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<title><![CDATA[EcoFactor: Our users see big energy savings]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Homes using EcoFactor for controlling their heating and cooling have seen on average a 17 percent reduction in energy use, the company announced Thursday.In conjunction with local utilities and home service providers, Silicon Valley-based EcoFactor collected data from homes in both pilot and commercial programs using two-way thermostats connected to the company's software platform.EcoFactor's software collects over 24,000 pieces of data daily to profile a home's thermal characteristics. It monitors things like weather forecasts, and the home's temperature and its HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system, then mathematically analyzes the most opportune way in which the thermostat should be set or changed throughout the day in order to keep the home at a desired temperature while using as little energy as possible.The software platform works with any two-way thermostat' that is, a thermostat with an internet connection so that it can send and receive data with EcoFactor as well as collect data from the home.Unlike programmable thermostats, the EcoFactor software constantly updates the house profile and can be set so the thermostat self-regulates accordingly. Customers have the option of allowing self-regulation or overriding it to control the thermostat themselves.&quot;It works because we're going beyond basic remote controls that just make the specific changes that consumers tell them to--and thus can only save energy to the extent the homeowner understands how to reduce usage and change their behavior accordingly,&quot; EcoFactor CEO John Steinberg.In addition to working on the user side, EcoFactor also uses the collected house data to provide local utilities with data for managing the amount of electricity they can expect to supply to customers.That data share with utilities goes both ways, in that EcoFactor also warns customers of peak-usage hours from their utility. Customers then have the option, for example, of allowing EcoFactor to &quot;pre-cool&quot; their home in anticipation of turning down the AC during peak usage hours.EcoFactor won the CleanTech Open in 2009, one of the leading green start-up competitions in the U.S., and many have been keeping a close eye on the company's progress. Home heating and cooling makes up at least half of most U.S. home energy bills, so a successful self-regulating thermostat systems could make a big impact on home energy savings in the U.S.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Crysis 2: If you can make it there...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[After popular demand, Rdio announces an API at SXSW]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>burtmmrmbr</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Today at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Rdio, the unlimited, on-demand social music service, introduced its API to the public.The API gives developers the ability to create web applications that can search, access and play all of the artists, songs, albums, playlists, and top charts in Rdioa4a4s catalog.Developers who are looking for a way to incorporate music into their applications can now do so through Rdioa4a4s API, and will be able to monetize their applications through Rdio&amp;'s affiliate program which pays commissions for referring new subscribers. Competing music subscription service Rhapsody also offers an API, but we&amp;'ve yet to see many interesting uses of it, perhaps because Rhapsody doesn&amp;'t have a similar affiliate program.Rdio,which was founded by a co-founder of Skype, is a music service that lets subscribers listen to as many songs as they want and share new music with friends. The service offers a $4.99 monthly subscription for unlimited listening through your web browser, and a $9.99 plan that includes mobile music streaming and synchronizing. Rdio subscribers build and share their online music collections from a catalog of over 8 million songs and can look at the listening activity and playlists of other users.Todd Berman, VP of Engineering at Rdio, says, a4AEver since our launch six months ago our API has been our most requested feature. Developers who have been looking for a way to integrate music into their web applications now have a way to do it easily, legally and accessibly.a4Rdioa4a4s API is currently being used by AOL (for its newly launched &amp;''Play by AOL&amp;'' application), Grab.com and Tweetlouder.The company, which was founded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, is headquartered in San Francisco. Rdio is funded by Atomico and Janus Friis, through his investment entities Mangrove Capital Partners and Skype.Next Story: Ngmoco&amp;'s Neil Young foresees multibillion-dollar mobile game companies Previous Story: Apple may sell 600K iPad 2s at launch, online orders face huge delaysPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: API, South by South West, SXSW 2011Companies: RdioPeople: Janus Friis, Todd Berman          Tags: API, South by South West, SXSW 2011Companies: RdioPeople: Janus Friis, Todd BermanConrad Egusa is a contributing writer at VentureBeat. A serial entrepreneur, hea4a4s also the founder of CampusKiwi, an angel investor backed company headquartered in New York, and 2minutePrep, an educational preparation company. You can follow him on Twitter at @conrad_egusa, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at  @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft on IE9: Ita4a4s about the hardware]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft recently launched Internet Explorer 9, which VentureBeata4a4s Devindra Hardawar said is the companya4a4s a4Aprettiest browser yeta4. I spoke to corporate vice president Dean Hachamovitch about the launch, and he said that prettiness comes from a4Aa new approacha4 to Internet browsers.Specifically, he said the IE9 team rejected the philosophy that websites and browsers should run the same across any device &amp;8212' or, as he put it, the misconception that a4Athe Web is the Web is the Web.a4 That thinking has led to browsers that only take advantage of 10 percent of a normal computera4a4s capabilities, he said.Hachamovitch argued that the browser is actually a4Aonly as good as the operating system.a4 Thata4a4s why IE9 uses a computera4a4s graphics processor for faster delivery of text, video, and graphics. (Rick Bergman at chip company Advanced Micro Devices, told VentureBeat that IE9 should lead to better web sites and more usage of graphics chips for non-gaming computing tasks.) And that doesn&amp;'t just make a difference on the latest Windows 7 computers' since almost any computer has at least a dual-core processor, even a notebook that only costs a few hundred dollars will see an improvement, he said.Besides the hardware acceleration, Hachamovitch said one of the IE9 teama4s other big goals was to move the focus away from the browser and toward the website. Thata4a4s why the browser allows users to a4Apina4 websites directly to their Windows taskbar, so they can access their favorite websites just as easily as they can the software on their computer.The design of a pinned site places an even greater emphasis on the website over the browser. A pinned site has its own notifications and site search, and the back button is even colored to match the sitea4a4s favicon (the little logo or icon that you see at the top of the browser). Website publishers are already seeing benefits from this approach Microsoft said &amp;8212' for example, the Huffington Post found that 38 percent of visitors on IE9 a4Apinneda4 the site, and that those users spent 49 percent more time on the site than other users.Next Story: What&amp;'s up with eBay Previous Story: YouTube acquires Irish tech shop to fix your blurry videosPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: hardware acceleration, IE9, Internet Explorer 9Companies: MicrosoftPeople: Dean Hachamovitch          Tags: hardware acceleration, IE9, Internet Explorer 9Companies: MicrosoftPeople: Dean HachamovitchAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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