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<title><![CDATA[Report: First Windows 7 service pack sent to OEMs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The first service pack forWindows 7 has been sent to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), according to a post on TechNet by Microsoft's Russian Windows Visualization team.Microsoft launched the first release candidate for Windows 7 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 in late October of last year, saying that it would be the only RC prior to the software being finalized and made available to manufacturers. The company also promised that SP1 would arrive in the hands of users in the &quot;first half&quot; of 2011.Blog Winrumors, which reported the news earlier today, weighs in, saying that while SP1 is indeed going out to OEMs, it may be a while longer before consumers get their hands on it.A Microsoft spokesperson told CNET, &quot;we have nothing to share at this time but will keep you posted.&quot;SP1 packs together a round of hotfixes, as well as an updated remote desktop client that makes use of RemoteFX. Besides bringing a boost to 3D applications, RemoteFX helps IT admins deploy Windows 7 through virtual machines using the technology, which it picked up with its acquisition of Calista Technologies back in 2008. Other SP1 adds include dynamic memory support for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2, and all previous Windows security fixes.Earlier this week, Microsoft released KB 976902 through its Windows Update software before having the knowledge base article to explain what the update was for. Security expert Brian Krebs dug a little deeper and found out it was an update to the Windows stack to get the OS ready for future updates, something the company did ahead of the SP1 beta back in July. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Qualcomm inks wireless power pact with Powermat]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>winmansufes</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A Powermat wireless charging setup that bundles a receiver wrapped around an iPhone with a pad for charging it wirelessly.(Credit:Powermat)Mobile phone chipmaker Qualcomm has inked a partnership to explore wireless charging technology with Powermat, a specialist in the area.Wireless charging holds the promise of ridding people of a lot of wires but poses risks that different devices will use incompatible charging methods, so it's no surprise that part of the partnership involves building an industry alliance around the technology.Qualcomm's current wireless approach, called WiPower and using a method called near-field magnetic resonance technology, is on display atCES this week.In their deal, the companies agreed to a broad partnership designed to explore the technology and adapt it to Qualcomm products. Specifically, the companies plan to:...investigate the convergence of tightly and loosely coupled wireless power technologies to deliver a flexible coupling wireless power solution' work together to build an industry alliance that supports flexible coupling-based wireless power' investigate the development of dual-mode receiver ASICs [processors called application-specific integrated circuits] that work with Qualcomm's Wipower technology and that are backward compatible to Powermat's charging mats' and have Powermat offer a single-mode wireless power solution based on Qualcomm's WiPower technology that will supplement the current Powermat product line.&quot;We are extremely excited with the prospect of working closely with one of the industry's premier wireless power companies to bring innovative wireless power solutions to market,&quot; said Steve Mollenkopf, a Qualcomm executive vice president, in a statement.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mozilla develops social skills with F1]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>winmansufes</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[As Flock and RockMelt duked it out for social-networking addicts' attention, browser kingpin Mozilla quietly introduced last week a new add-on for Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail users. Called F1 (download) and created by Mozilla Messaging, the division of Mozilla that manages the e-mail client Thunderbird, the secure and unobtrusive add-on provides fast sharing of URLs via a dedicated navigation bar button. It mimics one of the best features found in social-networking browsers without having to deal with hassle of switching browsers, although the add-on is definitely still a bit rough.The Firefox add-on F1 makes it much easier to share links via Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail.(Credit:Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Once installed, F1 will create a button on the right side of the search box that looks like a comic book word balloon. Click it and the F1 interface appears to add accounts from Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail. Type in a message to accompany the link you're sharing and then hit Share on the right. The Gmail option will also provide To and Subject fields. In my instance of F1, it didn't support searching recipient field completion from a partial e-mail address, although the F1 demo video did show that feature working. The add-on currently supports only one iteration of each account, too. It works onFirefox 3.6 and later, but it does not re-map the F1 hot key from Help to opening the sharing drop-down box. Mozilla stated in the blog post announcing the add-on that one of its goals with F1 was to cut down on cluttered and potentially insecure sharing buttons that have become ubiquitous on Web pages, a task that sounds Sysiphean at best, although Mozilla has taken some steps to make using F1 easier. The add-on relies on services that support OAuth, and the open-source add-on has an extensive developer's wiki. F1 developers said that Yahoo Mail was left out of the initial release because it required an extra captcha authentication on top of OAuth support.Prospector: Find Suggest is a Mozilla experiment for Firefox that adds suggested words to your in-page search queries.(Credit:Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Mozilla has also released other &quot;experimental&quot; add-ons recently that demonstrate its take on &quot;future Web&quot; features and technology. One of them is called Prospector, which is what Mozilla is calling a series of search experiments. One Prospector add-on is called Speak Words and allows the browser to auto-complete words as they're typed into the location bar. It's based on your browsing history, so depending on the user typing &quot;Gia&quot; could get you They Might Be Giants, the San Francisco Giants, or a lot of Italian actresses. Another Prospector experiment is called Find Suggest, and as the name states, it suggests complete words to search for as you type into Firefox's search box. Click on one to add it to the search box. Both Prospector experiments are restricted to the Firefox 4 beta.A third experimental add-on for the Firefox 4 beta is called Lab Kit, and it serves the simple task to automatically update specific Mozilla Labs add-ons without having to restart the browser. While the concept is still foreign to Firefox users, Google Chrome add-ons have been auto-updated by their publishers since extensions were added to it. So far, Lab Kit supports the two Prospector add-ons, Mozilla Contacts, and the Test Pilot add-on which anonymously collects Firefox 4 beta user data.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Experience Miles Davis' music with all five senses]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Miles Davis' music has always been a feast for the ears, but now it can reach all five senses: hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, and tasting.It's the release of Miles Davis' &quot;Bitches Brew&quot; in a &quot;40th Anniversary Collector's Edition&quot; box set that inspired the album's new sensory explorations. The set comes with a 48-page book' three CDs (two CDs containing the original 94-plus minutes of music with six bonus tracks)' a third CD with a previously unreleased concert by Davis' group with Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira, and Gary Bartz at Tanglewood in August 1970' a DVD of a previously unreleased show with the Miles' Quintet lineup in Copenhagen in November 1969' and a pure analog (no digital processing whatsoever) 180-gram double-LP set. There's also a reprint of a terrific Rolling Stone magazine interview with Davis from December 13, 1969, and Miles had a lot on his mind. The man didn't hold back!The &quot;40th Anniversary Collector's Edition&quot; packaging is sumptuous, and the DVD's performances are really exciting, but it was the LPs that really got my mojo working. Man, the sound is reach-out-and-touch real' vinyl is the best way to connect with Davis' special magic. That said, I think the new CDs sound a bit better than the CDs in my 1998 &quot;The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions&quot; set. So you could touch, see, and hear &quot;Bitches Brew&quot; for 40 years, but now, thanks to Dogfish Head Craft Brewery you can smell and even taste it! Right, it's the &quot;Bitches Brew&quot; brew, which they describe as &quot;...a bold, dark beer that's a fusion of three threads imperial stout and one thread honey beer with gesho root.&quot; I guess that's beer connoisseur lingo for great beer, but when I checked it out while listening to the record, the deep-brown brew was the perfect complement to the music. It's powerful stuff, and it tasted just as fine with White Stripes blasting from the hi-fi. What can I say, everything sounds better after drinking the brew.The Brew&amp;39's brew(Credit:Dogfish)I suppose you could download the &quot;Bitches Brew&quot; album and just hear the music, but you have to buy the 40th Anniversary set to get the graphics and other extras. The Dogfish Brew is definitely not a downloadable, instant-gratification deal, but it'll taste great with or without musical accompaniment. &quot;Bitches&quot; is just one album, but the new box, &quot;The Genius of Miles Davis&quot; collects 43 CDs from the &quot;Metal Spine&quot; series in a custom-made, individually numbered limited-edition trumpet case. Only 1955 (the year Davis signed to Columbia Records) box sets will be available worldwide. The box also includes a trumpet mouthpiece replica of the 'Gustat' Heim 2 model used by Davis' a fine art lithograph by Davis' and a &quot;boutique-worthy&quot; T-shirt with an image of Davis playing his horn. Davis never made a bad record, and the box would be a great holiday gift for any serious jazz fan. The Genius box set comes in a real trumpet case!(Credit:Columbia Records)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kinect power adapter appears in Microsoft's store]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Kinect&amp;39's power adapter.(Credit:Microsoft)It only took a few days, but Microsoft's power adapter for the Kinect has become available at the company's online store. The adapter powers the Kinect unit for users with older (read: not slim)Xbox 360s, and is unnecessary for users of the newer Xbox hardware, which has a special powered Kinect port on the back. The adapter is included for users who bought the standalone Kinect accessory, but not in either of the two Kinect Xbox 360 bundles, since they both feature the Kinect port.As noted in our story about the Kinect's launch last week, not having the power adapter only becomes a problem for people who intend to bring the console bundle variant of the Kinect over to a friend's house, or a different room where only the older hardware is present. The adapter sells for $34.99, though it's currently listed as being out of stock.(Via Joystiq)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The hardware guts of your Android phone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:CNET)When Microsoft prepped cell phone manufacturers aboutWindows Phone 7, they were crystal clear in defining the minimum hardware specifications each phone would have to support the mobile software--a touch screen, 1 GHz processor and 5.0 megapixel camera, for instance. Android's rapid development, on the other hand, makes minimum hardware specs murkier. They're documented but less understood than the distinctions between the software versions themselves.As a result, we've combed through page upon thrilling page of compatibility documents to bring you the minimum hardware requirements of your Android phone and breaking down what that means.Before we begin, note that Google has not posted documentation for Android 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, or 2.0.1' the company cites technical reasons. Also note that we omit comparing Apple'siPhone, BlackBerry smartphones, and Palm phones because they're closed manufacturing systems.table.geekbox th{background-color:E6ECEF'text-align:left'font-weight:bold'}table.geekbox tr.even{background-color:CCCCCC'}.ratingGood{color:093'} .ratingAverage{color:666'} .ratingBad{color:C00'}Android 1.6, 2.1, 2.2 (* not required for v. 1.6)Windows Phone 7QVGA (240x320 pixels) touch screenCapacitive WVGA resolution (800x480 pixels) touch-screen display (eventually opening up to HVGA) (480x320 pixels))Virtual keyboard supportVirtual keyboard supportn/a1GHz processorMust have a USB connection that connects to a standard USB-A portNo manufacturer skins like HTC Sense or Samsung TouchWhiz92MB RAM' 150MB user storage256MB RAM' 8GB flash storage2-megapixel camera5-megapixel camera with LED flash, hardware shutter buttonHome, Menu, and Back functions available at all timesStart, Search, Back hardware buttonsWireless high-speed data standard capable of supporting 200Kbps' like EDGE, EV-DO, HSPA, 802.11g (Android 1.6 requires Wi-Fi)DirectX GPU supportAccelerometer*AccelerometerCompass*CompassGPS receiver*GPS receiverBluetooth transceiver*Bluetooth transceivern/aAmbient light sensorn/aProximity sensorn/aFM radio'Must' versus 'should'While this list reflects the minimum requirements that Google imposes on manufacturers, it isn't the full story. The Android team makes many hearty recommendations in legalese that &quot;may&quot; or &quot;should&quot; be used when building Android-compatible phones. For instance, a Micro-USB port isn't mandatory, but it is encouraged, as are hardware buttons and a dedicated search key. The base storage requirements also appear low, but Google recommends 128MB RAM and at least 1GB of on-device user storage for things like the address book and photos.As the chart shows, Google's requirements have been mostly unchanged since Android 1.6, with the exception of making GPS, Bluetooth, the accelerometer, and the compass mandatory. Interestingly, there is one notable alteration that pops out. Android 1.6 specifically calls for Wi-Fi. (And we quote, &quot;Device implementations must support 802.11b and 802.11g, and MAY support 802.11a.&quot;) Android 2.2 relaxes this to allow for lower-end phones to use data without using Wi-Fi. 1.6 also demanded volume controls. Not so in Android 2.0 documentation and above.The Android-powered T-Mobile Comet will sell for $10 with a two-year contract.(Credit:T-Mobile)Decoding the specsLooser hardware requirements don't necessarily mean poorer-quality devices, as high-end smartphones like the HTC Evo 4G and the new My Touch 4G attest. However, they do lower the barrier to making smartphones, and the combination of a mid-tier hardware like a 3.2 megapixel camera and 600 MHz processor mean that phones can be built--and sold--for less. Take, for example, the $30 LG Optimus T and the $10 T-Mobile Comet. Such low prices (with a new two-year contract) will surely attract budget-conscious users who might otherwise not seek out a smartphone. We're going to start seeing many more feature-phone owners switch to some of these more entry-level Android devices, not all of them very good. Despite the occasionally poor or puzzling choice in hardware design, many of these lower-end Android phones do come with Android 2.1 and Android 2.2, and they offer consistently good software perks for users on any device--Google Maps with Navigation and the integrated Google Account address book are some favorites.Stricter minimum requirements, like those found in Windows Phone 7 devices, do ensure a basic level of quality. At this point in its product life cycle, Windows Phones offer among the fastest processing speeds on the market. However, Microsoft's basic smartphone requirements pose no guarantee that manufacturers will produce a compelling product. We certainly found the HTC Surround--with its slide-out Dolby Mobile speakers--less compelling than the Samsung Focus and the Dell Venue Pro. Comparing Android and Windows Phone's minimum specs does tell us at least one thing, though--that we'll continue seeing Android phones in a broader range of shapes, sizes, and levels of power than you will a Windows phone. At least for now. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Voters Weigh Suspension Of Air Pollution Law, As California Reveals Cap-And-Trade&nbsp'Plans]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>winmansufes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ Just ahead of today&amp;'s midterm election, California regulators established a preliminary model for a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system. The system is intended to help the state control industrial greenhouse gas emissions in aggregate in adherence with its progressive, controversial AB32 air pollution law which legislature passed there in 2006. Currently, California requires reporting by (and third-party verification of) facilities and companies that emit 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases or more each year. Originally, AB32 laid out plans to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial sectors and electricity by 25% by the year 2020 restoring them to 1990 levels. Fuel suppliers would come under the air emissions &amp;''cap&amp;'' in 2015. The program would begin to take effect in 2012, with the California Air Resources Board (ARB) monitoring and enforcing the law. The midterm election results in California will determine if AB32 remains on course. Proposition 23on the state&amp;'s ballot would suspend the air pollution control law until unemployment in the state drops to 5.5% or less for a full year. Many cleantech entrepreneurs and institutional investors want AB32 to proceed, as its enforcement could accelerate the uptake of their companies&amp;' services and products, and help the country maintain a leadership role in the global, cleantech market. Environmentalists believe that AB32 could help the state and its residents potentially save as much as they spend to achieve better air quality and energy efficiency' and that it would create green jobs for the region. California is working with other Western states and Canada to devise a wider, regional cap-and-trade system. Meanwhile, Proposition 23 supportersa4&quot; who seek to suspend AB32a4&quot; believe that enforcing the strict air pollution controls now will reduce Californiaa4a4s gross state product enough to choke billions of dollars out of the state each year, perpetuating high unemployment' that the air pollution law would cause an increase in the cost of public services, especially transportation' and that there are better ways for California to combat environmental problems.The cap-and-trade system&amp;'s preliminary design allows companies that operate well within the state&amp;'s emissions limits to opt-in, initiate reporting and begin selling their offsets to polluters. A full banking and trading system, it would also allow companies to make up for some of their carbon emissions through programs like planting trees, or destroying ozone depleting substances. A sample scenario: a company that emits 100 tons of greenhouse gases in a year, once the controls are in place, would be allowed to emit 90 a year by the state, but would make up for the rest by reducing two to ten tons through improved operations, and up to eight tons through other programs outside of the cap. The following gases are covered by California&amp;'s law and system: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), and other fluorinated greenhouse gases.  Some industries will have to adapt more quickly and others will be given a bit more leeway should AB32 escape suspension.  A Scientific American feature story on the trading system yesterday explained: The system will cover 85% of the state&amp;'s industrial emissions by the time it ends in 2020. At the outset of trading, in 2012, industrial sources and electricity generators and suppliers responsible for more than 25,000 tons of CO2 per year will be covered' in 2015, it will expand to cover transportation fuels and fuels combusted at industrial, residential and commercial buildings that are not otherwise covered directly. The cap is being set at business-as-usual levels for 2012 and will decline linearly after that, except to include transportation fuels in 2015 at their anticipated business-as-usual level&amp;8230'Oil and gas extraction and paper, glass, cement, lime, iron and steel manufacturing are among the industries that California has decided to protect the most by giving them 100 percent of their allowances through 2020. Food producers, sawmills, breweries and pesticide and clothing manufacturers are among those in the second tier, receiving 100 percent at the outset but ratcheting down to 50 percent by 2018. Medicine and aircraft makers are in the bottom category, with 30 percent of their emissions burden covered by the end&amp;8230'Image: L.A. and smog from the air by Scazon<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who turns down $6 billion Someone who&'s after $15 billion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Social buying powerhouse Groupon may be looking to move ahead with an initial public offering (IPO), according to anonymous bank sources in the New York Times.The company recently turned down a $6 billion dollar acquisition offer from Google and, while many people said they were crazy, a $15 billion IPO could be a good indication of why. Others noted the reason was that the search giant lacked the needed human touch for daily deals.Groupon has been working hard to secure a large amount of funding, which may be attractive to investors if an IPO occurs. In recent fundraising, the company initially snagged $500 million and then finally pulled in a total of $950 million from investors like Fidelity Investments, T. Rowe Price and Morgan Stanley.Another indication that an IPO is on the horizon may be the hiring of the company&amp;'s first chief financial offer, Jason Child, who was based in Seattle as head of finance for all Amazon websites outside of North America.Groupon, based in Chicago and founded in 2008, claims to have more than 24 million subscribers in 150 cities and around 3,000 employees.Next Story: Benchmark raises $425M fund &amp;8212' but top firm loses partner who made it famous Previous Story: With latest accolade, the future is Bing Gordon&amp;'s game (exclusive interview)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: IPOCompanies: GrouponPeople: Jason Child          Tags: IPOCompanies: GrouponPeople: Jason ChildCody Barbierri is a social and digital media consultant. He works for Piehead and blogs about social media at Social Tab. (None of his posts are about clients or their competitors.) Reach him at Cody@venturebeat.com. You can also follow Cody on Twitter.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[Samsung shows off HDTVs with virtually no ugly bezels]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Samsung today showed off something at the Consumer Electronics Show that many couch potatoes have surely dreamed of: TVs that are virtually all screen, with almost no ugly bezels separating the on-screen image from your home theater.The new HDTV (pictured on the left above, the display on the right is a competitor comparison) bezels are .2-inches thick, making them tough to notice when you&amp;'re sitting on the couch. And because they have less bezel to deal with, Samsung says the TVs offer an inch more of viewable screen space than comparably sized displays.The bezels will be available on Samsung&amp;'s upcoming 7000 and 8000 series LED HDTVs. The 8000 series will sport a metallic bezel, while the 7000&amp;'s bezel is acrylic.The sets are the next step to displays with completely no bezel, which may not have much practical functionality, but are a justifiable pursuit simply for the cool factor.Samsung also unveiled a few other accessories for HDTVs this year, including an upgraded version of its Touch Control remote, a Skype camera and stylish 3D glasses that use Bluetooth to communicate with TVs instead of infra-red.Next Story: Facebook may use Goldman investment to buy back shares Previous Story: Microsoft shows cool demos of ARM-based computers running WindowsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CES, CES 2011, HDTVs, TVsCompanies: Samsung          Tags: CES, CES 2011, HDTVs, TVsCompanies: SamsungDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.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[The Dangers Of Externalizing&nbsp'Knowledge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>winmansufes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Contemplating the shortcomings of the younger generation has ever been a hobby of the elder. As I start to transition to the latter population (perhaps a bit early for my age), I&amp;'ve found myself worrying more and more about the kids, and how little they seem to appreciate things. That kind of complaint is neither constructive or original. But the fact is that the kids are growing up pretty weird these days, because of the way technology has outpaced our institutions of learning and standards of knowledge.The short attention span and reliance on non-text media are to be expected in an age where attention is indulged by on-demand information, and the effects of these things will continue to be written about, rightly and wrongly. There is a more subtle and insidious trend, however, that may prove to be more damaging than tech-born changes in learning modality.It&amp;'s a process that has been going on for a long time, but that recent developments may push to the breaking point. The problem, as I see it, is that we have stopped valuing the accumulation of information within ourselves.ExternalizationThe fact that virtually all of the world&amp;'s knowledge is only a few taps away is truly mind-blowing. No matter who indexes it, who serves it, who edits it &amp;8212' the knowledge is there, and the knowledge is with you, always. This is one of the most important developments in history, and its repercussions can&amp;'t be underestimated. But to consider it an unmixed good would be premature and naive.Think of that habit which I and likely everyone reading this succumb to now and then. You are talking with a friend, and can&amp;'t remember who that guy was in that movie. Without thinking, you pull out your phone and search. Mystery solved, it was Patrick Swayze. Harmless enough, right The web in our pocket allows us to settle bar bets and track down trivia with ease. A tiny load off everyone&amp;'s mind.The problem lies with the trend. We&amp;'re looking up more things, more often, and not because we&amp;'re more curious. It&amp;'s because we can&amp;'t be bothered to retain even the data that matter to us. The GPS in cars is an advance party of this trend: every couple months we hear of some driver who has followed the GPS to the bottom of a lake, or used a highway as a walking path because it was labeled as such on their phone&amp;'s map. My dad, who has driven to visit my brother in Vancouver, B.C., a dozen times, still uses the GPS despite my brother living in the same neighborhood for several years now. When I went up with him a month ago, the GPS route was slightly different, and my dad nearly had a panic attack. I convinced him to take the correct exit, but he was this close to doing something he knew was wrong simply because the map indicated he should.Now, I don&amp;'t mean to rest my case on these anecdotes. But there is truth in them, and you likely recognize yourself in them to some extent. Because of this reliance, do people know their cities, roads, and neighborhoods better Not as well Or simply in a different way After all, services like Foursquare and Urban Spoon encourage serendipitous discovery of restaurants and locations. I think it is a strange paradox, that these technologies expose us to new things while at the same time clapping blinders on us.To return to the thesis, however: general knowledge seems to be following the path of locational knowledge, and the consequences are similar, but more dire. While consulting the GPS means you don&amp;'t build an internal map of your neighborhood, consulting the external knowledge engine of the internet means you don&amp;'t build a map of your entire intellectual world. And unlike your neighborhood, Google doesn&amp;'t have an easy analog for you to peruse. They may be working on that, but is that really a function you want to outsourceInternalizationIt sounds a bit alarmist, I admit &amp;8212' I&amp;'m more old-fashioned than most people in this regard. I&amp;'m afraid of what will happen if this trend continues, because I feel the externalizing of information to this extent (that is, the extent to which I fear it will reach in the coming years) erodes some of the core facets of personality and individuality. I know that&amp;'s raising the stakes somewhat, and I do that just to feel I&amp;'m saying something important, but I do think it&amp;'s true.If you think about the way we are each of us constructed, mentally, we are to a great extent a collection of data and experiences. Consciousness and personality emerges from the soup of people, places, and things we&amp;'ve experienced in our lives. The connected world we now live can vastly increase the number of these elements, ideally, and it&amp;'s already done a huge amount towards keeping people in touch.But the volume of these elements is becoming so great that it overwhelms our capacity to internalize. Luckily, many of us have blowoff valves, like our blogs (I&amp;'m paid to open my valve, to my everlasting wonder), our Facebook accounts, and so on. And we&amp;'ve gotten so much in the habit of deflecting this tsunami of things and experiences that we are becoming less and less likely to actually retain and internalize any of them. Try this experiment: if you have a blog, a Posterous or Tumblr or what have you, try to remember as many items you&amp;'ve posted as you can, right now, without checking. Write them down or something. I have a &amp;''blowoff valve&amp;'' blog myself, and I&amp;'ve posted hundreds of quotes, images, and such to it &amp;8212' but I have trouble picturing more than a few dozen. That terrifies me, and although it may not terrify you, you at least sense there&amp;'s something to it.If these things you&amp;'ve collected are important to you, or you found them interesting, why aren&amp;'t they inside you Why aren&amp;'t they becoming part of the sea of experiences that makes up your unique intelligence and personality If you fail to integrate an experience, it was, for all intents and purposes, no better than a dream.We&amp;'ve gone from being intellectual predators to intellectual filter feeders, and soon I wonder whether we&amp;'ll even deserve that title.VolitionThe counter to this is that, freed from the necessity of remembering every little thing, we are better able to focus on what we think is important. Another paradox, in that as the internet and connectivity expands our world exponentially, we find ourselves putting finer and finer a point on our role in it. No more renaissance men &amp;8212' I suppose Leonardo himself might have been frustrated by the sheer amount of info he&amp;'d have to command.So it&amp;'s become far easier to acquire expertise &amp;8212' at the cost of insight. There&amp;'s a reason, after all, why it&amp;'s called insight. Because insight is the result of recombination, hybridizing ideas, internal accidents, emergent properties of ideas we never even knew were related.The trend isn&amp;'t exactly reversible' it&amp;'s simply the shadow cast by the towering, profound benefits of the internet and portable communication. And of course internalization can be taken to extremes as well &amp;8212' imagine the oral poets of the bronze age, with little room in their heads for anything but tales and epithets. But we mustn&amp;'t let the externalization exceed our ability to recognize and accommodate it. It&amp;'s our responsibility now to diversify our intellectual landscapes' the world won&amp;'t always require it, but we should require it of ourselves.[images: Dave Cantrell, Kunal Anand]<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Here Comes The&nbsp'Wetware]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Throw out your touchscreens, kibosh your Kinects: thought-controlled computing is the new new thing. Brain-computer interface technology has been simmering for years, and seems finally ready to bubble out of research labs and into the real world.Earlier this year, friends of mine at the Toronto art space Site3 built a thought-controlled flamethrower, for fun. (Don&amp;'t you hate how it&amp;'s always the friends you least want to have the power to project torrents of flame with a flick of their mind who always get it) Toronto has long been a hub for brain computing, in part because legendary cyborg Steve Mann is a University of Toronto engineering professor. Mann also cofounded the thought-controlled computing consultancy InteraXon, which built the neural installation at this year&amp;'s Olympics.Both InteraXon and my pyromaniacal friends use brainwave-reading headsets made by Neurosky (whose promise was noted by TechCrunch five years ago) and Emotiv. Today&amp;'s sets handle much more than mere alpha/beta wave measurement: Emotiv&amp;'s, in particular, can track eye motion, facial expressions, emotional state, and even directional thoughts.The potential applications go way beyond flambs. Ariel Garton, InteraXon&amp;'s CEO, ticks off a laundry list that includes advance warning of epileptic seizures, headset-controlled airline entertainment systems, and a company that approached her hoping to build a thought-controlled welding system. Meanwhile, Columbia University&amp;'s Paul Sajda has scored $4.6 million from the Department of Defence for his EEG cap and machine-learning algorithms used to improve image recognition and classification.Gaming is also a big market (making the Kinect seem so five minutes ago) but the ability to connect neural headsets and mobile devices is even more interesting. Gartena4&quot;who will be speaking at Le Web next week, and at CES in Januarya4&quot;sketches a compelling vision of stylish headsets growing more common than Bluetooth earpieces today, and their users interacting with phones, kiosks, and other devices without so much as twitching a lip or finger.InteraXon, which is self-funded and profitable, already connects neural headsets to iOS devices over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Both Neurosky and Emotiv have made SDKs available for developers, and have app stores up and running. Their futures look ripe with potentiala4&quot;until and unless someone like Apple decides to play in this space. iMind, anyoneWe&amp;'re still a long way from real wetware (direct brain-computer connections) . . . but last week an NYU professor had a digital camera implanted in his head. It&amp;'ll be many years (if ever) before that goes mainstream, but the line between the mind and its tech is growing finer. a4AIt can be a transformational experience,a4 Garten says, of the moment users first don a headset. a4AFor the first time, you&amp;'re consciously interacting with your own brain.a4<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bartz: Yahoo Is Serving 6 Million Different Frontpages, 18 Billion Ads A&nbsp'Day]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>winmansufes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Today ata4sWeb 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz took the stage for a sit down with host John Battelle. One of the key things she had to say was about Yahoo&amp;'s content strategy going forward. It has to be about personalization.&amp;''We&amp;'re content, that&amp;'s what we are. It went off track when people thought it was a &amp;8216'search&amp;' company,&amp;'' Bartz said. She said that search was a hard problem and an arms race, Yahoo needs to focus on the front-end of things.&amp;''We serve 6 million different frontpages a day,&amp;'' she said. Different types of users want different types of pages with a variety of content.a4sThese are built using a mixture of data, machine learning, and some editorial help, she said.The human element is interesting and important because it sort of how Yahoo became Yahoo back in the day before scaling got in the way.Bartz said that Yahoo also serves up some 18 billion ads a day now across their network.More:a4sBartz Has The a4AWhat Is Yahooa4 Answer Down To 15 Seconds. Ita4a4s Both Expansive Anda4sVagueCrunchBase InformationYahoo!Carol BartzInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Southeast Asia: One Thing Yahoo Has Done Well&nbsp'[TCTV]]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley and Wall Street both bash Yahoo a lot these days, but if there&amp;'s one place the company has excelled it&amp;'s in Asia. Its Alibaba investment alone is one of the best deals made in the Chinese Internet, and Yahoo Japan is propping up even more of Yahoo&amp;'s stock price. Yahoo also has local portal strongholds throughout Southeast Asia, including Indonesia where it has also been one of the most aggressive Valley companies &amp;8211' employing more local staff than competitors and even doing the first Valley-acquisition last spring with a location-based services company called Koprol.Yahoo&amp;'s director of global initiatives Michael Smith (yes, another one) has been a big reason why. I caught up with Smith during my trip to Jakarta and asked him what Yahoo has done well in Southeast Asia, what Indonesia has going for it aside from a large population, and about the Koprol deal.Yahoo is pushing Koprol locally and regionally. Already, it has prime-time television commercials&amp;8211' a first for Indonesia according to blogger Rama Mamuaya. There&amp;'s a long way to go in a country intoxicated with FourSquare, but Korpol is the closest thing to a local rival the big social media companies have in Indonesia. If it continues to soar under Yahoo, it could give the country&amp;'s nascent Web scene even more confidence.Apologies for another hand-held video that&amp;'s a bit hard to hear. That&amp;'s life on the road without a camera crew. Next trip, I&amp;'ll invest in an external mic.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Browser makers release standard to bring 3D graphics to web apps without plug-ins]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>winmansufes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[An industry consortium including browser makers Apple, Mozilla, Opera and Google  today announced it has created a final standard on how to deliver built-in 3D graphics in web pages that won&amp;'t require a plug-in or add-on to the browser.WebGL, as the technology is known, could become a critical technology in giving ordinary web pages a 3D makeover. If it becomes widely adopted and wins support from browser makers such as Microsoft, then 3D could infiltrate a whole new series of web-based apps. Right now, many web sites don&amp;'t use 3D graphics because they fear that users don&amp;'t have good enough PC hardware to process the 3D. So WebGL is aimed at unleashing a huge sea of graphics innovation on the internet. (Cool demos are here, once you upgrade your browser.)Neil Trevett, vice president at Nvidia and president of the consortium Khronos Group, said the new technology could lead to a wave of innovation in web gaming, education, training and graphically rich user interfaces. Vlad Vukia4evia4 of Mozilla and chair of the WebGL Working Group said that WebGL-based browsers will take advantage of 3D graphics hardware in a user&amp;'s machine if it is present.WebGL is a browser version of OpenGL,  the Open Graphics Library specification developed by Silicon Graphics  in 1992. You can run OpenGL applications in a browser today using a plug-in from Unity Technologies. But even that plug-in has to be downloaded once, and in a country with uneven broadband penetration, plug-in downloads are an obstacle to widespread adoption.With WebGL, browser makers will include new code in their future browser versions. Users can download those updates and then can enjoy the benefits of WebGL, as long as web site creators take advantage of their newfound 3D capability. WebGL brings the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics functions to HTML5 web pages. That means the 3D graphics could be viewed on PCs, embedded devices, and mobile devices.As we&amp;'ve noted before, OpenGL is currently used for video games and for the slick Mac OS X  interface. Your Windows PC already knows what to do with it. WebGL will  extend OpenGL by allowing websites and Web-based services to access and  control OpenGL through Javascript, the programming language that can be  built into Web pages. The new standard will not require anyone to contribute royalties, which is sometimes a condition for new standards. Microsoft has not yet embraced WebGL.Compliant browsers include Mozilla Firefox 4.0, Google Chrome 9.0, an experimental Opera Build, and Apple Mac OS Safari nightly builds. Khronos is also forming a new WebCL working group to create a standard related to parallel computing, which involves the use of graphics chips to handle non-graphics computing tasks.Next Story: 3 ways to incorporate mobile into your business strategy Previous Story: Loot Drop banks on talented game designers as it takes on social gaming&amp;'s giants (exclusive)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: 3D graphics, Web GLCompanies: Google, Mozilla, OperaPeople: Neil Trevett          Tags: 3D graphics, Web GLCompanies: Google, Mozilla, OperaPeople: Neil TrevettDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. 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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