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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Siemens taps Tendril to bring smart grid home]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=siemens-taps-tendril-to-bring-smart-grid-home</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugbepnousa</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Industrial giant Siemens is investing in smart-grid start-up Tendril and the two will market Tendril's home energy system to utilities.The companies announced today that Siemens Venture Capital has invested an undisclosed amount in Tendril and will offer Tendril's products initially in the U.S. and Canada.Siemens is one of the largest suppliers of power distribution equipment to utilities and commercial building management systems, but it lacks consumer-facing products. Tendril makes software and in-home gadgets for consumers to monitor and manage home energy. A number of utilities are using Tendril's gear as part of smart-grid trials. Its software, for example, lets people monitor electricity use in real time while its hardware is installed when consumers participate in demand-response programs to curtail peak-time electricity.Tendril&amp;39's Energize is a Web-based application for tracking energy use and efficiency steps(Credit:Tendril)Gaining Siemens as a marketing partner gives Boulder, Colo.-based Tendril, which employs about 150 people, a well-developed channel to sell to utilities, including Siemens systems integration business. Tendril's system is used by 40 utilities but pilot projects are getting larger, said Tendril CEO Adrian Tuck.&quot;The first few years, pilots were measured in the tens of thousands. Now there's been a flurry of activity where energy companies have said we now need to scale to millions of homes and we need to do it quickly,&quot; Tuck said. &quot;The resources Siemens brings gives us the ability to keep going as this market accelerates.&quot;Siemens Venture Capital was attracted to Tendril because it understands consumer behavior around energy and its software is a platform that can be built upon, said Paul Camuti, president of Smart Grid Applications at Siemens Energy. &quot;We've been assembling a smart-grid portfolio that's grounded in project management. As these things start to scale up, the methodologies you use to manage utilities is critical,&quot; he said.A number of utility smart-grid programs are geared at cutting down peak-time energy use or using less energy overall. Some utilities are being forced into upgrading the grid by regulators, others are trying out new technologies, and another group is embracing new ways of doing business with consumers, Camuti and Tuck said.Tendril's software is designed to give consumers more control over and information on electricity usage, such as real-time and historical data, Tuck said. For utilities, its software analyzes customer usage so energy providers can better segment consumers, much the way cell phone carriers create different calling plans, he said. For example, a utility could offer time-of-use tariffs, giving consumers a financial incentive to run big energy loads, such as a dishwasher, at off-peak times. More advanced features would be demand response or electric-vehicle charge plans. The two companies expect to explore areas where they could create closer integration between their products, they said.The investment and partnership from a large company gives Tendril some more marketing muscle in a crowded area of home energy management, where dozens of companies have created home energy dashboard devices, although usage still remains limited.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft and Facebook team up to fight child porn]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugbepnousa</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-and-facebook-team-up-to-fight-child-porn</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Microsoft Research, PhotoDNA)Facebook is expanding its efforts to fight child pornography using Microsoft technology, Redmond announced in a blog post yesterday.The world's largest social network has joined the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's PhotoDNA program. The service, which was developed by Microsoft Research and Dartmouth College in 2009, uses image-matching technology to find known depictions of child pornography across the Web. Facebook plans to use the technology across its network to ensure child pornography is not circulating through the site.Microsoft has been using PhotoDNA with great success since the service's development. According to the company, it has analyzed more than 2 billion images through its Bing image search and SkyDrive. So far, it has found 1,500 matches and 1,000 matches on Bing and SkyDrive, respectively.&quot;Many of these images recirculate on the Internet time and time again, even many years after the original crime occurred and the abuser has been brought to justice,&quot; Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children wrote on Microsoft's blog. &quot;And every time these crime scene images are viewed, the children in the images are re-victimized. PhotoDNA aims to break this cycle, so the images of abuse need not haunt these children online forever.&quot;This isn't Facebook's first move to stem the proliferation of child pornography on the Web. Last year, the company, along with MySpace, joined forces with then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, now governor of New York, to develop a &quot;digital fingerprints&quot; database. The tool would be used by the social networks to analyze a photo before it's uploaded to see if it matches the database of pornographic images. If so, the upload process would be blocked.&quot;Protecting Facebook users, especially the many young people who use our site, has always been a top priority and we devote significant resources to developing innovative systems to proactively monitor the site for suspicious activity and the rare cases of illegal content,&quot; Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan said last year after Facebook announced its partnership with the attorney general.Facebook plans to make an official announcement on its partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on PhotoDNA later today. Those who are interested in hearing more about its plans can watch live starting at 12 p.m. PT. Users can also ask questions and have them answered by a panel discussing the launch.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This Day in Tech: Risks of a hyper-personalized Web]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 07:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugbepnousa</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=this-day-in-tech-risks-of-a-hyper-personalized-web</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Too busy to keep up with the tech news Here are some of the more interesting stories from CNET for Tuesday, May 17.Nissan track-tests electric racecar Nissan releases a video showing track testing of its Leaf Nismo RC electric race car. MoreBing 'likes' Facebook (video)Amazon may enter thetablet market with two mobile devices, T-Mobile offers free Wi-Fi calls, and Microsoft's Bing gets Facebook support in its search results. MoreWinklevoss twins taking Facebook case to Supreme CourtThe twins' attorney says that a recent ruling against their appeal was wrong and that they will bring their argument to the U.S. Supreme Court. MoreWhy a hyper-personalized Web is bad for you (Q&amp;A)45 Minutes on IM: Eli Pariser, author of &quot;The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You,&quot; says we should be increasingly aware--and wary--of tools to bring us a Web experience explicitly tailored to our interests. MoreReport: Most Android smartphones vulnerable to snooping attackAn attacker could sniff authentication tokens being sent over an unencrypted Wi-Fi network and use them to access and steal calendar and contact data. MoreScoutmob sniffs out nearby deals (video)Wanna save some cash Have Scoutmob sniff out coupons for restaurants and retailers nearby. No printing or pre-purchase necessary. MoreCreate a Personal Content Channel in BitTorrent 8 (video)The latest version of BitTorrent includes Personal Content Channels, a slick way to share media files or documents that you own the rights to. Watch how to set one up and share it with your friends or colleagues. More<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to transfer music from an iPod to your computer]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 07:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugbepnousa</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=how-to-transfer-music-from-an-ipod-to-your-computer</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Transfer music from an iPod to your computer<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Egypt&'s internet shutdown sparks a communications battle]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=egyptrsquos-internet-shutdown-sparks-a-communications-battle</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugbepnousa</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression and internet access go hand in hand. By shutting down the internet, the Egyptian government has sparked a wider battle about communications, technology, and free speech that goes beyond issues of concern among the country&amp;'s protesters.It&amp;'s become clear that the Egyptian situation is leading to a larger conflict over communications and censorship. And lots of companies are going to get caught in the middle and will have to sort out what they&amp;'re going to do when governments approach them with orders to shut down internet access.Renesys, an internet intelligence authority, confirmed the shutdown and called it &amp;''unprecedented in internet history.&amp;'' In cracking down on social media such as Twitter, it threw the baby out with the bath water, shutting down access for businesses, banks, internet cafes, web sites, schools, embassies and government offices, all of which relied on four major Egyptian internet service providers &amp;8212' Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, and Etisalat Misr.Renesys said the shutdown took place at 12:34 am Egyptian time on Thursday and resulted in all routes to the internet from Egypt going down. By contrast, a few specific routes were blocked in Tunisia when that country went through its recent revolution. In Iran&amp;'s protests last year, the government made internet access painfully slow.Renesys said the move essentially disconnected 80 million peope from the internet. By Friday morning, one service provider, Noor Group, was unaffected by the takedown order. The group is host to the Egyptian Stock Exchange, leading to speculation that it is needed to keep commerce moving in the country.Meanwhile, Twitter issued its own manifesto in favor of freedom of expression on Friday. Saying &amp;''the tweets must flow,&amp;'' the company&amp;'s official blog said that its position on freedom of expression &amp;''carries with it a mandate to protect our users&amp;' right to speak freely and preserve their ability to contest having their private information revealed.&amp;'' The company said it does remove some tweets for legal reasons and will sometimes turn information over to authorities when required by law. But it will give Twitter users a chance to make their case if they so choose. The company will also encourage more transparency in its process.In another twist, the Al Jazeera News Service released photographs of the Egyptian uprising via Flickr and made video available under a Creative Commons license. The photographs and videos available are free to use so long as the user gives attribution and does not alter the products. In doing so, Al Jazeera will more easily be able to spread its content far and wide and make sure that its own assets are available even if its web sites are shut down. (Palestinian protesters trashed the offices of Al Jazeera after the service leaked details of Palestinian negotiators&amp;' positions and the concessions they were willing to make to Israelis).The Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit public interest group in Washington, D.C., condemned the Egyptian government&amp;'s move. The group suggested that technology companies have robust policies in place to deal with such government demands ahead of time so that they can be in a position to resist demands inconsistent with the rule of law and respect for human rights.&amp;''This action is inconsistent with all international human rights norms, and is unprecedented in internet history,&amp;'' said CDT President Leslie Harris. &amp;''Egypt&amp;'s actions will only fuel unrest and make peaceful resolution of grievances far more difficult.&amp;''[photos and video: Al Jazeera]Next Story: Doodle Jump game maker Lima Sky goes Hollywood with movie deal Previous Story: A social network dark horse Tagged has 100M registered usersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Al Jazeera, EgyptCompanies: Twitter          Tags: Al Jazeera, EgyptCompanies: TwitterDean 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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