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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[EFF: Apple needs to defend its developers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Electronic Frontier Foundation has called Apple out for not responding fast enough, or at all, to a developing legal situation that's got some iOS developers spooked. In a post on the group's blog today, EFF staff attorney Julie Samuels said Apple has put developers in a difficult position by requiring them to use within their apps in-app purchase (IAP), a mechanism that's been targeted by a third-party group that says the technology infringes on its patents. The in-app purchase option within an iOS app, an inclusion that could cost developers an extra licensing fee.(Credit:Apple)That group, Lodsys, triggered a controversy last week when it began going after developers--instead of Apple--in seeking a licensing fee on apps that made use of the feature, threatening those who did not comply with legal action.&quot;Apple's failure to defend these developers is troubling and highlights at least two larger problems: patent trolls and developers' vulnerability when harassing and counterproductive patent litigation comes around,&quot; Samuels wrote. In an FAQ about the matter earlier this week, Lodsys noted that Apple, along with Microsoft and Google, were not the targets, given their existing licensing of patents that cover IAP. However, developers that sell apps to customers with the IAP mechanism in place are not included as part of that license, and must therefore pay Lodsys for the right to use the technology. &quot;This is a problem that lawyers call a misallocation of burden. The law generally works to ensure that the party in the best position to address an issue bears the responsibility of handling that issue,&quot; Samuels wrote. &quot;Here, absent protection from Apple, developers hoping to avoid a legal dispute must investigate each of the technologies that Apple provides to make sure none of them is patent-infringing.&quot;Samuels argues that developers big and small simply cannot afford that level of investigation, especially when it comes to verifying that the features and technologies Apple requires developers to use are covered as the company's intellectual property. &quot;Instead, they would expect (with good reason) that Apple wouldn't provide technologies in its App Store that open its developers up to liability--and/or would at least agree to defend them when a troll like Lodsys comes along,&quot; Samuels said.Apple has still not publicly addressed Lodsys' claims or responded to requests for comment. A report by the Guardian earlier this week said Apple was &quot;actively investigating&quot; the matter. So far Lodsys has targeted just a handful of developers, who have received letters giving them 21 days to get in touch, or face litigation. Nonetheless, there's been a chilling effect on those the group has not even gotten in touch with, such as Infinite Labs, the makers of the iOS utility Mover. Following the Lodsys FAQ, Infinite Labs' Emanuele Vulcano announced that he was removing the IAP option from the lite version of Mover, instead redirecting to the paid version on the App Store. &quot;No nastygram, but I can't shoulder risk,&quot; Vulcano tweeted.In its FAQ, Lodsys said it's seeking 0.575 percent of the U.S. revenue that an app with IAP makes. That's from the time a developer is sent a notice letter about the patent to when the patent expires in 2023. The group also said the deal is retroactive, effectively letting fees go back to as early as 2009, when the in-app purchase was first made available to app developers.&quot;We hope that going forward companies like Apple will do what's right and stand up for their developers and help teach the patent trolls a lesson,&quot; Samuels said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA ponies up $270 million for commercial spaceflight]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Commercial spacecraft will replace NASA&amp;39's shuttle program.(Credit:NASA)Two companies tied to prominent technology entrepreneurs are among those that received funding through the NASA's Commercial Crew Development effort, the government agency announced yesterday.Blue Origin, which was started by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, received $22 million in the funding round. PayPal co-founder Elon Musk's SpaceX received $75 million. They were flanked by Sierra Nevada and Boeing, which received $80 million and $92.3 million, respectively.The Commercial Crew Development program, which began in 2009, is arguably one of the most important efforts under way at NASA. Its goal is to help U.S. private enterprises develop the capability to transport U.S. astronauts to space. Until those spaceships are ready, astronauts will tag along on Russian spacecraft to get to the International Space Station (ISS). The agency recently inked a $753 million deal with Russia that will allow astronauts to take 12 round trips to the ISS between 2014 and 2016.Related links&amp;149' SpaceX building low-cost heavy-lift booster&amp;149' Space shuttle program hits 30-year mark&amp;149' Celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin's 'Let's Go!'&quot;We're committed to safely transporting U.S. astronauts on American-made spacecraft and ending the outsourcing of this work to foreign governments,&quot; NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement yesterday. &quot;These agreements are significant milestones in NASA's plans to take advantage of American ingenuity to get to low-Earth orbit, so we can concentrate our resources on deep space exploration.&quot;NASA's own fleet of space shuttles has long served as a transport for astronauts, supplies, and experiments headed into Earth's orbit, but the shuttle program is coming to an end this year. Last month, Discovery returned from space for the last time, leaving only two more missions for NASA's shuttles--an Endeavour flight later this month and the final Atlantis mission in late June.&quot;The next American-flagged vehicle to carry our astronauts into space is going to be a U.S. commercial provider,&quot; Ed Mango, NASA's Commercial Crew Program manager, said in a statement. &quot;The partnerships NASA is forming with industry will support the development of multiple American systems capable of providing future access to low-Earth orbit.&quot;NASA hopes commercial providers will have their spacecraft ready for flight in 2015.'Space pioneers' of the commercial era (images) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: SEC looks into Hurd's ousting from HP]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The scandal surrounding Mark Hurd's departure from the world's largest technology company in August has officially drawn attention from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Mark Hurd(Credit:HP )According to a report in The Wall Street Journal today, the SEC is examining allegations that Hewlett-Packard's former chairman and chief executive passed valuable information about his company's pending acquisition of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) several months before the deal was made public in 2008.But the inquiry into Hurd's actions is broader than that. The SEC is also looking into several things he reportedly did prior to being ousted by his board of directors in early August. The person Hurd is said to have told about the EDS purchase is Jodie Fisher, the former marketing contractor who accused Hurd of sexual harassment, which led to an internal investigation by HP's board. Despite clearing him of harassment, the inquiry found that he misreported his expenses to the company.Hurd has admitted only that &quot;there were instances in which I did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect, and integrity that I have espoused at HP.&quot; The claim that he told Fisher about EDS first appeared in a letter Fisher's lawyer, Gloria Allred, wrote to Hurd in June. It was made public last month.The SEC is said to be looking into Hurd's botched expense reports, as well as claims that he destroyed computer evidence prior to his departure from the company, according to the Journal report. It's not clear how far its probe has progressed. The Journal's source says there's a chance that this may not develop into a lawsuit.HP said in a statement that it &quot;is cooperating fully with the SEC on its investigation.&quot;Hurd is now president of Oracle, software maker and growing rival to HP.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will the rise of natural gas threaten solar and wind]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The end of 2010 is fast approaching, and with that have come a flurry of State of the Cleantech Union-type reports and forecasts.What&amp;'s clear so far is this: American wind installations last quarter hit a three-year low, although there&amp;'s over 4,000 gigawatts of potentialfor offshore wind development, and the government is streamlining the permitting process to help spur growth. Solar appears to be healthy and poised to rise in the U.S., with large-scale solar installations for utilities expected to double each year between now and 2015. Anda recent report by the Boston Consulting Group predicted that solar and biofuels would be the first renewable energies to become competitive with traditional energy sources like coal &amp;8212' possibly within the next five to 10 years.But could natural gas disrupt it all According to consulting group Kachan &amp;amp' Co., it&amp;'s very possible. The company&amp;'s analysts forecast thatnatural gas will emerge to threaten solar and wind for utility renewable power generation. And in the next few years, the firm sees renewable natural gas emerging to rival the reigning clean energies.They&amp;'re not alone in forecasting the rise of natural gas. An upcoming report from Black &amp;amp' Veatch finds that coal market share will be cut in half in the next 25 years &amp;8212' which will be made up for by the doubling in natural gas, which is expected to rise from 21 percent of U.S. energy use in 2011 to 40 percent in 2035. And a recent Ernst &amp;amp' Young report found that low natural gas prices in the U.S. have made it tougher for solar and wind projects to win financing.&amp;''We really believe that natural gas is going to be on the lips of a lot more cleantech people next year,&amp;'' said Dallas Kachan, Kachan &amp;amp' Co.&amp;'s managing partner. &amp;''There will be more cleantech entrepreneurs and investors looking at ways to piggyback on enthusiasm for natural gas.&amp;''Kachan also predicted more federal and policy support for natural gas, saying it is possible natural gas may be included in a federal renewable energy portfolio standard. Natural gas has the advantage of already-existing infrastructure, and it isn&amp;'t intermittent like wind and solar. While natural gas isn&amp;'t an entirely clean energy because there are carbon emissions associated with its use, it is much cleaner than coal-based energy &amp;8212' the &amp;''lesser of the fossil evils,&amp;'' as Kachan put it.The government does seem to be leaning in that direction. The Department of Energy last week granted a $50 million conditional loan guarantee to a natural gas vehicle company &amp;8212' thanks in part to the urgings of T. Boone Pickens, a big natural gas supporter. The Wall Street Journal even speculated earlier this week that natural gas vehicles could be poised to earn the favor of China &amp;8212' although the country is already on the electric car warpath with adecree that five million electric cars be on the roads by 2020, with $17 billion pledged to those efforts.Still, &amp;''T. Boone Pickens might get his way,&amp;'' Kachan said.While many major automakers and a number of startups have gone on an electric vehicle spree as of late, Mercedes-Benz and Honda have also gotten on the natural gas vehicle path. Mercedes will be leasing 70 hydrogen fuel-cell cars in California, while Honda plans to lease about 200 its hydrogen fuel-cell Clarity cars over the next three years, also primarily in Southern California.There&amp;'s a bit of rain on the natural gas parade, though &amp;8212' and it&amp;'s a similar to the problem that haunts geothermal energy. Both involve drilling into the earth, and natural gas drilling companies have been faulted for spills and contaminating drinking water in Pennsylvania at the site of the Marcellus Shale, resulting in fines and a government-ordered closure of some of the drilling operations.Kachan says he&amp;'s excited by the potential for renewable natural gas, which can be distributed through existing pipelines. While the technology is still lab-scale and years away from being commercial scale, he said startups in that space are getting tremendous interest from utilities who have to meet renewable portfolio standards.&amp;''If utilities are able to simply write a purchase order to their gas providers and burn natural gas at their existing natural gas plants, then they don&amp;'t need to go put steel in the ground for solar and wind,&amp;'' Kachan said.Next Story: Apple: No demo, trial, or beta software on Mac App Store Previous Story: Seeking seed funding Apply for Qualcomm Ventures&amp;' QPrizePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: natural gas, natural gas vehicles, Solar, windCompanies: Black &amp;amp' Veatch, Boston Consulting Group, DOE, Honda, Kachan &amp;amp' Co., Mercedes-BenzPeople: Dallas Kachan, T. Boone Pickens          Tags: natural gas, natural gas vehicles, Solar, windCompanies: Black &amp;amp' Veatch, Boston Consulting Group, DOE, Honda, Kachan &amp;amp' Co., Mercedes-BenzPeople: Dallas Kachan, T. Boone PickensIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).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[On the GreenBeat: Military must buy American solar, Duke Energy to buy rival]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=on-the-greenbeat-military-must-buy-american-solar-duke-energy-to-buy-rival</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gop5yeq</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s the latest action we&amp;'re following on the GreenBeat today:The Department of Defense must buy American-made solar panels &amp;8212' That&amp;'s according to a provision in an appropriations act signed into law this week, Greentech Media reports. It requires all photovoltaic devices purchased by the DoD to comply with the Buy American Act' that is, they must be purchased from U.S. manufacturers &amp;8212' but the provisions could potentially threaten the U.S.&amp;'s net exporter status in solar.Mercedes-Benz runs hydrogen and electric car plays &amp;8212' The company plans to lease 200 of its F-Cell hydrogen cars (pictured) around the globe (customers began receiving them in December), which offer fast refueling times and longer driving ranges. It will also market its SLS AMG E-Cell in 2013, the all-electric version of its hot sports car that the company says will equal the original in distance, speed and performance.Dupont bids $5.8 billion for Danisco &amp;8212' The chemicals giant is betting big on biofuels and food additives, Reuters writes. The two companies have a cellulosic ethanol joint venture.Duke Energy to be largest utility in the US &amp;8211' Duke offered $13.7 billion to buy out its rival, Progress Energy. Combined, the two would create the largest utility in the country. Duke has been experimenting with cleantech, with an energy efficiency pilot in Charlotte, N.C., wind farms and smart meters.Green manufacturing stocks took a hit in 2010 &amp;8212' Some of the year&amp;'s biggest losers in renewable energy were manufacturers, including Q-Cells, A123, Broadwind Energy and Energy Conversion Devices, said an Earth2Tech article citing Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Energy efficiency companies did better, with the biggest movers including LED companies Universal Display, Zhejiang Yankon Group and motor company Baldor Electric.Next Story: Live at Verizon&amp;'s iPhone event: iPhone 4 will be available early next month Previous Story: Dreaming of a white iPhonePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: biofuels, Buy America, CES, chemicals, e-cell, f-cell, green manufacturing, smart appliances, Smart Grid, smart home, Solar, utilitiesCompanies: A123, Danisco, Department of Defense, Duke Energy, Dupont, Mercedes-Benz, Progress, Q Cells          Tags: biofuels, Buy America, CES, chemicals, e-cell, f-cell, green manufacturing, smart appliances, Smart Grid, smart home, Solar, utilitiesCompanies: A123, Danisco, Department of Defense, Duke Energy, Dupont, Mercedes-Benz, Progress, Q CellsIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).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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