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<title><![CDATA[Visa acquires Fundamo mobile payment service]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Visa is continuing to gain ground in the mobile payments market with the acquisition of Fundamo, a service that is already prevalent in at least 40 developing markets.Basically, the merger brings together Fundamo's mobile financial services platform, for customers with little to no access to a bank account, with Visa's global payments network, VisaNet. The gain for Fundamo users would be a higher level of security when making mobile payments, and Visa gets a bigger consumer base abroad.Additionally, Visa reaffirmed an agreement with Monitise, which offers new services (i.e. mobile payments, person-to-person payments, mobile transaction alerts, etc.) to Visa account holders on mobile phone. Read more of &quot;Visa acquires Fundamo mobile payments service&quot; at ZDNet's Between the Lines.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Start-up pumped for compressed air wind storage]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kabuuto95</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A diagram of General Compressions compressed air energy storage system from the ARPA-E Summit earlier this year.(Credit:General Compression)General Compression said today it has raised money to further develop a method for storing energy from wind turbines with compressed air.The Boston-area start-up secured the first tranche in a $54.5 million in a series B round of funding. The full funding is contingent on meeting certain milestones.General Compression was started in 2006 to adapt air compressors used in other industries to store wind power by pumping pressurized air into underground formations. The company received seed funding in 2007 and has been seeking additional funding and corporate partners to advanced product development.There are already two installations of underground compressed air storage and a number of other efforts to build new ones. After being pumped underground, the high-pressure air is released and passed through turbines to generate electricity.In one natural gas plant in Alabama, the compressed air is pumped underground at off-peak times at night and then released to deliver power to the grid during peak times. Although there is some energy lost in the compression and expansion process, power generation companies can earn more money for delivering power during times of high demand, such as the middle of the day.General Compression's ground-based system is designed so wind turbines power a compressor and air expansion unit. With storage, wind power can become &quot;dispatchable,&quot; or able to deliver power when needed rather than only when the wind is blowing, according to the company.ConocoPhillips, an investor in General Compression, is a partner in its first project now under construction in Texas. This round of funding was led by Northwater Capital Management. Other investors include US Renewables Group and utility Duke Energy. The series B will allow the company to build up its manufacturing supply chain and develop new projects, it said.General Compression also received a grant from the Department of Energy's ARPA-E research program to pursue compressed air energy storage. The grant description indicates that the company's system does not use fossil fuels during the air expansion stage and has a potential efficiency of 75 percent.Updated at 6:22 p.m. PT with change to technology description.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[One out of eight people now uses Chrome]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kabuuto95</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Chrome is still the third-ranked browser in terms of worldwide usage, but its share is steadily climbing.(Credit:Net Applications)Chrome is now used by one out of every eight people on the Internet, new statistics show, but Microsoft's latest browser is showing signs of steady growth, too.Specifically, Chrome usage increased from 11.9 percent in April to 12.5 percent in May, according to statistics released today by Net Applications. The company bases its findings on population-adjusted measurements of visitors to Web sites using its analytics tools.Google has been promoting Chrome widely, taking out ads, publicizing it on YouTube with Lady Gaga songs and sentimental videos, sponsoring developer events, and devoting a full day at Google I/O to the browser and its close relative, Chrome OS. The company's primary objective: make the Web a faster, more powerful foundation for software and services.Although the company offers Chrome for free, Google sees it as an indirect revenue source. For one thing, the company benefits when greater activity on the Web leads to more search and display ads. For another, it offers two options that dovetail with Google's talking point du jour--the lucrative business of building a platform. Chrome OS, sold in laptops and corporate subscriptions, is one' the other is the Chrome Web Store, through which Google hopes developers will sell Web apps.Chrome's growth continues a steady trend, along with a couple others: Microsoft's Internet Explorer overall lost share, from 55.1 percent to 54.3 percent, andFirefox stayed about level, from 21.6 percent to 21.7 percent. Apple'sSafari has been gaining in usage for months, but it didn't budge much, moving from 7.2 percent to 7.3 percent. No. 5 Opera dipped from 2.1 percent to 2.0 percent.One important new browser, Firefox 4, outpaced its predecessor in May. It had 10.1 percent of usage compared to 9.1 percent for the earlier version 3.6. Firefox, after years as the top alternative to IE, is itself now an incumbent defending its turf: Chrome, Safari, and Opera together account for more usage than Firefox, and Chrome has well over half Firefox's share.IE9, which emerged in March and embodies Microsoft's effort to become competitive in the modern browser market, is making steady gains. It rose from 2.4 percent of users in April to 4.2 percent in May, Net Applications said.Microsoft prefers to measure IE9's success on a significantly smaller market,Windows 7 machines. IE9 doesn't run on Windows XP, which is still very widely used, or on Macs or today's mobile devices. In that market, IE9 was used by 12.2 percent of people in May, Net Applications said. IE6 is steadily diminishing in usage worldwide.(Credit:Microsoft/Net Applications) The Internet's present development is held back by the widespread continuing use of IE6, which doesn't support a wide swath of modern Web standards and which runs JavaScript programs very slowly. It's particularly common in China, South Korea, and India, but globally, IE6 usage dropped from 11.4 percent in April to 10.9 percent in May. Microsoft is trying to coax people to upgrade by promoting its IE6 Countdown site, which provides scary-looking banner graphics and reasons to upgrade.One notable item: IE9 is due to arrive in Microsoft's &quot;Mango&quot; update to Windows Phone 7, set to debut by the end of the year. Given WP7's low market usage today, don't expect that to significantly change IE9 statistics anytime soon.Apple's iOS, though, is a different matter. The OS is gaining in usage, accounting for 2.2 percent of operating systems used to browse the Net. Unlike on Mac OS X, it's pretty unusual for people to use a browser besides Safari, especially since alternatives must use Safari's rendering engine underneath.Google has made a different choice with its mobile OS, Android. First, Google permits other browsers, and Firefox and Opera Mobile are available for Android, complete with their own Web page rendering engines. Some Android devices even ship with Opera Mini--a &quot;proxy&quot; browser that actually relies on a remote server to process Web pages.Another difference from Apple and and Microsoft: Google chooses not to brand the mobile browser shipping with its Android mobile OS as Chrome. At May's Google I/O conference, Chrome leader Sundar Pichai said the reason is that, although the Android browser is derived from the same WebKit open-source project that Chrome (and Safari) use, it's not the same code base as Chrome.That may seem like a fine distinction, but when it comes to brand issues--for example, a Web developer promising visitors that a Web site &quot;works with Chrome&quot;--compatibility and feature support is a real issue. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More countries, led by India, to fuel solar growth]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kabuuto95</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[BOSTON--Germany, Italy, and Spain may be the solar powerhouses of today, but in five years, a new set of countries led by India will emerge as leading consumers of solar technology, according to an analyst.Lux Research solar analyst Ted Sullivan yesterday predicted that India, South Africa, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, and the U.K. are among the countries best-suited to create the market demand for gigawatts worth of solar panels as established countries cool off.A solar plant in Spain. Which countries will be the fast-growing solar markets after 2012(Credit:GE)Last year, Germany and Italy represented about two-thirds of the solar market, but solar growth in those countries is expected to level off this year as subsidies get scaled back. Also, once distributed solar reaches a certain penetration, it becomes challenging for grid operators to maintain stability without grid storage.For solar manufacturers, which are cranking out higher and higher volumes of solar panels, the question of which country can become the &quot;next Germany&quot; and consume hundreds of megawatts of solar is an important question for the industry, said Sullivan during a presentation at the Lux Executive Summit here.Japan, the U.S., and China are also large markets, representing about four gigawatts of capacity installed last year. But because of questions of subsidies and solar penetration in the grid, the question of where the bulk of demand lies after 2011 is still unclear, Sullivan said.Bringing down the cost of solar and changing utility regulations to employ time-of-use pricing, in which peak power costs more, could make solar more attractive in emerging countries such as Mexico or Brazil, he said. In India, solar will likely need to be coupled with storage for off-grid applications to take hold, he added. But even with the potential of some developing markets, Sullivan said it will take years for many of them to materialize. In five years, he predicted one-third of the 32 gigawatts of installed capacity will be in countries which have little solar power today.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon to install 100 gigabit network in U.S.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Verizon Communications plans to upgrade segments of its U.S. Internet backbone to 100 Gigabit Ethernet by the end of the second quarter, the carrier said today.The upgrade to 100G will happen in three segments: Chicago to New York, Sacramento to Los Angeles, and Minneapolis to Kansas City.The upgraded network can offer backbone speeds of 100 gigabits per second, up to 10 times faster than is generally now available. Verizon said the upgrade can benefit business customers that increasingly depend on video streaming, cloud-based applications, and other bandwidth-intensive services.Internet backbones use high-speed fiber-optic networks to send data between major routers on the Internet. The various backbones that support the Internet are maintained by different organizations, including telecom companies such as Verizon. Providing a major improvement in performance over 1G and 10G Ethernet and the more recent 40G Ethernet, the 100G Ethernet standard was ratified last summer by the IEEE, or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.The U.S. effort will follow a deployment earlier this month in Europe, where Verizon set up a 100-Gigabit Ethernet network between routers on a 555-mile stretch from Paris to Frankfurt. As in Europe, Verizon's U.S. backbone upgrade will use Juniper Networks' routers and Ciena's equipment to help the link bridge the long distance between cities.Beyond offering faster speeds, 100G Ethernet is more efficient than other network standards.Verizon can upgrade its current fiber-optic system by simply installing new equipment on the network rather than replacing the underlying infrastructure. The network is also more efficient, according to Verizon, because it can carry traffic on a single 100G wavelength as opposed to 10 different wavelengths, each running at 10 gigabits per second. And the overall efficiency of 100G Ethernet can help cut down on latency, or the total time it takes for the data to reach its destination.&quot;Advancing to 100G is a significant step in strengthening our global IP network to handle the bandwidth demands of our customers--whether it's large enterprises or the average consumer,&quot; Ihab Tarazi, vice president of network planning at Verizon, said today in a statement. &quot;Besides greater scalability and network efficiencies, we also expect 100G deployment to improve latency on a route-by-route basis.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook offers speed test for Web-based games]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kabuuto95</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The W3C&amp;39's new HTML5 logo(Credit:W3C)Facebook has released a benchmark designed to help developers test just how powerful desktop andmobile browsers are at running a new generation of games built with a new generation of Web standards.One of the most important of those standards is the JavaScript programming language, which is ubiquitous on the Web and ever faster in browsers. Enter Facebook's JSGameBench, designed specifically for measuring game issues such as displaying &quot;sprites,&quot; the graphics out of which animated characters are made.&quot;Although there are many other benchmark suites that measure JavaScript performance, we wanted to build one focused specifically on key game performance metrics,&quot; said Facebook engineer Cory Ondrejka in a blog post last night. &quot;JSGameBench exists to explore HTML5's game performance limits,&quot; he added, using HTML5 in the broad all-sorts-of-new-Web-technologies sense currently in vogue in some circles.It's only at version 0.1, so expect lots of changes. So far, though, Microsoft's upcoming IE9 crushes the competition on the speed test, with the Windows version of Google's upcoming Chrome 10 in second place.IE9 leads the browser pack when it comes to an early version of a Facebook test of Web-based game performance.(Credit:Facebook)Mobile browsers are particularly important at Facebook, and the new benchmark fits in there, too. &quot;JSGameBench generally works on mobile browsers, but properly abstracted touch and gesture events are key to games working across multiple phones,&quot; Ondrejka said.Ondrejka, by the way, has an interesting history in the digital realm. After a falling out in 2007, he left the chief technology officer job at Linden Lab, which operates the Second Life virtual world, then spent some time at music label EMI. After that stint, he worked on a variety of programming projects then co-founded a start-up called Walletin with his friend Bruce Rogers. Facebook hired the pair before the project got off the ground.Browser performance is tricky to quantify, in part because there are so many possible things to measure. In that, it's like just about every other benchmark: its relevance is limited by how well its tests represent real-world challenges. A benchmark limited to gaming applications has similar issues of scope, but it is a narrower task than analyzing all possible Web-based programs.Microsoft, as part of its effort to promote IE9 and its hardware acceleration, is also interested in showcasing performance with a series of browser games and demos on its Internet Explorer Test Drive site. Microsoft may have idled through the last decade of browser activity, but it's fully awake now with IE9. It's got a competitive browser almost done, it's engaged in setting Web standards, and it's got its technical marketing team in high gear.A recent example: Yesterday, Microsoft detailed one of its benchmark-esque demos, called Blizzard. The company teased apart how the site exercises many of the new Web technologies. Among them are SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) for durved lines, Canvas for 2D graphics combined with JavaScript to animate their movement, WOFF (Web Open Font Format) for custom typography, built-in HTML5 audio, and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for styling.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Man claims Motorola Droid 2 exploded in his ear]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kabuuto95</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[You have, perhaps, occasionally had your ear bitten off over the phone. However, fewer are the people who have experienced their phone actually exploding into their ear, causing bleeding and a strange sensation of surprise.However, such is the claim being made by one Aron Embry of Cedar Hills, Texas, who told Fox4 in Dallas Fort-Worth that his two-day-old Motorola Droid 2 blew up on him without reason as he was getting into his car.His description to Fox4 offers an atmosphere redolent of David Cronenberg: &quot;I heard a pop. I didn't feel any pain initially. I pulled the phone down. I felt something dripping. I realized that it was probably was blood.&quot;Embry reports that the horror deepened when he went back into his house. &quot;As I got into the bathroom and once I got to the mirror and saw it, it was only then I kinda looked at my phone and noticed the screen had appeared to burst outward,&quot; he said.Strangely, Embry's first reaction was to go see his wife, who works at a school. It was she who called 911.You might presume that this was because Embry's allegedly explosiveDroid 2 was no longer working. In which case you would assume that all diplomats are governed by truth. For the Droid 2, though its glass is cracked and it appears to enjoy bloodstains, still functions. And Motorola's phone does not, thus far, have a reputation for blowing up on its users.Embry, though, has his ear fully bandaged, while Motorola says it is contacting him (by phone) to see what might have occurred.Many will speculate what sort of random happening might have taken place as Embry was getting into hiscar. Perhaps Embry's grip is unusually strong and charged. Perhaps there was some astonishing electrical event that transpired in that one small piece of Texas. Or perhaps this was a case, as might be portended by promised new WikiLeaks, of aliens coming ever closer to our smartphoned midst.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jabra reveals Stone 2]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jabra Stone 2(Credit:Jabra)Jabra has just introduced the sequel to its Stone headset from last year, and it's appropriately dubbed the Jabra Stone 2. It has the same design as its predecessor--the curved hook housed inside a portable &quot;stone&quot; charger--but it now features voice control, so you can answer and reject calls just by using your voice. It has dual microphone noise canceling, A2DP streaming, and up to 10 hours of talk time as long as you remember to keep it in the charger. It will be available on November 21 for $129.99.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apps give uTorrent a feature boost]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[uTorrent&amp;39's App Studio.(Credit:Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)uTorrent has long been known for providing a torrent managing client that's light on fancy features but light on your system resources, too. Today's release of uTorrent 2.2 brings out of beta an add-on gallery that the publisher BitTorrent, Inc. has been working on since the spring. The &quot;App Studio,&quot; as the company calls it, allows users to customize features on the fly, including adding security from BitDefender, games, social networking, and enhanced content discovery for legally free entertainment.Privacy concerns were addressed in this release. Users' real IP addresses are no longer broadcasted when connected to a UDP tracker, and proxy configuration has been streamlined. The new version also includes other improvements previously seen only in the beta. There's the improved uTP, or uTorrent Protocol, which works with traffic congestion control to ensure that one user doesn't block others. There's also better magnet link handling, and file relocation, so you can move a file from within the client. Skinning gets a refresh, too. The full changelog for uTorrent 2.2 is available here.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The verdict on Sony's PRS-650 Touch Edition e-reader]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Sony PRS-650 Touch Edition ($230), which comes in red or black, has an impressive touch-screen interface.(Credit:Sony)In 2009, Sony put out the Reader Touch Edition (model PRS-600), an E Ink reader with a 6-inch touch screen that looked sleek but had a few design flaws. For 2010, Sony has delivered an upgraded Reader Touch Edition, the PRS-650. While it looks a lot like its predecessor, the new Reader Touch Edition slightly trimmed down and has two major upgrades: the new higher-contrast E Ink Pearl display found in the latest Amazon Kindle and Kindle DX and a touch-screen interface that finally works well and is glare-free. The product is available in red or black for $230.Alas, the Reader Touch Edition, which weighs in at 7.58 ounces and measures a compact 6.61 inches tall by 4.68 inches wide by 0.38 inch thick, doesn't have any sort of wireless capabilities--but we'll get to that in a minute. For now, let's start with the good stuff, namely that Sony's engineers managed to remove a layer of screen protection that previously hurt the contrast (the letters weren't as dark as on the Kindle or Nook) and caused glare issues due to increased reflectivity. Those matters are now resolved, and it's great to see the concept of a touch-screen E Ink e-reader finally hit its stride. (Sony is using infrared technology licensed from Neonode for the touch mechanics, so you barely have to touch the screen to get a response).The 6-inch screen is, so far as we know, identical to the Pearl E Ink display found on the latest version of the Kindle--600x800 resolution, 16-level grayscale, and improved contrast (compared to older E Ink screens, like that of the Barnes &amp; Noble Nook). Six adjustable font sizes let you customize the view to your liking, so there's never a need to squint.While the touch screen may not be quite as responsive as that of theiPhone (due to the slightly laggy nature of E Ink), it's more responsive than it was, and, as we've said before, this type of interface is ideal for e-readers because it allows the designers to cut down on buttons and whittle the device down to just slightly bigger than the screen itself.Read the full review of Sony's PRS-650 Touch Edition.More: The company behind Sony's e-reader touch-screen technology<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google offering live hockey stats as it enters melee for real-time data]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Google will now begin offering real-time sport scores for the National Hockey League, the company said in its weekly search a4Around upa4 blog post, as the search behemoth continues to tempt everyone from stock markets to other social media sites like Twitter into offering information instantly.Google said the scores would be available via simple search terms such as a4Ahockeya4 or specific team names.Dubbed the NHL Live Result, the new partnership between the NHL and Google will also include team standings and play schedules, as well as other related content such as live streams, game previews and video highlights of completed games.Google currently does not offer live scores for any other major sports leagues such as the National Football League or the National Basketball Association. The company did not respond to a request for additional comment on when it may start offering live scores across the board.But with those sports seasons well upon us, it makes sense Google will soon strike similar deals with those leagues as the rush toward targeted, structured data continues.a4AMany of you are sports fans, and wea4a4re always delighted to make improvements that help you find those scores, stats and recaps,a4 said Google. a4AWe partnered with our friends at NHL.com to provide rich information in the snippets of the NHL.com resultsa4making it super-easy to keep up to date on the latest NHL action.a4Google has been rapidly building ways to get information to users in real-time, saying in September that it would be introducing a4Ahundredsa4 of search enhancements in coming months. The splashiest of these so far has been the introduction of Google Instant, which spits outs results in real time as a user starts typing out a search.The company said at that same event that it is bringing response time down to about 300 milliseconds, though muchdepends on individual Internet connectionsa4&quot;speed which will mean everything to diehard sports fans looking for immediate information on their favorite teams.Its Google Index, which lets web publishers of automatically submit new content to the search engine for indexing mere seconds after it is published, went live in March.Next Story: Zetta brings in $11.5M for enterprise cloud storage Previous Story: You&amp;'ve Got Mail! How Facebook can avoid becoming the new AOLPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Google, live content, structured dataCompanies: Google, national basketball association, National Football League, National Hockey League          Tags: Google, live content, structured dataCompanies: Google, national basketball association, National Football League, National Hockey LeagueRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting.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: A123 posts sharp Q3 losses, Sage gets $80 million for smart building glass]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here are the top cleantech stories we&amp;'re following on the GreenBeat today:Declining subsidies in top solar markets like Germany are pushing down the stocks of solar companies, Reuters reports, citingChinese solar firms JA Solar and Solarfun and industry giant First Solar as examples.Top glass and construction materials manufacturer Saint-Gobain announced it will make an $80 million strategic investment in Sage Electrochromics (pictured), which makes a glass technology that absorbs heat is useful in smart building applications. Sage has previously received $72 million in Department of Energy loan guarantees.Chevron will buy natural gas producer Atlas Energy for $3.2 billion, the WSJ reports, essentially making a big bet on U.S. natural gas exploration, which has surged recently thanks to the discovery of a massive gas field in the northeast U.S. called the Marcellus Shale.The American Petroleum Institute filed a lawsuit to challenge the new EPA decision to allow up to 15 percent ethanol in gasoline for cars made in or after 2007, WSJ reports.Wind turbine and solar panel makers may be forced to merge or be acquired since there appears to be an oversupply in the market, and clean energy stocks lost about $400 billion in value this year, Bloomberg writes.Battery company A123 posted sharp third-quarter losses, saying electric car-makers are moving more slowly on orders, so an expected increase in sales would be delayed until the second quarter of 2011, Reuters reports.Tesla announced its third quarter results yesterday, showing that revenues are down 31 percent from a year ago and that the car maker is losing nearly eight times as much money compared to the previous year.Previous Story: This isn&amp;'t Pets.com: PetFlow scores $5M for automatic pet food deliveryPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: batteries, electric cars, ethanol, glass, natural gas, Solar, solar panel, solar subsidies, Turbine, windCompanies: A123, American Petroleum Institute, Atlas Energy, Chevron, First Solar, JA Solar, Sage, Saint-Gobain, Solarfun, Tesla          Tags: batteries, electric cars, ethanol, glass, natural gas, Solar, solar panel, solar subsidies, Turbine, windCompanies: A123, American Petroleum Institute, Atlas Energy, Chevron, First Solar, JA Solar, Sage, Saint-Gobain, Solarfun, TeslaIris 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[Week in review: Amazon takes down Wikileaks]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here&amp;'s our review of the week&amp;'s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Amazon continues tight-lipped policy with WikiLeaks takedown &amp;8212' WikiLeaks, the nonprofit site that publishes leaked government documents, was booted off Amazon.coma4a4s cloud computing services on Wednesday, and initially, Amazon refused to explain why. Later, it claimed the move was not a response to political pressure.Will OnLive squash game retailers with $9.99-a-month online games &amp;8212' Online gaming service firm OnLive announced this week that it will offer an all-you-can eat $9.99-a-month subscription plan for gamers to access a library of video games.Google acquires Groupon for $2.5B &amp;8212' Rumors of a Google/Groupon deal have been swirling for weeks, and that continued Monday with a report that Google bought the daily deal company for $2.5 billion. A later report said Groupon spurned Google&amp;'s offer.Googlea4a4s Chrome OS netbook coming Dec. 7th &amp;8212' Ita4a4s been a long stretch, but Google is nearing the finish line with its Chrome OS netbook operating system.The TSA has become Goda4a4s gift to YouTube &amp;8212' The Transportation Security Administration has provider plenty of fodder from the video site ever since it introduced new body scanners and, for those who opt out, full-body pat-downs in an attempt to prevent future Underwear Bombers.And here are five more stories we think are important, thought-provoking, fun, or all of the above:Facebooka4a4s big move to Madison Avenue &amp;8212' The worlda4a4s largest social network could soon be opening up shop on Madison Avenue, the iconic address long linked to New York Citya4a4s advertising industry.Enterprise social network Yammer raises a whopping $25M to triple its team &amp;8212' Yammer, which develops and distributes an enterprise-focused social network similar to Facebook, announced Tuesday it has raised an additional $25 million in funding to help expand globally and triple its engineering team.Arianna Huffington criticizes the media worlda4a4s swinging dicks &amp;8212' Arianna Huffington, who created the massively popular news site Huffington Post, closed out the first day of Business Insidera4a4s Ignition conference by complaining, &amp;''You guys are all about who has the biggest swinging dick.&amp;''Will Translattice transform enterprise computing with truly distributed applications &amp;8212' Translattice is one of those rare companies that could turn the computing world upside down.Group-buying startup LivingSocial starts living large with $175M from Amazon &amp;8212' Googlea4a4s not the only one trying to get into the increasingly lucrative online group buying business.Previous Story: Entrepreneur Corner: Debunking recruiting myths and advertising pitfallsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Chrome OS, netbooksCompanies: Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, Groupon, Livingsocial, OnLive, Translattice, Transportation Security Administration, WikiLeaks, YammerPeople: Arianna Huffington          Tags: Chrome OS, netbooksCompanies: Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, Groupon, Livingsocial, OnLive, Translattice, Transportation Security Administration, WikiLeaks, YammerPeople: Arianna HuffingtonAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat 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.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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