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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jolicloud changes name and direction]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Jolicloud will have a new name and direction, according to comments made yesterday by project founder Tariq Krim. The Jolicloud operating system--touted for its HTML5 and cloud sync capabilities--will be known as Joli OS &quot;to avoid confusion&quot; and Jolicloud will be used to refer to the online desktop, Krim said in a blog post.Despite the successes--which include 300,000  account registrations since August--of the Jolicloud desktop, Krim said it was imperative to &quot;expand our experience beyond our own OS to be relevant on other platforms.&quot; Read more of &quot;Jolicloud changes name and direction&quot; at ZDNet UK. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Office Web Apps to go worldwide in March]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=office-web-apps-to-go-worldwide-in-march</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft says that by next month, users worldwide will be able to get their hands on the free, online version of its Office suite.In a post on the Office Blog earlier this week, the company said that it had expanded Office Web Apps availability in 150 new countries including Mexico, India, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, and that by next month it will hit &quot;all remaining markets in Central and South America.&quot; The free service, which contains Web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, was launched by Microsoft in June of last year. Microsoft says that 30 million people are now using it. Besides creating documents through the Office component of Windows Live, Office Web Apps exist on Facebook through Docs.com, as well as with some recent integration that use the hosted productivity tools to open up attachments. That same functionality is also built into Hotmail, where it was seeing 500 percent growth (month by month) in use, according to stats Microsoft released late last year. Office Web Apps is just the latest in a series of Microsoft's Web properties to vie for the important &quot;worldwide&quot; moniker. The last one was Windows Live Messenger, which this week expanded its Facebook chat connector to all markets. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comverge expands energy-efficiency software play]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=comverge-expands-energy-efficiency-software-play</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Energy-efficiency company Comverge is getting less picky about whether the hardware it works with is an electric vehicle or an air conditioner.(Credit:Martin LaMonica/CNET)The company today is expected to announce that the latest version of its software can work with the OnStar vehicle communications system and wireless thermostats that control air conditioners from Carrier.Comverge's specialty is demand response, where its software can turn down power use at multiple locations during peak times. Lowering energy use on the grid is an effective way for utilities to meet energy demand without having to turn on costly and polluting peak-time power plants. Consumers who sign on for utility demand response programs get some sort of rebate or lower electricity rate. Right now, much of Comverge's residential business is based around air conditioner controllers, small devices that can connect to Comverge's data centers and control an air conditioner. To lighten the load on the grid at peak times, a controller cycles the air conditioner compressor to raise the temperature one or two degrees, explained Comverge CEO R. Blake Young. Pool pumps are another commonly controlled device.The latest version of its IntelliSource software can work with Zigbee-compatible wireless thermostats, which work with Carrier air conditioners. Similarly, the company will show at the DistribuTech utility conference that its software can tie into the OnStar system for managing when an electric vehicle is charged. The Chevy Volt is onecar that will use OnStar to get utility rate information and let consumers manage charge times.The software has also been enhanced to better tie into utilities' back-end software systems. For example, it has better tools for verifying and measuring demand-side power reductions.Inside a power grid control room (photos)  Grid operators and utilities are increasingly using demand response as a way to plan for grid capacity. Rather than build new power plants to add generation as overall demand grows, utilities contract with demand-response providers and reduce demand when needed.&quot;This past year we saw more events over more consecutive days than we've seen over the history of the programs we've run,&quot; Blake said. &quot;The peaks are happening more often for longer periods of time, so we've become a very critical part of the entire energy mix.&quot;Comverge manages thousands of megawatts now, with about 60 percent in the residential area, but last year saw rapid growth in the commercial and industrial area, Blake said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[VMware turns in a solid quarter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=vmware-turns-in-a-solid-quarter</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As virtualization and cloud-computing trends continue to see growth, VMWare has also seen growth.  For its fourth quarter, VMWare reported net income of $198 million, or 46 cents per share, up from 31 cents in the same quarter a year ago. Revenue was $836 million, a 37 percent increase. Wall Street had been expecting earnings of 44 cents per share on revenue of $803.8 million. (Statement) In a statement, President and CEO Paul Maritz said:  VMware clearly benefited in the fourth quarter from both an uptick in spending and the momentum of virtualization as the central technology for modernizing infrastructures. Our task remains to help our customers evolve to the enterprise hybrid cloud by delivering solutions that increase efficiency while improving business agility.Read more of &quot;VMWare earnings: A solid quarter, year as virtualization momentum continues&quot; at ZDNet's Between the Lines.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Study: So people do pay for online content]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=study-so-people-do-pay-for-online-content</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=study-so-people-do-pay-for-online-content</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's a long-standing truism that people won't pay for online content, but a new study from Pew Internet suggests otherwise.Among the 750 Internet users in the U.S. surveyed by Pew for a study out today, 65 percent said they've paid for online content.Music, software, and mobile apps were the most popular items among paying users. But the range of content that people were willing to pay for ran the gamut from games to news articles to adult material.The survey focused on 15 different kinds of online content to see what people had purchased. Pew specifically limited the field to intangible content, such as digital music, software, and news stories, rather than physical items such as clothes, CDs, and books.Digital music and software proved to be the most popular items, with 33 percent of those questioned willing to pay for them online. Mobile apps were next in the list, with 21 percent saying they've bought them online. Other common items were digital games, magazine and newspaper stories, videos, and ringtones.Lower on the list were cheat codes for video games and access to specific Web sites, such as online dating services. And only 2 percent admitted to buying adult content online.(Credit:Pew Internet)How much are people willing to spend On average, the people polled spend around $10 per month on online content. The majority (43 percent) spent amounts ranging from $1 to $10, while 25 percent said they spend between $11 and $30. And 7 percent said they spend around $100 a month.Most (23 percent) of those surveyed said they pay for subscription services as opposed to the 16 percent who download individual files and the 8 percent who access streaming content.Some surveys have found that many people won't pay for online content, at least not for specific types of content, such as newspaper subscriptions. But the rise in broadband is making it increasingly easier and faster for people to download and pay for the content they want, such as software, movies, music, e-books, and even news articles, according to Pew.To compile its study, Pew reached out to more than 1,000 adults in the U.S., of whom 755 were Internet users. The survey was conducted for Pew by Princeton Data Source from October 28 to November 1 of this year.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EC launches antitrust probe against Google]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ec-launches-antitrust-probe-against-google</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The European Commission announced today that it's opening an investigation of Google over alleged antitrust practices in the European Union.The probe was triggered by complaints from three search providers, which claim that Google has stifled them by unfairly manipulating certain factors related to both unpaid and paid search results.The search providers leveling the charges are Foundem, a U.K. price comparison site' ejustice.fr, a French legal search engine' and Ciao, a U.K. search engine owned by Microsoft. These three Web sites offer vertical search services, which means they provide users with specific online information, such as price comparisons.As part of its probe, the EC said it will examine whether Google lowered the rankings of the services provided by the three Web sites while giving its own vertical services preferential treatment in unpaid search results.Further, the Commission will check into allegations that Google lowered the &quot;Quality Score&quot; for paid, sponsored links of the three competing vertical search providers, a complaint made by Foundem, according to Google. The Quality Score is one factor that determines the price advertisers pay to Google. If two advertisers use the same keywords, the one with the lower Quality Score has to pay more to rank evenly with the one that has the higher score.Finally, the EC will examine whether Google imposed exclusivity obligations on advertisers, a complaint that Google said was raised by Ciao. Such obligations would prevent advertisers from using the same ads they use on Google on their own Web sites or on competing search engines such as Bing and Yahoo.With Google presumed innocent unless proven guilty, the EC said that the probe doesn't imply that it has any proof of antitrust violations. &quot;It only signifies that the commission will conduct an in-depth investigation of the case as a matter of priority,&quot; the Commission said in a statement.The EC first looked into the complaints from the three search providers back in February. At that time, a Google blog defended the company's position saying that its search results are based on algorithms that try to take into account what people may find the most useful. Google also said that it has nothing against vertical search providers and that certain ones rank high in its results.In a response to a request for comment, a Google spokesman e-mailed CNET its statement on the probe:&quot;Since we started Google we have worked hard to do the right thing by our users and our industry, ensuring that ads are always clearly marked, making it easy for users to take their data with them when they switch services and investing heavily in open source projects. But there's always going to be room for improvement, and so we'll be working with the Commission to address any concerns.&quot;Google also defended its ranking system to CNET, explaining that its algorithms rank higher-quality and more relevant sites above lower-quality and less relevant sites. Some sites unhappy with their rankings have sued Google over the years, but those were suits the company said it has won.Looking at the sites that triggered the EU's probe, Google said that both it and independent sources have found them to generally be of lower quality. The company cited Foundem's content as being duplicated from other Web sites, a factor that has led to its low ranking in search results. Ejustice.fr uses Google's own search service to provide its results, another factor that has resulted in a low ranking.In addressing the complaints made by Ciao over exclusivity obligations, Google said its advertisers are not restricted from advertising on other search engines and that they're free to use platforms other than AdSense, Google's online ad network, on other sites.Google added that it previously had a good relationship with Ciao, which was a long-time partner of AdSense. But when Ciao was bought by Microsoft in 2008, the relationship apparently turned sour as Google began hearing complaints about the terms and conditions of its contract from Ciao.Updated at 8:56 a.m. PT with additional background and comment from Google.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oxygen Audio debuts car stereo with iPhone interface]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=oxygen-audio-debuts-car-stereo-with-iphone-interface</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=oxygen-audio-debuts-car-stereo-with-iphone-interface</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oxygen Audio will demo its iPhone-based audio head unit at CES 2011.(Credit:Oxygen Audio)French electronics manufacturer Oxygen Audio will introduce an audio system at CES 2011 that uses aniPhone as the head unit interface. The O'Car audio system physically integrates an iPhone by snapping it to the front of the audio deck. A cantilever swivels the phone horizontally or vertically, and angles it in any direction. Using the iPhone as the software platform, you'll be able to use your favorite app-du-jour for traffic information and navigation or whatever new technology comes to the market--as long as it goes to your phone. A downloadable app controls the entertainment system, offering AM/FM/RDS radio, 4 by 55 watt amp and subwoofer control, and also provides seamless app multi-tasking. The single din head unit, which will retail for $299 in first quarter of 2011 (although there's a chance European markets will get it before Christmas), is equipped withhands-free calling Bluetooth capabilities and an external speaker. While you won't be able to access programs on your phone using voice commands, the OCar app will automatically dim audio programs for voice prompts if you're using turn-by-turn directions or receiving or making phone calls, says Oxygen Audio spokesman Gregory Borchardt. And should you decide to switch devices, the aftermarket manufacturer is developing adapters for Androids.The O&amp;39'Car uses an app as a radio interface on an iPhone.(Credit:Oxygen Audio)Steering wheel controls aren't integrated with the O Car system this time around, but the next generation of the unit will, says Borchardt. There aren't any USB ports on the unit for additional devices, but the next generation O'Car should have that functionality, according to an article at CE Outlook.Integrating iPhones in the audio unit isn't just a way to capitalize on a technology trend. This strategy is being deployed by Smart and BMW as a cost-effective way to bring the latest communications and telematics features into vehicles. The advantage of using mobile devices as the entertainment platform is that they stay up-to-date, and people upgrade their phone a lot more frequently than they upgrade their ride. Source: CE Outlook <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Google Docs won me over]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=how-google-docs-won-me-over</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Android phones, iPhones, and iPads now can be used to edit Google Docs word processing documents.(Credit:Google)With a single new feature added to its online word processor yesterday, Google has diminished many concerns I had about taking the cloud-computing plunge a few months ago.That feature, autocorrect in Google Docs, fixes common typos such as converting &quot;teh&quot; into &quot;the.&quot; In and of itself, it's not a game-changer.But it carried outsized importance for me because it was one of the things I missed most about Microsoft Word and because it gives me faith that Google Docs is headed in the right direction.As if to validate my new optimism, Google today announced an improvement that's much larger than a single feature: the ability to edit Google Docs from Android phones, iPhones, and iPads. Google Spreadsheets already were editable with some mobile phone browsers.Google Docs, which has grown considerably since Google's 2006 acquisition of Writely, consists mainly of word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation modules that compete withMicrosoft Office's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It's become a standard-bearer for the Web applications movement and, with Google selling it in premium form along with Gmail for $50 per user per year in the form of Google Apps, Google's next billion-dollar revenue stream after advertising.Google has said Google Docs will compete not by matching every Microsoft Office feature but by emphasizing common abilities needed by everyone and by making collaboration a centerpiece rather than an afterthought. That message stuck in my craw, I confess. Although I agree it's transformative to have several people editing the same document at the same time, I think you also need a lot of more features to be truly compelling for more than very lightweight use.Thus my delight with autocorrect. It signifies that Google realizes it needs better features and is working to make them happen. Much of this is possible from the rebuilt Google Docs foundation that emerged in April. Last year, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told me Google Apps customers sign up for Gmail and Google Calendar, but with improvements, maybe they'll start using Docs in earnest, too.So here's my assessment of Google Docs from having lived in it for months. My needs may not be yours--I've hardly used Presentations, for example, and I deal much more with raw text than with fancy formatting, revision-tracking, fonts, and printing--so don't assume everything here applies universally.Why switchI use three computers and a mobile phone for work, and Google Docs spans all of them. That's the reason I fully embraced it starting in March, but it's not why I got started.Before I switched, I'd been dabbling with Google Docs to see what it could offer. I liked the colorful, clean spreadsheet graphs better than what came out of Excel. In a few cases where I needed to take some notes I needed at home while I was at work, I'd use a Google Docs document instead of my previous approach, e-mailing them to myself.Autocorrect, accessible through Preferences in Google Docs&amp;39' tools menu, lets you fix common typos and expand abbreviations into long phrases that are cumbersome to type.(Credit:screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)I was glad I got started, because in March, when I happened to be far away from any company IT help, my work computer, a Windows XP machine, croaked. A busted fan bearing meant it wouldn't even switch on. My data was safe but inaccessible, but more to the point, I had stories to write.I had two other machines on hand: a MacBook Pro andWindows 7 laptop. I wasn't sure what my computing future held and was reluctant to commit to a long-term relationship with another hard drive. Google Docs was an easy option to try for a few days while I got things sorted, and it would be easy to export a few files back to my machine after I got things sorted out, I reasoned.It stuck. I rapidly came to appreciate the ability to hop from one machine to another. At one point, waiting in a queue in a post office, I was able to retrieve address information I'd stored in a document using my phone, too.Although there are legitimate concerns about the security and reliability of Google's infrastructure, they must be assessed not just in absolute terms but also in relation to the alternative. That one fan bearing showed one pretty glaring weakness.The goodSo what do I like about Google Docs besides cutting the dependence on a single machineThe reliability, as I mentioned, is one asset. During the transition to the new foundation, I had recurring warnings that I had to reload my documents, but they faded as Google patched it up. Now I find it consistently available. I also appreciate that my data is backed up on Google's servers, which if not infallible are at least engineered to surmount hardware failures as a routine rather than exceptional problem.Something else that took some getting used to but that I prefer now is real autosave. Every few seconds after I stop typing, the document is automatically saved, with no weird corrupted versions resurrected after a crash.I don't share the bulk of my documents, but there have been occasions when I jointly wrote a piece with another reporter when it's been useful. My wife and I both wrote our holiday letter at the same time using one document but different computers.For organizing my files, I vastly prefer Google's idea of labels to the traditional folder hierarchy. If I take notes on a story that involves Google, Apple, Web browsers, and Adobe Systems, I'd have to decide where to file it back in the old days. Now I just mark the story with each of those labels so it's available when I view any of those subsets of my files.The Google Docs file list page is a useful portal to my data. The most recently changed document is at the top, which often helps me resume work where I left off earlier. The ability to hide documents I'm done with resembles Gmail's useful archive. I occasionally add a star to important documents, but usually the time-based organization produces a page that naturally resembles my to-do list without having to do much more.And did I mention that I like autocorrect It's not just useful for fixing common typos. The reason I swear by it is to automate unpleasant or tedious typing chores. If you must write cumbersome phrases like &quot;Massachusetts Institute of Technology&quot; often, you can set Google Docs to type it for you when you type something shorter. I use it to replace the HTML coding, and it was one of the single biggest things I missed about Microsoft Word. Bear in mind, though, that if you add an autocorrect entry in one document, it won't be available in others--or in other instances of that document in separate browser tabs--until you reload those documents.The badGoogle Docs needs a lot of improvements, though.My biggest complaint, far and away, is the activation energy needed to get rolling with a new document. Clicking a menu item and waiting for the new tab to load is just so much slower than hitting Ctrl-N in Word. When it's crunch time and I need to start taking notes immediately, it's just too much fussing. Google knows darned well the benefits of alacrity, as shown by its obsession on search speed, but I feel with Gmail's current laggardliness and Google Docs' pokey point-and-click hurdles, Web apps have a lot of catching up to do.Spellcheck has problems. I should be grateful that a JavaScript-based program running in a browser can even do this at all, but instead I focus on annoying omissions: I most definitely did not misspell &quot;hadn't,&quot; &quot;didn't,&quot; or &quot;wasn't.&quot; Maybe there's a way to crowdsource the addition of new terms to the spell-checking dictionary or at least try to spotlight candidates for inclusion based on how often they appear on the Web overall.I crave these features from Word: split screen, the &quot;go back&quot; command, and text highlighting with a fast keyboard shortcut.Other weaknesses: Google Docs' search and replace falls short, for example because I can't search for or replace characters like a carriage return. The pop-up information about hyperlinks gets in the way of text I'm trying to edit. And I find it starts to crawl with big documents with several thousand words.And Google Docs' &quot;clear formatting&quot; command seems awfully timid about actually clearing away formatting--line spacing and indents, for example. On a related note, I want to be able to paste unformatted text. For now, when I'm using Chrome, I use Ctrl-Shift-V on Windows and Command-Shift-Option-V onMac OS X to paste without formatting.Labels are useful, but awkward. Right now I drag documents to the labels in the documents view--a process that's rather laggy, by the way--but I wish there were an ability to add labels directly from the document itself. As it is, I create the document, save it with a title, go back to the documents list and reload it, then apply the labels.Speaking of the documents list, as long as Google is pilfering code from the Gmail team, why not let me select, star, label, and archive items with keyboard shortcuts Network relianceThere was a day when Google was working on offline access to Google Docs and Gmail. With the demise of its Gears project and the as-yet unfinished replacement work with Web standards, though, the idea is on ice for now. Google says most people didn't use it anyway, which is a fair point, but I found it pretty clunky, and I suspect the people who do a lot of work offline weren't touching Google Docs with a ten-foot pole anyway.But offline work is important for me. There are so many times when I lack a network, even in my glamourous high-tech first-world existence, this omission is really glaring. Here are some I've experienced personally in the last few months: on the train, on the plane, in the car, on vacation, dealing with collapsing conference Wi-Fi or flailing ISPs, reckoning with data-transfer limits on a mobile network using a tethered mobile phone.So when there's a risk of a dead network, I preemptively do my work either in Word or in Evernote, which has a convenient native application that synchronizes with the cloud-based system. I suspect such an app would be possible for Google Docs with Adobe Systems' AIR foundation, which has a built-in browser based on the same WebKit engine as Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome, but perhaps Google doesn't want to taint the purity of its Web-app marketing message.Another awkward marriage of native and cloud apps comes when it's time to search. Back when all my data lived on my computer, I could use a local search application to turn up all sorts of data. Google Docs, though, has one search interface, Gmail and Google Calendar add a couple more, and none of them search my thousands of archived documents, presentations, PDFs, or other files on my hard drive.I expect some of the problems I have are on Google's to-do list. What I find encouraging is the faster pace of improvements since the new Google Docs foundation arrived. Who knows--perhaps someday there will be something more Googley built in--live translation of a document into another language, for example, or predictive text autocompletion using Google Scribe. But even today, on balance, Google Docs has won me over. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 adds touch screen, 1080i video]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Panasonic)Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 photos When we awarded the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 an Editors Choice about a year ago, it was mostly because it fulfilled 3 of the 4 reasons I think the category exists: an interchangeable-lens camera (ILC), it provided a consumer-friendly compact size, faster than point-and-shoot performance, and the image-quality benefits of a large-ish Micro Four Thirds sensor. Now there's a lot more competition: Olympus' PEN series is still around (but with sluggish performance), and Sony's come out with its sleekly designed and solidly performing NEX models. The biggest problem with a lot of these models, however, is price: they command the prices of entry-level dSLRs but don't deliver on the performance. The cheaper ILCs simply aren't compact enough. So I have to admit, I expected a little more with Panasonic's announcement of its GF1 update, the Lumix DMC-GF2. Though the sensor is the same resolution as before, it's the same newer version that's in the Lumix DMC-LX5. The camera also has the updated image processing engine that's in the GH2, improved video capture capabilities, and a touch-screen interface similar to that of the G2. Of course, given Panasonic's refusal to announce pricing it's impossible to state outright that it's too expensive' I'll just assume it's going to cost at least as much as the current GF1, which is on the high side.Here's Panasonic's current lineup:&amp;nbsp'Panasonic Lumix DMC-G10Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2Sensor (effective resolution)12.1-megapixel Live MOS12.1-megapixel Live MOS12.1-megapixel Live MOS12.1-megapixel Live MOS16.1-megapixel Live MOS17.3mm x 13.0mm17.3 x 13.0mm17.3 x 13.0mm17.3 x 13.0mm17.3 x 13.0mmFocal-length multiplier2.0x2.0x2.0x2.0x2.0xImage processor versionVenus Engine HD II Venus Engine HD II  Venus Engine HD  Venus Engine FHD Venus Engine FHDSensitivity rangeISO 100 - ISO 6,400ISO 100 - ISO 6400 ISO 100 - ISO 3,200  ISO 100 - ISO 6,400 ISO 160 - ISO 12,800Continuous shooting3.2 fpsunlimited JPEG/7 raw3.2 fps unlimited JPEG/ 7 raw  3fps unlimited JPEG/7 raw  3.2fps unlimited JPEG/7 raw 5.0 fps unlimited JPEG/ 7 raw Viewfinder magnification/ effective magnificationElectronic 202,000 dots  100% coverage  1.04x/0.52x magnificationElectronic n/a/1.4 million dots 100% coverage  1.4x/0.7x magnificationOptional Electronic  n/aOptional Electronic  n/aElectronic 1.5 million dots 100% coverage  1.42x/0.71x magnificationAutofocus23-area contrast AF23-area contrast AF23-area contrast AF23-area contrast AF23-area contrast AFShutter speed60-1/4000 sec' bulb to 4 minutes1/4000 to 30 secs' bulb up to 4 minutes' 1/160 x-sync 60-1/4000 sec' bulb to 4 minutes  60-1/4000 sec' bulb to 4 minutes' 1/160 x-sync1/4000 to 60 secs' bulb up to 2 minutes' 1/160 x-syncMetering144 zone144 zone144 zone144 zone144 zoneImage stabilizationOpticalOpticalOpticalOpticalOpticalVideo720/30p Motion JPEG MOVAVCHD Lite 720/30p or Motion JPEG MOV 720/30p AVCHD Lite or Motion JPEG MOV  1080/60i/50i @ 17, 13 Mbps 720/60p @17, 13 Mbps AVCHD or Motion JPEG QuickTime MOV AVCHD 1080/60i/50i/24p (60p sensor output) @ 24, 17, 13Mbps' 720/60p @ 17, 13Mbps QuickTime MOV Motion JPEG 720/30pAudioMonoMono' mic inputMonoStereoStereo, mic inputLCD size3-inch fixed460,000 dots 3 inches articulated 460,000 dots 3-inch fixed 460,000 dots  3-inch fixed touch screen 460,000 dots 3 inches articulated 460,000 dotsBattery life (CIPA rating)380 shots390 shots 350 shots  300 shots  340 shotsDimensions (inches, WHD)4.9 x 3.3 x 2.94.9 x 3.3 x 2.9 4.7 x 2.8 x 1.4  4.7 x 2.8 x 1.4 4.9 x 3.5 x 3.0Body operating weight (ounces)13.913.112.211 (est)15.2 (est)Mfr. Pricen/an/an/an/a$899.95 (body only)$599.95 (with 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 lens)$699.95 (with 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 lens) $899.95 (with 14-45mm f3.5-5.6 lens)  $tbd (with 14-45mm f3.5-5.6 lens) $999.95 (with 14-42mm lens)n/an/a $899.95 (with 20mm f1.7 lens)  $tbd (with 14mm f2.5 lens) $1499.95 (with 14-140mm lens)Ship dateMay 2010May 2010September 2009January 2011December 2010The GF2 will retain its unique place in Panasonic's ILC lineup as its &quot;compact&quot; model--at least until the company introduces a less-expensive version, which I think is necessary, if not inevitable. It's possible Panasonic could drop the price on the GF1 into E-PL1 territory' at my last questioning company reps weren't sure (or weren't admitting) what the strategy would be with respect to the older model.The enhancements to the GF2 are nice, and I expect the image quality to match that of the LX5. I like the touch-screen implementation of the G2 as well, but Panasonic jettisoned the physical mode dial in favor of a virtual one, which some users might dislike.In its marketing, the company seems to be aggressively targeting the NEX-5 with the GF2. Here's how it stacks up against that and some other, (presumably) cheaper competitors:&amp;nbsp'Olympus E-P2Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2Samsung NX10Sony Alpha NEX-5Sensor (effective resolution)12.3-megapixel Live MOS12.1-megapixel Live MOS14.6-megapixel CMOS14.2-megapixel Exmor CMOS17.3mm x 13mm17.3 x 13.0mm23.4mm x 15.6mm23.4mm x 15.6mmFocal-length multiplier2.0x2.0x1.5x1.5xImage processor version TruePic V Venus Engine FHD n/an/aSensitivity rangeISO 100 - ISO 3,200 ISO 100 - ISO 6,400 ISO 100 - ISO 3,200ISO 200 - ISO 12,800Continuous shooting3.0 fps 12 JPEG/ 10 raw  3.2fps unlimited JPEG/7 raw 3.0 fps 10 JPEG/ 3 raw 2.3 fps unlimited JPEG/8 raw Viewfinder magnification/ effective magnificationElectronic 100 percent 1.44 million dots1.15x/0.58x Optional Electronic  n/aElectronic 921,000 dots 1.29x/0.86x NoneAutofocus11-area contrast AF23-area contrast AF15-point contrast AF25-point contrast AFShutter speed60-1/4000 sec' bulb to 30 minutes 60-1/4000 sec' bulb to 4 minutes' 1/160 x-sync30-1/4000 sec.' bulb to 8 minutes30-1/4000 sec.' bulb' 1/160 flash syncMetering324 area144 zone247 segment40 segmentImage stabilizationSensor shiftOpticalOpticalOpticalVideo720/30p Motion JPEG AVI 1080/60i/50i @ 17, 13 Mbps 720/60p @17, 13 Mbps AVCHD or Motion JPEG QuickTime MOV 720/30p H.264 MPEG-41080/60i AVCHDAudioStereo' mic inputMonoMonoMono, mic inputLCD size3-inch fixed230,000 dots 3-inch fixed touch screen 460,000 dots 3-inch fixed AMOLED614,000 dots3-inch tilting 921,600 dotsBattery life (CIPA rating) 300 shots  300 shots 400 shots 330 shotsDimensions (inches, WHD) 4.7 x 2.8 x 1.4  4.7 x 2.8 x 1.4 4.8 x 3.4 x 1.6 4.4 x 2.4 x 1.6 Body operating weight (ounces)12.211 (est)14.510.2 (without flash)' 10.9 (with flash)Mfr. Price$749.99 (body only)n/an/an/a $799.99 (with 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 lens)  $tbd (with 14-45mm f3.5-5.6 lens) $699.99 (with 18-55mm 3.5-5.6 lens)$699.99 (with 18-55mm 3.5-5.6 lens) $799.99 (with 17mm f2.8 lens)  $tbd (with 14mm f2.5 lens) n/a$649.99 (with 16mm f2.8 lens)Ship dateDecember 2009January 2011March 2010July 2010The GF2 does offer an optional EVF, but otherwise looks pretty evenly matched with the NEX-5 for features--the GF2 has all the usual Panasonic automatic options and a few touch-screen advantages (such as touch focus)--and its interface looks a lot more functional than the NEX. But the NEX's likely lower price and tiltable LCD are pretty compelling. In the US, the Lumix DMC-GF2 will be available in black, red, white and silver--Panasonic will be sparing us the pink version--and one of the two kits will ship with the new 17mm lens announced last month. Pricing is slated to be announced a month before the camera ships. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple's cost of success: More staff, lower margins]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apples-cost-of-success-more-staff-lower-margins</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple added more than 12,000 employees to its ranks in the past year--a reflection of its sharp revenue growth and expanding retail presence.High production costs for the iPad ding Apple&amp;39's margins.(Credit:Apple)As of late September, Apple had 46,600 full-time employees, as reported in a 10-K statement it filed yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That figure reflects a healthy surge from 34,300 workers in 2009 and 32,000 in 2008, according to Reuters.Most of those gains came in Apple's retail stores, which now employ 26,500 people--10,000 more than last year. The company currently has 317 retail outlets--233 in the U.S. and 84 stores in other countries. And it's eyeing more. In the past few years, Apple has opened 25 to 50 new stores each year. For 2011, it expects to launch 40 to 50 new stores, half of which are likely to be outside the United States.One huge market that Apple has been pursuing is China. With four stores already open there, the company has said it plans to have 25 retail outlets in China by the end of 2011.But Apple's product expansion--particularly with theiPad--is putting a damper on gross profit margins, which is revenue minus production costs. The company said in the 10-K statement for its 2010 fiscal year, which ended September 25, that its gross margin for the year was 39.4 percent--slightly lower than the 40.1 percent last year and mostly due to the higher production costs of products like the iPad. Those higher expenses weigh against what Apple asks consumers to pay for the iPad, which Apple has been trying to price aggressively.The forecast of lower profit margins isn't new--Apple has already mentioned this, as during its conference call last week regarding its blow-out fourth-quarter earnings--so the figures here don't reflect a change in the forecast, but rather what Apple officially reported to the SEC this week.For the near term, Apple reiterated in its 10-K that it expects its gross margin percentage to drop further as a result of new products that cost more to make and increases in the cost of product components. As a result, the company is eyeing gross margins of around 36 percent in the current fiscal quarter.For 2010 overall, Apple poured $2.6 billion into capital expenses, including $404 million for its retail stores and another $2.2 billion for equipment, corporate facilities, and other items. Next year, the company expects to have $4 billion on capital expenses.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delicious dilemma: Who will buy Yahoo&'s faded Web 2.0 star]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Social bookmarking site Delicious, once one of the shining examples of the Web 2.0 renaissance, will not be shutting down. But it will be looking for a new host after Yahoo, its owner since 2005, determined that it was not a strategic fit, according to a blog post by the company.Reports surfaced that Yahoo was going to &amp;''sunset&amp;'' the service a4&quot; a software geek&amp;'s way of saying that it would shutter the site a4&quot; yesterday after a number of leaked slides from an internal Yahoo presentation hit the Internet. The slide wasposted on Twitter by Eric Marcoullier, who cofounded blog social network MyBlogLog, another service listed in the a4Asunseta4 column.The slide says that Yahoo Picks, AltaVista, Yahoo Buzz, and other services are also targeted for shutdown.Delicious, which Yahoo acquired in 2005, provided users with a way to share Web bookmarks and discover new, interesting websites. At the time of the acquisition, it seemed like a great fit, since that&amp;'s how Yahoo got its start &amp;8212' as a directory of interesting websites. But the decision to &amp;''sunset&amp;'' the site didn&amp;'t come as a huge surprise, sincetraffic to the site seems to be slipping. It also comes at a time when Yahoo is trying toreinvent itself and become&amp;''cool&amp;'' again, while focusing on areas where it can win over consumers.Delicious users shouldn&amp;'t be afraid that the service will abruptly end and they will lose all their data a4&quot; it will remain live. Any trigger-happy users afraid the service will shut down also have a number of ways to send the data out to other services.The company is talking to a number of interested companies to find a new home, according to the post. If that weren&amp;'t enough of an indicator of how many people want the service to stay alive, some even commented on the post that they would be willing to invest in the company to keep it running. One candidate includes angel investor and Mahalo.com founder Jason Calacanis a4&quot; he said he would be willing to buy the service and spend between $750,000 and $1 million to maintain it yearly.Few of the Web 2.0 braintrust Yahoo assembled in the middle part of the past decade remain with the company. Delicious founder Joshua Schachter had long moved on from Yahoo, going to Google for a stint and thenfounding a stealthy social startup. Marcoullier has moved on too, cofoundingOneTrueFan, a service that connects publishers with their most loyal fans.Yahoo&amp;'s photo-sharing site, Flickr, another Web 2.0 star, is still running and isn&amp;'t targeted for closure. But cofounders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield also moved on to found new startups.Next Story: Ding-ding-ding! Electric cars likely to be required to make noise Previous Story: Will RIM buy social data aggregator Gist to strengthen its hold on enterprise marketPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Delicious, news aggregation, social bookmarks, web 2.0Companies: Delicious, Yahoo          Tags: Delicious, news aggregation, social bookmarks, web 2.0Companies: Delicious, YahooMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How&'s your beta test going Ask users with Prefinery]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=howrsquos-your-beta-test-going-ask-users-with-prefinery</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A startup called Prefinery launched last year to help other startups manage the beta testing process, where they only let a small number of users play with an early version of the product. A new feature now allows Prefinery customers to find out what their beta users think of the product.Previously, most Prefinery features were built around the invitation process. You could create invitation forms and invite codes, see how many invitees actually used your site, and then export that data into sales applications like Highrise and Mailchimp.Founder Justin Britten said the new feedback feature came from his own frustration with UserVoice, a service that asks users to respond via a feedback button that sits at the edge of your site. Britten&amp;'s problem was that only 0.5 percent of his users would actually click on the feedback button &amp;8212' which is okay if youa4a4ve got a hugely popular site, but not very useful if there are only a few hundred people in your test. The answer, Britten concluded, is to be a little less subtle and more direct.With the new feedback feature, that directness can take the form of a pop-up window that Prefinery customers can attach to any link or image, or a widget that can be embedded on any page.And the feedback can be connected to the data that Prefinery has already collected, including the new option that lets you divide testers into different groups, for example one group for friends and family and another group for investors. Combining the two new features, a company could look specifically at how one group responded to a particular question.Back when it launched, Prefinery said it planned to expand beyond beta testing into other areas of product development. This feedback widget is certainly something that could be useful beyond Prefinery&amp;'s current user base.The company is self-funded and based in Austin.Next Story: Money pours into the private cloud as Abiquo rakes in $10M Previous Story: Gawker&amp;'s Nick Denton writes an obituary for old-school bloggingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: user feedbackCompanies: PrefineryPeople: Justin Britten          Tags: user feedbackCompanies: PrefineryPeople: Justin BrittenAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat 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.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[Who breaks a Twitterer upon a wheel]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=who-breaks-a-twitterer-upon-a-wheel</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In recent days Britain has started to resemble an earlier era of intolerance. People are using social networks like Twitter and Facebook to be themselves, but the Police, the judiciary and the Establishment are showing worrying signs of not understanding this shift in society. Two recent cases, the &amp;''Twitter Joke Trial&amp;'' and the  &amp;''welovebaskers&amp;'' case currently exploding on Twitter serve to highlight this. And there is a direct comparison to an earlier era.In 1968 William Rees-Mogg, as editor of The Times newspaper, quoted Poet Alexander Pope, for an editorial about the &amp;''Redlands&amp;'' court case brought against the Rolling Stones. The Stones had been partying at a house, whereupon they&amp;'d been busted by the Police for possessing a small amount of drugs. The case resulted in prison sentences for Rolling Stones members Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.But Rees-Mogg&amp;'s Times editorial came to the Stones defence, concluding &amp;''If we are going to make any case a symbol of the conflict between the sound traditional values of Britain and the new hedonism, then we must be sure that the sound traditional values include those of tolerance and equity. It should be the particular quality of British justice to ensure that Mr. Jagger is treated exactly the same as anyone else, no better and no worse. There must remain a suspicion in this case that Mr. Jagger received a more severe sentence than would have been thought proper for any purely anonymous young man.&amp;''Swap out &amp;''new hedonism&amp;'' for &amp;''the new social networking&amp;'' and you find that the public nature of social networks is causing a disconnect in British society which has implications for our freedom of speech.Indeed, while Prime Minister David Cameron was this week in China talking about freedom of speech, at home, a free-thinking British civil servant in the Department for Transport quietly tweeting about her job is now fearing for her job in row over her tweets which criticise coalition policy, though in the rather casual manner of one who might chat to someone in a cafe. Her account, now gone protected, was marked &amp;''personal&amp;'', not official.Yesterday The Daily Mail, a right wing newspaper, attacked Sarah Baskerville for this. Today The Independent on Sunday, supposedly centre, repeated the story, and went even further. However, this is not a high-ranking civil servant or a publicly elected policitian. Baskerville is a mid-grade CS, who is tweeting within the bounds layed down by civil servant policy, as attested to by the person who wrote the rules.Paul Clarke, a consultant to government on public data, robustly defends Baskerville here.To me this case is worrying. It used to be the case that journalist would go after the bosses of the civial servants to ask, exactly why are your staff so worried about cuts Why are they having to work in their spare time to open up government data to do their job betterBaskerville&amp;'s contribution to the open public data is well known, and easily accessible by any journalist wanting to read her publicly available blog.The press used to support whistleblowers. Instead, today they seem more intent in going after the Twitterrers.If the best they can do is come up with is a few grumbling tweets from a civil servant who isn&amp;'t accountable for government policy, what future is there for the mediaInstead, taking a leaf out of Joanthan Swift&amp;'s book, I propose that we should perhaps simply turn on the journalists who Tweet.How about starting with Independent on Sunday journalist Matt Chorley, who, like Baskerville, has been tweeting about the X-Factor and pretty girls selling newspapers. Inane stuff like that, but let&amp;'s ignore that and go for the jugular shall we Was he tweeting during working hours Can any of his tweets be interpretted as supporting one political party or not Let&amp;'s turn on each-other shall we Perhaps if we all go &amp;''protected&amp;'' on our twitter account the world will be a more ethical placeLet&amp;'s imagine if Deep Throat had had a Twitter account &amp;8211' admittedly it would have a been anonymous or private if Twitter had been invented in the early 1970s. Would the journalist have gone after the user Or gone after what they were talking aboutAs further evidence of British society gone mad, look at the Twitter Joke Trial.Paul Chambers, a 27-year-old accountant had an online courtship with another Twitter which led to him off-handidly threaten to blow up an airport if it wasn&amp;'t open in time for his flight to visit her.The judge in the case called the frustrated Tweet &amp;''menacing in its content and obviously so. It could not be more clear. Any ordinary person reading this would see it in that way and be alarmed.&amp;''No, any ordinary person would see it as a black humoured joke posted on a social network.So I ask again.Who breaks a Twitterer on a wheelUpdate: A further thought occurs to me: the relevancy of this debate to startups and entrepreneurs. Because here is the deal: government is in the process of working out how to save money. Under Labour, and now under the Conservatives, they&amp;'ve realised that a great way to do this is to open up public data and let entrepreneurs and other third parties develop services on top of that data, which serve the public interest, often for free. Some of these can be real businesses (e.g. iPhone apps which help you find spare Boris Bikes in London), some just publicly-minded web sites. Sarah Baskerville is one of the civil servants keenly interested in this movement, which requires her to engage online with it. If she has her voice cut off then that has implications for all the other other people in government trying to work with others outside government. And no, just allowing civil servants to use email does not cut it. They have to be on social networks in order to help this process. Right now, all the tech people I know are on Twitter. Enough said.[ Second Image courtesy @fellowcreative,  Some rights reserved ] <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[THIS JUST IN! Britain Delivers Killer Blow to Terrorists, Office Supply&nbsp'Salesmen]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[a4AIs this CNN or the Oniona4 The question has become something of a cliche over the past nine years or so. Every time a terrorist invents a new way to try to bring down a plane, you can guarantee that either the American or British government will enact a piece of bizarre knee jerk legislation to firmly lock the stable door after the terror-horse has bolted.Box cutter hijackers No airside butter knives!Shoe bomber Passengers must remove shoes before boarding!Underwear bomber Genital scanning for all!And so when I heard that a Somali al-Qaedan had planted a cellphone bomb inside a printer cartridge on a cargo plane, I knew it was only a matter of time until&amp;8230'.&amp;8230'3&amp;8230'.&amp;8230'2&amp;8230'&amp;8230'1&amp;8230'a4ABritain is cracking down on security in the wake of the cargo plane terror plot by banning printer cartridges in hand luggagea4Are you freaking kidding me Printer cartridgesI feel like Tom Lehrer after Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize. I literally dona4a4t know how to parody this' it simply defies comical exaggeration. Here, for the benefit of travelers, is a full list of things which are now banned on transatlantic flights&amp;8230' Printer cartridges Liquids Zippo lighters Raindrops on roses Whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles Warm woolen mittens* Brown paper packages tied up with string Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes Silver white winters that melt into springs Butter knivesFinally I feel safe.* may be carried in checked baggage.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook Gives All Developers Access To Full Set Of Places APIs (Including Their Venue&nbsp'Database)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Today at its mobile event, Facebook has just announced that it&amp;'s opening up its Write API and Search API to Facebook Places, in addition to the Read API that launched earlier this year.So what does that mean Facebook first launched its location APIs at its Places event in August, but it was split into two main sets of functionality:a4sRead and Write access.  Most developers only had access to the former a4&quot;a4swith a user&amp;'s permission, a third-party app could pull in Places data from Facebook. But only a handful of large partners had access to the Write functionality, which lets a user syndicate updates the other direction (for example, a check-in on SCVNGR also updates your Facebook Places status).Now everyone has access to that feature a4&quot;a4sany app can use the API to write to Facebook Places.The other big news revolves around Search. Facebook is given developers access to its database of venues a4&quot;a4sthe developer sends in the coordinate, and Facebook gives back a list of nearby locations. And these aren&amp;'t based exclusively by proximity a4&quot;a4sthe list will be ordered based on the relevance to the user. This database will be competing with Google&amp;'s Places API, as well as other sources of location data like SimpleGeo. It isn&amp;'t a purely benevolent move, either a4&quot;a4sFacebook will be able to further improve its database as more people check in.CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[London's new bike lanes, branded with Barclays blue - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Transport for London is investing a record GBP 111 million this year in initiatives designed to encourage and improve bicycling in London, and a sizable chunk of that money is going toward a4Acycle superhighways,a4 or dedicated cycle lanes into central London from the outer portions of the city. Other cities are taking similar steps, of course, given the increasing popularity of bicycling' what''s particularly interesting about this initiative, however, is that Barclays is heavily involved in the effort, lending the superhighways not just its brand name but even its corporate colour.Dubbed Barclays Cycle Superhighways, the new, Barclays-blue painted lanes are designed to provide cyclists with safer, faster and more direct journeys into the city. The new routes are clearly marked and easy to follow, thanks in part to new signs and road markings as well as information about journey times and links to other cycle routes. The first two such lanes have already launched&amp;8212'leading into the city from Merton and Barking, respectively&amp;8212'and 10 more will be introduced by 2015. In addition to reducing congestion and cutting emissions in the city, one of the goals behind the project is to increase cycling in London by 400 percent by 2025, compared with 2000 levels. Toward that end, Barclays has also branded a Cycle for Hire initiative within London, with 6,000 blue-emblazoned bicycles and 400 branded docking stations. A video on YouTube explains the cycle superhighways project in more detail.Much the way brands using Save Your Logo can align themselves with wildlife conservation for improved karma and corporate generosity, so Barclays'' effort will forever link its brand in Londoners'' minds with bicycling and sustainability. Time to brainstorm some like-minded ideas for *your* generous brand... (Related: Bank-sponsored bike-sharing in Canada.)Update: Just discovered an independently launched social add-on to the Barclays scheme. In their words: &quot;myLondonCycle is a social community built around the new Barclays Cycle Hire program in London. The goal is to bring even more fun into cycling with a little social game.&quot; Website: tfl.gov.uk/barclayscyclesuperhighways a4&quot; group.barclays.com/About-us/Sponsorship/London-cycle-schemesContact: www.tfl.gov.uk/contact a4&quot; sustainability@barclays.comSpotted by: Hal M. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lessons learned from GreenBeat: Data is the new wave in cleantech]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=lessons-learned-from-greenbeat-data-is-the-new-wave-in-cleantech</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[If cleantech is going to have its &amp;''Netscape moment,&amp;'' as John Doerr put it, it&amp;'s most likely going to come from companies taking a data-oriented approach.Yes, the rise of the smart grids will bring forth billion-dollar markets in traditional IT technologies too &amp;8212' grids and routers and networking juice that companies where some formidable players are already at work, like Cisco and smart meter giant Itron, which inked a partnership in September to deliver a &amp;''definitive&amp;'' smart grid platform.But all that stuff is kind of tired &amp;8212' any new industry needs IT and hardware. It&amp;'s data that you don&amp;'t hear much about just yet. The smart grid is all about generating data on energy use, but the next wave of innovation and investment is all about making that data useful and producing it in real time. The opportunities opening up in data-driven cleantech businesses could well be billion-dollar markets, too.Some companies already doing it include Genscape, which collects information that helps energy traders make better bets in the trillion-dollar energy markets. Weather is huge too. At the conference, Google appeared to be interested in harnessing weather data for cleantech, and WeatherBill &amp;8212' founded by two ex-Googlers in 2006 &amp;8212' is using weather data to serve weather-linked insurance policies, but could have application in energy markets. WeatherBug is also using weather data to make a direct play for the smart grid market.GreenBeat 2010 innovation competition winner Redwood Systems offers networked lighting for data centers that reduces energy consumption &amp;8212' but says that its system of sensors generates hugely accurate data about energy efficiency in other parts of the center.&amp;''We can tell if a door has been left open&amp;'' just by looking at its data from its sensors, the company&amp;'s VP of marketing Jeremy Stieglitz told me &amp;8212' which in turn can be used to generate additional energy savings. EcoFactor&amp;'s smart thermostat system does a similar thing, using data points like weather and energy pricing to mete out overall savings.Data also makes sense because it can be much more capital efficient than some of the extremely pricey cleantech investments that have turned out to be &amp;8212' oh, let&amp;'s call them mistakes. Solar panel maker Solyndra reportedly got $1 billion in investment dollars, but this week announced it would close its first factory, for which the Department of Energy gave a flagship conditional loan guarantee worth $535 million.That&amp;'s why cleantech investment is on a downward swing, according to new reports from the Cleantech Group and Ernst &amp;amp' Young. But the venture capitalists who we spoke to at GreenBeat 2010 say that there&amp;'s still plenty of activity in cleantech, it&amp;'s just going to be geared towards more capital efficient investments from here on out.In the GreenBeat smart grid investing panel, Paul Holland, general partner at Foundation Capital drove home that point.&amp;''I think the excitement is here. It&amp;'s a little smarter. That&amp;'s what happens when these corrections occur,&amp;'' Holland said.To be sure, many venture capital firms are going back to their roots in IT-based cleantech investments &amp;8212' after all, IT is what Silicon Valley does best. But based on the buzz at GreenBeat 2010, it looks like the next big wave in cleantech is in data.[Image via Wikipedia Commons/Jeff Kubina]Next Story: Apple drops Xserve rackmount server, Mac Pro Server takes its place Previous Story: Dell mulls going private after losing bid for storage company 3ParPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cleantech, cleantech investment, data, GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010Companies: Cisco, Cleantech Group, Department of Energy, ecofactor, Ernst &amp;amp' Young, Foundation Capital, Genscape, itron, Redwood Systems, Solyndra, Weatherbill, WeatherBugPeople: Jeremy Stieglitz, Paul Holland          Tags: cleantech, cleantech investment, data, GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010Companies: Cisco, Cleantech Group, Department of Energy, ecofactor, Ernst &amp;amp' Young, Foundation Capital, Genscape, itron, Redwood Systems, Solyndra, Weatherbill, WeatherBugPeople: Jeremy Stieglitz, Paul HollandIris 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[Tesla Co-founder&'s Wrightspeed Raises $5 Million Series A&nbsp'Round]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Wrightspeed, a maker of fuel efficient, electric drive systems, has raised a $5 million Series A round from an unnamed private investor. According to the company&amp;'s press release, co-founder and EVP of Infinera, David Welch, will also join the company&amp;'s board.The company&amp;'s founder and CEO is Ian Wright, one of the co-founders of Tesla. Although Wright was an important figure in Tesla&amp;'s early days, he left long before the IPO to found Wrightspeed. Wrightspeed doesn&amp;'t want to be the next electric automaker, instead, the company wants to build the best hybrid electric drive systems for high-performance cars and medium to large-sized trucks.In other words, the company has no use for the minivan marketa4&quot; at least not todaya4&quot; its equipment is designed for extreme race cars or hefty, long haul trucks, racking up hundreds of miles per day. The goal, according to Wright, is to sell &amp;''technology [that] will displace at least 3,000 gallons of fuel per year per high usage vehicle.&amp;''The San Jose-based company&amp;'s marquee product is the Wrightspeed Digital DriveSystem (DDS). The platform, according to the company&amp;'s website, includes &amp;''the battery system, electric motors and drive electronics, generator control system, vehicle dynamics control, user interface and the software control plane.&amp;'' The DDS&amp;'s electric motors can reach 250 hp and area4s built to be lightweight at roughly 40 pounds. In order to enhance flexibility, the system also uses motors modularly, so it can conform to what a vehicle needs.CrunchBase InformationWrightspeedInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Check out the user-friendly Firefox share button: F1]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Mozilla has released a new add-on called F1 for its popular Firefox browser that makes shaing Web content super easy.F1 creates a button on the top-right of your browser. Click on that button, and up pops a prompt line on the top of your browser that that lets you share your page via your Gmail account, Facebook or Twitter. See video below for demo.Users can install and start using the add-on beginning todayShare buttons have become a popular way for publishers to help visitors easily spread their content. However, users often have to hunt for share buttons like ShareThis on a publisher&amp;'s page, and then have to provide login details.The F1 experience is elegant. If Mozilla were to integrate this into Firefox as a default (rather than as an optional add-on), I could see this potentially become a proper standard for sharing. It is a user-friendly solution that other browsers (IE, Chrome, Safari, etc) could emulate, and if so, this could potentially lead to the demise of publisher-integrated share buttons.The add-on only supports sharing via Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail in its initial release, but Mozilla said in its blog post announcing the feature that it plans to add additional services in time. Meanwhile, publishers can also experiment with the addon through the API provided on its wiki.Embedded below is a video demo of F1 by developer Andy Chung.Previous Story: Airbnb lies down with VCs, wakes up with moneyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: F1, FirefoxCompanies: Mozilla          Tags: F1, FirefoxCompanies: MozillaSid Yadav is a contributor to VentureBeat. He currently studies computer science and psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is also the creator of Memiary, a micro-diary utility. You can reach him at sidyadav@gmail.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @sidyadav.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[Hulu CEO: We&'ll make $240M in 2010]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar shared some numbers today to show where the online TV service stood at the end of October.The service launched its beta test almost exactly three years ago, so while the service is relatively early, Kilar said, this seems like a good time to assess the progress it has made already. Especially since GigaOm, the tech news site hosting the NewTeeVee Live conference where Kilar was speaking, had originally predicted that Hulu was doomed to failure.So here are the Hulu statistics Kilar shared:That&amp;'s still tiny compared to the total audience and money in the traditional and cable TV industries. And Hulu probably shares a large amount of that revenue with its content partners. Still, as an indicator that Internet TV could be a big business, it&amp;'s pretty promising. After Kilar&amp;'s talk, GigaOm&amp;'s Om Malik suggested that if the company continues that kind of revenue growth next year, it could be on-track for the rumored initial public offering. Naturally, Kilar declined to comment.Here&amp;'s a post on some other comments Kilar made today about advertising on Hulu.Next Story: How to maximize the value of your organizationa4a4s IP investment Previous Story: RIM&amp;'s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to be under $500PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Newteevee, online ads, online tv, online videoCompanies: HuluPeople: Jason Kilar          Tags: Newteevee, online ads, online tv, online videoCompanies: HuluPeople: Jason KilarAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat 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.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[In crowded ethanol market, waste has the edge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[This week saw some bad news for ethanol. The American petroleum industry&amp;'s main lobbying arm filed a lawsuit to fight the EPA&amp;'s new ruling that cars made in or after 2007 can use a 15 percent ethanol blend.On top of that, it looks like Congress is considering not renewing generous ethanol subsidies (which will expire at the end of this year) and opening up the U.S. ethanol market to outside players like companies in Brazil, which have thrived in the sugar cane-to-ethanol business.So what&amp;'s an ethanol company gotta do to stay ahead The good news is, biofuels and solar technology are the most likely of all alternative energies to reach the holy grail of grid parity in the next decade &amp;8212' that is, they may become competitive with traditional energy sources, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group.What&amp;'s more, it looks like the smart bets are on biofuels companies that use waste as a feedstock, according to Lux Research analyst Andrew Soares. One of the companies doing this is Ineos Bio, a subsidiary of Ineos, a big chemicals company with sales around $24.8 billion.In Florida, Ineos Bio is kicking off the construction of a $100 million waste-to-ethanol commercial-scale plant that will have eight million gallons of capacity. Enerkem is currently working on a 10 million gallon capacity facility in Canada that will purportedly be the first in the world to turn municipal waste to ethanol.&amp;''Though the scale isna4a4t a big deal, the fact that the technology converts waste to ethanol is indeed a big deal,&amp;'' Soares said.Ineos Bio can take a wide assortment of renewable biomasses like wood, vegetative and yard waste, and municipal solid wastes and convert them into ethanol. Fellow ethanol companies Enerkem and Coskata also use waste as a feedstock, which is a distinct advantage. Both of those companies were named on this year&amp;'s list of top 100 cleantech companies, compiled by the Cleantech Group.Why is waste as a feedstock an advantage, you askWell, first and foremost, it&amp;'s cheaper than other feedstocks. When you take into account the cost of cultivation, land use and transport for other sources like corn and sugar, feedstocks are usually the &amp;''highest single component of cost,&amp;'' Soares said. In some cases, companies even get paid to haul away the garbage.Waste avoids the controversy that flares when food sources like corn, sugar, and soy get crunched into ethanol. Ethanol derived from waste also gets classified as an advanced biofuel, so it doesn&amp;'t compete with corn-based ethanol for government subsidies.&amp;''Biofuel companies need to cut costs drastically to compete with a massively scaled commodity like oil, and reducing the biggest chunk of that cost profile, feedstock, will drive these companies towards petroleum parity,&amp;'' Soares said.Ineos Bio may well be poised to surge thanks to the financial might of its parent company, while Enerkem still depends on the government to fund its commercial facilities. However, that 14.8 billion gallons of ethanol capacity Soares is forecasting for 2012 gets mighty close to the 16 billion gallons of demand forecasted for that same time.[Image via Flickr/mugely]Next Story: Twitter&amp;'s union with Apple&amp;'s Ping turns all of us into mindless iTunes ads Previous Story: Picplz 1, Instagram 0 as VC firm Andreessen Horowitz chooses photo app rivalPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: biofuels, ethanolCompanies: Boston Consulting Group, Cleantech Group, Enerkem, EPA, Ineos, Ineos Bio, Lux ResearchPeople: Andrew Soares          Tags: biofuels, ethanolCompanies: Boston Consulting Group, Cleantech Group, Enerkem, EPA, Ineos, Ineos Bio, Lux ResearchPeople: Andrew SoaresIris 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[Here&'s the Public Google Doc With All Of MySpace&'s Traffic&nbsp'Analytics]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pooja01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[MySpace is mere hours away from their big redesign push (our early review is here). If you&amp;'ve got nothing to do until midnight California time, spend it perusing this document. It is, according to an anonymous source that claims to work at MySpace,  an internal MySpace document showing traffic and engagement by age band.And it&amp;'s on Google, publicly.The document shows MySpace traffic from August 1 to September 30, 2010. It&amp;'s broken down by property (MySpace.com, photos, mobile, music, etc.), age and sex. You can see, for example, that on September 28, 284,579 people between 18-24 viewed their &amp;''Account Settings&amp;'' page.I downloaded the spreadsheet in the very likely event public access is removed once MySpace discovers the &amp;''private&amp;'' setting. Or they just put it, you know, on their own servers.CrunchBase InformationMySpaceInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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