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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook gets five more film rentals]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&amp;34'Inception&amp;34' is now available on Facebook--for 40 Credits.(Credit:Warner Bros.)After the launch of &quot;The Dark Knight&quot; rental on Facebook earlier this month, Warner Bros. Entertainment is expanding its product offering.Early this morning, the company released five more films that the social network's users can watch from the site. The newly available films--&quot;Inception,&quot; &quot;Yogi Bear,&quot; &quot;Life As We Know It,&quot; &quot;Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,&quot; and &quot;Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets&quot;--are available to rent on users' individual Facebook pages.As with &quot;The Dark Knight,&quot; users who want to stream the rentals over the Web need to apply Facebook credits to rent the movies. However, pricing will vary. Whereas &quot;The Dark Knight&quot; is still available for 30 Facebook credits (about $3), the newer releases, including &quot;Inception,&quot; &quot;Yogi Bear,&quot; and &quot;Life As We Know It&quot; are retailing for 40 Facebook credits (about $4). The two &quot;Harry Potter&quot; films are available for 30 credits.When Warner Bros. launched rentals on Facebook earlier this month, the company made it clear that it was done solely to test the waters and find out if people want the ability to pay for and watch films on the social network. Warner Bros. Digital Distribution President Thomas Gewecke said at the time that it was &quot;a natural extension&quot; of his company's digital distribution efforts.Social media is becoming an important tool for film studios to both promote and generate revenue off their movies. A few weeks ago, Paramount Pictures premiered the trailer for its upcoming film &quot;Super 8&quot; on Twitter. The movie, which is being produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by &quot;Lost&quot; creator J.J. Abrams, was the first to have its trailer premiere on Twitter.But if it's rentals users are after, they will have access to Warner Bros. content for 48 hours from the time of purchase. Users can watch the movies in full screen, pause at any point, and resume when they get back to the social network. Viewers can also post comments and interact with others while watching the film.Warner Bros. rentals are available only to customers in the U.S.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientific Conservation scores $15.7 million in funding]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[SciWatch advertisement sporting the company pig sprite reminding people not to let their buildings become energy hogs.(Credit:Scientific Conservation)Scientific Conservation, a company that specializes in energy consumption forecasting, has received $15.65 million in Series B funding, the start-up announced Tuesday.The company is just one example of the way traditional IT is now intersecting withgreen tech.Scientific Conservation offers software as a service (SaaS) that allows the company to monitor a building's energy consumption in real-time, apply that data to energy management diagnostics and analytics, and then use that created knowledge to predict the building's energy consumption in the future.The result is a customized energy plan for a building that is always being fine-tuned based on new data, as well as the ability to implement changes in anticipation of fluctuations. The company's SCIwatch product offers data collection, warehousing, and diagnostics, while its SCIenergy product offers building energy use modeling. SCIenergy can work in conjunction with existing automated energy management systems like those from Johnson Controls, Siemens, and Honeywell, according to Scientific Conservation.The service is geared toward large commercial buildings, which often see big returns on modest investments in energy efficiency improvements and monitoring. One recent study asserted that if all existing commercial buildings were retrofitted for energy efficiency, they would collectively save over $41.1 billion a year in energy bills.Scientific Conservation may also become part of a predicted trend. The optimization software and analytics industry for building energy efficiency will grow to $2.4 billion annually by 2016, according to a recent report from Pike Research.Barry Schuler, managing director of the DFJ Growth Fund and former CEO of AOL, is the lead investor of the Series B round of funding, and will now sit on the company's board.&quot;This funding underscores a strong year of milestones for SCI and global momentum for clean energy technologies that save money and protect the environment,&quot; Schuler said in a statement.Other investors in this round of funding include DFJ Ventures and The Westly Group.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[European standards groups agree on micro-USB]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gaylordsty</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Apple)Two European standardization bodies have agreed to make micro-USB the standard interface port for smartphones in Europe.Though Apple currently uses its proprietary 30-pin dock connector for transferring data and charging itsiPhone,iPad, and iPods, CEN-CENELEC and ETSI announced yesterday they have agreed that an adapter is suitable for compliance.The commission &quot;made available the harmonized standards needed for the manufacture of data-enabled mobile phones compatible with a new common charger. This is the most recent development in the process toward a global common mobile phone charger initiated by the European Commission.&quot;Apple, along with mobile phone competitors RIM, Nokia, LGE, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and others are hoping to streamline mobile phone connectivity, at least as it relates to charging devices.Said European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, &quot;The common charger will make life easier for consumers, reduce waste, and benefit businesses. It is a true win-win situation.&quot;With reports of Apple's iPad receiving a USB port and speculation that yet another redesign of the iPhone for its fifth revision, due to widely reported issues with its antenna, is forthcoming, could this agreement signal the decline of the 30-pin dock connectorCertainly the iPhone, iPad, andiPod dock accessory industry is hoping that's not the case. The more likely bet is that Apple will include, at least for now, a 30-pin dock connector-to-micro-USB adapter for European models of its mobile devices. Should Apple abandon the 30-pin dock connector in favor of micro-USB Why or why not Let me know in the comments. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet Explorer 9 to get tracking protection]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gaylordsty</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft this morning detailed changes to Internet Explorer 9's security features that will better enable users to keep sites from tracking their activity across browsing sessions. The feature, which is set to arrive in the first release candidate of IE9 early next year, uses a list to tell the browser which third-party page elements sites can and cannot be blocked from tracking. This includes elements ranging from advertisements to more mundane things like embedded widgets from particular providers.On Microsoft's IE blog, Dean Hachamovitch, head of Internet Explorer development, explained how it works:A Tracking Protection List (TPL) contains Web addresses (like msdn.com) that the browser will visit (or &quot;call&quot;) only if the consumer visits them directly by clicking on a link or typing their address. By limiting the calls to these Web sites and resources from other Web pages, the TPL limits the information these other sites can collect.You can look at this as a translation of the &quot;Do Not Call&quot; list from the telephone to the browser and web. It complements many of the other approaches being discussed for browser controls of Do Not Track.In a Webcast announcing the feature, Hachamovitch said most users have &quot;little awareness of who can track their activity,&quot; and that the feature stemmed from that. Hachamovitch also attributed the creation of the feature to the company's more open approach to developing features for IE9. Microsoft&amp;39's tracking protection tool gives users control over which site elements can track your activity during a browsing session. Green ones in this shot can, while the red cannot.(Credit:Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET)Microsoft is letting users and third-parties alike author protection lists and host them on their sites. Users can then download them to their browser. Microsoft has also created lists to resemble what Hachamovitch likened to an RSS feed, so that if additional sites are added or removed, it can be updated without the user having to seek out, or manually update. Hachamovitch said tracking protection will not replace InPrivate filtering, a feature Microsoft added to IE in version 8. Instead, Hachamovitch referred to it as complementary, given that InPrivate filtering uses algorithms to control tracking, along with not persisting from session to session. Tracking protection, on the other hand, will remain on once a user turns it on.Microsoft says tracking protection will not be on by default when it arrives next year. Users will need to opt-in to enable it, as well as seek out lists of sites, which will not ship with the browser once it's released.So far, Microsoft's IE9 beta has been downloaded in excess of 15 million times since its release back in September. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo said to be rolling out layoffs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Multiple media outlets reported earlier this month that Yahoo was on the verge of major layoffs, perhaps as high as 20 percent (but more likely 10 percent) of the struggling technology company. On Tuesday, TechCrunch reported that tipsters were contacting them to say the layoffs had begun. The company's Yahoo Groups and Flickr divisions were named specifically.Yahoo's official statement doesn't say much: &quot;Yahoo is always evaluating expenses to align with the company's financial goals. Beyond that, we don't comment on rumors or speculation.&quot;If true, the layoffs are yet another blow to morale at Yahoo as it continues to attempt a turnaround under the leadership of CEO Carol Bartz. There has already been one round of layoffs in Bartz's tenure, and prior to her arrival early last year there had been multiple layoffs since early 2008.In a talk last month, Bartz described the Yahoo turnaround process as &quot;traveling up (Highway) 101 at 100 miles an hour, changing the tires.&quot;To add insult to injury, many of the valley's other giants are soaring: Google, the company that dethroned Yahoo as king of search a decade ago, is said to be facing tough competition over engineering talent. But things are still sunny enough over there that the company was able to address this &quot;crisis&quot; with a 10 percent raise for all employees.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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