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<title><![CDATA[ROVs fail to find Japanese missing in tsunami]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chrdoepner</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The underwater ROVs found sunken cars and lots of debris, but no bodies. (Credit:IRS)TOKYO--An international team of robotics and engineering specialists used remotely operated underwater vehicles to search for human remains in coastal areas of Japan flattened by last month's tsunami but failed to find any of the missing, the group said Sunday. The International Rescue System Institute, working with the Texas-based Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR), searched the waters off the annihilated communities of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, and Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture.Members used a Seamor ROV and a Seabotix SARbot. The diving machines turned up sunkencars, flotsam, and personal effects but no bodies. Robin Murphy of Texas A&amp;M University, director of CRASAR, was involved in the search, as were other U.S. colleagues. &quot;One lesson learned for future research is that we need simulation software that predicts where debris will go after a tsunami or hurricane (different versions since we believe the water behavior is different for those events),&quot; Murphy blogged.Working with the Japanese Coast Guard, the group used the ROVs to examine houses swept out to sea where dangerous conditions prohibit divers from searching for victims of the tsunami, which left thousands dead or missing in the towns. The researchers also used the machines to check whether submerged debris poses a threat to fishing boats, which are important to the local economy.  The video below, shot by the SARbot with image enhancement, shows a glove that Murphy and colleagues first took for a hand. They were told to expect bodies pinned under debris or partly buried in silt. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Glam Signals Its Social Aspirations With A Key&nbsp'Hire]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chrdoepner</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Glam Media is one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, with a total reach of 90 million people a month in the U.S.  Over the past six months, it&amp;'s launched a brand-targeted ad serving platform, Glam Adapt, and branched out from its singular focus on women&amp;'s sites to include men&amp;'s sports sites as well.  Its next big push will be into social, and it starts today with the key hire of Ryan Stern as vice president of Glam Social Communities, a new business for Glam.Stern was previously VP of publishing at FoodBuzz, a network of more than 16,000 food blogs.  Her job at Glam will be to oversee a new content authoring system and convince 10,000 to 100,000 bloggers and video creators to start submitting their posts and videos into the system.  In a sense, this system will be similar to AOL&amp;'s Seed, except that it will feed both Glam&amp;'s owned-and-operated sites and independent niche publishers who are part of its ad network.  The hiring of Stern signals Glam&amp;'s larger social aspirations.  The investment in Glam Social, says CEO Samir Arora, &amp;''will be as as large a platform investment as Adapt.  You will see hiring, building the team out, also M&amp;amp'A for acquisitions.&amp;''  In two years, he wants to end up with &amp;''two pillars: the ad stack and the social stack.&amp;''Arora is taking social very seriously.  For the past 6 months, he&amp;'s been meeting with a few top executives to plot out &amp;''Glam 2.0.&amp;''  They attempted to answer the question: &amp;''Once the whole world has a social map, what else do you do with it&amp;''  In particular, how do you map social onto niche content sites  The result will be Glam Social.  Part of it will be this new crowdsourced authoring tool, but it will go beyond that.  Arora wants to break up the content silos by linking social communities across related sites. But Arora does not want to create another content farm, which are great for SEO traffic from search engines but not so good at creating the types of engagement brand advertisers are looking for.  By tapping into social, Glam hopes to become the anti-content farm.  He also wants to apply this strategy in a very distributed fashion across Glam&amp;'s network.&amp;''The next generation of social is a lot of social features outside a centralized place,&amp;'' he predicts.  They haven&amp;'t really figured out what those features will be, but you can imagine things like a unified commenting system built on top of Facebook Connect, social recommendations across related sites within a given channel, or a check-in system which links back into the ad server (maybe the most loyal readers who check in and move up a site&amp;'s leaderboard will be worth more to advertisers).What is significant about this new direction for Glam is that up until now its relationship with outside publishers has been purely as an ad network.  But by managing and curating high-quality content on their behalf, that relationship will become more like a TV network with its affiliates where it is actually generating content for its affiliate publishers which they will be able to use to augment their own articles and videos.  There may be central hubs by topic and channel where these stories and videos live, but the idea is to syndicate them broadly to publishers in the Glam advertising network.CrunchBase InformationRyan SternGlam MediaInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SkyFire web browser brings Flash video and social features to iPad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chrdoepner</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[After finding success on the iPhone with its Flash video-capable mobile browser, SkyFire is now gearing up to launch a version of its mobile browser for the iPad. In addition to Flash video, SkyFire&amp;'s iPad app also comes with social features for Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader.The company says it is waiting for approval for its iPad app, but after Apple approved its iPhone app, I don&amp;'t suspect that there&amp;'s any reason its iPad version would be rejected. SkyFire&amp;'s $2.99 iPhone version drew over 300,000 downloads and made $1 million in its first weekend &amp;8212' a sign that Apple users really want Flash video support. With an iPad version, users can now watch Flash video on the device&amp;'s larger 10-inch screen.SkyFire&amp;'s servers transcode Flash video content into an Apple-approved HTML5 standard. To users, this means a slight delay before the video starts playing, but it also leads to more efficient playback as SkyFire&amp;'s compression is on average 75 percent more efficient than standard Flash video.The iPad app also brings some social features that the company first introduced in its SkyFire 3.0 app for Android. It offers Twitter and Facebook &amp;''QuickViews&amp;'', which let you keep track of your feeds, profile, friends and more. It also has a built-in RSS feed reader and includes support for Google Reader. SkyFire also implements some Facebook features directly into its browser &amp;8212' you can &amp;''Like&amp;'' any story instantly by hitting a button on its toolbar, and it can also tell you which stories are popular among Facebook users.It&amp;'s unclear how much SkyFire will charge for its iPad browser, but I suspect it will be a few dollars more than its $2.99 iPhone version.Next Story: RockStar Games reveals secret to its stunningly realistic human faces in L.A. Noire (video) Previous Story: Google&amp;'s do-it-yourself Android App Inventor opens up to allPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Flash, mobile browsers, video, web browsersCompanies: Apple, Skyfire          Tags: Flash, mobile browsers, video, web browsersCompanies: Apple, SkyfireDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[In a rare chip funding, Tilera raises $45M for multi-core communications chips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chrdoepner</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Tilera is one of the leaders in designing chips with many brains, or cores, with as many as 100 on a single chip. The San Jose, Calif.-based company is announcing today it has raised $45 million in a fourth round of funding.The deal shows that funding for semiconductor companies, particularly those with strong customer traction, hasn&amp;'t completely dried up. Chip companies often require $80 million or more just to bring a product to market, so it also isn&amp;'t surprising to see Tilera raise such a large round.Tilera has been shipping its many-core microprocessors since 2007. Customers are concentrated in the cloud computing and communications infrastructure, so Tilera effectively makes sure that the internet stays up and running despite heavy loads from serving videos and other heavy-duty apps. Tilera expects to reach profitability later this year, said Omid Tahernia, chief executive of Tilera, in an interview.But it needs the money as it undergoes a big expansion, including accelerating development of its fourth-generation processor family. Investors in the new round include Artis Capital, West Summit, Cisco, and Samsung. Existing investors Walden International, Bessemer Venture Partners and Columbia Capital also participated. Other past investors include Broadcom, NTT Finance, VentureTech Alliance and Quanta Computer.When we wrote about the introduction of the Tile-Gx processors in the past, we noted that the new chip will have many times the performance per  watt consumed as Intela4a4s fastest Nehalem-class server microprocessors.  Since ita4a4s difficult for programmers to write software that can keep all  the cores busy, the current Intel chips max out at eight cores, and many  computer scientists say core efficiency maxes out at 32.But Tilera has come up with a unique programming model with tools  that make the process of creating software to run on Tileraa4a4s chips much  easier, such as an ANSI C/C++ compiler, GNU tools and the open source  Eclipse integrated development environment. The result, the company claims, is unbeatable performance and performance-per-watt of power used, Tahernia said.Tilera has 36 and 64-core processors in production, and Quanta is now shipping a TilePro-based server with 512 cores. The company has 150 customers. The first Tile-Gx 100-core processor will be available in engineering samples this quarter. Tilera was founded in 2004 and has 85 employees. To date, Tilera has raised $109 million.Rivals include Cavium Networks, RMI, Netlogic, Freescale, Intel and others.Previous Story: Cheezburger transforms Internet memes into $30M of fundingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: chips, semiconductor, Tile-GxCompanies: and Samsung, Artis Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Broadcom, Cavium Networks, Cisco, Columbia Capital, Freescale, Intel, Netlogic, Ntt Finance, Quanta, Rmi, Tilera, VentureTech Alliance, Walden International, West SummitPeople: Omid Tahernia          Tags: chips, semiconductor, Tile-GxCompanies: and Samsung, Artis Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Broadcom, Cavium Networks, Cisco, Columbia Capital, Freescale, Intel, Netlogic, Ntt Finance, Quanta, Rmi, Tilera, VentureTech Alliance, Walden International, West SummitPeople: Omid TaherniaDean 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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