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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Flash 10.2 arrives with more efficient video]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathaliebui</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Adobe Systems released Flash Player 10.2 today, bringing a technology called Stage Video designed to be easier on computing devices' processors and therefore batteries.Tom Nguyen, product manager for Flash platform runtimes, offered this glowing account for the Flash Player 10.2 announcement:Stage Video lets websites take advantage of full hardware acceleration of the entire video pipeline...Stage Video hardware acceleration means that Flash Player can play even higher quality video while using dramatically less processing power, giving users a better experience, greater performance, and longer battery life. In our testing across supported systems, we've found it's up to 34 times more efficient.Put another way, Flash Player using Stage Video can effortlessly play beautiful 1080p HD video with just 1 to 15 percent CPU usage on a commonMac or Windows computer...Many millions of additional PCs, from Netbooks to desktops, can now become slick HD home theaters on the Web.CPU usage during video has been a particular sore spot with Flash, in particular with Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs lambasting Flash video as battery-sucking software. Stage Video, among other things, uses hardware acceleration to combine (&quot;composite,&quot; in technical terms) video with other elements such as text or graphics--think subtitles, pop-up ads, and player controls. (Adobe already added hardware-assisted decoding of H.264 video in Flash Player 10.1.)Web developers need to update their software to use the new Stage Video interface' Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow offers a tutorial for those interested in how to do so. Google already has for its Flash-based player at YouTube, Adobe said.Speaking of hardware acceleration, Flash Player 10.2 also takes advantage of that ability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 for higher performance and smoother compositing. It also comes with the ability to show full-screen video on one monitor in a dual-monitor setup.Flash faces a host of challenges beyond power consumption. Also on the list are a variety of competing Web standards in varying degrees of maturity and the fact that Flash Player is a rarity on mobile phones.The Flash Player 10.2 plug-in can be downloaded from Adobe's download site, but things are somewhat different for users of Google's Chrome browser. Google builds Flash Player directly into Chrome and it issued a new stable version 9.0.597.94 and developer version 10.0.648.45 with Flash Player 10.2' the new versions download automatically and are installed upon restarting the browser.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's official: Facebook moving to Menlo Park]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathaliebui</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A sample image of what Facebook&amp;39's new campus might look like after it takes over Sun&amp;39's old buildings in Menlo Park.(Credit:Facebook)MENLO PARK, Calif.--Mark Zuckerberg is moving into Scott McNealy's old digs. Later this year Facebook will move into the nearly vacant office complex formerly home to Sun Microsystems near the foot of the Dumbarton Bridge, Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman announced today at Menlo Park City Hall. The first groups will make the short trek from downtown Palo Alto to Menlo Park starting in June or July, the company said in a press release, confirming what was already fairly common knowledge. After Oracle acquired Sun, it laid off thousands of employees and started moving others farther north up U.S. 101 to its campus in Redwood Shores, leaving a sparsely populated complex of nine buildings covering 57 acres on the shore of the bay. Sun still has a few employees in the location, but Facebook will take it over later this year. The deal is called a sale leaseback, a 15-year lease from Oracle with an option to purchase the property after 5 years, and the terms were not disclosed. Facebook will maintain its current presence in Palo Alto, but will call the Menlo Park campus its headquarters. Facebook has 1,400 employees in Palo Alto and 2,000 worldwide, the company said in a press release. The old Sun campus will give Facebook tons of room to expand, with 3,700 parking spaces and a total of about 1 million square feet in office space. The company looked at several different locations in the Bay Area but &quot;the Sun campus was by far and away our first choice,&quot; Ebersman said. It's just another sign of Silicon Valley's ability to reinvent itself every decade or so. Google's campus in Mountain View was once home to SGI, a giant in computer graphics processing that succumbed to cheaper and more powerful hardware. Tons of smaller start-ups in San Francisco have claimed the old warehouses and storage facilities in the South of Market district as their own. One open question is whether Facebook's relatively young workforce will embrace a fairly isolated campus surrounded by one of Menlo Park's more troubled neighborhoods, but Ebersman said the company would focus on making the environment &quot;a fun place to be.&quot; Two pictures of the current campus follow below:Part of the current Sun/Oracle campus in Menlo Park, soon to be home to Facebook.(Credit:Tom Krazit/CNET)About one-third of the campus is fenced off with active construction work taking place, presumably in line with Facebook&amp;39's expectation that it will be able to move in by June or July.(Credit:Tom Krazit/CNET)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sync your ride from your phone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathaliebui</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Ford&amp;39's new app give you real-time traffic information for up to 25 stored destinations.(Credit:Ford)Ford released a free mobile app that gives drivers access to some of Sync's travel features even when they're not in thecar. The Ford Sync Destinations app is like a mobile version of the Travel Destination and Information (TDI) service available on Sync-equipped autos. The service, which is free for the first three years, provides turn-by-turn directions, traffic incidents, travel time to destinations, and other information.Using the new app, drivers of 2010 and 2011 Sync-equipped cars will have that same information on their mobile device. In fact, the app is arguably better than what's available in the car because it will show real-time traffic and route information for up to 25 stored destinations at once. However, it's no substitute for the real thing--the app will automatically disable itself if it detects that the user is traveling at more than 5 mph, so you'll still need to use Sync Services TDI while you're in your ride.But the app also solves another problem--it enables drivers to send destination addresses and directions from their phones to their car, even when they're nowhere near them.Last July, Google added a &quot;Send to Car&quot; button on Google Maps that enabled drivers to send destinations and custom routes to their car, including Sync-equipped vehicles. However, Google mysteriously deleted that functionality from its apps, and it's now only available on the browser. This means that you could only use this feature if you're planning well in advance from a computer and not if you're already on the go. Ford's new app is a sort of workaround for that lost feature, and it also adds functionality. In addition to directions and estimated travel times, the app uses information provided by INRIX to provide estimates on how travel times will change depending on when you leave. And although I haven't tried it, Ford says you can add destinations to the app using the device's address book or through local business searches, although the carmaker didn't say which search tools will work.The downloadable app is available foriPhone,iPad, and Android devices, and you use your Sync account credentials to activate it. A BlackBerry app is also being developed, but is not yet available.Ford Sync Destination uses INRIX to show estimated travel times that change depending on when you plan to leave.(Credit:Ford)The new app is available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, and can show traffic incidents along a route. A BlackBerry app is being developed.(Credit:Ford) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Soyuz spacecraft delivers trio to space station]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathaliebui</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[After a two-day orbital chase, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station Friday, bringing three fresh crew members to the lab complex and boosting its full-time crew back to six.With rookie commander Dimitry &quot;Dima&quot; Kondratyev at the controls, flanked by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli to his left and NASA astronaut Catherine &quot;Cady&quot; Coleman to his right, the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft glided to a smooth docking with the station's Rassvet mini-research module at 3:11 p.m. EST as the two vehicles sailed 224 miles above Western Africa.The Expedition 26 crew fields questions from dignitaries and family members in Moscow. Three fresh crew members, dressed in blue flight suits, arrived aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Friday (left to right): Catherine Coleman, Dmitry Kondratyev, and Paolo Nespoli. Back row (left to right): Alexander Kaleri, commander Scott Kelly, and Oleg Skripochka.(Credit:NASA TV)A few moments later, after residual motion damped out, hooks and latches engaged to pull the Soyuz firmly into place for extensive leak checks. Thee hours later, at 6:02 p.m., hatches were opened and Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly, Alexander Kaleri, and Oleg Skripochka, launched October 7, welcomed their new crewmates aboard.Gathering in the Zvezda command module, the Expedition 26 crew took a few moments to chat with dignitaries and family members at the Russian mission control center near Moscow.&quot;Hi, Mom, it's Jamey,&quot; Coleman's 10-year-old son radioed. &quot;I miss you a lot, and I'll take care of Dad.&quot;&quot;I know you will, I miss you too,&quot; Coleman replied from orbit. &quot;I wish you could have come up in the Soyuz with us. It was really pretty amazing to look down and see the Earth. And now we're in the space station and I almost got lost on my way to this place from the Soyuz. It's so big here!&quot;&quot;We are so glad you're on the space station,&quot; Coleman's husband, Josh Simpson, called. &quot;For the last three years, we have been trying to figure out where you are, whether it's in Germany, or Moscow, or Star City, or Japan, or Canada, or Texas. And now, we know exactly where you are! We can find out at any moment precisely where you are. And you're only, I don't know, 200 miles away. So you seem close to us now. Our hearts are with you.&quot;&quot;I love you guys,&quot; Coleman replied. &quot;And we won't have to even figure out time zones. It'll be the same time zone for six months.&quot;Veteran cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who now runs the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City near Moscow, urged the crew to &quot;enjoy your flight. I envy you. Congratulations on the successful docking and I wish you every success. Good luck to you.&quot;The crew faced a light weekend schedule, giving the new arrivals a chance to get familiar with the station's layout and operation.&quot;As soon as they get on board, my primary goal is to get them acclimated to the environment and get them comfortable enough to where they can work up here efficiently,&quot; Kelly said in a recent media interview.&quot;One of the first things we do is a safety briefing, make sure they're aware and reminded of all the safety training they've had, but see it from the perspective of being on board here. Really, just to get them comfortable and ready to work starting the following Monday.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Big Day For Facebook: New Pages, Memories, And&nbsp'Downtime]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathaliebui</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook&amp;'s having a pretty interesting day. This morning the site pushed out a nifty new registration widget for third party sites. In the last few hours it&amp;'s also pushed out a revamped version of its Pages, which brings the UI more in line with its updated profiles design, which launched earlier this month. And there are multiple reports on Twitter about a new &amp;''Memories&amp;'' feature that lets you scan through your entire history on the site.Unfortunately, you can&amp;'t see any of these right now, because Facebook a4&quot;a4sand the myriad Like buttons scattered across the web a4&quot;a4sare all down hard.  Update: It&amp;'s back up for me as of 1:45 PM PST.Given its massive distribution and the fact that it services as the primary login system for many sites, any downtime for Facebook is a big deal. We&amp;'ll update once the site comes back up a4&quot;a4slooks like it&amp;'s been down for around 15 minutes so far. For the time being though, let&amp;'s recap the features that Facebook rolled out (apparently a bit too quickly).The new Facebook Pages look a lot like Facebook Place pages and the updated user profiles. Application tabs have been moved from a nav bar resting on top of the Wall to the left side-bar, just beneath the Page&amp;'s main image. Pages can also now feature lists of Facebook users, the same way you can feature your friends on your Facebook profile. There&amp;'s also a new button that lets page administrator &amp;8216'Login as Page&amp;', which lets you receive notifications for just your page, and not your personal account.Facebook Memories is still a bit mysterious because it was only showing up for a few minutes at a time, according to numerous tweets on the feature.  The Next Web nabbed a shot of the navigation bar for Memories (seen below) but it doesn&amp;'t do much to show what the feature actually looks like.From the reports on Twitter, Memories lets you jump through your entire history on Facebook, allowing you to scan through all of the comments, photos, and connections you&amp;'ve established over time. Some users are describing it as creepy, and it&amp;'s not clear if you can look at the Memories tabs of your friends (which would be a little weird) or just your own. Let us know in the comments if you got a chance to try out the feature, we&amp;'ve reached out to Facebook for more information.Update:: Facebook is back up now, but it seems that the updated Pages design and Memories are gone.Update 2:: Facebook is also apparently testing a new option for News Feed called &amp;8216'Outside World&amp;'. It&amp;'s unclear what this is, but it may be a ranked list of hot news stories, videos, and other content that&amp;'s been shared online. This image is from Casschin on Twitter:Update 3: Facebook has just tweeted that &amp;''some internal prototypes were exposed to people and resulted in us disabling the site briefly. It&amp;'s now back to normal.&amp;'' So looks like we won&amp;'t be seeing Memories or the &amp;8216'Outside World&amp;' view just yet.CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony launches its music-streaming service]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nathaliebui</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sony has launched a new streaming-music service in the U.K. and Ireland, showing that the company is forging ahead with a plan to create a media ecosystem around its products akin to Apple&amp;'s, despite a long history of failed efforts in this arena.The streaming service, Music Unlimited, will be available in the U.S. and other countries next year. Sony joins Rhapsody, Spotify, Napster, MOG and other music streamers in offering a service that relatively few people want. Further, unlike those services, the music won&amp;'t be available on phones.&amp;''In short,&amp;'' notes Peter Kafka at All Things Digital, &amp;''it appears to be like every other subscription service, only much more limited.&amp;''Supposedly, Sony will eventually make the 6 million songs available on Android phones and on a range of Sony&amp;'s own mobile devices. But as Kafka notes, Sony makes no mention of the iPhone. Listening via phone is &amp;''pretty much the point of these things,&amp;'' Kafka acidly observes.Although Sony is clearly taking on Apple, Sony executive Kaz Hirai, a longtime head of its more successful video-game unit,told the AP that the company is going with streamed music rather than downloadable songs because Sony &amp;''realized that if we were playing catch up with the same (iTunes) model, it would be difficult to appeal to users.&amp;''It&amp;'s hard to say what about the service will appeal to users, other than, perhaps, PlayStation 3 owners. There, the company enjoys an existing customer base of 60 million users, about 80 percent of who connect to the Web via the device. It&amp;'s not clear how many of them will sign up with Music Unlimited, and it&amp;'s even less clear how many non-owners of PlayStations will sign up. The service is or will be available via a range of Sony products including Bravia televisions, Blue-ray players and Vaio computers.Music Unlimited&amp;'s full name is actually &amp;''Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity.&amp;'' Qriocity (which, the uninitiated learn after a moment of puzzling over the name, sounds like &amp;''curiosity&amp;'') is the name of Sony&amp;'s attempt to take on the market for online video delivery. It has been a flop.Music Unlimited stores music in the cloud, synchronizing with user&amp;'s music playlists a4&quot; well, except for those songs that are copyright-protected. In the U.K, the service costs 10 pounds a months a4&quot; about the same as Spotify.Next Story: Skype outage affects tens of millions Previous Story: Missed out on Crunchies tickets Here&amp;'s your second chancePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Music Unlimited, Qriocity, streaming music, video on demandCompanies: Apple, SonyPeople: Kaz Hirai          Tags: Music Unlimited, Qriocity, streaming music, video on demandCompanies: Apple, SonyPeople: Kaz HiraiVentureBeat 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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