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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[From Tokyo to California, radiation tracking gets crowdsourced]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Radiation data from Tokyo (static image).(Credit:altTokyo.com)The intensifying nuclear crisis in Japan is raising anxieties on both sides of the Pacific over the potential impacts of radiation exposure, and a relative dearth of official information on radiation levels is leading some to turn to crowdsourced options. Japanese officials warned residents living near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to stay indoors after a third explosion at the plant in four days, followed by elevated radiation levels around the plant, which the officials said were high enough to harm human health. Panic was reported in Tokyo, as radiation levels rose to as much as 23 times the normal level, according to some reports.With official estimations of the threat from radiation across Japan changing rapidly and sometimes inconsistent, a number of real-time amateur radiation monitors have popped up online. A live geiger counter at altTokyo.com updates a graph with data every 60 seconds, and a uStream channel broadcasting the digital display of another Tokyo geiger counter was drawing more than 14,000 viewers earlier today.A few thousand miles across the Pacific to the east, state and federal officials in Hawaii and West Coast states said they did not anticipate any threats to public health from radiation drifting in from Japan. Despite such reassurances, Arizona-based GeigerCounters.com is seeing a run on radiation monitoring equipment. The site was down for a while following the announcement of the Fukushima leak, and came back online this morning with this message:Due to the disaster in Japan, orders for Geiger Counters have outstripped supply. Initial orders were filled immediately from stock on the shelves at our location and the warehouses of our suppliers. But at this point, there are simply not enough detectors available to meet the overwhelming demand. At least one of our suppliers has adopted a &quot;triage&quot; method of doling out the limited supply of detectors remaining until more can come off the factory line.The same Arizona company also runs Radiationnetwork.com, a crowd-sourced radiation-monitoring network of roughly a dozen or so unofficial monitoring sites around the United States, updated every three minutes. So far, all monitoring stations report radiation measurements well within normal background levels.It's important to stress that few if any sources keeping an eye on the situation expect threatening levels of radiation to reach the western hemisphere, but the situation in Japan is still evolving. Meanwhile, there's still time to get in on the crowd-sourced monitoring effort--the Radiation Network offers monitoring equipment and software to sync up to its radiation map. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sprint to add 4G in SF on December 28]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We knew it was coming, but Sprint confirmed today that its 4G WiMax network would go live in the San Francisco Bay Area on December 28. Sprint customers should be able to access the fast data speeds in most urban regions surrounding the bay including San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.Though the carrier has been testing WiMax in the region since September--we've already used it in the CNET offices in San Francisco--the official launch date means the service is ready for commercial use. Also, the International Telecommunication Union recently classified WiMax as an official 4G technology.Indeed, the addition of San Francisco fills a much-needed hole in Sprint's 4G coverage map, which includes 70 markets and almost all of the country's major cities. Just yesterday Sprint added its final 2011 cities when it switched on 4G service in Denver and Bridgeport, Conn.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Electric car startup Coda raises $76 million towards pre-IPO goal]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Electric car startup Coda announced it has raised $76 million of a planned $125 million in what should be the company&amp;'s final round of financingbefore it tries for an IPO.Coda wants its public offering to become a reality this year, a Coda spokesmantold VentureBeat last fall. That may all hinge on the success of its first car launch &amp;8212' an all-electric, five-seat sedan priced at $44,900 before government incentives.The car wasinitially planned for launch last month, then pushed back to the third quarter of this year.This brings the total raised to $201 million. As of September, the company had raised $60 million towards the current round. Investors in this round include new investors Harbinger Capital Partners and Riverstone Holdings and existing investorsAeris Capital (which led Coda&amp;'s third round of fundraising) and founding venture backers Angeleno Group. The company&amp;'s founder and co-chairman Miles Rubin and interim CEO and Steven &amp;''Mac&amp;'' Heller also invested.Still, Coda still has a lot to prove. It has not yet announced a replacement for its former CEO Kevin Czinger, a Goldman Sachs alum who stepped down &amp;''by mutual&amp;'' consent in November' the company cited wanting new leadership with strong manufacturing experience as Coda moves into full-scale production of the car. Interim CEO Steven &amp;''Mac&amp;'' Heller is currently at the reins (also a former Goldman executive), and told VentureBeat he is not in the running for the permanent position.It also delayed the release of its sedan, which was initially to debut last month and go head-to-head with Big Auto contenders like the all-electric Nissan Leaf and partially electric Chevrolet Volt. It&amp;'s unclear whether that will adversely affect sales of the car, though.As a newcomer to the scene, Coda will initially sell in California, with Apple-like stores with a no-pressure sales environment that it says will allow wandering mall shoppers to get their questions about electric cars answered. The company will also has invested $100 million in equity in a joint venture withChinese battery company Lishen. The partnership produces battery which has prompted debate over whether or not it is a Chinese-made car.Coda is ramping up for a rather aggressive sales target of 14,000 vehicles sold in the first year of production, 40 to 50 percent of which it says will will be from fleet sales. But there are some concerns about whether or not ita4a4ll hit those goals.Industry watchers have been skeptical of Coda considering its car is priced about $12,000 more than its better-known competitor, the Nissan Leaf. The sedan will cost nearly $45,000 before federal and state tax incentives. However, the company &amp;8212' and some analysts &amp;8212' argue that demand for electric cars in the market is currently greater than available supply, so Coda could steal sales from buyers too impatient to wait for the Leaf, which is currently is backlogged with about 20,000 reservations (which are now closed).Previous Story: Microsoft demos future Windows version running on Intel and ARM chips (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Coda sedan, electric cars, electric vehiclesCompanies: Aeris Capital, Angeleno Group, Coda, Harbinger Capital Partners, Riverstone HoldingsPeople: Kevin Czinger, Miles Rubin, Steven Heller          Tags: Coda sedan, electric cars, electric vehiclesCompanies: Aeris Capital, Angeleno Group, Coda, Harbinger Capital Partners, Riverstone HoldingsPeople: Kevin Czinger, Miles Rubin, Steven HellerIris 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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