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<title><![CDATA[Japan eyes solar panels on all new buildings]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 07:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libugingo</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A landmark along the Tokyo-Osaka railway, Sanyo&amp;39's Solar Ark is 344 yards wide with an annual output of 530,000 kWh. (Credit:Sanyo)Struggling with a continuing nuclear crisis and strains on its power supplies, Japan is thinking of requiring that all new buildings, including homes, come equipped with rooftop solar panels by 2030, according to a recent Nikkei newspaper report. Prime Minister Naoto Kan may announce the plan this week at a G8 summit in France, the business daily reported. Kan has pledged to review Japan's energy policy and increase renewable sources following the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunamis. Kan hopes a solar-energy requirement for new buildings, along with technological innovation, would help reduce the cost of solar-power generation. The government's current energy policy includes plans to increase nuclear energy to more than half of the total supply by 2030 as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Japan now gets about 30 percent of its electricity from nuclear sources. Meanwhile, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said today that three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant probably suffered meltdowns early into the emergency, and their inner pressure vessels may have been breached. While Units 2 and 3 experienced partial meltdowns, Unit 1 was most severely affected. An International Atomic Energy Agency team has also begun to look into how Japan has handled the worst nuclear accident in decades, which has left parts of the Tohoku region uninhabitable. Tepco is trying to get the reactors under control by January. Its April electricity output was down 15 percent from a year earlier and shortages are expected to continue into the summer. Since western Japan runs on a different frequency, Tepco can't easily import large power supplies from other cities. Japanese have been cooperating with emergency power conservation campaigns since the quake. As a result, they'll likely be less keen to use air conditioning, so this summer may be particularly hot and sticky in Tokyo. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Volvo shows electric battery unharmed in crash (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libugingo</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Electrified versions of conventional gasoline-powered vehicles may look the same, but large engines have been replaced with smaller motors, the batteries are enormous, and there's no gas tank to be found. Those differences are enough to impact or compromise thecar's original safety features.To demonstrate the safety of the C30 Electric, Volvo released video of a crash test that shows its electric versions are as safe as counterparts outfitted with conventional internal combustion engines (ICE).The video was taken right before the 2011 North American International Auto Show, and shows an C30 Electric prototype with a 660-pound battery in a 40 mph offset crash. A computerized overlay outlines where the T-shaped battery is located in the vehicle, and shows that it remains fully intact and uninjured despite the high-speed crash. &quot;The test produced exactly the results we expected,&quot; Jan Ivarsson, Volvo safety senior manager, said in a statement. &quot;The C30 Electric offers the very same high safety level as a C30 with a combustion engine. The front deformed and distributed the crash energy as we expected. Both the batteries and the cables that are part of the electric system remained entirely intact after the collision.&quot; In a conventional vehicle, the engine typically distributes a lot of the impact's force. To compensate for less mass under the hood, the front crumple zone of the C30 had to be reinforced. Fortunately, you don't have to worry about leaks in the gas tank, but unlike cars with ICEs, the C30 Electric has a 440-volt electric system. Keeping that in mind, Volvo separates the lithium ion batteries from the car's crumple zones and the passenger compartment.Volvo is often slower to adopt new technologies because of the high safety standards it imposes upon itself. While several manufacturers are already introducing electric vehicles this year, Volvo will only introduce a demo fleet of C30 Electrics sometime this year for testing. It plans to produce a plug-in hybrid in 2012 for the European market, with a U.S. model to follow shortly after.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook adds Amber alerts to find missing kids (podcast)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libugingo</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[In many communities throughout the country, when a child goes missing you may hear about it on the radio or see a notice on an illuminated highway sign. You might also get a text message if you're signed up to receive one. AOL, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft also disseminate Amber alerts. Now you can receive them on Facebook.The Amber alert program, which was established 15 years ago after the abduction and murder of its namesake, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, has so far resulted in the recovery of 525 kids according to Ernie Allen, CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).You can sign up to receive Amber alerts on Facebook by clicking the Like button on the page for your state.(Credit:Facebook)The program will be opt-in and you will only get alerts about children missing in your state or other states you designate. Also, according to Allen, Amber alerts are only used for the most serious cases, where local law enforcement believes the child is in immediate danger and where there is good descriptive information that people can look for, such as an automobile and license plate. Fortunately, these alerts are rare.To sign-up for Amber alerts on Facebook go to Facebook.com/AMBERAlert, pick your state, and click the Like button at the top. You can also add that page to your favorites and suggest it to your friends. At any time, you can visit your state's page by adding your state's initials to the URL such as Facebook.com/AmberAlertNY. Ernie Allen, CEO of the National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children(Credit:NCMEC.org)Amber alerts for your state will show up in your news feed along with all the other items, but if you have a lot of Facebook friends you might miss them if you're not looking.  &quot;It doesn't get priority over other feeds,&quot; said Facebook's Washington, D.C., policy staffer Adam Conner but, he added, &quot;the hope is it will be so important that people will share it immediately and it will see a full viral effect.&quot; Allen agrees. &quot;One of our hopes is that because Facebook is so viral and there is such an opportunity for people to mobilize and communicate with their friends that very quickly this information can reach a huge number of people and bring more kids home.&quot;Disclosures: I serve without pay on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing &amp;amp' Exploited Children and am co-director of ConnectSafely.org which receives financial support from Facebook.&amp;nbsp' For more, click below to listen to my eight-minute interview with NCMEC CEO Ernie AllenListen now:Download today's podcastSubscribe now:  iTunes (audio) |  RSS (audio)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zynga&'s CityVille grows to 100 million users in 43 days]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libugingo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Zynga keeps making history with CityVille, the fastest-growing game of all time. Today, the Facebook game broke another record as it reached 100 million users, just 43 days after its launch on Dec. 2.The simple city simulation became the biggest-ever app on Facebook, surpassing the peak number for Zynga&amp;'s FarmVille, on Jan. 3. FarmVille hit a peak of 83.76 million users  in March, 2010, according to market analyst AppData.The growth rate is breathtaking and has become the envy of the entire world of apps. Clearly, by coming up with innovations to make games more social, Zynga has succeeded in taking games to a new level of engagement. In essence, CityVille represents the latest evolution in casual Facebook games, adapting features from the company&amp;'s popular FrontierVille and FarmVille games to make them more fun. As Facebook grows past 600 million, Zynga is providing the social network&amp;'s new users with things to do.Bing Gordon, an investor in Zynga and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, says that CityVille shows what happens when you structure rewards in games the right way. He says it&amp;'s proof that games are like a &amp;''social lingua franca&amp;'' of the web, where you relate to people or deepen your relationship with them by playing social games with them.It makes you wonder where this is going to plateau, since one in six Facebook users is now playing CityVille. In the 50-year history of video games, Zynga&amp;'s CityVille is the fastest-growing game ever, in terms of user numbers. The  game is available for free and users can choose to pay real money for  virtual goods such as more energy.CityVillea4a4s daily active user count is  about 18.5 million, compared to FarmVillea4a4s peak of 34.5 million daily  active users. Overall, Zynga has 296.6 million monthly active users,  which is far above its peak in the spring. The next-closest  rival on Facebook is Takeoff Monkey, with just 57 million monthly active  users.CityVille passed FarmVillea4a4s current monthly active user count of 58 million on Dec. 24.In the game, you can build a town with homes, shops, farms and  community buildings. Though the interactivity is limited in some ways,  CityVille does a good job of creating the illusion of real-time play,  where lots of things are happening on the screen at the same time. As  you can tell from the screen shot, your friends can help you manage the  city as well. It thus appears to be more social and interactive than a  lot of other Facebook games, where you generally play by yourself,  taking one turn at a time.In an interview with VentureBeat,  CityVillea4a4s Mark Skaggs said the CityVille team was formed from scratch  in the spring and that 95 percent of the team had never worked on a  game before. A few were veterans like Skaggs, who previously worked at  Electronic Arts. The vision was to create a game that actually felt like  you were controlling a city in real time.As Ia4a4ve played the game, ita4a4s easy to see how Zynga hopes to generate  revenue from it. Every move you make in the game takes energy, and your  stores need inventory to sell. Both are in short supply. If you want to  accelerate your progress and generate more inventory and energy, you  can purchase it with real money. That helps generate revenue for Zynga.Or you can visit your friendsa4a4 cities to earn more resources. You can  also generate more virtual revenue for your city by opening retail  franchises in other cities. These factors make the game more social.  Zynga has also figured out ways to keep the engagement, or time spent  per game session, higher. You can, for instance, plant some strawberries  on a farm and reap the resources within five minutes. Normally, in  games such as FarmVille, it takes hours or days before the crops can be  harvested.Digg&amp;'s Kevin Rose observed that CityVille does a good job of keeping you emotionally glued to the screen in a way that a behavioral psychologist could understand. It puts users in an endless loop of achieving goals, reaping rewards, and sharing their accomplishments.Next Story: How to drive a successful social media campaign Previous Story: Watch IBMa4a4s Watson AI defeat puny humans in Jeopardy (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CityVille, Farmville, social gamesCompanies: Facebook, ZyngaPeople: Kevin Rose, Mark Skaggs          Tags: CityVille, Farmville, social gamesCompanies: Facebook, ZyngaPeople: Kevin Rose, Mark SkaggsDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.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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