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<title><![CDATA[In small wind versus solar, it's all about location]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[BOSTON--When it comes to distributed energy in suburban or urban areas, solar panels do a better job of fitting in than small wind turbines.Small wind turbines, which are increasingly being marketed to homeowners, can provide power for both grid-tied and off-grid applications, typically require a strong steady wind to meet their generating capacity, and meet estimates for annual production. To tap into a good wind resource, turbines need to be placed high and clear of obstructions, such as trees and buildings, according to experts. By contrast, solar photovoltaic (PV) panels are less fussy about placement. To make the investment worth considering, they need several hours of sunlight a day but, compared to small wind, that means a wider set of potential locations.&quot;Small wind is a viable distributed generation option, but it has a lot more siting constraints than PV. Part of it is the complexity and the analysis to determining if you have a good site,&quot; said Peter McPhee, a project manager at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center where he manages the state's microwind program. McPhee was a speaker on a wind energy panel at the Building Energy conference here earlier this month, where there were fewer displays of small wind turbines compared to earlier years.Tools of the green building trade (photos) In the past few years, small turbines of various designs with a generating capacity under 100 kilowatts have been introduced in the U.S., leading to rapid growth and about 10,000 installed units by the end of 2009. Manufacturers often recommend that consumers or businesses should only consider small wind turbines if there is a minimum average wind speed of 10 miles per hour.There are national wind maps, such as a free one offered by 3Tier, that rate the wind resources for different zones in the U.S. But determining wind dynamics at a specific location can be tricky. For example, a review of one small wind turbine in Massachusetts found that obstructions from nearby buildings created a high degree of wind turbulence, resulting in a far lower performance than online tools had predicted, said Charles McClelland, an associate at the consulting company the Cadmus Group, which does wind project feasibility testing and monitoring. Similarly, a study of roof-mounted wind turbines in the U.K. found that turbulence diminished wind speed, one reason for disappointing performance. To get around turbulence from trees and buildings, wind installers should have turbine towers at a minimum of 100 feet, McClelland said. But those high tower heights can often run afoul of local ordinances, making permitting complicated and limiting the available space.Lonely places In 2008, Massachusetts did a review of all its small wind installations and found that some of the turbines did not perform as well as expected. That led to a new microwind program in 2009 that sought to stiffen the siting requirements. It also developed a software tool to better assess the wind resource at a specific location, which is a requirement to receive rebates.As a result of the changes, the state is focusing homeowners and installers on the best wind locations, which are typically near the water or in fields without obstructions. That makes small wind &quot;not as applicable in scope as PV is,&quot; said McPhee. In a survey with small wind manufacturers, the American Wind Energy Association noted that falling prices in solar PV have put more pressure on small wind installers and technology developers. The industry is pushing for equipment certification to provide more certainty on how small wind turbines will perform.&quot;Increasing publicity, public incentives, and competition from falling prices of solar PV technologies place greater pressure, survey respondents say, on small wind turbines to perform well in the field,&quot; AWEA said in its 2009 report on small wind.Wind turbines can generate more energy per dollar than solar photovoltaics with the right conditions of a good turbine, site, people, as well as proper installation and maintenance, said Gary Harcourt, the founder and manager of installer Great Rock Windpower, who has commissioned more than 30 small wind turbines.&quot;Proper installation takes knowledge and experience. Short towers don't work--you need to get up there where the wind resource is,&quot; he said. &quot;Most really good sites are pretty empty spaces--there's great wind out there.&quot;Small-wind turbines pick up steam (photos) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers unveil first mm-scale computing system]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Social</category>
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<description><![CDATA[University of Michigan computer scientists and engineers are at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco today presenting papers on two systems: a prototype implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients and a compact radio for wireless sensor networks.This prototype implantable eye pressure monitor is 1 cubic millimeter.(Credit:Greg Chen)What makes their presentation so remarkable is that both systems involve what is believed to be the first complete millimeter-scale computing system.The near-invisible package is just over 1 cubic millimeter in size and includes an ultra-low-power microprocessor, a thin-film battery, a solar cell, memory, a pressure sensor, and a wireless radio with an antenna.&quot;Millimeter-scale systems...have a host of new applications for monitoring our bodies, our environment, and our buildings,&quot; said Professor David Blaauw in a news release. &quot;Because they're so small, you could manufacture hundreds of thousands on one wafer. There could be 10s to 100s of them per person, and it's this per capita increase that fuels the semiconductor industry's growth.&quot;The team points to Bell's Law, formulated by computer engineer Gordon Bell in 1972, which says that a new class of smaller and cheaper computers is developed roughly every decade. This is considered to be a partial corollary to Moore's Law, established in 1970 and named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore (first names coincidental), which describes the now 50-plus-year trend that the number of transistors able to be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years.The new system out of Michigan is being hailed as the first in a new class of millimeter-scale computing, and while the researchers are specifically targeting the medical side of body sensor networks, other potential applications include tracking such things as pollution, weapons, structural integrity, and more.The eye pressure monitor is designed not only for direct implantation but also continuous tracking of glaucoma, a disease that can lead to blindness. It incorporates the team's third-gen Phoenix Processor, which combines an extreme sleep mode and a unique power-gating system for ultra-low-power usage (averaging 5.3 nanowatts).The system wakes every 15 minutes to take measurements and relies on 10 hours of indoor light or 1.5 hours of sunlight every day for full battery recharging. The team says the device could be commercially available in the next several years.The researchers are also working on a radio with an on-chip antenna using an advanced complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process that allows them to control the antenna's shape and size, and thus its response to electrical signals. Because of this control, they can do away with the bulky external crystals that keep time and select radio frequency bands for communication between two isolated devices, thereby drastically reducing the size of the radio system.The university hopes to patent these tiny-yet-huge developments, and is looking for commercial partners to help bring the tech to market.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[preGame 38: Nintendo 3DS impressions, Astro A40 Wireless System]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>domingalom</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. seizes sites linked to copyright infringement]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>domingalom</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=u-s--seizes-sites-linked-to-copyright-infringement</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Visitors to dozens of Web sites purportedly linked to illegal file sharing and counterfeit goods were greeted by this message.The U.S. government has launched a major crackdown on online copyright infringement, seizing dozens of sites linked to illegal file sharing and counterfeit goods.Torrent sites that link to illegal copies of music and movie files and sites that sell counterfeit goods were seized this week by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security. Visitors to such sites as Torrent-finder.com, 2009jerseys.com, and Dvdcollects.com found that their usual sites had been replaced by a message that said, &quot;This domain name has been seized by ICE--Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court.&quot;&quot;My domain has been seized without any previous complaint or notice from any court!&quot; the owner of Torrent-Finder told TorrentFreak, which listed more than 70 domains that were apparently part of the massive seizure.DHS representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The seizures came after a Senate committee unanimously approved a controversial proposal earlier this month that would allow the government to pull the plug on Web sites accused of aiding piracy. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) allows a Web site's domain to be seized if it &quot;has no demonstrable, commercially significant purpose or use other than&quot; offering or providing access to unauthorized copies of copyrighted works.The proposal has garnered support from dozens of the largest content companies, including video game maker Activision, media firms NBC Universal and Viacom, and the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America lobbying groups. However, critics such as engineers and civil liberties groups say the COICA could balkanize the Internet, jeopardize free speech rights, and endanger legitimate Web sites.The battle against online file sharing has ramped up. Earlier today, a Swedish court upheld the copyright conviction of the founders of The Pirate Bay, a notorious file-sharing site. In October, a U.S. district judge issued an injunction against Lime Wire, the company that operated the popular file-sharing software LimeWire. In May, a judge granted summary judgment in favor of the music industry's claims that Lime Group, parent of LimeWire software maker Lime Wire, committed copyright infringement, engaged in unfair competition, and induced copyright infringement. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Office boss on Facebook and the cloud (Q&A)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>domingalom</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Kurt DelBene(Credit:Microsoft)As Microsoft's latest internal slogan is quick to point out, the software company is &quot;all in&quot; when it comes to the cloud. But one of the products that points to such a statement being more of a half-truth is Office, which while in the process of being ported to the cloud and gaining an increasing number of Web interactions, is still a software program--and a very popular one at that. In fact, Office is one of Microsoft's biggest and fastest selling software franchises next to Windows, as Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer pointed out at the top of the company's annual shareholders meeting this week. While Office may someday be an all-cloud affair, for the foreseeable future, it will continue to be offered as something you can install.Heading up Microsoft's Office division is Kurt DelBene, who took up the reins just last month. Yesterday his group launched Lync, the successor toMicrosoft Office Communicator, which mixes instant messaging, audio and video chat, and a VoIP service. It effectively completes the puzzle of apps that make up the Office suite. Lync, which goes on sale in two weeks, is beginning as a server product companies will be able to deploy on their own hardware, before moving to a hosted cloud service as part of Microsoft's Office365 suite early next year. DelBene took time out of Lync's launch day to talk to CNET about a variety of topics, including the Lync platform, Microsoft's partnership with Facebook that is making MS Office attachments readable through the company's Office.com site, as well as how Office the software will coexist with Office the cloud service. Below is an edited transcript from that conversation.Question: Congratulations on your promotion.DelBene: Thank you very much. I'm excited.Can you talk about what, if any kind of collaboration the Lync team has with the Windows Live Messenger team Obviously the two are very different products with different markets, and this product came to replace Messenger as part of the Communicator product, but I'd imagine things that come to Lync might one day end up in Messenger one day and vice versa.DelBene: There's actually a very good collaboration across the two teams. And so, if you think about the focus of the Office team and the Lync team as around business users, and think about the Windows Live team, or the Messenger team being around a consumer audience, then neither product really replaces the other. And so the goal is really more around how do you get interoperability between the two products, which is what we demonstrated in the launch event. And so, that's how you can see Chris (Capossela) being onstage being on Messenger, and talking to Gurdeep (Singh Pall) who is on Lync.The partnership goes beyond that, though, in that the underlying technology is shared across the teams. And so we have some deep experts in audio-video conferencing within the Lync team. And so they actually work with the Messenger team to integrate those capabilities into the messenger client. And so we can share that expertise as opposed to duplicating it. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates hops onto a video chat to help demo Microsoft&amp;39's Lync product.(Credit:Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET)A lot of business is being done on phones now. Can you talk about some things that he was doing to make some part of the desktop experience carry over to mobile devices, especially with Lync I know one of the things you guys talked about this morning was transferring an active conversation from one device to another.DelBene: That's one piece of it, because people when they're on the go, they think about wanting to connect, having their desk phone follow them. And so we make it super-easy for you to forward your calls, figure out a schedule onto which you forward your calls. So, it really becomes fairly seamless to think about the mobile phone. And then you can take that a step further and think about clients that are on the mobile phone themselves, where you're in the presence of various of the people on our buddy list, or anybody from the organization would be present on your phone and you can actually connect to them from the phone originally, as well. And so you can think about starting from the mobile phone and starting from somebody's presence and making a phone call to them directly from the phone. So, in the announcement, I think Gurdeep mentioned connectivity toWindows Phone 7 in 2011, and for theiPhone, as well. So, that would be for actually having a client on the phone.Was there anything in particular piece of hardware from what Gurdeep referred to as &quot;the wall of fame&quot; during today's Lync presentation that's really been specialized for Lync Is there a big standout product that is maybe something competitors don't haveDelBene: Well, the first thing I think they don't have is the breadth of products. And so, the key differentiator, I think for Lync, is the focus on open standards and that customers will want choice in terms of what hardware they provide, or that they purchase. And so, I think the wall of fame is most impressive because of the variety of functionality that's there.I think the second thing is the variety in terms of devices and solutions for the PC as well. And so there are people who are going to embrace Lync by having a PC experience, and there are people who are going to embrace it with a more traditional IP/PBX or IP phone, and we think there should be great solutions across both of those.I will also say I continue to be excited about the roundtable solution, which is a great innovation of both hardware and software working together, and that's the panorama view that Gurdeep showed of everybody in the meeting. I think that the beauty of great software innovation coupled with great hardware design, that product is a great example of that and shows the kinds of things that you can do when you have hardware partners working with software partners on innovative solutions. Speaking of which, the Kinect integration you guys showed off this morning is obviously a killer demo, but I'm wondering do you envision people getting home from work and maybe starting to play a game, and they get a call from their boss Or is this more of an extra solution on top of what Kinect already doesDelBene: I think both. There are a couple of angles there. I think I am excited about that as an endpoint for users, and so the person who is playing a game with their children doesn't have to jump out of context, although their kids might be a little disappointed if they have to pause the game for a second. I'm also excited about the hardware and software innovation that it represents for Microsoft overall. I think that we've gotten some really good feedback from both the press and from customers of how game-changing Kinect is. It's not just about emulating what somebody else does, it's about phenomenal innovation for Microsoft.  And I think if you think of the body of knowledge that is represented in Kinect, and the ability to think about some of those scenarios for information workers as well, you can kind of let your mind wander and think about some really cool breakthrough scenarios that are possible when we take that body of knowledge and think about it in the context of information workers. So, I'm just as excited about the future that it represents as I am about the functionality we're delivering to customers now. Microsoft&amp;39's Gurdeep Singh Pall (left) talks with Office senior VP Chris Capossela through Lync working on the Xbox 360&amp;39's Kinect video chat.(Credit:Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET) Let's talk about Office for a second. Yesterday, Steve Ballmer called it out during the shareholder meeting as being the fastest selling version of Office ever. So from where you sit, what features in Office 2010 are resonating the most with customers What's leading them to upgradeDelBene: I think it's a broad set of capabilities. I think there is functionality in terms of really pushing forward 'what does it mean to author documents' and things like the ability to do rich editing of photos directly in place in Word, and PowerPoint. Just taking the kinds of documents that people create and making them richer, I think, is one pillar. Another pillar is around making it easy to author documents with others and share your ideas with others--the whole idea of like the PowerPoint broadcast feature, where you can invite people to view a broadcast online without a lot of infrastructure. You can, just from within the client, post the slides up to a share and everybody can view the PowerPoint presentation with you. I think that's generally around the area of working better together and a set of features around there have resonated very well.  The refresh cycle for PCs in general has been hampered a bit by the economic situation. And I think we're starting to see a turn in that.--Kurt DelBene, president of Microsoft's Office division And then I think the whole vision around PC, phone, and browser has been a big piece. So, having an experience in the browser with the Office Web Applications, so that if I'm away from my desk, or I have somebody who just wants to go view a document or do some light editing, you can do that in a way that is collaborative, or is complementary, rather, with how you use the full desktop client.And similarly, delivering the rich experience in phones, you know, we did an Office hub in Windows Phone 7, but are also working with partners like Nokia to have a rich experience on mobile devices, as well. So, I think those are kind of the areas of investment that have resonated with people. I think bringing the new user interface with the ribbon to all of the applications, I think the completion of that has been a key element.So, now IT can think about a consistent user experience across all the applications. And then the last thing I would really say is, the refresh cycle for PCs in general has been hampered a bit by the economic situation. And I think we're starting to see a turn in that. And so we're seeing a bunch of people purchase PCs, and the whole notion of purchasing Windows 7, and purchasing Office 2010 as two products that work well together are fresh, are highly performant, and represent a great desktop is another thing that we're seeing as driving that demand. One thing you mentioned earlier was Office on the Web. Do you want to talk for a little bit about the new Facebook messaging service which came out this week It has deep ties with Office.com. Can you talk about how that integration happened, and some of the things Microsoft is doing to capitalize on users who might be coming to Office.com for the first time because of that featureDelBene: Yes, so the collaboration happens because we've had a relationship with Facebook for some time. And actually Ray Ozzie started the discussions with them around an incubation project called Docs.com, which basically took the Web applications and made them available on a third-party site that was run by Microsoft, and put those into, or had a user experience inside of Facebook for the Web applications. And so that was kind of a prototype experience and we followed that up with the Facebook team to figure out what we can do together on a production basis. And so what we have announced, and what they're shipping is the ability from within Facebook e-mail to when you have an Office document to actually be able to view that document using the Web applications. And from there you can bring them into Office.com, and Windows Live, and actually do all the things you can do with the Web applications. So, you can edit them online using the Web applications, or download them to the rich client and do all the things that you naturally would think about doing with the rich client, as well.So, to summarize it really comes from the long relationship we've had with Facebook, thinking about the opportunities that exist between Office.com and Windows Live, and Facebook, to deliver a great information worker experience.What fraction of customers would you say for Office in general, are interested in Office 365, and are cloud services showing up on requests for proposals Is Microsoft pitching that ecosystem at buyers now when someone is looking for softwareDelBene: Yes, I think the demand we've seen has been very strong, and so I tell people that we've moved from a point where people we're saying were having discussions with us about whether they wanted to move to the cloud to when  they want to move to the cloud. And so if you look at our business customers, we're having discussions with almost all of them, saying this is what the cloud offers. You can now consume software from Microsoft in two fashions. One, we are going to continue to deliver the best on-premises software, but we'll also deliver an alternative to you, in providing the online version of that product, as well.  So, I would say we're having very broad discussions with customers about Office 365. As it goes into beta, we expect a lot of those customers to trial it with a subset of their users and then decide the timeframe that they'd want to move. There's always going to be a set of customers that will move more slowly, have different concerns around security. I think we feel very, very good about the security that we offer, but you're always going to interpret it based on your own history of the company and how you view the world. But, we think the momentum is very, very strong.We also think that momentum isn't just among large customers. It goes down into the features that are interesting for large customers, and SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync are just as interesting for small companies, too. The difference is before they weren't able to actually deploy, or they had a difficult time deploying all the servers that would be required to provide us that functionality to users. So, we like to say that Office 365 can make a small company feel large in terms of its set of capabilities. As a follow up to that, with software now shifting from this giant packet of bits every two to three years--like Office, smaller improvements start coming more quickly with some of these other software applications. Will Office get on that bandwagon and is Office 365 largely going to be held against that same kind of release cycleDelBene: I think it's a balancing act for us. And I think we're starting to show that with the Office Web Applications. If you look at the set of features that we shipped in the Office Web Applications when we shipped Office to the set of features that were available when Windows Live published them, or made them available to customers, there is actually some incremental features between the two that we did the first turn of responding to customer demands, and figuring out what are the key gaps that we had to fill, and to actually deliver those.So, I think we will get on a rhythm of updating the service more frequently, while at the same time having a set of the team working on the big innovations that take longer to do. And so, you'll have kind of a quick turn of responding to customer needs, and then you'll have the more traditional pace, which we like to say is, as you say, about every two-and-a-half years. And the question will be, what's the right balance thereBut, we basically have always been very, very responsive and adaptive to what the needs of the customers are, and this is a place where we'll adapt as well.So, on competition, I'm curious about Microsoft's plans for the Mac App Store. Office for Mac 2011 is already available for sale as a suite and as a download from Microsoft's Store. Are you planning an offer in Apple's upcoming store as well, and would you ever break it up into individual apps like you did on the PC sideDelBene: I don't have anything to talk to you about now, but it is a topic of discussion that we have with the Apple team. And so we continue to be responsive to how our customers buy our products, and there are always intricacies when you go to a new distribution system that we would have to work out there. I will say that the response at retail to the new version of Mac Office has been phenomenal. And part of it is due to the strength of the release across the board. Part of it is due to new applications that are being delivered. I think Outlook in particular is a shining star for the new version of Mac Office. And so we are seeing very good results. And we are having a very good partnership with Apple in terms of making the product visible, and available in Mac stores.So, we feel like things are going pretty well.I was especially curious because for the Mac App Store, Apple appears to be breaking up iWork, which is traditionally a suite.DelBene: I think we do view the value of Mac Office as being partially about the individual applications and partially about the suite. And so that's obviously a point of discussion with Apple. And they've been very receptive to the discussion. We actually have a very good partnership with Apple.Even though you're now at the top spot of the Office division, you have a long track record as a product guy. How often do you find yourself using early versions of a product before it's finished Is that something you still enjoyDelBene: I absolutely love it. And just to give you a sense of that, we had our first build of the Office 15 come out, and it's already on my machine. It's one of the funnest things about my job.         Josh Lowensohn     Full Profile E-mail Josh Lowensohn   E-mail Josh Lowensohn If you have a question or comment for Josh Lowensohn, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Microsoft. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Larry Ellison Hearsay: &''We Can&'t Be Successful if We Don&'t Lie to&nbsp'Customers&'']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Long before Mark Pincus talked about making revenue any way he could, there was Oracle&amp;'s Larry Ellison. Brash, funny, ladies-man-playboy and intensely competitive, they don&amp;'t make tech entrepreneurs like Ellison anymore. Bloomberg&amp;'s Game Changers series is taking on Ellison in a special airing tomorrow at 6 pm pacific time on Bloomberg TV. It sounds like it&amp;'ll be a juicy send up of my favorite eyebrow-less mogul, and I&amp;'m setting my TiVo now.They wouldn&amp;'t send me a transcript before it airs, but I did get a few teasers out of them.a4sHere are some quotes from the show by some of the people who worked the closest with Ellison:Bruce Scott, the co-founder of Oracle says, &amp;''I remember him very distinctly telling me one time: Bruce, we cana4a4t be successful unless we lie to customers.&amp;''a4sAnd adds: &amp;''All the things that you would read in books of somebody being a leader, he wasna4a4t. a4sBut he was tenacious' he would never give up on anything.&amp;''Stuart Feigin, Oracle&amp;'s fifth employee says,a4s&amp;''There was no version 1 [of Oracle software] because everyone thought, well, no one buys version 1, ita4a4s buggy. So we started with a version 2. a4sWell, our version two was at least as buggy as anyonea4a4s version 1&amp;8230'And I describe those early versions as the roach motel of databases. The data went in, but it didna4a4t come out.&amp;''Gary Bloom, one of Ellison&amp;'s many heir apparents that didn&amp;'t quite work out, says,a4s&amp;''I have a theory that Larrya4a4s succession plan for Oracle is he is trying to figure out a way that when hea4a4s six feet under in a grave, he can still run Oracle.&amp;''Sadly, it doesn&amp;'t look like Ellison himself was interviewed, which isn&amp;'t surprising given how media-shy he&amp;'s been for much of the last decade. Your chair is always waiting at TechCrunchTV, Larry.CrunchBase InformationLarry EllisonInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kabbage raises $6.65M to kick-start online sellers with a cash advance]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kabbage, which runs a service that helps eBay sellers pick up a quick cash advance, announced today that it has raised $6.65 million in its first round of funding.The online service lets an eBay seller type in his or her eBay user name, and then checks how long the seller has been active and what kind of trading activity the seller has. If the seller passes a certain threshold, based on how long and how many trades he or she has, then they qualify for a quick-fire capital advance ranging from a few thousand dollars to $12,000.Sellers have to have a minimum amount of transaction volume and have to have been selling for a minimum period of time, and the size of the capital advance scales to what kind of trading activity they have.The sellers still have to jump through a few hoops like a quick background check. But the whole process takes around 8 minutes, from typing in an eBay name to getting cash in a PayPal account, said Robert Frohwein, the companya4a4s CEO. Kabbage then charges a fee equal to 6 to 16 percent of the capital advance, depending on how long it takes the seller to pay it back.a4AMany of them are small businesses, and that kind of cash influx can help them get over some early walls or acquire a month or two monthsa4a4 worth of inventory,a4 Frohwein said. a4AIf they were to go into a bank and apply for working capital, theya4a4d be looking at a 6 week process or so.a4The service is currently only available for eBay users. But Frohwein wants to expand to other e-commerce sites like Amazon and Etsy, an online marketplace where artists can sell their works. He wants to take the service to basically any web marketplace where anyone can start selling products. Frohwein wouldna4a4t get into specifics but said the first step outside of eBay would happen in the next 30 to 60 days a4&quot;and the company would be tackling the marketplaces one at a time.The new round of funding will largely be used to expand to other marketplaces and help improve the algorithms and technology that determine what kind of capital advance sellers should get from the service. Frohwein also wants to expand his marketing staff.Kabbage raised $2 million from a seed funding round led by angel investors toward the end of 2009. This first institutional round of funding, led by BlueRun Ventures and UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, brings the companya4a4s total funding to $8.65 million.Next Story: Would you take $1 to run the biggest tech company in the world Previous Story: IBM&amp;'s Watson AI takes on Jeopardy&amp;'s best contestantsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: capital advance, cash advance, fundingCompanies: Bluerun Ventures, Kabbage, UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund          Tags: capital advance, cash advance, fundingCompanies: Bluerun Ventures, Kabbage, UPS Strategic Enterprise FundMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[Another Nokia setback: X7 smartphone for AT&038'T canceled]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Things  arena4a4t getting easier for Nokia in America. The company has canceled  the launch of its X7 smartphone, which was supposed to be available on  AT&amp;amp'T exclusively this year, according to the Wall Street Journal.The  cancellation comes only a few weeks before the Mobile World Congress  event in Barcelona, where Nokia was planning to unveil the X7. Getting a  new phone on AT&amp;amp'T would have been a major score for Nokia. The X7  likely wouldna4a4t have been a hit with US customers, but by being  available as a subsidized offering on AT&amp;amp'T, it at least had more of a  chance at success than its sibling the N8, which is only available in  the US directly from Nokia for $469 (it launched at $549 in October).One  person close to Nokia told the Wall Street Journal that it canceled the device because  it didna4a4t think the X7 would receive enough carrier subsidies and  marketing from AT&amp;amp'T. The phone will still find its way to other  markets, and of course, intrepid Nokia fans in the US will still be able  to get their hands on the device somehow.Leta4a4s be clear: The X7, at least on paper,  didna4a4t appear to be a groundbreaking device. But it was an important  product because Nokia has yet to offer a carrier-subsidized smartphone  that can compete with the likes of the iPhone or powerful Android  phones, which generally retail for $199 or less with two-year contracts.  Now, once again, Nokia is going to be stuck with a high-end product  that no US consumer in their right mind would buy.Therea4a4s  a small amount of hope for Nokia on the horizon with the impending  launch of its MeeGo operating system, but the company hasna4a4t yet  announced when it will be available. For now ita4a4s stuck with Symbian, an  operating system that ruined the N8a4a4s powerful hardware for me. Perhaps now the possibility of Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices doesna4a4t seem so crazy after all.Previous Story: Facebooka4a4s mobile dominance grows with new feature phone appPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: meego, N8, smartphones, Symbian, Windows Phone 7, X7Companies: AT&amp;amp'T, nokia          Tags: meego, N8, smartphones, Symbian, Windows Phone 7, X7Companies: AT&amp;amp'T, nokiaDevindra 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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