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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[E3 2011: The Sims Social to offer Facebook flirting]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Electronic Arts is hoping to convince folks to covet thy neighbor's wife. Or that co-worker you've always lunched with. Or your college sweetheart.Virtually, of course.At E3, a show that caters to hardcore gamers who stand in long lines to get the first chance to play soon-to-be-released action titles, such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Assassins Creed: Revelations, EA's new title in The Sims franchise has gone a bit below the radar. But The Sims Social, which will launch this summer on Facebook in five languages, would seem to have all the prurient trappings to turn it into another hit for the franchise.A couple from The Sims Social video(Credit:Jay Greene/CNET)It's a game, like Zynga's Farmville, that encourages Facebook friends to play alongside one another. But rather than growing crops, EA seems to be encouraging friends to hook up. It's not really clear, though, because EA isn't talking much about the game, hoping teasing the game will create enough buzz.&quot;Lots of questions, but there's not a lot of information about the game,&quot; said Robert Lamvik, who works in the marketing department at EA. All Lamvik would offer is a canned marketing line about being excited that &quot;the world's largest PC franchise is combining with the world's largest social network.&quot;But a video trailer of the game hints at what's in store. It starts with Facebook messages between two women, noting that a certain guy's status has gone from &quot;in a relationship&quot; to &quot;single.&quot;&quot;OMG!! They finally broke up!&quot; one woman notes. And then she invites him to join her in The Sims Social. They dance, virtually. He prepares virtual tapas for her. They even watch a romantic film, holding virtual hands.&quot;DID YOU KISS&quot; the woman's friend asks over Facebook.That, and much more. The Sims Social couple moves into a bedroom to neck. Then, they strip down to their skivvies and jump in the shower together. Hearts float up from the shower and a &quot;woohoo&quot; can be heard, presumably from behind the shower curtain.&quot;Where can I find a man like that&quot; the Facebook friend asks.The answer is, of course, The Sims Social.In a press release, the company says that gamers can &quot;engage with every aspect of their Sim's social lives from the intense emotion of a first kiss to the flawless execution of a hilarious prank.&quot; They can even &quot;pee on a neighbor's lawn.&quot;&quot;The game is alive, brimming with the humor, romance, mischief and creativity that only The Sims can provide,&quot; Jeff Karp, executive vice president of Play Label at EA, said in a press release.Gamers can only play with people who they've friended over Facebook. The video goes on to encourage folks to play with BFFs, co-workers, hotties, and a host of other suggestions. Little exists on The Sims Social Facebook page now, other than a &quot;Coming Soon&quot; label and a brief description of what players can expect.&quot;Create unique Sims and live out their dreams--or stir up trouble by pulling pranks. Develop deep relationships to unlock new features and advance: befriend and fight, date and cheat, love and betray,&quot; EA says on the site.Right now, future players can &quot;like&quot; the site, and more than 86,000 have done so already. And liking the site unlocks items that can be used in the game. A barbeque grill and an electric keyboard, for example, have already been unlocked. When The Sims Social gets 1 million likes, a bathtub will be unlocked.The Sims remains one of the most enduring franchises in gaming. Launched in February 2000, the various versions have sold more than 125 million units, been translated into 22 different languages, and are for sale in 60 countries. The Sims 3 launched two years ago and has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.If The Sims Social takes off as Farmville did, EA bosses may be shouting &quot;woohoo&quot; behind closed doors too.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Periodic table gets weighty update]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=periodic-table-gets-weighty-update</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=periodic-table-gets-weighty-update</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you, this baby comes in handy...well...almost never.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)In the biggest development to rock the popular-science world since Pluto got demoted, 10 elements will see their atomic weights changed on the periodic table.With the news, oversize posters and textbook inserts around the world (not to mention the tiny periodic table I've been carrying around in my wallet since the ninth grade) are about to become outdated.The reason for the change is that atomic weights are not always as concrete as most general-chemistry students are taught, according to the University of Calgary, which made the announcement, and the snappily named International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights, which oversees such weighty matters. Certain elements have more than one stable isotope, which means they can appear in nature with different weights. In its statement today, the organization gave the example of sulfur, which is typically listed as having an atomic weight of 32.065 but which can actually weigh anywhere between 32.059 and 32.076, depending on where it is found.As a result, the Table of Standard Atomic Weights will now show a range of weights--rather than one fixed atomic weight--for hydrogen, lithium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, chlorine, and thallium. While this change will make the periodic table a more accurate reflection of how elements exist in nature, it could make teaching basic chemistry a little more complicated.&quot;Though this change offers significant benefits in the understanding of chemistry, one can imagine the challenge now to educators and students who will have to select a single value out of an interval when doing chemistry calculations,&quot; said Fabienne Meyers, associate director of the IUPAC.&quot;We hope that chemists and educators will take this challenge as a unique opportunity to encourage the interest of young people in chemistry and generate enthusiasm for the creative future of chemistry.&quot;The man who dared to invalidate giant posters in chemistry classes around the world, Michael Wieser, a scientist from the University of Calgary who is helping to update periodic table.(Credit:Riley Brandt/University of Calgary)So, other than those of us who startle at the notion of such a staunch figure in the chemistry world being changed (and the schools that now have to replace their posters), what does this announcement mean for the average Joe Probably not much, if the frequency with which I whip out my trusty mini-periodic table is any indication.  But, as Meyers says, it could give teachers an opportunity early on to school students in the nuances of basic chemistry. As an example, in today's announcement, the University of Calgary explained how atomic weights are much more than another data point for high school chemistry students to memorize.  In fact, the ability to measure isotopes can be used to determine the purity and source of food, such as vanilla and honey' to trace pollutants in streams and groundwater' and to identify performance-enhancing testosterone in the human body. I think I'll still hang on to my card, though--just for old time's sake.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPad proving more useful than MacBook Air]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ipad-proving-more-useful-than-macbook-air</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple'siPad can eclipse a laptop in usability and sheer number of hours used. And iOS 4.2 only makes this more probable. As Apple adds more features to the iPad, the more it pulls me away from my MacBook Air.(Credit:Apple)Though I've just begun to dig around inside of iOS 4.2 on my iPad 3G, it's already obvious that this upgrade is only going to increase the amount of time I spend on the iPad. This will happen at the expense of my MacBook Air, the only other computer device I use regularly. A recent trip (pre iOS 4.2) serves as a good backdrop to reasons--listed below--for the iPad's slow-but-steady encroachment on the laptop. During a two-day visit to Silicon Valley last week, I barely used the Air at all. It was iPad-all-the-time: airport, plane, hotel, and on the road locally. Though certainly not the equivalent of the Air in productivity, it always trumps the Air in one crucial area: grab-and-go. In short, the iPad is a sticky commodity. It's always there, always accessible when you need it: instant on, instant access to the Internet, thanks to 3G. And this pushes me to do more productivity--i.e., writing--on the iPad, despite the relative inefficiency vis-a-vis the Air. It may sound illogical, nevertheless that's the way it has evolved for me.How the iPad encroaches upon/eclipses the laptop: Browsing:  Coincident with upgrading to iOS 4.2, I have added the Atomic Web browser, which let's me do tabbed browsing. And 4.2's multitasking has made it a breeze to jump between Atomic Web and the host of other apps I use. Productivity: Granted, this is challenging on the iPad. But it's getting easier for me as I master the touch interface sans physical keyboard. And it's more laptop-like with the enhanced multitasking on 4.2. I would submit that as people become more used to the tablet interface, productivity will increase in tandem with familiarity. That's my case, certainly. Content consumption: No brainer (for me, at least). Because of its &quot;grabability,&quot; the iPad becomes the device of choice here. And background streaming of Internet multimedia adds to the allure. Multifunction: The iPad--and tablet design in general--screams out for front and back cameras a la Samsung Galaxy Tab. With this, I would have yet another reason not to put down the iPad. Future iPad/tablets: Upcoming 11.6-inch and 12.1-inch tablets will be even more powerful and laptop-like. In an interview today with Binay Bajaj, a product marketing manager at Atmel, which makes touch-screen controller chips for the Samsung Galaxy Tab and HTC Evo 4G (among other devices), he spelled out how future tablets due next year will be much more powerful and very different from the relatively primitive tablets sold today. And as a postscript, on Tuesday, Dell announced sales of the Inspiron Duo hybrid tablet-Netbook. This product is obviously a nod to the encroachment of the iPad on the laptop. And the Atmel marketing manager made a valid point today when he said consumers may eventually demand a touch interface on all sorts of products, as touch becomes the de rigueur interface. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[RIM needles Apple on tablet browser speeds]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=rim-needles-apple-on-tablet-browser-speeds</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We're not saying Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet has a better browser thanApple's iPad (after all, it hasn't come out yet). We're just saying that RIM is saying its tablet has a better, or at least faster, browser. Surprised We're not. In a video posted Monday on RIM's official BlackBerry YouTube channel, the PlayBook and the iPad are placed side-by-side. Then Matthew, a member of the browser group at RIM, takes the tablets to the same sites on the same connection at the same time. The PlayBook appears to load the first site, a soccer site, notably faster than the iPad. Next up, he takes the tablets to CBS.com (hey, that's us!) and notes that the PlayBook runs Flash. Oh yes he did!But it should be noted that this is RIM showing off its browser in what's almost certainly a best case scenario for the PlayBook' we can't tell what the exact environment is, so we're not calling this one for RIM or Apple, we're just saying that RIM is getting all up in Apple's grill, meaning that this tablet war might get entertainingly ugly. At least on video. Of course, when the PlayBook comes out in the first quarter of next year, we'll be getting our hands on it for all sorts of tests of our own. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China unseats U.S. in supercomputer ranking]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=china-unseats-u-s--in-supercomputer-ranking</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Jaguar has fallen from the top of the food chain.When the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers is released today, the Cray XT5 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and run by the University of Tennessee, called &quot;Jaguar,&quot; will drop to No. 2 after a year of eating the lunch of every other supercomputer in the world. In its place will stand Tianhe-1A, a system built by China's National University of Defense Technology, located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin.Tianhe-1A achieved a performance level of 2.67 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second). Jaguar achieved 1.75 petaflop/s. Third place went to another Chinese-built system, called Nebulae, which achieved 1.27 petaflop/s. And while the news of China's achievement is not exactly a surprise, the supercomputing community in the U.S. is looking at it two ways: as both as an assurance that U.S. software and components are still elite in their field, and a wake-up call that the country's prestige in high-performance computing is not a given.&quot;This is what everybody expected. What the Chinese have done is they're exploiting the power of GPUs (graphic processing unit) which are...awfully close to being uniquely suited to this particular benchmark,&quot; said Bill Gropp, computer science professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, and co-principal investigator of the Blue Waters project, another supercomputer in the works.The benchmark he's speaking of is the Linpack, which tests the performance of a system for solving a dense system of linear equations. It's measured in calculations or floating point operations per second, hence flop/s. Not everyone in this field agrees it's the best possible way to compare machines, but it is one way.By using GPUs to accelerate the performance of the Tianhe-1A, the machine can achieve more floating point operations per second.&quot;The way most of us look at the Chinese machine, is it's very good at this particular problem (the Linpack benchmark), but not problems the user community is interested in,&quot; said Gropp.For those worried that this is a blow to the United States' leadership in supercomputing, it's actually not a huge cause for alarm if you consider the provenance of the pieces of the Chinese system. Tianhe-1A is a Linux computer built from components from Intel and Nvidia, points out Charlie Zender, professor of Earth Systems Science at the University of California at Irvine.A timeline of supercomputing speed. (Click to enlarge.)(Credit:AMD)&quot;So we find ourselves admiring an achievement that certainly couldn't have been done without the know-how of Silicon Valley...and an operating system designed mostly by the United States and Europe,&quot; Zender said. &quot;It's a time for reflection that we are now at a stage where a country that's motivated and has the resources can take off-the-shelf components and assemble the world's fastest supercomputer.&quot;Supercomputers will likely get faster every year, points out Jeremy Smith, director of the Center for Molecular Biophysics at the University of Tennessee, so China's rise to the top this month isn't the end of the story. The list will likely be reordered again in June, when the next edition of the Top500 is released.&quot;What you find historically with these supercomputers is they become the normal machines five or 10 years later that everybody uses,&quot; said Smith, who oversees some projects run on Jaguar. &quot;The Jaguar machine that we're so amazed at right now, it could be every university or company has one&quot; eventually.And of course these high-performance computer systems aren't just made to race each other, most scientists in the field would argue. They're made to solve complex problems, with eventual real-world consequences like climate change and alternative fuel production.Smith argues that research like what's being done on Jaguar to solve the problem of superconductivity at high temperatures couldn't necessarily be done on Tianhe-1A effectively because it requires very efficient computing and coming up with the software on a computer to do that well is difficult.But what China has accomplished is still important for supercomputing, argues Gropp, who called the number of flop/s Tianhe-1A achieved &quot;remarkable.&quot;&quot;I don't want to downplay what they've done,&quot; he said. &quot;It's like pooh-poohing the original Toyota. The first Toyota was a pile of junk. But a few years later they were eating our lunch.&quot;It's not the first time that a non-U.S. machine has topped the rankings--the Japanese NEC Earth Simulator did it in 2004. The U.S. of course bounced back, and as of today has 275, or more than half of the systems, on the Top 500 list. China is next with 42 systems, and Japan and Germany are tied with 26 each. Still, there is concern that China's focused concentration of resources on supercomputing is fomenting a threat to the U.S.' long-term dominance there. But just trying to score the highest on the Linpack benchmark--something that any group of researchers with enough money could do fairly easily--is short-sighted.&quot;What we should be focusing on is not losing our leadership and being able to apply computing to a broad range of science and engineering problems,&quot; said Gropp, who is also deputy director of research at UI's Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies.The Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is currently working on a report that addresses this exact topic, and didn't have a comment when contacted. Recently PCAST did release a draft of a document that calls for more funding for scientific computing very soon after news of Tianhe-1A's speed began to spread. And President Barack Obama weighed in briefly on the topic in a speech two weeks ago, calling for increased science funding specifically for high-performance computing.But it's not as if the supercomputing community in the U.S has been sitting still while China sneaked up behind them. There are other projects in the works at U.S. labs that are planning on blowing Jaguar and Tianhe-1A out of the water in terms of speed.Currently the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne and the National Science Foundation is building Blue Waters, a supercomputer that researchers say will be the fastest in the world when it is turned on sometime next year.The Department of Energy, which owns Oak Ridge's Jaguar supercomputer, is already looking at moving from the current peta-scale computing (a quadrillion floating point operations per second) to exa-scale computing (a quintillion floating point operations per second), a speed a thousand times faster than Jaguar is currently capable of processing at. It's a goal that's still a ways out there, but the work is under way.&quot;To get there in the next five to 10 years, to get to 10 million cores in one room, is a major technical challenge,&quot; noted University of Tennessee's Jeremy Smith. &quot;It's going to be fundamentally different than before. It's a hardware problem, and getting the software working is a major challenge indeed.&quot;For more statistics on the systems in the Top500 list, please see Top500.org.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter airport bomb joker loses appeal, tweeters revolt]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The British are renowned for their sense of humor. It is, indeed, one of the only reliable British exports over the last 40 years. Together with airlines, Carey Mulligan, Cadbury's chocolate.So you might have thought that even judges in a dreary place like Doncaster, U.K. have the ability to estimate when something might be intended to be a joke.It seems not. As Paul Chambers, the man who tweeted his frustration about the possibility of a canceled flight, has lost his appeal against what some might think is one of the more putrid convictions of recent times.Should you have been yourself incarcerated for jestingly suggesting that the TSA's naked screeners can't afford online porn, here is what Paul Chambers tweeted about Robin Hood airport in Doncaster: &quot;Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your sh*t together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!&quot;His tweet was seen by an airport manager, who sent it on to his manager, even though it was not deemed credible.Naturally, it ended up before the eyes of policemen and Chambers was arrested and charged with &quot;sending by a public communications network a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character contrary to Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.&quot;(Credit:Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)Oh, of course he was found guilty. But everyone thought that, on appeal, a judge in Doncaster might see the joke. Or, at least, sense.Perhaps everyone believes that all kittens, in a former life, were hangmen. For Chambers' appeal was denied and, as if to show just how cheery the British judicial system can be (at least in Doncaster), he was ordered to pay a further 2,000 pounds in prosecution costs. You might well believe that Chambers' tweet wasn't particularly funny. But, as with so many pieces of communication one encounters, it would surely have been fairly clear to anyone not made of metal and foam that it was meant to be funny.In order to make the point, his fellow tittering Twitterers decided to repeat Chambers' threat. Over and over again. Using the hashtag IamSpartacus, they inundated the Interwebs with threats aimed at Robin Hood airport. I feel readers might be especially moved by a tweet from Dara O'Briain: &quot;Robin Hood! All your base are belong to us! Somebody set up us the Bomb! iamspartacus butimalsoanerd&quot;Some might also feel uplifted by Hugh Miller's tweet: &quot;Anyone else think this TwitterJokeTrial has been blown up out of proportion IAmSpartacus.&quot;You might have imagined that some enterprising journalists might have asked the local South Yorkshire Police whether they would attempt to prosecute all of the more than 5,000 threatening joke-tweeters.Well, the Associated Press did. The police no doubt thought about it for a vastly long time, balancing the hope of overtime with the possibility that Doncaster might enjoy perhaps the greatest march of the reasonable since Robin Hood himself prowled the local forests, before reportedly replying: &quot;No.&quot;Chambers' lawyer, David Allen Green told the AP his client is mulling his next legal option.Many might feel that those who truly intend to bomb airports don't tend to tweet about it beforehand. Still, Chambers tweeted that something good has already come out of his latest setback: &quot;While I cannot believe this whole iamspartacus thing, my dad texting me &quot;Btw, iamspartacus as well&quot; may be the coolest thing ever.&quot;One can only hope that Britain's two-headed new government might decide to intervene in what many feel is a wrong-headed decision. I am sure there are many employees of Robin Hood airport who wish they would. Otherwise, well, who knows <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter squeezing ads among tweets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=twitter-squeezing-ads-among-tweets</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:HootSuite)Twitter is trying out a new feature to display ads, or promoted tweets, directly in a user's Twitter stream, but the company admits it's watching carefully to see how people react.The site expanded its &quot;promoted tweets&quot; feature yesterday, starting slowly by displaying the ads only for those who use HootSuite, a third-party Twitter client. Promoted tweets are tweets that advertisers pay to show to a large number of people, similar to the way advertisers pay for sponsored links that appear among search results at Google.Those who access Twitter through HootSuite will begin to see ads in their timelines that Twitter is promising will be relevant to their interests and activities. Some HootSuite users may not see any ads, while others will see them pop up in different places on their timelines, according to Twitter's official blog. The appearance and frequency of the ads will depend on their relevance to each user.Promoted tweets have been showing up on Twitter since earlier in the year. But until now they've been relegated to spots outside of a user's Twitter timeline, such as in search results or in the list of trending topics.Realizing that some may not be happy to see ads in their timelines, Twitter said it's taking a &quot;deliberate and thoughtful approach&quot; to the new feature and will look carefully at how people react to and use the ads. Any that fail to engage will either be dropped or changed. Twitter is also looking at this initial rollout as a test period and will likely need to tread cautiously before it expands the feature beyond HootSuite users.HootSuite has captured more than 900,000 users for its third-party Twitter tool and is the first company to work with Twitter on the new rollout. As part of the agreement between the two, HootSuite will get a portion of the sales, while Twitter will sell the actual ads, according to Advertising Age. Insiders at Twitter say the company will eventually deploy the ads to other Twitter users depending on how successful they are, Ad Age reported.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 finally gets Android 2.1]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-finally-gets-android-2-1</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Starting this Sunday, October 31, Sony Ericsson will make good on a promise made earlier this year. The Xperia X10 will finally get its long-awaited Android 2.1 update.Sony Ericsson Xperia X10(Credit:Sony Ericsson)The official Sony Ericsson product blog posted an article today advising that X10,  X10 Mini, and X10 Mini Pro handsets will begin receiving the Eclair update on Sunday evening. Initially, only phones in the Nordic countries will see the update, with other European countries getting 2.1 starting Monday, November 1. All other X10 phones, including those used in North America, will get their update by the end of November.I've long said that the X10 could contend with any other super phone were it running a current version of Android. The hardware is gorgeous with its 4-inch screen, a 1GHz processor, and 8-megapixel camera.  It will be interesting to see if sales of the device increase once the update rolls around. The addition of 720p HD video recording with continuous autofocus, five home screens, and a backup-and-restore application make the X10 highly appealing.The X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro feature completely different hardware, so their respective updates won't be quite the same. Both devices can look forward to better performance with Bluetooth, an optimized way to handle pictures, text, and numbers, and automatic sync between the contact pictures and Facebook. The backup-and restore-application found with the X10 will also be included.If you have an X10 series handset, your phone should automatically notify you of the update once it's available. Users will be reminded to back up their data and directed to download PC Companion software.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Harvest time in Napa Valley: Low tech, high art]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=harvest-time-in-napa-valley-low-tech-high-art</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A bin full of grapes that will go into a 2013 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, a $150 bottle of wine. CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman visited two high-end wineries to see how the harvest works.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)NAPA VALLEY, Calif.--It's 6:45 in the morning, and the crew that's just about to begin working is only picking up from where the overnight team left off.We're here, deep in some of the most valuable terroir, or vineyard land, on the planet, and for about two days only, it's a race against the clock--actually, the thermometer--to get more than 30 tons of premium grapes off the vines in top condition.Where I'm standing is in the middle of the Horton block, a 15-acre piece of prime winemaking real estate owned by the Horton family since 1953. But the fruit of this land, the wonderful, rich grapes that will be blended into $150 or $250, wines, is sold almost in its entirety to the adjacent, and world famous, Robert Mondavi winery. To the west of our position in between two sections of the vineyard, the 15-year-old vines are producing the grapes for the $150 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve. To the east, the 45-year-old vines bear the grapes for the $250-a-bottle To Kalons Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. I've come here for a Road Trip at Home story looking at how high-end wines are made in 2010. My first stop is here, to see how a large, corporate winery does it, and later in the day, I'll drive a few minutes north on the stunning Highway 29 here to Alpha Omega to see how it works at a boutique operation.TerroirIn both cases, the selection of terroir is crucial. For Mondavi, buying grapes from the Hortons means taking advantage of what Alex MacDonald, one of the few family members who's still in the business, says may well be the best terroir in the world. MacDonald is biased, he admits, but he says his family's block, nestled into the side of some gorgeous hills but getting bathed in all-day sun, is of world-class quality because of the age of its vines, the richness of the soil, the great drainage, and the resulting grapes that feature highly concentrated sugars.The art of making high-end wine (photos) For Alpha Omega, making wine is a time-intensive process that involves gathering grapes from 27 different wineries spread over 90 acres all around Napa Valley, terroir that encompasses just about every kind of vineyard land: in valleys, on hillsides, warmer areas, cooler areas, cabernets, merlots, chardonnays, and so on. The idea, said winemaker and general manager Jean Hoefliger, is that to make the best wines, it's best to be able to choose from the widest variety of spices, and when blending them, being able to find the wine personalities that best complement each other. And while Mondavi has a long-term relationship with the Horton family for its grapes, Alpha Omega has struck a series of 10- to 15-year leases with the different owners of its vineyards, both to ensure the steady access to those grapes, and to assure the owners that they will get paid each year, regardless of the growing conditions.&quot;Only over time will you be able to get to know the vineyards,&quot; Hoefliger said.That's clearly not as much of an issue for Alex MacDonald and his brother, who grew up with this land in their family. And they're lucky it's such good terroir, Alex MacDonald said. &quot;I always say, 'You can make great wine out of great fruit, and you can make [bad] wine out of great fruit,'&quot; he said. &quot;'But you can't make great wine out of [bad] fruit.'&quot;Cool grapesMy arrival at 6:45 a.m. is timed for the beginning of a morning shift at the Horton block. But another crew was in the vineyard from 10 p.m. the night before until about 2 a.m. That crew worked under tractor headlights, yet still were able to wield their cutting knives with amazing skill. And no wonder. These guys are vineyard mercenaries, moving from winery to winery, picking until the grapes are gone, and then moving on. When the crew begins, I'm in awe. The team moves rapidly up each row (see video below), taking just a second or possibly even less on each bunch of grapes. These guys clearly have done this before, as they are able to cut the grapes and flip them into a yellow bin--known in the industry, according to Hoefliger, as a FYB, or &quot;F*****g yellow bin&quot;--that is used for harvesting high-end grapes because they help protect the fruit against being bruised.Though it's already October, the days here are still steamy, and that's why the crews have been working overnight, and in the dawn hours: this ensures that all the grapes are brought in while at the right temperature. &quot;We want the fruit to come in cold,&quot; said Graem MacDonald, 26, one of the Horton family brothers who runs the Horton block. &quot;We don't want to pick at one in the afternoon when it's 100 degrees.&quot; That's because, he said, the sugars in cool grapes are better protected than those that are picked warm. According to Alex MacDonald, 24, one reason the crew is working so fast is that they are trying to show their mettle to a competing group toiling in the next rows. &quot;We've got the other crew in, so they like to compete with each other,&quot; MacDonald said. But of course, the pickers also get paid by weight, not by time, so the faster they can pick, the more money they'll make.And though the Horton block is relatively small, it's still vital for the family to hire vineyard managers and the crews they bring with them to ensure that the grapes come in quickly. &quot;If it was just me and my brother,&quot; said Alex MacDonald, &quot;we'd be here for a week and a half.&quot;Tonnage The Horton block tends to turn out about 30 tons of grapes each year, or about 1,000 cases worth, which makes up about a tenth of the 10,000 or so cases of Robert Mondavi Reserve produced annually. Over at Alpha Omega, the 27 different sources end up accounting for about 10,000 cases--numbers that might sound large until Hoefliger mentions that his three closest winery neighbors generate 3.1 million, 1.2 million, and 90,000 cases a year, respectively.And while there's clearly a goal of maximizing the amount of fruit that's grown on each acre of land, Alex MacDonald said that's only true to a point. The consensus in the industry, he said, is that if the land is producing more than four tons an acre, the fruit won't be very good because, essentially, it's spread too thin.But one thing that the MacDonald brothers and Hoefliger have in common is that despite the labels that will end up on the their wines, they are all, essentially, small winemakers, and get to enjoy the attendant benefits.&quot;By focusing on 15 acres, my brother and I can walk the vineyard [ourselves],&quot; Alex MacDonald said. &quot;If something's not working, we'll just fix it.&quot;He said that by being able to tend to the entire vineyard, he and his brother can regularly make sure that the irrigation system is working properly, that all the vines are healthy, and they can do necessary tractor work such as &quot;disking the soil.&quot; &quot;The difference is just focus,&quot; he said, &quot;just being able to care about the [little] details.&quot;For Hoefliger, working small means that winemaking is what he clearly wants it to be: an art. And that means that most of the choices he and his partners make in making Alpha Omega wines will err on the side of a smaller business rather than the big operation that so many wineries seem intent on.&quot;If you reproduce any art in massive amounts,&quot; Hoefliger said, &quot;it becomes manufacturing. It's not art anymore.&quot;Of course, that doesn't mean the company isn't interested in growth. The giant Mondavi operation--which includes large numbers of vineyards and many different labels--has been turning out wine for decades, but Alpha Omega produced its first bottles in 2000. Yet while it owned just three barrels for winemaking in its earliest days, it now has about 350.Still, at the size that Alpha Omega is today, Hoefliger said, he can still take the time to go regularly to each of his 27 small vineyards to check on things. He decides it's time to harvest, he explained, by tasting the grapes. It's all basically a seat-of-the-pants operation. &quot;I base every decision [on] instinct,&quot; Hoefliger said proudly. &quot;I probably only use 5 percent of what I learned in [viticulture] school.&quot;Sorting and fermentingIt's now well after dawn, and Graem MacDonald is standing alongside pallets full of FYBs stacked two across, three wide, and eight high. He's wrapped plastic around each pallet-full to keep them stable on the truck, which will then go to a weighing station at the nearby Robert Mondavi winery. This morning's haul comes in at about 11,000 pounds of fruit, Alex MacDonald tells me after the weighing.The next stop for the grapes is the sorting table, where a group of six men and women swiftly sort (see video below) them as they come down a conveyor belt, picking out leaves and other extraneous matter, and trying to leave just good, plump berries (as each individual grape is known).Many wineries don't have the resources to hand-sort all the grapes, but for these high-end Mondavi wines, it's crucial. After being hand-sorted, the grapes go up another conveyor belt, a bunch at a time, and drop into a machine that automatically sorts out the stems from the berries. It's some kind of magic, but it works: out of one end of the machine comes the grapes, and out of the other and into a big bin on the floor, comes all the stems, with no grapes in sight. And then it's into one of 56 huge (10- to 15-ton capacity) oak fermentation barrels for the grapes. According to Quinn Roberts, a master cooper at Mondavi, the barrels are vital to the process because they don't impart any flavor to the grapes, but they do let in oxygen. The grapes will sit here and ferment for around 45 days. The crews can fill four of these tanks in a single day.These barrels are beautiful to look at and are a stunning aesthetic feature of the room--Mondavi takes tours through here. But they're only in use for a small part of the year, Roberts explains. The rest of the year, they sit mainly empty, though it is vital that Roberts keep them hydrated. To do so, he fills them with two inches of water that is absorbed and conducted upwards through &quot;capillaries&quot; in the wood. They are then dried with fans mounted on top. After the 45 days or so of fermentation, the wine is then moved into what are known as the first-year barrels, in, yes, the first-year barrel room. These, too, are gorgeous, and for each harvest, all entirely brand new. And expensive. Each of the French oak first-year barrels costs $1,600, and is stained with red wine around its middle so that wine that inevitably leaks from the mouth of the barrel blends right in. Because a fair amount of red wine tends to spill from the barrels' mouths over the course of a year, the Mondavi winery orders special barrels that are 'painted' with red wine so that they continue to look clean and new, even after being spilled on many times.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)A year from now, the winemakers will taste the wine from each of these barrels, looking to choose which will be blended with other wines before being put into the second-year barrels, and the second-year room.This is a three-year process, and at each step, the number of barrels gets smaller, as the weak wine is culled. That means Mondavi has just put its 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserves on sale.Over at Alpha Omega, the post-harvest process is very much the same as at Mondavi. The grapes are brought into the winery and are then hand-sorted at a table, in this case by 15 men and women. It's a triple-sorting process, Hoefliger explains, ensuring that every single berry is chosen by hand. The crew can process about half a ton of grapes per hour, he says, while many wineries that use automated systems can handle between 6 and 15 tons an hour.At Alpha Omega, half of the grapes go into 1,500-gallon (5-ton) stainless steel tanks, and the other half go straight into similar first-year barrels as at Mondavi. Each of the tanks will hold the wine from a different one of Alpha Omega's vineyards, or at least part of a vineyard. Hoefliger said that this part of the process is hugely capital-intensive, as each barrel costs $1,000, and the winery must start over each year.The idea here is to end up with a variety of flavors, and to impart &quot;ageability&quot; to the wine, Hoefliger explains--which makes it more stable, and &quot;makes bridges between the tannins, the color, and the aromatics.&quot;Hoefliger is very interested in the natural yeasts from the grapes--which transforms their sugars into alcohol. And each grape has as many as seven different yeasts, he said, providing for a diverse, and terroir-specific set of flavors and characteristics.Alpha Omega maintains at least 250 different barrels of wine, and Hoefliger said he tastes each one every single day, looking to make decisions about the flavors of all of them--and ensuring that the final blends at the end of the 24-month fermentation process are precisely what he wants. But during that period, constant vigilance is required. As many as four or five times a day someone must open the barrels or the tanks, and &quot;punch down&quot; the grapes, which are emitting carbon dioxide that is pushing the skins upward. Opening one of the barrels reveals that the skins quickly push up over the top, and they must be punched down for several minutes each time. Wine is clearly a living thing.At the Alpha Omega winery, winemaker and general manager Jean Hoefliger demonstrates the process of 'punching' down red wine grapes. Because carbon dioxide pushes the skins of the grapes toward the top of the barrels, it is required that as many as four or five times a day, workers must use a special tool to push them back down again. (Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)The wine in the Alpha Omega tanks ferments for 90 days, after which all the juice is drained out, and the skins are pressed. The skins are then used as fertilizer and nutrients in the vineyards, and the juice is all put in barrels. For Hoefliger, the process is as much a part of his life as anything else. In an e-mail to me before my visit, he told me he hoped I would see how much he loves his life. His enjoyment of the entire process, no matter how time-consuming, was in fact very evident. And the goal To make great wine, and to always be looking to do better than last time.&quot;When people ask me what my favorite vintage is,&quot; Hoefliger said, &quot;I always say, 'The next one,' because it's the only one that has the potential of being perfect.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[At Least It&'s Not Facebook: A Google Director Departs To Become Loopt&nbsp'Exec]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google is bleeding talent. As companies mature, that tends to happen. But the fact that a large number are defecting to rival Facebook clearly has Google worried a4&quot; enough to offer massive retention bonuses and across-the-board salary increases. But it&amp;'s not totally stopping the talent drain, as another Director of Engineering has left. But Google can relax a bit as at least he&amp;'s not going to Facebook.Location-based service Loopt has hireda4sAditya Palande to be their new Vice President of Engineering. He&amp;'s leaving Google after just about three and a half years there. Most recently, he was in chargea4sof the entire portfolio of applications in the CRM space for the search giant.a4sIn total, he has about 20 years of engineering experience at various companies.Loopt was one of the pioneers in the location space, but has since been overshadowed by rivals like Foursquare. But the company has recently taken the approach of aligning itself more closely with Facebook, as the social network makes a heavy push into the location space with Places.They&amp;'re now charged with providing additional utility on top of Facebook&amp;'s location graph. Anda4sPalande will be in charge of the technical details behind that. He notes that the space is still in itsa4snascent stages.CrunchBase InformationLooptGoogleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: Tesla sees Japan as growth market, Nissan Leaf sees delivery delays]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Here are the top cleantech stories we&amp;'re following on the GreenBeat:Tesla expects Japan to eventually become its No. 2 market for sales after the U.S., Elon Musk told the WSJ.EMeter has announced it will team up with relationship management company Convergys to create better billing and customer management for utility companies that are rolling out smart meters.An LG Chem executive told Reuters he expects to nail down more battery orders fromGM for the range-extending Chevy Volt thanks to better-than-expected demand for the car. The news comes the heels of GE&amp;'s recently-announced plans to buy 25,000 electric cars by 2015, nearly half of which will come from GM,starting with orders for the Volt.Australian utility Energy Australia has inked a partnership with Cisco. Cisco will upgrade 200 of the utility&amp;'s substations so that it can better monitor faults and remotely restore power. The utility is currently rolling out a $100 million smart grid effort and previously announced a partnership with IBM, which will provide systems integration expertise.The all-electric Nissan Leaf, the Volt&amp;'s competition, has suffered a delivery delay, according to Green Car Reports. Fewer cars than originally planned will hit dealerships this December. The company has seen 20,000 reservations for the Leaf.Wind data provider Onsemble has completed a sensor network capable of tracking wind data for nearly 95 percent of the wind farms in Texas, according to CNET.Volkswagen will launch an electrified version of its Golf hatchback (pictured) in the U.S. in 2013, CNET writes.Next Story: Path launches photo-sharing social network focused on quality connections, not quantity Previous Story: RIM shuts out red-hot mobile chat application Kik &amp;8212' without explanationPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: data, electric cars, Golf, Leaf, Smart Grid, smart meters, Volt, windCompanies: Cisco, Convergys, EMeter, Energy Australia, GE, GM, IBM, LG Chem, Onsemble, Tesla, VolkswagenPeople: Elon Musk          Tags: data, electric cars, Golf, Leaf, Smart Grid, smart meters, Volt, windCompanies: Cisco, Convergys, EMeter, Energy Australia, GE, GM, IBM, LG Chem, Onsemble, Tesla, VolkswagenPeople: Elon MuskIris 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).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[Custom travel guides designed for sharing - Springwise]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Personalized travel guides figured prominently on our virtual pages back in late 2008, what with our coverage of Offbeat Guides, Tripwolf and Traveldk.com. Now, borrowing a page a4&quot; so to speak a4&quot; from these other offerings, Norwegian Stay.com is a social platform where users can create and share their own, custom guides.Users of Stay.com begin by entering their destination city, prompting the site to draw from more than 150,000 attractions, restaurants and hotels in more than 50 cities to suggest a variety of venues and activities. Content reportedly comes from a range of online sources, including TripAdvisor and OpenTable. From there, users can zero in on just the spots they care about in their custom guides. For additional input, they can share their guides with others via Facebook and Twitter' they can also ask for advice, give recommendations and discuss travel experiences. An assortment of personal guides created by other users, meanwhile, can provide inspiration. In the end, users get a free, personal and compact guide that includes maps and meaningful details about the selected attractions, such as prices, operating hours, contacts, descriptions and pictures. Guides can be saved on the site and accessed online from any device with an Internet connection' alternatively, they can be downloaded as a PDF and printed on paper. Stay.com lets users book hotels as well.Now in beta, Stay.com is surely working on expanding its reach to more cities around the globe. It also might consider offering a professional printing option for travellers who want their guide to serve as a keepsake as well. It''s clearly a crowded arena a4&quot; one more to watch or partner with!Website: www.stay.comContact: www.stay.com/supportSpotted by: Bjorn Verbrugghe<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Did Facebook just hint at its answer to Groupon]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pamela01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook just revealed that ita4a4s testing a new feature called a4ABuy with Friendsa4 for its site, which will allow users to share their deals on virtual goods &amp;8212' and I&amp;'m starting to wonder whether Facebook could bring something similar to non-virtual deals.Commerce product marketing manager Deb Liu described the feature on-stage today at the Inside Social Apps InFocus conference in San Francisco. (Ia4a4m at the conference, but I was busy writing about other news, so for this story Ia4a4m relying on the coverage from Forbes and All Things Digital.) The idea is to let users tell their friends about virtual goods purchases that theya4a4ve made in Facebook games. Most interestingly, if a user unlocks a deal, they might be able to share it with their friends.Facebook has constantly worked to find the right balance in allowing developers to promote themselves in users&amp;' newsfeeds without users feeling that they&amp;'re being spammed. (Chief technology officer Bret Taylor said earlier today that Facebook has reduced spam by 95 percent in the past year.) Buy With Friends offers a possible solution to that problem, because a message about a random Facebook game will probably seem much less annoying when it actually benefits you, say if it tells you, a4AYour friend has unlocked this deal for you &amp;8212' get 40 percent off this special monster food.a4More than 50 percent of users in the test program elected to share their purchases, Liu said.Again, this is all about virtual goods for now, but it might carry over nicely into the Deals product that Facebook announced last November. Right now, businesses can offer different kinds of deals as a reward for check ins on Facebook Places. What if you could then share those deals with your friends For example, you might win a discounted pair of jeans if you check in to Levia4a4s often enough, then you could offer your friends a similar discount. It would be a way for Facebook to compete with popular group-buying site Groupon in a way that doesn&amp;'t just copy Groupona4a4s features.Next Story: Kongregate takes another crack at launching online arcade on Android Previous Story: Can there be a tech bubble without an IPO frenzy (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Buy With Friends, Facebook Deals, Facebook PlacesCompanies: FacebookPeople: Deb Liu          Tags: Buy With Friends, Facebook Deals, Facebook PlacesCompanies: FacebookPeople: Deb LiuAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. 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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