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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Media crowdsources, live blogs, crosses fingers over Palin's e-mails]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[I suppose, if you were of charitable mind, you could think of it as an in-depth analysis of the currently unemployed. But isn't there something in itself entertaining about the relentless, breathless, technologically boundless pursuit for nuggets of joy from the collected digital works of Sarah PalinShould you have unaccountably lost several of your faculties and had to advertise for their recovery on Craigslist, you might not have noticed that Alaska has released 24,199 pages of e-mails sent by and to the state's former governor.These seem to signify that she spent 38 digital pages a day communicating with others over electronic lines. But was there even a chance that within these e-mails someone, somewhere, would find an explosive statement that would, say, change world politics, world economics, even world gossipPerhaps some speck of gold will still be found, as the electronic analysis continues through live blogs and even crowdsourcing.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economySome might find it odd which organizations have embedded themselves deeply into the crowdsourcing phenomenon.The New York Times is at the forefront, with a headline that reads &quot;Help Us Review the Sarah Palin Email Records.&quot;This might seem, to some, like an invitation to be an entertainment reviewer. Yet the skirts of this enterprise's subtleties are revealed a little when you read the actual Times URL: &quot;Help Us Investigate the Sarah Palin Email Records.&quot;So just as you committed yourself to being A.O. Scott, you suddenly realized, seated in your little garret in Wisconsin, that your real purpose was to be Woodward and Bernstein. I mean, what do these people want Do they want witty commentary about Palin's cheery predilection for exclamation points Or do they want you to dig up some grimy nugget of dirt that will somehow put the former governor out of work Wait a minute, what does she do againA New York Times spokeswoman, Eileen Murphy, told Fast Company that this was not some first-time experiment in using the populace to contribute to news-gathering.&quot;The Times invited readers to review and comment on Geithner's schedule...And help complete Michelle Obama's genealogical chart,&quot; she said. &quot;What some people don't seem to understand is that we're not doing this in place of our own reporting, we're doing it in addition to our own reporting.&quot;Indeed. But some might think that the subjects chosen for the employment of express people power are a little idiosyncratic. Others might simply avow that technology now throws up vast amounts of information that no single human--no small and ever-dwindling group of humans--can possibly embrace. However, this amount of scrutiny suggests that someone, somewhere believes that Palin represents the continual potential for major influence on the future of the world. Either that, or, for some, she serves as a focal point for the expression of more personal emotions. You know, the slightly nasty teenage kind. How soon before we have full-scale crowdsourcing of the past e-mails of every public figure from Anthony Weiner to Mitt Romney to, um, Arnold Schwarzenegger Just think of what the people might dig up. Just think of the wonderful array of attachments that might be found therein.Perhaps this is just the world we live in, one in which we're desperate to catch someone out for something to make ourselves feel a little better about the fact that we don't like ourselves terribly much.Still, come on, people. A live blog This isn't Steve Jobs announcing a newiPad, you know.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Create free Valentine's e-card videos with Animoto]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=create-free-valentines-e-card-videos-with-animoto</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Animoto)Valentine's Day is this coming Monday. I tend to forget such things or put them off to the last minute, which makes sites like Animoto pretty great to have around.  Basically, Animoto takes your photos and video clips, edits them together with some music--theirs or yours--and produces a finished video for sharing. A recent site redesign makes the process easier and shortens your &quot;time to video.&quot;I detailed the ins and outs of the site in the slideshow below, but it's really pretty straightforward. Animoto lets you create movies up to 30 seconds long at a resolution of 240p or 360p, depending on the movie style you pick. That's free and can be posted to sharing sites or e-mailed as a link. This, according to my wife, would save me Monday morning had I forgotten a card or to actually utter the words, &quot;Happy Valentine's Day.&quot; (Not a gift mind you' she was pretty clear this was a poor gift choice.)  This is mainly because the finished product looks like it took a lot of effort and foresight. And because it can pull photos and videos from sharing sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa' you don't even have to have access to a home computer.If you want to download movies in MPEG-4 format, you'll need a paid account. That's a minimum of $5 a month, but it also allows for longer movies and can be canceled at any time. Also offered are upgrades to 480p (DVD-quality in .ISO or .MP4 formats) or 720p HD-quality files' however, these will cost you $3 and $6, respectively, for each video.If you've used Animoto in the past and maybe walked away from it because the rendering took too long, this would be a good time to go back. We did a quick test between the old and new sites building a 30-second movie. The new site rendered the video in less than a minute. The old site took more than 10 minutes. The process for building a movie has been streamlined, too. Again, you can check that out in the slideshow below.Animoto online video creation service (screenshots) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Micron's new solid-state drive: 256GB for $425]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microns-new-solid-state-drive-256gb-for-425</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Micron Technology is unveiling four new solid-state drives at the Storage Visions conference in Las Vegas this week. One 256GB model will cost $425--pricey compared to a traditional hard disk drive but competitive for the speedy flash chip-based storage drives. Micron 256GB solid-state drive will be available for about $425.(Credit:Micron)Micron's RealSSD drives--marketed under the Crucial brand name--will be available for laptops in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors--the former size typically goes into ultra-small laptops like the MacBook Air, while the latter is the standard size for mainstream laptop drives. Micron, which runs a joint flash chip manufacturing venture with Intel, is making the flash chips (that populate the SSD) on a cutting-edge 25-nanometer manufacturing process, allowing higher data capacities. Generally, SSDs are much faster than standard hard disk drives at reading data and tend to be lighter and more shock-resistance than hard disks. For that reason, SSDs are used, for example, across Apple's new MacBook Air product line. Based on the SATA 6-gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) interface, the new drives reach read speeds up to 415 megabytes per second, which is 17 percent faster than Micron's previous generation drives, the company said in a statement. Write performance varies by capacity, with the 512GB drive achieving up to 260MB/second write speeds, which is more than 20 percent faster than previous drives, Micron said. Micron's solid-state drive pricing--in volumes of 1,000--will be $825 for 512GB, $425 for 256GB, $215 for 128GB, and $110 for 64GB. Final consumer pricing will come out from Crucial around March, Micron said. &quot;We expect the consumer pricing to be similar to OEM (1K volume) pricing,&quot; the company said. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gawker wrestles with reader data breach, hacking]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=gawker-wrestles-with-reader-data-breach-hacking</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As Gawker.com writer Adrian Chen&amp;39's Twitter account indicates, the site has been compromised.Gawker.com has apparently been the victim of a pair of security compromises this weekend, one of which put reader's data at risk.The news, pop culture, and gossip site informed readers today in a blog post that its database of 1.5 million reader-commenting accounts had been compromised and urged its users to change their passwords:Our user databases appear to have been compromised. The passwords were encrypted. But simple ones may be vulnerable to a brute-force attack. You should change your Gawker password and on any other sites on which you've used the same passwords.We're deeply embarrassed by this breach. We should not be in the position of relying on the goodwill of the hackers who identified the weakness in our systems. And, yes, the irony is not lost on us. Later in day, it was revealed that the site itself was compromised as well when a post appeared there reportedly linking to the site's source code at The Pirate Bay. The story appeared under the byline of Gawker writer Adrian Chen, but Chen tweeted that he had not written the story and the site had been hacked. Gawker representatives did not immediately respond to a request for additional information.        Steven Musil    Full Profile E-mail Steven Musil   E-mail Steven Musil If you have a question or comment for Steven Musil, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. Before joining CNET News in 2000, Steven spent 10 years at various Bay Area newspapers. E-mail Steven.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Geek Hanukkah: R2-D2 dreidel, virtual menorah]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=geek-hanukkah-r2-d2-dreidel-virtual-menorah</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:StarWars.com)&quot;Oh droidel, droidel, droidel, I bought you from a Jawa.&quot; Sorry, it's the first night of Hanukkah and we can't help but sing that to ourselves after spotting the Droidel and other Festival of Lights geekery.  The official Star Wars site has complete instructions on making the DIY R2-D2 version of the dreidel from paper. Hopefully, Darth Vader won't steal your chocolate gelt while the Droidel's got your eyes.  The first day of Hanukkah is always special, especially when you gather with family and friends to light the menorah with your...iPhone Yep, in yet another case of &quot;there's an app for that,&quot; developer Matthew Parrott believes hisiPhone app iMenorah is perfect &quot;for the Jew far from home.&quot;  The app, which costs $2.99 (oy vey!) lets you virtually light eight candles with a digital shamash. A voice on the app sings blessings, including the Shehechiyanu, a prayer recited on special occasions. Unfortunately, the app vocals sound a little stale, but iMenorah appears to present about the most realistic-looking menorah in the App Store. You could also try Menorah, Mobile Menorah, and VirtualMenorah.  So, what apps/Star Wars paraphernalia/science experiments will you use to celebrate the Festival of Lights Let us know in the comments section below. (Credit:Indie)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Keeping tabs on tablets (week in review)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=keeping-tabs-on-tablets-week-in-review</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Amid all the news of Black Friday deals, holiday sales, and Cyber Monday malware, it was the new kid on the block--the tablet--that grabbed the bulk of gadget headlines this week. Of course, the first question for consumers is whether to give in to the hype or wait to buy a tablet. CNET's Donald Bell surveyed the current state of tablets, from theiPad to the Galaxy Tab, and ultimately finds that if you really want one, there aren't many compelling reasons to wait--no game changers on the horizon. That said, you can expect low-priced tablets to flourish in the coming years, so steer clear of two-year carrier contracts if you want to stay nimble.  Acer, for example, unveiled this week its upcoming line of Windows and Android tablets.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MacBook Air a great Windows Netbook, for a price]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=macbook-air-a-great-windows-netbook-for-a-price</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The new MacBook Air&amp;39's 4.2 Windows Experience Index is higher than that of most if not all Netbooks. (Credit:Screenshot by Dong Ngo/CNET)It's rather well-known that Steve Jobs doesn't like Netbooks, which he calls &quot;slow, low-quality displays&quot; that run &quot;old PC software.&quot; And who would like a computer like that I know I wouldn't.However, as you more often than not should take what Jobs says with a grain of salt, Netbooks don't have to be that way. Case in point: the all-new MacBook Air. More specifically, the $999 11.6-inch 2010 version of what Jobs called &quot;the third kind of notebook.&quot; The computer meets every criterion of a modern high-end Netbooks. It's small and light, doesn't have an optical drive, has a limited number of peripheral ports, a limited amount of storage space, and a small screen. And most of all, it's relatively cheap (for an Apple product, that is.)Of course, it can't be called a Netbook yet when it's not running Windows, which, however, can be fixed relatively easily.Now that we've settled with the category, to Jobs' credit, he has just created the best Netbook ever. The MacBook Air is arguably the only Netbook on the market that is not only comparable with laptops but, in some cases, outdoes them in terms of performance.&amp;nbsp'Just to see how well it does, I tested it against a few laptops with similar specs: the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge, the HP Pavilion dm3-1002, the Dell Inspiron 1470, the Acer Aspire TimelineX, and the same MacBook Pro that I used here. All of these machines runWindows 7.&amp;nbsp' There are two things people generally look for in a portable computer in terms of performance: its general performance and the battery life. At CNET we have a few tests for a laptops' general performance, and you will soon find the official scores in a CNET review of the MacBook Air running the Mac OS.The MacBook Air, running Windows 7, beats most of the budget laptops in terms of performance. (Credit:Dong Ngo/CNET)For this article, I only did two of them, including the iTunes Encoding and Multimedia Multitasking tests. The former is to measure how fast a computer converts a bunch of MP3 files into Apple's AAC music format. The second test is to have the machine convert large high-def video files into a video format that can be played on aniPod while it's also working on MP3 encoding in the background. The MacBook Air, equipped with a 1.4Ghz Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of RAM, did very well in the first test, taking just 287 seconds to finish, trailing only the MacBook Pro (162 seconds) and the Acer Aspire TimelineX (167 seconds). Both the MacBook Pro and the Acer have 4GB of RAM and much faster processors, however, which are&amp;nbsp' 2.53Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo and 1.46GHz Intel Core i7, respectively.In the second test, the MacBook Air also did similarly well, taking less time than most of the laptops, except for the MacBook Pro and the Acer AspireTimelineX, with just 1,126 seconds. This was really impressive, as most Netbooks can't even handle this test. It's interesting to note, however, that, apart from the MacBook Pro, the Air costs more than the rest of the laptops used for the comparison, including the Acer TimelineX, which has better scores.&amp;nbsp'The MacBook Air offers a much better battery life when running Windows than the MacBook Pro.(Credit:Dong Ngo/CNET)Unlike the standard performance tests above, I did the battery life test slightly different from how we test laptops for official reviews, mostly to reduce the test time' the computers were set to drain the battery as fast as possible. They were made to play a high-def move on loop with its screen set to&amp;nbsp' its brightest setting, Wi-Fi turned on, and under the high-performance power scheme. To put this in perspective, the Acer TimelineX scored only 200 minutes in this test, as opposed to 280 minutes in the official test.&amp;nbsp'Though the MacBook Air didn't score that high, it got 160 minutes, which is very good. What's even better is that, when runningMac OS, the battery life was just 5 minutes longer than when running Windows 7. This is a huge improvement over the MacBook Pro, where its Windows battery life is significantly shorter than that of the Mac OS. For general use, the Air can easily offer more than 4 hours, running either Mac OS or Windows 7. Apart from these very good performance scores, after a week of using it, I also found that the Air's incredibly fast boot/shutdown process and the instant on from sleep mode are a few things that make it a great Netbook, if not the best out there. It's also virtually silent, as there's no moving parts inside, yet it manages to stay relatively cool, compared with the MacBook Pro.So there you go: whether or not you call it a Netbook, the MacBook Air is a great device for both Mac and PC users who want some thing thin light, that still packs a decent punch when it comes to performance. That is, of course, if you can afford it, which is another story entirely. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rasmussen: Why I left Google for Facebook]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=rasmussen-why-i-left-google-for-facebook</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lars Rasmussen shows off Google Wave in May 2009.(Credit:James Martin/CNET)One of the lead engineers behind Google Maps and Google Wave has left the Web powerhouse to get into the thick of the &quot;compelling&quot; action at Facebook.Last Friday, Lars Rasmussen said goodbye to his six-year career at Google' he'll start his new job at Facebook in December following a vacation. The noted Sydney, Australia-based software developer explained why he jumped ship in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald.&quot;It feels to me that Facebook may be a sort of once-in-a-decade type of company,&quot; Rasmussen told the Herald. &quot;Obviously they've already changed the world and yet there seems to be so much more to be done there. And I think that it's the right place for me to be.&quot;The size of Facebook versus that of Google was another reason for the job hop, according to Rasmussen. Comparing Google's 25,000 employees to Facebook's 2,000, Rasmussen told the newspaper that Google was becoming unwieldy and said he felt that Facebook's smaller size would make it easier to get things done.(Credit:Facebook)&quot;The energy there is just amazing, whereas it can be very challenging to be working in a company the size of Google,&quot; Rasmussen said in the Morning Herald story.On a purely financial basis, Rasmussen also said that the Facebook offer was too good to refuse, calling it &quot;much more compelling both financially and in terms of the work there.&quot;Rasmussen, who said he received the &quot;compelling personal pitch&quot; from Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, defined his new job description as &quot;come hang out with us for a while and we'll see what happens,&quot; which he called &quot;a pretty exciting thing.&quot;Confirming the news, a Facebook spokesman sent CNET the following statement:&quot;It's true that Lars Rasmussen has joined Facebook. Lars has a knack for building elegant, powerful products that people love. We're thrilled he'll be part of Facebook's world-class engineering team to help design transformative technologies that will improve how people connect and interact online.&quot;Rasmussen joined Google in 2004 after his start-up mapping company was acquired by the search giant. Together with his brother and two fellow Australians, he turned this acquisition into the creation of Google Maps, which proved a huge success. But the software developer's most recent project didn't turn out quite as well.Rasmussen and his team were the brains behind the recent Google Wave project, which the company abandoned in August due to low user interest and confusion over the purpose of the tool, even within Google itself. Rasmussen himself seemed a bit unclear over Wave, telling CNET at the time, &quot;It takes a little getting used to. We're still learning how to use it.&quot;With Wave one of his &quot;pet projects,&quot; Rasmussen admitted to the Sydney Morning Herald that he felt Google may have reacted too quickly in ditching the effort.&quot;We were not quite the success that Google was hoping for, and trying to persuade them not to pull the plug and ultimately failing was obviously a little stressful,&quot; he said.Rasmussen joins other prominent players who've left Google amid various complaints. Last year, for instance, Google visual design leader Douglas Bowman exited the company, venting in a blog post that the creative process of Web design at Google was becoming too confined and controlled by data analytics.At Facebook, Rasmussen will also also cross paths with two former Google colleagues. Facebook's Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor was part of the Google Maps team, while Carl Sjogreen, now a product manager at Facebook, was also involved with Google Maps.Updated at 9:40 a.m.:Added comment from Facebook.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Repairs complete, shuttle countdown begins]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=repairs-complete-shuttle-countdown-begins</guid>
<description><![CDATA[KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Engineers successfully repaired and retested new quick-disconnect fittings in one of the shuttle Discovery's aft rocket pod, clearing the way for the start of the ship's countdown today and launch Wednesday on a mission to deliver critical supplies, spare parts and a final U.S. module to the International Space Station.The countdown began at 2 p.m. EDT, setting up a launch attempt at 3:52:13 p.m. Wednesday at roughly the moment Earth's eastward rotation carries pad 39A into the plane of the space station's orbit. It will be Discovery's 39th and final flight.The shuttle Discovery atop pad 39A early Sunday.&quot;So far, it's been a remarkable flow for Discovery,&quot; said NASA Test Director Steve Payne. &quot;She's been an incredible vehicle and she caps a long and distinguished career with this particular flight. She's always amazed us with everything she can do and we expect this flight should be no different. We're looking forward to launch on Wednesday afternoon.&quot;Forecasters are predicting a 70 percent chance of good weather Wednesday with just a chance of showers in the area, scattered clouds at 3,000 feet, broken decks at 9,000 and 25,000 feet, and winds out of the north at 11 knots with gusts to 17. The odds drop to 60 percent &quot;go&quot; on Thursday because of an approaching frontal system. Forecasters also are keeping tabs on Hurricane Tomas, which is expected to take a turn to the northeast later in the week.&quot;We'll keep an eye on Tomas, but right now it doesn't look like it'll be a factor for launch,&quot; said shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters. &quot;Our main concern will be if we have a delay. So right now on launch day we have a 30 percent chance of KSC weather prohibiting launch. If we happen to delay 24 hours, that's when a front will move into the area and we have more concerns. We'll keep watching that trend.&quot;Depending on how the computer models play out, Winters said, &quot;we may have to increase that 24-hour delay number.&quot;Discovery's launch originally was planned for Monday, but the start of the countdown was delayed Friday after engineers discovered two leaking quick-disconnect fittings in an access panel where ground lines plug in to pressurize nitrogen and helium tanks in the ship's right-side OMS pod. Nitrogen is used to move various valves in the rocket pod while high-pressure helium in a much larger tank is used to push propellants to rocket engines used for orbital maneuvers.NASA managers initially hoped to complete repairs and retest in time to start the countdown yesterday, setting up a Tuesday launching, but it quickly became apparent more time would be needed to complete the retest operation and to repressurize the high-pressure helium tanks. The latter is a 16-hour procedure that requires engineers to evacuate the launch pad.In any case, the helium system was vented and replacement couplings were installed yesterday. Engineers then carried out extensive pressure checks and leak tests to make sure the problem had been resolved. The helium system was repressurized overnight Saturday.&quot;We completed early this morning our flight pressurization of our on-orbit control system tanks and the main propulsion tanks and it all went well,&quot; Payne said. &quot;That is beyond us now.&quot;As it turned out, the suspect nitrogen connector may have been healthy all along. During the repair work, engineers discovered the pressure in the ground supply line connected to the suspect fitting was higher than expected, possibly preventing a poppet in the quick-disconnect mechanism from closing. But the helium issue would have delayed launch regardless.&quot;Initially, we had two different issues with our quick disconnects, one with the nitrogen side and one with the helium side,&quot; Payne said. &quot;The one that was the long pole, the one that took us a long time to resolve, was the one on the helium side because it required venting down our tanks and repressurizing. That just takes a long time because you have to do it slowly to allow the thermal conditioning to happen.&quot;For the nitrogen tank, it's a quick process. The tank is about the size of softball, it takes a couple of minutes to fill and empty. We thought it was the quick disconnect valve. There's a little poppet inside that's held open by pressure and when the pressure goes down it closes again. The (ground system) valve that was supposed to stop providing pressure to it was providing too much and it couldn't close properly. So we just went upstream and closed the gas off to that one so the pressure could bleed down and the QD could close. And it worked very well.&quot;The primary goals of Discovery 's mission are to deliver a 21-foot-long cargo module loaded with supplies and equipment that will be used as a storage room to give station crews more room. Discovery's crew also will deliver an external cargo storage platform with a spare set of cooling system radiators. Two spacewalks are planned to facilitate the cargo module installation, to re-stow a failed ammonia pump module and to perform a variety of routine maintenance activities.Assuming an on-time launch, Discovery will dock with the space station around 12:36 p.m. Friday. Two spacewalks are planned, on November 7 and 9, with undocking on tap November 12 at 5:02 a.m. and landing back at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:59 a.m. November 14.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Questions over accounting delay Demand Media IPO]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Content farm Demand Media has delayed its IPO because of questions about its accounting practices, according to All Things Digital&amp;'s Kara Swisher.Demand amortizes the cost of its cheap, substandard content over five years, meaning that only a fifth of those costs are matched against the current year&amp;'s revenues, which boosts reported profits. That&amp;'s not necessarily illicit or even wrong, but according to Swisher&amp;'s sources, discussions between Demand and government regulators over how to explain its accounting practices to investors have held up the initial offering, which had been expected by year&amp;'s end.Demand filed an amended S-1 on Wednesday explaining that because its content is &amp;''long-lived&amp;'' (it publishes a lot of &amp;''evergreen&amp;'' content, like &amp;''How to rotate your tires,&amp;'' as opposed to timely news articles), it continues to collect revenue on it for years after publication. And so, Demand&amp;'s novel idea has it, the costs of creating that content should similarly be spread out over years.Most media companies, online and off, immediately report the total costs of content creation.&amp;''Obviously,&amp;'' Swisher writes, &amp;''since this accounting treatment results in more attractive financial results, the longer expense period is of great interest to many other online content creatorsa4&quot;such as AOL and Yahooa4&quot;which are watching the Demand IPO closely.&amp;''In its S-1 SEC filing, Demand says that if it spread the costs out over six years, its net loss for 2010 would fall by $1.6 million. If it accounted for costs over only four years, losses would rise by $2.4 million. The company says it uses an algorithm to determine the &amp;''useful life&amp;'' of its content.In November, venture capitalist Bo Peabody wrote a scathing report outlining his reasons he would &amp;''never invest in Demand Media&amp;'s IPO.&amp;'' The company&amp;'s content amortization was among those reasons. The practice &amp;''might make sense if Demand broke out its advertising revenue by time,&amp;'' he wrote, &amp;''and demonstrated that the revenue associated with each piece of content follows this same five-year amortization schedule. But Demand doesna4a4t do that because ita4a4s likely not true.&amp;''Most likely, he wrote, &amp;''the majority of the revenue generated by each piece of content is realized within the first year of its life, if not sooner. The long tail of content is interesting. The long tail of revenue is a myth.&amp;''Swisher&amp;'s sources said Demand&amp;'s road show for investors will have to wait until the Securities and Exchange Commission approves the IPO. Demand hopes to raise $125 million, giving the company a valuation of $1.5 billion.Photo via Woodley WonderworksNext Story: On the GreenBeat: Another BrightSource IPO rumor, Tessera scrambles for solar money Previous Story: Skype competitor magicTalk launching on ChristmasPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: accounting practices, content farms, content mills, IPOCompanies: aol, Demand Media, YahooPeople: Bo Peabody          Tags: accounting practices, content farms, content mills, IPOCompanies: aol, Demand Media, YahooPeople: Bo PeabodyVentureBeat 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[Facebook&'s Zuckerberg meets with China&'s tech leaders]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebookrsquos-zuckerberg-meets-with-chinarsquos-tech-leaders</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebookrsquos-zuckerberg-meets-with-chinarsquos-tech-leaders</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This would have been an awesome sight to see. Facebook&amp;'s baby-faced billionaire chief executive met with some of China&amp;'s top technology executives on a trip this week that was officially a vacation.The Wall Street Journal reported that Mark Zuckerberg met with Charles Chao, CEO of Sina, one of the leading portals' mobile carrier China Mobile chairman Wang Jianzhou' and Robin Li, CEO of search firm Baidu.The encounter is intriguing, considering that China has a huge social networking market, but Facebook is shut out of it because of government censorship. Zuckerberg would love to get access to that market, but it won&amp;'t be easy to figure out, given the trouble companies such as Google have faced in the Chinese market.The 26-year-old leader of Facebook has said he wants to get into the Chinese market, but one of his first tasks in doing so is to learn about the market by visiting and by learning the language. Of course, charm alone isn&amp;'t going to budge the Chinese censors.&amp;''Before we do anything there, I&amp;'m personally spending a lot of time studying it and figuring out what I think the right thing to do is,&amp;'' he said earlier this year. &amp;''It&amp;'s such an important part of the world. I mean, how can you connect the world if you leave out&amp;'' China&amp;'s population of more than one billion people, he said.It can&amp;'t help but conjure images of Nixon in China, although the conversation might seem more like a surfer dude meeting the Chinese leaders. China has 420 million internet users, which is more than any other country. Analyses International says that China&amp;'s social networks had 176 million users in 2009.Facebook has more than 500 million users, about 70 percent of them outside the U.S. Facebook entered China in 2008, but it was quickly blocked. Zuckerberg has been treated like a celebrity in China and photos of his meetings have been widely circulated on the web. He&amp;'s now become a familiar face worldwide, after being named Time Magazine&amp;'s Person of the Year last week. And his founding of Facebook is the subject of the hit film The Social Network, which is available on pirated DVDs in China.Next Story: To save your phone from hackers, Lookout raises $19.5M Previous Story: Classified interruptus: Craigslist shuts down adult services worldwidePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: ChinaCompanies: FacebookPeople: Mark Zuckerberg          Tags: ChinaCompanies: FacebookPeople: Mark ZuckerbergDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.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[Kleiner Perkins And CRV-Backed iControl Now Controls uControl As Home Automation Market&nbsp'Consolidates]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=kleiner-perkins-and-crv-backed-icontrol-now-controls-ucontrol-as-home-automation-marketnbspconsolidates</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The home automation market is consolidating, as evidenced by a the merger today of iControl and UControl.  Both offer home monitoring, security, and energy management products accessible through the Internet and mobile phones. For instance, with iControl&amp;'s iPhone app, you can lower your thermostat from work.  The value of the deal is not being disclosed, but Texas-based UControl will become a subsidiary of iControl and the name of the merged company will remain iControl Networks.  The two CEOs, Paul Dawes and Jim Johnson, will remain as co-CEOS.  John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins will remain on the board.  IControl, which was first backed by Charles River Ventures, has raised $44 million in venture capital so far, compared to about $24 million for UControl.  The combined company will have about 100 employees, with roughly two thirds coming from the iControl side.Both companies distribute their products through partners, primarily broadband cable and phone companies for uControl and security monitoring and utilities for iControl.  The largest home security companies in the U.S., ADT, is just now rolling out ADT Pulse, which is powered by iControl, for instance.  Both are in the early stages of rolling out their services with various partners, with a total of low tens of thousands of consumers using the service right now.  But that could grow very quickly to hundreds of thousands of consumers by next year.  The way the economics works is that iControl gets maybe a couple dollars a month per subscriber.CrunchBase InformationiControluControlInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon debuts Kindle for the Web on heels of Google eBooks]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=amazon-debuts-kindle-for-the-web-on-heels-of-google-ebooks</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=amazon-debuts-kindle-for-the-web-on-heels-of-google-ebooks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Signaling renewed competition in the e-reading space, Amazon today debuted a web-based extension to their existing Kindle platform with a new product called Kindle for the Web, which is nearly identical to a product Google announced yesterday dubbed Google eBooks, which is also a cloud-based ebookstore and reading webapp that lives within the browser.Unlike Googlea4a4s dearth of reading devices, Amazona4a4s new service snaps into the same a4Abuy once, read everywherea4 experience that the existing line-up has successfully offered: last-page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights synced and automatically archived across all Kindle hardware and applications for third-party platforms such as iOS, Android, Blackberry and the like.Kindle for the Web affords a few extra features too: since whole books can now be read in an embeddable reader applet, independent third-party publishers and authors can now preview and sell content directly on their own sites, earning them referral fees through Amazona4a4s Associates Program.These fees are in fact the only thing that really separate Kindle for the Web from Google eBooks, which has not yet developed a third-party seller model in their product.Ita4a4s actually hard to see why Google would enter the e-reading market without disruptive new distribution and revenue models, facing up against entrenched competition from Amazon and Barnes and Noble, which can clearly afford to experiment.There may yet be sensible motivations behind Google bringing a knife to the proverbial gunfight. The company has already digitized nearly 15 million books since 2004 through its separate Google Books project, which allows them to commercially offer 3 million titles right at the outset (including almost 2 million free public domain titles).Theya4a4re also already in the business of providing critical productivity and consumer services over the cloud. For the millions of people who have come to rely on these services, especially those using Android-based mobile devices, choosing Google eBooks as their e-reading experience of choice may be an intuitive choice. In this light, eBooks is just one pillar among many in the companya4a4s cloud-centric strategy. That effort received quite a boost earlier today at the companya4a4s Chrome OS event, which was surprisingly where Amazon chose to demo their new service. Despite competing directly with Google eBooks, it too will support the slew of upcoming cloud-centric Chrome OS notebooks.Previous Story: Panzura scores $12M to make cloud apps better, faster, more productivePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Amazon, Android, Chrome OS, cloud, e-reading, ebooks, Google, Google eBooks, kindle, Kindle for WebCompanies: Amazon, Google          Tags: Amazon, Android, Chrome OS, cloud, e-reading, ebooks, Google, Google eBooks, kindle, Kindle for WebCompanies: Amazon, GoogleMichael is a tech-obsessed graduate of UC Berkeley, where he studied Political Economy and globalization. His fanatical passion for technology is strangely matched by his equally intense desire to be a startup attorney. Reach Michael via email, follow him on Twitter, or visit his blog .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[Swedish entrepreneurs get access to untapped patents - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Patents are at the heart of countless technologies, and that can make life difficult for smaller startups, which are less likely than big companies to be patent-holders themselves. Aiming to create opportunity, innovation and new businesses in southern Sweden, the Mobile Heights Business Center is a partnership between local industry, academia and the public sector that offers approved participants access to a bank of unexplored patents, business ideas and solutions requested by industry. Anyone can apply for membership with MHBC, which requires an interview and test to prove the applicant''s entrepreneurial drive. Once approved, members are presented with a wide variety of as-yet-untapped patents and other business ideas provided by participating members of the telecom industry, including TeliaSonera, Ericsson and The Astonishing Tribe. In &quot;Crash Lab&quot; sessions led by professional business advisors, members can discuss any ideas they may have as a result' once a week, meanwhile, representatives from industry join in to listen and offer advice. Next, entrepreneurs develop a business plan with support from professional legal, HR, PR, marketing and business advisors. When they''re ready, they can present that plan at an a4AInvestment Daya4 open to active investors. Spin-off companies are expected to show a positive cash flow within two years. MHBC is a pilot project administered by Teknopol AB with funding from various local municipalities and EU regional development funds. A model to emulate in other parts of the world (Related: Incubator for socially focused ideas a4&quot; Microfinance meets mentoring.)Website: www.mhbc.seContact: info@mhbc.seSpotted by: Liobov Triufanova <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Turning workout miles into charitable donations - Springwise]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=turning-workout-miles-into-charitable-donations---springwise</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=turning-workout-miles-into-charitable-donations---springwise</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Marathons and races have long been used as a way to raise money for charity, but opportunities to participate in such fundraising efforts are typically few and far between. A new site dedicated to combining exercise and charity, however, aims to help consumers get corporate sponsorship for their everyday exercise activities.  Plus 3 Network, based in California, lets consumers turn every step, turn of the pedal or stroke in the pool into a fundraising effort for the cause of their choice. Consumers begin by signing up at no cost and choosing the cause they''d like to support. Plus 3 then matches that cause with a corporate sponsor who is willing to make donations for each mile of exercise activity logged. Consumers then simply record their walking, running, biking or swimming activities on Plus 3&amp;8212'either by manually entering them on the site, or by uploading GPS data that includes the course, the pace, the distance and the date. Corporate sponsors donate anywhere from USD 0.0033 to USD 0.2 per mile, with GPS data earning three times as many rewards as those entered by hand. Social networking features allow users to form groups and add friends for joint activities, and participants can also earn prizes, discounts and swag ranging from trinkets to junkets, the site says. Plus 3, meanwhile, is paid by its sponsors for the opportunity to connect with members, thereby keeping the site ad-free. With benefits for consumers, corporate sponsors, charitable organizations and itself, Plus 3 offers an all-too-rare, four-way win-win-win-win proposition. It doesn''t get much better than that! '-) (Related: Tricycle race benefits social entrepreneurs.)Website: www.plus3network.comContact: plus3@plus3network.com Spotted by: Chris Matthews<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can Anything Stop The Facebook&nbsp'Juggernaut]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=can-anything-stop-the-facebooknbspjuggernaut</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=can-anything-stop-the-facebooknbspjuggernaut</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So. Facebook. $35 billion valuation' 600 million users' 25% of all US Web traffic a4&quot;a4sand all that with fewer employees than Google has job openings. The inventor of the World Wide Web recently warned that the weba4smay be endangered by Facebook&amp;'s colossal walled garden. A Google engineer was recently paid $3.5 million to not jump ship to work there. Facebook seems an unstoppable juggernaut. And I kind of want them to die.Not because of their policies. They&amp;'ve been reasonably sensitive to their users&amp;' wants, and willing to admit when they were wrong (remember Facebook Beacon) There have been worrying signs of late, for example, their two-faced attitude towards data portability and their trademarking of the word &amp;''Face&amp;'',a4sbut I don&amp;'t (yet) object to what they do.I dislike Facebook because they&amp;'re mediocre. They have a platform and opportunity unlike anyone else, evera4&quot;and what have they done with it Nothing. None of their so-called innovations are actually even remotely so. Copying Twitter was smart, but hardly new' ditto Foursquare. They called Facebook Groups an innovation' it&amp;'s a basic feature they should have implemented years ago. Now they&amp;'re laughably trying to claim that integrating email into their messaging system is a world-shaking revolution.As usual, William Gibson put it best: &amp;''Facebook feels like a mall. Twitter feels like the street.&amp;'' (Which I suppose makes Zynga the mall&amp;'s arcade.) It&amp;'s one thing to shop there occasionally, but quite another to be a full-fledged mallrata4&quot;and according to the stats, that&amp;'s what we have collectively become. I want to believe that eventually we&amp;'ll wake up, and grow up, and realize that new and interesting things mostly happen elsewhere.And so, I speculate hopefully: what if Facebook is the new LiveJournalYou might not remember LiveJournal, a now-moribund social-blogging site, but Mark Zuckerberg does: the second scene in The Social Network depicts him liveblogging a hacking jag on his LiveJournal. (Unlike much of the movie, that scene is mostly true-to-life.) I was on LJ too, back then, mostly to keep track of my California friends while I was bouncing around the planet. Now their accounts add up to a ghost towna4&quot;and while most have moved to Facebook, they&amp;'re far less active there. They&amp;'re not alone: LJ&amp;'s own stats indicate that while their userbase has grown, total user activity has actually declined.What if LJ&amp;'s decline is a warning bell for Facebook What if the natural human tendency is for people to initially get all excited and obsessed about social networkinga4&quot;but eventually, after a few years, they grow increasingly bored with it, and begin to slowly drift awayThis is a testable hypothesis. The key stat is the relationship between how long one has been a Facebook user and how much time one spends on the site. Only Facebook knows those numbers, though, and they aren&amp;'t talking. Until they do, I could cling to that hope . . .a4&quot;but here&amp;'s the kicker' it doesn&amp;'t even matter. Facebook still can&amp;'t be stopped.Even if my apocalyptic prophecies of a global surge in enlightened self-actualization come to pass, and our collective Facebook obsession begins to fade, it will remain a mighty titan. For Mark Zuckerberg remembers LiveJournal too, and he and his braintrust have already ensured that Facebook will remain indispensable even if their users begin to lose interest.It isn&amp;'t just a site any more: like Amazon or Google, Facebook has become a utility. That&amp;'s not a metaphor. The number of apps and sites that rely on Facebook Connect and its Graph API is skyrocketing, according to all the startups/developers I know (and, heck, here&amp;'s some actual data too.) Even once-mighty MySpace surrendered to Facebook Connect last week. Google&amp;'s half-hearted attempts to forestall them are too little, too late.Facebook has become to the social web what Microsoft is to the desktop: mindbogglingly gargantuan, relentlessly mediocre, and almost inescapable. Like Microsoft twenty years ago, they will succeed because a bad standard is better than none: and like Microsoft ten years ago, they &amp;''innovate&amp;'' by clumsily copyinga4&quot;and then trying to squasha4&quot;the real innovators.So let the backlash boom! Maybe it will finally spur Zuckerberg &amp;amp' Co. into doing something genuinely interesting and innovative with their invincible machine.CrunchBase InformationFacebookLiveJournalInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Foursquare Makes Its West Coast Office Official, Is&nbsp'Hiring]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mayor Gavin Newsom&amp;'s claim that Foursquare is a San Francisco startup just got a little bit more accurate. Foursquare, which has famously worked out of the Square offices here in SF for quite sometime, has finally bit the bullet and made its West Coast dalliance official today with a &amp;''Wea4a4re heading west!&amp;'' blog post.&amp;''In the past year, we had a major growth spurt: from about 100,000 to over 4.5 million users' from a single phone platform to six' from 50-person foursquare flashmobs to 1,000 person epic swarms' and we now have thousands of developers building on the the foursquare API. The biggest challenge: hiring fast enough to support that surge. Despite growing from 5 employees to 35, we cana4a4t expand as quickly as we want. So, to help attract the best talent in the world, we decided ita4a4s time to open an outpost in San Francisco.&amp;''     The location based startup will not be moving from San Francisco Chronicle Building where it&amp;'s set up defacto shop since summer, and Square will be freeing up more room for the company to hire a full team of West Coast engineers in addition to its 35 current employees. Four employees already work on the West Coast include Tristan Walker, Holger Luedorf and two operations engineers.a4sWith $21.4M in funding led by Andreesen, Foursquare has definitely got room to grow.Photo: niallkennedyCrunchBase InformationFoursquareInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Not To Start Up Those Beatles/iTunes Rumors Again,&nbsp'But&8230']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simoncarter</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This is awfully interesting. It&amp;'s not perfect, obviously, but if you were to tilt George and John to the side a bit, it&amp;'d be close.The Beatles/iTunes rumors are seemingly as old as time itself (well, iTunes times, at least). Every year we have a rumor that it&amp;'s happening. And every year we have disappointment. This could well be the same story, but what a strange coincidence.I&amp;'m not believing anything until I see Paul and Ringo (incidentally, the two in perfect position) in my browser (or iTunes) tomorrow being streamed live.Like everyone else, we&amp;'ll be tuning in tomorrow (at 7 AM PT a4&quot; thanks, Apple) to see exactly what this iTunes announcement is.Update: Not to fan the flames more, but&amp;8230' A little birdie with close ties to the music industry says that they&amp;'ve heard The Beatles on iTunes is set to launch in times for the holidays&amp;8230' Take it with a grain of salt, but, yeah&amp;8230'Update 2: It&amp;'s also interesting that November 16 is the anniversary of the first time The Beatles were shown on TV in the U.S. (no, it wasn&amp;'t the Ed Sullivan show, which was about 5 weeks later).Update 3: And here comes the wave of articles with various other tidbits and potential confirmations. That image guess above is starting to look pretty good now.CrunchBase InformationiTunesInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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