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<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Musical magic and flying discs: iPhone apps of the week]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:CNET)Most everyone has probably heard about the dust-up over the location-tracking behavior on iOS devices since last June. Apple later promised in an open letter that it would resolve the issue, though the company claims it was not using the information for anything. But when a developer made a program to show users' location data on a map, people were understandably concerned that someone could track their whereabouts through their location logs without them knowing it.On Wednesday, Josh Lowensohn reported that Apple made good on its promise with the release of iOS 4.3.3, reducing the size of the &quot;crowdsourced&quot; location cache, and the device no longer backs up the cache to iTunes.Even though I downloaded the software and checked out the map to see that myiPhone did indeed track my location, I was never terribly worried about it and took Apple at its word that the location data wasn't being used for anything nefarious. Still, I'm glad to see the company has listened to user concerns and hopefully this will lay this latest Apple controversy to rest.What do you think Were you nervous that your information was being used without your consent or do you even care Let me know in the comments.This week's apps are a piano app that lets you play hit songs and a flying disc game that's both graphically beautiful and challenging.In World mode you can watch and listen as other people play their renditions of hit songs.(Credit:Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)Smule's Magic Piano (Free) for iPhone brings the fun and beginner-friendly piano app to the small screen. Already a popular music-app pick on theiPad, Magic Piano offers up a unique touch-screen music experience, letting you play both classical and pop music hits by following and touching beams of light on the screen. If you don't like following along in Song Book mode, you also have the option to play freestyle in Solo mode, which lets you configure the keyboard into interesting shapes (circular, spiral, and other layouts) to add to the fun as you play.Part of what makes Smule's music apps great are the social elements that let you hear music being played around the world. Switch to World mode to get a 3D view of the globe and listen as people play live from different locations. You get a couple of controls so you can either skip to the next user or you can give the current performer a little encouragement by touching the heart-shaped button.Song Book mode is probably where you'll spend the most time, however, playing classics and hits you can buy using Smoola, Smule's in-app currency. While the app itself is free and comes with a couple of songs to experiment with, you'll need to spend a little cash to get hits from artists like Lady Gaga, Train, and Jason Mraz. Tiered Smoola packages let you choose how much you want to spend, but I got the Small Pack of 440 Smoola for $4.99 and was able to download most of the songs I wanted (at about 75 Smoola each). If you're really serious about Magic Piano, you can get the Medium Pack of 920 Smoola for $9.99 or the Pro Pack of 1,920 Smoola for $19.99.It's important to note that if you don't know a song beforehand it's going to be hard to play it the way it was intended--Magic Piano shows the light beams as the notes should be played, but there is no indication of how you should play the song rhythmically. To be fair, it's even kind of fun struggling through an unknown song to see if you can make it sound good, but it's important to note that Magic Piano doesn't really show you how to play a given song--it just gives you the notes in order.Another drawback is the small screen size. Though you'll be able to play along comfortably in Song Book mode, trying to accurately hit the keys of the various piano shapes in Freestyle mode is almost impossible. Still, my thought is that you'll spend more time in Song Book mode anyway, so that won't be a big deal to most users.Overall, Magic Piano is a fun little music app that will appeal to anyone who wants to interact with a simulated piano. Though it costs a bit more to get the songs you want, it's satisfying to hit the screen just at the right moments to make a song you know come to life.Good-looking environments add to the fun as you guide your Frisbee through the course.(Credit:Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)Frisbee Forever (Free) is the fully licensed flying disc app that lets you guide a Frisbee disc through colorful obstacle courses. Against a cartoonlike 3D backdrop, you start by flicking your Frisbee onscreen, then guiding the disc through rings and around obstacles, all the while gathering stars as you go. You have the option to use onscreen control arrows, but I found the tilt controls to be much more fun. If you gather all the stars and make it through all the gates to the finish line, you'll be awarded a gold medal along with experience points and Star Coins. As you level up, you'll be able to win new Frisbee designs in bonus levels, or you can use your Star Coins to buy new designs in the in-app store.Frisbee Forever is a lot of fun both for the cartoonlike graphics and themed worlds, and for the smooth control system that makes it satisfying to complete levels. Something about hitting the turns perfectly and gathering all available stars has its own draw--I found myself trying later levels again and again to try to get a perfect score. The themed worlds give your surroundings plenty of variation, and all the in-game 3D models are well detailed, letting you know that the developers made sure there was plenty to look at--even if you're locked in concentration on the obstacles at hand. All told, there are nine themed areas with 10 courses each and one bonus world with 10 courses you'll unlock as you play.If you're not the patient type, you can buy Star Coins via the in-app store to get fancy Frisbee designs immediately, but it's not very hard to earn coins by playing to unlock the designs you want.Overall, Frisbee Forever is a fun and quirky flying game with great-looking graphics, a solid control system, and plenty of courses to master, giving it a lot of replay value. Anyone who likes arcade flying games should check out this app.What's your favorite iPhone app Is Magic Piano worth the trouble on the smaller iPhone screen What do you think of Frisbee forever Let me know in the comments!<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Grooveshark 'surprised' by Google snub]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Music-sharing service Grooveshark responded late today to having its Android app dumped from the Android Market, saying it wasn't sure why, exactly, the app had been pulled.&quot;We were surprised by Google's removal of the Grooveshark App from the Android Marketplace, and are still unclear as to what policies have now been violated,&quot; the company said in an e-mail to CNET.As reported earlier today, Grooveshark, an online service that lets users upload songs and then share them with other users, saw its Android incarnation yanked by Google with little explanation. &quot;We remove apps from Android Market that violate our policies,&quot; was all a Google representative had to say when queried by CNET.The timing of the removal is perhaps telling in that Google is being chastised by some federal lawmakers over what they see as the company's lackluster antipiracy efforts. Google is also courting the entertainment industry in order to bring more content to Google TV, as well as to an upcoming digital music service.In 2009, Grooveshark, which oversees a cache of more than 6 million songs, responded to a copyright suit from record label EMI by agreeing to license the EMI catalog. But sources say other big labels still view the company as a pirate operation. Apple removed the Grooveshark iOS app from its App Store last August, after receiving complaints from the major labels. When queried earlier today, Google did not specify if it had been pressured by the music industry to yank Grooveshark.Grooveshark's full statement follows:We were surprised by Google's removal of the Grooveshark App from the Android Marketplace, and are still unclear as to what policies have now been violated. We have always had a positive relationship with Google as evidenced by the Grooveshark App's active and featured presence in the Android Marketplace for the past one and a half years. We respect copyright law and the rights of content owners, generating positive results and revenues for the artists and labels that we have agreements with. Regarding the content for which we do not have agreements in place yet, we abide by, and pay royalties, according to the rules outlined in the DMCA, the same legal act that governs Google and YouTube's activities. We are eagerly looking to enter into agreements with all labels and content owners, so that we can work together to the benefit of all parties. To be effective, these agreements, however, must be struck directly with the respective content owners in the boardroom not the courtroom.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA nixes James Cameron Mars 3D camera]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[James Cameron (right) inspects a mast camera system designed for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. (Credit:NASA)NASA has shelved a special 3D camera system that was developed with filmmaker James Cameron for the $2.4 billion Mars rover Curiosity, which is due to launch later this year.The zoom mast camera for Curiosity was nixed because there isn't enough time to prepare it for launch in November, according to developer Malin Space Science Systems and NASA. The system was in the final stages of development, but time ran out. Technical difficulties prevented engineers from delivering it as scheduled last December. The system did not work as well as the fixed focal length cameras now installed on Curiosity, Malin said.  The Fixed Focal Length Mast Camera (Mastcam) has two cameras--a 100-millimeter telephoto lens and a 34-millimeter wide-angle lens. &quot;While Curiosity won't benefit from the 3D motion imaging that the zooms enable, I'm certain that this technology will play an important role in future missions,&quot; Cameron was quoted as saying. &quot;In the meantime, we're certainly going to make the most of our cameras that are working so well on Curiosity right now.&quot;Curiosity's mission is to make observations on Mars and help assess whether the planet could support microbial life. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PayPal suffers outage]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=paypal-suffers-outage</guid>
<description><![CDATA[PayPal was hit by an outage early this morning that prevented customers from using the online payment service for more than an hour. The outage started at 12:11 am PT,  according to PayPal's Developer Network. PayPal said it was resolved by 1:23 a.m. PT, though the company acknowledged that access to international PayPal sites, such as ones in the U.K. and Spain, may have been slow or intermittent until 2 a.m. PTThe outage prevented customers from logging into their PayPal accounts. But the company said it didn't affect the ability of merchants to use PayPal's API services through which they integrate the PayPal payment option into their own online checkout systems.PayPal schedules regular maintenance each Thursday and Friday from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. PT, but such maintenance rarely leads to downtime, according to Netcraft, a provider of Internet services.A PayPal representative sent CNET a short, very general statement later this morning, blaming the outage on a &quot;software issue discovered during routine maintenance.&quot; CNET has requested more details. This is what PayPal posted about its outage.(Credit:PayPal Developer Network)Updated at 9:20 a.m. PTwith a statement from PayPal.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HTC Freestyle brings quick messaging to AT&T]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=htc-freestyle-brings-quick-messaging-to-att</guid>
<description><![CDATA[HTC Freestyle(Credit:HTC)HTC may have vaulted to glory in recent years with its selection of Android phones, but last month atCES the company broadened its portfolio just a bit with the new Freestyle quick-messaging phone.The Freestyle, which goes on sale from AT&amp;T this Sunday, February 13, lacks the high-end features of the new HTC Thunderbolt and its simple design won't stand out in the cell phone crowd. Yet, for users who don't need a lot, the BREW-powered Freestyle should deliver.The aluminum body features a 3.2-inch touch screen with just a few navigation controls below. There's no physical keyboard, so you'll have to type all your messages on virtual keys. It is, however, the first quick-messaging phone with HTC's Sense UI and the Friend Stream app.Other features include a full HTML browser, a 3.2-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headset jack, a microSD slot (up to 32GB), FM radio, and a 528MHz processor. You'll also find support for AT&amp;T Navigator, AT&amp;T Music, AT&amp;T Radio, and the carrier's 3G network.The Freestyle is $99.99 after a two-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bing to participate in World IPv6 Day]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=bing-to-participate-in-world-ipv6-day</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's search engine will be one of the major Web sites available in a synchronized effort to iron out problems moving to a vastly more spacious Internet based on the coming IPv6 standard.&quot;On June 8, we will enable worldwide IPv6 connectivity to Bing.com, for the purposes of a one-day test,&quot; Bing program manager Kevin Boske said. &quot;Consumers with IPv6 Internet capabilities will automatically access this new method of connectivity. This necessitates both a device that supports IPv6 (like aWindows 7 PC), and support from your Internet provider.&quot;IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, comes with 340 trillion trillion trillion (that's 340 followed by 36 zeroes) Internet addresses. It's a lot more than the 4.3 billion enabled by the current IPv4. Moving to IPv6 is a complicated, global event that ultimately involves any device that attaches to the Internet.Its urgency is hastened by the fact that yesterday the Internet's central overseers handed out the last batches of IPv4 addresses. It'll be months before that IPv4 exhaustion cascades down to the level of companies that need to lease those addresses permanently, but the clock now is ticking.Some companies such as Facebook and Google already offer IPv6 access to their services, but generally only with IPv6-specific domains such as ipv6.google.com. On World IPv6 Day, the main domains will be available over IPv6, too.Mostly, this isn't a big deal--those with IPv4 will see the same IPv4-based versions of the Web sites, and those with IPv6 will get the content over IPv6. But for small fraction of IPv6 users with configuration issues, the Web sites aren't available, Yahoo and Google have said. World IPv6 Day is designed to track down such errors so they can be fixed before a broader transition to IPv6.The expense of shifting to IPv6--combined with the lack of much of an immediate reward for most IT administrators--has slowed the transition to a crawl over recent years, with cheaper incremental fixes such as address translation that can let multiple devices share a single IP address.That approach, though, threatens to fragment the Internet and make it hard for devices to be full peers on the network.&quot;Such an Internet is likely to grow increasingly less capable of serving our needs today. Rather than maintaining the status quo, the IPv4 Internet is likely to degenerate. If you get too many layers of [network translation], you cripple your ability to do end-to-end communications. Accessing a Web site might be possible, but accessing a file-sharing protocol or hosting your own content may become more and more difficult,&quot; Olaf Kolkman, chairman of the Internet Architecture Board, said at a press conference yesterday.Bing is, of course, a supplier of content on the Web, but Microsoft has an even greater presence at the consumer end of the Internet connection with Windows. Versions of its operating system since Windows XP Service Pack 1 have been able to handle IPv6.&quot;Microsoft and other major technology companies have been working behind the scenes for years to outline a clear path to the next generation Internet Protocol, IPv6,&quot; Boske said. &quot;Although a complete migration will take years, we are hopeful that the vast majority of people will never notice the transition.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel bankrolls Sulfurcell, a solar thin-film outfit]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=intel-bankrolls-sulfurcell-a-solar-thin-film-outfit</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sulfurcell&amp;39's thin-film solar modules can be fitted into roof-top panels or used as part of a building&amp;39's facade, as seen here at the Ferdinand Braun Institute for High Frequency Technology in Berlin.(Credit:Sulfurcell)Intel's venture investing arm has led a $25 million investment in Berlin-based Sulfurcell, one of many companies staking a claim in the solar business with CIGS thin-film technology. Sulfurcell makes CIGS/CIGSe thin-film solar cells that incorporate a combination of copper, indium, gallium, and selenium or sulfur. Last year, it started manufacturing in a facility able to turn out 35 megawatts' worth of panels a year.The capital will allow Sulfurcell to scale up its production and improve the efficiency of its modules, the company said in a statement. Since 2008, the company has raised 85 million euros from European and U.S.-based investors. Intel Capital was one of the early investors in Sulfurcell, which was spun out of Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Energy in Germany.The efficiency of converting solar energy into electricity is typically lower for thin-film cells, but the cells use less material and tend to be cheaper to make.In the CIGS area, there are dozens of companies now seeking to manufacture at larger scale to bring down costs and compete with the dominant solar cell technology, polycrystalline silicon.Rather than go after the utility business with rack-mounted panels, Sulfurcell is designing its panels for rooftops. Its flexible cells can also used for building-integrated photovoltaics, in which solar panels are used as part of a building's facade.The company claims that the efficiency of its cells will rival that of silicon cells. It has been able to achieve 12.6 percent efficiency (although its current products are lower) and is targeting 14 percent efficiency in the next 12 to 18 months, it said in a statement. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Windows Phone 7 apps smile for the camera]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=will-windows-phone-7-apps-smile-for-the-camera</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)One of my favorite features in Apple's iOS is the quietly-hidden capability to take screenshots. Back when I was doing deep dives oniPhone apps for stories, the feature was just there, and it worked. Outside of CNET, it let me do things like grab pictures from sites (before that feature was officially added), and put together quick step-by-step how-to guides for friends and family, turning the device into less of a consumptive tool, and into something that would help me get work done without a computer.But in the past few months of me putting Microsoft'sWindows Phone 7 through its paces as a primary device, I've been missing the feature dearly. So naturally, I asked Microsoft if it was on the short list of features to be added later on down the line.The short answer No.&quot;I have never sat in a user group--and I sit in a lot of user groups, a lot of retail groups--I've never heard an end user go 'why can't I take a screenshot of that'&quot; Aaron Woodman, director of Microsoft's mobile communications business, told CNET in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show last week.Well ahead of a screenshot tool is a laundry list of features Microsoft plans to add, including the ones competitors have already put out, which Woodman referred to as &quot;gaps.&quot; &quot;One of the reasons that personally pulled me over to the Windows Phone space was that there's a lot of choices to make,&quot; Woodman said. &quot;It's not like we didn't know copy and paste was a feature that people could potentially want, it's a question of how important it is to the user experience. When can you get to it&quot;According to Woodman, it's also not always the users who help Microsoft determine which features need to be fast-tracked. &quot;We do a lot of things for reporters,&quot; Woodman said. &quot;I would argue things like theMac connector software--the software that lets you take your Windows Phone and connect it to an Apple PC of some form, and basically pull over music from iTunes and photos and that kind of stuff--it wasn't built because we thought there was a significant market opportunity for Mac loyalists out there who were dying to buy a Windows Phone. It was built because reporters would show up with Macs,&quot; Woodman said. The other half of the equation, Woodman explained, is that developers who wanted to take screenshots of their applications have had the means since the introduction of the Windows Phone 7 SDK. &quot;There's a ton of ways to do it in within the emulator, so application developers have no problem with that,&quot; Woodman said. If you're thinking to yourself, &quot;this is a niche feature,&quot; look no further than Damn You, Auto Correct, a site that popped up back in October of last year and is now up to more than 1,300 posts containing unintentionally humorous instances of the iPhone's autocorrect feature gone wrong, snapped and sent in by users. However, something that would let you snap photos of text conversations is one thing. Where Woodman said some problems could arise is with capturing certain types of content if there's copy-protection involved. &quot;The reality is, we have a DRM requirement for our marketplace, which makes things like HDMI and those types of things out, more difficult,&quot; Woodman said. &quot;We've made a choice to have a more protected set of content on the phone and available to consumers, so we do have restrictions within that,&quot; he said. What that would mean for such a feature is that you wouldn't be able to snap a shot of what you were doing if there was a copy protection layer in place. This is similar to what Apple does with the built-in screen grab software in Mac OS X when movies are playing inside the DVD player application.Woodman said the feature could end up in a future build of the OS software though. &quot;Not that we couldn't technically do it. I mean, at the end of the day it's software,&quot; he said. &quot;We could definitely choose to do screenshot capabilities if you're not in these three experiences.&quot; Windows Phone 7's first software update since its launch late last year is just around the corner. Besides the addition of copy and paste, you can find out more about what kind of benefits it will bring to things like application load times and the Marketplace search tool in our other chat with Woodman from last week. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Windows on ARM chips: Intel impact]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=windows-on-arm-chips-intel-impact</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&amp;39's Zune HD runs a version of Windows on an Nvidia ARM chip.(Credit:Microsoft)So, what happens to Intel in the age of a version of Windows running on top of ARM chips from companies like Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Apple, Freescale, and Nvidia A report today is fueling speculation that Microsoft will bring a more full featured version of Windows to ARM--arguably the most widely used chip architecture in the world. This comes after Microsoft announced in July that it has gotten an architectural license from ARM. The most obvious impact is that Windows runs on more devices, many of which do not necessarily use Intel processors. TheZune HD is probably the best contemporaneous example of a smaller, non-PC device. That media player runs a version of Windows CE on top of an Nvidia ARM processor. Then, of course, there isWindows Phone 7--most of those phones use an ARM-based processor from Qualcomm. An ARM-compatible, more full-featured version of Windows will almost certainly run on Intel, but the point is that Intel would be just another player among a bevy of ARM chip heavyweights, such as Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Apple, and Samsung Electronics. And remember the Compaq iPaq handheld That used an Intel ARM design. But iPaq handhelds also ran on other ARM chips, from suppliers such as Texas Instruments. In that market, Intel was just another chip supplier and didn't fare particularly well. In fact, Intel subsequently sold that chip business to Marvell. &quot;There's no reason you couldn't build a tablet around Atom, but what does that bring to the table&quot;--said Linley Gwennap of the Linley Group, a chip-consulting firm, referring to Intel's power-efficient Atom chip, used in virtually all Windows-based Netbooks. &quot;The whole PC paradigm is being turned around here,&quot; Gwennap said. &quot;With the [Windows-Intel] PC, you couldn't get any [other chip] architecture in there, because of the huge software base. All that software runs on Windows, runs on Intel. Now, with the tablet market, to the extent that there's a software base, it runs on ARM.&quot; Future trends are the most worrisome for Intel. The smartphone and tablet market runs on ARM, and both of those device segments are beginning to act more like PCs every time a new product is announced from Apple, Motorola, Samsung, or HTC. Until Intel brings out a more power-efficient Atom architecture that offers discernibly better performance than ARM (two seemingly contradictory metrics), it will have a difficult time finding space in small devices such as smartphones and tablets. So, whether the report today is accurate is practically irrelevant, since the writing is already on the wall. Updated at 6:40 p.m. PT: adding comments from Linley Gwennap. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon: Outage due to hardware not hackers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=amazon-outage-due-to-hardware-not-hackers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An outage that took down some of Amazon's European Web sites yesterday was caused by hardware error and not hackers, according to the company.The online retailer's shopping sites in the U.K, France, Spain, and Germany were down for about half an hour starting around 9:15 p.m. GMT, leading to initial speculation that Amazon had been hit by hackers associated with the pro-WikiLeaks group Anonymous.But in a statement released to Reuters, Amazon attributed the cause to hardware problems.&quot;The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in our European data center network and not the result of a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attempt,&quot; an Amazon representative told Reuters. Specifically, the hardware-related issue occurred at an Amazon hosting center in Dublin, which hosts the various European sites that were affected, according to the Register.Amazon ran afoul of pro-WikiLeaks activists earlier this month after it decided to kick the controversial Web site off its EC2 Web hosting service. In retaliation, some members of the Anonymous group reportedly called for action against the retailer, but so far Amazon apparently has been left alone.&quot;Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones would be in bad taste,&quot; Anonymous explained late last week in an apparent press release. The decision to spare Amazon is in sharp contrast to the DDoS attacks that Anonymous has launched against such companies as PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard for their roles in cutting off payments to WikiLeaks.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Fail Whale' creator aims to democratize art]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=fail-whale-creator-aims-to-democratize-art</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=fail-whale-creator-aims-to-democratize-art</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yiying Lu, the designer who created the famous Twitter &amp;39'Fail Whale,&amp;34' is having her first-ever North American exhibition in San Francisco on Thursday night. The event is also the launch party for Walls360, a start-up she co-founded, and that is selling what it says is a revolutionary kind of wall graphics.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)SAN FRANCISCO--Since the famous &quot;Fail Whale&quot; is known for signifying that Twitter is down, it might surprise you to know that there are a lot of people out there who appreciate seeing it.&quot;People are actually looking forward to [Twitter] downtime,&quot; said Yiying Lu, the artist who created what came to be known as the Fail Whale. &quot;I'm [always getting] tweets from people telling me it makes them happy&quot; to see the whimsical image of a whale being hauled out of the water by a group of small birds.Lu may be best known for creating that iconic image, but she likely hopes that won't be true for long. Yesterday, she and three partners launched a new company, Walls360, hoping to forever change the way people hang art and even what people think art is.In short, Walls360 aims to give artists, companies, designers, photographers, and anyone else who wants to hang high-quality imagery their walls an easy and inexpensive way to do so. 'Fail Whale' artist stars in first North American exhibition (photos) The company's secret sauce is what co-founder John Doffing called premium self-adhesive repositionable fabric paper, essentially a high-brow fabric sticker that enables very high-resolution print-outs of any digital image, even up to 8 feet tall, and which can be placed on a wall in such a way that it's very hard to see that it's not painted on. And then it can be taken down and moved in seconds, up to 100 times, and all, Doffing said, without damaging any surfaces. The material can even be crumpled up and then flattened out again without any obvious wrinkles.Doffing explained that material can accept printouts of up to 1,400 dpi using environmentally friendly inks. The company is handling the printing itself at a facility in Maryland.To celebrate their new undertaking--what Doffing called a &quot;platform&quot;--and to leverage Lu's geek celebrity, the Walls360 founders (who also include Tavia Campbell and Jason Weisenthal) are hosting an event at the Hotel des Art here tonight that will be one part launch party and one part gallery show for dozens of pieces of Lu's work, much of which would be recognizable to anyone who's seen the Fail Whale.In the early going, Doffing said, the company is looking at two markets--individuals who want to hang images designed by Lu or any of thousands of other Walls360 offerings, or their own or friends' or family members' art, and companies that want to set up branded storefronts. He said that next week, Walls360 will announce partnerships with a major science-fiction franchise and a leading video game title. Everything, regardless of the imagery, is printed on-demand, and Walls360 will keep no inventory, he said. Walls360 hopes to lure in customers with relatively low prices--a 6-foot image comes delivered for just $90, and many sets are selling for less than $40.Doffing says that Walls360 is aiming to be the &quot;Zazzle or Cafepress for wall graphics.&quot;Snacks and main dishes For the Chinese-born and Australia resident Lu, who studied business and technology in college and later art, becoming a partner (and the artistic/creative director) in a company like Walls360 is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new artistic medium. She seems keen on being involved in something that could democratize art in some small way, given how expensive it usually is to hang art, and the inexpensive prices Walls360 plans to charge.She sees what the company is offering as a bit of a play on Andy Warhol's famous line about everyone getting 15 minutes of fame. In this case, Lu said, &quot;Everyone can bring art to the wall, and everyone can have 15 minutes of fame.&quot;Indeed, it's that sentiment that led to Walls360's tagline, &quot;Art for Everywhere.&quot;For Lu, art is something that was once a distraction during her very proper education. While in school studying technology and business, she recalled, she used to spend two or three hours every day looking through art books and going to bookstores and museums, yet never imagined that it would become her living.&quot;I thought that [art] was snacks,&quot; Lu said, &quot;but [it] became main dishes. I was born for this.&quot;The &amp;39'Fail Whale,&amp;39' the design that brought Lu international geek fame.(Credit:Yiying Lu)Her style is certainly unique, and anyone who sees some of her bigger works would almost instantly see the resemblance to the Fail Whale. But it turns out that the Fail Whale itself happened only by accident.In 2002, Lu recalled, she was very much into animal symbology and had created a card for a friend featuring an elephant spurting a number of small birds out of its trunk. It was called &quot;Lifting a Dreamer.&quot; Later, she was thinking about a different version of the image and started thinking of a friend of hers that lived in New South Wales, Australia. That got her thinking about whales, and lo and behold, she created the now-famous image.In fact, however, she was not hired by Twitter to do the image for them. It turns out that Twitter co-founder Biz Stone found the work on a stock imagery site and decided it was appropriate as something to showcase when the popular microblogging site was down.The popularity of that image led two new friends of hers who were getting married to commission Lu to design an image for their wedding invites--something that was the &quot;exact opposite of a Fail Whale,&quot; said Dale Larson, the soon-to-be groom.As new fans of penguins, Larson and his fiance Laura La Gassa asked Lu if she could design something for them that incorporated the tuxedoed, flightless birds. Lu's solution The &quot;win penguins.&quot;Two San Francisco residents, Dale Larson and Laura La Gassa, commissioned Lu to create the &amp;39'win penguins&amp;39' for their wedding invitation. They saw the design as the exact opposite of the Fail Whale.(Credit:Yiying Lu)&quot;She was incredibly easy to work with and came up with an amazing design with little input from us,&quot; Larson said. &quot;We liked them so much that we even had it made into a topper for our wedding cake....Of many wonderful memories from our Wedding, Yiying's art stands out as one of the things people remember and love.&quot;But the story of Lu's creation of the Win Penguins doesn't end there. Because Larson is fairly well plugged into the social media community, his blog post about Lu's work for him and La Gassa got picked up by Mashable and the Huffington Post, and someone Lu had never met before saw the HuffPo entry: John Doffing.Based on that, Doffing got in touch, and the two discovered a mutual appreciation of art, digital media, and more. And they decided not long after to go into business together.Mixing reality and the virtual worldFor someone steeped in technology like Lu, there had always been a sense that people spend so much of their time these days immersed in the virtual world of computers and the Internet. Art, and life, is reality, and (almost) never the twain did meet.But Lu wants to change that--and she sees what Walls360 is about as enabling the blending of reality and virtual reality for a wide group of people. &quot;Art [is] no longer just on the canvas,&quot; Lu said. &quot;I wanted to introduce new ways for people trapped by every day life and don't have time to appreciate art.&quot;That could come, Walls360 hopes, from people being able to take imagery they find in their lives and get inexpensive manifestations of it to hang on their walls. And it could also come from the blending of art and technology that Lu said her background in the two allows her to combine.For example, she said that one of the next things Walls360 wants to do is to find a way to incorporate augmented reality into the art it sells. That could come, Lu explained, by blending QR codes into the images, allowing people to take photos of the art and experience something that a company or client wants them to see on their phones or iPads. At the same time, Lu said, she imagines potential partnerships with companies like Twitter in which Walls360 would allow people to buy printouts of tweets they like. So imagine finding a tweet you really enjoy, and then paying a few dollars to Walls360, which would then send you a printed version that you could, say, affix to your laptop. Or put on a wall along with some sort of related imagery.&quot;This is what I've been thinking,&quot; said Lu, &quot;to combine reality and the virtual world, so things are more grounded. It's better to have something tangible.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ISAI announces its third investment in Commerce Guys]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=isai-announces-its-third-investment-in-commerce-guys</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=isai-announces-its-third-investment-in-commerce-guys</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The French entrepreneurs&amp;' fund, ISAI, has just announced that its investing ina4sCommerce Guys, aa4sFranco-American company that develops open source Drupala4se-commerce solutions.a4sa4sThis is the third investment for the fund run by some 70a4sFrench entrepreneurs from these companies,a4swhich previously invested in carpooling platform Covoiturage and thea4shigh-class online marketplace, InstantLuxe.a4sa4sAnd while the transaction amount has not been disclosed,a4sI&amp;'ll venture aa4swild guess that it most likely lies between the a4s500,000 and a4s1.5 million range -a4swhich would be in-line with the rest of ISAI&amp;'s investments.The 20-person subsidiary of AF83a4soffers a number ofa4ssolutions for e-commerce sites, including e-commerce website development based on Ubercart and Drupal Commerce, hosting, various functions like recommendation engines, social network integration, mobile website development, etc. Naturally, the open source approach has allowed for the startup founded earlier this year to propose a wide variety of modules to its customers. Plus, with over 1 million sites built on Drupal, certain aspectsa4s &amp;8211' like having over 6K modules, being SEO friendly and the ability to resista4sspikes in traffic -a4smake the open source CMS a viable solution for the e-commerce world.ISAI, who currently manages some 35 million euros, has said that it would ideally like to invest in roughly 12 companies averaging a4s1 million per investment.a4sa4sThe company&amp;'s 1-investment-per-trimester strategy obviously opposes that of French seed fund Kima Ventures, which recently confirmed via Twitter (image below) that the fund will have reached its goal ofa4s100 investments in a year in March 2011. Then again, Kima is investing far smaller amounts than ISAI.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bessemer Backs Better-Savings Startup Betterment With $3&nbsp'Million]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=bessemer-backs-better-savings-startup-betterment-with-3nbspmillion</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=bessemer-backs-better-savings-startup-betterment-with-3nbspmillion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Betterment, a financial savings startup which launched last May at TechCrunch Disrupt, raised $3 million in a series A financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners.  The Anthemis Group, Thomas Lehrman, and other angel investors also participated. Betterment aims to disrupt the financial savings industry by letting customers invest their savings in a carefully-selected blend of stock and bond portfolios which are rebalanced regularly and automatically.  The New York City startup is a registered broker dealer and financial adviser.  The only fee it charges is a management fee that is about one percent of assets in each account (soon this fee will become tiered so that larger accounts pay a smaller percentage).Since opening up earlier this year, the service has attracted thousands of customers and millions of dollars in savings.  Annualized returns are tracking the S&amp;amp'P 500.  Betterment will use the new capital to hire more engineers and rol out new products, such as an IRA.  Expect more game mechanics to be introduced into the service as well which will reward people for making smart financial moves.CrunchBase InformationBettermentInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bartz Has The &''What Is Yahoo&'' Answer Down To 15 Seconds. It&'s Both Expansive And&nbsp'Vague]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=bartz-has-the-8220what-is-yahoo8221-answer-down-to-15-seconds--itrsquos-both-expansive-andnbspvague</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Carol Bartz took the stage for a sit down with host John Battelle. While Bartz did have some mildly interesting things to say&amp;nbsp'about content, Battelle didn&amp;'t beat around the bush. &amp;''Can you tell us, what is Yahoo,&amp;'' he asked her.&amp;''I can. I mean maybe it has taken me 2 years, but I got it,&amp;'' Bartz replied. &amp;''The question has interested me because I think Yahoo is a really simple story. Content, communications, media, technology, that&amp;'s Yahoo.&amp;''Okay, that&amp;'s better than the answer she gave at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference earlier this year. It&amp;'s much shorter, if nothing else. But it&amp;'s still very, very vague. And it sounds like Yahoo is just about everything.Well, everything but search. Bartz says Yahoo went off track when people thought the company was a search company. So we know they&amp;'re not that.But everything else now appears to be on the table. &amp;''I think Yahoo stands for a lot. It stands for fun.&amp;'' Hmm. Okay.[photo: Yahoo''s Flickr/Yodel Anecdotal]CrunchBase InformationYahoo!Carol BartzInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Investors Throw Another $50 Million Into&nbsp'SpaceX]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=investors-throw-another-50-million-intonbspspacex</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riauckli1</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=investors-throw-another-50-million-intonbspspacex</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Investors just love to give money to Elon Musk.  The billionaire behind electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors, which has raised more than $800 million to date, just raised another $50 million for his other swing-for-the-fences company, SpaceX.  According to an SEC filing, SpaceX raised $50.2 million on October 28.  Jay Yarrow at Silicon Alley Insider first reported the funding, which came from existing investors. (Musk, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and the Founders Fund are the biggest investors). This latest funding brings the total capital put into SpaceX to $200 million, which is a lot for a startup, but really not that much for building a rocket company.  Many billions have been wasted on efforts to get to space more cheaply than currently possible.  And it&amp;'s only a quarter of the capital investors have put into Musk&amp;'s electric car venture.  With NASA looking for an alternative to the aging Space Shuttle, maybe investors think that SpaceX has a shot at some of that business, especially supplying the International Space Station and future missions.  There is no proven business model in space other than government contracts and low-earth-orbit satellite launches.  Going after new markets in space is definitely a long-term play, and my guess is that it is going to take many more infusions of capital to get to where Musk wants to go.CrunchBase InformationElon MuskSpace Exploration TechnologiesInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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