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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Samsung's WB700 18x compact promises quiet movie zooming]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The WB700 extends the zoom range of 2010&amp;39's HZ35W (pictured) to 18x, but drops the GPS. The most remarkable thing about the Samsung WB700 is its 18x 24-432mm lens crammed into a body that's just less than an inch thick. Of course an 18x zoom will only get you so much attention, so Samsung's decided to lead with the camera's Smart Zoom feature that digitally extends the zoom range to 24x. (Judging by the sparse details in the press release, it sounds similar to Panasonic's Intelligent Zoom feature that basically crops in on a photo and then sharpens for better detail.)In other zoom-related digital hocus-pocus, the WB700 has active noise cancellation for the lens movement when shooting movies. Generally, a motorized zoom lens makes some noise when it's moved while recording, which is picked up by a camera's mic. This feature apparently quiets that movement.Other key features include: 16-megapixel CCD sensor 1/2.3-inch type (14 megapixels effective)3.0-inch LCD 1080p movie capture (H.264 file format) Full manual controlsRaw captureHDMI output 4.1x2.3x.98 inches (WHD)The WB700 replaces the HZ35W and HZ30W compact megazooms. I'm guessing GPS didn't work out well for Samsung as it's axed that feature from the WB700. Look for it in April for $299.99.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Boeing resumes Dreamliner testing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Boeing announced today that it is resuming flight testing for its 787 Dreamliner program six weeks after an onboard fire halted the evaluation program and forced a test aircraft to land in Laredo, Texas.Boeing said in a statement it returned test aircraft ZA004 to flight after it had installed an interim version of updated power distribution system software and completed a &quot;rigorous set of reviews to confirm flight readiness.&quot; In the past few weeks, Boeing and supplier Hamilton Sundstrand completed initial verification of the changes with simulator and ground-based testing.Boeing spokeswoman Lori Gunter told CNET that the company will announce a revised testing schedule possibly in January but only after it had evaluated results from the resumed tests. After it completes additional company-required tests Boeing will follow with the remaining certification testing needed to carry revenue passengers. The November 9 fire, which was blamed on a failed power panel in the electronics bay, was only the latest incident in a long string of setbacks that have delayed the plane's delivery for more than three years. Though launch customer All Nippon Airways was originally set to receive its first aircraft in May 2008, the Dreamliner's first flight didn't occur until December 15 of last year.Shares of Boeing closed at $65.06 at the end of trading today. That's up $0.45 or 0.70 percent from Wednesday's close.On Dec. 15, 2009, Boeing&amp;39's 787 Dreamliner took off for its first flight.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anonymous explains self amid WikiLeaks drama]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kburgessks45</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Anonymous group that has been attacking Web sites of organizations that it deems enemies of WikiLeaks has apparently issued a press release to explain its motivations and structure.&quot;Anonymous is not a group of hackers,&quot; Anonymous representatives wrote in a statement (PDF) issued today. &quot;We are average Internet citizens ourselves and our motivation is a collective sense of being fed up with all the minor and major injustices we witness every day.&quot;The group said it does not intend &quot;to steal your personal information or credit card numbers&quot; and does not plan on attacking the &quot;critical infrastructure of companies such as MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, or Amazon.&quot; Instead, Anonymous said that its Operation: Payback is designed to &quot;raise awareness about WikiLeaks and the underhanded methods employed by the above companies to impair WikiLeaks' ability to function.&quot;&quot;It is a symbolic action,&quot; Anonymous said. &quot;As blogger and academic Evgeny Morozov put it, a legitimate expression of dissent.&quot;Anonymous has launched a slew of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past week on companies, government agencies, and organizations that it believes are &quot;impairing&quot; WikiLeaks. The group took both Visa.com and MasterCard.com offline earlier this week. Anonymous noted in the apparent press release that there were &quot;calls&quot; to take down Amazon.com, but it claims those attacks never materialized.Citing Amazon's decision to stop hosting WikiLeaks on its servers, Anonymous confirmed that some of its members wanted to target the online retailer.&quot;After the attack was so advertised in the media, we felt that it would affect people, such as consumers, in a negative way and make them feel threatened by Anonymous,&quot; the group wrote. &quot;Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones would be in bad taste.&quot;But that didn't stop the organization from attacking PayPal for preventing users from donating money to WikiLeaks in support of its efforts. Anonymous asserted that it was not trying to hurt PayPal's &quot;ability to process payments,&quot; but that it had been slowing the company's &quot;network down just enough for people to notice and thus, we achieve our goal of raising awareness.&quot;Assuming the press release is real, the decision on the part of Anonymous to explain itself is an interesting one. The group seems to be concerned with being viewed as vigilantes who launch online attacks to the detriment of consumers. It also seems to fear the possibility of being misunderstood and wants to distance itself from the belief that it's a rigid organization acting at the behest of a handful of leaders.&quot;Anonymous has a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives,&quot; the statement said.Also today:&amp;149'&amp;nbsp'Police in the Netherlands are investigating an apparent attack on police and prosecutor Web sites in that country after arresting a 16-year-old individual yesterday for allegedly being involved in Anonymous attacks on financial institutions. A police representative told the Associated Press that authorities &quot;assume it is hackers,&quot; but said that they were &quot;not sure yet.&quot;&amp;149'&amp;nbsp'Moneybookers, another online-payment company, was targeted by Anonymous this morning. The site was reportedly down for a few minutes. Anonymous targeted Moneybookers for informing WikiLeaks in August that it had shuttered its account on the service due to the controversy surrounding the organization.&amp;149'&amp;nbsp'Although sensitive documents have already been leaked, the U.S. government apparently is working to limit such revelations in the future, Wired is reporting. According to the publication, the U.S. military is asking troops &quot;to immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and standalone machines residing on SIPRNet.&quot; Wired claims that directive came from a document it obtained. The document was reportedly written by Maj. Gen. Richard Webber, the commander of the U.S. Air Force's Network Operations.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[G-20 determines world's energy fate, says report]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:The Pew Charitable Trusts)The G-20 nations have the most power and the largest impact on the future of clean energy because together they account for 90 percent of the world's investment in clean energy. In addition, China leads the G-20 and the world in investment and almost every other category when it comes to clean-energy development, and it may do so for the next 10 years. That's according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts, in conjunction with Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The report, called &quot;Global clean power: A $2.3 trillion opportunity,&quot; offers predictions for the future of clean-energy investment based on which policies are adopted by the G-20 member nations. The report lays out how world private investment in clean energy would play out under three different scenarios: if current policies remain in place, if the Copenhagen 2009 pledges are carried out, and if more aggressive energy policies are adopted.According to a Pew report released earlier this year, China was the largest investor in clean energy in 2009 at $34.6 billion, when including asset finance, public markets, and venture capital/private equity as categories. The U.S. came in second with $18.6 billion, followed by the U.K. with $11.2 billion.This new report released today indicates that China continues to lead, and that worldwide private investment in clean-energy projects will likely total $1.7 trillion worldwide by 2020.If the G-20 governments adopt more aggressive clean-energy policies, that investment could increase by $546 billion to a total of $2.3 trillion.&quot;Under the enhanced clean-energy scenario, China could attract $93 billion worth of clean-energy asset financing in 2020. Cumulatively, in this scenario, $620 billion is projected to be invested in renewable energy assets in China over the next 10 years,&quot; said the report.India is also a rising star with regard to the energy sector. It's predicted to go from 10th to 3rd in rank by 2020, no matter which of the three scenarios comes true. India, the U.S., and the U.K. are the three G-20 countries where a lack of clean-energy policies has left each of them a lot of room for possible growth in the coming years, according to the report. &quot;Cumulatively, the United States has the potential to attract $342 billion in private clean-energy investments over the next decade,&quot; said the report.Wind has proved to be the most cost-competitive large-scale clean-energy option, with the report predicting the already successful wind sector to win even more investment compared with other options like solar, geothermal, or hydro power. Under aggressive clean-energy policy adoption, the industry would see $190 billion invested in it by 2020. Here, too, China also leads the charge.In all three scenarios, more than 50 percent of energy investment in China is for wind energy-related technology and projects.The information also coincides with an Ernst &amp; Young report released earlier this month, which found that more than 50 percent of the world's wind investment currently comes from China.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chrome Web Store a gift for developers, a sea change for users]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kburgessks45</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=chrome-web-store-a-gift-for-developers-a-sea-change-for-users</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Google Chrome Web Store, which went live today, is a big gift to Web developers: it's a marketplace, like Apple's iOS App Store and Google's Android Market, that lets developers put their apps in a place where users and buyers are likely to be looking for them. It also collects money on developers' behalves.Google&amp;39's new Web Store. Looks like Apple&amp;39's App Store, but the terms are very different.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET)Unlike most of the apps for iOS or Android, developers don't really have to program a new app for the Google Web Store to get it into the market. Especially in this early stage of the store, many of the &quot;apps&quot; are nothing more than Web sites--just as free as the sites you get to by typing a URL, and in many cases just as unexciting. But the store does give developers a new avenue to put their best Web work into a well-organized market, and it also goads developers to work on building HTML5 apps for the Web-centric Chrome OS Netbooks, which are expected to arrive in mid-2011. Apps you buy in the Chrome Web Store will be waiting in your account if you should get one of those Netbooks in the future. A quick look at Google Chrome OS (photos) While most of the apps currently in the Web Store are nothing more than Web links, some, like the Gilt shopping app and the ESPN sports photo viewer, feel and run like actual installed apps of theiPad variety. Set Chrome up to run in full-screen mode and you'll not know the difference. Google store a nonprofitGoogle Engineering Director Linus Upson told me about a few of the things that set the Chrome Web Store apart from the other big Web stores. First, he says, while the Chrome Store does collect a fee when it sells an app, Google does not aim to make its store a profit center. &quot;We collect only enough to cover our costs,&quot; Upson says. Also, there are several types of payments that Google can process for developers: up-front purchasing of an app, recurring subscription fees, and in-app add-on purchases are all possible. The Store uses Google Checkout to handle billing. Developers can also put Google ads into their apps--that's where Google will make more of its money.The Web Store lets developers charge for apps in a few different ways.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET)Since Chrome apps are really just Web pages, they should be able to work in any contemporary browser. Indeed, some of the apps I tested, including the very slick New York Times app, worked fine inFirefox (Sports Illustrated and Gilt did not). But Chrome enables some functions that won't work in other browsers. In particular, you can't buy an app except in Chrome. And you cannot &quot;install&quot; an app, since the Chrome start page on which the store installs its icons doesn't have a standard programming interface. Upson did say, however, that Mozilla is working on an open standard for installing apps, and in conversation loosely implied that Google would either contribute to this effort or adopt its final spec. Another big difference from Apple (and Microsoft) Web stores: There's no pre-approval required to put an app in the store. There are guidelines, and Google may remove apps that violate these guidelines or that the community votes off the island, but basically, anyone can put anything online for at least a short while. This is how Google's Android Market works, as well. Where's my cloud-based hard driveWhile Chrome (the browser and the operating system) is becoming an honest-to-goodness platform for apps, one thing it doesn't have, that no online vendor has yet sorted out, and that is core to every other mainstream desktop computer operating system, is a file system that developers can tap into. If you &quot;install&quot; a Chrome app, say one of the Aviary graphics-editing apps, and you want to operate on a file stored on another service, there is as yet no standard, accepted place where users or developers can park or transfer files. To get a file from one app to another, the apps have to talk directly, and the user has to approve app-to-app communication (via oAuth or direct login). I hear the developers of online storage services (perhaps Facebook's Dropio team' or Dropbox) have been working on a system for this, but as Upson told me, &quot;building a unified anything is hard, and in many cases counterproductive.&quot; Aviary's Michael Galpert says that, at the moment, setting up app-to-app communication for moving files around works acceptably well, but he is looking forward to a solution that's more consistent for users. Our Cr-48 notebooks arrive this week.(Credit:Google)A real threat to the old modelEric Schmidt said at today's launch of the Chrome Web Store that technologies have finally evolved to the point where a Web-based framework--and Web-focused hardware for it--is capable enough to be a workable productivity, social, and entertainment platform for the majority of technology users, especially those whose computers run a browser layered on top of an operating system only to run online apps and access Web sites. We'll be getting Google's testbed Cr-48 notebooks in our hands this week and will evaluate the hardware and the OS to see if we have, finally, reached the point where we can kiss the old software-on-operating-system model goodbye.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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