Square, TwitterPeople: Jack Dorsey, Kevin Rose          Tags: Fforward, FoundationCompanies: digg, Square, TwitterPeople: Jack Dorsey, Kevin RoseAnthony 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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<title><![CDATA[Why global companies like ABB plow millions into electric car charging startups]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Swiss electrical engineering company ABB announced today it has taken a $10 million stake in the electric car charging infrastructure company ECOtality, making it the latest of several major global companies to enter the space.The companies also inked a partnership establishing ABB as the &amp;''preferred supplier&amp;'' for power electronics parts for ECOtality, so it&amp;'s clear ABB intends to earn its investment back in more ways than one. ECOtality makes the Blink networked electric car chargers (pictured, left).As electric cars have rolled out and increasing numbers of major automakers have planned electric vehicle releases, we&amp;'ve seen a growing pool of startups that have attracted millions in investment from big companies who want to get in on the electric vehicle action as vendors. Panasonic, which supplies battery cells to electric car startup Tesla, announced in November it would plow $30 million into the company. And ECOtality&amp;'s competitor Coulomb Technologies got anice bump via apartnership with Siemens.Many global corporations like GE, Siemens and ABB have also made other forays into cleantech. Siemens makes wind turbines. ABB purchased smart grid software company Ventyxfor $1 billion last year and has alsopartnered with smart grid communications guru Trilliant.Investments like ABB&amp;'s in ECOtality are a &amp;''strategic alignment that enables them to get into a new market that is a natural extension of their business,&amp;'' says John Gartner, analyst for Pike Research.But some are getting into the market in bigger ways than others.GE is running numerous cleantech plays, from wind turbines to cleaner-burning engines to smart grid and smart home applications. It alsolaunched the WattStation (pictured), its own electric car charger, and haspartnered with charging infrastructure startup Better Place &amp;8212' a well-financed competitor to ECOtality and Coulomb.ECOtality isdeploying almost 15,000 chargers in 16 cities in a $248 million project, half of which will be fronted by the DOE. Its competitor, Coulomb Technologies isrolling out 5,000 chargers across the nation in regions where electric vehicles will be delivered by its partners, Chevrolet, Ford and smart USA and is also the recipient of DOE funding.There&amp;'s been some debate over whether or not lack of publicly available charging infrastructure will slow sales of electric vehicles. Some argue that consumers won&amp;'t be comfortable buying electric cars until their fears of running out of battery power mid-trip are allayed.Others argue that the vast majority of charging will be done at home, so public charging infrastructure won&amp;'t be a big issue. With the major global players all vying to get in on EV charging action, it looks like major business executives beg to disagree.Next Story: Appcelerator doubles in size, adds new execs for cross-platform apps Previous Story: Smartphone owners paid less for apps in 2010PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Blink, charging infrastructure, electric cars, electric vehicles, WattStationCompanies: ABB, Better Place, Coulomb, ECOtality, GE, Panasonic, siemens, Tesla, Trilliant, VentyxPeople: John Gartner          Tags: Blink, charging infrastructure, electric cars, electric vehicles, WattStationCompanies: ABB, Better Place, Coulomb, ECOtality, GE, Panasonic, siemens, Tesla, Trilliant, VentyxPeople: John GartnerIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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