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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft launches new PC tool for small businesses]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft wants to convince small and midsize businesses that they need the same sort of PC-management tools that large corporations use. So today, the software giant is rolling out Intune, a Web-based service that gives companies the ability to update and patch programs, as well as track antivirus software on their PCs. &quot;It's using the cloud to make Windows more secure,&quot; says Microsoft Group Product Manager Alex Heaton.Microsoft, which said last July that it would charge $11 a month per PC for Intune, launched the service today at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. Intune requires a one-year commitment and will be available in 35 countries. The subscription includes the right to upgrade PCs to the enterprise edition ofWindows 7. Microsoft will limit Intune to 20,000 PCs per company, and will also offer volume discounts to large customers.But Intune is really aimed at much smaller companies, those that generally have little tech support and infrastructure. &quot;This is more of a small to medium business play,&quot; says Al Gillen, an IDC analyst who conducted research for Microsoft on the Intune market. &quot;Those are generally the people that don't have PC management.&quot;Microsoft's challenge is convincing those companies of Intune's value. Plenty of small to midsize companies don't have much budget earmarked for PC management. Gillen found that companies that do have on-site tech support can save upwards of $700 a year per PC. That savings comes primarily from labor reduction. For companies that don't have tech staff, the savings is less obvious, even if Intune does provide productivity gains. As a result, Gillen expects Intune's sales to grow gradually. &quot;It won't hockey stick in the first six to 12 months,&quot; Gillen says. &quot;It will take longer than that.&quot;There clearly is some interest, though. When Microsoft launched a beta of Intune last April, it hit its limit of 1,000 users within 24 hours, according to Microsoft's Heaton. And a second beta test in July for 10,000 users filled by September.While Intune comes with Windows 7 upgrade rights, it can manage Windows XP and Windows Vista PCs as well. Companies can't use it, though, to manage PCs running earlier versions of Windows or Macs.In addition to managing and deploying software updates and keeping tabs on malware activity, Intune lets companies set up remote assistance for workers away from the main office. It also can offer a complete inventory of hardware and software within a company.Microsoft has also designed a feature in Intune that's meant to help IT consultants manage PCs for multiple companies. The so-called multi-account console gives those consultants the ability to switch among customers to manage their PCs. Those resellers get 18 percent of Intune subscription revenue in the first year, and 6 percent every year after that. And they can also charge more for advising customers, based on Intune data, about future software deployment.Intune multi-account console(Credit:Microsoft)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft gives Firefox an H.264 video boost]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-gives-firefox-an-h-264-video-boost</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mozilla is outspoken in its dislike of the patent-encumbered video technology called H.264, but Microsoft, an H.264 fan, is providing a plug-in that will letWindows 7 users use it anyway.H.264 is a codec--technology to encode and decode video--that's widely used in videocameras, Blu-ray players, online video streaming, and more. It's built into Adobe Systems' Flash Player browser plug-in, but most people don't know or need to know it's there.When it comes to the flagship feature of built-in video support coming to the new HTML5 specification for creating Web pages, though, codec details do matter. Not all browsers support H.264 or its open-source, royalty-free rival from Google, the VP8-based WebM. That means Web developers must make sure they support both formats or provide a fallback to something like Flash. Otherwise they risk leaving some viewers behind.To help bridge the divide, Microsoft has released a plug-in that letsFirefox tap into Windows 7's native H.264 support for HTML5 video. The move could help pave over some of the new Web's rough patches, but also irritate WebM fans who want to see the Web move to unencumbered technology.&quot;H.264 is a widely-used industry standard, with broad and strong hardware support. This standardization allows users to easily take what they've recorded on a typical consumer video camera, put it on the Web, and have it play in a web browser on any operating system or device with H.264 support, such as on a PC with Windows 7,&quot; Microsoft said. &quot;The HTML5 Extension for Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in continues to offer our customers value and choice, since those who have Windows 7 and are using Firefox will now be able to watch H.264 content through the plug-in.&quot;According to the plug-in's release notes, &quot;The extension is based on a Firefox add-on that parses HTML5 pages and replaces video tags with a call to the Windows Media Player plug-in so that the content can be played in the browser. The add-on replaces video tags only if the video formats specified in the tag are among those supported by Windows Media Player. Tags that contain other video formats are not touched.&quot; Microsoft is working on ironing out user-interface differences between Windows Media Player controls and those that would show with video playing natively in the browser.Microsoft already had offered a related Firefox plug-in that let people watch Windows Media videos on the Web.Mozilla is working to try to establish WebM as a required codec for HTML5, a specification standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).Updated 8:37 a.m. PTwith download link and release note information.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building a green empire, one Tiny House at a time]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a Tumbleweed Tiny House, part of a collection of more than 20 designs of houses that are small, energy- and materials-efficient, and which emphasize a smart use of space.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET) GRATON, Calif.--As most people know, a major reason for the current housing meltdown was millions of people buying homes far bigger than they needed, let alone could afford. To Jay Shafer, the answer is tiny. Shafer is the creator of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses, a company based in this, yes, tiny town about an hour north of San Francisco, that designs and sells very, very small homes. How small Tiny Houses' most petite model, the XS-House, is just 65 square feet. Yet, while you might expect to find little more than a rabbit warren inside, what you actually experience when you walk in the rustic wood front door--after crossing the charming porch in front--is a functional house complete with a living room, a furnace, a kitchen, a bathroom, storage, and even a loft bedroom.To be sure, this isn't spacious living. It's tight, compact, and forces those who live here to be dedicated to organization and regular cleaning. &quot;A lot of people are like, 'How can you live like this'&quot; Shafer says. &quot;But anybody who's lived on a boat or in a van would probably find this luxurious.&quot;Living large in Tiny Houses (photos) The question is, who exactly would want to live in a house where you can nearly reach your arms from one side to the otherFor Shafer, it's pretty clear: it's people who are interested in a simple, green lifestyle. These days, the term &quot;green&quot; is thrown about left and right and often means little, but in the case of Tiny Houses, green living is a direct reflection of a choice to live very efficiently, with the minimum amount of unused space, materials, and energy. &quot;I think that's the greenest green thing you can do,&quot; Shafer says, &quot;buy less.&quot;And that's an attractive proposition for the hundreds of people who have chosen to adopt Shafer's way of living: mainly, he says, single and creative types. It's &quot;folks who want to be doing something else besides paying a mortgage,&quot; he says.And that's clearly a huge part of it. Tiny Houses may be small, but they also come with a matching price tag. The company, which started in 2005, sells its homes at prices that seem like they're from another era: The XS-House, its smallest, comes ready made for just $39,000. And the estimated all-in price for plans, materials, and labor if you wanted to build it yourself is around $16,000--not counting the small patch of land it would need to sit on. Indeed, in this do-it-yourself era, the vast majority of his customers buy the plans and build the houses themselves. He says he actually builds and sells just one or two Tiny Houses a year. Of course, Shafer does recognize that not everyone is ready to live in a home &quot;smaller than some people's closets.&quot; So while his flagships are his under-100-square-feet models, he also gives a nod to couples, or even small families, that need a bit more space. As such, he currently offers around 20 different models, with another 20 or so in the works, and sizes that go as high as five bedrooms, yet which still take up just 837 square feet. Storage is 'key' As part of my Road Trip at Home series, I recently visited Shafer at company headquarters--aka his personal 89-square-foot Tiny House--in Graton and got a chance to see first hand what I'd been hearing about for years.It turns out that while Shafer began living in very small homes as a single man in Iowa, he's now married, and his wife, though supportive of his business, isn't so interested in living la vida tiny. So the couple shares a &quot;palatial,&quot; 500-plus-square-foot home he didn't build adjacent to headquarters. But Shafer explained that he still spends most of his time in his Tiny House, using it both as a model for those who want to come and see what the hoopla is all about and also as his primary work and design space.A big part of what Shafer sells is his philosophy--that too much space is a waste, and that, for some people, at least, it's not only possible but actually preferable, to live in a home that emphasizes efficiency and thoughtfulness.Since that philosophy doesn't call for abandoning the essentials of daily life, Tiny Houses are designed with plenty of what Shafer says is the &quot;key element&quot; of living small: storage. Throughout the homes, from the living room to the kitchen, are little closets, cabinets, and shelves, places where extraneous things can be tucked away and put out of view so that the living space can remain clean and uncluttered. In his 89-square-foot house, he has about 100 cubic feet of storage.And that's also a nod to another design principle Shafer regularly employs: keeping open spaces clear and pushing most &quot;stuff&quot; to the periphery of the intimate rooms. At the same time, he tries to make it so one room--the living room--gets as much of the square footage as possible, while limiting the size of the &quot;activity&quot; rooms like the kitchen to the minimum necessary to be functional.As well, he says he always makes sure to take maximum advantage of vertical space by, among other things, including storage that starts right at the floor. This way, he wastes as little space as possible. On wheels Technically, the smallest of the Tiny Houses are classified as mobile homes, explains Shafer. That accounts for the fact that they are built on top of frames with wheels. Yet, while the buildings can be moved around, that's not something Shafer expects many of his customers to do.  In fact, the wheels are a nod to a nearly ubiquitous zoning ordinance that sets minimum square footage requirements for free-standing buildings. But since most Tiny Houses are smaller than the minimum, the way Shafer figured out to get around the rules was to include a mobile frame with wheels, an accommodation that allows owners to place them wherever they want without worrying about breaking their local regulations.Though the Tiny Houses are small, that doesn't mean they skimp on appliances. Here, we see the propane furnace that helps heat the highly-insulated homes. It can cost as little as $70 a year to heat them.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)Appliances You might think that a less-than-100-square-foot house would skimp on niceties like appliances, but Shafer rejects that notion. It's not likely that anyone living in a Tiny House is going to have a state-of-the-art Viking range or ambient heating, but that doesn't mean going without the basics.As such, Shafer's designs call for standard recreational vehicle plumbing and electrical systems and sometimes composting toilets or direct current power systems that support solar panels. In Shafer's own house, he's installed a gray water system that cycles all his waste water into the nearby garden. At the same time, since his house has access to services, he's plugged into his local grid. But those who want to place a Tiny House away from municipal systems can get by with propane hook-ups. Yet power consumption in a Tiny House matches its name. Shafer estimates someone could easily get by on about $70 a year for propane, which would both heat the house via an elegant little marine heater, and power its stove. Even in the chilliest climates--recall that Shafer came from Iowa and its frigid winters--he allows that the bill would top out around $160 a year.One thing Shafer's Tiny House doesn't have is a normal size refrigerator. Instead, he's installed a &quot;dorm fridge,&quot; one of those little square models that holds just a few drinks, some milk, and a little food, under the kitchen sink. Clearly, Shafer doesn't see the need for a single person living in an 89-square-foot house to fill up a standard fridge.Similarly, there's really not room for a normal sized entertainment center. Someone wanting to spend time listening to music or watching TV shows or movies would likely have to do what Shafer does: use a laptop computer.  While Shafer may well be the best-known maker and designer of small homes like this, he's by no means the only one. Yet, he argues that two of his biggest competitors, Tortoise Shell Homes and Little House on the Trailer, both put more of their energies into manufacturing their homes for customers, while Shafer says he puts most of his time into design. Still, since both of those companies are in nearby towns, he says that for reasons he doesn't quite understand, Sonoma County, where all three are located, has &quot;somehow become the mecca for tiny houses.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Boxee Box launches, adds Netflix and Hulu Plus support]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=boxee-box-launches-adds-netflix-and-hulu-plus-support</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Boxee&amp;39's new and improved home screen.(Credit:Boxee)The Boxee Box is finally shipping--and it's doing so with an updated user interface and some important new features.The company held a launch party in Manhattan tonight, celebrating the availability of the long-awaited streaming media box and--finally--confirming the online content services that it will support. The two big ones: Netflix will be supported &quot;by the end of the year,&quot; and Hulu Plus integration is also on deck. Those premium subscription apps will join Vudu's pay-per-view movie service, which had been announced previously, as well as MUBI, OpenFilm, IndieMoviesOnline, and EZTakes. Boxee also supports MLB TV, NHL GameCenter, Flickr, and Pandora--to name a few.Other Boxee details that have been finally locked down: The Boxee Box will ship with a new, simplified user interface (pictured) that boils content down to six main buckets.In addition to the above-mentioned apps, Boxee will also support Vevo (music videos), VBS.TV (the video offshoot of Vice Magazine), and Accuweather. The Box now includes a full WebKit browser. (Our guess: expect most, if not all, of the mainstream video sites--CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, Hulu, and the like--to be blocked on Boxee, as they are on Google TV.)Boxee reaffirmed the product's support for full 1080p video and the ability to &quot;eat codecs&quot;--in other words, if you have a USB drive or networked storage with even the most obscure file formats, the Boxee Box should play it.Boxee supports HTML 5, so sites designed for a couch-based TV experience should work right in Boxee's browser.How do these changes affect the Boxee equation Rather positively, I'd say. Google TV's browser-based attack on streaming video has been a washout, thanks to key content providers blocking their sites from Google's hardware. By signing up app-based partners (Netflix, Hulu Plus, Vevo, etc.), Boxee may be sacrificing its bad boy image, but it's also ensuring that the content people are buying the box for will actually be there when they turn it on. Yes, most of the good stuff now has to be paid for--but such is the price of legitimacy. (Don't worry, torrenters: The extensive codec support means that you'll still be able to watch all your ill-gotten gains on your big-screen TV.) We'll have a full review of the Boxee Box as soon as we receive our review sample. In the meantime, what do you think: Are you willing to pay $199 for the newly enhanced Boxee Box, or will you be opting for Roku (soon to get its own Hulu Plus upgrade) or Apple TV (with an imminent AirPlay upgrade due) Share your thoughts in the comments.Source: Boxee blog<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tesla opens its Model S electric car factory]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=tesla-opens-its-model-s-electric-car-factory</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tesla unveiled its sign over the old NUMMI plant, where it will build the Model S electric car.(Credit:James Martin/CNET)On Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and California Senator Diane Feinstein stood before the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant, shuttered since April, and announced its new beginning as the base for Tesla Model S production. The press conference was capped by the unveiling of a large Tesla sign over the plant.Tesla Vice President for Manufacturing Gilbert Passin conducted a tour through the parts of the factory that will host production lines for the Model S. Passin boasted that acquiring NUMMI was a huge cost savings for Tesla, as building a new plant would cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Toyota sold the plant to Tesla for $42 million. See photos of the new Tesla factory.(Credit:James Martin/CNET)Passin also pointed out that Tesla has been able to purchase equipment on site that will be useful for Model S production, ranging from simple carts all the way up to massive presses for stamping out steel body parts. As most body panels on the Model S will be aluminum, Tesla had to buy and transport a massive hydraulic press from a Detroit tier one automotive supplier.Although NUMMI covers 5.5 million square feet, Tesla will only use about 20 percent of that space, mothballing the remaining 80 percent until it needs to expand production.The south area of the facility, designated for the Model S assembly line, is mostly open space now. Passin and a crew of 70 Tesla employees on site are working to put in place the machines and processes that will be required for Model S production.Tesla expects to start production of the Model S in 2012. The sleek four door premium sedan will have an all-electric drivetrain, a range of 300 miles, and seating for five adults, plus two children. It is the firstcar Tesla will be building from the ground up.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hack turns Canon printer into a scent creator]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
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<description><![CDATA[To the Japanese, wrapping a gift well can be as meaningful as the gift itself, elevating the simple act of wrapping to an art that is in itself a visual gift. So, not surprisingly, Japanese scientists are delving into a way to make paper even more artful by making it smell like the image it displays. Coming soon: rose-scented printouts (Credit:anitapatterson) Specifically, Kenichi Okada and his team from Tokyo's Keio University are developed a technology that hopes to recreate the aromas of objects you've just printed. While scratch-and-sniff technology isn't new or even novel, Okada's team is tackling the more trying task of syncing scents with pictures. The group, which is presenting its project at the Association for Computing Machinery's Multimedia conference going on now in Florence, Italy, gutted an off-the-shelf Canon inkjet printer and turned it into an general-purpose &quot;olfactory display&quot; that ejects small drops of scent rather than ink.  In tests with the &quot;scent jet,&quot; they found that a 100-millisecond burst of smell would dissipate in two human breaths, allowing for different aromas to be activated quickly. Fortunately, the scientists experimented with pleasant scents--apple, cinnamon, grapefruit, lavender, lemon, mint, and vanilla smells--though there does certainly seem to be potential for some unpleasantness here.  The group is looking at applications beyond entertainment, though plenty of work still needs to be done before working olfactory printers adorn the average desk. Still, if this innovation does get within sniffing distance of success, I'd love to see what the printer would make of &quot;Smells Like Teen Spirit.&quot; (Source: Crave Asia via New Scientist) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Salvation Army's collection kettles now take credit cards - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Where Nadanu''s online giving platform was designed specifically to mimic the experience of dropping coins into a real-world collection box, the Salvation Army has begun tweaking its traditional red kettles to accommodate digital payments.The Salvation Army is by no means new to online giving. For about six years, it''s been operating its Online Red Kettle program to let fans collect on its behalf as a4Aonline bell-ringers.a4  Last year, in fact, nearly USD 2 million were raised for the charitable organization that way. A new iPhone app for the same purpose is expected to increase that this year, as is a new national a4Atext-to-givea4 program enabling donations via text message. Specifically, through Dec. 24, donors can text &quot;GIVE&quot; to 85944 to make a USD 10 donation to the Red Kettle Campaign. Perhaps most interesting of all, though, is that the charity has been experimenting with new cashless kettles featuring an attached credit card reader that accepts credit and debit cards and prints a receipt. When the new program launched late last year, cashless kettles were available at more than 300 locations in more than 120 cities across the United States.Even better than the convenience factor for consumers is that in pilot tests in Dallas, Los Angeles and Colorado Springs, the average donation increased from USD 2 when payments are made using cash to about USD 15 when credit or debit cards are being used, the Salvation Army says. Charities around the globe: take note! (Related: Donated guerrilla campaign promotes the Salvation Army.)Website: www.salvationarmyusa.orgSpotted by: Chicago Sun-Times via Jim Stewart<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Reduces Staff By 4 Percent' Hands Out Pink Slips To Over 500&nbsp'Employees]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[After weeks of no official response from Yahoo on the rumored layoffs taking place this week, a spokesperson for Yahoo has finally confirmed that the company is issuing pink slips to employees today.  Yahoo will be letting go approximately 4% of its global workforce, which adds up to around 560 employees.Here&amp;'s the response:Todaya4a4s personnel changes are part of our ongoing strategy to best position Yahoo! for revenue growth and margin expansion and to support our strategy to deliver differentiated products to the marketplace. Wea4a4ll continue to hire on a global basis to support our key priorities.Yahoo! is grateful for the important contributions made by the employees affected by this reduction.  We are offering severance packages and outplacement services to these employees.From previous reports, Yahoo was rumored to be laying off about 5 percent of its worldwide staff of 14,100 (from October&amp;'s third quarter earning results), so it&amp;'s good news that cuts are lower than expected.As we wrote a few hours ago, Yahoo employees have been venting about the layoffs on Twitter and via email. According to anecdotal reports, severance packages appear to be pretty generous to employees.CrunchBase InformationYahoo!Information provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The WordPress Twitter Blackbird Pie Tool Brings Back The Old School&nbsp'Retweet!]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[While doing the post about WordPress implementing Twitter&amp;'s Blackbird Pie tool, I noticed something interesting. The tool brings back something Twitter had long since left for dead: the old school Retweet!When you insert a Tweet URL into a WordPress.com blog post now, it will automatically generate a nice-looking Tweet in that post, complete with working links. But it also adds a &amp;''Retweet&amp;'' link below the Tweet. Clicking this takes you to Twitter.com where a tweet is automatically populated for you along the lines of: &amp;''RT @USERNAME TWEET HERE&amp;''.The Retweet is a feature that was created by users of Twitter back in the old days of the service. It is basically just a way to quote a Tweet, but using the syntax &amp;''RT&amp;'' to let others know that it&amp;'s a Tweet from someone else. Twitter eventually realized that with so many people using it, they&amp;'d have to create some way to make it easier for all users (mainly new ones) to use. So they created the new Retweet, which doesn&amp;'t use the &amp;''RT&amp;'' syntax, but instead takes the actual Tweet and places it back in the timeline of users who follow the person doing the Retweeting.A lot of users didn&amp;'t like this new-style Retweet at first, and bitched up a storm about it. The main issue was that the new way doesn&amp;'t allow you to add an commentary to the Tweet you&amp;'re Retweeting. Twitter more or less said &amp;''too bad&amp;'' and moved on. Now the new way is pretty much the accepted norm, but a number of third-party services still allow you to use the old way.And now Twitter is sort of bringing it back themselves with this tool (update below). And it seems like they have to a4&quot; that&amp;'s pretty much the only way to do it without getting sites to install some sort of plugin that would allow for the new-style Retweet on Twitter.com.Welcome back, old school Retweet!WordPress Enables Blackbird Pie. Just Grab A Tweet URL And It Appears In Your&amp;160'Content http://t.co/mN1zPKW<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fisker to release Karma hybrid (finally), with an extra $150M and possible IPO]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[After several rounds of delays and price increases, electric car startup Fisker says it will start production next month for the Karma, a luxuryplug-in hybrid priced at $95,900.The company raised $150 million earlier this month at a $600 million valuation, and its backers include storied venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield &amp;amp' Byers and New Enterprise Associates. Production of the Karma will start March 21, so it looks like the company is on track to begin selling them in March or April of this year.Fisker is often compared to electric car company Tesla because both are producing luxury electric vehicles and have received hefty amounts of government and venture capital backing.But Fisker focuses on plug-in hybrids and has yet to sell a car, while Tesla has gone public, focuses on all-electric cars and already has one (the Roadster) out on the market, with another, the Model S, planned for release next year.Still, investor Scott Sandell of New Enterprise Associates thinks Fisker could copy Tesla&amp;'s success. In an interview with VentureWire, he said the company offers &amp;''potentially a huge return in a fairly short order. &amp;8230' Tesla is worth $3 billion. &amp;8230' The public markets want a few more of these. I think it could be a blockbuster IPO.&amp;''Fisker will ramp up production of the Karma over the course of this year. The vehicle is expected to go up to 50 miles on battery before switching to gas and can go from zero to 62 miles per hour in less than six seconds. The company eventually expects to produce 15,000 Karmas a year and also has plans for a line of more affordable hybrids, termed &amp;''Project Nina&amp;'', projected to start at $47,000 and become available in 2012. The government expects 1,000 Karmas to be produced this year. The company will be closing reservations, which cost $5,000 apiece, after receiving over 3,000 orders so far, according to VentureWire.Fisker was founded by Henri Fisker, a veteran luxury car designer. It was granted a $529 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy and $21.5 million in grants and loans from the state of Delaware, where it is refitting an old GM factory to produce its cars.The Karma was supposed to launch in 2009. Then September 2010. Then last year Fisker said it was planning to sell 15,000 Karmas by the end of 2011 at a $87,500 price point, with a ramp-up to 100,000 Project Nina sedans a year by 2015. Now, the company says it will being producing 1,500 Karmas a month by October and still wants to hit 15,000 Karmas annually, it just won&amp;'t be able to do that this year. And the Karma&amp;'s price has gone up almost 20 percent since its initialprice of $80,000 in 2008, which then went up to$87,900. In December, the company raised it again to $95,900.Fisker isn&amp;'t the only electric car startup hoping to go public after releasing its first car, nor is it the only car company to experience delays with new cars. Electric sedan maker Coda has said repeatedly than an IPO is in its sights (and also delayed the debut of its sedan from last year to late 2011). Last year an executive told VentureBeat the company hoped this would be the year for an IPO.Fisker will be up against other plug-in hybrids like the Chevrolet Volt, which is already on sale and experiencing strong demand, and Toyota has plans for a plug-in Prius in 2012.Next Story: Scvngr finds 1 million users willing to complete location challenges Previous Story: Apple looks towards music files that surpass CD qualityPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: electric cars, hybrids, Karma, Project NinaCompanies: Coda, Fisker, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, TeslaPeople: Scott Sandell          Tags: electric cars, hybrids, Karma, Project NinaCompanies: Coda, Fisker, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, TeslaPeople: Scott SandellIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name). Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPhone OS 4.2 lands: Brings multitasking to iPad, free Find My iPhone service]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luisa01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s time to get updating: Apple today rolled out iPhone OS (iOS) 4.2 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, bringing with it some long-awaited new features like multitasking support on the iPad, and a surprise reveal that its &amp;''Find My iPhone&amp;'' device location service is now free.While recent iPhone and iPod Touch models have featured multitasking support since the iOS 4.0 update earlier this year, this update marks the first time the feature &amp;8212' which lets you run apps in the background &amp;8212' is available for the iPad. Other iOS 4.0 updates, like folder support and a unified Mail inbox, are also hitting the iPad for the first time, as well as the Game Center social gaming hub.iOS 4.2 is more than just a catch up patch for the iPad. The update also brings new features to iOS devices, including AirPlay, a way to easily stream media from the iOS devices to the Apple TV, and AirPrint, Apple&amp;'s new wireless printing standard.It&amp;'s not too surprising that Apple has finally made its &amp;''Find My iPhone&amp;'' service free (it previously required a subscription to Apple&amp;'s $99 a year MobileMe service), as similar features are also available on Windows Phone 7 and some Android phones. The service lets you locate your iPhone 4, fourth-generation iPod Touch, or iPad through a web interface, or on a friend&amp;'s iOS device. It also lets you lock your device remotely with a passcode and wipe out the device&amp;'s data.Clearly the iPad gets the most benefit from this update, but that&amp;'s only because Apple hasn&amp;'t issued as many updates for its tablets as it has for other iOS devices. The update comes just in time for the holiday season, and may make the iPad extra appealing to consumers.The iOS 4.2 update is available for all iPhones except the original 2G version, for the second generation iPod Touch and newer. Just as with the 4.0 update, some features like multitasking are only available on newer devices.Front photo via Rego KorosiNext Story: Veritat offers web-based financial planning for everyone Previous Story: Vudu movie streaming comes to Panasonic&amp;'s Blu-ray playersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: airplay, airprint, Game Center, iOS, iOS 4.2, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, multitaskingCompanies: Apple          Tags: airplay, airprint, Game Center, iOS, iOS 4.2, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, multitaskingCompanies: AppleDevindra 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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