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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 07:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Exclusive: eBay removes page that exposed data]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 07:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nireancegiola</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This is the message that now appears on the eBay Web page that was leaking customer data last night. Click to enlarge.eBay removed a page from its Web site that was leaking customer data after CNET inquired about the security issue. Acting on a reader tip last night, CNET verified that an eBay Web page for sellers to order co-branded U.S. Postal Service boxes was exposing customers' names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers. The site was automatically filling in a stranger's information when the page was accessed by a logged-in user.  eBay representatives did not respond to e-mails or phone calls from CNET last night. They did, however, take down the leaky Web page either late last night or early this morning.  After a call and e-mail from CNET this morning, eBay spokeswoman Johnna Hoff e-mailed this statement: &quot;We are currently experiencing a technical issue that is impacting the functionality of the eBay-USPS box-ordering Web site. We have temporarily taken the eBay-USPS site down as we identify and resolve the issue. It is possible that fewer than 5,700 mailing addresses were inadvertently viewed by users coming to the site to purchase shipping boxes. We plan to contact the impacted users.&quot; It remains unclear how long the Web page was leaking the information.  We will update this post as we get more information.CNET's Josh Lowensohn contributed to this report.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Lady Gaga met Larry Google]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nireancegiola</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[When she was in high school, all of her friends wanted to work at Google. So offered Lady Gaga as she wandered into the Googleplex and showed them what true domination really looked like.The purpose of Gaga's visit was to sit with Google's Marissa Mayer and answer questions offered on something called Google Moderator. This, oddly, is not a new Google tool specifically designed to dampen China's enthusiasm for censorship.It's a thingy that allows your audience to decide what is most important to them. So there sat a hoarsely nervous Mayer asking questions offered by Gaga's fans from around the world.Gaga looked, as usual, extremely fetching, with a bun atop her head that resembled a black and blond 3-D version of the new Chrome logo.Once Mayer had introduced her as the Queen of the Downloads, Gaga talked of stardom, school friends, bullying, and rehearsing. Mayer, though, interrupted her by showing that she went to a Halloween Party as, um, Gaga. Her Ladyship didn't seem entirely sure of the resemblance, but she is a great corporate saleswoman. She knows how to behave. She knows how to talk about her fans who make YouTube videos honoring her.She revealed that she and her father ran an Internet company when she was but a little girl. And she described how one of the negative aspects of the Web now being the main medium for music was how an artist has to mathematically input their music (and by extension) their souls, into this machine system.She seemed sad that fans go to chat rooms just to watch songs climb the chart. Gaga wants to take people away from computers in order to truly experience the music.The Twitpic posted by her ladyship.(Credit:Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)She took the time to pose with new Google CEO Larry Page and post the picture to Twitter. Perhaps she took the time to offer him a little advice about how to market himself, now that he is supposed to be the driving force behind a new and invigorated Google. Gaga is a brilliant marketer of, some might say, less than original music. She answered questions from her fans. She answered questions from the audience. She hugged Googlie questioners. She admired one Googlie who had a hat that (sort of) resembled the Chrysler Building.Had Page listened to her speak, had he focused a little on how clear she is about her image and her emotional relationship with her customers, he might have wondered whether he and his company could ever hope for that kind of relationship with its users.She talked about not being squeaky clean, just slightly evil. &quot;If you are magical, you always have shadows,&quot; Gaga said, in a line that she might have had Steve Jobs nodding to at home. Perhaps the obverse of that is &quot;If you are mechanical, you always have numbers.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hitting the road for SXSW with geek entrepreneurs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nireancegiola</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=hitting-the-road-for-sxsw-with-geek-entrepreneurs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, six buses leaving from five cities around the U.S. will carry 150 people to the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. This is image courtesy of the Startup Bus project--in which participants have 48 hours to create the best start-up they can engineer.(Credit:Startup Bus)It sounds like the beginning of a joke: a couple dozen coders and geek entrepreneurs step off a shiny, high-tech bus at a barbecue joint in Texas. But a joke it's not. It's a scenario that will likely play out this week on the Startup Bus, which is, yes, a group of a couple dozen coders and geek entrepreneurs riding a shiny, high-tech bus through the Lone Star State from their hometowns to the South by Southwest Interactive conference (SXSW Interactive) in Austin, Texas, part of the broader SXSW music and film festival.This is no ordinary bus trip though. These coders and would-be Mark Zuckerbergs are taking part in a high-paced competition: broken up into small teams once they board the bus on Tuesday, they will have the 48 hours of their drive to try to come up with the best, and most viable, tech start-up. And there's not just one bus, either. Indeed, &quot;buspreneurs&quot; will be loading up their laptops and Red Bull in cities across the country: New York, Miami, Cleveland, Chicago, and two from San Francisco. All told, there will be 150 buspreneurs, and all have the same marching orders--code and design like crazy, play well with others, and build a start-up from the ground up. In two sleepless days. The best team will claim glory and possible future funding when everyone hits Austin.I've been invited to get on board a San Francisco bus, so for the next two days, I'll have pen and paper, camera, andiPad in hand, and I'll be blogging regularly from the road, bringing you the color of what it's like to travel halfway across the country with a coach full of buspreneurs, all of whom will be hacking and coding in the hopes of being crowned the best of the best.Before those who will be vying for that title were selected, they first had to fill out an application--and even be vouched for first. They were tasked with telling the organizers &quot;why you think you're the most scrappy hacker, do-er, thinker, designer, or connector, and how that's going to help you go toe-to-toe with some of the best minds in start-ups.&quot;A tall order, indeed.Play with the Silicon Valley big boysThe Startup Bus is the brainchild of Australian entrepreneur Elias Bizannes. Having moved to San Francisco to try to play with Silicon Valley's big boys after having been a big fish in the small pond of Down Under tech business, Bizannes created the Startup Bus and took his first group of buspreneurs to Austin last year. &quot;It's about developing the people in a contained environment that mimics a real start-up situation with constraints,&quot; Bizannes said, &quot;to get people to focus on what's important...For Startup Bus, we're trying to develop the entrepreneurial potential of people by helping them develop their experience, network, skills, and confidence. What we are really trying to do is build a community where the Startup Bus experience is simply the initiation rite into that community...a closed community where job and partnership opportunities can be shared, co-founders can be met, and ideas can be shared--in an environment where everyone can be vetted, trusted, and accessible.&quot;And this is no lark. Out of the mess of empty soda cans, chip bags, and coffee cups that hit Austin last year, some real start-up success emerged. Bizannes said one team's start-up ended up getting $1 million in funding, while the team that was chosen as the winner on last year's bus was offered a spot in The Capital Factory's early stage start-up acceleration and mentorship program.With last year's fruitful first effort, Bizannes knew he had to step it up a notch for SXSW 2011. And that's why he, along with the help of a team of &quot;conductors,&quot; has put together the fleet of buses coming from five cities this year. All told, there were more than 1,000 applicants, out of which 150 were eventually given slots on board. &quot;People were selected at the discretion of the conductors for their bus,&quot; explained Brandon Leonardo, who is running one of the San Francisco buses. &quot;Conductors went through every application and selected the ones that looked promising. The application was just a wide-open text field, which let applicants express themselves however they wanted. Some applicants wrote one-liners, and others wrote essays. One wrote his application as a functioning Python program.&quot;Continued Leonardo, &quot;Why people were selected is more difficult to answer. Each conductor has their own biases about what makes a great buspreneur, so each bus will reflect that and have its own flavor. For San Francisco...there wasn't a specific 'person' we were looking for. We just looked for people who were awesome. We have everyone from executives at tech-companies all the way to college students riding the bus. We definitely tried to get the right mix of developers, designers, and business people though.&quot;And there's a meta element to all this as well. Once the buses hit the pavement, a Startup Bus stock market game will begin. Though that part of the project is still in development, Bizannes explained to me that &quot;It's a game where all the start-ups are listed on a stock market and their share price increases through a combination of milestones that the teams achieve and actions that players--i.e. people not on the bus--perform.What that indicates, of course, is that in addition to having a few reporters scattered among the buses, the Startup Bus organizers have arranged to ensure that just about everything that happens onboard is posted online--be it a blog post by a team member, a tweet, a video, or a photo--and geotagged so that the viewing public can follow along more or less in real time. 'The cards are dealt on the bus'As a part of the project, albeit not someone who will join one of the teams, I've been on some of the e-mail lists that have sprung up around Startup Bus in recent days. Lest anyone think that these hackers are waiting until they get on the bus and are assigned to teams before digging into the work at hand, you should know that these are people who wasted no time in diving in with all kinds of ideas about the types of applications they would like to spend their time on the bus working on.Ideas ranged from tools to help frequent fliers to systems for analyzing the sentiment or mood of conference audience members to a TV channel that would only broadcast videos shared by friends, and more. Whether any of these ideas will be the teams' focus won't be known until the doors shut and the wheels roll. But as an observer, I feel confident that those on my bus won't wait until we clear the San Francisco city limits before the work begins. Their excitement and commitment to the project and soon-to-be teammates was nearly bursting out of my in-box.&quot;The cards are dealt on the bus,&quot; wrote Jonas Huckestein, one of the conductors, to the e-mail list. &quot;Last year, quite a few of the pitched ideas were completely spontaneous. The best part about this mailing list is that everyone can get really pumped up about the [trip]. Even the people that aren't participating [in pre-trip discussions] are hopefully getting psyched already.&quot;Please stay tuned for complete coverage of the San Francisco Startup Bus, which will surely be the best of them all. Go team!Update at 7:50 a.m. PT: In the end, six buses left from five cities. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smartphone interface-off!: 10 UIs compared]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nireancegiola</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Smartphone interface is very often the cover by which we begin to judge the book. The layout, designs, and color scheme play a heavy role in how easy it is to navigate and customize the phone' but we also can't underestimate the UI's emotional connection. So let's not. Instead, let's have an interface-off that lines up ten smartphone interfaces for scrutiny. Six platforms are represented--iPhone,Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS 6, WebOS, Android, and Symbian 3 (we rate four different Android &quot;skins,&quot;) and we'll spill our guts on exactly what we think of each one.Feel free to join in the fray to applaud, denounce, or defend your smartphone's interface.&amp;nbsp' Best and worst smartphone interfaces <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Devicescape helps MetroPCS offload data traffic to Wi-Fi networks]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Wireless phone provider MetroPCS announced a deal with Devicescape that allows the cell phone service provider to move data traffic from its cellular network to Wi-Fi networks.In doing so, MetroPCS will be able to offload traffic from its expensive and overloaded cellular network to the more affordable and more available Wi-Fi networks. Devicescape&amp;'s software, which tracks Wi-Fi hot spots and makes it easy to log into them, will be embedded in all of the new Android smartphones coming out of MetroPCS.It&amp;'s a partnership that makes sense for cell phone companies deal with the rising costs of delivering service in the age of smartphones.MetroPCS will tap Devicescape as a white-label Wi-Fi locator app, which makes it easy for cell phone users to shift data to Wi-Fi. The Devicescape product lets users with Android phones roam from Wi-Fi hotspot to Wi-Fi hotspot, seamlessly, much like a cellular network moves a call from one cell to another without interrupted service. The value of Devicescape is that it allows its users to log in automatically at lots of locations, so they don&amp;'t have to waste time typing in usernames and passwords.The Devicescape Easy WiFi Network has more than half a million hot spots. By tapping Wi-Fi, MetroPCS doesn&amp;'t have to build out the more expensive cellular networks such as 3G or 4G networks.Dave Fraser, chief executive of San Bruno, Calif.-based Devicescape, says this solution can help cellular and Wi-Fi networks complement each other rather than compete. It also improves the overall customer experience.Android-based smartphones are gaining popularity, but they&amp;'re also driving consumers to use the internet more. That&amp;'s a good thing, but it puts pressure on the limited capacity of the cellular networks when it comes to handling data traffic. MetroPCS, which offers phones with no annual contract, offers unlimited talk, text and web services for a flat rate.A custom version of Devicescapea4a4s Easy WiFi, called MetroPCS Easy WiFi, is included in all of MetroPCSa4a4 Android smartphones a4&quot; starting with the LG Optimus and Huawei Ascend phones.The Devicescape technology is used to mitigate costs and reduce congestion through the diversion of data traffic onto the prolific Easy WiFi network. If it works out, Devicescape can replicate the deal with other carriers.&amp;''Carriers need to employ multiple strategies when it comes to economically managing this traffic explosion,&amp;'' said Rob Enderle, an analyst at the Enderle Group. &amp;''Offloading to Wi-Fi as seen here with MetroPCS is one smart move.&amp;''Devicescape&amp;'s backers include Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, August Capital, Enterprise Partners, and JAFCO.Previous Story: Amazon&amp;'s Kindle sales to surpass 8M this yearPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Wi-FiCompanies: DeviceScape, MetroPCS          Tags: Wi-FiCompanies: DeviceScape, MetroPCSDean 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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