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<title><![CDATA[This week in Crave: The winning edition]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In case you didn't hear, this week Apple announced the iPad 2, as we expected, and it shaped up to be just about what we thought it would be. More importantly, Steve Jobs (it was great see him) flouted the success of the originaliPad--not just gloating that his company had single-handedly invented a market, but also bragging that the iPad's competitors were &quot;flummoxed&quot; (and saying it with a smile). But that's not all! It's a big, bad technology world, you know&amp;149' Jobs also introduced new apps for the iPad, like iMovie and Garage BandAsus&amp;39' futuristic adaptive device can be whatever gadget you want it to be.(Credit:Video screenshot by Christopher MacManus/CNET)&amp;149' Apple still has original iPads for as little as $350. &amp;149' More movement from Motorola's Xoomtablet, with new pricing that makes it a little more competitive. &amp;149' The Navy is looking at creating swarms of robots that repair themselves, search for Sarah Connor. &amp;149' Turn your watch into a tablet or cell phone--by stretching it. &amp;149' Another week, another creepy baby robot from Japan. &amp;149' Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!&amp;149' Panasonic revealed pricing on a slew of new Blu-ray players. &amp;149' With sales sagging, Nintendo announced a new Mario game' you can almost set your watch by these. &amp;149' Video games in the Smithsonian Yep, and you get to help pick 'em. &amp;149' The eyes have it with this futuristic computer. &amp;149' Angry Birds Seasons is getting a St. Pat's Day update. Cheers to that! You'll note that this entire week in review post was written, edited, and published with not one Charlie Sheen joke. Now who's winning, Chaz Got a joke for us Write to us at crave at cnet dot com. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lower wind, solar prices to usher speedier adoption]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanminlim1y</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Rapid recent solar and wind price falls are likely to bring new markets and mass adoption a step closer over the next decade and raise the prospects of mergers.The financial crisis coupled with a ramp-up in China, which now leads the world wind and solar manufacturing, have led to over-capacity and pressured prices in the past three years.Natural gas is the main fossil fuel rival and still wins on price after U.S. shale gas finds created a global glut.But wind and solar are now competitive in niche markets after prices of turbines fell by a fifth and solar panels by a half since 2007. New markets are emerging as they fall further.&quot;We see it as an extremely potent and powerful trend for the coming decade,&quot; said Rupesh Madlani, renewables and clean technology analyst at Barclays Capital, adding that the rate of adoption may take people by surprise.For renewable energy, 2010 was a year of contrasts.The global wind market shrank for the first time in two decades, with fewer turbines installed than in 2009, but the world added a record amount of solar power, reaping the benefit of generous incentives in Europe.The price of solar panels, or modules, is expected to fall another 10 percent to 25 percent in 2011.Modules prices would halve again in the next two to three years, predicted Madlani. But other analysts said that the longer outlook is clouded by conflicting pressures.Additional demand from new markets such as India, China, and the Middle East may counter an expected paring of subsidies in key markets such as Italy and Germany, they said.WindWind turbine prices are not expected to rise this year or next, given a continuing glut and aggressive pricing by smaller suppliers, even while rising steel prices add inflationary pressures.Price falls have coupled with technology development to increase competitiveness.A wind turbine can now generate electricity at a cost of about 6 to 8 U.S. cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), depending on construction and financing costs, compared with about 3 to 7 cents for gas and coal, say analysts.Denmark-based MAKE Consulting reported strong growth in turbine orders in 2010 for delivery over the next couple of years, up 48 percent on 2009.&quot;Prices have bottomed,&quot; at about 1 million euros per megawatt, said MAKE Consulting's Steen Broust Nielsen.In the windiest sites, in Scotland, Ireland, and Brazil, wind is already competitive with coal, said Jefferies bank analyst Gerard Reid.&quot;That's a very significant moment,&quot; he said. &quot;But in the majority of countries, like Germany, you're nowhere near that.&quot;Wind turbines are quicker to install than large gas-fired, coal-fired, or nuclear power plants, which is a big plus in emerging markets, where growing, more affluent populations are demanding more electricity, said Barcap's Madlani.For the first time, China last year topped the world in cumulative installed capacity.An advantage of solar power is that it supplies electricity at the hottest time of the day, in line with peak demand for air conditioning and when electricity prices are highest.Even so, solar panels generate power at a cost of more than 15 U.S. cents per kWh even in the sunniest climates, making it competitive only in a very few retail power markets such as southern Italy and Hawaii. Elsewhere it depends on subsidies.Italy is expected to rein in its support for solar energy from 2012, with implications for global demand. &quot;The pace of (global) price declines could accelerate,&quot; said Shyam Mehta, at GTM Research.Merger Those solar companies that weather the price storm could be set up for a mass market with strong returns, driving expectations of acquisitions by leading electronics and semiconductor companies.&quot;The number one company in the world holding solar patents is Samsung, but they're not sure how to jump into it,&quot; said Jefferies' Reid. &quot;Semiconductor companies like Intel are also looking closely.&quot;In the wind market, a merger among existing niche players could create a global player to rival Vestas, GE, and Siemens.Buyers could include emerging eastern giants, or outsiders. China's Goldwind acquired Germany's Vensys in 2008, while diversified U.S. manufacturer United Technologies bought Clipper Windpower last year.Story Copyright (c) 2010 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel plugs into portable fuel cell maker Lilliputian]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanminlim1y</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Fuel cell company Lilliputian Systems today announced an investment and manufacturing deal with Intel, a step toward bringing a handheld fuel cell charger for gadgets to market. Intel Capital has invested an undisclosed amount in Wilmington, Mass.-based Lilliputian and will produce silicon wafers for its first planned fuel cell. The portable fuel cell, about the size of a deck of cards and powered by butane cartridges, can charge small electronics, such as smartphones, through a USB connection.A packet of juice. This is a visual product specification of USB Mobile Power System which will be sold by Lilliputian partners.(Credit:Lilliputian Systems)By the end of this year, Lilliputian plans to announce partners which will distribute the portable fuel cell charger, called the USB Mobile Power System, according to Mouli Ramani, vice president of business development at Lilliputian. Before the Intel Capital investment, the company had raised about $90 million since its first funding in 2002. The design of end product is not fully worked out, but people can expect a handheld device and replaceable butane-filled cartridges about the size of a lighter, Ramani said. The butane is fed into the solid-oxide fuel cell which makes enough power--in the range of 3 watts--to charge small gadgets, such as iPods and smartphones.The expected cost is about $99 and individual cartridges, which will be recyclable, will cost a few dollars, Ramani said. The cartridges of butane--also known as lighter fluid--have been approved for travel on airplanes.The recent history of fuel cell chargers for gadgets has not been very promising. Some companies, including MTI Micro and Medis Technologies, have pursued products but have not successfully brought products to market and sustained sales. But work in this area continues, as many companies expect strong demand for portable charging products as smartphones become more powerful and power-hungry. Toshiba, for example, last year released a methanol fuel cell for small electronics which is now available in Japan.Lilliputian, which was spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims that it will break from the industry's spotty track record because it has made significant technical improvements on fuel cell chargers. Those changes mean that a single cartridge will provide energy to charge a smartphone about 20 times, which is a big step up from what's been offered until now, said Ramani.&quot;This is a compelling value proposition to business travelers, university students, people who need off-grid power, or a family traveling. You can charge multiple devices several times. If you have two cartridges, you don't have to take any cables,&quot; he said.Lilliputian has gotten interest from consumer electronics companies and telecommunications carriers which see power as one of the primary barriers to services such as 4G-based data plans.&quot;People are wasting time planning for power--they have to plan tomorrow's day around battery life, but they don't want to think that way,&quot; Ramani said.Power plant insideInside the Mobile Power System is a miniature fuel cell, about the size of a 9-volt battery, which converts the butane to electricity. Lilliputian has developed a method for placing the fuel cell where the chemical reaction occurs on a silicon wafer, explained Ramani.On the chip is also a reformer which extracts hydrogen and carbon monoxide from the butanol. When that reformed fuel is exposed to oxygen from incoming air inside the fuel cell, it produces a flow of electricity along with water vapor and carbon dioxide as byproducts.One of the big technical challenges is handling heat since this chemical reaction happens at several hundred degrees. But since it's done in a vacuum and there is an exhaust system, the charger will not feel hotter than a laptop battery, Ramani said.The primary purpose of the fuel cell is portable power, but Ramani argued that it's a relatively green form of electricity. Compared to generating power at a central power plant and delivering it to an outlet, the system is about six times more efficient, he said. The amount of carbon dioxide given off from the fuel cell is low and the cartridges can be bought in packs and recycled, he said.Ramani could not say which companies Lilliputian expects to distribute the charger but he indicated that consumers should be able to buy multiple cartridges online.In a release, Intel said that wafers will be manufactured at its facility in Hudson, Mass. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Beatles coming to iTunes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanminlim1y</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The rights to offer music from the Beatles on iTunes had eluded Steve Jobs for years, but it appears the Apple CEO will finally offer songs from one of the world's most beloved bands. Clues to Apple&amp;39's announcement The clocks appeared in a note that Apple posted to its site today and below is famous cover art from The Beatles&amp;39' album &amp;39'Help.&amp;39' Apple has obtained the rights to offer The Beatles music at iTunes, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The paper said Apple is planning to make the announcement but cautioned that the company &quot;could change plans&quot; at the last minute. Apple posted a note to the company's Web site today and promised to make an &quot;unforgettable&quot; announcement tomorrow. Blogs and social networks were crammed with speculation about what Apple might be rolling out next. Apple was thwarted from acquiring rights to The Beatles' catalog by several factors, including a feud with the band over the Apple trademark. In the late 1960s, The Beatles named their holding and record company Apple Records. Another problem was acquiring exclusive digital rights to the songs. Had The Beatles cut such a deal, it risked alienating Wal-Mart, Amazon, and other music retailers online and off, according to sources with knowledge of the negotiations. There is nothing in the Journal story to indicate whether the agreement with Apple, EMI, and The Beatles is exclusive. If Apple does unveil tomorrow some of the world's most recognizable songs, such as &quot;Yesterday,&quot; &quot;Help,&quot; and &quot;Across the Universe&quot; then it would end one of the longest-running Apple rumors. Every so often, someone would send the media in a frenzy by floating a rumor that Apple was getting The Beatles. A spokesman for EMI, The Beatles record label, declined to comment. An Apple representative was not immediately available to comment. If you're one of those people who burned your Beatles' CDs long ago or downloaded them off a file-sharing site, then a Beatles-iTunes arrangement might be anti-climatic. But that might be all there is. Apple hasn't obtained the licenses needed to offer a streaming or digital locker for either music or video, according to numerous sources in the the music and film sectors. Apple was working on enabling iTunes users to upload their music and video libraries to the company's servers where they could be stored and then access from Web enabled devices. As for the probability that Apple will debut The Beatles at iTunes, some fans of the band at CNET as well as music industry execs said they spotted traces of The Beatles in Apple's post. A graphic in the notice showed four separate clocks pointing to different times. This was reminiscent of the album cover from The Beatles legendary album &quot;Help.&quot; In the spirit of the &quot;Paul is Dead&quot; conspiracy theories of the 1960s, in which Beatles fans parsed the lyrics and album artwork for clues that Paul McCartney had actually died in acar crash and was secretly replaced in the band, we found that each of the words in Apple's notice can be found in a song written or performed by The Beatles. A stretch maybe, but this is Apple, right<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's Schmidt teases new Android phone]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Google CEO Eric Schmidt holds up an unannounced Android phone that is probably the rumored Nexus S.(Credit:Tom Krazit/CNET)SAN FRANCISCO--Google plans to support Android phones with near-field communications chips in the next version of Android, which CEO Eric Schmidt said today would arrive in the next few weeks. Schmidt, kicking off the Web 2.0 Summit at the Palace Hotel here in downtown San Francisco, held up an &quot;unannounced product&quot; that appeared to be the Nexus S, which leaked out on Best Buy's Web site last week. The phone--Google unhelpfully covered over the brand label--was running Android 2.3, code-named Gingerbread and used a near-field communications chip that Schmidt thinks could eventually replace credit cards.Near-field communications chips allow for fast short-range wireless transmissions, and credit card companies believe that those transmissions are actually more secure than the mag-stripe technology on your current credit cards, Schmidt said in a discussion with reporters following his discussion with Web 2.0 Summit hosts Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle. Credit cards aren't going away for quite some time, but Google is interested in getting the technology out in front of developers in order to see what happens, he said. Schmidt touched on several topics during his talk and in the briefing afterward. &amp;149' Android: Google is pretty satisfied with how Android has worked out, but Schmidt said if he had to nitpick one thing it would be how Google chose to focus on developing Android itself over emphasizing third-party application development. He bemoaned how people focus on the competitive battle between Google and Apple in smartphones while missing the point that the entire market is growing like crazy. &amp;149' Raises: Schmidt confirmed that Google gave employees the option of taking home last week's bonuses in actual cash, but declined to say how much money the company had sitting around last Tuesday night. A Google engineer stepped forward over the weekend to claim that the person who was fired for leaking the memo about the $1,000 bonuses put employees in danger. &amp;149' Privacy: Google is under a ton of scrutiny from privacy advocates this year following its embarrassing Street View Wi-Fi scandal, and Schmidt reiterated that Google takes its responsibilities seriously, noting that even though the technology is available to permit real-time face-recognition in products like Google Goggles, the company has made a conscious decision to hold back. What &quot;we learned with all of these things is you just can't rush a product out any more. An engineer's political views is not (necessarily) what governments would accept,&quot; Schmidt said. &quot;What we have learned is that people disagree on where that line is, and it is not up to Google to make that decision.&quot; &amp;149' Social: Schmidt didn't have much to say about social technologies, which has long been a weak spot for Google. He expressed the potential for social cues to continue to enhance search results. &quot;We agree that social information's very important, in particular the name value graphs that they generate,&quot; he said. &quot;We can produce a better search result with your permission. Information that is anonymous about what your friends are doing is made available as one of the many signals we provide.&quot; &amp;149' Facebook: Likewise, he also declined to say anything about the fact that Facebook's revamped messaging system, while not an e-mail client, may be intended to sway consumers away from more traditional e-mail like Gmail (but which, on the flip side, exhibits many of the real-time messaging vibes of the failed Google Wave). &quot;It would not be appropriate for me to comment on their product. I am the CEO of Google, not Facebook,&quot; he said.Though he had insisted it was not in specific reference to an incident last week in which Google stopped permitting Facebook users from importing Gmail contacts--a sign that some saw as an early shot fired in the two companies' supposed forthcoming showdown over e-mail and other messaging--he said, &quot;In general, we've taken the position that user data is the user's, and that it should be possible for them to move it back and forth.&quot; &amp;149' Chrome OS: Netbooks running the Chrome OS operating system are expected to arrive any week. Schmidt painted the difference between Google's two mobile operating systems in terms of the input methods used with those devices. &quot;Android is optimized for things that involve touch, (while) Chrome OS is focused on keyboard-based solutions. That's how the market is evolving.&quot;CNET's Caroline McCarthy contributed to this report.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tatto Media Continues To Push Free Poster&nbsp'Scam]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanminlim1y</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Last month I wrote about a new scam that&amp;'s performing extremely well among the Scamville crowd &amp;8211' a free poster that&amp;'s tied to a $30/month ongoing credit card subscription.There&amp;'s no disclosure of the ongoing credit card subscription anywhere on any of the checkout pages except in the terms and conditions via a link. People think they are just getting a poster for free, with a $.99 shipping charge. If you call the customer service phone number to cancel you are put on hold indefinitely (I was on hold 20 minutes before hanging up). And just to really put a cherry on top, you never even get the free poster (I didn&amp;'t, and a lot of people complain about that).Actually, not sending you the poster is part of the scam. Once they&amp;'re billing you they don&amp;'t want you to ever think about them again. Sending you a poster just reminds you to check your credit card statement, where you&amp;'ll see a charge for $30.Tatto Media&amp;'s CEO denied knowledge of the scam when I spoke to him last month. He also said that he removed the offer, and in fact the page showing the offer was removed.And now of course, as the press cycle wound down, it&amp;'s back. And Tatto is pitching the scam to affiliates again. Here&amp;'s an email they sent just today:Subject:incent offerDate:Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:09:42 -0500From:TylerTo:Hey,Long time no talk..hope youa4a4ve been well. I wanted to let you know that we have an internal incent offer that has been doing really well on other GPT sites so I thought Ia4a4d let you know, in case you havena4a4t already tried it. The offer is Wozo.com, and Ia4a4m not sure if someone named Andrew already hit you up to run direct but it would be the same running through me. Ita4a4s a credit card offer that has no promo restrictions (cash incent and content lock are just fine on these).  Payout is $18 cpaa4let me know if youa4a4re interested or you have other questions.Best,TylerAccount ManagerI&amp;'ve emailed Tatto&amp;'s CEO once again to hear what bullshit he&amp;'s spinning today. Will update if I hear back.I&amp;'ve said this before and want to say it again. These scams may make some of you think &amp;''buyer beware,&amp;'' but these companies are able to constantly tweak the offers to ensure maximum conversion and profit. And it all eventually flows to &amp;''legitimate&amp;'' companies that we talk about every day &amp;8211' Google, Facebook, Zynga and others. The only way to stop it is to continue to pour sunlight on it, and for pressure to be put on companies on the top of the food chain to ban it.CrunchBase InformationAdapp SolutionTatto MediaAndrew BachmanLin MiaoInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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