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<title><![CDATA[Chemistry add-in for Word goes open-source]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Putting together chemical structures in Microsoft Word with the Chem4Word add-in.(Credit:Microsoft)Microsoft today announced that its chemistry add-in for Word is now freely available for download and tweaking by the open-source community. The tool, which was released in beta form in March of last year and has since been downloaded 250,000 times, lets users create and modify chemical information inside of Word 2007 and 2010. This includes chemical formulas, labels, and 2D structures that can more easily be worked on than with Word's standard formatting tools.Also known as Chem4Word, the add-in was developed through a partnership between Microsoft Research and three professors at the University of Cambridge. As part of the move to a v1 release, Microsoft has handed over the project to The Outercurve Foundation, which is putting it in its Research Accelerators Gallery where open-source community members can make changes to it.&quot;By shifting the project to the Foundation, we are encouraging scientists around the globe to engage, contribute, enhance, and support the original authors on this project,&quot; Outercurve's executive director Paula Hunter said in a blog post on the group's site. &quot;They have done some heavy lifting, but I am sure will welcome new collaborators,&quot; she said.Since the move to Outercurve's gallery, project collaborators are already planning to bring 3D functionality to the tool, along with vector graphics rendering, and improved performance. Users who want to grab the add-in can find it here. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Nokia eyeing Microsoft's phone OS]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ceciliaemi</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Nokia are said to be working together on bringing to market Nokia-made smartphones that run Microsoft'sWindows Phone 7 operating system.The report, which is the second such rumor in the past three months, comes from Eldar Murtazin--editor in chief of Moscow-based Mobile-Review.com, who some of you might remember making headlines earlier this year for a review of Nokia's N8 long before the device ever came out. This was followed shortly thereafter by Nokia reportedly going to the Russian police to get the prototype unit back. Murtazin's post, which was picked up earlier this morning by blog Unwired View, goes into some detail about Nokia's new management (which includes former Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop as CEO) initiating discussions with Microsoft about creating a Nokia-made device that will blend technologies from both companies--specifically Microsoft's recently released Windows Phone OS running on Nokia's hardware. Murtazin says the move (roughly translated) is desperate--especially for Nokia, which he compares to a diving plane with pilots who don't know what to do. This would not be the first time rumors of Microsoft and Nokia discussing a phone collaboration have cropped up. In September, VentureBeat had a report from several sources saying that Nokia was planning to use Windows Phone 7 as &quot;an additional platform,&quot; for its phones. This was refuted by Nokia a day later. At the same time, these rumors do not exactly jibe with the company's talk of continuing to use Symbian and up-and-coming mobile OS MeeGo. Earlier this month, Nokia Vice President of Eseries Ilari Nurmi told ZDNet UK that the company would stick with Symbian for use on its business phone platform as a &quot;primary&quot;--that's even after MeeGo OS begins its mainstream roll-out in 2011. &quot;It's very important to note that Symbian is the primary platform today and will also be the primary platform in the future,&quot; Nurmi said in that interview.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pulse Becomes One Of The Best Ways To Browse Facebook On The&nbsp'iPad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ceciliaemi</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s perplexing to me that Facebook still hasn&amp;'t released an iPad app. And recent comments from the company suggest that they&amp;'re in no hurry to. Because of this, apps like Friendly have risen that wrap Facebook&amp;'s touch site in a cocoa skin and sell it for $0.99. They&amp;'ve undoubtedly made a killing doing that. Now the popular visual RSS reader, Pulse, is about to add Facebook support as well. Luckily, they&amp;'re doing it for free. And it&amp;'s fantastic.To be clear, Pulse has not made a full-fledged Facebook client for the iPad. But what they have done is integrated Facebook into the overall Pulse experience so that you can do some social exploration in a very visual way.The latest Pulse update, 2.1, which just went live in the App Store for the iPad, has three key Facebook features: Shared Links, Status Updates, and My Wall. Each of these created a new Pulse feed to show links your friends are sharing, their status updates, and updates posted to your wall, respectively. And when you click on any of these items to open them within Pulse, you can like or comment. And the app will pull all likes and comments from Facebook itself. It&amp;'s a really nice integration.Facebook and Twitter have been two of the most requested features that Pulse users have been asking for, co-founder Akshay Kothari tells us. They&amp;'ve had some level of Twitter integration for a while, but they&amp;'re working on a better one. But he says they wanted to focus on Facebook first to really nail it.And this is a big move for Pulse because it represents one of the first big moves for them away from RSS. Most feeds coming into Pulse are still controlled that way, but this Facebook integration gets around it by looking at social link sharing instead.Kothari notes that when they started pulse (as a school project), they wanted to release something quickly, so they focused on RSS, which is fairly universal. But now there&amp;'s a ton of information coming through social streams, and it&amp;'s a great way to discover rich content that you might not otherwise find, Kothari says.&amp;''But it has to be both,&amp;'' Kothari continues. &amp;''Looking at only your friends&amp;' articles doesn&amp;'t meant that&amp;'s all that&amp;'s relevant to you,&amp;'' he says.In terms of the rivalry with Flipboard, which is heavily based around the social sharing aspect, Kothari notes that it&amp;'s an exciting time for the entire ecosystem. But he has no interest in the magazine-style interface that Flipboard uses. Instead, it&amp;'s important that Pulse allows you to quickly browse an article then hop back into your stream, he says. Pulse opens stories in a smaller window while keeps your stream on the side, similar to the Twitter for iPad app, which Kothari notes he&amp;'s a &amp;nbsp'big fan of.This new Facebook integration will be coming to the iPhone verion shortly, Kothari says. And it&amp;'s actually already baked into the Android build.He declined to give any specific numbers, but noted that growth has been going strong since they made all the versions free. And while that was a significant revenue hit for the company, he thinks it was worth it, as they can now take the great engagement numbers they were seeing and grow them to big time levels.This latest version of Pulse also supports multitasking, one of the new features in iOS 4.2 for iPad. You can find Pulse here.CrunchBase InformationAlphonso LabsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: California electric car rebates could run dry' Carsharing catches on with major automakers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ceciliaemi</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest action we&amp;'re following on the GreenBeat today:California&amp;'s electric car rebates could run out &amp;8212' The state fund that pays $5,000 rebate California offers for zero-emission cars is currently funded with $8 million, enough to pay out 1,600 car buyers. But the amount of money availabledoesn&amp;'t match the pace of electric car rollouts, and would likely run out by mid-2011, according to advocacy group Plug In America, the Los Angeles Times reports. The state&amp;'s financial crisis could also mean the funds won&amp;'t be there to support the rebates in the future, the state&amp;'s Air Resources Board said.Carsharing catching on with major automakers &amp;8212' Daimler&amp;'s Car2go pilot program in Austin, Tex. has taken off to 15,000 participants in the first year, and PSA-Peugot-Citroen and BMW have launched similar programs, Autoblog Green points out. Zipcar has filed for an IPO and acquired Streetcar (Zipcar MINI Cooper pictured, left)' carsharing-friendly legislation has also been passed in California, Earth2Tech notes.Researchers make thermoelectric breakthrough &amp;8212' An international research effort has resulted in a discovery that could result in more efficient ways to create electricity from waste heat like industrial emissions and car exhaust, CleanTechnica reports. The breakthrough involves the thermoelectric effect &amp;8212' the creation of voltage by arranging materials of different temperatures adjacent to each other.Federal regulators approve cost sharing for Midwest lines &amp;8212' The Federal Energy Regulation Commission has decided that new transmission lines in the Midwest must be paid for by all who will benefit from it, Greentech Media reports. The agency concludes that the decision will be good for renewable energy since it will allow transmission lines for wind power in the Midwest to be built &amp;8212' though there will likely be future battles over how big a portion individual wind farms will have to pay in conjunction with developers.SunPower completes sale of 44-megawatt solar park &amp;8211' The company announced it has completed the sale of its Lazio, Italy Montalto di Castro solar park to a group of international investors that includeMetLife, Fondo PPP Italia and Voigt &amp;amp' Collegen. SunPower designed and built the solar power plant and will continue to provide operations and maintenance.Next Story: Amazon&amp;'s new Kindle is its bestselling product of all time Previous Story: Verizon-ready CDMA iPhone among Apple&amp;'s increased Q1 2011 iPhone shipmentsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: California, carsharing, electric cars, Italy, Solar, solar park, thermoelectric effect, transmission linesCompanies: Air Resources Board, Bmw, Citroen, Daimler, Federal Energy Regulation Commission, FERC, Peugot, Plug In America, PSA, Streetcar, SunPower, Zipcar          Tags: California, carsharing, electric cars, Italy, Solar, solar park, thermoelectric effect, transmission linesCompanies: Air Resources Board, Bmw, Citroen, Daimler, Federal Energy Regulation Commission, FERC, Peugot, Plug In America, PSA, Streetcar, SunPower, ZipcarIris 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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