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<title><![CDATA[Analysts: Intel seeks chip business at Apple]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Amid serious legal squabbling between Apple and Samsung, Intel may have an opportunity to land Apple as a chip customer, according to analysts. Intel-made Apple chips inside future iPads (Credit:Apple)''Based on a number of inputs, we believe Intel is...vying for Apple's foundry business,'' wrote Gus Richard, an analyst with Piper Jaffray &amp; Co., in a research note, according to a report in EE Times. Foundry refers to contract manufacturing. Samsung is currently the foundry for Apple's A4 and A5 processors, which are used in theiPhone 4 andiPad 2. This may be a golden opportunity for Intel, according to another analyst. &quot;Given the strained relationship between Apple and Samsung over IP (intellectual property) issues, there is a window where Intel can become the foundry of choice for Apple,&quot; said Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Rodman &amp; Renshaw, in a phone interview. Though Intel is relatively new to the foundry business, it already has one customer on record, Achronix Semiconductor. But it also has at least two more confidential customers, according to a source familiar with Intel's foundry business. That said, gaining Apple as a customer would move Intel into the contract manufacturing big leagues with the likes of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)--also rumored to be a future Apple foundry. In fact, Intel isn't there yet. &quot;It's not the sort of thing that could happen easily or quickly,&quot; said the source. But it could happen. And if it did, Apple would be tapping into the resources of the world's premier chip manufacturer. &quot;Intel would be more of a preferred supplier than TSMC,&quot; said Kumar. &quot;Intel simply has superior [manufacturing] process technology,&quot; according to Kumar. And Intel, via its flash chip manufacturing venture with Micron Technology, is one of the world's largest suppliers of flash memory and solid-state drives--for which Apple also has a voracious appetite. Intel said it does not comment on speculative analyst reports. Apple did not respond to a request for comment. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Despite challenge, all HP board members elected]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marmonju34</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard shareholders shook off the warning from a shareholder advisory group that HP's board members-elect were too chummy with the company's new CEO, and approved each of them as new directors today.HP's annual shareholder meeting, which was available via Webcast, took place at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Va. Despite one of the more dramatic years in HP's history, today's meeting in no way reflected it.HP chief Leo Apotheker and seven others were re-elected to the board today.(Credit:Dan Farber )Shumeet Banerji, CEO of Booz &amp; Company' Gary Reiner, former CIO at GE' Patricia Russo, former CEO of Alcatel-Lucent' Dominique Senequier, CEO of AXA Private Equity' and Meg Whitman, former president and CEO of eBay' along with CEO Leo Apotheker and seven existing board members were approved by votes of more than 50 percent each. Other issues up for vote included advisory votes on executive compensation, an employee stock plan, employee pay policy, and the accounting firm of record.The five new members passed muster with shareholders despite an incident earlier this month when International Shareholder Services sent a report to clients that accused HP and Apotheker of not following the board's own guidelines for director appointments. ISS argued Apotheker should have had no role in the process because he was not an independent director, and pointed out that Apotheker had worked with or counted several of the directors as former clients.HP called ISS' interpretation of the selection process &quot;flawed,&quot; and sent a note to shareholders denying the group's claims.Even before the director drama, HP had already had a roller-coaster of a year. Not since the pretext scandal of 2005 has so much internal strife encircled the leaders of Silicon Valley's original start-up company. In August the man who had orchestrated a successful turnaround for HP and its reputation following the spying-on-journalists episode, Mark Hurd, stepped down after being accused of his own ethical transgressions: the board said he misreported his expenses to cover up a relationship with a female contractor.Despite the outsize compensation package and resulting lawsuits generated by his lucrative departure, Hurd came up exactly once during the 45-minute meeting. A shareholder wanted to know if HP had anymore information on the former executive's compensation package--valued at $40 million at first, but after an HP lawsuit Hurd agreed to waive almost 350,000 HP stock options. General Counsel Mike Holston explained rather genially that the incident was in the past and all the information about it is publicly available, but that they were done talking about their former chief executive.Chairman of the board Ray Lane quipped: &quot;I won't raise his name if you won't.&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Daily Show app: Everything but full episodes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marmonju34</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show app looks great on the iPhone, but it&amp;39's even better on an iPad, where it takes full advantage of the extra screen estate.(Credit:Screenshot by Rick Broida)I'm a huge, huge fan of &quot;The Daily Show.&quot; It's the single funniest thing on TV, and Jon Stewart is perhaps the smartest guy ever to sit behind a talk-show desk. (The less said about his interviewing skills, however, the better.)Needless to say, it didn't take a lot of arm-twisting for me to grab the new The Daily Show app--especially considering that it's being offered free just for today. (I'm not sure what the price will be as of tomorrow, but we can look for clues in The Colbert Report's The Word, which costs $1.99.)&amp;nbsp'The app offers a lot for rabid fans like me, starting with a shareable quote of the day (and accompanying show segment) for roughly the last eight weeks' worth of shows.Tap the Topics button and you'll see a spinning word cloud (or an alphabetical list if you switch views), with each item leading to handfuls--if not buckets--of clips related to that topic. These appear to date back as far as December, 2009--not the full archives by any stretch, but still plenty of stuff to watch.Thankfully, all videos are commercial-free, at least for the moment. All you see is a brief Capital One graphic before each clip.The Schedule button shows upcoming guests for at least the next few days, and the times each episode will re-air on Comedy Central the following day. (Wow, each one repeats four times. Who needs a DVR) You can set reminders (15, 30, or 60 minutes) for any selected airing.Finally, there's the Tweets button, which shows not only TheDailyShow and JonStewart hashtags, but also the tweets for the show itself and four correspondents (Aasif Mandvi, Olivia Munn, John Hodgman, and Kristen Schaal).What's missing Unfortunately, the one thing fans undoubtedly want most: full episodes. Great as it is to have access to complete segments (as opposed to, say, 30-second clips), it's not the same as being able to watch an episode start-to-finish.Maybe that will come. In the meantime, The Daily Show app is still a must-have for &quot;The Daily Show&quot; fans, and today's the day to get it--while it's free.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smart-grid analytics to be $4 billion industry]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[  Smart-grid data analytics services will generate $4.2 billion in annual revenue by 2015, according to a report released today by Pike Research.The report asserts that converting the amassment of raw data collected from smart meters into useful information, and in real-time, is a utility's goal from day one of smart-grid deployment. The information garnered from data analytics has an immediate and direct impact on how a utility operates as a company, according to Pike Research.&quot;[By] utilizing smart-grid data analytics tools and related services, utilities will be able to gain better insights into their customers' energy consumption behavior to serve them more effectively, manage billing issues, communicate about outages, and to collaborate with them to foster energy conservation and reduce peak demand,&quot; said the report.It's no surprise then that smart-grid software and services would grow as smart-grid deployment grows worldwide.As of 2010, the smart-grid software and services industry was still new and small, with a worldwide revenue of just $356 million. But stalwarts of data analytics services and small niche firms alike are increasing their services and gaining more clients, according to Pike Research.Famed companies like Accenture, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Siemens, and Teradata are all ramping up in this area.But the space, which Pike Research contends is competitive and wide open to new players, is also occupied by specialty data analytics companies offering smart-meter data management almost exclusively.Those companies include Aclara Software, Ecologic Analytics, eMeter, Itron, Olameter, and NorthStar Utilities, according to Pike Research.The analysis follows an ABI Research report released in July that predicted a total of $41 billion will be spent on smart-grid transmission and distribution infrastructure, and another $4.8 billion will be spent to install smart meters in homes. Pike Research also predicted in a September report that a total of $4.3 billion will be spent on the installation, maintenance, and management services for smart grids by 2015.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Transcript: Senate hearing on TSA, full-body scanners]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=transcript-senate-hearing-on-tsa-full-body-scanners</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The topic for today's Senate Homeland Security hearing was supposed to be air cargo security.But in the wake of growing public concern about the Transportation Security Administration's new procedures to screen air travelers, that's where the discussion kept returning. CNET is providing excerpts from the transcript of the hearing, in which committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman calls the scanners &quot;necessary for the security&quot; of the American people and TSA Administrator John Pistole says his agency's screeners are &quot;there to protect you and your loved ones.&quot; (See related article.)This image of an adult man was taken using a Rapiscan Secure 1000backscatter X-ray scanner(Credit:John Wild (johnwild.info))As the Thanksgiving travel season draws near, the reaction to TSA's new procedures has been visceral and sharply critical, driven by cell phone recordings of security line incidents, privacy and health concerns, and Web sites including the Drudge Report, which published a photograph of a hands-on examination of a nun with the caption: &quot;THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON.&quot; Yesterday's Colbert Report called them machines &quot;that X-ray your X-rated parts,&quot; and a software engineer from Oceanside, Calif., became an Internet sensation after telling a TSA screener: &quot;If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested.&quot;Thanks to the federal stimulus legislation, TSA has been able to buy approximately 373 whole-body scanners and install them in at least 68 airports around the country. A few weeks ago, with only a one-paragraph mention on TSA's Web site, the screening procedures were changed to offer air travelers a choice of either full-body scans or what the TSA delicately calls &quot;enhanced patdowns.&quot;Read on for the transcript excerpts. SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (I-CONN.): I want to ask you a question related to TSA that's very much in the news, which is the so-called pat-down procedures that follow and are associated with the use of the whole-body imaging scanners, which I recall because we held hearings on this subject after the Christmas Day bombing attempt. And most of us were calling for you to go to the whole-body scanners, either in the Amsterdam variety or what--what you've done.And I--I wanted to give you an opportunity before the committee really to explain the pat-down procedures that have troubled people and why you think that they're justified.PISTOLE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is an ever-evolving nature of the terrorist plot that has been well-described here this afternoon. The challenge for TSA and the whole U.S. government and our allies around the world is to develop both the best techniques and tactics, enabled by the best technology, to detect those plots.As we've heard the various plots outlined here this afternoon, it is clear that we have to be one step ahead of the terrorists. And it's obvious that we are not always in that situation, as evidenced by the last three plots that would--could have been successful.So it really comes down to a balance, where partnership on the one hand, working with the traveling public and the security safety issues on the other hand, and what is a proper mix So what we try to do is understand--we want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.We've recognized--I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.That being the case, I think everybody who gets on a flight wants to ensure and be assured that everybody else around them has been properly screened and, oh, by the way, everybody else on that flight wants to make sure that I have been properly screened or you have been properly screened.So how do we reach that balance And that's what we--that is the challenge that we go through. I believe the advanced imaging technology is the best technology we have today to detect the nonmetallic device that was well-designed, well-concealed, such as we saw on Christmas Day.What I am concerned about, and I know many share this concern, is if we have an individuals who opts out of the advanced imaging technology--let's say Abdulmutallab [CNET editor's note: this is a reference to last year's underwear bomber] had done that, if that had been the case in (inaudible). If he had opted out, thinking that, well, I'm not going to receive a thorough pat-down, so I can get on that flight, and if that had been successful on Christmas Day, I think we might be having a different dialogue here this afternoon and in the public.But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.LIEBERMAN: Let me just take this a moment or two more. Just make clear, if you will, to the committee and public who may be listening, watching, how does someone get subjected to a pat-down procedurePISTOLE: There's actually a very small number or percentage that would actually have the pat-down. And it would really occur almost exclusively in situations where somebody has opted out of the advanced imaging technology or that they have alerted on that because there's something still in their pockets or they may be trying to carry some contraband on the flight.LIEBERMAN: In other words, either they've chosen not to go through the scanner or they have gone through and there's some alert.PISTOLE: There's alert, or through the walk-through metal detector and there's alert, and so there's some basis for doing that. There--so, and even with that, it is a very small percentage of all the passengers. So very few people, even though the information out there--the public out there, because it is a new technique, if you will--the other thing I've said here--I've been in Europe several times in the last few months and observed the pat-downs being done in many airports.And it's very similar. Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world.LIEBERMAN: Yes. I know, Chris, you have a same-gender person, TSA employee, doing the pat-down. I presume they're put through training to--this is a difficult balance because, obviously, they are--this has to be a more intimate and intrusive investigation because of the choice that has been made earlier or what the machine has shown, but that they're--they're instructed in a way that will determine whether somebody is potentially dangerous but also, in doing so, try to do minimal harm to their privacy.PISTOLE: Correct. They go through training. And the clearest outcome of that training is to be professional and to give clear guidance and a lot of clarity as to what they are going to do in terms of the actual pat-down and to make sure that the passenger understands that and responds to that.There's been a lot of publicity out there about a certain individual who recently tried to travel but did not want to have that pat-down. And I think, if people get away from just the passenger to hear what the security officer was saying, very cool, calm, professional. And that's what we expect out of our security officers, to do this in a way that is professional.And, again, the bottom line is, if you have two planes that are getting ready to depart and one, you say, everybody has been thoroughly screened on this plane and you can either go on that plane or we have another plane where we have not done a thorough screening because people didn't feel comfortable with that, I think most of if not all the traveling public would say, &quot;I want to go on that plane that has been thoroughly screened.&quot;LIEBERMAN: Yes, I--I agree with you. I think you're doing the right thing. I think perhaps the reaction to the pat-down procedures got ahead of TSA's or the department's description of what you were doing and why you were doing it.But if, God forbid, that bomb on Abdulmutallab's body had gone off on the plane over Detroit, Congress and I dare say the public would have been demanding not just the body imaging equipment but pat- downs. Because I understand the privacy sensitivities, of course. It's awkward' it's unusual. On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of--we get on those planes and we want to have the confidence that nobody on the plane has evaded security in a way that will allow them to blow up the plane and kill everybody else on it.So it--this is unfortunately the world in which we live. It wasn't our choice. But--but we have to do everything we can to protect the traveling public. And I think that what you're doing here with the pat-down procedures is difficult' it's sensitive, but it's necessary for the security--homeland security of the American people.SEN. ROLAND BURRIS (D-ILLINOIS): Mr. Chairman, I--I don't have much longer in the Senate, but we ought to look at these private contracts. And I'm concerned about the number of private contractors not only TSA but the other government agencies are going to, and then dealing with liability. [CNET ed. note: Roland Burris was appointed to President Obama's Senate seat and is succeeded by Republican Mark Kirk.]Because I'm wondering where the liability is going to be if one of those passengers who feel that they have been over screened, just what the liability there would be. And, in terms of the underwear bomber, would patting down have caught the underwear bomber in your--your estimationPISTOLE: Yes.BURRIS: Not the machine, but the patting downPISTOLE: Yes.BURRIS: Because this--the--allegedly it was in a diaper type of arrangement.PISTOLE: Yes.BURRIS: So they are going that deep in terms of patting down individualsPISTOLE: The pat-downs are based on the latest intelligence and the information that we have. And...BURRIS: There was no intelligence on this gentleman that was on the flight to Detroit. I mean, you know, he was on the plane.PISTOLE: That's right. That's why we changed the policy.BURRIS: So, OK. And our personnel have received--our personnel have received adequate trainingBecause, Mr. Chairman, do we know what will happen, with the litigation coming out of this Because the pilot's association and the flight attendant's association are getting ready to bring some type of action, as I'm getting information, because of the excessive patting down a flight attendant and the pilots. Is that the case, sirPISTOLE: That had been the case.Pilots have, of course, not generally gone through the advance (inaudible) technology because they are allowed to keep their shoes on and that's a different issues. But I've had a number of conversations with representatives of the pilots associations and we are actively exploring options as it involves pilots because we're using a risk- based approach, and the question--it just begs the question: If you have somebody who's in charge of the aircraft who can put the aircraft down, as could be the case, then why do we have the screening for themSo actually in the near future, I will be announcing some new policies on that.BURRIS: That would help. There's also a question, Mr. Pistole, about the degree of X-rays that these individuals have to go through in the course of their day-to-day work and what that will do to their physical health, is it not, if--if they go through the X-ray machine rather than the excessive pat-downPISTOLE: Sure. And that's one of the concerns that I think has been raised. What I rely upon is the scientific literature and the studies that have been done using these specific machines, including FEA (ph), National Institute of Science and Technology, and Johns Hopkins. They've all done independent assessments of the advanced imaging technology machines, the amount of radiation, and I've seen several analogies, but one that sticks in my mind is going through one of these machines is similar to receiving about three minutes--is it seconds or minutes--three minutes of radiation that you would receive at 30,000 feet on a normal flight.So it's very minimal, well within the established scientific standards for safety, and we're always trying to update that independent validators, others who have opinions about that. BURRIS: And how about the protection of the TSA personnel I mean, if I get accused of, you know, grabbing a lady's breast or, you know, or the female gets too close to the male genitals--I mean, how are they protected nowPISTOLE: OK, so it's always same gender security officers who would do that pat-down, and then people can request a private...BURRIS: Well, have you a witness there with that pat-downPISTOLE: You're welcome to have a witness there present.BURRIS: So the TSA person--can the TSA person request a witness employee to be there with her or him when he is patting him down or she is patting her down Can they have a person there with them there to protect themPISTOLE: It's not our current policy, but unless it goes into a private screening area, the closed-circuit TV would capture virtually all of that because every checkpoint has C.C. TV-enabled.BURRIS: I see my time is up. But I--I'm also concerned about our TSA personnel, and I listen to these people, &quot;please take care of the TSA personnel.&quot; Some of them don't have health insurance. Some of them working part-time. And I'm listening to these complaints, and as the new administrator, I'm counting on you to take care of those people who are going to take care of us getting on these airplanes. Because we can't have disgruntled TSA personnel...PISTOLE: Absolutely.BURRIS: ... trying to protect us on these flights.PISTOLE: I couldn't agree with you more, Senator. I appreciate your support. Thank you, sir.BURRIS: God bless you.LIEBERMAN: Thank you.Thanks very much, Senator Burris.SEN. JOHN ENSIGN (R-NEVADA): Are you going to, you know, allow certain groups to be exempted from that because of, you know, religious beliefsPISTOLE: Senator, we try to be sensitive to each individual and in groups that have particular sensitivities as to whether it's head-wear or certain garb or sensitivities about being viewed or touched and everything. So we try to be sensitive to those issues. At the same time, the bottom line is we have to ensure that each person getting on each flight has been properly screened. And so we have options such as, if somebody does not want to go through the advanced imaging technology, it is optional. They would just do the walk- through metal detector and then--and have a pat-down that would identify any possible items.They can request private screenings. So if they don't want to be screened in public, they can go to a private area, have a witness with them.And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.ENSIGN: I realize this is a difficult question for you, but--so are you going to make no exceptions, thenPISTOLE: Everybody...ENSIGN: I know you're trying to responsibly accommodate.PISTOLE: Yes.ENSIGN: But within those reasonable accommodations, OK, let's just say that--that, listen, you know, my religious whatever does not allow me to be touched by somebody else, does not allow me to go through that screening. So what happens in those casesPISTOLE: So a very small percentage of people would have and will continue to receive pat-downs. So if somebody comes through...ENSIGN: So they have to at least go through the pat-down, if not the screeningPISTOLE: No, they--unless there is an alarm in the walk- through metal detector or they opt out of the advance imaging technology, they would in all likelihood never receive a pat-down. So it's--the pat-down is only a very, very small... ENSIGN: No, no, I--let me--maybe not (inaudible) my question. If somebody is--a random screening. I just got randomly screened at the airport. For whatever reason, my number seems to come up quite often.But if that, you know, happens and either the imaging, OK, was one of the options or, you know, the pat down--let's just say I don't--I don't want either of them because of religious--because of religious reasons. What happens to mePISTOLE: So while I respect and we respect that person's beliefs, that person's not going to get on an airplane.ENSIGN: OK. And there will be no exceptions because of religion. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Computer chip sales cool down in summer]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Sluggish demand took a bite out of chip sales and shipments toward the end of the summer, says a new study out today from research firm IDC.For the third quarter, worldwide microprocessor sales rose only 2.5 percent from the second quarter, while shipments inched up just 2.1 percent from the prior quarter. On a year-over-year basis, results were healthier, with chip sales rising 24.1 percent and shipments 8.6 percent over the third quarter of 2009.Typically, global chip sales jump around 9 percent from the second to the third quarter, while shipments increase 10.6 percent. This year's lackluster growth was unusual, according to IDC, and triggered by weaker demand that affected the entire supply chain.&quot;Market demand for processors was weak in July and in August,&quot; Shane Rau director of Semiconductors: Personal Computing research at IDC, said in a statement. &quot;OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) have become very reactive to any hint of slackening end demand. And, when they cut their PC build orders, like they did in late 2Q10 and the first half of 3Q10, not only did they cut their processor orders, they caused their contract manufacturers to cut orders for commodity components. The whole supply chain is skittish.&quot;Drilling down into the chip market for the third quarter, shipments of mobile PC processors edged up just 1.6 percent over the second quarter, server processors rose 4.1 percent, and desktop processors advanced 2.4 percent. But again, year-over-year growth was stronger, at least for two segments.Shipments of mobile PC chips rose 13.3 percent from the third quarter of 2009, while those of server processors jumped 24.4 percent. But shipments of desktop chips grew just 1.7 percent from a year ago.Among the major chip players, Intel took home an 80.4 percent chunk of the market, a loss of 0.3 of a percentage point from the second quarter, while AMD earned a 19.2 percent share, up 0.2 of a percentage point from the prior quarter. Overall growth for the second half of 2010 is expected to be sluggish compared with the first half, but the chip market should revive next year.&quot;For 2011, we believe that, even though the consumer segment will remain stalled in developed regions, IT executives will see PC upgrades as a priority over the next 12 months, which should result in double-digit growth in PC systems and PC processors units next year,&quot; Rau said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Startup WIT goes after microgrids in developing countries]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=startup-wit-goes-after-microgrids-in-developing-countries</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marmonju34</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[There&amp;'s a ton of data involved with smart grids, and one startup called World Infrastructure Technologies (WIT)is championing a way to visualize and monitor that data.WIT presented at the GreenBeat 2010 innovation competition today. Its product monitors and maintains information about energy assets, from generation down to the pole. Taking the raw data about transformers and feeders, WIT then visualizes the information with &amp;''heat maps,&amp;'' which lets grid operators see vulnerabilities on the grid and address them.The company&amp;'s CEO Charles Lawson said that its technology could be used to create small microgrids in developing countries that could then power a whole village.&amp;''We&amp;'re one a few applied solutions out there,&amp;'' Lawson said. &amp;''Our big competitors are the GE&amp;'s&amp;8230' (but) at least for the smaller energy companies we&amp;'re an a lot cheaper solution.&amp;''Next Story: Power Map turns your appliances into Facebook friends Previous Story: Knowledge base SmartGridView baffles GreenBeat 2010 judges, audiencePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010, smart gridsCompanies: WITPeople: Charles Lawson          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010, smart gridsCompanies: WITPeople: Charles LawsonIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[My favorite flight search site Hipmunk is raising $5.9M]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UpdatedHipmunk, the recently-launched travel startup that I now use to book most of my flights, is raising a $5.9 million round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The site was launched by cofounders Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman in August. (Huffman previously cofounded social news site Reddit.) They seemed to be directly addressing many of the complaints that I have about most other online ticketing options.Instead of giving you page after page of similar flights, Hipmunk lays out all your options in a customizable grid, making it easy to focus on the flights in the price range or time that you&amp;'re interested in. It also lets you sort by &amp;''agony&amp;'', so you can find flights that are shorter or have fewer stops, even if they&amp;'re a little more expensive.For now, Hipmunk just features flight listings that it pulled from ticket site Orbitz, although Goldstein told me last year that he eventually plans to expand to other services.I&amp;'ve emailed Hipmunk and will update this post if I hear back. The filing says that the San Francisco company has raised $4.7 million so far, but it doesn&amp;'t list any investors. Hipmunk was incubated by Y Combinator and earlier raised a $1 million angel round from Ashton Kutcher, Gmail creator Paul Buchheit (now a partner at YC), WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, famous angel Ron Conway, and others.Update: Goldstein responded: &amp;''We don&amp;'t have any comments right now, but we&amp;'ll be able to share details later this week or early next.&amp;''Next Story: Can there be a tech bubble without an IPO frenzy (video) Previous Story: Is Yahoo still relevant Search portal expects another weak first quarterPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: flight searchCompanies: HipmunkPeople: Adam Goldstein, Steve Huffman          Tags: flight searchCompanies: HipmunkPeople: Adam Goldstein, Steve HuffmanAnthony 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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<title><![CDATA[BitTorrent hits 100M monthly active users]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BitTorrent said today it now has more than 100 million monthly active users who download content from the sharing site.The question remains whether that audience is huge because BitTorrent makes it easy to pirate movies and other software, or because there is genuine demand for legitimate file-sharing services. There is also an ongoing debate about whether piracy and free file-sharing actually leads to more demand for paid media.The San Francisco-based company has created a network that can efficiently move large files across the internet, spread across its BitTorrent Mainline and Torrent. On a daily basis, BitTorrent has 20 million active users, the company said in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show, the big tech show which gets under way in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Hollywood studios fear that most of the traffic is related to pirated content.&amp;''Our vision is to build a complete technology ecosystem comprised of software, content and devices, designed to connect modern content creators with a massive digital audience,&amp;'' said Eric Klinker, chief executive at BitTorrent.BitTorrent allows users to download software or files in distributed bits from many different computers at once. The service is available in 52 languages, and clients check in from 220 countries a day. BitTorrent says it has created new initiatives aimed at legitimate file-sharing of independent works. It has film distribution deals with VODO that include the films Pioneer One, Yes Men, Four Eyed Monsters and an album from Paz.The SciFi Channel used the site to distribute Battlestar Galactica episodes in the summer of 2005. That helped stoke demand for the show, which resulted in good word-of-mouth marketing for the TV series. According to TorreentFreak, the top pirated shows of 2010 were Lost and Heroes, while the top-pirate game was Call of Duty Black Ops.BitTorrent was founded in 2004 and has 37 employees. To date, it has raised $40.8 million from Doll Capital Management, Accel Partners, and DAG Ventures.Next Story: Digg founder Kevin Rose embraces email Previous Story: Will 2011 be the year online video unravels the InternetPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'                        Dean 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[Coming soon &8230' a green laptop that runs on water]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Green chemistry company SiGNa Chemistry has unveiled a new chemical process for generating hydrogen from water, which the company says could solve both of the most vexing hydrogen fuel cell problems: real-time hydrogen generation and storage.SiGNa Chemistry&amp;'s CEO Michael Lefenfeld told me that the new process could make hydrogen fuel cells practical as a power source for consumer electronics like laptops and cell phones. Since the hydrogen is generated from water, this effectively means that you end up with a water-fueled laptop.A fuel cell transforms the chemical energy of a fuel (hydrogen, methanol, natural gas, gasoline), and an oxidant like the oxygen in air, into electrical energy. Fuel cells have many similarities with batteries, but no electrodes are consumed in the fuel cell process. In a hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen is produced by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is then used as the fuel.Generating hydrogen in real-time (as opposed to refueling) can be problematic, and hydrogen normally needs to be stored under high pressure. SiGNa&amp;'s new process produceshydrogenin real-time and at pressures less than those found in a soda can. The company claims that this results in a power source that is ten times cheaper than alkaline batteries and six times cheaper than disposable lithium batteries. As an example, the company says it would cost $967to buy enough alkaline batteries to charge a cell phone 100 times (800 Watts per hour). Lithium batteries cost about $512 for 100 charges. SiGNa&amp;'ssodium silicide fuel cell, produced in reasonable volumes, would cost $89 for 100 uses.SiGNa&amp;'s hydrogen generation process uses sodium silicide, a powder that is formed by combining sodium metal with silicon powder. The resulting powder is stored in disposable canisters and reacts controllably with water to produce hydrogen. Unlike other generation methods, sea water or polluted water can be used.The reaction is easily controlled, resulting in fuel cells with a fast start and stop capability. This is a problem in many current fuel cells, since once the fuel cell has used 30-40 percent of the fuel it cannot be stopped and continues to produce power until all the fuel is consumed.The target market of sodium silicidefuel cells include consumer electronics and certain transport applications such as electric bikes. Products already exist that use hydrogen fuel cells to charge cell phones. Asia is the big market for electric bikes. A lithium battery barely lasts 20 miles for an electric bike whereas a fuel cell lasts 3-4 times this distance.I asked CEO Michael Lefenfeld about the main obstacles to using hydrogen fuel cells to power consumer electronics. He explained that the main problem is that you need to produce the fuel cells on a large enough scale to keep the production cost low. Lefenfeld told me that since offering longer battery life on a laptop, for example, is a major selling point, that several manufacturers are looking at using the cells on a large scale. He expects the first products will be fuel cells that recharge the existing lithium battery on a laptop and will be available in mid-2011. Eventually fuel cells could replace the on-board battery.Lithium batteries have problems with overheating that don&amp;'t arise with fuel cells. Batteries also contain lots of toxic materials that must be disposed of carefully. Sodium silitate can be disposed of in municipal waste and can even be recycled and resold to cement manufacturers and other industries.SiGNa Chemistry is based in New York, is privately funded and has around 20 employees.Next Story: DeNA and Ngmoco will launch global mobile social network, starting with Samsung phones Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: First Solar forecast beats expectations, Bridgelux to move into residential LEDsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: fuel cells, green chemistry, HydrogenCompanies: signa chemistry          Tags: fuel cells, green chemistry, HydrogenCompanies: signa chemistryCiara 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. 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[Bootstrapped Longboard Media Is Growing Like&nbsp'Crazy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Longboard Media is celebrating its two year anniversary and has revealed some amazing growth numbers, crystalizing its position as the largest ad network in the ecommerce space.Co-founded in November 2008 by former eBay and Shopping.com employees Scott Engler and Jim Barkow, Longboard manages ad inventory for thefind.com, shop.com, overstock.com, buzzillions.com and become.com.Like a Glam Media for ecommerce, the vertical ad group has been profitable for a year now, growing from $1.3 million in revenue in its first year to $8-9 million in projected 2010 revenue. Says Engler, a4AWhen we started Longboard, our goals for the first 2 years were to execute on our model to dominate our vertical and to growth a self sustaining business. We are very proud to be in the position we are.a4Currently ranking 1 in shopping vertical audience, Longboard Media has also grown from 5 million monthly Comscore users in 2008 to more than 48 million monthly users in a span of two years, beating both Google Product Search and Yahoo Shopping by 50%. It ranks alongside Walmart.com at a4s6 in retail audience overall.While self-funded, the startup also has some pretty notable advisors including former Digg Revenue officer Chas Edwards, Brightroll CEO Tod Sacredoti, Catalystsf&amp;'sa4sJohn Durham and Threadsy&amp;'sa4sRob Goldman.Taking advantage of this upward movement, Longboard plans to launch more products in 2011 and is focusing primarily on mobile.CrunchBase Informationlongboard mediaInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Come On, People, Let&'s Get Convertible Tablets Right This&nbsp'Time]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Back in about 2002 or so when Toshiba and a few others tried to sell tablets to businesses and consumers. This was around when Bill Gates was flogging Windows Tablet PC Edition and we all realized that tablets weren&amp;'t quite the trick. Among those tablets were the so-called convertibles &amp;8211' laptops that folded around to become thick tablets. When you wanted to tap on the screen you could and when you wanted to type you could do that, too. They were awful.Now, suddenly, Dell comes out with the Duo and Apple is patenting something that looks like a MacBook Air with a clever folding screen. Sadly, the Duo is a dud and the Apple patents probably won&amp;'t make it to market, but here&amp;'s what I&amp;'d like to see in the convertible department.There are some times when you totally need a keyboard. I&amp;'d love to see a MacBook Air or Vostro-sized tablet with a slide down keyboard that can also act as a stand. Obviously the stand would have to be able to support the thin piece of glass that is the screen, but the goal would be to add a very thin, very light keyboard to an equally thin and light tablet device.The problem with most convertibles was an untoward attraction to legacy ports and parts. They were there because laptop manufacturers felt that users needed to have an Ethernet port hanging out in their convertibles like an gaping abscess. This is no longer the case. Something like the Dell Streak melded to a nice, full slide-down keyboard would be ideal and it would force manufacturers to really think about tablet usability versus laptop usability.This is not to say that the traditional-style convertible doesn&amp;'t have a place. I&amp;'m sure someone thinks they need it. I&amp;'d just like the 7-inch plus tablets to go the way of smartphones like the Droid and offer a physical keyboard plus an on-screen keyboard. It makes sense and it would change the tablet use case immensely.Will this ever happen Most probably. Dell kind of did it with the ultra-light Duo and there&amp;'s no telling what HP is working on with Palm. Things are looking up, especially when compared to the dark days of the proto-convertibles back at the turn of the century. CrunchBase InformationHewlett-PackardAppleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yardsellr raises $5 million to reinvent e-commerce (and enable my dog-sweater habit)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I just bought a dog sweater from a stranger who lives across the country from me. And I totally blame Yardsellr, a year-old startup backed by a team of eBay veterans who may well be inventing the future of social commerce.Yardsellr CEO and founder Danny Leffel just announced his company has raised $5 million from Accel Partners, the venture-capital firm best known for investing in Facebook, and Harrison Metal Capital, the investing vehicle of former eBay executive Michael Dearing, who&amp;'s quietly backed AdMob, Aardvark, CafePress and others. Besides Leffel, ex-eBayers on the team include Jed Clevenger, who ran paid search at eBay, and Rachel Makool, former head of eBay&amp;'s community team.While Yardsellr has a website &amp;8212' Yardsellr.com &amp;8212' the shopping experience isn&amp;'t built around it. Take my dog sweater, for example: I found it on the Yardsellr Doggie Block, a Facebook page built for canine obsessives like myself. I saw the sweater but had my doubts: Was I one of those dog owners who dresses up their best friends in hideous outfitsSo I posted the sweater to my Facebook wall and asked my friends what they thought. I instantly got two thumbs up (orange is Ramona the Love Terrier&amp;'s signature color, after all), clicked to buy it with PayPal, and sent the sweater seller a Facebook message confirming the size.Some call Yardsellr the &amp;''eBay of Facebook,&amp;'' but I think that&amp;'s selling it short. Buying on eBay or Craigslist would have been a far more troublesome experience, from sharing the item with friends to deciding whether I could trust the seller. (In an additional twist, I paid Yardsellr&amp;'s fee, rather than the seller, so Yardsellr is making it easy for sellers used to Craigslist&amp;'s fee-free for-sale listings to make the switch.)Yardsellr&amp;'s true potential may be redeeming the original idea behind eBay&amp;'s now sadly troubled marketplace, which was built around a reputation system that let strangers buy and sell to each other. eBay jealously guarded its reputation system, which meant that it never grew outside ebay.com. The company had a second chance with PayPal, which arguably knew a lot more about buyers and sellers through their bank accounts, credit cards, and purchasing habits on and off eBay &amp;8212' but it never developed PayPal as a reputation system.Through its links to social networks, Yardsellr could be the fulfillment of the promise of social commerce. What will fuel buying and selling isn&amp;'t just cleverly targeted recommendations' it&amp;'s a sense of community and trust that transcends meaningless &amp;''A+++ WOULD BUY AGAIN&amp;'' ratings. Because Yardsellr is organizing around communities of interest rather than a single destination site, it should be able to create groups where trust can thrive, backed by the validated reputation of Facebook and Twitter profiles.And where trust exists, commerce usually follows.Yardsellr, based in Palo Alto, has to date operated on seed funding from Dearing&amp;'s Harrison Metal Capital. The company currently has seven employees.Next Story: Will trucks and buses beat cars in the electric race Previous Story: Broadcom to buy home networking firm Gigle Networks for more than $75MPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: e commerce, online classifieds, online reputation, reputation systems, social commerceCompanies: craigslist, eBay, Harrison Metal Capital, YardsellrPeople: Danny Leffel, Jed Clevenger, Michael Dearing, Rachel Makool          Tags: e commerce, online classifieds, online reputation, reputation systems, social commerceCompanies: craigslist, eBay, Harrison Metal Capital, YardsellrPeople: Danny Leffel, Jed Clevenger, Michael Dearing, Rachel MakoolOwen Thomas is the executive editor of 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[ChatSquare Brings Chatrooms To Foursquare and Facebook&nbsp'Places]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What happens when you add a chat room to Foursquare or Facebook Places  You get ChatSquare, of course.  ChatSquare is a mobile app developed by ISraeli entrepreneur Nir Ofir.  It works in the browser on iPhones and Android phones.  You connect to your Foursquare or Facebook accounts and the app lets you check into places in their geo-directories and chat with anyone else there.There are three kinds of chat rooms in ChatSquare: a chat room in a specific place, a local lobby and a global lobby.  The local lobby lets you chat with anyone within a few miles.  But the place chat is the most interesting.  You could use it as a back channel at a conference, or to flirt with someone at a bar.  Or, you know, if you are in the same place, you could just go up and talk to them.Creating virtual chat rooms in real places just means that more people will have their heads down in their smartphones, but in large group situations I can see this taking off.  It reminds me a little bit of GroupMe, a private group SMS service which launched at Disrupt&amp;'s NYC Hackathon.  GroupMe is not tied to places specifically, but that seems to be one of the popular use cases.MobileCrunch got a sneak peak at ChatSquare in September.  The video is below.CrunchBase InformationChatSquareInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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