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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Electric cars you can buy, soon]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Geumdius</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The time for talk is over' electriccars are hitting the streets. Over the next few years, at least 14 electric car models are slated for mass production. Although Tesla took an early lead with its Roadster in 2008, the risky move by Nissan to put the Leaf on sale late last year appears to have opened the flood gates. Now, names such as Ford, Honda, and Toyota are ready to join the fray.Electric cars you can buy, soon (photos) Many of the electric cars hitting the road in the next couple of years will first find their ways into testing programs, leased to utilities and private companies that can maintain a fleet with unique maintenance needs. These programs let the automakers collect data on how the cars perform in the real world under more-defined circumstances.As electric cars reach their on-sale dates, don't expect dealer lots to be crowded. Nissan announced an initial production run of 20,000 units for the Leaf, and almost immediately found buyers for each car. Initial high demand means the cars will be turned over to an owner as soon as they reach a dealer.But as the quantity of models increases, not only should the cars become available for prospective buyers wandering a dealer lot, prices should also become more competitive. Likewise, charging infrastructure should improve, making parking-lot chargers at malls and other locations prevalent.This graph shows pure electric cars slated for mass production, along with the dates they will become publicly available, when known.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Sonomax Eers offers instant custom-molded earphones]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Geumdius</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sonomax&amp;39's Eers kit comes with a silicone-injection system that produces custom-molded earphones in minutes. (Credit:Tim Hornyak )LAS VEGAS--Hate it when you're jogging and your earphones drop out Sonomax's Eers custom-molded earphones fit perfectly into your ears so music is isolated from ambient noise. That means you can enjoy tunes at lower volumes and reduce the risk of hearing loss, according to Montreal-based Sonomax. The unique feature of its Eers series (initially dubbed &quot;Soundcage&quot;) is that the headphones come in a kit with a silicone injection system that does the job in only four minutes. The headphones are initially attached to a recyclable headband that's preloaded with medical-grade silicone. You fit it on your head with the buds in your ear canals, push two buttons and wait four minutes. The buds fill with silicone (which doesn't touch your ears) and mold to the shape of your ear. Injecting the buds while they're inside your canals may sound a little scary, but the process is safe, clean, and quick. After getting a pair fitted to my ears, I found the sound quality surprisingly good--far better than my uncomfortable one-shape-fits-all earphones. A finalist in the Last Gadget Standing competition, Eers is priced at $199.99 for single-driver earphones and $299.99 for dual-driver premium earphones. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Financial Times taps Jobs as Person of the Year]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Geumdius</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Nevermind Mark What's-His-Name, The Financial Times, Britain's equivalent of The Wall Street Journal, has handed its Person of the Year crown to Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO and onetime tech wunderkind turned comeback player of the quarter century.(Credit:Asa Mathat | All Things Digital)Saying this year's unveiling of theiPad &quot;capped the most remarkable comeback in modern business history,&quot; the FT noted Apple's Jobs-led bounce-back from its near demise in the '90s, as well as the visionary leader's perseverance through his recent struggles with cancer. In terms of Silicon Valley lore, the publication said, Jobs now shares the stage with no one.&quot;Long-time nemesis Bill Gates may be richer and, at his peak, arguably exerted greater sway, thanks to his monopoly over the world's PC software,&quot; the FT said in a profile of Jobs earlier this week. &quot;But the Microsoft co-founder has left the stage to devote his life and fortune to good works. It is Mr. Jobs who now holds the spotlight.&quot;Despite a slip or two, Jobs has, indeed, enjoyed a fine year. Upon its release, the iPad leaped into consumers' hands--and the culture's consciousness--smashing, by some accounts, all previous records of consumer-electronics adoption and threatening to make the PC a thing of the past.And speaking of Mr. Gates, Apple passed Microsoft in overall market capitalization this summer, no doubt a sweet feeling, considering the Redmond giant's perceived rip-off, lo all those years ago, of theMac OS in its Windows operating system (remember those bumper stickers that read &quot;Windows '95 = Mac '84&quot;).The icing on the iCake for 2010 was the realization of a personal dream for Jobs, the featuring of The Beatles on iTunes. True, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg nabbed the Person of the Year nod from Time, but that magazine is old news for Jobs, who has graced its cover no less than seven times.Still, the year was not without its sore spots, the most remarkable being the bizarre loss of an iPhone prototype and its subsequent appearance on a gadget blog, and Jobs and Company's uncharacteristically ham-fisted handling of public relations during theiPhone 4 antenna-gate kerfuffle. Jobs' eventual public handling of the iPhone prototype mess was much more like him: Officially introducing the by-then anything-but-secret device later in the year, he cracked up the audience by quipping, &quot;Stop me if you've already seen this,&quot; a classic example of the charisma that's helped make Jobs a legend. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile game revenue to top $11 billion by 2015]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Geumdius</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Mobile game revenue is expected to nearly double by 2015, Juniper Research predicted today.According to the market researcher, mobile game revenue topped $6 billion last year. By 2015, Juniper predicts, that figure will be over $11 billion. However, the research firm noted that as time goes on, a shift will occur with revenue migrating from the &quot;traditional pay-per-download model&quot; to in-game purchases.Juniper expects that by 2013, more revenue will be generated from in-game purchases than from actual downloads of mobile games. The research firm said &quot;discoverability remains a problem for developers and publishers on some app stores,&quot; so offering a free title and then getting people to pay for more levels or virtual goods is becoming the more desired way to attract gamers and revenue.It could be a smart move. Earlier this month, research firm In-Stat reported that virtual goods revenue is expected to reach $7.3 billion this year. In 2007, consumers spent just $2.1 billion on virtual goods. By 2014, the firm predicts, customers could spend more than $14 billion on in-game virtual goods. Although those figures include data from social-networking titles, in addition to mobile games, it effectively highlights the growth in this area. Juniper also reported that although games are available on several different mobile platforms, &quot;Apple'siPhone/App Store combination has set the benchmark, with a higher share of revenue for developers.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Infected Web sites double in 2010]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Geumdius</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Web-based malware growth Q3 2009 - Q3 2010(Credit:Dasient)The number of Web sites infected with malware has doubled from a year ago to more than 1.2 million, according to a study released today by Internet security company Dasient. Not only are social-media sites getting targeted, but sites of larger government agencies increasingly are hit, including the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Treasury, and the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the report. In the last two years, the NIH has been infected and reinfected five times, and the state of Alabama's site was infected 37 times. More than 1.5 million malicious ads are served every day, including drive-by downloads and fake antivirus campaigns. Drive-by downloads on legitimate Web sites have become the most popular method for delivering malicious programs, overtaking the use of spam and e-mail attachments, Dasient said. Correction, 1:03 p.m. PT: This story misstated the number of Web sites infected with malware. The correct number is more than 1.2 million.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cloud security is dependent on the law]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Geumdius</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I am a true believer in the disruptive value of cloud computing, especially the long term drive towards so-called &quot;public cloud&quot; services. As I've noted frequently of late, the economics are just too compelling, and the issues around security and the law will eventually be addressed.(Credit:Flickr/Brian Turner)However, lately there has been some interesting claims of the superiority of public clouds over privately managed forms of IT, including private cloud environments. The latest is a statement from Gartner analyst Andrew Walls, pointing out that enterprises simply assume self-managed computing environments are more secure than shared public services:&quot;When you go to the private cloud they start thinking, 'this is just my standard old data centre, I just have the standard operational issues, there's been no real change in what we do', and this is a big problem because what this tells us is the data centre managers are not looking at the actual impact on the security program that the virtualisation induces.&quot;&quot;They see public cloud as being a little bit more risky therefore they won't go with it. Now the reality is, from my own experience in talking to security organisations and data centre managers around the world is that in many of these cases, you're far safer in the public cloud than you are on your own equipment.&quot;So, Walls seems to be saying that many (most) IT organizations don't understand how virtualization changes &quot;security,&quot; much less cloud, and therefore those organizations would be better off putting their infrastructure in the hands of a public cloud provider. That, to me, is a generalization so broad it's likely useless. There are way too many variables in the equation to make a blanket statement for the applications at any one company, much less for an entire industry.In fact, regardless of the technical and organizational realities, there is one element that is completely out of the control of both the customer and cloud provider that makes public cloud an increased risk: the law. Ignoring this means you are not completely evaluating the &quot;security&quot; of potential deployment environments.Some laws affect data management and controlThere are two main forms of &quot;risk&quot; associated with the law and the cloud. The first is explicit legal language that dictates how or where data should be stored, and penalties if those conditions aren't met. The EU's data privacy laws are one such example. The U.K.'s Data Protection Act of 1998 is another. U.S. export control laws are an especially interesting example, in my opinion.The &quot;risk&quot; here is that the cloud provider may not be able to guarantee that where your data resides, or how it is transported across the network, won't be in violation of one of these laws. In IaaS, the end user typically has most of the responsibility in this respect, but PaaS and SaaS options hide much more of the detail about how data is handled and where it resides. Ultimately, it's up to you to make sure your data usage remains within the bounds of the law' to the extent you don't control of key factors in public clouds, that adds risk.The cloud lacks a case lawThe second kind of risk that the cloud faces with the law, however, is much more nefarious. There are many &quot;grey areas&quot; in existing case law, across the globe, with respect to how cloud systems should be treated, and what rights a cloud user has with respect to data and intellectual property.I spoke of the unresolved issues around the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure, but there are other outstanding legal questions that threaten the cloud's ability to protect users at the same level that their own data center facilities would. One example that is just coming to a head is the case of EMI versus MP3tunes.com.Three years ago, EMI sued the company and it's founder and CEO, Michael Robertson, for willful infringement of copyright over the Internet. EMI claims that MP3tunes.com and its sister site, Sideload.com (a digital media search engine), are intentionally designed to enable users to violate music copyrights.Robertson defends the sites as simply providing a storage service to end users, and therefore protected under the &quot;safe harbor&quot; provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. These provisions protect online services from prosecution under the DMCA as long as they remove infringing content when notified of it's presence.At stake here is whether any online storage service (aka &quot;cloud storage provider&quot;) is protected by the DMCA's safe harbor provisions, or if the very ability of users to find, upload and store infringing content is grounds for legal action. Even if MP3tunes is indeed found to be promoting infringement, what are the legal tests for identifying other such services Will a new feature available at your favorite storage cloud suddenly put your provider--or worse, your data--at riskYet another has to do with ownership of the physical resources, and what protections you have against losing your systems should those systems be seized for any reason. Imagine that your cloud provider was found to have been involved in violating federal law, and the FBI decided to seize all of their servers and disks for the investigation.In this hypothetical situation, could you get your data back What rights would you have According to the 2009 case of a Texas colocation provider, in which 200 systems were seized--the vast majority of which belonged to the provider's clients, not the provider under investigation--very few.There is no single &quot;better option&quot; for cloudI don't want to overstate the risks here. We've worked with colocation, outsourcing and even cloud offerings for a number of years now, and there have been very few &quot;disastrous&quot; run-ins with the law. Providers are aware of the problem, and provide architectures or features to help stay within the law. In the long term, these issues will work themselves out and public cloud environments will grow in popularity even before they are resolved.However, making a blanket statement that public clouds are by de facto &quot;more secure&quot; than private clouds is just hype that ignores key realities of our fragile, nascent cloud marketplace. Until the market matures, the question of &quot;better security&quot; must take into account all factors that lead to risk in any given deployment scenario. With that context in mind, public and private clouds each have their weaknesses and strengths--which may vary from company to company or even application to application.That said, Walls made one key point that I agree with emphatically. Just because a private cloud is behind your firewall, doesn't mean you don't have additional work to do to ensure the security of a private cloud environment. Having a data center does not automatically make you &quot;more secure&quot; than a public cloud provider any more than a cloud vendor is automatically more secure than anything an enterprise could do themselves.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Taking an electric drive in the Volvo C30]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Geumdius</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Volvo C30 Drive Electric, plugged in between drives.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)Volvo C30 Drive Electric (photos) The Los Angeles Auto Show maintains a green focus, with alternative drivetrains and electriccars dominating. So it is here that Volvo let us drive the electric version of its C30 model, known as the C30 Drive Electric.The car was waiting for us in a parking garage of the Los Angeles Convention Center, plugged in to an AC outlet through an extension cord. Volvo chose the C30 model for an electric drivetrain because it is the smallest and lightest car in the lineup, although by European standards this car is on the large side. It is an attractive design and offers the practicality of a hatchback. The cabin of the C30 Drive Electric showed the same premium quality we've come to expect from Volvo, with some rough bits hacked on for this electric version.CNET editor Wayne Cunningham drives the streets of LA in the electric Volvo C30.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)Turning the key, we saw the instrument cluster light up and go through the same kind of boot process we've experienced in both the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt. The charge level read nearly full, not bad for a car that had been taken out all day on drives around downtown Los Angeles.Our Volvo minder told us to push the drive mode lever, a curving piece of metal that fit easily into our palm, back one time, putting the car into Drive. Unlike a standard shift lever, this drive selector had no gate, always popping back to its center position. With the car in Drive we pushed the accelerator, and in typical electric car fashion it moved smoothly and quietly forward, the feeling of instantaneous torque obvious. Letting off the accelerator caused the car to slow a little more than accounted for by friction, as the car's generator used the car's motion to regenerate electricity for the batteries. Pressing the brakes did not increase regeneration, but merely engaged the friction brakes. We would expect that Volvo could cause the brake pedal to initially activate strong regeneration, to maximize battery recharge, before engaging the friction brakes.The drive selector returns to its center position after each push or pull.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)While in Drive mode, we pushed the lever back once more, which put the car into what Volvo calls sailing mode. Intended for freeway and highway driving, this mode decouples regeneration, so lifting off the accelerator lets the car coast freely.As we drove, we found opportunity to push the accelerator to the floor, but on city streets only getting up to about 45 mph. The acceleration held up well to that point, but felt like it would drop off as speed increased.Taking it around corners, the low and centrally located weight of the battery packs became evident, making for good stability. Volvo says that the C30 Drive Electric has a 57/43 percent weight split between front and back. Although no perfectly balanced sports car, this C30 felt fine in the turns.With its 24kWh Enerdel battery pack, the C30 Drive Electric has a range of 94 miles. As with most electric cars today, recharge time is measured in hours, with the car intended for urban commuting rather than long hauls.Volvo is currently building versions of the car for fleet use by utilities and government agencies in Europe, and it looking to bring a small test fleet to California. No date has been determined for mass production at this time.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Voting For Dummies: The Online&nbsp'Edition]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Geumdius</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[With Election Day 2010 under way, we thought it would be helpful to compile a brief list of useful resources on the web to find information about the mid-term races, candidates and voting polls. Feel free to add your own recommendations in comments.Google Election Center: The search platform allows users to input their address to find the closest polling location, state election office, links to the state election websites, and lists the candidates who are running in the races at the Federal level. Facebook Politics: Facebook has developed a dedicated U.S. Politics page where you can find your polling location, and access a livestream of election coverage courtesy of ABC News and Facebook&amp;'s Randi Zuckerberg. New York Times: The FiveThirtyEight, and the site&amp;'s U.S. Politics platform provide a comprehensive view into polling stats on the House, Senate and State Governor seats up for grabs. PoliticsDaily, Politico and RealPoliticsDaily all provide similar coverage of breaking news coming from the races on both the federal and state levels. Foursquare &amp;''I Voted&amp;'': Foursquare is tracking check-ins at polling places throughout the day and evening. Foursquare partnered with data visualization startup JESS3 to create a live, interactive map of each check in at polling sites. Twitter is also encouraging users to add the hashtag ivoted to any Tweets about voting during the day. CrunchBase InformationFacebookGoogleFoursquareTwitterInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel&'s netbook app store finally gets a blockbuster with Angry Birds]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Geumdius</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[After charming mobile gamers with its crazy concept and sharp physics engine, Angry Birds is flying over to Intel&amp;'s AppUp app store, which offers software downloadsfor devices running on Intel&amp;'s chips.The AppUp storelaunched in at the Intel Developer&amp;'s Forum in September. It took off pretty quickly and had around 450,000 users and 23,000 program members when it launched. But it has, for the most part, sat in the shadows of Apple&amp;'s App Store for iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads, and the Android Market for devices running Google&amp;'s mobile operating system.Now it has one of the most popular mobile games of 2010. In Angry Birds, players take control of a batch of birds and fling them with a slingshot across the screen to blow up pigs and their fortresses. The gameplay is pretty simple and quite addictive. So much so that the gamebroke all of the records on the Apple App Store in its first 10 months after release, selling more than 6.5 million copies.Angry Birds made its way over to other smartphones and the iPad, where it also saw a rather absurd amount of success a4&quot; forcing independent app marketplace GetJar toshut down temporarily due to demand for the Android version.More than 77 percent of Angry Birds players update the game as new levels become available. New updates with new levels come out every three or four weeks.The game is supposed to run on any computer using an Intel chip a4&quot; including netbooks and typical notebook computers. It expands to support the resolution of each device, and can be streamed out to an HD television at 1080p, according to Intel.Either way, this should give Intel&amp;'s app store a little bit of a boost. The AppUp store has a good number of developers, and Intel also offers some incentives for developing top-of-the-line apps. But porting insanely popular applications over to a new app distribution channel isn&amp;'t necessarily the secret to success. Winning the App Store game isn&amp;'t necessarily a numbers game a4&quot; it&amp;'s about having access to good applications and some great exclusives.Next Story: Hearst, Google, and Oprah check-in to social TV app Miso Previous Story: Going private in 2011PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android Marketplace, Angry Birds, App Store, AppUp, iPhoneCompanies: Apple, Google, Intel          Tags: Android Marketplace, Angry Birds, App Store, AppUp, iPhoneCompanies: Apple, Google, IntelMatthew 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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