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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AT&T opens first Foundry innovation center]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=att-opens-first-foundry-innovation-center</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valentaava</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[AT&amp;T has officially opened its first Foundry facility aimed at increasing innovation in the mobile market. One of three such planned facilities around the globe, this one is in Plano, Texas, the company announced today. The center will facilitate the company and mobile developers working together to &quot;speed the pace of innovation to consumers and enterprises,&quot; the carrier said. The center is opening with expected development in rich media, HTML5, and location-based applications, among other areas.Ultimately, AT&amp;T's goal with its innovation centers is to get projects that might improve the use of mobile technology to the market three times faster than they would normally get there, AT&amp;T's chief technology officer John Donovan said in a statement. Working at AT&amp;T's innovation center could be a boon for developers. A description of the program on AT&amp;T's Web site says developers need only to &quot;bring the idea.&quot; AT&amp;T, on the other hand, will deliver resources to help developers bring that idea to the market. The wireless carrier said that developers will have &quot;access to AT&amp;T network capabilities and test beds, in addition to technology experts and project coaches.&quot; The center is also &quot;an LTE test environment,&quot; the company said.Verizon also has an LTE Innovation Center. The company's center, which is located in Waltham, Massachusetts, is open for designers and developers that want to use Verizon's high-speed network to bring connectivity to devices that otherwise wouldn't have it. The Web site for Verizon's center specifically cites the use of 4G connectivity in vehicles, medical devices, and home appliances.Like Verizon's program, AT&amp;T requires developers to apply to use the centers. The company holds &quot;speed date&quot; reviews of proposals to determine if an idea would be a good fit for what it's trying to accomplish with its service. AT&amp;T said it has already held several dates with developers and plans to &quot;hold 400 of the fast-pitch sessions in locations across the globe this year.&quot;AT&amp;T's desire to be picky makes sense--the Foundry innovation centers aren't cheap. The carrier said today that total investment in the centers is $70 million.Sometime this spring, AT&amp;T expects it will open its next innovation center in Ra'anana, Israel. A Palo Alto, Calif., center is scheduled to open in the fall.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Control4 powers into home energy with grid deals]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=control4-powers-into-home-energy-with-grid-deals</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valentaava</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=control4-powers-into-home-energy-with-grid-deals</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Control4 spread further into energy on Wednesday, announcing deals with Silver Spring Networks and utility AEP around its home energy management system. The home automation company said that Silver Spring Networks, which provides a networking card for smart meters and business software for utilities, will resell Control4's products. Through its deal with Control4, Silver Spring Networks said it can now offer potential utility customers a consumer-facing energy dashboard and home networking system.The energy dashboard for Control4&amp;39's home energy management system.(Credit:Martin LaMonica/CNET)With the Control4 Energy Management System 100, consumers can get up-to-the-minute information on electricity usage and program wireless thermostats and other connected devices.  Silver Spring said it will integrate Control4's system with its demand-response programs, where a utility offers a consumer a financial incentive to turn down power during peak times. In a statement, Silver Spring Networks said it chose Control4 because its energy management system is easy to use for consumers and integrates with utilities' back-end software. In a deal with utility American Eletric Power (AEP) in Ohio, Control4 was chosen for use in a smart-grid trial. One thousand people will have the dashboard and thermostats installed for monitoring electricity usage and automated demand response, according to Control4.Control4 is one of the companies in the home automation, most often used for high-end entertainment systems, that is getting into home energy management. To complement smart meters, some utilities are giving home energy dashboards to consumer as a tool to conserve energy overall and cut down on energy during peak times. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How far did McDonald's-tied data breach ripple]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=how-far-did-mcdonalds-tied-data-breach-ripple</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valentaava</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=how-far-did-mcdonalds-tied-data-breach-ripple</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Silverpop CEO Bill Nussey points out that his company is not alone in being victimized by a data breach. (Credit:Silverpop)A data breach at e-mail database management firm Silverpop prompted McDonald's and at least one other Web site to warn subscribers, but it's unclear just how many companies are affected. McDonald's told customers this week that in addition to e-mail addresses, other information may have been exposed such as name, postal address, and phone number. The data was managed by an unnamed company hired by its marketing partner, Arc Worldwide. However, the company was revealed to be Silverpop in this ChicagoBusiness.com report, which quotes an FBI spokesman as saying that Silverpop has more than 100 customers and that the attack appears to have come from overseas. An FBI spokesman declined to provide comment to CNET today. Meanwhile, artist community Web site DeviantArt sent an e-mail to its users saying that user names and birth dates, along with e-mail addresses, may have been swept up in a spam-related breach at its marketing e-mail provider Silverpop. &quot;Because we value the information that members give us, we have decided not to rely on the services of Silverpop in the future and their servers will no longer hold any data from us,&quot; the e-mail said.  A Silverpop spokeswoman declined to identify any of its clients by name or say how many customers were affected by the compromise other than to say it was a &quot;small percentage.&quot;  &quot;It appears Silverpop was among several technology providers targeted as part of a broader cyberattack,&quot; Silverpop said in a statement. The spokeswoman would not elaborate, but a blog post by Silverpop Chief Executive Bill Nussey today would suggest the company wants to make it clear that they are not the only company that has suffered a breach.  &quot;The media has recently been covering the security disclosures of several large brands,&quot; Nussey wrote. &quot;It is important to clarify that several of these large brands have never been Silverpop customers. I'm hopeful it is clear that the disclosed attacks cover multiple companies in our space and we, as an industry, need to work together to protect the security of all of our customers.&quot; Indeed, there have been several other attacks reported recently, including one involving 1.3 million user accounts at a blog empire and a large pharmaceutical retailer.  Walgreens had a breach that exposed customer e-mail addresses last week but a spokesman said he was confident that the incident was not related to any other public breaches, despite the fact that the company had a contract for promotional services with Arc Worldwide as of last year, according to this statement. The Walgreens compromise was unrelated to Arc Worldwide or Silverpop, Walgreens spokesman Michael Polzin told CNET today. Walgreens warned customers in an e-mail on Friday that they might be targeted by phishing e-mails purporting to be from the company that ask for additional information like credit card information. Polzin declined to say how many customers were affected or how the e-mail addresses were compromised, but said only e-mail addresses were exposed. The company is working with the FBI on the investigation, he said.  Then there is the highly publicized breach of the Gawker blogging sites in which individuals calling themselves &quot;Gnosis&quot; got access to the company's Web site and back-end database and posted user names, passwords, e-mail addresses, and other sensitive Gawker communications to The Pirate Bay Bit Torrent site over the weekend.  Because so many people use the same password on multiple accounts, the breach puts those users' accounts on other sites at risk of hijack. After the Gawker breach, Twitter accounts were found to be used to send spam. To prevent any similar problems from happening, LinkedIn disabled passwords of users whose e-mail addresses were also used on Gawker, and Yahoo reportedly asked users to reset passwords, but did not say it was related to Gawker. (For more details on the Gawker incident read this FAQ.) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gmail's Priority Inbox improved for Android]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=gmails-priority-inbox-improved-for-android</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valentaava</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=gmails-priority-inbox-improved-for-android</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Google)Google's Priority Inbox for Gmail has evidently been successful enough on the desktop that it's now moved to the Android smartphone. The new Gmail for Android 2.3.2 (compatible with Android 2.2 (Froyo) and 2.3 (Gingerbread) better supports the &quot;Priority Inbox&quot; e-mail filtering tool by showing off tagged e-mails in a view dedicated to the feature.If you don't currently use it, you can activate and try Priority Inbox in the Gmail.com Settings from your desktop ormobile browser.This version of the Gmail app provides some management options, including marking messages important or unimportant--a menu option lets you toggle between the two. In addition, you can rejigger Gmail's settings to notify you when an &quot;important&quot; message comes in. Google acknowledges that this is a start, but not comparable to the desktop experience. Accordingly, we expect to see more enhancements in the not-too-distant future.In addition to enhanced e-mail support, the updated Gmail app also sees a change to replies. Instead of relying on a series of back buttons to differentiate between replying to one sender or all of them, you can now make use of a drop-down menu at the top of the e-mail to settle replies and forwards. Even better, you can now add in-line comments in a response.In addition, Google is offering a small but useful feature that lets recent Gmail converts from other Web mail clients compose messages using the Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, or other addresses.[via Google]<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[W3C seeks help, patience with HTML5 tests]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=w3c-seeks-help-patience-with-html5-tests</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=w3c-seeks-help-patience-with-html5-tests</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valentaava</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=w3c-seeks-help-patience-with-html5-tests</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The World Wide Web Consortium is griping about this week's premature judgments regarding which browser best complies with the HTML5 standard and is asking for help to improve its tests.Philippe Le Hegaret, who oversees HTML5 and other standards at the W3C, today chastised those who concluded from tests done so far that Internet Explorer 9 is leading the race to support the new Web page technology. The W3C has added 135 new HTML5 compliance checks in the last month, bringing the total to 232, but that's nowhere near enough, he said.&quot;It seems that people are trying to draw conclusions from the tests or from the results, including whether one browser or another is better,&quot; Le Hegaret said in a blog post.Apparently they shouldn't be doing that yet. &quot;An increase of 135 tests isn't meaningful. It's way far from making the results significant in fact. We'll need several dozens of thousands of tests to make those results indicative,&quot; Le Hegaret said.Le Hegaret's remarks appear aimed at media reports that jumped on the idea that IE was leading the standards race after Microsoft pointed to the &quot;Official HTML5 Test Suite Conformance Results&quot; in an IEBlog post last week. It's a juicy idea, given how many years IE spurned Web standards, but browser standards experts bristled at conclusions being drawn from the limited set of tests.What Le Hegaret would rather see is more assistance in fleshing out the test suite. &quot;We need all the help we can get to make the test suite relevant and informative,&quot; Le Hegaret said. &quot;Unless the community starts helping W3C, we won't be able to properly test HTML5.&quot;Microsoft, eager to move to something more sophisticated than the Acid3 test that's been cited widely in recent years, has been helping with the testing effort. It's submitted 2,853 tests to the W3C so far, though many of those are for other Web standards besides HTML.Microsoft's active participation has indeed forced Web standards insiders to update their views on the company. The changes wrought by the new era were on display this week when Microsoft evidently ran out of IE Acid T-shirts to hand out at the W3C's Technical Plenary Advisory Committee meeting (TPAC) in France.&quot;Never imagined when [I] took this job that people at tpac would ask for IE shirts. Times change,&quot; Sylvain Galineau, a Microsoft program manager dealing with IE Web standards, tweeted today.Updated at 6:13 a.m. PDTto remove a Galineau tweet that wasn't in fact related to the W3C test situation.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Live From SF: The 2010 Techfellow Awards&nbsp'[Video]]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=live-from-sf-the-2010-techfellow-awardsnbspvideo</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valentaava</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=live-from-sf-the-2010-techfellow-awardsnbspvideo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Once again TechCrunch has partnered with Founders Fund and newcomera4sNew Enterprise Associates to present Silicon Valley&amp;'s best and brightest with TechFellow Awards, which recognize the top high tech entrepreneurs in four categories, Disruptive Innovation, Engineering Leadership, Product Design and Marketing and General Management.This year&amp;'s TechFellows will receive $100K to invest in a startup of their choice and a new fund has been created that will allow each Techfellow to have a stake in all the Techfellow 2010 companies.a4sThe Techfellow Awards ceremony it self will take place at Dogpatch Studios at 8pm and you can watch all the festivities on the live stream above or here.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HeyStaks makes searching social]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=heystaks-makes-searching-social</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valentaava</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=heystaks-makes-searching-social</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search engines don&amp;'t seem to have evolved much since the dawn of Google. If Google was the sports car of search engines when it launched, it&amp;'s now a rather rusty vintage sport car.Enter HeyStaks, a new startup launching today which wants to make search more efficient by making it social. HeyStaks revolves around the notion of a Stak, which synthesizes the best shared search results of a group of users on a particular subject.Granted, social search is already a crowded field, with a host of startups trying to solve the problem. And Google itself has said it will be putting a &amp;''social layer&amp;'' on its products to combat the rise of Facebook, though it&amp;'s not yet clear what that will look like.But if you look at the amount of searching that gets done, it seems reasonable that a startup like HeyStaks might slice off a piece of the market. Search is still a time-consuming and often frustrating business, especially if you are searching for information on a more esoteric or specialized subject. According to search engine marketing firm iProspect, a typicalknowledgeworker spends 16 hours a month searching for information and 50 percent of all those searches fail. HeyStaks&amp;' founders claim that 1 in 4 searches are repeats of your own past queries and 2 out of 3 of searches have already been executed by someone else in your social network.In HeyStaks, each user has a default Stak of their own searches and can start or join other Staks. A Stak might cover startup advice or travel in San Francisco. As a user, you choose your preferred Staks and who to collaborate with to get better search results. You might have one friend who has great insight into the design scene but knows nothing about high-tech startups.HeyStaks provides a browser plugin (currently Firefox only) and a mobile application. Once you have installed the plugin, relevant HeyStaks community search results start appearing in your Google, Yahoo and Bing search results.The results to the left are from a search for &amp;''hard rock reviews&amp;''. The searcher is a mountain biker who is looking for reviews of Hard Rock mountain biking gear. Google thinks that the user is looking for the Hard Rock hotel or hard rock music, so its default results are not relevant. Since this user is a member of a mountain biking Stak, HeyStaks anticipates that the user is more likely to be looking for mountain biking results. So it makes suggestions accordingly.HeyStaks is based on technology developed by a group of researchers in search, data mining and personalization. The company&amp;'s CTO is Barry Smyth, a prominent expert in personalization whose previous startup, ChangingWorlds, was sold to Amdocs for $60 million. Smyth told me that around the time Google launched there was a rival, and now now long-forgotten,search engine called DirectHit which used page popularity (the number of times a page has been selected by searchers) to rank pages. Like Google, it had the potential to deliver demonstrably better search results than existing search engines but it turned out to be easier to &amp;''game&amp;'' and so Google won out.Intrigued by this idea, Smyth&amp;'s research group embarked on various research projects to improve upon a simple, popularity-based approach to result-ranking. The group, including researchers Maurice Coyle and Peter Briggs, developed and patented a number of core technologies in this area.The HeyStaks social ranking and relevance engine takes 10 different types of user behavior into consideration. These include behaviors like how often a user selects a page and whether they tag it, share it or post it on their social networks.Results to date suggest that HeyStaks recommendations can be up to 50 percent more relevant that the vanilla search engine results.HeyStaks CEO, Jonathon Dillon, was previously a VP at Yahoo. He says Yahoo tried to do something similar with social search after the acquisition of Delicious 5 years ago but failed because social graphs were still too immature.The success of HeyStaks depends on how willing users are to share their search results.  The founders say, that  in the private beta group of 500 users, 70 percent of users shared 70 percent of Staks with 3-4 people. A typical beta user got community recommendations for about 1 in 4 searches.Anything that improves search results is relevant to advertisers. HeyStaks&amp;' business model will, at least partly, be based on advertising, but since the advertising model is not yet launched, the company is unwilling to discuss it in detail. Another obvious application is knowledge sharing on company intranets.HeyStaks was founded in 2008, has 9 employees and is based in Dublin and San Francisco. The company has seed funding of $1.4 million.Next Story: GE begins move into green data centers with $520 million deal Previous Story: On the GreenBeat: GE acquires Lineage Power for $520 million, SoloPower awaits $20 million loanPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: search, social, social searchCompanies: Bing, Google, HeyStaks, Yahoo          Tags: search, social, social searchCompanies: Bing, Google, HeyStaks, YahooCiara 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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