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<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[These smart light bulbs heed iOS, Android devices]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>larelimtae</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[GreenWave Reality bulb with the NXP chipset.(Credit:Martin LaMonica/CNET)NXP Semiconductors has developed chipsets for CFL and LED light bulbs that allow the devices to be operated remotely via wireless networks and portable devices, the Dutch chipmaker announced this week.The GreenChip iCFL chipset for CFLs and GreenChip iSSL chipset for LEDs have been adopted by lighting manufacturer TCP.The bulbs can be turned on, turned off, or dimmed.Both chips operate at the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, the low-rate wireless personal area network (LR-WPAN) standard for many wireless networks, including ZigBee, used to support home smart meters, smart appliances, and security systems. But the bulb chipset has a 2.4GHz wireless controller and employs the JenNet-IP platform using a 6LoWPAN mesh-under tree network instead of ZigBee. This allows for a low standby power at about 10 milliwatts, according to NXP. The protocol also allows the bulbs to easily communicate with Apple iOS andGoogle Android devices, according to the company.The initial bulbs are for industrial use, but TCP said it will soon be offering the same CFL and LED lighting options to consumers.GreenWave Reality, meanwhile, is using GreenChip-enabled bulbs running the JenNet-IP software to develop systems compatible with any PC, smartphone, or TV. Its home lighting systems included an option for the bulbs to self-regulate inside a home based on outside lighting conditions, or in conjunction with room sensors to turn off when no one is in the room.Of course, there is already an Android-compatible LED light bulb in the works from Google itself. Earlier this month it was announced that Google is developing an LED bulb with Lighting Sciences Group that talks to it Android devices via a mesh network wireless protocol instead of using a standard Wi-Fi or ZigBee network.Google's protocol is open-source, allowing software developers to create compatible applications.NXP also announced that it plans to release JenNet-IP's software as an open-source license, and that the platform can be used on a large-scale supporting up to 500 devices at once.Why would anyone outside the home automation business develop applications that turn light bulbs on and off, you say Think theatrics. One Google demo, for example, had LEDs in a room blinking on and off in conjunction with things happening in a video game.Update 11:21 AM:This article was updated to include open-source and support info on JenNet-IP.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China-related DoS attack takes down Codero-hosted Web sites]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>larelimtae</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A distributed denial-of-service attack that affected thousands of customers at Codero and other hosting providers appeared to come from within China and to be launched at a Chinese site that is critical of communism or its Domain Name System provider, Codero said today.  The disruptions that took Codero's customers offline for most of the morning were collateral damage in the attack, Ryan Elledge, chief operating officer at Codero, told CNET.  Directly in the path of the attack was a Codero customer that hosts DNS records for sites on the Internet, including a Web site critical of communism that appeared to be the ultimate end target, he said. At least three other hosting providers for that Web site were also affected by the attack, he said. Elledge declined to name any of the companies involved or the Web site.  Meanwhile, all of Codero's customers were back up by 1 p.m. PT, according to Elledge.  About 5,000 servers in its Phoenix data center were affected, which meant slowdowns or outages for at least that many customers, Elledge said. He could not say how many customers had been affected in total.  Initially, Codero thought the problem was due to issues with one of its upstream providers, but that turned out not to be the case, he said. &quot;We were receiving more than 1.5 million packets per second in the attack. It paralyzed our core routers, and our upstream providers were unable to pinpoint where the target IPs were,&quot; he said.  The company reported problems beginning about 7:30 a.m. PT. &quot;We are experiencing network issues affecting part of our PHX data center,&quot; the company posted on its Twitter page. &quot;Engineers are working with upstream providers.&quot;  &quot;Another attempt is now under way at routing traffic to specific segments of our network,&quot; Codero tweeted around 9:30 a.m. PT.  Codero, which has points of presence in Irvine, Calif.' Denver' Chicago' and Ashburn, Va., is migrating a data center from San Diego to Phoenix. Only the Phoenix location was affected by the attack, Elledge said. Updated 10:49 a.m. PTwith more details from Codero COO.Update 1:05 p.m. PT:with details on DNS provider customer of Codero and its own customer being targets.        Elinor Mills     Full Profile E-mail Elinor Mills   E-mail Elinor Mills If you have a question or comment for Elinor Mills, 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       Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EV pilot programs show sticking points]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>larelimtae</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The initial results of pilot programs on plug-in electric vehicles may spook companies and create a vicious cycle of inefficiency when it comes to charging.That's according to one of the topics covered in the &quot;Changing the game: Plug-in electric vehicle pilots&quot; report (PDF) released yesterday by technology consulting giant Accenture.(Credit:Accenture)The Accenture report examined the recent data garnered from over 25 pilot programs scattered around the world that have been monitoring EVs and driver habits.Overall the pilot programs found public charging stations have not yet been getting enough use to pay for themselves and their installation, according to Accenture.This discovery is attributed to the fact that there are not yet enough EVs on the road to fully make use of public charging stations, and that the small number of EV drivers have formed a habit of charging at home at the end of the day because initially their home charging station was the most readily available option. The recent introduction of more public charging stations has not yet changed this home charging habit, according to Accenture.The Accenture report says that attracting local businesses to invest in public charging stations will become harder as news spreads that these pilot programs are discovering that lack of use means the public stations are not paying for themselves.This could form a cycle in which, because there are not enough EV stations to form a reliable public infrastructure, people organize their lives such that they charge in the evening or at night in their homes. Then, because of this habit, new public stations won't get much use, and businesses will be discouraged from investing in them, according to the report.So why is it an issue if society switches from generally fuelingcars at public stations to fueling cars privately at homeAn abundance of people in a community with the same charging habit at the same time of day could lead to a strain on the local electric grid, according to Accenture.The pilot programs found that typical EV drivers really do drive fewer miles than their EV mileage range in a single day, so many people don't even charge their cars every evening--they can get by on every two days or more.One might think this is a positive discovery to come out of EV pilot projects, but the Accenture report has other thoughts.&quot;Pilots show that PEVs meet the driving requirements of typical city users who may therefore not plug in their cars daily. This increases the unpredictability of charging and reduces control. Plugging in vehicles whenever parked will help grid management, easing the strain on the grid,&quot; said the report.Battery swapping, such as the service provided by Better Place, which operates battery-swapping stations, might provide an option to better managing grid use for EVs, according to the report.Accenture, however, notes that it did not include pilot programs in which EVs were used in conjunction with distributed grid storage, or vehicle-to-grid technology, which might have different results with regard to grid strain.&quot;It is our view those pilots will become more significant as the technology and business models begin to stabilize,&quot; said the report.The report also makes no mention of how programs offering peak-pricing and smart-meter tools as a way to control peak electricity use in consumers might work in conjunction with EV home charging. This could be because those pilot programs, such as the U.S. EV Project, which plans to do a 15,000-car study to determine the habits of EV owners and their affect the electrical grid, are generally in the early stages.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Murdoch's iPad mag, The Daily, debuts Jan. 19]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>larelimtae</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A Forbes source has confirmed that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is planning to launch itsiPad-only daily news sources, The Daily, at a special press conference on January 19.Though the information seems pretty complete as reported by Forbes, there's no official word from News Corp. about The Daily's launch date. According to Forbes, Murdoch briefed some reporters under embargo atCES this past week about The Daily.A quick surf to thedaily.com shows The Daily's logo, a &quot;coming soon&quot; message, and a sign-up form for e-mail updates.Says Forbes: The debut can't come soon enough for The Daily's staffers, who for weeks have been engaged in full-scale dry runs, cranking out dummy issues for what I've been told is a distribution list of 1,000 privileged readers.The Daily could end up being a game-changing app model for the struggling newsprint industry. Giving weight to that theory is the report that Steve Jobs will be joining Murdoch onstage for the announcement. Is The Daily going to change the news industry Are you going to subscribe Let me know your opinions in the comments.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Latest Ask.com revamp all about answers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>larelimtae</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The interface for Ask.com&amp;39's new answers page, rolling out slowly to its users. (click for larger image).(Credit:Ask.com)OAKLAND, Calif.--It's fairly rare in 2010 to walk into a technology company where the first thing presented to visitors is a whiteboard covered in multicolor Post-It notes. But that's exactly what lies just beyond the receptionist's desk at Ask.com, the venerable yet beleaguered Internet company in the middle of yet another strategy shift. The sticky notes are actually part of the company's product-development workflow, giving everyone a visual representation of the number of balls in the air at any given time, not just those logged into the project management software. Doug Leeds, president of Ask.com, wants visitors to understand that just because Ask.com is closing its search department doesn't mean it has given up on technology research altogether. Last month, Ask.com announced that it would bow to the inevitable and end its work on back-end search technology, closing offices in China, New Jersey, and Massachusetts and laying off 130, leaving 270 behind. The idea now is simple: when your Web search company is named Ask, perhaps it makes the most sense to focus completely on the notion of information delivered through questions and answers, Leeds said in an interview with CNET last week. Ask.com has been working on this strategy for years, but is now placing greater emphasis on building community-generated answers supplemented by search results. There's little question that Google has locked up the traditional search market, although Microsoft engineers might grumble with that assertion. So others attempting to make a business out of matching queries with results--which allows for targeted advertising--are turning to a mix of curated answers to queries posed in the form of questions rather than keywords. Quora, the darling of the Google-and-start-up-obsessed Web crowd, is gaining traction in this space with its informed community and simple presentation. Answers.com has been around a little longer and has a much bigger audience than Quora, Yahoo has also worked on this type of service for a long time (with decidedly mixed results), and the current ascendant power on the Web--Facebook--has also rolled out a Q&amp;A service. Over the last year, Ask has increased both the number of queries phrased as a question (24 percent to 46 percent) as well as the number of times it is able to provide a definitive answer to a question at the top of the results page (30 percent to 58 percent). When Ask doesn't have a definitive answer it provides a traditional list of search results that it used to generate itself, but has now turned to an unspecified &quot;third party&quot; to provide those results without its own back-end search engineering team.Doug Leeds, president of Ask.com U.S., in his office overlooking Oakland&amp;39's harbor.(Credit:Tom Krazit/CNET) Leeds wouldn't comment on who was providing those results, but there are only so many people left these days doing the dirty work in the search business. It seems increasingly apparent that Google has quietly stepped into that role since Ask's announcement last month: a Google representative would only say &quot;We cannot comment on our partnership with Ask. Ask has been a longstanding partner of ours and we look forward to continue working with them in the future.&quot; Google has long provided search ads on Ask.com, but not search results themselves: maps on Ask are provided by Microsoft's Bing. The theme behind the new Q&amp;A strategy is to tap into search frustration, a common theme presented by would-be Google killers over the past several years. &quot;Often times people have been to another search engine&quot; before coming to Ask.com, Leeds said. &quot;They just want to ask a question. Our job is to answer it right away at the top of the page.&quot; Google has itself moved more in this direction, providing answers to simple questions like the weather, math problems, and flight-tracking information above search results. However, Ask thinks it will have an advantage by focusing its engineers on developing algorithms that crawl the Web for definitive answers as a supplement to answers provided by humans. Leeds believed Ask.com was spending too much time trying to rank answers--a very challenging search science problem--as opposed to figuring which answer most accurately addressed the query and providing a list of search results in cases where it couldn't find an answer that met that threshold. Slowly but surely, Ask is expanding a community of users (currently about 20 percent of the site's visitors are invited to sign up) who will to provide answers to questions about subject matters in which they are interested. &quot;If you're asking a question, you either want a good answer or no answer at all,&quot; Leeds said. &quot;We can't do better just by crawling the Web: too many questions that have answers that have never been published on the Web before.&quot; Ask.com is not only hoping that it can attract more users with this approach, but that those users will stick around to do more searches on its site once their question is answered, resulting in more clicks on its ads. For example, once you've had a question answered about the best digital camera to buy for around $1,500, you'll still need to figure out where to find that camera and you might want a second opinion. For the moment, the information seekers of the world seem pretty content to just plug away at Google, but if the Q&amp;A notion takes off Ask.com believes it is in a good spot. Of course, its startup competitors don't have quite the same amount of corporate distractions that Ask.com has faced as part of conglomerate IAC, which recently saw Chairman and CEO Barry Diller step down from the CEO spot, and doesn't appear necessarily committed to keeping Ask.com around for the long haul, judging by comments that Diller and more recently IAC Chief Financial Officer Tom McInerney have made. Leeds acknowledged the turmoil but said that Ask.com is focused on its turnaround. &quot;If we were to wake up tomorrow and find out we're part of another company, it wouldn't change my job at all,&quot; he said. Ask.com has a bit of a Yahoo problem, in that it is widely used in the grand scheme of things (90 million unique users in the U.S. in October, sixth on Comscore's list just behind good old AOL) but doesn't get the Silicon Valley adoration that is bestowed upon shiny new things, Leeds believes. It probably doesn't help that the company is located in Oakland, which isn't quite as disheveled as it is often portrayed to be but is definitely a long way--both in distance and in consideration--from the average tech industry worker in Silicon Valley or San Francisco. There's a certain amount of sense in Ask.com's strategy to quit fighting a battle it simply couldn't win, something Yahoo still hasn't quite realized. However, it is running out of time and patience to prove that it can get ahead of a shift in information consumption on the Web and build a viable business at the same time.Millions in advertising didn't boost Ask.com's standing in the search market. It's an open question whether definitive answers will make any difference.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google kills Android contact feature in Facebook data spat]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>larelimtae</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It looks like Google is willing to eliminate product features in order to make a point about data portability.Yes, this is the latest chapter in the baffling spat between Google and Facebook over user contact data. As outlined by TechCruncha4a4s Jason Kincaid, Google&amp;'s latest update to its Nexus S phone eliminates the ability for users to see their Facebook contacts in their Android address book. Whata4a4s the rationale Herea4a4s what a Google spokesperson said:We believe it is very important that users are able to control their data. So in the over-the-air update for Nexus S, we have a small change to how Facebook contacts appear on the device. For Nexus S users who downloaded the Facebook app from Android Market, Facebook contacts will no longer appear to be integrated with the Android Contacts app. Since Facebook contacts cannot be exported from the device, the appearance of integration created a false sense of data portability.Facebook contact data will continue to appear within the Facebook app. Like all developers on Android, Facebook is free to use the Android contacts API to truly integrate contacts on the device, which would allow users to have more control over their data. We are removing the special-case handling of Facebook contacts on Nexus S and future lead devices. We continue to believe that reciprocity (the expectation that if information can be imported into a service it should be able to be exported) is an important step toward creating a world of true data liberation a4&quot; and encourage other websites and app developers to allow users to export their contacts as well.Maybe Ia4a4m being too cynical here, but ita4a4s hard to imagine that Google made this change in response to users complaining, a4AOh darn, I cana4a4t export my Facebook contacts from my phone. If that&amp;'s the case, purge them from my address book completely!a4 Instead, this looks like another way for Google to pressure Facebook into sharing more of its contact data, or at least to score some publicity points around the issue of data portability.That feeling is exacerbated by the fact that this only applies to the Nexus S right now (though Google says it could also include a4Afuture lead devicesa4 for the Android operating system). That means the company can make its grand statement about data portability without affecting a large number of users.Google isna4a4t even making this change on the current devicea4a4s predecessor, the Nexus One, because a4Athe Facebook app was preloaded on Nexus One,a4 which a4Acreated an expectation for users of how the device would function.a4 On the other hand, allowing this feature and then taking it away isn&amp;'t a case of false expectations at all, rightSo why make the change now Well, the timing may be coincidental, but there have been reports that Google will finally launch its big social networking product this spring.Next Story: Kutcher bets on SeatGeek as online ticket sites battle Previous Story: Google yanks request for kids&amp;' social security numbersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, data portabilityCompanies: Facebook, Google          Tags: Android, data portabilityCompanies: Facebook, GoogleAnthony 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. 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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