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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[After raid, hacker releases 'bible' for PS3 reverse engineering]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Sony)A Playstation 3 hacker says he has released information about reverse engineering hypervisor technology used in thePS3 after his home in Germany was raided earlier this week, reportedly at Sony's request. In a comment to a post on his PS3 Linux and Hyper Reverse Engineering Blog, Graf-chokolo writes in the comments section: &quot;Guys, SONY was today at my home with police and got all my stuff and accounts. So be careful from now on.&quot;  After several readers expressed doubt about the legitimacy of the post, he says in another comment: &quot;Guys, I don't joke, it's serious. And to prove it, I kept my word and uploaded all my HV reversing stuff. Upload it everywhere so SONY couldn't remove it easily. Grab it guys, it contains lots of knowledge about HV and HV procs.&quot;  He writes: &quot;Here is my HV bible&quot; and provides four links to sites where he placed his files. As of this afternoon, the files had been removed from three of the sites, with one of the sites citing a copyright complaint.  Sony did not immediately respond to an e-mail request for comment, but gaming news site Kotaku reported that a representative from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe had confirmed the raid.  Sony is taking aggressive action against PS3 hackers. Last month, Sony requested a restraining order against George Hotz for releasing a jailbreak for firmware version 3.55 that allowed people to run home brew applications on the console. Sony says the action violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud Abuse Act, but Hotz disagrees. Game consoles are not mentioned in the DMCA. A U.S. District Court ruled in Sony's favor, granting a temporary restraining order. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell Streak 7 review]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lifleisher</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Gadget megatrend: From one mobile market to many]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lifleisher</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[For the longest time, mobile devices came in clear, separate categories: laptops, phones, handheld game players, and music players. But with the arrival of smartphones, tablets, and smarter everyday gadgets, the market is exploding, mixing together, and fragmenting into different subsectors.That&amp;'s one of the things to expect at the Consumer Electronics Show, which opens this week in Las Vegas,according to the analysts who gave the show&amp;'s opening talk to the press. The trend is a sign that companies which focus on creating more specialized gadgets will likely find customers over time, as long as they solve a problem that can&amp;'t be solved by a universal device such as a smartphone.An Internet-connected meat-cooking thermometer Don&amp;'t be surprised if you see one &amp;8212' least of all because one already exists! The addition of connectivity, sensors, computing power, and location information will make devices far more intelligent and useful, justifying the existence of a specialty product in the presence of a universal one, Dubravac said.&amp;''People have referred to the smarter gadgets as the internet of things,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''But we think about it as the intelligence of things.&amp;''Sean Dubravac (pictured above, right) and Ben Arnold (left) said that each of the different mobile markets will likely give rise to specialized mobile devices, such as eBook readers. That&amp;'s contrary to past expectations since smartphones and tablet computers were expected to kill off eBook readers in 2010. In fact, Amazon sold more than 8 million Kindle eBook readers in 2010, and the market looks healthier than ever. About 20 million are expected to sell in 2011.Tablet computers are also going to be huge at the show. Dubravac said he wouldn&amp;'t be surprised to see more than 100 tablets on display among the 2,500 exhibitors. Just a year ago, before the iPad launched, lots of people were skeptical that you could sell a gadget to users with a screen that was somewhere between 5 inches and 15 inches. Now that category of device has become a big battleground, Dubravac said. Based on consumer surveys, the best price for tablets is $301 to $440. In 2011, tablet sales are expected to nearly double.Other device markets are more stagnant. Digital cameras are expected to grow only 1 percent in 2010 in terms of U.S. sales. But the camera makers who are doing well are remaking their devices with global positioning system (GPS) capability and internet uploading.Dubravac said that the increasing use of new kinds of control schemes will likely lead to a wave of renewal in different categories of products. Adding sensors and cameras to devices will open the way to make the devices more intelligent. A car such as the Nissan Leaf electric car can use sensors to measure driving efficiency and report back to the car owner, who can then work on improving his or her driving efficiency. And as the sales of Microsoft&amp;'s Kinect motion-control system suggest (it sold 2.5 million units in 25 days), gesture controls are going to be hot and will allow for more and more specialty gadgets.Last year, 3D television sets created a lot of hype, but connected TVs got a better reception. In 2010, connected TVs were 9 percent of the market. That should grow to 15 percent in 2011 and 52 percent by 2014. Stereoscopic 3D, meanwhile, will likely come down in price and proliferate into portable gadgets such as phones and Nintendo&amp;'s upcoming 3DS game device.One of the best ways to carve out a new niche in the market is to create a full-blown ecosystem. And these days, that means creating apps that make use of the gadgets. The new age of apps &amp;8212' triggered two years ago with the launch of Apple&amp;'s App Store for the iPhone &amp;8212' is transforming a lot of the devices.About 40 percent of consumers use apps for communication, 32 percent for checking weather, 32 percent for navigation or maps, 32 percent for music, 28 percent for news, and 25 percent for games.Arnold believes that extending a mobile device so it can access data on your home network will grow over time as mobile devices usage goes up. He said there will be more remote control apps where the smartphone becomes the tool for controlling the gadgets in your home.Next Story: Tesla employee: Model S alpha prototype up and running Previous Story: Assistly raises $3M to manage customer complaints on Twitter and suchPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CES, CES 2011          Tags: CES, CES 2011Dean 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.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[Google asks users to help fight content farms]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Therea4a4s been a lot of discussion about the quality of Googlea4a4s search results recently, particularly its ability to filter out a4Acontent farmsa4 filled with low-quality articles that are written to appeal more to search engines than readers. Today, Googler Matt Cutts revealed a new weapon in the companya4a4s attempt to block spammy content.With a new extension for Googlea4a4s web browser Chrome, people will be able to block websites that they dona4a4t want to see anymore, presumably because the content is always useless. (You can always click a button at the bottom of your search results to show what was blocked, and you can also edit your list of blocked sites, so these decisions arena4a4t permanent.) Google can then use the extension to collect data about which sites are being blocked, which it can feed back into its search results.It seems like there are some big risks involved in letting the data shape general web search results. Google is famously secretive about the details of its ranking system, even when it announces improvements, because it doesna4a4t want companies to know how to game the system. By creating such an explicit way to influence results, Google might be opening the door to content farms that hire people to download the extension and manipulate the results.Plus, therea4a4s the inherent uncertainty about why someone is blocking a site. For example, there are a number of tech news sites that I might block because their content never interests me, but that doesna4a4t mean Ia4a4m telling Google that the content is spammy.At least this system seems a little harder to game, since therea4a4s no way for someone to say something should be ranked more highly. So spammers might be able to attack their rivals, but if a bunch of real users block their content, therea4a4s no way to erase that. Plus, Google is still being a bit cagey about its exact strategy, saying a4Awill study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results.a4 So presumably it will find ways to avoid gaming and other irregularities, or it will just scrap the experiment if it doesna4a4t seem to be working.Next Story: Ahhha wants to turn your great idea into money Previous Story: BrightSource raises $89M out of planned $100M for solar thermalPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'                        Anthony 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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