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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[GM offers lower-priced 2012 Chevy Volt]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oillymint</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[GM expects to sell 45,000 Chevy Volts in 2012 to fleet and retail customers.(Credit:GM)General Motors said today that dealers in all 50 states can take orders for the 2012 Chevy Volt, which will come in a model priced just below $40,000.The plug-in hybrid Volt is now available in six different models, rather than three, with the lowest listed at $39,995, or about $1,000 less than the 2011 price. The high-end model with leather, backup camera, navigation system, and other features is $46,265. Prices include the destination fee but not other taxes and fees.Buyers can benefit from a federal tax credit of $7,500 for plug-in vehicles with batteries the size of the Chevy Volt's. GM is already working on bringing down the cost of the electric powertrain in the Volt, as the price is still higher than that of traditional hybrids.Significantly for GM, the Volt will now be on sale nationwide, rather than in just seven states and the District of Columbia. The company took a regional rollout approach in an effort to work out kinks in the selling and home charging station installation process. Since GM and Nissan, which makes the all-electric Leaf, started delivering their plug-in sedans about six months ago, auto industry watchers have been tracking the monthly sales totals, with both carmakers about even in total sales for the year to date, according to GreenCarReports.com. GM said it expects to sell 45,000 Volts to fleet and retail customers in 2012. The Volt refresh will include a handful of new features, including three years of OnStar navigation service, and the same eight-year/100,000 mile warranty for its battery.According to EPA estimates, the Volt has a range of 379 miles. Fuel economy varies significantly depending on how often the battery is recharged. The EPA rates the Volt at 37 miles per gallon on charge-sustaining mode and 93 miles per gallon for all-electric driving. Depending on conditions, GM says the Volt runs for the first 35 miles on its battery and then a gas engine kicks in to run a generator to maintain battery charge.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft mocks Google's Web video decision]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oillymint</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The parody likens Google&amp;39's WebM video codec to the failed Esperanto language.(Credit:Tim Sneath)A Microsoft evangelist has mocked Google's decision to remove H.264 video support from Chrome, implying that Google is trying to impose an edict on an industry that's already made up its mind to the contrary.In a blog post, Tim Sneath, who runs Windows and Web evangelism for Microsoft, likens Google's WebM video codec to the utopian but unsuccessful Esperanto language. The blog post rewrites Google's original announcement that the company is removing support for the widely used H.264 codec to advance its own WebM.Both technologies can be used with the nascent HTML5 standard to embed video directly into Web pages without using a plug-in such as Adobe Systems' Flash Player. But Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 beta and Apple'sSafari support H.264, while Opera and Mozilla'sFirefox support WebM and the earlier, largely unsuccessful Ogg Theora technology for encoding and decoding video. Sneath wrote:The Esperanto language was invented last century as a politically neutral language that would foster peace and international understanding...We are supporting the Esperanto and Klingon languages, and will consider adding support for other high-quality constructed languages in the future. Though English plays an important role in speech today, as our goal is to enable open innovation, its further use as a form of communication in this country will be prohibited and our resources directed towards languages that are untainted by real-world usage.Sneath hyperlinks &quot;Esperanto&quot; references to the WebM Project, &quot;Klingon&quot; to Theora, and &quot;English&quot; to the Wikipedia entry for H.264. (He doesn't attempt to draw any parallels between the difficulties of learning English and the expense of licensing H.264 patents.)The post is titled &quot;An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google.&quot; And in a tweet, Sneath referred to Google's decision as &quot;despotism.&quot;Clearly, the post is snarky and jocular. But it still can be included as an example of the backlash against Google's H.264 move.Microsoft is among the patent holders that receives payments when the MPEG LA licenses the H.264 pool of patents, but Microsoft said it pays more to the licensing group for including H.264 support inWindows 7 than it receives in royalty payments from the group. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Apple drops jailbreak detection API from iOS 4.2.1]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oillymint</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Apple)After introducing an API that allowed developers to check on an iOS device to see if its operating system had been compromised (read: jailbroken) less than six months ago, Apple has now unexpectedly dropped the functionality from iOS 4.2.1.The jailbreak detection API was part of the mobile device management (MDM) API which was introduced with iOS 4 in June this year, according to NetworkWorld. Now, device management vendors say Apple has dropped the API while also saying that there are alternatives to checking on whether an iOS device has been jailbroken.So, it remains a mystery as to why Apple would no longer provide the ability to check for jailbroken software on their devices. Perhaps its a peace offering to the jailbreak community that has often been at odds with Apple, continually having to recode exploits to keep iOS devices jailbroken after updates.One major player in the jailbreak community isn't buying that though. MuscleNerd tweets: &quot;Apple removed their &quot;jailbreak detection API&quot; in 4.2...we didn't even attempt to fool it (honestly!)&quot;MDM engineers do not seem to have much to add: &quot;We used it when it was available, but as an adjunct,&quot; says Joe Owen, vice president of engineering at Sybase, which offers the Afaria device management software. &quot;I'm not sure what motivated their removing that....I've not had anyone [at enterprise customer sites] talk to me about this API being present or being removed.&quot;Most likely, Apple discovered that while allowing developers access to iOS information for the purposes of detecting if a jailbrokeniPhone,iPod Touch, oriPad was being used on their network could be helpful, it might also lead to devastating circumventions from the hacking community.  Since MDM professionals have other methods of detection without the API, Apple probably decided it would be best to leave it to third-party engineers to detect jailbroken devices.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Reader finally arrives on Android]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oillymint</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-reader-finally-arrives-on-android</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Reader graces Android with its presence.(Credit:Google)Google has produced more than a couple Android apps over the last two years with Listen, Scoreboard, and Sky Map among its most notable titles. Yet, there has been one app users have been clamoring for since the T-Mobile G1 debuted: Google Reader. Sure, we've lways had a mobile optimized site available to use, but nothing beats a good native client. And earlier this week, Google finally rolled out an Reader app.Reader is not just simple port of the web experience as it adds some nifty features you don't get from the browser. Take multiple account support, for instance. The first time users open the app, they're greeted with the option to use existing Google accounts found on the device or include additional accounts. Long pressing on a folder or subscription brings up menus for options like renaming feeds, unsubscribing, and more.When reading an article within Reader, one can tap the menu button to send or share the post with third party apps found on the phone. This is especially handy if you want to email or text a link to someone else. I've already found myself sharing items with Evernote on my phone so that I can come back to them or look things up later.Like the desktop experience, Reader provides basic functionality in sharing, liking, and starring. One of the best features, in my opinion, is the way it syncs up my read and unread counts. I tend to keep a tab open on my Web browser with constant updates coming at me. It's very convenient to get up and access my feeds from the phone and not backtrack through articles I've seen already. Another handy option is the ability to search for and subscribe to new feeds directly from the handset. If there was one glaring omission out of this release, it's a widget. Here's to a swift update!Like pretty much anything Google does, this app is free and can be found in the Android Market. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 404 718: Where it's snowing in space (podcast)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oillymint</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<title><![CDATA[New Twitter tool, ReSearch.ly, lets you conduct searches on older tweets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oillymint</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Whenever a company tells me theya4a4ve created a new tool for monitoring social media sites like Twitter, my eyes usually glaze over. Do we really need another one But Jodee Rich, chief executive of a company called PeopleBrowsr, argues that his new monitoring application, ReSearch.ly, is tailored to the needs of big brands in a way that others arena4a4t: It will let them search tweets up to three years in the past.PeopleBrowsr&amp;'s core business to date has been offering social media consulting to Fortune 500 companies. ReSearch.ly is based on the tools it has built for those brands and uses PeopleBrowsr&amp;'s database of all Twitter messages going back three years.So with ReSearch.ly, you can perform searches of tweets going back 30 days, which Rich said no other tool offers, and you can go back even further if you pay for more than the $99 basic plan. And because ita4a4s searching ReSearch.lya4a4s database, not Twitter itself, the searches are super fast and work even when Twitter is experiencing technical problems.Besides the history feature, I was also impressed by ReSearch.lya4a4s ability to drill down on a specific demographic group (it uses your Twitter account biography to determine who you are) or search term. For example, you could do a search for all tweets from a4AMommyBloggersa4 related to a4Ahuman rightsa4. Or, since ReSearch.ly can also distinguish between positive and negative comments, you could see all the positive comments made about Coca Cola.Rich acknowledged that ReSearch.lya4a4s sentiment analysis technology isna4a4t 100 percent accurate. If thata4a4s a concern, the service also allows you to crowdsource the analysis to real people on Amazona4a4s Mechanical Turk.Beyond responding to individual tweets, brands can use that data to craft marketing campaigns. In fact, Twitter says it plans to release its own analytics service (which doesna4a4t seem to be as full-featured as ReSearch.ly) for free, with the idea that it will be useful for advertisers on Twitter.ReSearch.ly costs $99 per user per month. Ita4a4s focused on Twitter, but PeopleBrowsr has data from Facebook, blogs, and other services that you can request too.Next Story: Time Warner digital guru says Netflix will have to raise its prices Previous Story: Mobile sync company Funambol appoints telecom vet as new CEOPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: ReSearch.ly, social media analyticsCompanies: PeopleBrowsr, TwitterPeople: Jodee Rich          Tags: ReSearch.ly, social media analyticsCompanies: PeopleBrowsr, TwitterPeople: Jodee RichAnthony 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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