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<title><![CDATA[Nook Color Android hacks are being sold on eBay]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hacks for the Nook Color are being sold on eBay, pre-installed on microSD cards.(Credit:eBay)Hacking or rooting the Barnes &amp; Noble Nook Color has become a commercial venture for some, and that has plenty of Android enthusiasts calling foul.In recent days folks on eBay have started selling hacks for the Nook Color pre-installed on microSD cards, which start around $60 for 4GB cards and work their way upwards. Installing one of the cards in the Nook Color's microSD slot allows users to override Barnes &amp; Noble's &quot;closed&quot; Android-based Nook firmware with an open Android system that supports running a multitude of Android apps. &quot;Modders&quot; have been &quot;porting&quot; various &quot;rooted&quot; versions of the Android OS to the Nook Color, including a preview version of Honeycomb (Android 3.0), which is designed fortablets. This has made the affordable though slightly underpowered Nook Color ($250) a popular item with Android enthusiasts who don't want to shell out bigger money for true Android tablets like the $799 Motorola Xoom. Over at the Android Police Will Shanklin was dismayed at the turn of events. He urged readers not to pay money for a Nook Color SD card that runs Honeycomb.People have the right to buy or sell whatever they want (subject to their respective locales' laws), but the fact that people are paying this much for a pre-loaded SD card baffles me. See, the nice thing about the internet is that there are instructions for things like this that pretty much anyone with a few minutes of time and the ability to read can follow.Typically, an 4GB microSD card costs less than $10 on Amazon. An 8GB card goes for around $16.Android Guy, the listed seller of the above item, is marketing his card as superior to competing products on eBay. &quot;This auction provides you with a 8gb microSD cards with a root that will run Android 3.0 Honeycomb with app market with step by step, easy to follow, instructions for accessing the Android market,&quot; he says. &quot;No other dealer is offering step by step instructions for this process.&quot;Others on the Internet are, of course. And more hardcore modders will point out that running a hack off the microSD card is for novices' you get better performance running it from internal memory. How many people are &quot;rooting&quot; their Nook Colors is unknown, but we suspect that the numbers remain relatively small (as an overall percentage) or Barnes &amp; Noble might try to take more action to combat it. Obviously, Barnes &amp; Noble's intention is to sell a lot of e-books through its e-reader, and that's part of the reason the Nook Color is priced as reasonably as it is.Any way you look at it, we'd strongly encourage you not to buy one of these cards on eBay. They are, as the Android Police says, a &quot;ripoff.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chu plugs R&D to hit Obama's clean-energy target]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zhouwei156</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Can a country that gets nearly half of its electricity from burning coal really get 80 percent of its electricity from &quot;clean-energy sources&quot; in less than 25 years According to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the answer is yes if the U.S. cranks up its &quot;innovation machine.&quot;The top energy-related headline from the State of the Union speech last night was President Obama calling for the U.S. to get 80 percent of its electricity from &quot;clean-energy sources&quot; by 2035. Steven Chu during a tour of an Energy Department grant recipient in December. (Credit:Martin LaMonica/CNET)Obama said the U.S. should invest in technology innovation in biomedical research, IT, and particularly clean-energy technology as a way to perk up the U.S. economy.Today, Energy Secretary Steven Chu held a town hall meeting where he took questions from those online and provided color on Obama's speech. The question of how &quot;clean energy&quot; is defined could be significant if Congress takes up energy legislation.Chu said Department of Energy research programs can complement industry to accelerate development of cheaper forms of clean energy, opening up export opportunities for U.S. companies. The budget that the White House will submit to Congress will call for $8 billion in research, development, and deployment in clean-energy technology programs, reported Energy &amp; Environment News. That represents a one third increase in funding, which would be funded by subsidies currently provided to fossil fuel energies. The budget also calls for creation of three new &quot;innovation hubs&quot; focused on different energy technologies. It will also seek to double the budget for the Advanced Research Program Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which was funded through the stimulus program with $400 million over two years. (See PDF for details of budget proposal.)Right now, renewable sources, including hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass, make up about 10 percent of electricity production in the U.S., with nearly 7 percent coming from hydropower. Chu said the White House's &quot;working definition&quot; of clean energy also includes nuclear power, which has no emissions during operation, and natural gas. Compared to coal, natural gas has about half the carbon emissions as burning coal, fewer air pollutants, and no mercury.&quot;Roughly speaking, right now, we are about 40 percent clean-energy sources in the way that you can define it. If you define it in a very strict way of no carbon emissions that includes sun, wind, hydropower and nuclear, we're over 30 percent,&quot; Chu said.Even in that context, Chu admitted that getting to 80 percent by that definition will be ambitious. &quot;Is it over the top, we can't achieve that No. We think we can achieve that,&quot; he said.Technical advances can speed this transition along significantly. For example, the Energy Department has a goal of bringing the cost of solar photovoltaics down below the cost of fossil fuel-generated electricity.&quot;Imagine a world where that is true before the end of the decade,&quot; he said. &quot;If we're the developers of this technology, this is a huge worldwide market and it will just take off.&quot;Congress interested Last night, Obama said that the U.S. has had its &quot;Sputnik moment&quot; in seeing other countries, such as China, move ahead rapidly on science and technology, particularly energy. That line echoes a speech Chu gave several weeks ago, where he called on the U.S. to invest in more research and development. &quot;We are in a race. In my way of thinking, this race is much more important in terms of (U.S.) prosperity of not only five, ten years from today but next year and the year after that,&quot; Chu said. &quot;This is an economic race to develop those (energy and energy efficiency) technologies the world will want and buy.&quot;In terms of policy, though, it's not clear that enough members of Congress have an interest in addressing energy to bring an energy bill forward. A legislative effort to cap carbon emissions from big polluters failed last year and Obama did not mention climate change or carbon emissions in last night's speech, focusing instead on the economic opportunity around energy technology. One of the ideas to advance energy legislation this year is to create incentives or mandates for more &quot;clean energy,&quot; however it is defined. Chu said that White House will need to work with Congress to hammer out a common definition. According to a fact sheet put out by the White House last night, so-called clean coal is also considered clean energy. In response to a question, Chu said that carbon capture and storage, where carbon dioxide gas is pumped and stored underground, is &quot;not a slam dunk proven thing&quot; technologically. But he said the Energy Department and coal industry have a game plan for making the technology work, which will be needed for natural gas power plants in the decades ahead.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft launches 'Lab' for emerging HTML5 specs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zhouwei156</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft wants to give Web developers a way to get their feet wet with emerging HTML5 technologies. Today the company is launching HTML5 Labs, a standalone site that will include demo code for two cutting-edge HTML5 technologies that aren't quite finished: Web Sockets and IndexedDB. Developers who want to try to build sites with either specification will be given code that Microsoft plans to keep updated as each one progresses on its way to becoming a stable part of the standard.In a phone interview with CNET last week, Jean Paoli, general manager of Microsoft's Interoperability Strategy Team said that the labs site was born out of the need for developers to experiment and use new types of code long before something is ready to market. But more than anything, people were just asking for it.&quot;We are receiving a lot of questions from people wondering when will HTML5 be ready,&quot; Paoli said. &quot;Our response is that HTML5 is ready to be used today using Internet Explorer 9. So you can use whatever is stable from HTML5 in IE9. And for anything experimental, you can play and try things using the prototype.&quot; Paoli said the prototypes should by no means be used on production sites. The reasoning behind this (besides the prototype moniker) is that these standards simply aren't yet finished, so a site you make with a prototype one week has a good chance of being completely broken as soon as there's an update.&quot;Sometimes it takes six months, one year, one year and a half, two years in order to have what's called a stable standard,&quot; Paoli explained. &quot;So today browser vendors have to make a choice of appearing to support emerging standards...and providing developers with a production-ready platform to support the stable standards.&quot; The problem this creates, Paoli said, is that trying to build those not-quite-yet-ready standards into browsers is that things can become unstable or suddenly insecure--as has recently become the case with Web Sockets, one of the two included draft technologies that make up HTML5 Labs' initial offerings.&quot;For the portions of HTML5 that are not stable, we believe we are going to produce prototypes, we're going to produce code, we're going to produce software that is not meant to be used to create your Web site,&quot; Paoli said. &quot;We're going to ship this prototype code on the HTML5 Labs site, and this code is going to be timed, or it's going to be in debug mode, or it's going to be in this stage where we're saying 'this code is going to change a lot, don't use it in your Web site!'&quot;This release technique isn't just for developers looking to make their sites work with Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft's HTML5-friendly browser that's currently in beta. Instead, it's efforts like HTML5 Labs, and individual testing pages from other browser makers that will push things forward. &quot;It's important to have this prototype out there because it helps people who are in the standards body--who are trying to design the best standard for this particular technology--to actually play and experiment with software that actually implements this piece of paper they're trying to design,&quot; Paoli said.In other words, you can spend all the time you want talking about how these specifications should work, but you still have to give it a test run every once and a while. And as an end result, the standards you're working to make stable might get there faster. &quot;This will take care of those unstable specifications such as Web Sockets that are extremely important for the Internet but are not finalized for wide consumption,&quot; Paoli explained. HTML5 Labs goes live today with these two standards in progress, with others to follow throughout next year. &quot;We are going to be updating this site with multiple prototypes during the year,&quot; Paoli said. &quot;We don't know which ones yet, but we're working on defining and understanding what are the other unstable standard specifications we need to work on to be able to advance the conversation.&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AT&038'T fights off Verizon iPhone with mobile hotspot, sweetened tethering data plan]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AT&amp;amp'T isna4a4t just sitting back and letting the Verizon iPhone get all the buzz surrounding mobile hotspots.The  carrier is finally offering mobile hotspot capabilities to let  multiple wireless devices share mobile broadband connections, starting  on February 13 with the launch of the HTC Inspire 4G. Additionally,  AT&amp;amp'T is adding more data to its tethering plan (which  iPhone users can take advantage of).AT&amp;amp'Ta4a4s  Mobile Hotspot will be bundled with the companya4a4s high-end Data Pro  plan for $45 a month ($20 more than Data Pro on its own). The carrier  will also add an extra 2 gigabytes of mobile data on top of the 2GB  that the Data Pro plan comes with. The total 4GB of data will apply to  the iPhone and any devices connected to it via the mobile hotspot.  Overage costs will be $10 per gigabyte.Since  AT&amp;amp'T is offering more data to hotspot users, ita4a4s also adding  another 2GB of data to existing users of its tethering plan. Currently,  tethering users, including those on the iPhone, pay $20 a month to share  their mobile data with a single device, but AT&amp;amp'T doesna4a4t offer them  any additional monthly data. Now tethering users will be less worried  about running out of their 2GB data pool.Ita4a4s  also rumored that the iPhone will get access to AT&amp;amp'Ta4a4s mobile  hotspot application on February 13, although that hasna4a4t been confirmed  yet. The hotspot feature will make its way to all iPhones with the release of iOS 4.3 in the coming weeks, but it will be left up to carriers to activate it.Next Story: SkyGrid Groups organize an army of fans Previous Story: Verizon iPhone preorders live for existing customers, reviews tout call qualityPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: data, iOS, iPhone, mobile hotspot, smartphones, tetheringCompanies: Apple, AT&amp;amp'T, Verizon          Tags: data, iOS, iPhone, mobile hotspot, smartphones, tetheringCompanies: Apple, AT&amp;amp'T, VerizonDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat 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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<title><![CDATA[Nokia CEO: Microsoft won&'t buy us]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While many believe that Microsofta4a4s recent partnership with Nokia is a not-so-stealthy hint at an eventual takeover, Nokia CEO Stephen  Elop (pictured right with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer) doesna4a4t agree, and sees no reason why Microsoft would choose to buy  the company.&amp;''I&amp;'m not aware of a strategic interest that Microsoft would have in the rest of the business,&amp;'' Elop said to Reuters.  &amp;''To the extent that a partnership has been formed around what they&amp;'re  really interested in, then what would an acquisition bring other than a  good year of anti-trust investigation, huge turmoil, delays&amp;''Elop has a point. By partnering with Nokia to be its flagship Windows  Phone 7 device maker, Microsoft already has what it needs from Nokia  without the headache of fixing its internal problems. And you can bet  that European regulators wouldna4a4t have taken too kindly to Microsoft  completely gobbling up one of Europe&amp;'s biggest companies.Microsoft is reportedly paying Nokia $1 billion over five years to become a Windows Phone shop. Nokia will also pay Microsoft a fee for  every copy of Windows on its phones (so basically, every phone). But  Nokia will also be saving quite a bit of money that it otherwise would  have been spending on software research and development.Elop  also confirmed that Nokia workers are currently hard at work at the  companya4a4s first Windows Phone devices. a4AIf this was an acquisition  scenario, that wouldn&amp;'t be possible,a4 he said.Elop previously said he hopes to have a Windows Phone 7 device from Nokia out by the end of the year.Calling all mobile executives: This April 25-26, VentureBeat is hosting its inaugural VentureBeat Mobile Summit,  where we&amp;'ll debate the five key business and policy challenges facing  the mobile industry today. Participants will develop concrete,  actionable solutions that will shape the future of the mobile industry.  The invitation-only event, located at the scenic and relaxing Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, Calif., is limited to the top 180 mobile executives, investors and policymakers. Request an invitation.Previous Story: Robots, dutchmen and IBM create supersmart baggage handling systemPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: acquisitions, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: Microsoft, nokiaPeople: Stephen Elop, steve ballmer          Tags: acquisitions, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: Microsoft, nokiaPeople: Stephen Elop, steve ballmerDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat 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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