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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FBI warns of China-related wire transfer fraud]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Small and medium-size businesses in the U.S. lost more than $11 million over the past year in online scams in which stolen banking credentials were used in fraudulent wire transfers to companies in China, the FBI said.  There were 20 such incidents between March 2010 and April 2011, affecting companies and public institutions in the U.S. that tend to have accounts at local community banks and credit unions, some of which use third-party service providers for online banking services, according to the agency. The amounts transferred at any one time ranged from tens of thousands of dollars to nearly $1 million. In most cases the criminals managed to compromise the computer of someone within a target company who could initiate funds transfers, according to a fraud alert issued by the FBI this week (PDF). The victim either receives a phishing e-mail designed to trick the recipient into revealing online banking credentials or into visiting a Web site hosting malware that steals the information from the computer.  When the victims try to log in to the bank site, they're redirected to a page saying the site is under maintenance while the criminals use the stolen log-in information to transfer money to a U.S. bank. The money is then transferred to a bank account owned by one of a number of &quot;economic and trade companies&quot; located in the Heilongjiang province in China and immediately withdrawn or transferred again, the FBI said.  &quot;It is unknown who is behind these unauthorized transfers, if the Chinese accounts were the final transfer destination, or if the funds were transferred elsewhere, or why the legitimate companies received the unauthorized funds,&quot; the FBI alert says.  In addition to the unauthorized wire transfers, criminals also were found to be sending domestic Automated Clearing House and wire transfers to money mules in the U.S. within minutes of the overseas transfers, according to the agency. It's unclear where that money ends up.  The data stealing malware used in the fraud includes Zeus, Backdoor.bot, and Spybot. Zeus can steal multifactor authentication tokens and enable criminals to log in to accounts with username, password, and token ID during a user log-in session. Backdoor.bot has a worm, downloader, and keylogger and offers remote access to compromised computers. And Spybot is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) backdoor Trojan that runs in the background and opens a back door to the compromised computer. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Waste Management inks another trash-to-treasure deal]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=waste-management-inks-another-trash-to-treasure-deal</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>theodorehd</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Genomatica&amp;39's Bio-BDO, a chemical derived from waste currently in pilot production.(Credit:Genomatica)Waste Management seems to be on a quest to see what else it can do with all that trash and recycling it collects.The garbage collection giant signed an agreement with biotech start-up Genomatica to develop technology that would turn syngas into commercial chemical products, both companies announced last week.Syngas, consisting mostly of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is what gets produced when waste materials are broken down by exposure to high heat, pressure, and bacteria.Though the particular chemicals in mind were not mentioned, it's easy to suss out what Genomatica might develop. The company already has developed a process using a strain of the e.coli bacteria to convert sugar water, and launched a pilot project making Bio-BDO, a chemical made from renewable feedstocks that can be used to produce things like spandex and commercial plastics.Of course this is just another deal in a long list of ventures Waste Management has begun in recent months to meet its self-imposed deadline of &quot;tripling the amount of recyclables processed by 2020.&quot;Waste Management has already developed a process for turning landfill gas into liquefied natural gas, which it then uses to fuel some of its fleet. It has a joint venture with S4 Energy Solutions to develop gasification technologies. It's also acquired Houston-based Garick, which makes &quot;black gold&quot;--garden products like mulch, compost, and playground turf--from recycled organic materials. It's even begun distributing solar-powered trash compactors made by BigBelly Solar.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Live from HP&'s WebOS event: HP Veer, Pre 3 phones and HP TouchPad tablet revealed]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>theodorehd</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Palm&amp;'s owner, Hewlett-Packard, has finally revealed its first offerings in the smartphone market.HP&amp;'s Jon Rubinstein unveiled the HP Veer a4&quot; a tiny smartphone with a slide-out keyboard that&amp;'s just about the size of a credit card a4&quot; and the Pre 3 a4&quot; the next generation of the Pre smartphone line a4&quot; at an event in San Francisco today. Both phones run on Palm&amp;'s WebOS mobile operating system. HP also unveiled the HP TouchPad, a 9.7-inch tablet running WebOS.The Veer is a tiny little thing, with a screen that&amp;'s around 2.6 inches long. It has the same amount of memory as the Palm Pre 2, and uses Qualcomm&amp;'s SnapDragon 800 MHz processor. It has a 5 megapixel camera and can act as a mobile router for five wi-fi enabled devices. The Veer will be available in early spring.The Pre 3 also has a slide-out keyboard and looks pretty similar to the Pre and Pre 2. It has a 3.6 inch display running at a 480 by 800 pixel resolution. The Pre 3 has a 5 megapixel camera that shoots HD video and has a forward-facing camera for video calling. The phone has the same memory as the Pre 2, and has either 8 or 16 gigabytes of storage. It also uses a Qualcomm SnapDragon processor, which runs at 1.4Ghz. The Pre 3 will be available this summer.The HP TouchPad, HP&amp;'s first WebOS-powered tablet, weighs just more than 1.5 pounds and is around 13mm thick. The tablet is 9.7 inches long and has a 1,024 by 768 pixel resolution display. It has a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video calling as well. The tablet has 16 or 32 gigabytes of storage and twice the memory of the Palm Pre 2, and uses a dual-core Qualcomm SnapDragon processor that runs at 1.2Ghz. A wi-fi enabled tablet will be available this summer, and 3G and 4G tablets will come out later this year.Each device can synchronize with other WebOS devices using HP&amp;'s Touchstone software. That means if a user receives a text message on their phone, they can see the message on other WebOS-enabled devices a4&quot; and share a number of other apps. Users can, for example, touch a TouchPad with a Pre 3 phone and transfer whatever is on the screen on the TouchPad to the Pre 3.Since purchasing Palm, HP has thrown its weight behind the smartphone manufacturer. HP added a hundred or so engineers to Palm&amp;'s staff, said Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HP&amp;'s personal systems group. WebOS will serve as HP&amp;'s way to generate a seamless flow of information between multiple devices, Bradley said.&amp;''As part of HP, we&amp;'re now presenting from a much larger stage,&amp;'' said Rubinstein, Palm&amp;'s chief executive before HP purchased the company.Itseems like it was just yesterday that Palm made a last-ditch effort to take on the iPhone with the Palm Pre. What we got was a pretty slick phone with multitasking and a mobile operating system, WebOS, that wasna4a4t quite a match for the iPhone but that wouldgo on to do much greater things.Palm had high hopes for its WebOS mobile operating system. The phone manufacturer said it expected thousands of developers to quickly begin making applications for the platform. Unfortunately, all those developers flocked to the iPhone operating system, and then to Googlea4a4s Android operating system. To date, there are around 300,000 apps on the Apple App Store and around 100,000 on the Android marketplace.Palm&amp;'s woes mounted when it saw a number of its top developers leave for greener pastures. WebOS user interface designerMatias Duarte left Palm to work on Android at Google, WebOS notification mastermindRich Gerringer moved to Apple, and former senior VP of product developmentMike Bell went to Intel. Peter Skillman,the lead designer behind the Palm Pre, then decided to take off.It seems like nothing was going right for the phone manufacturer. Sprint Nextela4a4s highly publicized launch of the Palm Pre smartphone failed to turn around losses in the companya4a4s subscriber base. In the quarter after the Prea4a4s launch,the company lost $384 million a4&quot; compared to a $344 million loss in the same period a year ago. Part of that probably had to do with Palm waiting to launch the phone until after Applereleased the iPhone 3GS.HPannounced it would buy palm for $1.2 billion after a relatively weak launch of its Pre and Pixi devices. During a conference call discussing the acquisition, HP executives emphasized thatthe deal to acquire smartphone maker Palm was about more than phones a4&quot; they clearly had much higher aspirations for the mobile operating system.It looks like things have come full circle, with HP throwing its weight behind WebOS. We&amp;'ll update this story with specs and additional details as the presentation goes on.Next Story: Convore gives online chatting a needed upgrade Previous Story: My6sense filters Twitter for the most relevant tweetsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, iOS, iPad, iPhone operating system, tablet computer, webOSCompanies: Apple, Google, Hewlett Packard, HP, Palm, sprint          Tags: Android, iOS, iPad, iPhone operating system, tablet computer, webOSCompanies: Apple, Google, Hewlett Packard, HP, Palm, sprintMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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[North Bridge Partners: If there is startup bubble, it&'s rational]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bubble or no bubble, the conditions brewing in Silicon Valley around hot new startups now differs greatly from the tech collapse of 1999 to 2001 because most of today&amp;'s new companies are actually making money, Paul Santinelli, partner at early-stage venture capital fund North Bridge Venture Partners, told me today.a4AThere is a bubble mentality in venture financings, absolutely. But there are significant differences with this bubble compared to the one that existed in 1999-2001,a4 said Santinelli.a4AToday, most companies are actually generating revenue and the cost to build and scale those companies is exponentially less expensive,a4 he said. a4ASo, the capital required is less, which creates an interesting dynamic of a feeding frenzy.a4San Mateo, Calif.-based North Bridge was founded in 1994 and has over $3.2 billion in capital under management.The VC outfit is an early stage investor that focuses on seed and first round investments, ranging in size from $100,000 at the seed level to $10 million.Santinelli said that right now, although there has been a lot of interest in the a4Acool kida4 startups of Silicon Valley like social network Facebook, gaming company Zynga and microblogging service Twitter, most VCs are going to stay on the sidelines until these companies start indicating they are ready to go public.a4AIdeally, it would be great to see the resurgence of an IPO market,a4 he said. a4AOnce that window opens, and stays open, there is a catalyst for higher [mergers and acquisitions] valuations and a greater desire from entrepreneurs to go the distance and file for public offerings.a4Until that window opens, however, Santinelli said North Bridge would continue to focus on infrastructure startups because they are a4Afilling the innovation voida4 and are a lot cheaper to fund.a4AAlthough the infrastructure area is not as sexy as mobile games, social media platforms and applications, it is growing and creating real companies that can scale,a4 he said. a4AI like to think of infrastructure as the BASF in the social media revolution: We don&amp;'t build the slick apps or social media platforms, we power them.a4He pointed out that as long as people continue to consume data, whether mobile, social, video, news, games or commerce, the need for innovation in infrastructure will be required for scale and improved price performance.a4AIt&amp;'s clearly a growth area, but requires patience,a4 said Santinelli.[Image credit: dospaz]Next Story: Zediva wants to stream DVDs directly to consumers &amp;8212' seriously Previous Story: Critical vulnerability in Flash and AcrobatPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: BASF, Facebook, north bridge venture partners, Twitter, ZyngaPeople: paul santinelli          Companies: BASF, Facebook, north bridge venture partners, Twitter, ZyngaPeople: paul santinelliRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting. 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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