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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 07:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Security researcher finds 'cookiejacking' risk in IE]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=security-researcher-finds-cookiejacking-risk-in-ie</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 07:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sirrasuck252</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A security researcher in Italy has discovered a flaw in Internet Explorer that he says could enable hackers to steal cookies from a PC and then log onto password-protected Web sites.Referring to the exploit as &quot;cookiejacking,&quot; Rosario Valotta claims that a zero-day vulnerability found in every version of Microsoft's IE under any version of Windows allows an attacker to hijack any cookie for any Web site.Demonstrating his findings at security conferences this month in Switzerland and Amsterdam, Valotta acknowledges that to exploit the hole, the hacker must employ a bit of social engineering because the victim must drag and drop an object across the PC for the cookie to be stolen.But Valotta said he was able to devise the right type of challenge on a Facebook page that required people to drag and drop an object by undressing an onscreen photo of a woman, noted Reuters, thus allowing him to capture their Facebook credentials via a cookie.&quot;I published this game online on Facebook and in less than three days, more than 80 cookies were sent to my server,&quot; he said, according to Reuters. &quot;And I've only got 150 friends.&quot;From its point of view, Microsoft doesn't see much real-world risk to cookiejacking.&quot;Given the level of required user interaction, this issue is not one we consider high risk in the way a remote code execution would possibly be to users,&quot; Microsoft spokesman Jerry Bryant said in a statement sent to CNET.&quot;In order to possibly be impacted a user must visit a malicious Web site, be convinced to click and drag items around the page and the attacker would need to target a cookie from the Web site that the user was already logged into,&quot; added Microsoft. &quot;We encourage all customers to protect themselves against potential issues by avoiding clicking on suspicious links and e-mails, as well as adjusting Internet settings to higher security levels.&quot; Updated 8:50am PT with Microsoft statement sent to CNET.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Analysts mull how many iPhones Verizon will sell]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sirrasuck252</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Verizon Wireless)How many iPhones could Verizon sell now that the long-awaited device has hit the shelves As expected, that question has prompted the usual collection of analysts to gaze into their crystal balls, as reported by Bloomberg and other news sources.Looking at the short term, Verizon Wireless could sell more than 1 million units in the first week beginning today, forecasts analyst Mike Abramsky of RBC Capital Market, a number that he believes may even cause the carrier to run out of stock, according to Barron's.Focusing on the current quarter, projections vary. Analysts Rick Franklin from Edward Jones, Jennifer Fritzsche at Wells Fargo Securities, and Ashok Kumar from Rodman &amp;amp' Renshaw, all are forecasting that Verizon may sell 2 million iPhones from now until March 31, according to Bloomberg.In a phone call with CNET, Kumar confirmed the 2 million number for the current quarter. But Abramsky is looking for more, says Barron's, projecting that as many as 3 to 4 million Verizon iPhones could fly off the shelves by the time the quarter ends.For 2011 as a whole, Kumar told CNET that he's estimating sales of around 8 million iPhones from Verizon. But again, Abramsky upped the figure, eyeing sales of at least 9 million iPhones and as many as 11 million as forecast by Verizon, according to a January 25 conference call. Abramsky also noted that the company believes it could sell even more barring any supply issues.Verizon Wireless is selling the 16GB iPhone for $199.99 and the 32GB model for $299.99. CNET reporter Maggie Reardon is camped out in a frigid New York City today to cover the launch of the iPhone and the crowds braving the 20-degree temperatures to get their first shot at it.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google.org's human aims could be good business]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sirrasuck252</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A map of Mexico&amp;39's forestry cover made with Google Earth Engine was created for environmental reasons, but mapping the whole world with that and other environmental measurements could prove to be an interesting business for Google.(Credit:Google Earth screenshot - Tom Krazit/CNET)MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Some of Google's next big opportunities may not come out of its traditional product development organization' look out for the do-gooders. It's been almost two years since Google announced a philosophy shift at Google.org to focus more on attacking &quot;problems in ways that make the most of Google's strengths in technology and information,&quot; Larry Brilliant, the former head of Google.org, said at the time. One of the first successes from that shift--Google Earth Engine--may not only help developing countries get accurate data about their environments for the first time, but such a massive collection of information and sophisticated analysis could pay financial dividends as well. Google does a lot of charitable giving, but tucked away in a corner of its sprawling campus is a group drawn from all parts of the company that is dedicated to something a little more Googly that simply giving money away: &quot;Can we use our engineering skills to design our way out (of the world's problems)&quot; Megan Smith, general manager of Google.org, said in an interview with CNET. Take Google Earth Engine, conceived and run by Rebecca Moore, a former member of Google's Geo team who now works for Google.org full time. Moore developed quite a reputation in the environmental community after using Google Earth to map out a proposed logging project in the Santa Cruz Mountains that was defeated after the graphical presentation showed the project's scope was larger than advertised. That led to Google Earth Outreach, a project which taught environmental groups and governments how to use Google Earth as a presentation tool. Environmental scientists were impressed by the tool, but what they really wanted was a tool that could let them analyze and manipulate the data stored in those images in order to make decisions about environmental policy, such as how much to compensate local groups for protecting forests against logging. Moore recognized that what they needed was something &quot;intrinsically parallelizable'&quot; in other words, something perfectly suited to be broken up into thousands of small tasks and run across a distributed network of servers. What other computing problems are like that Web search, for one. &quot;I think we're (becoming) clear about what is our best lever: technology-driven philanthropy,&quot; Smith said. Google Earth Engine was demonstrated at the most recent round of world climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, allowing the Mexican government to produce the most detailed map--by far--ever assembled of its forestry footprint, Moore said. It plans to use that map to set wildlife habitat boundaries as well as antideforestation programs. Google.org wants to find hard problems that are often too much for poorer countries with limited or nonexistent IT budgets to solve on their own and apply Google's vast resources of computing power and human talent. Around 100 Google employees are affiliated with Google.org, and while their salaries are paid out of Google.org's estimated 2011 budget of $45 million, they generally maintain a strong connection to the Google.com working group from which they came. Earth Engine is an example of a &quot;pilot&quot; project started by one or two engineers from the Geo team that grew into a full-blown Google.org project, Smith said. There are five major products at the moment: Google Earth Engine, Google Flu Trends, Google PowerMeter, RE&amp;60'C (research into making renewable energy cost less than coal), and Google Crisis Response.Another Google Earth Engine project allowed the Surui tribe in the Amazon to receive compensation from the Brazilian government for maintaining the forests in their territory, the green area in the middle of the picture with the clear borders. The yellow and pink areas represent deforested land.(Credit:Google) While the projects are designed to tackle specific philanthropic needs, there are clearly commercial applications that can arise from this work. Truth be told, should the projects prove wildly successful, Google won't have much of a choice but to find some way to monetize them in order to make up for the drain on its computing resources: for just the Mexico project, Google donated 15,000 CPU hours of computing time to produce the map and plans to donate 10 million CPU hours to developing countries as they attempt to figure out how to measure the size of their forests while negotiating the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) agreement reached in Cancun. Google has discussed commercial applications of Google Earth Engine, but it's too early to have laid down any specific plans, Moore said. There will always be a free version of projects like Google Earth Engine available to developing countries, but don't be surprised to see a break-even pricing tier at some point that allows Google to recover its costs or even a for-profit version that could turn into its own business, she said. Projects such as Google Earth Engine are extremely valuable to the world, for both humanitarian and commercial reasons. One of Google's clear aims for Google.org is to unlock generations of material--such as historical satellite imagery--stored on tape drives in musty warehouses by getting that information online, Smith said. Moore cited the example of local researchers who were able to draw strong conclusions between changes in weather patterns and disease. A system that would allow countries to identify such weather patterns backed by years of historical data could lead to early-warning systems against crippling diseases, although Moore cautioned such an application is still in the conceptual stages. This would also have obvious benefits for agricultural companies, for example. &quot;We'll have to charge something,&quot; Smith said, in order to make these ideas work at a truly global scale, but for now the limited application of these practices allows them to remain completely philanthropic. With strong support from Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, don't expect anything to change drastically at Google.org following Page's elevation to the CEO spot in April. Likewise, even as Google adds employees left and right in 2011, don't expect cultural support for the promises of Google.org to become diluted by new recruits. If anything, younger people emerging from universities and graduate programs have even a stronger connection to this kind of work than the generation that helped build Google, Smith said. &quot;In a lot of ways, the Internet is like a shift like the Silk Road in its day: people were able to connect to each other in a way that's never been there before,&quot; Smith said. Younger workers &quot;will demand&quot; that their employers engage in this manner of using business strengths for humanitarian purposes, she said, and Google feels it has quite the head start.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Copia e-reader app comes to Windows 7 tablets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sirrasuck252</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Copia e-reader hits Windows 7 tablets.(Credit:Copia)LAS VEGAS--Part online bookstore, part e-reader, and part social network, Copia has just addedWindows 7tablets to its lineup of supported devices.Being demonstrated this week atCES, Copia for Windows 7 tablets uses the same reading and social-networking environment found on other devices and platforms. The Copia app makes its Windows 7 tablet CES debut on such systems as the new Samsung Sliding PC 7, also on display at CES. So how does Copia work You can buy digital books directly from Copia's online bookstore and load them on any supported device. The e-reader app itself is free, with most versions available for download from the company's Web site. Reading an e-book through Copia is similar to reading one on most other e-readers, except there's a social aspect. Your Copia library list is shareable, should you choose to share it. So when you add a new book to your library, other people can see the books you're reading. You can share your library list with everyone in the Copia community or just with friends that you've added to your own network. You can even create Copia discussion groups centered on different books or topics and make those groups either private, open by request, or open to everyone.Copia also taps into connections to Facebook and Twitter, so you can invite your friends from other networks to join you on Copia. You can view the books in your library in list view, grid view, or in a tag cloud view that changes the size of the book's image depending on how much interest and buzz the book has received from other readers. The more comments, discussions, and reviews about the book, the larger it appears. You can also tap on any book to read what the Copia community is saying about it and even filter comments and reviews to see those just from your friends. As you read the book, you can highlight passages, write notes, and make comments. If you so choose, your notes and comments can then appear in the same e-books owned by your friends and people in your discussion groups. This way, you can trigger a back-and-forth conversation about specific passages in a book among your fellow Copia users. Notes and comments can be organized into separate notebooks, so you can review all the ones you've made. Tapping on a specific note opens up the associated passage in the book itself. Beyond Windows 7 for tablets, Copia runs on PCs and Macs, the iPhone and iPad, Android devices, and Windows Phone 7, among other environments. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digital City 110: last-minute gifts' game company holiday cards' and the best iPad app for cats]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sirrasuck252</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[Aquamarine lands ABB as investor for wave power]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=aquamarine-lands-abb-as-investor-for-wave-power</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Artist&amp;39's rendering of the Oyster 2 to be built and installed off the Orkney Islands by summer 2011.(Credit:Aquamarine Power)Scottish wave power company Aquamarine Power today said it raised funds to commercialize its wave power machine, including an investment from Swiss industrial giant ABB.Edinburgh-based Aquamarine secured $17.36 million, with $12.6 million coming from ABB, which has a large portfolio of products in the power utility sector.The investment from ABB is a significant endorsement for wave power, which is being pursued actively in the U.K. There is a European marine energy test site at the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland along with several other research efforts.&quot;Wave energy is primed to become an important part of the world's renewable energy portfolio,&quot; Brice Koch, the head of ABB marketing and customer solutions, said in a statement. &quot;This investment reflects our belief in its technical viability.&quot;Ocean power dips its toes in water (photos) Aquamarine is one of few companies in the wave and tidal power industry with machines generating electricity in the water. Its first product was connected to the grid about a year ago in Scotland for testing and the company is working on a second-generation.Its Oyster product is a large, clamshell-shaped machine. When the underwater &quot;hinged flap&quot; moves from the motion of waves, the device pumps water to a hydro-electric turbine on land to generate electricity. In the U.S. there appears to be an uptick in interest among energy entrepreneurs in tidal and wave energy, although the U.S. lags Europe in development and deployment. There are now 17 locations which are testing hydrokinetic devices, both wave and tidal, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. There are significant challenges to making functioning wave and tidal power devices, such as operating in harsh environments and understanding the potential effects on the local ecosystem. There's an effort in Massachusetts to establish a marine energy test bed off the coast of Cape Cod to test tidal power and offshore wind in order to gather environmental testing data and speed up the permitting process. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Envoy to solve latest Google Maps border dispute]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sirrasuck252</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[I have never been a Nicaraguan general, but I imagine that the job has its fun parts.So one might just put it down to naive enthusiasm that Eden Pastora--such an idyllically peaceful name for a general--might have accidentally wandered with his troops into territory that would seem to be owned by its neighbor, Costa Rica.And yet, no. General Pastora doesn't blame general euphoria. No, he blames Google Maps.The dispute that has ensued over Google's version of the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border has become rather serious. So much so that the secretary general of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, is flying to the area to help ensure that a cartographic mess involving Google doesn't become a graphic mess involving dead bodies. The Google Maps tale, originally offered by Search Engine Land, reads almost like a scene from the wonderful 2001 movie &quot;No Man's Land.&quot; You see, Costa Rica and Nicaragua aren't necessarily in agreement about who owns the areas near the San Juan River. But the Costa Ricans claim that both countries are in possession of maps that delineate a currently tolerated border, which was allegedly agreed in treaties as long ago as 1858 and 1888.In the interests of peace, here is a lovely picture from San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. At least I think it&amp;39's Nicaragua.(Credit:CC Thombo2/Flickr)The Costa Rican paper La Nacion quoted General Pastora as saying the Google Maps version showed that his area of encampment was on Nicaraguan soil. &quot;Esta clarito,&quot; he declared.Costa Rican experts who spoke to La Nacion seemed, surprisingly, in agreement that Google's version was erroneous, while Bing Maps' was correct. The paper also quoted Nicaragua's ambassador to the Organization of American States as saying the local maps can be confusing.However, Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rica's first female president, who must feel slightly perturbed, as her nation doesn't have what might officially described as a permanent army, is not happy. She reportedly declared on national TV: &quot;The Armed Forces of Nicaragua crossed the border and remain until this day on Costa Rican territory on the Island of Calero, in the province of Limon. There they set up military encampments, raised the Nicaraguan flag.&quot;Google was accused earlier this year of showing a radically misleading version of the border between Cambodia and Thailand. And CNN says the company is looking into the Nicaragua-Costa Rica issue.Given that Google Maps do occasionally lead people up garden paths and even highways, it is hard to imagine that fine generals rely on the service, especially in sensitive areas.Who would be surprised, therefore, if General Pastora might have been attempting to attain a certain heroic status by conquering a little pastoral foreign land And who would be surprised to hear that the Nicaraguans have requested that the Google Maps version stays as it isI would have suggested that the two sides play a game of soccer to settle this little fracas. And then I remembered that Central America hasn't always been politically lucky, where soccer is concerned. In 1969, Nicaragua's near neighbors, El Salvador and Honduras, got into a war that was somewhat inspired by a soccer game between the two countries. So one can only wish Jose Miguel Insulza--and Google--luck. Insulza, at least, may not need it. He is a Chilean politician, whose nickname is, um, El Panzer.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Twitter Now Showing Full Conversations In The Side&nbsp'Pane]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A couple days ago, we noted that Twitter was back on the new feature charge with the new People area they&amp;'re testing out. Well, make it two-for-two, as yesterday they rolled out another new feature a4&quot; one that many users have been asking for since New Twitter was unveiled: full conversation threads.Yes, if you click on a tweet with the chat bubble icon, you&amp;'ll see the detail of what that tweet was responding to in the right pane of New Twitter. Previously, you could only see one level deep into the conversation. But now, Twitter will show you an entire back and forth (assuming the users responded using the &amp;''reply&amp;'' button each time). And depending on where you hop in to the conversation, you&amp;'ll see all the &amp;''in reply to&amp;'' message above, the tweet you clicked on in the middle, and the &amp;''replies&amp;'' below in this pane.This is a much easier way to follow conversations on Twitter, and it&amp;'s something that the standalone Twitter Search product has had for some time. Several third-party clients offer this&amp;nbsp'functionality&amp;nbsp'as well (as do Twitter&amp;'s mobile apps). But this is yet another reason not to leave twitter.com.Back in June, we noted that Twitter had hired the creator of the app Twitoaster, which was interesting since that app specialized in surfacing conversations on Twitter. No word on if that played a roll in this roll-out. I&amp;'m just glad it&amp;'s here.CrunchBase InformationTwitterInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Instakarma: Instagram Expands Team And Moves Into Twitter&'s Original&nbsp'Office]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I wrote about some office space that was available in the South Park area of San Francisco&amp;'s SoMa district. Why was it interesting Because it was Twitter&amp;'s original office. And that&amp;'s exactly how the startup that currently owns it,  One Block Off The Grid, was pitching it to startups in hopes that they would sublet it. Well, they found one.A certain startup getting an amount of early buzz that some might say is comparable to that of an early Twitter is taking the lease: Instagram.In fact, the photo-sharing startup secured the space today, co-founder Kevin Systrom tells us. Previously, they had been working out of Dogpatch Labs in San Francisco. But that was when they were a company of only two: Systrom and co-foundera4sMike Krieger. But now they&amp;'re a team of four.The company has just hired their third full-time employee, Shayne Sweeney. Systrom describes him as a &amp;''rockstar iPhone dude&amp;'' and notes that he helped build the popular Foodspotting iPhone app. Additionally, the company has a fourth employee, Josh Riedel, who is helping out part time as the community manager.The move to Twitter&amp;'s first office is a homecoming of sorts for Systrom. &amp;''I&amp;'ve always loved South Park a4&quot; after my internship with the Odeo folks, I used to go visit them at that office. So when the opportunity arose, I figured we should jump on it,&amp;'' he says. Odeo was the podcasting startup that eventually gave birth to Twitter.&amp;''Karma: This is Twitter&amp;'s original office&amp;'', is how the office space was being pitched. Will that be good karma for Instagram Do they even need it given their current growthAnd no, they didn&amp;'t need new funding to secure the space.CrunchBase InformationInstagramTwitterInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Studies How Consumers Shop For Laptops, Netbooks, E-Readers And&nbsp'Tablets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As the holiday shopping season gets into full swing, Google has released a study examining how consumers shop for laptops, netbooks, e-readers and tablets. The search giant interviewed around 4,000 respondents and used analysis of clickstream data from Compete&amp;'s 2 million US internet users. We&amp;'ve embedded the study below but here are some of the findings that we found most interesting from the report. In terms of interest, new devices like tablets and e-readers are getting attention in terms of searches on the web. In terms of  unique visitors to each category, tablets saw 1328% growth and eReaders saw 114 percent growth. Netbook&amp;'s visitors dropped by 50 percent and laptops dropped by 9 percent.According to the survey, 49% of consumers did not know exactly which type of device they would purchase when the started the shopping process for a new device. Google also examined the behavior of those consumers who do know that they want a particular type of device. For example, 66% of netbook shoppers consider another device' 29% of tablet shoppers consider another device' 20% of laptop shoppers consider another device and 12% of eReader shoppers consider another device. Of course, unsurprisingly the iPad has dominated the tablet category, caused a decline in tablet shoppers considering  other devices, according to the survey. And while netbook shoppers consider other devices in the shopping process, these consumers are five times more likely to consider a laptop than a tablet.In terms of research, consumers on average spend one month researching the type of device they should buy. And 85 percent use the internet to research their purchase. Google reports that 64% of e-reader shoppers both bought and researched online. And 37 percent of consumers interested in tablets searched online and bought in-store. Google also reports that store or retailer sites are the most frequented among online sources (65%), followed by search engine sites (61%), brand or manufacturer sites (53%), price comparison sites (44%), review sites (29%), and social networking sites (18%). Search drove most number of visits to product detail pages across all  product categories and the most qualified leads. And 58% of shoppers perform more than 5 searches on the web for a device. Shoppers who conducted 10+ search queries converted at a rate of 22%.Google also released interesting data on demographics of users searching for particular type of device. For example, tablet shoppers skew slightly female (53%), primarily fall into the 25-34 age group' 56% consider more than one brand and the group is most concerned with appearance/style. e-Reader shoppers skew male (64%), fall into the 45-54 age group, 70% consider more than one brand, and the group are more concerned about reviews more than  any other portable PC shopper.The laptop shopper skews female (58%), with 50% of shoppers falling into the 18-34 age group, 65% of the group considers 3 brands or more, and 43% want to upgrade from their existing device. The netbook shopper skews male (46%), primarily falls within the 35-44 age group, and most shoppers are undecided on brand with 80% considering more than one device. Of consumers considering both netbooks and tablets, consumers are leaning towards tablets (37% vs. 25%).While some of these stats aren&amp;'t groundbreaking, it is interesting to see the online habits of electronics shoppers based on device.     View this document on ScribdCrunchBase InformationGoogleInformation provided by CrunchBaseTipTweet<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Attention, flight-search startups: Priceline, Expedia say hotels are where it&'s at]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[[Update: added comments from kn0thing a4&quot;Alexis Ohanian's Twitter handle a4&quot; on Y Combinator's Hacker News website]Priceline today announced it brought in $1 billion in revenue for its third quarter, up 37 percent from $730 million in the same quarter a year ago, thanks largely to its global hotel bookings business a4&quot; not those William Shatner-hawked name-your-price flights that won it fame a decade ago.Meanwhile, airlines are seeking to cut fees paid to online travel agents further, as seen in American Airlines&amp;' threat to drop its flights from Orbitz starting December  1.That raises a question: Are today&amp;'s flight-focused travel-search startups like Hipmunk trying to solve the wrong problemPriceline&amp;'s hotel bookings were up 54 percent from the same quarter a year earlier and have continued to see growth, according to its most recent earnings statement. Expedia, another online travel site, reported that 63 percent of its transactions were related to hotels, while only 12 percent were from flights, according to its most recent quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Hipmunk, a Y Combinator-incubated startup run by Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman, recently launched promising to make flight searches easier. And while the site is gorgeous and intuitive,it still relies on Orbitz for its flight searches and makes money through commissions when users book flights. Adioso, another Y Combinator-backed startup, helps travelers pick flights in a more open-ended fashion.These flight-only startups risk getting crushed on one end by the airlines, which see booking fees paid to websites as an easily slashed cost. And on the other, they&amp;'re facing Google, which is trying to acquire real-time airline fares-and-seats data provider ITA. Google isn&amp;'t as interested in garnering commissions on tickets as it is in quickly answering users&amp;' searches, which means it could well help the airlines bring online ticketing fees down. Expedia and other companies are scared stiff that this will somehow understandably concerned. Travel is a huge part of e-commerce that&amp;'s worth around $80 billion a year. ITAa4a4s software handles around 65 percent of all online flight bookings, and travel advertising accounted for about 6 percent of all online advertising revenue, according to acoalition fighting the acquisition. Google&amp;'s acquisition is also the subject of an antitrust investigation that began in July. Whatever happens with ITA, it&amp;'s surely not a good idea for travel startups to get into the middle of a war between key suppliers and Internet giants.Investors were certainly pleased with Priceline&amp;'s performance. Shares of Priceline were up 5.9 percent to $411.51 in extended trading on Monday after the company released its earnings report.We&amp;'ve asked the Hipmunk team if they have plans to move into hotels, but haven&amp;'t heard back. They&amp;'d be smart to do so: Priceline has proven that there&amp;'s more money to be made in the fragmented world of lodging than in the tightly controlled airline business.A post by kn0thing, Alexis Ohanian&amp;'s Twitter handle, on Y Combinator&amp;'s Hacker News site said, &amp;''we&amp;'ve got plenty more planned for hipmunk &amp;8211' as many in this thread point out, there&amp;'s a lot more than flight search that needs agony removed.&amp;''Next Story: Let a thousand sports blogs bloom: SB Nation raises $10.5M Previous Story: Amazon falls behind Chinese e-reader maker Hanvon to debut first color E Ink devicePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: e commerce, lead generation, online travel, travel searchCompanies: Adioso, Expedia, Hipmunk, ITA Software, Orbitz, Priceline          Tags: e commerce, lead generation, online travel, travel searchCompanies: Adioso, Expedia, Hipmunk, ITA Software, Orbitz, PricelineVentureBeat 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[Where the Valley&'s hottest incubator nests its companies]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new report shows that most companies developed at Y Combinator, the much-watched Silicon Valley incubator known for both the geeky prowess of the startups it grooms and the Hollywood glitz of the investors it draws to its Demo Day events, launched on the cheap. The Y Combinator graduates, including much-discussed stars like travel site Hipmunk and online-storage service Dropbox showed a strong preference for cost-saving cloud-computing services for storage and processing and Web-based software like Google&amp;'s Gmail for internal communication.Roughly 3 out of 4 companies participating in Y Combinator&amp;'s incubator program used Gmail, Google&amp;'s mail service, as their primary email service. That includes some of Y Combinator&amp;'s most successful companies like Disqusand video streaming site Justin.tv.(The rest hosted their own email rather than using a Gmail competitor like Hotmail.)And in a sign of the popularity of cloud-computing services, which place computing demands on rented servers hosted by third parties in vast data centers rather than a company&amp;'s own machines, more than half of Y Combinator&amp;'s startups hosted their services on Rackspace and Amazon&amp;'s cloud computing options. Both services allow users to offload heavy-duty computing onto remote servers, delivering the results of computations or stored data through the Internet. Both companies also offer storage options that can be purchased incrementally (by the gigabyte) without having to buy one&amp;'s own storage hardware.Some of Y Combinator&amp;'s most successful startups, like Xobni and Dropbox, went with SoftLayer over the more popular Rackspace and Amazon cloud computing services. Posterous, a casual blogging service that has seen some success with fundraising after participating in Y Combinator, went with Rackspace.Most Y Combinator companies purchased their domain names from Go Daddy, one of the most popular sites that sells domain names. (They&amp;'re hardly alone: On the strength of its low prices and well-regarded customer service, Go Daddy is estimated to be worth $1 billion.)Y Combinator companies generally receive about $5,000 in funding, plus an additional $5,000 per founder and are relocated to Y Combinatora4a4s Mountain View locale for three months, in return for a 2-10% ownership stake. The programa4a4s alumni includeLoopt,Justin.tv,Weebly andScribd.The incubator, founded by Paul Graham (pictured above, left), has become so prevalent that it even sparked some concern over growing valuations among the investing intelligentsia of Silicon Valley.Here&amp;'s ab reakdown of Y Combinator companies&amp;' computing preferences:Next Story: Here are the Crunchies finalists: Vote for your favorite startups Previous Story: Amazon&amp;'s Android app store: an exercise in narcissismPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cloud computing, gmail, hosting, incubatorCompanies: Disqus, Dropbox, Hipmunk, Justin Tv, Posterous, Y Combinator          Tags: cloud computing, gmail, hosting, incubatorCompanies: Disqus, Dropbox, Hipmunk, Justin Tv, Posterous, Y CombinatorMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[Twitter diplomacy: Who Follows Whom Among World&nbsp'Leaders]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Twitter is the preferred channel for quick banter for over 175 million users around the world including our political leaders. Over half of the heads of states and governments of the G20 meeting in Seoul on November 11 and 12 have an official Twitter account (http://twitter.com/Davos/G20).Some like @BarackObama have 5.5 million followers, while others such as the French Presidency only have 6,600. All other G20 leaders are somewhere in between and yes, youa4a4ve guessed it, none of them tweet personally.Whata4a4s interesting though is not who has the most followers, but rather who follows who.Grand master in the art of political tweets @BarackObama ranks fifth in the world and mutually follows his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev @KremlinRussia_E who sent his first tweet in late June.  The Russian president is very active, especially Twitpicing, and now has over 160,000 followers on his English and Russian accounts combined.The @KremlinRussia_E and the @WhiteHouse both follow UK Prime Minister David Cameron @Number10gov. These three could actually conduct a direct and secret Twitter diplomacy in 140 characters literally spelling a4the end of those red phones that have been sitting around for so longa4a4 as Barack Obama recently joked.However, only London and Moscow follow Canada&amp;'s @PMHarper who @BarackObama and the @WhiteHouse seem to ignore. But it gets worse! None of the big four follow the other G20 members on Twitter. Neither is following @DilmaBR, the new president of Brazil, nor @JuliaGillard, the Prime Minister of Australia or the presidents of Korea @BluehouseKorea, France @Elyse, Mexico @FelipeCalderon, South Africa @PresidencyZA or Turkey @cbAbdullahGul.At the Franco-British summit last Tuesday @Number10gov started to follow the @Elyse Palace which had not immediately reciprocated. In fact the French Presidency is following no one and therefore Nicolas Sarkozy cannot have a private conversation with his peers on Twitter.And finally, for the record: while the Russian and Mexican presidents tweeted public congratulations to the new Brazilian president on her recent election win, neither had the foresight to actually follow her. Only exception: Venezuelaa4a4s President Hugo Chavez @ChavezCandanga who talked to Dilma Rousseff on the phone and immediately started following her.During the G20 summit in Seoul follow the official Twitter channel http://twitter.com/g20seoulsummit or read the 140 character diplomacy on the World Economic Foruma4a4s G20 Twitter list: http://twitter.com/Davos/G20.Matthias Lfkens (@Luefkens) is Head of Social Networks at the World Economic Forum, He is an occasional contributor to the Swiss-French magazine Bilan (www.bilan.ch) and blogs in French at http://lufkens.wordpress.com/.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[As Polls Close, Foursquare Reaches 50K Voting Venue&nbsp'Check-Ins]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In conjunction with the mid-term elections held today, Foursquare launched its &amp;''I Voted&amp;'' campaign which tracked check-ins at polling places throughout the day and evening. In preparation for the day, Foursquare loaded over 100,000 voting locations into its venue database. If users included a &amp;8216'ivoted&amp;' in their check-in, they received a special badge for the day. And Foursquare partnered with data visualization startup JESS3 to create a live, interactive map of each check in at polling sites. Just after the close of polling venues on the West Coast, Foursquare had clocked 49,478 check-ins from voters across the country (It looks like this number is slowly increasing).California and New York led the pack with check-ins with 7,274 and 5,988 checkins respectively. In total, 58 percent of check-ins came from women and 42 percent came from men. Foursquare users checked into a total of 23,382 polling venues. While this is Foursquare&amp;'s first big election since launch, the startup is using the election platform has a guinea pig of sorts to develop a scalable system for the 2012 Presidential Election in a few years.To put this in perspective, Facebook&amp;'s Randi Zuckerberg just Tweeted that over 11 million members declared that they voted on the social network today. Facebook encouraged members to use an interactive feature today which allows you to find polling place on the U.S. Politics Page and click the &amp;''I Voted&amp;'' button to tell your friends you voted. According to the counter at the time of this post, 11.6 million Facebook members had voted in the election.CrunchBase InformationFoursquareInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[South Korea Pledges $8.2 Billion For Offshore Wind&nbsp'Farms]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[VC funding for cleantech startups tumbled in the third quarter, last week Vestas announced plans to layoff 3,000 employees, and on Wednesday, First Wind shelved IPO plans amid weak demanda4&quot; the wind energy sector is certainly facing its share of headwinds but there are still signs of life.On Tuesday, the South Korean government announced that it will invest 9.2 trillion won, or $8.2 billion, through 2019 to build offshore wind farms. According to reports, the goal is to have 500 wind turbines along the country&amp;'s west coast in the Yellow Sea with a capacity of 2500 megawatt hours.The announcement seems to be a scaled down version of the government&amp;'s initial plans. In September, the Yonhap news agency said officials from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy were hoping to spend roughly 9 trillion won to install 1,000 wind turbines. As it turns out, the won doesn&amp;'t stretch as far in this capital intensive industry.Although, the South Korean government may be more realistic these days, the country is not shying away from big investments in the larger cleantech space. If anything, South Korea seems to be picking up the pace. Just last month, the government announced a plan to work with the private sector to invest 40 million won in the renewable energy industry by 2015, with the governmenta4s contributing 7 million won and the private sector committing 33 million won. According to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy&amp;'s figures, South Korea&amp;'s clean energy exports are expected to exceed $36 billion by 2015.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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