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<title><![CDATA[Report: iPad 2 media event to be held March 2]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-ipad-2-media-event-to-be-held-march-2</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>minsirparxd4</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:James Martin/CNET)Apple could announce the next-generationiPad as early as next week, according to a report today.AllThingsD hears from &quot;multiple sources&quot; that Apple is planning on holding a media event next Wednesday, March 2, to introduce the iPad 2. The event will take place in San Francisco.Apple hasn't sent official invitations yet, but it's been widely assumed Apple would start selling an updated version of its populartablet about a year after the original device went on sale. The iPad debuted in stores the first weekend in April 2010. An introduction at a press conference on March 2 would give Apple about a month before sales begin.The AllThingsD report hit several hours after a rumor began making the rounds this morning that the next iPad would be delayed until this summer.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PlayStation Move sales hit 4.1 million (with a catch)]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=playstation-move-sales-hit-4-1-million-with-a-catch</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>minsirparxd4</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=playstation-move-sales-hit-4-1-million-with-a-catch</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Sony)Sony's entry into the motion-gaming space is enjoying strong sales, the company announced today.Sony said it has sold 4.1 millionPlayStation Move units worldwide since the controller's launch in September. In a statement announcing the sales, Sony said the figure &quot;not only shows clear success of the launch of the new motion-sensing controller, but also indicates positive momentum going into the holiday season and to the year 2011.&quot;However, Sony confirmed to CNET in a separate e-mail today that the 4.1 million units were sold to retailers, and not to consumers. The company wouldn't disclose how many units were actually sold to customers.&quot;While we don't disclose our exact sell-through number, the key is that our retailers continue to ask for more Move units and are taking every unit we can supply them with based on their sales,&quot; a Sony Computer Entertainment spokesperson told CNET.Sony's announcement comes on the heels of Microsoft saying that its own motion-gaming option has sold well--more than 2.5 million Kinect sensors since its launch earlier this month, according to Microsoft. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to CNET today that Microsoft's figure is made up of sales to consumers, and not to retailers.But in either case, both the Kinect and PlayStation Move have a long way to go to catch up to the motion-gaming leader, Nintendo. Last month, Nintendo reported that it has sold 65.3 million Wii Remotes to consumers in the United States alone since its console's launch in November 2006. That figure includes units bundled with theWii and Wii Play, as well as controllers purchased separately.However, when it comes to unit sales, Microsoft's Kinect is at a disadvantage. Both Sony and Nintendo require controllers for all players who want to enjoy their respective motion-gaming experience. More than one controller is needed for multiplayer experiences, meaning homes might have several Wii Remotes or Move controllers. To play with Microsoft's motion option, consumers need only to buy a single Kinect unit per console to play either individually or with others.Outside of motion-gaming peripherals, Nintendo reported yesterday that it sold 1.5 million hardware units--900,000 DS units and 600,000 Wii consoles--to consumers over the past week.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rescue photos and engage in cartoon battles: iPhone apps of the week]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>minsirparxd4</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=rescue-photos-and-engage-in-cartoon-battles-iphone-apps-of-the-week</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:CNET)The big Apple news this week was the announcement that The Beatles music collection is finally available at the iTunes App Store, but that wasn't the only news to come out of Cupertino, Calif. iOS 4.2 foriPhone andiPad is extremely close to release, and we put together a slideshow of some of the new features across both devices. Check out our hands-on look at the iOS 4.2 Gold Master and the slideshows for each device here.This week's apps include an image-editing app that offers a big list of useful tools and a castle defense game with RPG elements and a surprising amount of depth.Many of the tools let you use onscreen sliders to make precise adjustments to your image.(Credit:Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)Perfect Photo (99 cents for a limited time) has been out for some time, but a recent sale has pushed it up into the top 10 at the iTunes App Store. At first, I was reluctant to review another photo app (and thought maybe the sale was the soul reason for its success), but once I tried some of the features, Perfect Photo changed my mind. This app lets you edit photos using several tools and effects. Simply snap a fresh picture or use one from your library, then hit the button in the upper-right corner of the interface to see a list of tools and effects. Under the tools tab, you'll be able to crop, adjust color balance, tweak brightness and contrast, and do many more things not found in other apps. Each of the tools gives you sliders to manually adjust each effect--a welcome change from other apps that only give auto-effects.Perfect photo is not just limited to its long list of tools. You can also make your images look vintage' turn your images into pencil outlines' add black and white effects' and a few others. When you're finished with an image you can save it to your photo library or quickly send it to Facebook, Twitter, or via e-mail. As one of several photo-editing apps at the iTunes App Store, it's tough to choose the best one of them all. But Perfect Photo has a solid set of tools that will prove useful for &quot;saving&quot; images that didn't turn out the way you wanted.With the right units, you should be able to beat the enemy back to their base.(Credit:Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)Cartoon Wars 2: Heroes (99 cents) is the sequel to Cartoon Wars, featuring castle defense type gameplay with deep RPG elements. The object is to defend against an assault' in the first mode, you defend a castle using attack units and skills, and in the second mode, you need to destroy swarming enemies using your hero.In the castle defense portion of the game, you use a mix of melee and ranged units to beat back attacking forces and make your way to (and ultimately destroy) the enemy castle. Each unit can be upgraded in between battles with money you earn by killing enemy units and destroying the enemy castle. There are several upgrades for units and you can even add more-advanced units once you earn enough cash. Frankly, the number of upgrades and new units is dizzying, and later in the game you're even able to buy air units (also upgradable) to rain down destruction from the sky.Even with just the castle combat portion of the game, Cartoon Wars 2: Heroes would be worth the price of admission, but the game goes much deeper than that. The second mode challenges you to take on multiple forces using only one hero (chosen at the beginning of the game) in a frenetic dual-stick battlefield melee against several enemies. As your hero gains levels, you'll be able to add stat points for more attack power, better speed, and other advantageous options. You'll also be able to upgrade skills to give your hero better weapons and added spell-like abilities for difficult situations.Heroes has been out for a few weeks, but it wasn't until I noticed its lasting popularity on the top apps list that I decided to check it out. At a glance, a game with cartoon in the title and stick figures didn't seem worth my time, but after playing I can say I am definitely impressed. The only issue I have is the infuriating control system for the castle turret, but mostly Cartoon Wars 2: Heroes is very enjoyable with challenging gameplay and surprising depth.What's your favorite iPhone app Do you have a better image-editing app than Perfect Photo How do you like the two-part gameplay in Cartoon Wars 2: Heroes Let me know in the comments!<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China's rare earth embargo triggers price hikes]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=chinas-rare-earth-embargo-triggers-price-hikes</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>minsirparxd4</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=chinas-rare-earth-embargo-triggers-price-hikes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Chinese embargo on rare earth elements is causing a dramatic spike in the price of materials, which is expected to lead to a jump in high-tech product prices before settling back down in a few years, according to report released today. Prices will increase rapidly until &quot;non-Chinese rare earth mines are up and running, increasing product availability and thereby decreasing prices,&quot; wrote Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network, in a research note today. (See: Pay dirt: Why rare earth metals matter to tech (FAQ).) But for the time being, Castellano points to some alarming statistics. In semiconductor manufacturing, where rare earth materials are used as high-k dielectric films and as polishing materials in chemical mechanical polishing, prices of ceria for certain applications have increased more than 1,000 percent in the past year. Ceria is also used in the polishing of glass disks for hard disk drives, LCD panels, and high brightness LEDs. And price hikes of 170 percent in the past year for Europium are now reaching manufacturers of end products, Castellano wrote. Europium is a rare earth used as a phosphor in cold cathode fluorescent lamps in laptop backlights and plasma display panel TVs. Neodymium is also in short supply with price increases of 420 percent in the past 12 months. This rare earth element is used in magnets for hard disk drives, wind turbines, and hybrid electric vehicles. &quot;During the past 20 years there has been an explosion in demand for many items that require rare earth metals. China capitalized on its rich rare earth deposits and cheap labor to drive down prices to a point that nearly every mine outside China was forced to shut down because they couldn't compete on price,&quot; according to Castellano. &quot;We estimate that the Chinese held 90.0 percent of capacity of rare earth oxides with 103,300 tons, but its share will drop to 67.2 percent in 2014 based on output of new mines coming on stream,&quot; said Castellano. &quot;China's capacity will only increase 10.4 percent to 114,000 tons between 2010 and 2014, whereas non-Chinese capacity will increase nearly 5 fold, from 11,500 to 55,800 tons,&quot; he wrote. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Two Chinese Online Video Sites Going Public: Which Should Investors Buy&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=two-chinese-online-video-sites-going-public-which-should-investors-buynbsptctv</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>minsirparxd4</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=two-chinese-online-video-sites-going-public-which-should-investors-buynbsptctv</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bill Bishop, an investor and consultant based in Beijing, joined me via Skype to talk about this white-hot Chinese Interent IPO market, that&amp;'s even welcoming unprofitable companies into the Nasdaq. &amp;''It&amp;'s been a crazy couple months, and it looks like it will be crazier through Christmas,&amp;'' he says. &amp;''The goldrush is back.&amp;''One of the most interesting corners of that goldrush is online video. Between dozens of competitors, soaring bandwidth costs, piracy issues and government crackdowns, this has been one of the harder areas for Chinese upstarts to succeed and more than a dozen have died. A lot of Silicon Valley money has died with them. But left standing are YouKu and Tudou and both have filed paperwork to go public.They are frequently called the &amp;''YouTubes of China,&amp;'' but both are actually becoming the home of more premium and even original scripted content. These companies may have started with a user generated content bent but are more like a Hulu than a YouTube now, or even an HBO or AMC. It seems UGC is hard to monetize everywhere.With hundreds of millions of uniques per month&amp;8211' they are sucking up insane amounts of bandwidth. The two leading companies Tudou and YouKu have raised more than $300 million between them and only Tudou is close to profitable. Some IPO cash would help them dramatically, as would the marketing event that goes along with a successful IPO.But with two companies with roughly the same user base and roughly the same revenues both getting ready to file&amp;8211' which one should investors buy Bishop helps us make sense of the market.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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