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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple now world's largest semiconductor buyer]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>danitarosd</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple leads the way in semiconductor spending, IHS iSuppli has revealed.(Credit:IHS iSuppli)Apple is the easily outstripping all other hardware makers in semiconductor spending, a new report from IHS iSuppli has found.According to the research firm, Apple spent $17.5 billion on semiconductors in 2010, representing a whopping 79.6 percent increase over the $9.7 billion it spent in 2009. That year, Apple was ranked third among semiconductor buyers behind Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Samsung.And with that leap in spending, IHS iSuppli said, Apple now finds itself--&quot;for the first time ever&quot;--the largest buyer of semiconductors among original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide.This time around, HP finds itself in the second spot with $15.2 billion spent on semiconductors last year. Samsung, Dell, and Nokia rounded out the top five by spending $13.9 billion, $11 billion, and $8.3 billion, respectively.Apple's meteoric rise in spending is due mainly to the company'siPhone andiPad, IHS iSuppli said. In 2010, Apple dedicated 61 percent of its semiconductor spending to its mobile devices, while the remaining costs went to its computers. HP, on the other hand, spent 82 percent of its cash on desktops, notebooks, and servers.Chances are, Apple's spending mix won't change anytime soon. At the Worldwide Developers Conference this week, the company announced that sales of iOS-based devices continue to soar. And so far, Apple has sold 200 million iOS-based products around the world.As that figure grows, IHS iSuppli expects more big things from Apple in the semiconductor market. The research firm said today that it expects Apple's semiconductor spending to increase again in 2011 to $22.4 billion. HP's, on the other hand, is expected to fall to $14.8 billion. Samsung, the research firm said, will spend $14.3 billion on semiconductors this year.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[White House pushes for online privacy bill of rights]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>danitarosd</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The White House is urging Congress to enact a new &quot;privacy bill of rights&quot; that would provide clearer guidelines to online users and businesses about the collecting of personal information over the Internet.Speaking in Washington yesterday at a special hearing devoted to online consumer privacy, Assistant Commerce Secretary Lawrence Strickling acknowledged that the ability to store information about customers helps make online companies more efficient. But he said that consumers are growing increasingly uneasy about how their personal information is being collected and used.With the lengthy privacy policies now offered by Web sites proving confusing and ineffective, Strickling said that a new &quot;consumer privacy bill of rights&quot; is needed. Based on responses from consumer groups and industry members to the Commerce Department's Green Paper, which offered a set of initial recommendations, such a bill would aim to protect the privacy of individual consumers without stifling innovation from online companies.The protections in the bill itself would be legally enforceable, according to Strickling, but still flexible enough to adapt to new technologies. He added that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should be given the authority to enforce that bill and that the White House would work with other countries and trading partners to ensure that the protections would be consistent across different borders.&quot;Working together with Congress, the FTC, the Executive Office of the President, and other stakeholders, I am confident in our ability to provide consumers with meaningful privacy protections in the Internet economy, backed by effective enforcement, that can adapt to changes in technology, market conditions, and consumer expectations,&quot; Strickling said.Strickling also called for a federal law to alert consumers in the event of a data breach that would expose their personal information. Such a law would be intended to set the same standards across the country, clear up inconsistent state laws, and give state authorities the ability to enforce it.Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D.-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which held the hearing, also urged Congress to act.&quot;Congress can no longer sit on the sidelines,&quot; Rockefeller said. &quot;There is an online privacy war going on, and without help, consumers will lose. We must act to give Americans the basic online privacy protections they deserve.&quot;Yesterday's hearing was the second in an ongoing series looking at how information is captured and stored by online businesses and advertisers and what Congress can and should do to better protect U.S. Internet users.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hotmail launches accounts you can throw away]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>danitarosd</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft knows you're making throwaway e-mail accounts, and wants to make that process easier.Today, Hotmail is getting a new feature aimed at &quot;e-mail enthusiasts,&quot; which lets anyone create multiple e-mail accounts that can be read, replied to, and managed from their everyday e-mail inbox. These additional e-mail addresses can be had in the same manner as signing up for new accounts, but they require no extra log-ins or upkeep. The idea is to give users a safe way to provide third parties with an e-mail address, without giving up the address they've provided to family and friends, which, if compromised, can end the usefulness of that particular account. &quot;Today we all often have multiple e-mail accounts for many different reasons,&quot; Windows Live director of product management Dharmesh Mehta told CNET in a phone interview yesterday. &quot;One of which is that I don't want to give my real address out to any site in the world. I might be worried they'll spam me with newsletters, or they might resell it to other marketers. Who knows what can happen&quot; The other problem, Mehta said, is balancing a single e-mail address with work, family and friends, and everything else you're doing on the Internet. &quot;If I'm a hardcore gamer in one environment, and a conservative professional guy in another environment, there are different reasons for multiple accounts,&quot; Mehta explained. The solution Microsoft's Hotmail team came up with was to make use of some of its existing technologies like account sign-up, message filtering, and multiple e-mail address integration to give users these aliases within the same account. Each user can create up to five aliases, any of which can be deleted and replaced with another at any time. Over time, Microsoft will increase that limit to 15 aliases per account, making it so that the true heavy users won't need to juggle between two or more Hotmail accounts. Making an alias in Hotmail is similar to signing up for a new account. Users can pick any name that&amp;39's free and open.(Credit:Microsoft)Aliases joins an existing multiple e-mail address feature offered in both Hotmail and Google's Gmail that uses a plus symbol after a user name, but before the @ symbol. Users would then add any word after the plus symbol to create an identifiable address (e.g. Josh+newstip@Hotmail.com). This lets messages get filtered into folders, while also providing a way to see if that retailer you bought something from sold your address to a third party. However the big problems with that system are that it's easy to see the person's real address, and some sites and forms might not let you use the plus symbol. In this sense, Microsoft's new system promises to offer a higher level of privacy along with compatibility when running across sites that won't let you use special characters.Mehta said he expects the feature to appeal more to the tech enthusiast crowd, which the company intends to better serve over the course of the year, while still appealing to the consumer crowd, which makes up the bulk of Hotmail's users.&quot;Hotmail needs to serve two audiences that are somewhat pretty different,&quot; Mehta said. &quot;One is this set of mainstream consumers, the average person who uses e-mail. The second is the tech enthusiast who wants different things compared to the mainstream user who wants good features but generally is like 'don't change my stuff, don't modify things, don't mess with it.' The enthusiasts are like 'give me a new feature every hour, and I'd love it!'&quot;Mehta said that the plan with Hotmail going forward is to &quot;win with both these audiences,&quot; while finding a release cycle that suits both. But as Mehta explained, Hotmail also needs to move beyond the competition. &quot;For us that's really versus Gmail. So how do we start to beat Gmail in a couple of different key scenarios certain customers are just going to like more&quot; The first step in that direction, Mehta said, is aliases. Microsoft says the new feature will hit all user accounts worldwide this afternoon.Update at 3:15 p.m. PT: As commenter Sroar points out, Yahoo has a similar alias feature as part of its paid Plus service. Also, the feature is already live in one of our test accounts. Here's what the sign-up screen looks like (note that you can pick between Hotmail.com and Live.com as the domain):Signing up for an alias.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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