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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thunderbolted, Sandy Bridged MacBook Airs in June]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=thunderbolted-sandy-bridged-macbook-airs-in-june</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bodialq</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=thunderbolted-sandy-bridged-macbook-airs-in-june</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Newer! Faster! Sandier!(Credit:Apple)Right now you can have an ultra-portable MacBook or one with up-to-date guts, but you can't have both. But that's apparently changing, if rumors are to be believed.The latest from parts suppliers in Asia indicates that Apple is set to begin mass production of Thunderbolt- and Sandy Bridge- (with Intel Graphics, natch) equipped MacBook Airs late next month, to debut on sales floors in June (which corroborates reports we made back in February).The news comes from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, from Concord Securities, who gave his take on the Air production to AppleInsider. In addition to being fairly consistently in-line with the rumors department, a summer refresh of the Air makes sense: Its low price point and lightweight design make it ideal for students, and June is around the start of back-to-school shopping. The Air is small, but we could see Apple sacrificing a USB port to make room for Thunderbolt, because with an adapter it can do the job of both.Kou didn't offer any information on pricing, but it would make sense if Apple kept the pricing and product matrix similar to the one the Air enjoys now, starting at $1,000 for the base 11-inch model and sliding up to $1,600 for a fully loaded 13-inch version.Other stats, such as storage capacity and graphics, were also not volunteered, but we're guessing slight bumps in both as SSD drive prices have been dropping. If Apple can find a way to squeeze a 128GB SSD drive into its entry-level 11-inch Air with an i5 processor and Thunderbolt then it could give other ultra-portable makers, like Samsung and Toshiba, real competition.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mozilla jumps into Node.js server project]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mozilla-jumps-into-node-js-server-project</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>liparpar31tu</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mozilla-jumps-into-node-js-server-project</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mozilla, taking interest in the Node.js project to run JavaScript programs on servers, not just browsers, has passed an early milestone with its own flavor of the software.Node.js is built with the V8 JavaScript engine from Google's Chrome browser, but Mozilla is transplanting Firefox's JavaScript technology in a project called SpiderNode. (The JavaScript engine inFirefox is called SpiderMonkey, and the hybrid technology used in SpiderNode is called V8Monkey.)&quot;We now have a Node executable running on V8Monkey,&quot; though it still crashes at this early stage, said SpiderNode leader Paul O'Shannessey on Twitter yesterday.V8 is deeply integrated with Node.js, so Mozilla is taking the approach of building the V8 interface onto SpiderMonkey. That's been a useful project in and of itself, O'Shannessey said, generating ideas about ways to improve SpiderMonkey, but the larger goal is to provide a different version of Node.js.&quot;We think V8 is great and the fact that Node has become so widely used is a testament to that. But we also think there's room for competition here,&quot; he said in a blog post about SpiderNode.Node.js, a project begun in 2009 by Ryan Dahl and funded by Joyent, runs tasks on a server in a different and potentially more efficient way than a lot of today's common technology. Specifically, it responds to requests--to deliver a Web page to a browser, for example--by waking up when notified of the request, then falling back asleep once the request is fulfilled. This approach is called an event model, and Dahl argues that it performs better under load than traditional servers that allocate tasks to computing processes called threads that take up more memory.Sencha, a start-up offering development tools to create Web applications that run in a browser, likes the idea of server-side JavaScript, too, since Web developers are likely already familiar with the language. It's building a higher-level package called Connect that combines Node.js with various plug-ins useful for Web servers.&quot;We're a big fan of JavaScript in the server,&quot; said Aditya Bansod, senior director of product management at Sencha. &quot;For a developer, having the same language and the same event model on the server and on the client reduces the cognitive dissonance when working on each side.&quot;Node.js today runs on Linux and Unix operating systems, but Dahl expects to change that. There are too many Windows servers and Windows developers to ignore, he said in an April presentation (PDF).<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adobe: Zero-day attacks targeting Flash Player hole]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=adobe-zero-day-attacks-targeting-flash-player-hole</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Trerryerono</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=adobe-zero-day-attacks-targeting-flash-player-hole</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Adobe today warned of a critical hole in Flash Player that is being exploited in the wild to take control of computers or cause them to crash. &quot;There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Word (.doc) file delivered as an email attachment, targeting the Windows platform,&quot; the company said in an advisory. &quot;At this time, Adobe is not aware of any attacks via PDF targeting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe Reader X Protected Mode mitigations would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing.&quot;  Adobe said it is &quot;finalizing a schedule&quot; for releasing updates for Flash Player 10.2.x and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris and Android, Adobe Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Reader X (10.0.2) for Macintosh, and Adobe Reader 9.4.3 and earlier 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh.  Since Adobe Reader X Protected Mode would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing, the company said it will address the issue in Adobe Reader X for Windows with the next quarterly security update, scheduled for June 14.Last month, Adobe fixed a different critical vulnerability in Flash Player that affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat and which reportedly had been exploited in attacks via Flash files embedded in Excel files distributed via e-mail. Attackers exploited that hole to target employees at RSA and get access to data related to the SecurID authentication tokens, prompting RSA to warn customers that their systems may be weakened as a result. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HTC profit triples on huge smartphone demand]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aalina387</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=htc-profit-triples-on-huge-smartphone-demand</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Smartphone maker HTC took home record profits and revenue in the first quarter thanks to surging consumption of its smartphone lineup.HTC&amp;39's Evo 4G(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)For the quarter ended March 31, the Taiwanese company earned $14.8 billion in Taiwan dollars (US$513 million), almost triple the NT$5 billion profit from the year-ago quarter. Net income easily surpassed the average analyst estimate of NT$12.8 billion as compiled by Bloomberg.Revenue soared to NT$104.2 billion, a gain of almost 175 percent from the prior year and a leap over the NT$95 billion forecast by the average analyst, said Bloomberg.Related links &amp;149' Best Buy to sell Wi-Fi HTC Flyer &amp;149' Gartner: Android market share to near 50 percent &amp;149' Ask Maggie: HTC Thunderbolt vs. Droid BionicHTC has been a major beneficiary of the rising demand for Android phones, especially those offering higher 4G speeds. Sold through Sprint, the HTC Evo 4G was the first 4G phone to hit the market. Adding to its high-speed lineup, the company recently unveiled the Thunderbolt through Verizon Wireless and the Inspire through AT&amp;amp'T.Though HTC didn't reveal the number of smartphones shipped during the first quarter, it had announced in January that it expected to ship 8.5 million handsets, up 157 percent from a year ago. Looking ahead, HTC is branching out into thetablet market with its upcoming 7-inch Flyer, aka Evo View, slated to launch this spring.HTC's market value recently surpassed that of global leader and rival Nokia, reported All Things D and other sources. The company is now worth around $33.8 billion, inching past Nokia's market capitalization of $32.84 billion.<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>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=grooveshark-surprised-by-google-snub</guid>
<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[How to catapult an idea to success]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>afrolitochka</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=how-to-catapult-an-idea-to-success</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This weapon won&amp;39't build itself.(Credit:Siege Toys) I had an interesting but frustrating discussion recently with Matt Crowe, the founder of Ahhha, a site for &quot;social ideation,&quot; as he calls it. It's where people can float ideas for products and either seek help from the people who can actually help make the ideas real or just &quot;claim&quot; the ideas and let others run with them. Everyone who contributes is supposed to get a piece of an idea's financial success. Crowe hopes that Ahhha will become a place where anyone with the germ of an invention will plant it, and that the community will select and grow the best ideas. A comparison voting system is supposed to help the good ideas bubble up, but currently non-serious and joke ideas flood the site, burying the few good ones on it.  Crowe says, &quot;Nobody has a clue where to go if they have an idea,&quot; and that's very true, but I don't think a pure ideas market like this is the way to solve the problem. We already have systems for the registration and protection of intellectual property: Patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, and counterfeit laws are all designed to protect the originators of creative work. Each of these systems may be criticized as being some combination of cumbersome, unfair, or expensive, but I would still submit that the last thing we need is yet another registration system, one where individuals can claim rights to an idea without putting any legal heft or real work behind their claims. Ideas markets are one thing, but helping people actually create products is more valuable. And several sites are doing just that.One of the many pointless ideas on Ahhha.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) Ahhha has some similarities to the gadget manufacturer Quirky, which puts an inventor community in front of its development calendar. Quirky has the smallest of filters to idea submission, but it makes the biggest difference: you have to pony up $10 to submit an idea. Quirky itself builds and sells those concepts that make it through the community voting process. Inventors get a cut of sales. Quirky appears to work only in plastics, so the ideas it can act on are limited. Other services enable inventors and creators to fund all kinds of projects and find customers for them. For example, see Kickstarter and Indiegogo, where artists and inventors can collect monetary pledges for their projects. Funds pledged are held in escrow until thresholds are reached' then the money gets released to the projects. The people running the projects generally agree to send those who pledged their work output-- music tracks or theater tickets for artistic works' toys or gadgets for hardware projects. Since pledge-based projects are expected to deliver actual output, the budding entrepreneurs on these services have to do more than have an idea: they have to be able to pitch successfully to the sites' communities. This filter leads to ideas sites filled with workable ideas that need, primarily, money and moral support (pre-orders are very effective in that regard). Pledge sites don't pretend to tell inventors that there's a shortcut to success, but they do add efficiency to part of the financial process.A Medieval weapon, made with lasersI recently met some inventors working a fun project through the Kickstarter system: Michael Woods and Evan Murphy. They were students together at Caltech a few years ago, and recently realized their post-graduation startup, which made legal discovery software, wasn't going to work out. They dropped back to what they both love: Building stuff. In particular, toy trebuchets. The trebuchet was a siege weapon in Middle Ages. It has a special appeal to geeks, because it blends really interesting physics with a Lord of the Rings aesthetic. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Windows Phone 7 apps: 'Quality over quantity,' Microsoft says]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=windows-phone-7-apps-quality-over-quantity-microsoft-says</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>xbr0wn</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=windows-phone-7-apps-quality-over-quantity-microsoft-says</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is dishing on Windows Phone 7 apps.(Credit:CNET)Since the launch ofWindows Phone 7 operating system last year, Microsoft has been trying to catch up to Apple and Google in the mobile-apps race. And the software giant took to its blog yesterday to share its progress.Microsofts says that there are now 11,500 applications available in its Windows Marketplace store. Out of that, 7,500 applications are paid, while 1,110 apps are generating revenue through ads, thanks to the company's Microsoft Advertising Ad Control service. On average, Microsoft says, users are downloading 12 apps each month.The size of Microsoft's mobile marketplace still pales in comparison to Apple's App Store. According to the Apple app page on the company's Web site, there are now over 350,000 available applications to its customers. In January, Apple announced that 10 billion apps had been downloaded from its store since its launch in 2008.It's a similar story on the Android side. A Google spokesperson told CNET in an e-mail today that the Android Market has &quot;more than 150,000 apps available in the Android Market.&quot;Though that's still much lower than Apple's App Store, the Android Market might soon enough overtake Apple's option as the world's largest application marketplace. Earlier this year, Kevin Mahaffey, the CTO of mobile security firm, told CNET in an interview that given Android's growth, it should surpass the App Store by the middle of next year. Between August and February alone, the number of Android Market apps available to U.S. users alone increased by 127 percent, according to Lookout.Microsoft isn't too concerned about the number of apps available in its marketplace. The company's Brandon Watson said in the blog post that for Microsoft, it's a matter of &quot;quality over quantity.&quot; Its app tally does not include &quot;lite apps,&quot; and it doesn't &quot;double and triple count apps which are submitted in multiple languages.&quot;More than anything, Watson said in his post, Microsoft is &quot;dedicated to evolving the platform to enable more developers to create amazing apps' more possibilities, more functionality, more customers and more markets.&quot;So far, there are 36,000 developers creating apps for Windows Phone 7. Out of all the registered developers, 40 percent have actually brought a program to Microsoft's mobile platform.Market researcher IDC expects Microsoft's Windows Phone 7/Windows Mobile operating systems to account for 5.5 percent of smartphone shipments this year, well behind Android, Apple's iOS, BlackBerry, and Symbian. But by 2015, IDC forecasts, Microsoft's share will jump to about 20 percent.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[White House pushes for online privacy bill of rights]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>danitarosd</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=white-house-pushes-for-online-privacy-bill-of-rights</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The White House is urging Congress to enact a new &quot;privacy bill of rights&quot; that would provide clearer guidelines to online users and businesses about the collecting of personal information over the Internet.Speaking in Washington yesterday at a special hearing devoted to online consumer privacy, Assistant Commerce Secretary Lawrence Strickling acknowledged that the ability to store information about customers helps make online companies more efficient. But he said that consumers are growing increasingly uneasy about how their personal information is being collected and used.With the lengthy privacy policies now offered by Web sites proving confusing and ineffective, Strickling said that a new &quot;consumer privacy bill of rights&quot; is needed. Based on responses from consumer groups and industry members to the Commerce Department's Green Paper, which offered a set of initial recommendations, such a bill would aim to protect the privacy of individual consumers without stifling innovation from online companies.The protections in the bill itself would be legally enforceable, according to Strickling, but still flexible enough to adapt to new technologies. He added that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should be given the authority to enforce that bill and that the White House would work with other countries and trading partners to ensure that the protections would be consistent across different borders.&quot;Working together with Congress, the FTC, the Executive Office of the President, and other stakeholders, I am confident in our ability to provide consumers with meaningful privacy protections in the Internet economy, backed by effective enforcement, that can adapt to changes in technology, market conditions, and consumer expectations,&quot; Strickling said.Strickling also called for a federal law to alert consumers in the event of a data breach that would expose their personal information. Such a law would be intended to set the same standards across the country, clear up inconsistent state laws, and give state authorities the ability to enforce it.Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D.-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which held the hearing, also urged Congress to act.&quot;Congress can no longer sit on the sidelines,&quot; Rockefeller said. &quot;There is an online privacy war going on, and without help, consumers will lose. We must act to give Americans the basic online privacy protections they deserve.&quot;Yesterday's hearing was the second in an ongoing series looking at how information is captured and stored by online businesses and advertisers and what Congress can and should do to better protect U.S. Internet users.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPad 2 shipping times slip to 2 to 3 weeks]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amytalbot</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ipad-2-shipping-times-slip-to-2-to-3-weeks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Current ship times for Wi-Fi versions of the iPad 2 are two to three weeks, and could continue to be pushed back.(Credit:Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET)If you were expecting to be able to pick up aniPad 2 from Apple between now and April, your best bet may be to get in line at a local retailer.Just hours into the iPad 2 going up for sale on Apple's online store, the company pushed back ship times across the entire line of devices from two to three days, then five to seven business days, and now two to three weeks. That lead time could stretch even more with shoppers putting in orders throughout the rest of today and into the weekend.Similar availability problems faced the first iPad, with Apple being unable to keep up with demand. Back then, shipping times did not come down to the magical 24-hour mark until the end of August, some four months after the device had gone on sale in the U.S. In the process, Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads on its first day of availability, and hit 1 million units sold in 28 days. That unexpected demand had also prompted Apple to push back its international release of the device, so as to keep up with sales.Along with Apple's online store, Web sales of the iPad 2 at Apple partner retailers like Wal-Mart are likely to face similar supply restraints when the device goes on sale later today at 5 p.m. ET. We'll be keeping track of that, along with the scene at a number of retail outlets across the country throughout the day over at our semi-live blog.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Geothermal to double by 2020, report says]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>theronmelc</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=geothermal-to-double-by-2020-report-says</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The world will see a significant increase in the use of geothermal as an energy source between now and 2020.That's according to a report released this week by Pike Research.The research analyst constructed several scenarios based on an estimated 10.7 gigawatts of geothermal capacity in existence throughout the world in 2010. (Credit:Geothermal Energy Association)That 10.7 gigawatts equates to about 67 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, with the U.S., which currently possesses 3.1 gigawatts of installed geothermal systems, as the world's leading user.In fact, 88 percent of the world's geothermal energy systems currently in operation are used in only eight countries, according to the report.Peter Asmus, the senior analyst on the report, emphasized that geothermal is currently one of the world's least-tapped opportunities for alternative energy.&quot;Worldwide potential for geothermal energy is immense, but geothermal remains an underutilized resource and represents only a small fraction of the global renewable energy portfolio. Improved access to resource data, more efficient drilling processes, increased understanding about the industry's potential, and improving access to financing are driving expanding interest in the sector,&quot; he said in a statement.In the report's high-growth forecast, geothermal capacity increases 134 percent to 25.1 gigawatts. In the report's most conservative forecast, Pike estimated that world geothermal capacity will grow to 14.3 gigawatts by 2020.The statistics are in line with scientists who've said that geothermal is an untapped resource that could potentially supply 4 percent of the world's energy needs. The Geothermal Energy Association has calculated that the U.S. has the potential to supply 7 million people with energy on geothermal alone if currently planned projects move forward, which would increase capacity from 3.1 gigawatts to 7 gigawatts.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rumors of Apple retail nixing boxed software persist]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=rumors-of-apple-retail-nixing-boxed-software-persist</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>floreofrff</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=rumors-of-apple-retail-nixing-boxed-software-persist</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple&amp;39's San Francisco retail store, snapped during the launch of the iPhone 3GS back in 2009.(Credit:James Martin/CNET)Building on reports from a month ago that Apple was planning to drastically scale back on boxed software at its retail stores, a new report claims that such a plan will include other computer peripherals as well.The reasoning behind the move, as explained by CNET contributor Jim Dalrymple on his personal blog The Loop, is that Apple plans to expand its personalized in-store setup service. This is the one that has Apple Retail Store employees helping newMac,iPad, andiPod buyers get their new hardware up and running following their purchases.To make room for these one-on-one sessions, something's got to go, which is where the removal of software boxes from the storefront comes into place. Echoing a report by MacRumors from February, Dalrymple says that boxed software--mainly games--will get the boot from some Apple store shelves and stockrooms. Things like printers, scanners, and hard drives are also likely to be stricken from store floors and demo spaces, though they could end up staying in store stock rooms to be made available for an on-the-spot purchase, the report claims.These changes are said to be affecting &quot;about 80 percent&quot; of Apple's retail stores once they go into place, leaving the other 20 percent (likely the large stores with plenty of space) unaffected. The changes could also play into making extra room for support and training that make up a part of Apple's recently announced Joint Venture support service that will serve small-business customers with two-hour training workshops.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bing cooking up instant search, HTML5 features]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>buddymarcosie</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=bing-cooking-up-instant-search-html5-features</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is preparing to make searching Bing an instantaneous affair. According to blog Winrumors, which was tipped off to a preview program Microsoft is running, the company is planning to roll out a special version of Bing for users with HTML5-compatible browsers. Those users will get a few extra flourishes like instant results as they type queries, as well as animations and transitions between pages. This new version is said to be launching around the same time as the final release of Internet Explorer 9, which Microsoft is expected to announce at the South by Southwest conference kicking off Friday. Microsoft is holding an invite-only, Internet Explorer 9-related media event on Monday, March 14.A Microsoft representative declined to comment. The preview page for Bing at Bing.com/peek spills the beans on the new features, without letting users access them just yet.(Credit:CNET)Microsoft has long been expected to bring instant results to Bing, despite knocking the feature when it was launched by rival Google back in September of last year. In an interview with USA Today shortly after Google Instant's launch, Bing director Stefan Weitz said while the feature was &quot;slick,&quot; Microsoft's mission was to attack what users would be able to do with the results to make the task at hand take less time. Even so, instant results have proven to be a success for Google, with the company saying last week that just 2 percent of users had opted out of using the feature. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WordPress hit by 'extremely large' DDoS attack]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paulsmith385</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=wordpress-hit-by-extremely-large-ddos-attack</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Blog host WordPress.com was the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack earlier today described by the company as the largest in its history.As a result, a number of blogs--including those that are a part of WordPress' VIP service--suffered connectivity issues. That includes the Financial Post, the National Post, TechCrunch, along with the service's nearly 18 million hosted blogs.According to a post by Automattic employee Sara Rosso on the company's VIP Lobby (which had been down at the time of the attacks, though was archived by Graham Cluley over at Naked Security), the size of the attack reached &quot;multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second.&quot; Rosso had also said putting a stop to the attack was &quot;proving rather difficult.&quot; Rosso had also said the company would be handling its VIP sites ahead of general users.Denial-of-service attacks are designed to overwhelm Web sites with requests, effectively shutting them down. The ones that are distributed present a much larger challenge to combat, since they can come from a wider variety of networks and hosts.Update at 10:35 a.m. PT: In an e-mail to CNET, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said the attack had affected three of the company's data centers, and was the largest its seen in the company's six-year history. Mullenweg also said that the attack &quot;may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs,&quot; but that that detail had not been confirmed. Full e-mail below:There's an ongoing DDoS attack that was large enough to impact all three of our data centers in Chicago, San Antonio, and Dallas--it's currently been neutralized but it's possible it could flare up again later, which we're taking proactive steps to implement.This is the largest and most sustained attack we've seen in our six-year history. We suspect it may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs but we're still investigating and have no definitive evidence yet.The company has also posted a notice on its product uptime status blog:WordPress&amp;39' uptime notice.(Credit:CNET)Update at 11:47 a.m. PT: WordPress now says the problem's been fixed. &quot;Our systems are back to normal. We'll continue to monitor them and post updates here if needed,&quot; the company said on its status page. No word yet on if the company had gotten to the bottom of which of its blogs had been the target of the attack. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Senator wants more secure Web sites for Wi-Fi use]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Khushi</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=senator-wants-more-secure-web-sites-for-wi-fi-use</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sen. Charles Schumer wants online companies to switch to a more secure protocol to better protect consumers who access Web sites via public Wi-Fi hot spots.The New York Democrat yesterday issued a call to such companies as Amazon and Twitter to switch their default pages to HTTPS from HTTP to help prevent cybercriminals from stealing online passwords and credit card numbers over public Wi-Fi networks. In his request, Schumer said that programs such as Firesheep allow even hackers with no programming skills to easily capture usernames, passwords, browsing history, and other private information from unsuspecting users in spots with unsecure Wi-Fi.&quot;Free Wi-Fi networks provide hackers, identity thieves, and spammers alike with a smorgasbord of opportunities to steal private user information like passwords, usernames, and credit card information,&quot; said Schumer in a statement. &quot;The quickest and easiest way to shut down this one-stop shop for identity theft is for major websites to switch to secure HTTPS web addresses instead of the less secure HTTP protocol, which has become a welcome mat for would-be hackers.&quot;In a letter to Amazon, Twitter, and Yahoo sites urging them to adopt HTTPS by default, Schumer said that without the more secure protocol, hackers can view log-in information and passwords as well as items like purchase activity and the types of products someone shops for.&quot;I am therefore calling on you to make the switch to a default HTTPS protocol for all browsing on and interface with your site,&quot; Schumer wrote in his letter to the Web sites. &quot;Many other companies have already made this change, and it would be in the public interest for you to do so as well.&quot;A quick check of the three sites targeted by Schumer found that Amazon does use HTTPS for both logging in and purchasing items. Yahoo uses HTTPS for its log-in page, but Twitter does not. Facebook recently rolled out an option that lets users enable HTTPS when browsing the site, though that must be switched on manually.Schumer acknowledged that some Web sites do initially encrypt user information, while others offer an option to turn on HTTPS, but none of them uses HTTPS as &quot;the default for all use and browsing.&quot;The HTTP protocol is typically used for Web pages that don't transmit secure data. In contrast, the stronger HTTPS protocol uses SSL (secure sockets layer) to encrypt sensitive information, such as passwords and financial data. Most reliable online merchants will use HTTPS to protect shoppers plugging in their payment information, but there's no hard and fast rule on when companies should use one protocol versus the other.Many sites use HTTPS for their log-in pages' many don't. But Web sites typically don't encrypt all pages with SSL, as the senator seems to be advocating. Such a move is usually considered overkill and can exact a performance hit. However, the senator's point seems to be that without SSL on every page, a user's browsing history, cookies, and other data can still be captured.Whether the Web sites in question respond to Schumer's request, here are a few pieces of advice always worth noting about security:Never conduct financial transactions over an unsecure Wi-Fi network.If you use a shared computer in a library or other public spot, be sure to clear the cache, cookies, and history after you've finished browsing.Finally, make sure your own home Wi-Fi network is protected with WPA or WPA2 security.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Windows Phone 7's first update bricking some phones]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kristlelev</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=windows-phone-7s-first-update-bricking-some-phones</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oops.(Credit:Matt Hickey, Bonnie Cha/CNET)Users ofWindows Phone 7 handsets must have had high hopes when Microsoft released a patch yesterday that updated the operating system to improve the process of installing a forthcoming OS update. But some users, notably those with Samsung's Omnia 7, are reporting that the patch is bricking their phones, making them useless.It's not all Omnias, and we can't confirm if its happening on other Windows Phones, but there are reports on Web sites like WinRumors and Twitter that some users say the update is making their phones unusable. In response, Microsoft, via the Windows Phone support Twitter feed, recommends that affected users return to the store where they purchased them and exchange it for a new handset.When contacted today by CNET, Microsoft said it's reviewing the reports of bricking.&quot;We are investigating reports related to the Windows Phone update process and will provide additional information and guidance as it becomes available,&quot; a Microsoft spokesperson told CNET.The first major update for Windows Phone 7 is expected in the coming months, though Microsoft hasn't given a concrete date yet.Omnia users, have you had any luck, good or bad, with this new patch Let us know in the comments.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How fast will Apple move MacBooks to latest chips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marybellep</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=how-fast-will-apple-move-macbooks-to-latest-chips</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So, here's the question: In the wake of Intel's disclosure that it will resume regular shipments of its &quot;Sandy Bridge&quot; silicon, how fast will Apple move the MacBook to the latest Intel chips The 17-inch MacBook Pro adopted Intel&amp;39's Core i5 and i7 mobile chips relatively soon after their introduction. (Credit:Apple)MacBook Pros: It's a pretty safe bet that Apple will upgrade 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros to Sandy Bridge--announced in January--sooner rather than later. Last year, Apple adopted the Core i5 and i7 processors for the 15-inch and 17-inch Pros in April: amounting to little more than a three month wait after the chips were introduced in early 2010. The Sandy Bridge chipset glitch notwithstanding, timing should be similar. (Remember this was a minor glitch, causing only a small hiccup in Intel's shipment schedule.) MacBook Air: But that's only half the story. The company has been displaying some counterintuitive thinking recently. I'm speaking, of course, about the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air (which, regular readers of this blog know, I've devoted more than a little ink to.) The Intel internals--essentially the brain of the system--of the smaller Pros and Air have remained relatively static for years (three in the case of the Air). And an intriguing aspect of this strategy is that it doesn't seem to be impacting 2010 Air sales materially. The 2010 MBA is proving to be even more popular than its predecessors in spite of the processor inertia. But is three years too long &quot;That's a long time,&quot; said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight64, a chip consulting firm. &quot;The Core 2 Duo (the chip Apple uses now in the Air) is a decent product. But you're going to see a lot of thin-and-light Sandy Bridge products from Apple competitors--the Dells of the world--that are attractively styled. And the Air is going to start to look a little dated. So, I think they do need to move to Sandy Bridge.&quot;A review by Anand Shimpi, at Anandtech states more or less the same thing, but in a different way. &quot;The 13-inch MacBook Air performs as well as last year's 13-inch MacBook Pro. But if you plan on doing real work, you'll be hampered by the performance of these systems. Apple really needs to find a way to get an Arrandale or Sandy Bridge into this chassis,&quot; he wrote. Arrandale is Intel's previous generation of Core i series processors (what Apple currently uses), which predates Sandy Bridge. What comes after Sandy Bridge The next major change to Intel silicon will come with a chip code-named Ivy Bridge. But a power-efficient Ivy Bridge chip that Apple could use in the Air wouldn't likely be available until mid-2012, according to Brookwood. But there's hope yet. Apple is expected to move the Air to Sandy Bridge this summer--and boldly go where no Air has gone before. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Ford Explorer leaves the truck behind]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>keadfy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=new-ford-explorer-leaves-the-truck-behind</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)We were pretty excited to see the 2011 Explorer, as Ford completely modernized this vehicle. Gone is the frame-based architecture in favor of an independent suspension. And the console gets nifty touch buttons for climate control, while MyFord Touch makes up the new interface. Ford is also boasting its new four-cylinder Ecoboost engine for the Explorer, although that model is not available yet.But ultimately, the Explorer did not meet our expectations. The current 3.5-liter V-6 is modern enough, but leaves this SUV feeling underpowered. The new navigation system frequently lost its bearings, and had a hard time relocating the vehicle, and the MyFord Touch interface proved sluggish. The new Explorer makes a decent suburban family hauler, but doesn't seem as multiuse as it should be.Check out our 2011 Ford Explorer XLT review.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google offers up Art Project for art lovers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>AfishaOnlink</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-offers-up-art-project-for-art-lovers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&amp;34'Portrait of the Artist&amp;39's Father&amp;34' by Albrecht Durer.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)Google Street View is going indoors.Starting today, folks can explore 17 museums around the world using Google's Street View technology, the search giant announced in a blog post. Dubbed Art Project, the initiative lets users view artwork from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the National Gallery in London, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, among others.When users choose a museum, they can opt to walk through its many halls, or learn more about a particular piece of art with an information pane to the right of the program's interface. According to Google, Art Project has more than 1,000 images of artwork available for detailed exploration. In addition, each museum chose a single artwork in its collection to be photographed in gigapixel resolution, allowing users to see the piece rendered with 7 billion pixels.Exploring museums with Google Art Project (images) &quot;You can zoom in to see Van Gogh's famous brushwork or watch how previously hard-to-see elements of an artwork suddenly become clear--such as the tiny Latin couplet which appears in Hans Holbein the Younger's, 'The Merchant Georg Gisze,'&quot; Google said in its blog post.To capture the experience of actually being at the museums, Google commissioned a new vehicle it's calling the &quot;trolley.&quot; The vehicle moved around the museums and, like its counterparts on the streets, recorded images used to piece together 360-degree views. More than 385 museum rooms are represented.Google has also included a &quot;Create an Artwork Collection&quot; feature in Art Project, allowing users to save views of artwork they fancy. They can also add comments to the artwork and share them with others.Going forward, Google plans to add more museums and works of art. Until then, you should have plenty to keep you busy, with all the many pieces across the supported museums.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This week in Crave: The lost-and-found edition]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jobdeals</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=this-week-in-crave-the-lost-and-found-edition</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Too busy wondering why a dude would dress up in a Teen Wolf costume and walk his dog around a field on a gas-powered skateboard Here's some of what you missed while you were contemplating the existence of Seattle's very own canine-walking Teen Wolf guy. MIA no more: This missing Android mascot was found in Kentucky. (Credit:Cricket Wireless) &amp;149' Apple's switch to tamper-resistant screws has some people feeling screwed over. Are you one of them  &amp;149' The official scoop on Nintendo's 3DS. And a possible 3Disconnect &amp;149' New no-no: Segways on U.K. sidewalks.&amp;149' We tuned in to the TiVo PremiereiPad app. &amp;149' Stop worrying! That missing Android costume has been found.  &amp;149' David Katzmaier didn't buy a Kindle. Here's why. &amp;149' Motoblur blurred the Motorola Xoom.  &amp;149' This solar light bulb holds up in winter. &amp;149' And what would a week be without iPad 2 rumors And iPod Touch rumors And iPhone 5 rumors Oh, and PSP 2 rumors  Got a good (tech-related) rumor Whisper it to us at crave at cnet dot com. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trio of new HTC phones uncovered ahead of MWC]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Crissy6d6</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=trio-of-new-htc-phones-uncovered-ahead-of-mwc</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Will HTC announce an Android phone without buttons at Mobile World Congress(Credit:PocketNow)The first images of HTC's next handsets have made their way online ahead of next month's Mobile World Congress. Various leaks obtained by PocketNow reveal slightly varied takes on current Android designs. One image, which could be of the flagship model, closely resembles the Desire HD unveiled last September. A front-facing camera sits above what appears to be a screen measuring 4 inches diagonally. A second, more compact, device features a traditional trackball and a 3.2-inch screen. The top right corner has what could be construed as a front-facing camera or ambient light sensor. Bearing a striking resemblance to last year's Nexus One, this miniature phone could be a possible successor to the Wildfire. If there is anything remarkable about the third phone, it's that it doesn't feature any buttons. Shown in both HTC and Verizon branding, there is little else known about the device at this point except that the lack of buttons could mean that Android 3.0 is onboard. While Honeycomb may usher in an era of buttonlesstablets like the Motorola Xoom, I can't imagine phones running this new version of Android just yet. Then again, companies have to do something to stay fresh, rightAlthough any of these could be based on HTC's Brew platform (Smart), the general consensus among Android blogs is that they will run the Google platform. The buttons across the bottom of the two models align with those on previously released Android smart phones. Assuming these are real devices, I'd look for them to arrive in the wild at some point over the next few weeks. If there's one thing I've learned over the last few years it's that new Android phones love to steal the spotlight. With less than a month to go before Mobile World Congress, I'd be willing to bet that these are actual phones being readied for an announcement.Maybe it's just me, but I was hoping for something a little sexier out of HTC. Given that we can't tell what these look like from other angles, I still find them somewhat uninspired. Don't get me wrong, I really love the feel of the Evo Shift 4G and the Thunderbolt. Perhaps the final products will be more in line with the stuff in my dreams.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nokero solar bulb stands up to Canadian winter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julrild</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=nokero-solar-bulb-stands-up-to-canadian-winter</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Chill factor: the N200 solar bulb basks in the winter sun. (Credit:Tim Hornyak )The mercury reads 12 degrees outside, but it feels like minus 2 with the windchill. That's Fahrenheit--the numbers are depressingly lower in Celsius here in Canada. Still, when I hang Nokero's new N200 bulb on a tree, its solar cell recharges without a hitch.  Denver-based Nokero debuted last year with the N100 solar light bulb. It recently released an improved version, the N200, and I had a chance to try it out. First off, the Nokero bulbs are designed to replace homemade kerosene lamps, not standard bulbs. They're aimed at hundreds of millions of people in developing countries who have little or no electricity. Many burn kerosene for light, which, aside from costing money, is a fire and air pollution hazard.  The N200's light is only 13.5 lumens on the high setting (a 60-watt incandescent bulb is 850 lumens). That's very dim, but it's comparable to a kerosene lamp. It's also better than the 8.5 lumens of the N100 bulb.  Meanwhile, the N200 can last more than six hours on its low-intensity setting after a single-day charge in sunlight. The N100 was rated at four hours if charged in equatorial regions, where the sun is strongest. Nokero says typical kerosene lamp users burn their lamps for 1.5 hours every night.  Obviously, several of these solar bulbs are needed to effectively light a small room or tent. The N200 is priced at $20, which is $5 more than the N100. Nokero says it has lower bulk wholesale prices for both bulbs. The N200 is slightly larger than a conventional bulb. Its main design difference over the N100 is that it can swivel on a chrome-plated steel loop to best catch the sun with its single solar cell, which can capture more light. New Life Orphanage Co-Director Sherry Moseley with a tent city family in Haiti. (Credit:American Green)Power is stored in a replaceable AA-sized, 1,000 mAh Ni-MH battery, which is rated to last two years. The company says it can be replaced for about $1. The bulb has four LEDs, a switch for high or low settings, and a safety hook for hanging. It's rainproof and impact-resistant, and rated from minus 4 to 131 degrees. So I've been recharging it outside in the cold, including days when the windchill factor was about minus 5, and it worked fine, illuminating a dim corner of my kitchen. It also recharged to some extent on cloudy days.  One interesting feature is the bulb's auto-shutoff function. It will only shine when ambient light falls below about 200 lux. This power-saving feature is probably valued by those with the least electricity. A year after Haiti's devastating earthquake killed tens of thousands of people, the N200 bulb is being distributed there through American Green, a media group that brought the lights to the New Life Orphanage and a tent city outside Port au Prince.  According to Nokero, Haitian families often spend $10 to $30 on batteries, kerosene, or other lighting methods a month. For that amount, they can buy one or two solar bulbs that can last years. The company and American Green are trying to get Haitians interested in starting up businesses buying and selling them. The bulbs have been tested in countries like Pakistan and Kenya and are also being shipped to needy families by Project C.U.R.E., the world's largest distributor of donated medical supplies. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Motorola Xoom as a test for life beyond the iPad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resminmin23</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=motorola-xoom-as-a-test-for-life-beyond-the-ipad</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is theiPad a one-hit wonder or will thetablet market take off broadly in 2011 That's the question Motorola's Xoom tablet will likely answer. Motorola&amp;39's Xoom may determine how real the broader tablet market is. (Credit:Motorola)And this broader market, of course, includes Hewlett-Packard's WebOS tablet and RIM's PlayBook, among others. But Motorola's Xoom stands as the biggest potential consumer rival to the iPad 2 because Motorola is a first-tier supplier that has already competed mightily against Apple in the smartphone market (think Droid) and, more importantly, packs in plenty of eagerly awaited goodies, including: Google's Android Honeycomb operating system for tablets, a powerful dual-core processor, a high-resolution (1,280x800) display, dual cameras, and lest we forget, the Verizon 3G (and soon-to-come 4G) network. That said, tucked into a research note I received on Friday from Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman &amp; Renshaw, was this morsel: &quot;The magnitude of tablet opportunity beyond Apple is unclear.&quot; And he also writes that &quot;we believe that iPad volumes in the current quarter will dry up ahead of the iPad 2 launch.&quot; So, will we see long lines at Verizon stores the day of launch, like the iPad Or has the tablet novelty worn off enough that it's not a line-forming impulse-buy anymore And/or is it principally a phenomenon linked to the cachet of Apple products Based on my own experience, I believe that the media tablet is more than a one-hit wonder. The sheer utility of my iPad has cut my laptop use almost in half, as I've written before. (And the iPad trumps myiPhone too, in a number of respects, like mapping.)  So, what kind of numbers do we need to see Considering that the market is still nascent, that's a tough call. Kumar said that Apple shipped between 6 and 7 million iPads in the most recent quarter, &quot;with the lower end (Wi-Fi) dominating the mix.&quot; With Apple as the high-water mark, we can't expect those kinds of numbers from Motorola initially.  Asia-based rumors claim Motorola is aiming to ship as many as 800,000 out of the gate and RIM a bit more. Those would be healthy numbers.  And Motorola appears to be doing all it can do to make interesting accessories, too--like this speaker dock and Bluetooth keyboard, among other add-ons.  Who knows, the tablet, in one form or another, could eventually make the laptop obsolete. That would result in huge, market-upending numbers. But I'll leave that highly-speculative analysis for next year.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Volvo shows electric battery unharmed in crash (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>libugingo</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=volvo-shows-electric-battery-unharmed-in-crash-video</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Electrified versions of conventional gasoline-powered vehicles may look the same, but large engines have been replaced with smaller motors, the batteries are enormous, and there's no gas tank to be found. Those differences are enough to impact or compromise thecar's original safety features.To demonstrate the safety of the C30 Electric, Volvo released video of a crash test that shows its electric versions are as safe as counterparts outfitted with conventional internal combustion engines (ICE).The video was taken right before the 2011 North American International Auto Show, and shows an C30 Electric prototype with a 660-pound battery in a 40 mph offset crash. A computerized overlay outlines where the T-shaped battery is located in the vehicle, and shows that it remains fully intact and uninjured despite the high-speed crash. &quot;The test produced exactly the results we expected,&quot; Jan Ivarsson, Volvo safety senior manager, said in a statement. &quot;The C30 Electric offers the very same high safety level as a C30 with a combustion engine. The front deformed and distributed the crash energy as we expected. Both the batteries and the cables that are part of the electric system remained entirely intact after the collision.&quot; In a conventional vehicle, the engine typically distributes a lot of the impact's force. To compensate for less mass under the hood, the front crumple zone of the C30 had to be reinforced. Fortunately, you don't have to worry about leaks in the gas tank, but unlike cars with ICEs, the C30 Electric has a 440-volt electric system. Keeping that in mind, Volvo separates the lithium ion batteries from the car's crumple zones and the passenger compartment.Volvo is often slower to adopt new technologies because of the high safety standards it imposes upon itself. While several manufacturers are already introducing electric vehicles this year, Volvo will only introduce a demo fleet of C30 Electrics sometime this year for testing. It plans to produce a plug-in hybrid in 2012 for the European market, with a U.S. model to follow shortly after.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plane to catch tomorrow Beware iPhone's alarm]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=plane-to-catch-tomorrow-beware-iphones-alarm</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=plane-to-catch-tomorrow-beware-iphones-alarm</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>healthmedicine</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=plane-to-catch-tomorrow-beware-iphones-alarm</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the &quot;early bird catches the worm, unless itsiPhone has caught a bug&quot; department, Apple's beloved gadget reportedly has a glitch that means if users set a one-time alarm to wake them tomorrow, they may well end up sleeping in.Engadget and other media outlets are reporting that Twitter lit up today with lots of grumpy comments from people who were cheated out of greeting the New Year in their desired fashion because their iPhone alarm clocks failed to ring.The bug reportedly could ruin your plans for January 2 as well, if you let it. But there's an easy fix, and come the 3rd, the glitch should evaporate. Apple told Engadget:&quot;We're aware of an issue related to nonrepeating alarms set for January 1 or 2. Customers can set recurring alarms for those dates and all alarms will work properly beginning January 3.&quot;So you need only set a recurring alarm to sidestep the problem and get a good night's rest.In November the iPhone's alarm was off by an hour, in a mix-up related to Daylight Savings Time. Judging from this latest error, iPhone users weren't the only ones affected then: Apple itself apparently didn't get the, ahem, wake-up call. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile security firm warns of new Android Trojan]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mobile-security-firm-warns-of-new-android-trojan</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mobile-security-firm-warns-of-new-android-trojan</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mobile-security-firm-warns-of-new-android-trojan</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lookout Mobile Security, which just raised fresh capital to boost its fight against mobile malware, said it has identified the peskiest cell phone threat to date. The Android Trojan, dubbed Geinimi, has cropped up in China and is capable of taking a significant amount of personal data and sending it to remote servers. Lookout said Geinimi displays botnet-like qualities and is the most sophisticated wireless malware it has seen. Thus far, infected programs have only been seen on various Chinese app stores. &quot;Geinimi is effectively being 'grafted' onto repackaged versions of legitimate applications, primarily games, and distributed in third-party Chinese Android app markets,&quot; Lookout said in a blog post on Wednesday. &quot;The affected applications request extensive permissions over and above the set that is requested by their legitimate original versions.&quot; The security firm said it has already updated both the paid and free versions of its software to protect against Geinimi.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Samsung's WB700 18x compact promises quiet movie zooming]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-samsungs-wb700-18x-compact-promises-quiet-movie-zooming</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-samsungs-wb700-18x-compact-promises-quiet-movie-zooming</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kburgessks45</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-samsungs-wb700-18x-compact-promises-quiet-movie-zooming</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The WB700 extends the zoom range of 2010&amp;39's HZ35W (pictured) to 18x, but drops the GPS. The most remarkable thing about the Samsung WB700 is its 18x 24-432mm lens crammed into a body that's just less than an inch thick. Of course an 18x zoom will only get you so much attention, so Samsung's decided to lead with the camera's Smart Zoom feature that digitally extends the zoom range to 24x. (Judging by the sparse details in the press release, it sounds similar to Panasonic's Intelligent Zoom feature that basically crops in on a photo and then sharpens for better detail.)In other zoom-related digital hocus-pocus, the WB700 has active noise cancellation for the lens movement when shooting movies. Generally, a motorized zoom lens makes some noise when it's moved while recording, which is picked up by a camera's mic. This feature apparently quiets that movement.Other key features include: 16-megapixel CCD sensor 1/2.3-inch type (14 megapixels effective)3.0-inch LCD 1080p movie capture (H.264 file format) Full manual controlsRaw captureHDMI output 4.1x2.3x.98 inches (WHD)The WB700 replaces the HZ35W and HZ30W compact megazooms. I'm guessing GPS didn't work out well for Samsung as it's axed that feature from the WB700. Look for it in April for $299.99.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automakers group files appeal over EPA's approval of E15]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=automakers-group-files-appeal-over-epas-approval-of-e15</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=automakers-group-files-appeal-over-epas-approval-of-e15</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kodhitymail</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=automakers-group-files-appeal-over-epas-approval-of-e15</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:EPA)Did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overstep its bounds in its decision to grant a partial waiver approving the sale of gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol for 2007 model year and newer passengercars and light trucksA collective of automakers and engine manufacturers today filled a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, requesting judicial oversight and review over whether EPA's &quot;partial waiver&quot; approval for E-15 fuels violates the federal Clean Air Act provisions. The petition states the Clean Air Act limits the circumstances under which EPA can approve applications for new fuels and fuel additives.The petitioners include the newly-formed Engine Products Group, comprising the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, the National Marine Manufacturers Assoc., and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute.Critics of E-15 say the 50 percent increase in ethanol could damage catalytic converters in older vehicles, as well as engines of boats, motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles, chainsaws, lawnmowers, and other gas-powered lawn equipment.&quot;Our organizations collectively represent some 400 million engine products used by tens of millions of people every day in the US. The safe and reliable use of those products is paramount to us and our customers, and the legal action we take today is to protect those customers,&quot; said spokesman for the Engine Products Group, Kris Kiser.According to the complaint, the EPA went outside of its authority when it granted the &quot;partial waiver,&quot; and that the EPA's own statute, passed by Congress in 2007, states that fuels can't be approved for sale if could cause engine failures. Also, the testing EPA used to make its decision was done too late for comments or scrutiny from concerned groups and stakeholders.&quot;While all members of the EPG have and continue to support the development and use of safe and sustainable alternative fuels, the action EPA has taken to permit E-15 to be sold as a legal fuel, even if limited only to certain products, will have adverse consequences for the environment and consumers. A partial waiver, by its nature, necessarily will result in the misfueling of products not designed or tested for E-15 use,&quot; Kiser said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shuttle Discovery fueled to test tank's health]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=shuttle-discovery-fueled-to-test-tanks-health</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=shuttle-discovery-fueled-to-test-tanks-health</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lonelego</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=shuttle-discovery-fueled-to-test-tanks-health</guid>
<description><![CDATA[KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The shuttle Discovery's external tank was loaded with more than a half million gallons of supercold liquid oxygen and hydrogen rocket fuel today in a critical test to learn more about what caused cracks in structural ribs, or stringers, that were discovered after a November 5 launch attempt.The cracks were repaired, but engineers want to pin down the root cause to make sure the huge tank is structurally sound and able to withstand the rigors of another launch attempt.Wiring from dozens of sensors can be seen draped around the shuttle Discovery&amp;39's external tank during a fueling test today.(Credit:NASA TV)The fueling test began at 7 a.m. EST and ended at 2:25 p.m. with the countdown holding at the T-minus 31-second mark. The liquid hydrogen and oxygen tanks were pressurized as they would be in a real launch countdown to collect additional data on the tank's performance.A detailed assessment of the data collected during today's test is not expected until later. But a senior shuttle manager said readings from temperature sensors attached to the skin of the tank closely matched predictions from computer models and no unusual stresses were noted from strain gauges on or near the stringers in question.An inspection by engineers at the launch pad found no obvious problems. One of two stereo cameras focused on thousands of small dot-like targets to detect any movement in the structure due to shrinkage or other factors apparently moved during the test and it's not yet clear if those data will be useful. The other camera apparently worked normally.After draining the propellants, engineers planned to move a rotating gantry back around the space shuttle about 10:30 p.m. today in preparation for work to ready the ship for roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building early Tuesday. Once inside the VAB, X-ray equipment will be used to look for any signs of cracks or other damage that might have escaped detection to this point.NASA managers plan to meet Tuesday to discuss whether to order installation of structural stiffeners on 36 stringers, nine to either side of the two booster-attachment thrust panels, that experience the most stress during launch.If all goes well and no other major problems are found, NASA hopes to haul Discovery back to the launch pad in mid-January for work to ready the ship for launch February 3 on a space station resupply mission.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple's Mac App Store to launch January 6]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apples-mac-app-store-to-launch-january-6</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apples-mac-app-store-to-launch-january-6</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Gugen</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apples-mac-app-store-to-launch-january-6</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Mac App Store was unveiled at an Apple event in October.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)Apple will be launching its anticipatedMac App Store on January 6.The store will be available in 90 countries at launch, and like its mobile counterpart, it will feature access to both paid and free apps across several categories, including education, productivity, and games, among others, Apple announced today. Users will be able to download the Mac App Store through Software Update.The Mac App Store experience will be familiar to those who currently have iOS-based devices such as theiPhone. The marketplace's users will be able to get information about apps prior to downloading them, as well as see customer ratings and reviews. Updates to apps users have installed will be available through the Mac App Store, Apple said.&quot;The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,&quot; said Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a statement. &quot;We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun.&quot; Developers who choose to offer paid apps will be able to keep 70 percent of the revenue generated from their programs, while Apple will take the remaining 30 percent. In addition, those who offer free apps will not be charged by Apple to offer their programs in the Mac App Store.Apple did not immediately respond to request for comment on how many apps would be available in its marketplace at launch.The Mac App Store's January 6 launch date is perhaps a bit ahead of schedule. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the Mac App Store in October, he indicated that it would be available to Mac OS X users within 90 days, prompting some to believe the store would launch at the end of January.The Mac App Store will only be available to Mac OS X Snow Leopard users at launch. It will also come with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which is expected to be released next summer.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WikiLeaks.info rebuts malware warnings]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=wikileaks-info-rebuts-malware-warnings</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=wikileaks-info-rebuts-malware-warnings</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hongchen</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=wikileaks-info-rebuts-malware-warnings</guid>
<description><![CDATA[WikiLeaks.info, a site assisting WikiLeaks' effort to share U.S. war information and diplomatic cables, is rebutting online security organizations' warnings that its Web site could be dangerous to visit.WikiLeaks.info provides a list of sites that mirror the original WikiLeaks content, and in recent days the main WikiLeaks.org Web site has redirected visitors to the WikiLeaks.info mirror page. WikiLeaks.info has grown in importance because of others' moves two weeks ago that made it difficult to reach WikiLeaks.org and led its operators to resurface at WikiLeaks.ch, a Swiss domain.Spamhaus, a nonprofit volunteer organization that seeks to curtail spam, phishing, botnets for network attacks, and malware, issued a &quot;malware warning&quot; yesterday for WikiLeaks.info.WikiLeaks.info &quot;is hosted in a very dangerous 'neighborhood,' Webalta's 92.241.160.0/19 IP address space, a 'blackhat' network which Spamhaus believes caters primarily to, or is under the control of, Russian cybercriminals,&quot; Spamhaus said. &quot;Our concern is that any Wikileaks archive posted on a site that is hosted in Webalta space might be infected with malware. Since the main wikileaks.org website now transparently redirects visitors to mirror.wikileaks.info and thus directly into Webalta's controlled IP address space, there is substantial risk that any malware infection would spread widely.&quot;WikiLeaks.info strenuously objected to the warning today.&quot;We find it very disturbing that Spamhaus labels a site as dangerous without even checking if there is any malware on it. We monitor the wikileaks.info site and we can guarantee that there is no malware on it,&quot; the WikiLeaks.info site said.WikiLeaks.info is only &quot;very loosely&quot; affiliated with the official WikiLeaks effort, a WikiLeaks.info representative told CNET. &quot;In, fact we were caught [by] surprise on last Saturday as we all of a sudden had 1 million hits per day on our Web site. The switch&quot;--when WikiLeaks began redirecting visitors to the official WikiLeaks.org site to WikiLeaks.info--&quot;was not discussed with us.&quot;Spamhaus' services for tracking dangerous domains are widely used globally, so the warning carries significant weight. And although Spamhaus said it &quot;takes no political stand on the WikiLeaks affair,&quot; its actions pose a further difficulty for those allied with WikiLeaks' cause.WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was arrested last week in the U.K. for possible extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sex crimes. Assange denies the alleged crimes. A British judge ruled he could go free on bail yesterday, but prosecutors are appealing that decision. The prosecutors' challenge is expected to be heard tomorrow, according to Reuters.More directly related to WikiLeaks' mission is the possibility of prosecution in the United States for violation of the Espionage Act.Spamhaus also warned that WikiLeaks.info is relying on Heihachi.net, &quot;a provider run 'by criminals for criminals,'&quot; for Domain Name Service (DNS) needs. DNS is a technology that converts the Web addresses people type into the numeric Internet addresses computers actually use to communicate.Here again, WikiLeaks.info objected.&quot;We do not know who else is hosted with Heihachi Ltd and it is none of our business. They provide reliable hosting to us. That's it,&quot; WikiLeaks.info said on its Web site.WikiLeaks is concerned about its reputation. &quot;That's why we contacted Spamhaus to find out if they could remove us from the list,&quot; the WikiLeaks.info representative told CNET. Spamhaus hasn't responded, according to the WikiLeaks.info Web site.WikiLeaks.info selected its services to avoid further problems with interrupted Net service, the site said. &quot;WikiLeaks has been pulled from big hosters like Amazon. That's why we are using a 'bulletproof' hoster that does not just kick a site when it gets a letter from government or a big company,&quot; the site said.Spamhaus is not alone in its concern. On Sunday, security company Trend Micro also warned of the Heihachi.net connection.&quot;Heihachi Ltd. is known as a bulletproof, blackhat-hosting provider in Russia that is a safe haven for criminals and fraudsters. It hosts a long list of criminally related domains. Among these domains are banking fraud domains, carders' (criminals who trade stolen credit card information) websites, malware sites, and phishing sites. No matter what your political view is, this is rather disturbing,&quot; Trend Micro senior threat researcher Feike Hacquebord said. &quot;We assess the wikileaks.info domain as highly risky and we do not recommend visiting this site as long as it is hosted by Heihachi.&quot;Updated 7:17 a.m. PTwith comments from WikiLeaks.info.A view of the WikiLeaks.info site today.(Credit:Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo confirms much-rumored layoffs]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=yahoo-confirms-much-rumored-layoffs</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=yahoo-confirms-much-rumored-layoffs</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vanessarice</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=yahoo-confirms-much-rumored-layoffs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Several weeks after rumors began to spread that the beleaguered Yahoo was on the cusp of announcing a round of layoffs before the end of the year, the company has confirmed &quot;personnel changes&quot; of several hundred employees across its offices worldwide.&quot;Today's personnel changes are part of our ongoing strategy to best position Yahoo for revenue growth and margin expansion and to support our strategy to deliver differentiated products to the marketplace,&quot; a statement from the company confirming the layoffs explained. &quot;We'll continue to hire on a global basis to support our key priorities. Yahoo is grateful for the important contributions made by the employees affected by this reduction. We are offering severance packages and outplacement services to these employees.&quot;AllThingsD reported on Monday night that the layoffs would be Tuesday and could affect up to 700 employees. The final carnage looks to be slightly less than that, about four percent of employees, or about 560 people in total.About three months after current CEO Carol Bartz took over from predecessor Jerry Yang, the company cut about 5 percent of its workforce. A month prior to Bartz's arrival, the company had cut about 10 percent, and another 1,000 early in 2008.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oodle goes after Craigslist with social classifieds]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=oodle-goes-after-craigslist-with-social-classifieds</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mariedelexz</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=oodle-goes-after-craigslist-with-social-classifieds</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The online marketplace Oodle started as a classifieds aggregator, then dabbled in online dating (also through aggregation). In late 2008, it was given a big gift from Facebook: the social site gave Oodle its marketplace app to run. As Oodle CEO Craig Donato says, &quot;It was a moment in time. Facebook was transitioning from building all these apps to working with partners.&quot; Since then, Oodle has been figuring out how to best run with the new Facebook classifieds system.Finally, two years on, Oodle is merging the refresh it did of the Facebook Marketplace with its own Oodle.com Web site and making a run at Craigslist, a site whose data it at one point tried to incorporate into its own service.Thanks to the Facebook code, Oodle has very solid marketplace, one based not on giving items for sale the widest possible exposure (for that, there's eBay and Craigslist) but rather on putting people who are already socially connected in touch over the sale of goods and services. The thinking is that people are more inclined to sell (or even give away) items to people in their circle and that buyers are far less likely to flake out or be creepy when they arrive to do a deal or close a transaction. That's what the Facebook Marketplace proved out, at any rate. This announcement is a bit of a the minor one, as Oodle's social classified service already exists and is doing well on Facebook, and updating the standalone Web site to match that functionality is an obvious move. But in light of the argument over the value of customer aggregators like OpenTable and Groupon, it's interesting to think about how businesses can deepen relationships with their customers. Bringing a bunch of expensive traffic to your business that's there for a half-off bargain, or the bonus points to an aggregation service, is not how you build loyalty. Oodle&amp;39's new social marketplace, based on its Facebook app, lets you view classifieds from just people in your network.Donato also thinks that, paradoxically, a socially connected classifieds service might end up with more products on it than an anonymous market. He's eyeing his mobile app for that. He says that with it, you can just walk through your basement, snapping quick pictures of old things you might want to get rid of, and posting these items on Oodle to share with friends. You don't have to open these up to the world. (Another start-up, Needly, had a similar model, but it recently changed direction--I'll have a story on that later.) Donato believes that the social aspects of the Oodle-powered marketplace, which he calls, &quot;the photo-negative of Craigslist,&quot; can be leveraged by businesses as well as by individuals. Unlike Craigslist, &quot;which is about anonymity and search,&quot; Donato says, Oodle is about &quot;the value of understanding who the person is.&quot; It's a potentially attractive proposition: if I'm selling a dining room table, I'd rather that the person who comes to pick it up is a friend or somehow traceable to one. Such a transaction can also pay me in social capital (in exchange for the lower price I'll charge to a friend). If businesses can somehow leverage this, without getting all creepy about it, it could help make commerce more enjoyable, business people more accountable, and possibly make goods more affordable over the long run--not just episodically or when a business decides to get on the Groupon bandwagon for a day. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google under fire by specialized search sites]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-under-fire-by-specialized-search-sites</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-under-fire-by-specialized-search-sites</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>limzibugjenyial</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-under-fire-by-specialized-search-sites</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google is arousing the anger of rival search providers who argue that the company is intentionally and unfairly ranking content from its own specialized search services above their own.The complaint centers on searches for specialized or local content, such as travel services, health sites, and reviews of local restaurants and businesses. In the past, users searching on Google for such content were typically directed to specialized search providers, companies like TripAdvisor.com, WebMD.com, and Citysearch.com.But as Google has increasingly ramped up its own specialized search services, these companies believe the search giant is stacking the deck by purposely ranking its own content above theirs, a complaint cited in a story out today by The Wall Street Journal.This means that a search for health services would more likely point a user to a site like Google Health over WebMD or a search for a mortage would direct someone to one of Google's own mortgage-related pages ahead of a site like Bankrate.com.Google was quick to defend its local and specialized search methods in a blog post today, shortly after the Journal article appeared. The company said it tries to provide people with answers as quickly as possible, which sometimes means a link to a business and other times a map or list of review sites.The recent complaints may have been fueled by new Google features, such as its Place Pages, which launched earlier this year. The service is designed to direct users to local business listings. But pins that appear next to the businesses displayed on a map link more prominently to their own Web sites or to more detailed Google Place Pages ahead of business review sites offered by rival search providers, according to the Journal.Two weeks ago, the European Commission announced that it was launching an antitrust investigation against Google over this same issue. Based on complaints from three specialized search providers, the probe will look into whether the search giant is unfairly manipulating results for both paid and unpaid searches to favor its own services.Ultimately at stake is a greater chunk of ad revenue, which Google stands to capture at the expense of the specialized search providers.&quot;Google does seem to be chasing us and I don't like it one bit,&quot; TripAdvisor Chief Executive Officer Stephen Kaufer told the Journal, who added that he's been working with Google for a couple of months to try to improve the situation.In defense of its Place Pages, the company said that the service offers people an easy way to compare different places and find sites with local information. Google added that it's heard from users, businesses, and Webmasters alike who find Place pages useful.And in a not-so-subtle nod to the complaints from its rivals, the company noted in its blog that Google was built for users, not for Web sites.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Samsung's Galaxy Tab red flag for Intel]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=samsungs-galaxy-tab-red-flag-for-intel</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=samsungs-galaxy-tab-red-flag-for-intel</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>udanikaspencerb</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=samsungs-galaxy-tab-red-flag-for-intel</guid>
<description><![CDATA[No. 2 chipmaker Samsung is showing Intel how to succeed in the brave new world of tablets and smartphones. Samsung's Galaxy Tab is competitive with Apple's iPad: Samsung makes the device and supplies the main chip inside. Here, Intel is playing catch-up.(Credit:Samsung)While Intel is the largest chipmaker in the world, Samsung is No. 2. And, unlike Intel, it also has a large and successful affiliated consumer arm that churns out products like the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Not surprisingly, many of those products use Samsung silicon too.That's a vertically integrated strategy that Intel can't match. And that's not all. Samsung also supplies chips to outside customers (Intel's business model) like Apple which use its chips in outrageously popular products like theiPhone andiPad. The scary part is that the Samsung Galaxy Tab is a solid product and worthy competitor to the iPad, even besting it with features like front and back cameras--a feature you won't see until the iPad 2, most likely. (I test drove the Android-based 7-inch Galaxy Tab for about 30 minutes and was very impressed). That puts Samsung in two of the leading tablet designs on the market--one its own product. Before I go too far, let me back off a bit by saying that Intel's dominance in the hundred-billion-dollar-plus annual PC market has given it an almost unassailable lead in chips. Intel is also the leading chip supplier for the tens of millions of servers worldwide that power the Internet. The latter a nontrivial point often obscured by the glare of glitzy end-user products like the iPad (which uses Intel-powered servers when accessing Web sites worldwide).That said, Intel is obviously racing to play catch-up in tablets and smartphones, two of the fastest-growing computing markets. The chipmaker has formed a new business unit for Netbooks and tablets and CEO Paul Otellini spent a lot of time at a technology conference today explaining how it's going to eventually be competitive. &quot;It's important to keep a perspective in the early days of any market. Things change. Markets change,&quot; Otellini said today. &quot;It wasn't too long ago--2003--where virtually all of the silicon in a storage system was custom. It's grown dramatically over the intervening seven years to where we now are the predominate architecture for storage vendors,&quot; he said, implying that Intel will could eventually become a big player in tablets and smartphones. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon to launch 4G wireless network December 5]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=verizon-to-launch-4g-wireless-network-december-5</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resraswinnice</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=verizon-to-launch-4g-wireless-network-december-5</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's finally here: Verizon will launch its LTE network this Sunday.After more than a year of hype, the company is finally launching its so-called 4G wireless network that uses a network technology known as Long Term Evolution or LTE. Starting December 5, the new network will be  live in a number of markets including New York, Chicago, LA, and San Francisco, among others. About 70 percent of the 38 markets that Verizon is launching in initially will get the service starting Sunday. The company will have street view maps available on its Web site starting Sunday to show exact locations where the network is available.The service will also be available in more than 60 airports, including airports in seven cities that are not part of Verizon's initial 4G launch. The network will be rolled out over the next three years, much the same way the carrier rolled out its 3G wireless network several years ago. Verizon said customers will have two options for data plans. They can get 5 Gigabytes of data per month for $50 or 10GB of data for $80 a month. Customers who exceed this limit will be charged $10 for every 1GB that goes over the limit. The $50 pricing of the service is $10 cheaper than Verizon's existing 3G wireless service. The company said it will offer text alerts that will warn customers about the usage of their data plan. The company is initially launching the service with USB air cards that access LTE for its laptop customers. These USB cards can also access the 3G network when 4G isn't available. LG and Pantech will be the first USB air card providers. The devices will cost $99 with a $50 rebate and a two-year contract for the service. &quot;It doesn't matter what we label the network. In our subscribers' daily lives this technology will change what people can do. There's no question about that. I think even the ITU would agree this is a dramatic leap in performance.&quot;--Verizon Wireless CTO Tony MeloneThe company will be announcing more USB cards in the coming weeks, but LTE embedded into other devices will show up on the market in early 2011, including mobile handsets. In fact, the Consumer Electronics Show, which kicks off in Las Vegas in early January, is expected to be the coming out party for some new handsets. Executives have said previously the company will have LTE handsets on the market in the first quarter of 2011.Verizon expects to expand its coverage after the initial 38 market launch. Within 18 months, Verizon has said that it expects to blanket the entire country with the service serving about two-thirds of users in its footprint. By the end of 2011 it will be able to serve 200 million people with the service. And by the end of 2013 it will be available to more than 285 million potential customers.Verizon has already been airing advertisements on TV promoting the new network. The ad, along with competing advertising campaigns from competitors, is meant to get consumer excited about a new generation of wireless network. Verizon and others, such as Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA, are vying to be known as the fastest and largest 4G network in the nation. The Verizon commercial, which features a young man using Verizon's 4G wireless network to throw a lightning bolt into the sky like a javelin, claims that Verizon has the most &quot;advanced 4G&quot; wireless network.Technically not 4GBut truth be told, neither Verizon nor Sprint nor T-Mobile have a real 4G wireless network today. Still, Verizon Wireless, which uses LTE' T-Mobile USA, which is using a version of its current 3G technology called HSPA+' and Sprint Nextel, which uses WiMax, all claim to have 4G wireless networks. While current versions of WiMax and LTE are typically referred to in the industry as &quot;4G,&quot; they do not actually meet the International Telecommunication Union's strict definition. To be legitimately considered a 4G technology by the ITU, the network technology is required by the agency to be IP-based and use orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). The other main requirement is that the technology needs to support peak download speeds of 100Mbps. The current flavors of LTE and WiMax are not that fast. And neither is the technology T-Mobile is using, which is called HSPA+.Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone(Credit:Verizon Wireless)Tony Melone, CTO of Verizon Wireless, said in an interview with CNET following a press conference that it doesn't matter whether the ITU calls its technology 4G or not, because wireless subscribers will notice the generational shift in performance. &quot;It doesn't matter what we label the network,&quot; he said. &quot;In our subscribers' daily lives this technology will change what people can do. There's no question about that. I think even the ITU would agree this is a dramatic leap in performance.&quot;Indeed the upgraded networks are faster than the current generation of 3G wireless services. Average 3G services offer between 700Kbps and 1.5Mbps. Sprint's WiMax service, built by Clearwire, offers average download speeds of around 6Mbps, Sprint has said. And Verizon claims that tests indicate it is getting download speeds of between 6Mbps and 12Mbps on its LTE network. T-Mobile's HSPA+ network also gives a significant boost, with speeds between 3Mbps and 7Mbps.AT&amp;T, which has not claimed that its network is 4G, also has upgraded to the next generation of HSPA+ technology, which puts it on par in terms of speed with its competitors. But Melone said that even though these other technologies are in the same ballpark as LTE, it does not match it in terms of performance.&quot;I can tell you that AT&amp;T with its HSPA+ network is not getting similar speeds to what we can get with LTE,&quot; he said. &quot;We are getting average download speeds of 5Mbps to 12Mpbs. HSPA+ may get peak speeds of 5Mbps, but the average is much less. That's why carriers are moving from HSPA+ to LTE.&quot;As for network coverage, it will take time for Verizon to get the 4G service everywhere. The initial 38 markets will make the service available to 110 million potential customers. But it won't be able to offer the service to its full 285 million customers for at least three years. Meanwhile, AT&amp;T's HSPA+ network will reach 250 million customers by the end of this year and it will be available everywhere its current 3G service is available. So in terms of coverage, AT&amp;T will have the largest, fastest wireless network in the U.S. this year, regardless of whether you call it 4G or 3G. How do the other two major wireless operators stack up T-Mobile USA, which has also been making some bold 4G claims, will be in 100 markets by the end of 2010, the company has said. And it will be available to more than 200 million potential customers. Sprint Nextel (via Clearwire) is in more than 55 markets today and is adding more each week. Its goal is to reach 120 million potential customers by the end of 2010. Still, Melone believes that Verizon's 4G coverage will set it apart from competitors.&quot;What is different about Verizon's 4G network is what's been different about our network for the past 10 years,&quot; he said. &quot;The leap in performance consumers get will be in most of the places they go. It will be where they live and work. And it won't just be available only in isolated spots.&quot;Update 10:16 a.m. PT:This story has been updated with comments from a Verizon executive.Update 9:35 a.m. PT:This story has been updated with pricing and device information as well as more background details.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Visa, Mastercard fail Web shoppers again]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mariacosmm</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=visa-mastercard-fail-web-shoppers-again</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Beware: The New York Times reported that the man who operates DecorMyEyes.com racked up scores of complaints but that Visa and Mastercard did little to stop him.(Credit:Screen shot by Greg Sandoval/CNET)commentary Internet shoppers once again have reason to question whether Visa and Mastercard are the best means for buying online. People have taken to Twitter and online forums to express shock about a compelling expose published in The New York Times on Friday. The story focused on an online retailer with a dubious history of customer service that included responding to complaints from unhappy patrons by allegedly threatening their lives. The newspaper reported that Vitaly Borker, a resident of New York, had generated so many complaints from selling eyewear on his site, DecorMyEyes.com, that all the negative comments had served to raise his site higher in Google's search results. Besides finding potential problems with Google's search algorithms, David Segal, the story's author, unearthed all kinds of e-commerce collateral damage. Among the companies that should be embarrassed by the report for either failing to protect customers or an inability to track down rogue retailers were eBay, Citibank, and the Internet Crime Complaint Center. The reputations to suffer most were those of Visa and Mastercard, two of the nation's largest transaction companies. Among the many complaints about Borker was that he refused to issue refunds and one of the ways he got away with it was due to an apparent flaw in Visa's and Mastercard's security systems. Red flags go up at Visa and Mastercard if a merchant generates too many &quot;charge-backs,&quot; the term used to describe when a customer successfully disputes a transaction and obtains a refund. This is what the Times wrote: &quot;Precisely how many of these charge-backs is too many is one of the few business subjects that Mr. Borker deems off the record, but suffice it to say he tracks that figure carefully and dials down the animus if he's nearing his limit.&quot;Deja vu. A year ago, I heard about how some merchants with ill intent game Visa and Mastercard's systems. I was speaking to a source who once worked at some of the so-called post-transaction marketing companies that were investigated by the U.S. Senate last year as part of one of the worst online retail scandals in history. Shame shame: Decade's 10 biggest tech scandals (images) Companies such as Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion paid a large number of top e-tailers, including Orbitz, Buy.com, and Priceline to allow them to charge the credit cards of their customers even though the customers never supplied the card number. A shopper would be nearly done completing a transaction and would be presented with an ad that typically offered some free service. Often the ad appeared to be coming from the merchant. Plenty of people didn't see the tricky small print buried in the mass of ad copy. A Senate subcommittee found that maybe as many as a million people were duped by this &quot;scam&quot; and were unknowingly paid these companies every month. The retailers and marketers walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars. The source, who continues to be employed in online marketing, said that one of the reasons managers at Webloyalty and competitors were able to operate under the noses of Visa and Mastercard was that it was so easy to game the system. They knew exactly the number of charge-backs they could acquire before having to scale back operations, the source said. To be fair to the credit card companies, this isn't an easy problem to solve, as people like Borker are well aware. The Internet offers a perfect way for unsavory characters to mask their identity. Borker told the Times: &quot;If Visa and MasterCard ever shut me down, I'd use the name of a friend of mine. Give him 1 percent.&quot;To Mastercard's credit, the company did shut down Borker, at least for a little while. Noah Hanft, a Mastercard lawyer told the Times that it booted Borker for going over his charge-back number. Nonetheless, the company has no idea how Borker was allowed to continue accepting Mastercard transactions. &quot;No system is perfect...keep in mind, millions of transactions are conducted on our system every day, with 30 million merchants,&quot; Hanft told the Times. That is almost exactly what Visa and Mastercard representatives told me during the post-transaction marketing scandal. In the wake of the Senate investigation into that mess, Visa and Mastercard promised to do more to protect shoppers. It doesn't appear they've done enough. For now, all consumers can do to protect themselves is look for safer ways to buy online. Earlier today, Peter Pham, a venture capitalist and former Photobucket exec, posted a note to Twitter that included a link to the Times story. Pham wrote: &quot;Why I only use Amex.&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tripping tackles travel safety with video interviews]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=tripping-tackles-travel-safety-with-video-interviews</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>grydarmon89</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=tripping-tackles-travel-safety-with-video-interviews</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Would you bring your entire family to a stranger's house, in a strange country, on a Web site's promise of a cultural exchange Or invite a backpacker to your homePerhaps when you were 22, on your Wanderjahr, the appeal of connecting with strangers in strange lands overrode concerns for your own safety. And, it's true, most people, in most places, are actually nice. But if the thought of connecting with people from other parts of the planet via the Web, either to stay in their house (AirBnB' CouchSurfing) or just to meet them strikes you as foolish, you might be interested in what the cultural exchange Web site Tripping.com is cooking up. Tripping.com helps travelers set up &quot;play dates&quot; with locals at their destinations, to get a more genuine experience of the culture they're heading into. Likewise, it helps hosts meet people from around the world so they can show off their city or community.  If you're connecting with a stranger, though, you do want to know you're dealing with someone who is who they say they are' and who can be checked up on, read up on, and so on before a connection happens.Tripping lets hosts around the world invite travelers to hang out with them. The new hospitality network sites (that's what they're called) like AirBnB and CouchSurfing have various methods to check into their customers' identities and weed out the creepiest. All the sites rely on community feedback and a system where respected users vouch for each other. CouchSurfing asks for a small financial donation. Tonight, Tripping.com is launching an experiment where it will actually interview users who want to earn their &quot;validated&quot; badge. The new video interviews will occur over a Webcam. Applicants will need to hold up a passport or other verifiable ID, which the Tripping.com operator will examine, over the Webcam, to verify that the user is who they say they are, as well as to record information to find this user in the future, if necessary. There will be a $10 fee for this service.Leveraging the trendTripping.com is a smart take on the business of circumventing usual travel sites. While it doesn't collect direct revenue as a peer-to-peer lodging site AirBnB does, it's also unlikely to get taxed or regulated out of business. Under the hood, it's more like a dating site, except it can benefit from the large travel advertising business and from affiliate click-through programs. There's also a good business-to-business angle on this person-to-person service: Tripping.com can run branded exchange networks, in particular for colleges and universities, to help people within already-trusted networks connect with each other. Tripping.com may charge a fee to institutions for this service. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Boeing blames 787 incident on power panel fire]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=boeing-blames-787-incident-on-power-panel-fire</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Celina</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=boeing-blames-787-incident-on-power-panel-fire</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Boeing said the fire aboard one of its test 787 Dreamliners Monday was caused by the failure of a power panel and the ignition of a nearby insulation blanket. Seen here, the first 787 is shown off for the first time at the plane&amp;39's official unveiling on July 8, 2007.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)Boeing said today that the fire Monday aboard a 787 Dreamliner test aircraft started when an electronics bay power panel failed, igniting a nearby insulation blanket.The fire forced the 787 to make an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas, and the immediate indefinite suspension of the test program. Boeing also said yesterday that because of the incident, it did not know if its plan to make the first Dreamliner deliveries to customers in the first quarter of 2011 was still viable.According to a statement it issued late today, Boeing said that the P100 panel--one of several power panels in the 787's aft electronics bay--had failed during the flight, causing the nearby insulation blanket to catch fire. The P100 panel &quot;receives power from the left engine and distributes it to an array of systems,&quot; Boeing said. &quot;In the event of a failure of the P100 panel, backup power sources--including power from the right engine, the Ram Air Turbine, the auxiliary power unit or the batter--are designed to automatically engage to ensure that those systems needed for continued safe operation of the airplane are powered.&quot;The test plane was able to land safely, with no injuries on board or on the ground, when the backup systems engaged properly, Boeing said.The company also explained that the insulation blanket &quot;self-extinguished once the fault in the P100 panel cleared.&quot; Now, the panel aboard the test plane--the second of six such planes in the Dreamliner program--has been taken off the aircraft. A new unit is being shipped to Laredo, where it will be installed to replace the failed panel, which suffered &quot;significant&quot; damage.But Boeing said that nearby systems or airplane structure were not heavily damaged, though the company has yet to finish a full inspection of the aircraft. &quot;It is too early to determine if there is significant damage to any structure or adjacent systems,&quot; Boeing said.The incident is just the latest in a long string of delays that have plagued the much-anticipated Dreamliner. In August, Boeing announced that it was re-assessing the availability of an engine required for the 787's final flight tests, and previously, slowdowns have come as a result of a machinists strike, supplier shortages, and an issue with the joint between the Dreamliner's wing and its fuselage. When the plane was first shown off on July 8, 2007--07/08/07--it was thought that its first flight would take place just a month or two later. Instead, the first flight didn't take place until December 15, 2009.News of the Monday incident and its impact on the test program and the ultimate first customer delivery continue to rock Boeing's stock. Yesterday, shares were down $2.18, or 3.15 percent, and today, Wall Street slashed another $1.70, or 2.53 percent from the stock.Still, there's little doubt that the airline industry is eagerly awaiting completion of the test program and the first deliveries of the plane, since its innovative composite design is expected to offer carriers significant fuel efficiencies, and passenger comfort.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why you're a pawn in Facebook vs. Google]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=why-youre-a-pawn-in-facebook-vs--google</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lamecheag</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=why-youre-a-pawn-in-facebook-vs--google</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google would like Gmail users to think twice and say this is not all right.(Credit:Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)It should make us nervous when two of America's most important Web companies resort to sniping through the media over which service really has our best interests at heart. If you enjoy a good catfight in your tech news arena but can't be bothered to figure out what the hell Larry Ellison and Ray Lane are talking about, we present Google vs. Facebook: No, I'm More Trustworthy. Long headed for a collision, Google and Facebook are currently exchanging blows over which company is a better steward of personal information stored on the Web. This dispute has been simmering for years, but it boiled over last week when Google made a change to a key part of the terms of service, the part governing how Web services that allow their users to import Gmail contacts must treat that data. In short, Google said that anybody who wanted to automatically import Gmail contacts data had to allow the user to export that data just as easily. Google didn't even really try to hide that Facebook was the clear target of this change. In response, Facebook changed the way Facebook users could import Gmail contacts data by writing a script that allowed those users to automagically download their Gmail contacts as a CSV (comma-separated value) file, and then upload that file into Facebook with the press of another button. Google then expressed its &quot;disappointment,&quot; as if Facebook were an old friend who had made poor choices in life. A Facebook engineer then slammed Google in the comments thread of a Techcrunch post for its previous willingness to block contact export in Orkut (unless you live in Brazil or India you probably never uploaded data to Orkut in the first place, but that's another story) and saying that Facebook has always protected the ability of its users to &quot;own and control&quot; the data stored on the site. And today, Google added the digital equivalent of a cigarette-pack warning to the Gmail export contacts page, asking Gmail users &quot;are you super sure you want to import your contact information for your friends into a service that won't let you get it out&quot;Hypocritical mass This would all be merely amusing if not for the blatant hypocrisy of both companies when it comes to data issues. Facebook's argument has been that because the essence of its service is a network of connections to friends and other contacts, each account is effectively an individual node controlled by the person who operates it. To put this a different way, you do not have power over your friends list: If someone &quot;de-friends&quot; you from his or her Facebook contacts list, for example, you no longer have access to the contents of that person's profile that are not otherwise public, and he or she is sliced out of your &quot;social graph.&quot;Google won&amp;39't let Facebook directly import contacts from Google, so Facebook figured out a way around the restriction (click for larger image).(Credit:Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)Consequently, when it has come to contact exportation--first exposed by a goofy fiasco three years ago involving a Plaxo contact-importation script tested out by industry blogger Robert Scoble--Facebook has said that it doesn't support contact exportation because your friends' contact information belongs to them, not you.As it turns out, however, Facebook is merely choosy about where you can take a mass export of your Facebook contacts. Search Engine Land pointed out that Facebook has inked contact-importation deals with Yahoo as well as Microsoft, which is a major investor in Facebook. Google has a very valid point that the world would be a better place if personal data could move freely into and out of services. But Google also recognizes that data stored within closed social systems has value, as it did back in 2009 when it prohibited Orkut users from exporting their contacts data to other systems using pretty much the same rationale that Facebook has employed in the current dispute. Google has since changed that policy, but only after being called on the carpet about the discrepancy. When it launched Google Buzz, Google also quite wrongly assumed that your Gmail contacts were also your &quot;friends&quot; in a social-networking context. That meant for a brief period when Buzz first launched, some people who started using Buzz were horrified to learn that the names of their Gmail contacts were now listed on a public Google Profile page by default, allowing a wide swath of your contacts to see who else you frequently consorted with through Gmail. Again, Google fixed these issues, but only after an outcry. So for all the rhetoric from both companies about protecting your online privacy and right to control your data, each is quite willing to ignore those principles when it suits their business needs. Facebook would not have turned into a golden database of human behavior and consumer intent without the knowledge of its users that their updates, personal information, and preferences would only be shared among friends (and multinational corporations with API access and slick fan pages). But it also knows it can provide its users with more options and more convenience if it allows MSN and Yahoo users to feed status updates and play Farmville from outside of Facebook's walls, so it cut some deals. Google preaches openness and user freedom at seemingly every turn, and for the most part does a pretty good job living up to those ideals in providing an information service that has changed the world. But it is also relentless in its pursuit of any and all kinds of data, and time and time again has shown that it doesn't understand how to marry its technical prowess with social cues in order to get in on the social market that Facebook is poised to corner.Self-interest and your interests As we pointed out yesterday, this is merely a dispute over who gets to control Facebook data. And you, the user, are not really a party to this dispute. Facebook wants to dictate how your data can be used because it wants advertisers to overpay for access to that data. Google wants that data to be more open because there's no one better in the world at finding, indexing, and presenting open data than Google, and if a significant source of information is unavailable to Google, it becomes less important. In other words, it's a dispute over access to you, as opposed to a dispute over who has your back on the Internet. If you really want to control your data, don't put it on the Internet. If you really value convenient online access to your data, read the terms of service before you hit the upload button to make sure you actually agree with those terms. And if you're a business student looking for career advice, consider Web-based targeted marketing, be it social, search, or display. It will probably take the government at least five or so years to figure out what's really going on' that's plenty of time to make a score.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft files 2nd suit against Motorola in weeks]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-files-2nd-suit-against-motorola-in-weeks</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-files-2nd-suit-against-motorola-in-weeks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft on Tuesday filed a new patent-related lawsuit against Motorola, its second against the company in the past six weeks. The new lawsuit, which was filed earlier today with the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle, accuses Motorola of charging too much for royalties on its patent licenses, which Microsoft uses in both the wireless networking and video decoders found in theXbox. News of the lawsuit was first reported by Reuters. A Microsoft spokesperson told CNET: Microsoft filed an action today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Motorola, Inc. for breach of Motorola's contractual commitments to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to license identified patents related to wireless and video coding technologies under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions. Those commitments are designed to benefit all parties that rely upon these standards, and Microsoft has been harmed by Motorola's failure to honor them in recent demand letters seeking royalties from Microsoft.Microsoft sued Motorola in October, alleging that the company was infringing on its own smartphone-related patents. That move was made ahead of the U.S. launch of Microsoft'sWindows Phone 7. Devices hit store shelves yesterday.A full copy of the complaint is embedded below:MSFT Motorola Complaint        Josh Lowensohn     Full Profile E-mail Josh Lowensohn   E-mail Josh Lowensohn If you have a question or comment for Josh Lowensohn, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Josh Lowensohn writes about Web start-ups, video games, multimedia tools, and the occasional robot. He joined CNET in 2006, and posts to the Web Crawler and Webware blogs. E-mail Josh, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Josh.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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