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<title><![CDATA[On World Water Day, a look at water-energy tech]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libeju8</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[A competition held by nonprofit ImagineH2O highlights the close connection between water and energy. ImagineH2O, a not-for-profit company formed to foster innovation around water, last week announced that the three winners to its Water-Energy Nexus Prize, a competition for the best business ideas to reduce the energy needed to move and treat fresh water and wastewater. Winners out of the more than 50 participants were awarded $100,000 in cash and in-kind services. Hydrovolts CEO Burt Hammer shows off the company&amp;39's turbine designed specifically for manmade canals. The company plans to build these turbines in three sizes, with the largest able to fit into a shipping container.(Credit:Martin LaMonica/CNET)The top prize went to Hydrovolts, a Seattle-based company that makes a hydrokinetic turbine designed specifically for manmade canals. Flowing water turns adjustable wings to generate electricity. The company's plan is to sell the turbine to landowners and facility operators that have a steady-flowing canal. One advantage of this approach is that there shouldn't be a need for environmental reviews because it's an artificial environment, according to the company.The runners-up were Philadelphia-based Blackgold Biofuels, which has a process for converting fat, oil, and grease from wastewater treatment facilities into biodiesel fuel' and Oakland, Calif.-based Fogbuster, which is also separating fat, oil, and grease (FOG) from wastewater without using chemical plants. Other companies in the competition focused on different areas, such as membranes that improve the efficiency of desalination plants or drawing usable energy from water distribution systems.ImagineH2O, which was started by people from Harvard Business School, organized the competition to bring attention to energy in water distribution and treatment. California, which has to pump much of its water long distances, uses 19 percent of the state's energy on water. Different forms of power generation have wildly different water requirements as well. Nuclear power uses 720 gallons of water per megawatt-hour of energy produced, compared to 140 gallons for natural gas, 30 for solar photovoltaics, and 1,060 for concentrating solar power plants, according to Dow Water and Process Solutions. Supplying fresh water to people around the world, the focus of today's World Water Day, is obviously vital. But water technologies tend not to attract entrepreneurs and investment in part because in industrialized countries water is relatively inexpensive as a resource and facilities are run by cash-strapped municipalities.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IDC: Apple will continue to dominate tablet market]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libeju8</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple's tablet(Credit:James Martin/CNET)Apple's success in thetablet market in 2010 will continue at least through this year, a new report from market researcher IDC predicts.According to IDC, 10.1 million tablets were shipped worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2010, easily overshadowing the 4.5 million tablets vendors shipped in the third quarter. During the fourth quarter,Apple's iPad secured 73 percent market share, down from its 93 percent share in the prior period. IDC found that the Samsung Galaxy Tab boasted 17 percent market share in the fourth quarter, well behind Apple, but ahead of a &quot;number of smaller regional players.&quot;All told, IDC found that almost 18 million tablets shipped worldwide in 2010--with Apple nabbing 83 percent of the market, which would come out to around 14.9 million tablets shipped.Although IDC was relying on shipment figures and not actual sales to customers, Apple CEO Steve Jobs did specifiy sales figures at the iPad 2 unveiling earlier this month. He revealed that Apple sold 15 million iPads to customers in 2010. So basically, it looks like Apple sold every tablet that it shipped.For its part, Samsung reportedly shipped about 2 million Galaxy Tab units through 2010, but the actual sell-through to consumers was much lower. The company has not revealed how many units were actually sold.Looking ahead, IDC sees the tablet market growing at a rapid clip. It believes that about 50 million tablets will ship this year as an increasing number of vendors join the fray and consumers continue to warm up to the idea of using such devices.Regardless, competition from the Motorola Xoom, Research In Motion's upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook, and the scores of other tablets hitting store shelves this year will do little to affect Apple's market share, IDC predicts. The researcher said it believes Apple's iPad will hold onto 70 percent to 80 percent of the tablet market through 2011.E-readers IDC also took a look at e-readers. The research firm found that more than 6 million e-readers shipped worldwide during the fourth quarter, helping the sector to tally a total of 12.8 million unit shipments in 2010. Although that put them behind tablets, e-reader shipments were up over 325 percent year over year.During the fourth quarter, Amazon's Kindle led the way in the e-reader market, taking 48 percent share. That figure was up from the 40 percent market ownership it secured in the third quarter. The Pandigital Novel and the Barnes &amp; Noble Nook took the second and third spots in the fourth quarter, respectively.One other interesting tidbit: Sony Reader shipments were up 80.7 percent worldwide in the fourth quarter. Total shipments for the device surpassed 800,000 units last year.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gartner prophesies Apple's Post-PC era]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libeju8</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=gartner-prophesies-apples-post-pc-era</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs would have you believe that the post-PC era is here. Market researcher Gartner seems to agree. Apple iPad 2(Credit:Apple)At the rollout of the iPad 2 yesterday, the Apple CEO's carefully calculated musings about the post-PC world were meant to sow just enough doubt in consumers' minds that they think twice when buying that second PC. (And he was also careful to couch this as the post-PC era, not the post-Mac era. You can have your cake and eat it too if your Apple apparently.) Maybe Gartner sees this as a self-fulfilling prophesy. Whatever the case, the market research firm made some dark prognostications today about the future of PCs. It seems thattablets will not be &quot;additive&quot;--a word that Intel likes to use--but subtractive. In short, instead of opting for that second PC and then maybe a tablet on top of that, consumers will opt for just the tablet. &quot;We expect growing consumer enthusiasm for mobile PC alternatives, such as theiPad and other media tablets, to dramatically slow home mobile PC sales, especially in mature markets,&quot; George Shiffler, research director at Gartner, said in a research note today. &quot;We once thought that mobile PC growth would continue to be sustained by consumers buying second and third mobile PCs as personal devices. However, we now believe that consumers are not only likely to forgo additional mobile PC buys but are also likely to extend the lifetimes of the mobile PCs they retain as they adopt media tablets and other mobile PC alternatives as their primary mobile device.&quot; That last sentence is powerful. A consumer will hold off on buying a new PC and allocate that money instead to a tablet or other mobile device--like a high-end smartphone. And the verdict &quot;Overall, we now expect home mobile PCs to average less than 10 percent annual growth in mature markets from 2011 through 2015.&quot; Overall, Gartner is lowering its PC unit forecast for 2011 and 2012. Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to reach 387.8 million units in 2011, a 10.5 percent increase from 2010, according to Gartner's preliminary forecast. But this is down from Gartner's previous projection of 15.9 percent growth this year. And Gartner expects worldwide PC shipments to total 440.6 million units in 2012, a 13.6 percent increase from 2011. This is also down from Gartner's previous outlook of 14.8 percent growth for 2012. There were other factors too, like China. &quot;These results reflect marked reductions in expected near-term unit growth based on expectations of weaker consumer mobile PC demand, in no small part because of the near-term weakness expected in China's mobile PC market, but also because of a general loss in consumer enthusiasm for mobile PCs,&quot; said Ranjit Atwal, another Gartner analyst. But Gartner devoted most of the note to tablets. In a section titled &quot;PCs' Limitations Are Exposed,&quot; Gartner said that &quot;not too long ago, PCs were a 'fashion accessory' in mature markets with vendors linking themselves to fashion designers and even creating PCs specifically for women. The current 'cool' device is the smartphone, and now PCs will soon have to do battle with media tablets when they are launched in large numbers in the second quarter of 2011.&quot; Mobile PCs are not keeping up with the times, according to Gartner. &quot;Mainstream mobile PCs have not shed sufficient weight, and do not offer the all-day battery life, to substantiate their promise of real mobility. These limitations have become all the more apparent with the rapid spread of social networking, which thrives on constant and immediate connections. In short, all-day untethered computing has yet to materialize, and that has exposed the 'mobile' PC as merely a transportable PC at best,&quot; according to the note. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wikipedia's Happy New Year: $16M in support]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libeju8</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia is ringing in the New Year with $16 million in donations collected this holiday season.Founder Jimmy Wales said in a post today that the fundraiser was the most successful in the history of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, parent of Wikipedia.&quot;This year is a little more incredible than most because this year we celebrate Wikipedia's tenth anniversary,&quot; Wales wrote. &quot;It's so important that we kick the year off just like this: by fully funding the Wikimedia Foundation's budget to support Wikipedia and all the sister projects as we head into the next decade of our work together.&quot;Wales also offered up some other numbers, saying the foundation and its ad-free sites had enjoyed more than 500,000 donations, nearly 130,000 donations to local Wikimedia chapters worldwide, two of the largest fundraising days in Wikipedia history, and an average donation size of about $22.&quot;This fundraiser had all the ingredients of what we love about Wikimedia projects: people come together, contribute what they have, and together we do something amazing,&quot; Wales wrote. He also pointed out that it's not too late to pitch in.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Madison Avenue meets Sand Hill Road: KBS+P Ventures bets on ad startups]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=madison-avenue-meets-sand-hill-road-kbsp-ventures-bets-on-ad-startups</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libeju8</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Can a New York advertising agency replicate the success of Silicon Valley&amp;'s venture-capital firmsKirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners has launched KBS+P Ventures to find out.The fund, structured more like a corporate venture arm than a traditional VC firm, will focus on early stage investments in ad and consumer technologies.Entrepreneurs who receive funding from KBS+P Ventures will have access to the resources of sister companies under Kirshenbaum&amp;'s Parent, MDC Partners. MDC clients include BMW, Coca-Cola, and Levi Strauss &amp;amp' Co. among others.Investments will range from $50,000 to $200,000. Like many corporate venture arms, KBS+P Ventures will not be raising outside capital.The company&amp;'s first investment is in Yieldbot, an on-demand realtime media intelligence platform. It figures out what visitors for digital media sites want and then makes that data available to advertisers and publishers.The operation is the brainchild of Darren Herman, Kirshenbaum Bond&amp;'s chief digital media officer, who will be the managing director of KBS+P Ventures. Since 1998, he has raised more than $50 million in funding for his own ventures and has participated in firms that have raised more than $100 million. In 2008, he founded Varick Media Management, which focused on audience-driven digital media buys of advertising on the Web. (He&amp;'s pictured here , left, with Lori Senecal, president and chief executive of KBS+P, right.)Herman said the company will offer startups advice on public relations, media, strategy, creative content, and development resources. It isn&amp;'t clear how much money the fund has to invest.Next Story: Survey suggests local businesses checking in to Facebook Places Previous Story: How to launch at SXSW on a shoestring budgetPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: early stage venture fundCompanies: KBS+P, MDC PartnersPeople: Darren Herman, Lori Senecal          Tags: early stage venture fundCompanies: KBS+P, MDC PartnersPeople: Darren Herman, Lori SenecalDean 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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<title><![CDATA[Mobile Baby gets babies online before birth]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Great Connection, which puts medical scans like X-rays and ultrasounds with the cloud, just announced that its Mobile Baby service will be used in a pilot project in Egypt to perform remote diagnostics on pregnant women. Great Connection already has deployments in maternity clinics in Saudi Arabia and Sweden.Most pregnancy clinics currently use CDs or other physical media to store and share images. They also need to archive images for up to 10 years, which can be very costly. Great Connection&amp;'s Mobile Baby cloud service can be used to share scans with expectant mothers (potentially an important source of revenue for clinics), with doctors and also to archive the data.Ultrasound and X-ray machines use proprietary medical image formats and protocols that are understood by Great Connection&amp;'s software. The scanning machine&amp;'s operator initiates the image or video transfer directly from the ultrasound machine to a cloud server.During transfer, sensitive data like social security numbers are removed from the content and it is encrypted and authenticated. From the cloud server the images can be shared with doctors or mothers via email or social networks. Images can also be sent to mobile phones using MMS or  SMS.Many maternity clinics do not have a doctorpermanentlyonsite. Midwives are not allowed to make a diagnosis when they spot a problem. The Mobile Baby service allows images to be shared quickly with doctors, who can make a remote diagnosis.Remotediagnosis is even more important in developing countries. Egypt has only one doctor for 1,900 people as opposed to one physician for every 400 people in a country like the U.S. The ratio is much higherin many countries in Asia and Africa.Mobile Baby is offered in Egypt by  Mobinil, the countrya4a4s leading mobile operator, and is initially being launched inCairo with plans to expand to clinicsand hospitals across other parts of the country, including rural regions, which have much lower levels of access to medical services.The service is being introduced with support from Qualcomm, which already offers a diverse range of mobile health services. Mobinil&amp;'s parent company isOrascom Telecom which operates GSM networks in markets inthe Middle East, Africa and Asia with a total population of506 million.Mobile ultrasound can also be used to scan at an accident site to determine, for example, whether a patient has internal bleeding and should receive a transfusion immediately.Great Connection was founded in Sweden in 2007 but is now based in San Diego.Calling all developers: We want to write up your app for VentureBeata4a4s Mobile App Spotlight! If you have an innovative mobile app that hasna4a4t been featured on VentureBeat yet, submit it for consideration right away. The Mobile App Spotlight is sponsored by The Intel AppUp developer program.Next Story: NYT: Apple considering cheaper iPhone, not iPhone mini Previous Story: Radiohead&amp;'s &amp;''The King of Limbs&amp;'' digital release lands early (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: baby, maternity, mobile, share, ultrasoundCompanies: great connection, mobinil, Qualcomm          Tags: baby, maternity, mobile, share, ultrasoundCompanies: great connection, mobinil, QualcommCiara Byrne is a full time techie and part-time writer. She has worked as a software developer, team lead, engineering manager and mobile standards expert. Ciara is based in Amsterdam and her interests include creative companies, useful technology, torture by piano and cycling in high heels. Follow her on Twitter at @deciara.  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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