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<title>Haaze.com / Celina01 / Voted News</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sencha's Web-app tools growing up]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chrissygr22</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=senchas-web-app-tools-growing-up</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A company at the heart of the Web-app revolution hopes a major update to its programming tools will further the new style of development.Sencha plans to release Ext JS 4.0 today, bringing new features and some maturity to the software. Ext JS is a software foundation that lets programmers create Web sites that house active applications, not just static pages, that work not just on modern browsers but also on Microsoft's ancient, despised, but still widely used IE6.Web programming these days is getting steadily more advanced, and indeed Web browsers are becoming more like operating systems with support for hardware acceleration, faster execution of JavaScript programs, and responsibilities for juggling multiple tasks and for isolating software into secure partitions for security and performance reasons.All these abilities make the browser a more sophisticated vessel for software and a more compelling alternative to software that runs natively on an operating system such as Windows or iOS. But given the fact that there are multiple browsers on the market, writing software to work across all of them is complicated. This problem is where Sencha aims to help--and profit. Its tools aren't going to be used for creating Web versions of complicated native software such asMicrosoft Office or Adobe Photoshop, but they are becoming more advanced.&quot;Ext JS is about letting you build rich desktop-class Web apps using JavaScript,&quot; said Aditya Bansod, Sencha's senior director of product management and a recent transplant from Adobe Systems. For Ext JS 4.0, &quot;We rebuilt large parts of the framework.&quot;Specifically, the new software is designed to enable a more modular style of programming called MVC (model-view-controller) better suited to larger corporate programming operations. MVC splits projects up into three domains--the user interface, the interaction with systems such as databases, and the control logic that's the brains of the operation. The technique is common at larger companies with different teams for different domains of programming projects. Another change in Ext JS 4.0 is a move away from Adobe's Flash Player, an all-browser technique for showing graphics. Previously Ext JS required Flash to reach older browsers, but a new drawing engine reaches back even to IE6 without the plug-in. New technology for drawing charts, tables of text, forms, and other information displays also arrives. Those features, such as pie charts, infinite-scrolling lists, and sliders, are designed to appeal to those with one of Sencha's main use cases, online dashboards that let people monitor and control operations through a browser.Ext JS 4.0 also is more easily themed, Bansod said, for those who want a consistent, easily changed look spanning multiple browsers. The company's approach mirrors what it used in Sencha Touch, a related framework the company offers for mobile Web programming.Sencha doesn't have the market to itself, though. In the Web domain, there are tools such as Dojo, Sproutcore, and YUI (Yahoo User Interface) that do much the same thing as Sencha's software. And outside the Web domain, there are of course native tools such as Microsoft's .Net or Apple's Cocoa.Ext JS, like Sencha's other projects, is open-source software that's also available under a commercial license. The company's customers typically go for the commercial versions, though, which doesn't require them to release their own software as open source under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Bansod said.Sencha makes its money through three mechanisms: licensing the software, supporting it, and offering training and other services. The business is spread pretty evenly among the three, Bansod said.The company has more than 50 employees now, but it's planning on filling up its more-spacious new headquarters in Redwood City, Calif.&quot;We're hiring very rapidly,&quot; Bansod said, and the new 10,000-square-foot site will &quot;accommodate a lot of growth in the next year.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo tops all U.S. sites in March' Google follows]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=yahoo-tops-all-u-s--sites-in-march-google-follows</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanparjujbh</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=yahoo-tops-all-u-s--sites-in-march-google-follows</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The top U.S. Web properties, according to ComScore.(Credit:ComScore Media Metrix)It was business as usual on the Web in March, ComScore found in its latest Media Metrix survey.According to the research firm, more than 212 million Americans surfed the Web last month, and once again, Yahoo was their top destination, scoring nearly 180 million unique visitors. Google trailed Yahoo with more than 176.8 million unique visitors. Microsoft, Facebook, and AOL followed the search giant with 176.4 million, 153 million, and 118 million unique visitors, respectively.Perhaps the biggest surprise of the month was the growth of Zynga.com. According to ComScore, the FarmVille creator's site saw traffic rise 164 percent from over 2.7 million unique visitors in February to 7.3 million visitors in March. ComScore didn't say why Zynga's traffic rose so sharply.Neither the research firm nor Zynga immediately responded to request for comment.Aside from Web traffic, ComScore also examined the state of advertising in March. Once again, Google's Ad network reigned supreme, with its ads reaching 91.7 percent of the entire U.S. Web audience. Yahoo Sites had 84.4 percent reach.One other interesting tidbit: Americans were thinking seriously about repairing their homes in March. According to ComScore, home improvement sites saw traffic rise by 10 percent compared to February.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[preGame 48: Portal 2' Mortal Kombat]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=pregame-48-portal-2-mortal-kombat</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Legleu</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=pregame-48-portal-2-mortal-kombat</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Samsung may sell off hard-drive business]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-samsung-may-sell-off-hard-drive-business</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tiresandco</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-samsung-may-sell-off-hard-drive-business</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Samsung hard drive.(Credit:Samsung)Samsung plans to sell its hard-drive business, a new report claims.The electronics company would like to make $1.5 billion on the sale, but it might take less than $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing an anonymous source. The source told the Journal that, in no uncertain terms, &quot;Samsung is trying to get rid of [its HDD operation],&quot; and one of its chief competitors, Seagate, is a potential suitor.Though Samsung has been competing in the hard-disk-drive business for quite some time, the company is still far behind the leaders in that sector. According to research firm iSuppli, Samsung's worldwide HDD market share at the end of 2010 was hovering at around 10 percent.In that same report, which was released in March, iSuppli said that it expected first-quarter 2011 HDD shipments to hit 160.9 million, down nearly 4 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2010, when 167.5 million HDDs were shipped. iSuppli said that &quot;weaker industry conditions,&quot; namely the fact that smartphones andtablets don't use hard drives for their storage needs, make &quot;organic sales growth...more difficult to achieve, prompting HDD suppliers to engage in acquisitions to gain market share.&quot;Those acquisitions have already started. In March, Western Digital agreed to acquire Hitachi's hard-disk-drive unit for $4.3 billion. Once the acquisition is approved, Western Digital will control nearly 50 percent of the HDD business. Seagate, its closest competitor, owns about 30 percent of the market. And now it might be that company's turn to keep pace with an acquisition of its own.According to the Journal's source, Samsung plans to use the cash it would raise in the sale of its hard-drive business in markets where it might have a better chance of succeeding. The source did not say which markets Samsung would like to focus on.Both Samsung and Seagate declined to comment on the report.Update at 10:10 a.m. PTto include Samsung and Seagate statements.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New screenshots reveal more Windows 8 features]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>JoshuaKerson</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=new-screenshots-reveal-more-windows-8-features</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Windows 8 will include a PDF reader, greater customization of the Aero interface, and a new version of Internet Explorer 9 that works like its Windows Phone counterpart, according to new details posted online by Microsoft partners.Offering new tidbits and screenshots from a Windows 8 pre-beta build, &quot;Windows 8 Secrets&quot; co-authors Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott revealed some notable new features this week via the Web site Within Windows.Windows 8 will reportedly offer a new interface dubbed Immersive as an alternative to the traditional Aero user interface introduced in Vista, according to Windows 8 Center and other sources. The new interface will borrow much of the look and feel from the tiled Metro user interface found in Windows Phone.As one example unlocked so far, Rivera and Thurrott showed screenshots from a new &quot;Immersive&quot; edition of Internet Explorer 9 that renders pages like the current desktop version but looks and feels like themobile browser found in Windows Phone.Windows 8 also will come with its own PDF reader, according to the latest details. Known as Modern Reader, the new application will let people view PDFs in their natural format, zoom in and out, and navigate from page to page.Modern Reader will also be based on a new type of application package called AppX, which Rivera and Thurrott believe will give developers the ability to more easily design and deploy programs for both computers and mobile devices. As one example, AppX would help developers write applications for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Windows 8 Center also points to AppX as an important step toward a Windows App Store that Microsoft is reportedly planning.Another tidbit on Windows 8 shows a tweak to the Aero interface. InWindows 7, the color of the Aero interface stays the same no matter what background is displayed. But a new option in Windows 8 changes the Aero window color to better match and blend in with the desktop wallpaper behind it.You find the screenshots by clicking on the links below:Immersive Internet ExplorerPDF ReaderAero interfaceOne more Windows 8 feature reportedly in the works, according to WinRumors, is History Vault. Similar to Apple's Time Machine, the History Vault would automatically back up files on the fly and let people restore them from a specific date and time.The latest news about Windows 8 follows earlier revelations that the OS would sport a new welcome screen and expand the use of the Ribbon interface.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Siebel thinks big for energy software outfit C3]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=siebel-thinks-big-for-energy-software-outfit-c3</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>laraspno</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=siebel-thinks-big-for-energy-software-outfit-c3</guid>
<description><![CDATA[LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.--An &quot;energy resource management&quot; software company co-founded by Tom Siebel called C3 is growing rapidly in a market that's larger than the one his namesake CRM software company entered 16 years ago.Siebel, who co-founded customer relationship management software company Siebel Systems and was one of the first employees at Oracle, today provided some details on C3, which boasts some high-profile board members, including former Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice. He was interviewed here at the Fortune Brainstorm Green green business conference. C3, which was founded a few years ago, is working with a small number of very large corporate customers, including Dow Chemical and utilities PG&amp;E and Constellation Energy, which are using C3's software to improve the energy efficiency of their businesses. Software as a service lets corporations monitor energy usage in real-time and then manage projects for reducing energy spending and carbon emissions. It can gather data from thousand of points, generate reports, and let businesses take advantage of government incentives around efficiency or pollution reduction, he said. C3 is also working with banks to offer corporate customers a way to finance the purchase cost of the software, said Siebel who is chairman of C3.Customers have been able to reduce energy spending on the order of 20 percent through different projects, such as on-site combined heat and power or solar photovoltaics, he said. The area of energy and carbon management software catering to businesses has become crowded with several companies offering applications. Siebel said that he's bullish on the sector because there is so much money is spent on energy and efficiency projects typically have a relatively fast payback.&quot;At early stages this is growing faster rate than Siebel Systems did. What Siebel was about was applying state of the art in information and communications technology to the problem of sales, marketing and customer service. C3 is basically the same game. It's just a much bigger problem,&quot; he said.He projects that the company will spend $150 million over 10 years building out the software. &quot;This looks more like the vision of an SAP than a start-up,&quot; he said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Samsung 4G mobile hot spot arrives at Verizon]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rom467Britney</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=samsung-4g-mobile-hot-spot-arrives-at-verizon</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The new Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot for Verizon.(Credit:Verizon)If you have been having a good time with the Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot and now want a similar device that offers much faster 4G speeds, the answer is here. Verizon Wireless teamed up with Samsung to announce today the availability of the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot. This is a mobile, supercompact Wi-Fi hot spot that offers an Internet connection similar to that of the LG VL600 LTE USB Modem, up to 12Mbps. This type of bandwidth is typically found in high-end broadband connections such as cable. According to the companies, the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot has a design similar to the MiFi 2200--about the size of a few credit cards stacked up together--and also supports a maximum of five Wi-Fi devices at a time. The device is backward-compatible with Verizon's 3G network, which comes in handy in areas where Verizon's 4G coverage is not available.Similar to the case of the VL600 modem, the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot comes with data plans that start at $50 per month with a cap of 5GB. Note that with 4G speeds, you could use up this monthly allowance within literally half an hour. The second data plan is 10GB for $80 per month. Unfortunately it seems there's no unlimited data plan currently available for the new hot spot. The Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot is available now and costs $100 with a two-year contract.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Arianna Huffington to Bill Keller: Who you calling 'Oxpecker']]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=arianna-huffington-to-bill-keller-who-you-calling-oxpecker</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zibimmau6n</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=arianna-huffington-to-bill-keller-who-you-calling-oxpecker</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Earlier today Bill Keller hurled some invective against Web aggregators in general and Arianna Huffington in particular.Arianna Huffington(Credit:Huffington Post)It's a great, punchy read! But if you're in a hurry:The New York Times' executive editor calls media commentators and media recyclers &quot;oxpeckers who ride the backs of pachyderms, feeding on ticks.&quot;He compares aggregators to pirates, then says that AOL's $315 million purchase of Huffington Post has been poorly described: &quot;Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.&quot;He says that Huffington herself &quot;aggregated&quot; his own words and passed them off as her own.Here's Huffington's response, which she has now posted on her own site:Bill Keller Accuses Me of &quot;Aggregating&quot; an Idea He Had Actually &quot;Aggregated&quot; From MePerhaps unsettled by the fact that, when combined, The Huffington Post and AOL News have over 70 percent more unique visitors than the New York Times, and that HuffPost/AOL News' combined page views in January 2011 were double the page views of the Times (1.5 billion vs. 750 million), New York Times executive editor Bill Keller decided to unleash an exceptionally misinformed attack on HuffPost in a column released today and slated for this weekend's NYT Magazine.After opening his piece by patting himself on the back so hard I'd be surprised if he didn't crack a rib (it seems everyone--even Woody Allen and those folks on Twitter--think he's super &quot;powerful&quot; and &quot;influential&quot;!), Keller turned to the putative subject of his column: &quot;the 'American Idol'-ization of news&quot; and the evils of &quot;aggregation.&quot; Hearkening back to the glory years when Rupert Murdoch and his minions labeled sites that aggregate the news &quot;parasites,&quot; &quot;content kleptomaniacs,&quot; &quot;vampires,&quot; and &quot;tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internets&quot; (the news industry equivalent of &quot;your mama wears army boots!&quot; although, not quite as persuasive), Keller says of aggregation: &quot;In Somalia this would be called piracy. In the mediashpere, it is a respected business model.&quot;He then describes HuffPost's offerings as nothing more than &quot;celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications.&quot;I wonder what site he's been looking at. Not ours, as even a casual look at HuffPost will show. Even before we merged with AOL, HuffPost had 148 full-time editors, writers, and reporters engaged in the serious, old-fashioned work of traditional journalism. As long ago as 2009, Frank Rich praised the work of our reporters in his column. Paul Krugman more recently singled out the work of our lead finance writer. Columbia Journalism Review has credited our work for advancing the public's understanding of the national foreclosure crisis, and a pair of our Washington reporters recently received a major journalism prize. Matthew Yglesias, Felix Salmon, Catherine Rempell, are among the many others have cited the work of our reporters. Did Keller not notice thatAnd did he not notice that he lost one of his top business reporters, Peter Goodman to The Huffington Post--despite his best efforts to keep him Indeed, on the very day that Keller's column began circulating, we published a piece Goodman edited, a 4,000-word investigation of a for-profit college by Goodman's first hire, Chris Kirkham, a former Washington Post Intern. Did he think he came over to aggregate adorable kitten videos And was he too busy scanning all those lists of &quot;most powerful people&quot; he's on to notice that he also lost one of his top editors, Tim O'Brien, to usEven so, if those were the only charges he'd leveled, I wouldn't have bothered responding. As they say on those TV lawyer shows, &quot;Asked and answered.&quot;But then Keller went much further, accusing me of &quot;aggregating&quot; his very thoughts! To wit:&quot;How great is Huffington's instinctive genius for aggregation I once sat beside her on a panel in Los Angeles (on--what else--The Future of Journalism). I had come prepared with a couple of memorized riffs on media topics, which I duly presented. Afterward we sat down for a joint interview with a local reporter. A moment later I heard one of my riffs issuing verbatim from the mouth of Ms. Huffington. I felt so...aggregated.&quot;That's quite the claim to make, Bill, especially without offering a single specific. Luckily, I remembered the panel and the subsequent radio interview very well, and quickly found transcripts of both. So what was it that left Keller feeling &quot;so...aggregated&quot;During the panel, sponsored by the Milken Institute, and held on April 28, 2010, Keller said the following:&quot;But what I think will happen, and you can already start to see it, is there's a little bit of a convergence going on. We've talked a lot about how some of the mainstream organizations we represent are adapting the tools and more important, the kind of culture and psychology, of a more open media world. I think it's also true that a lot of the alternatives--the startups--are beginning to see the need for discipline, resources, standards.&quot;A bit later, during the joint radio interview we did with Patt Morrison, I said:&quot;Well, I think there is a convergence happening. There was a big debate over the last few years about whether the newspapers will survive, whether the future is going to be only online. And I think we are realizing now, increasingly, that online, purely online news operations like The Huffington Post are more and more adopting the most traditional, basic tenets of journalism. Accuracy, fairness, fact-checking, reporters, more and more editors, and mainstream traditional operations like the New York Times or NPR are adopting more and more of the digital tools that can bring in the community to make it part of the creation of journalism, through citizen journalism, through reports from the ground, through video, through Twitter feeds, through all the new media available to us.&quot;The trouble for Keller is that this viewpoint, right down to the use of the word &quot;convergence,&quot; is one I had been expressing to describe the changes happening in the media for years.For instance, in May 2008, two years before the Milken panel, I told the Star Tribune, &quot;I think that what we are seeing is a kind of convergence of the mainstream media doing more and more online, and those of us in online media and the blogosphere doing more and more reporting, along with citizen-journalism projects.&quot;In November 2008, 18 months before the panel, speaking of the media's coverage of the '08 race, I told Reuters, &quot;There's this real convergence, where basically you found that the best and most accurate rose to the top, whether it originated from Time magazine or from Nate Silver's fivethirtyeight.com, which did not exist before the election.&quot;And in January 2010, three months before Bill Keller's &quot;memorized riff&quot; on convergence, I told Canada's CTV, &quot;And then we can have a hybrid future where there is a convergence between old media and new media. It's not an either/or world.&quot;Indeed, as far back as March 2007, over three years before the Milken panel, I wrote a post outlining my take on what was happening in the media world: &quot;Those papers that wake up in time will become a journalistic hybrid combining the best aspects of traditional print newspapers with the best of what the Web brings to the table.&quot;So who was it, Bill, who was &quot;aggregating&quot; someone else's ideasKeller's attack is as lame as it is laughable. I wonder if that Hollywood screenwriter who Keller giddily tells us has purchased an option on his life-rights will include this scintillating episode in his movieIn any case, this whole thing has left me feeling, to coin a phrase, &quot;so...aggregated.&quot;Okay, back to the merger.OK, NYT: Your turn!Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AT&T to start selling Amazon Kindle on March 6]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>akaboanokb</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=att-to-start-selling-amazon-kindle-on-march-6</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Amazon)AT&amp;T will sell the 6-inch, 3G version of the Amazon Kindle in company-owned stores starting Sunday, it announced today. The carrier will be selling the e-reader for $189, the same price it's available for on Amazon.com and in other retail outlets. Customers who opt to buy the Kindle at AT&amp;T stores won't find any special arrangements with the carrier, so consider this just another place where Kindle seekers can pick up the e-reader. AT&amp;T's decision to start selling the Kindle on its store shelves makes for a rather interesting dynamic in its stores. Soon, the Kindle will be sitting next to the iBooks-equipped iPad in AT&amp;T stores, enabling those looking for an e-reader to try out both devices before they make their choice.Amazon's Kindle 3G connects to the Web via Wi-Fi or over AT&amp;T's 3G network for free. It allows users to download books, periodicals, and other content wirelessly, and is capable of storing up to 3,500 books. According to AT&amp;T, the Amazon Kindle Store now has over 810,000 books for customers to choose from.Amazon revealed in December that its third-generation Kindle is the bestselling product of all time on its Web site, surpassing &quot;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7).&quot; On Christmas Day, &quot;more people turned on new Kindles for the first time, downloaded more Kindle Buy Once, Read Everywhere apps, and purchased more Kindle books than on any other day in history,&quot; Amazon said at the time. The company did not release sales figures however. The Kindle was also the top-selling device on Amazon between November 14 and December 19, besting the 8GBiPod Touch, according to the company.AT&amp;T joins Target and Best Buy in the growing number of retailers that sell the Kindle on store shelves.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Groupon looks to launch operations in China]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>selevantv</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-groupon-looks-to-launch-operations-in-china</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The daily-deals broker Groupon is reportedly getting ready to launch operations in China, which would help expand its reach in Asia.  In Beijing recently, a company that operates the site Gaopeng.com was conducting interviews in an office with a Groupon sign on display, according to a Wall Street Journal story today. Gaopeng.com is &quot;listed as registered by someone at Internet giant Tencent Holdings of Shenzen, China. &quot; Tencent is one of the stakeholders in Digital Sky Technologies, an investor in Groupon.  The Journal report also said openings for Groupon staff positions have been posted recently on Chinese job sites, including at universities. &quot;The largest group-buying site is hiring in Shanghai!&quot; said one ad, according to the Journal. Another said: &quot;Groupon is the fastest-growing company in history... and it's now starting its Chinese company.&quot; Groupon did not immediately respond to CNET's request for comment Sunday afternoon. The Journal said a Groupon spokeswoman based in Beijing declined to comment.  In January, the Chicago-based company and Tencent were in talks to form a partnership that would give Groupon a larger presence in Asia, according to All Things Digital's Kara Swisher, who cited anonymous sources.  Earlier this month, Groupon was criticized for a series of Super Bowl commercials making fun of social causes, including one ad that centered on Tibet. (The ads were in fact part of a campaign to raise money for the causes they highlighted.) Days later the company apologized and pulled the ads. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Hackers penetrated Nasdaq computers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gloriacooperth</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-hackers-penetrated-nasdaq-computers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Federal authorities are investigating repeated intrusions into the computer network that runs the Nasdaq stock exchange, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cited people familiar with the matter.The intrusions did not compromise the tech-heavy exchange's trading platform, which executes investors' trades, but it was unknown which other sections of the network were accessed, according to the report.&quot;So far, [the perpetrators] appear to have just been looking around,&quot; one person involved in the Nasdaq matter told the Journal. The Secret Service reportedly initiated an investigation involving New York-based Nasdaq OMX Group last year, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations has launched a probe as well. Investigators are considering a range of motives for the breach, including national security threat, personal financial gain, and theft of trade secrets, the newspaper reported.Nasdaq representatives could not be reached for comment. Investigators have not been able to follow the intruders' path to any specific individual or country, but people familiar with the matter say some evidence points to Russia, according to the report. However, they caution that hackers may just be using Russia as a conduit for their activities.In 1999, a hacker group called &quot;United Loan Gunmen&quot; defaced Nasdaq's public Web site with a story headlined &quot;United Loan Gunmen take control of Nasdaq stock market.&quot; The vandalism was quickly erased, and Nasdaq officials said at the time that the exchange's internal network was unaffected.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet disruptions hit Egypt]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=internet-disruptions-hit-egypt</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kareena</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=internet-disruptions-hit-egypt</guid>
<description><![CDATA[CNN Cairo Correspondent Ben Wedeman reports of the outage first-hand on Twitter.(Credit:http://twitter.com/!/bencnn)Amid a third day of anti-government protests, Internet outages and disruptions occurred today in Egypt. Facebook and Twitter confirmed the disruptions for their sites. &quot;We are aware of reports of disruption to service and have seen a drop in traffic from Egypt this morning,&quot; a Facebook spokesman said in a statement. &quot;You may want to visit Herdict.org, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University that offers insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of web accessibility.&quot; According to Herdict.org, there were 459 inaccessible sites in Egypt and 621 accessible sites. Twitter's Global PR account reported on the site that: &quot;Egypt continues to block Twitter &amp; has greatly diminished traffic. However, some users are using apps/proxies to successfully tweet.&quot;  Meanwhile, there were numerous outages around the Web.  Danny O'Brien, San Francisco-based Internet Advocacy Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said to the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) e-mail list that the organization had lost all Internet connectivity with its contacts in Egypt and was hearing reports of loss of Internet connectivity on major broadband ISPs, SMS outage and loss of mobile service in major cities there.  &quot;The working assumption here is that the Egyptian government has made the decision to shut down all external, and perhaps internal electronic communication as a reaction to the ongoing protests in that country,&quot; he wrote. His post included a link to a Pastebin.com page where someone at a European-based Internet activist group has started an effort to provide alternative methods--such as shortwave and pirate radio--for protesters in Egypt to communicate with each other and the outside world. &quot;A major service provider for Egypt, Italy-based Seabone, reported early Friday that there was no Internet traffic going into or out of the country after 12:30 a.m. local time,&quot; the Associated Press noted. &quot;Associated Press reporters in Cairo were also experiencing outages.&quot;  The Los Angeles Times said BlackBerry users were not able to reach the Internet on their devices. RIM provided this statement when asked for comment: &quot;We can confirm that RIM has not implemented any changes that would impact service in Egypt and that RIM's BlackBerry Infrastructure has continued to be fully operational throughout the day. For questions regarding a specific network in Egypt, please contact the carrier who operates the network.  A Twitter post by Ben Wedeman, CNN senior correspondent in Cairo, around 3 p.m PDT says: &quot;No internet, no SMS, what is next Mobile phones and land lines So much for stability.&quot; The Arabist blog had mixed reports, with someone in Cairo saying Internet service was down while a foreign journalist was able to get onto the Internet Semiramis Intercontinental hotel.  Twitter representatives did not respond immediately to an e-mail request for more information. The Internet disruptions spurred activist action. Anonymous, the group that launched distributed denial-of-service attacks on Web sites of financial institutions and others opposing WikiLeaks last year, released a video online in which it threatened to launch DOS attacks on Egyptian government Web sites if the authorities did not curtail censorship efforts. Earlier today, five people were arrested in the U.K. in connection with those attacks.  Because Twitter has been found to be an effective communications tool during social unrest and protests--in Iran and Moldova, along with Tunisia and Egypt, more recently--it is an attractive target for governments to try to block, along with Facebook.  (via The Huffington Post.)Updated 6:05 p.m. PDTwith NANOG report of outages.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EPA to approve E15 for cars built in 2001 and later]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=epa-to-approve-e15-for-cars-built-in-2001-and-later</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resbimmarlk</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=epa-to-approve-e15-for-cars-built-in-2001-and-later</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pro-ethanol group Growth Energy says the current 10 percent ethanol cap in gasoline is slowing the growth and development of the renewable fuels industry.(Credit:Growth Energy)The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to approve the use of E15 for vehicles built in 2001 or later, according to a Bloomberg article. E15 is a blend of 85 percent gasoline and 15 percent ethanol, and is opposed by automotive manufacturers that say the increased ethanol amount could harm vehicle engines and fueling systems.The EPA's anticipated decision, which could be announced today, builds upon the temporary waiver the agency granted last year to Growth Energy, a pro-ethanol group comprised of alternative fuel manufacturers and suppliers. At present, gasoline can be blended up to 10 percent with ethanol for all vehicles, but the waiver allows the use of E15 in vehicles built in 2007 or later. Manufacturers are appealing the decision, arguing that more testing is needed to prove the blend is safe for vehicles. The EPA was waiting for additional testing on vehicles built from 2001 to 2007 until it granted the use of E15 for those vehicle model years. The testing was completed in November, but the findings have not yet been released. Increasing the number of vehicles on the road that can use the higher ethanol blend will help the U.S. comply with its mandate to consume 13.95 billion gallons of ethanol in 2011. It's also going to help bolster the weak ethanol market, which sent a lot of alternative fuel producers and suppliers to bankruptcy court over the last 18 months, according to Bloomberg.But what about the consumer Approving the use of E15 in morecars probably means that the EPA's testing didn't find damage in engines or fueling systems. But ethanol has lower energy density than gasoline, and drivers could experience a small decrease in fuel economy from the increased amounts of ethanol.A potential upside is that it could help stabilize fuel prices for consumers as oil prices rise. Refiners receive a 45-cent tax credit for each gallon of ethanol they use. By using more ethanol to increase the number of gallons of gasoline produced from a barrel of oil, refiners could theoretically offset the rising oil prices. The average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. has risen slowly but steadily since last fall with an average price of $3.10 for a gallon of regular gas last week. Source: Bloomberg<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Mobile e-mail rises' Web e-mail dips]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-mobile-e-mail-rises-web-e-mail-dips</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>artwhale</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-mobile-e-mail-rises-web-e-mail-dips</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mobile e-mail is growing in popularity while the use of Web-based e-mail seems to be waning, according to a new study from ComScore.Looking back at November, ComScore found that the number of people sending e-mail via a dedicated client on a mobile device was up 36 percent from the prior November. Over the same period, the number of visitors to Web-based e-mail sites fell by 6 percent.(Credit:ComScore)Even further, those who visited Web-based e-mail sites spent less time doing so. The amount of time spent at such sites dropped 9 percent in November year over year, while the number of total pages viewed fell 15 percent.For the mobile e-mail figures, ComScore is counting people who use a dedicated e-mail client on a mobile device as well as those who just sync mail from Gmail or another online account to their phones. Those numbers also include users who access Webmail accounts from a mobile device. For the Web-based mail stats, ComScore is referring specifically to users who access Webmail through a PC.&quot;From PCs to mobile devices, whether it's e-mail, social media, IM, or texting, consumers have many ways to communicate and can do so at any time and in any place,&quot; Mark Donovan, ComScore senior vice president of mobile, said yesterday in a statement. &quot;The decline in Web-based e-mail is a byproduct of these shifting dynamics and the increasing availability of on-demand communication options.&quot;Despite the move toward mobile, e-mail is still one of the most popular activities on the Web, with more than 70 percent of online users accessing their messages via the Web each month. For November, ComScore reported that 153 million people checked their Web-based e-mail accounts. That compares with 70.1 million mobile users--30 percent of all mobile subscribers--who accessed e-mail through their mobile devices.(Credit:ComScore)Still, the rise in mobile e-mail usage is significant. ComScore found that 43.5 million people used their mobile phones for e-mail on a daily basis in November, a jump of 40 percent from the prior year.The disparity between mobile and Web was even greater among the younger crowd.People ages 25 to 34 were 60 percent more likely to check mobile e-mail than the average mobile subscriber, while those 18 to 24 were 46 percent more likely. In contrast, the use of Web-based e-mail fell 24 percent among those 12 to 17, while the total amount of time spent checking their Web e-mail dropped 48 percent.ComScore based its results for this study on data from its Media Metrix and MobiLens services.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Access your media files anywhere with Libox]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=access-your-media-files-anywhere-with-libox</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>RachelStein</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=access-your-media-files-anywhere-with-libox</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Screenshot by Jasmine France)As evidenced by the introduction of Unifi atCES 2011, there's a move to provide cloud storage services that focus specifically on media files. Of course, the problem one runs into with these types of files is that they tend to be a lot larger than things like documents, spreadsheets, and presentations--downright huge, in the case of video. A new software and service called Libox is aiming to tackle that problem.Like Unifi, Libox serves to aggregate your media files from various drives and devices (though at this time, it doesn't bring in content you may have stored with other services such as Facebook). The difference with Libox is that it doesn't actually upload your media files to the cloud. Instead, the service sniffs out the content stored on your computer, designated networked drives, and connected devices and creates a marker to their location. So it doesn't actually move or copy any files' rather, it offers a path through which you can access media. There are three ways to do this: via the desktop software, by logging on to the Web portal, or by using the corresponding mobile app (currently available for iOS only, but coming to Android in the near future).There are a few benefits to this method of media aggregation. For one, you don't have to wait through a lengthy uploading process. Although the initial scan will take some time--quite a bit if you have a ton of content--it's generally much quicker than uploading. Also, you don't have to select files for uploading because anything added to your computer or devices automatically shows up within the Libox interface. Finally, Libox is able to offer the service entirely for free, since there's no costly storage overhead on its end. And there are no ads for the user either (the company will generate revenue from partnerships rather than advertising).(Credit:Screenshot by Jasmine France)So far, it's looking like Libox is doing pretty good job delivering on its promise of media accessed anywhere easily and for free. I gave all three methods a spin, starting with the desktop software. Indeed, you will be required to download the program in order scan--and then keep an eye on--the media on your drives. However, the mobile app isn't a necessity in order for your media to be added to the overall container' you simply must connect the device once. Also, you can access Libox through the Web portal on non-iOS phones (that is, those that don't have their own apps yet).One thing I liked off the bat is the fact that the Widows software and the Web portal offer the same visually-appealing interface. Library navigation options are laid out clearly on the left, while large thumbnails dominate the main window. A nice touch with music is that Libox fills in some funky imagery for albums without cover art, so the whole space is a colorful mosaic. However, as much as the navigation looks good, it would be nice to have a way to browse content by a detailed list. Photos and music may be easy to navigate by thumbnail alone, but it's not ideal for video--as it stands, it's difficult to find the exact video you want to watch (although the search bar helps).Unsurprisingly, Libox also offers a social element. Although your aggregated library is only accessible by you, you can select individual files or even folders and albums to share. For now, the social aspect is limited to other Libox users, so you'll have to convince your friends to sign up, too. However, it wouldn't surprise me if the software offered some Facebook or Twitter integration in the future.As for the performance, there are some hiccups in certain cases. For one, Libox does not appear to recognize certain video types, particularly those with the AVI container. That said, this is a forgivable issue given the fact that Libox is doing extensive behind-the-scenes transcoding to get files to playback on all types of devices. Video formatting is particularly problematic, so the service gets some slack for now. Hopefully, this will be remedied in the near future.Another issue I ran into was with theiPhone app, which seems to be more of a beta than the other two portals. I manually selected some photos to be uploaded, since the process did not happen automatically, and the action continually caused to app to crash. Also, it takes forever for a video to load for playback on the device. Again, these are issues that I expect will be addressed going forward.Libox still has a few kinks to iron out before it hits a home run, but the service has the right idea. Obviously, if you're looking for something that actually backs up all of your media, Libox is not the answer. However, if the goal is to quickly and easily access and share your media from anywhere, it's worth giving this service a spin.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple sues Nokia over iPhone scrolling patent]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-sues-nokia-over-iphone-scrolling-patent</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jminnisimj</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-sues-nokia-over-iphone-scrolling-patent</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The legal battle between Nokia and Apple shows no signs of letting up anytime soon.(Credit:Apple)Apple on Tuesday sued Nokia in the U.K. claiming that one of the company's patents is invalid, according to Bloomberg. The patent in question describes a scrolling technology on touch-screen handsets and is one of the patents Nokia previously sued Apple for violating.Nokia responded to the suit saying it is confident its patents are valid and it &quot;will take whatever actions are needed to protect our rights.&quot;Apple representatives were not immediately available for comment.The legal tangle between the two companies has been going on since 2009 when Nokia first sued Apple for violating 10 of its patents. Two months later, Apple filed a countersuit listing 10 patents it believed Nokia was violating.Bruce Sewell, Apple's general counsel, said at the time that &quot;companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours.&quot;The lawsuits and countersuits now span multiple countries including the U.S., U.K., Germany, and the Netherlands.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Biotic' video games: Play with microorganisms]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=biotic-video-games-play-with-microorganisms</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resmaab24n</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=biotic-video-games-play-with-microorganisms</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You may have heard of Fold-It, which involves different approaches to folding proteins, and EteRNA, which lets players propose new molecular structures for ribonucleic acids (RNA). While these are conceptual exercises that can influence future research, a new set of games out of Stanford takes these types of games one step further.Stanford researcher Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his lab group have developed such games as Biotic Pinball, POND PONG, and a soccer game called Ciliaball that involve players actually interacting with living microorganisms.&quot;We hope that by playing games involving biology of a scale too small to see with the naked eye, people will realize how amazing these processes are and they'll get curious and want to know more,&quot; says Riedel-Kruse, an assistant professor of bioengineering. &quot;The applications we can envision so far are on the one hand educational, for people to learn about biology, but we are also thinking perhaps we could have people running real experiments as they play these games.&quot;To determine whether they could design biotic games at all, the researchers stuck to more primitive, basic game concepts. They came up with eight games that fit into three categories: interaction with molecules, single cells, or colonies of single cells.The hardware is pretty straightforward. A small camera transmits live images of the paramecia as they swim about, responding to changes in the polarity of an electrical field applied to the fluid chamber by the player's laptop, with the &quot;game board&quot; superimposed on the image of the paramecia. A microprocessor tracks movement and keeps score.In some games, such as PAC-mecium, the player controls the polarity of a mild electrical field applied across the fluid chamber, which influences the direction the paramecia move. In Biotic Pinball, the player injects occasional whiffs of a chemical into the fluid, causing the paramecia to swim in certain directions.The molecular level game, called PolymerRace, involves the laboratory technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), an automated process by which researchers make millions of copies of an organism's DNA in as few as two hours. The player is linked to the output of a PCR machine that is running different reactions simultaneously, and can bet on which reactions will be run fastest.The third type of game involves colonies of yeast cells. Players literally smell the colonies to try to distinguish between them based on bread-vinegar-like scents.Riedel-Kruse acknowledges that for some players there have been ethical issues, but stresses that these organisms lack brains and the capacity to feel pain: &quot;We are talking about microbiology with these games, very primitive life forms...These games could be a good tool to stimulate discussions in schools on bioethical issues.&quot;The games are presented in a paper published this month in the 10th anniversary issue of Lab on a Chip.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: U.S. leads world in spam output]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-u-s--leads-world-in-spam-output</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gbeauchamp</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-u-s--leads-world-in-spam-output</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is the spam leader across the world, responsible for one out of every five junk messages sent, according to a report out today from Sophos.The security vendor's fourth-quarter &quot;Dirty Dozen&quot; report of spam-relaying countries found that the United States upped its percentage of global spam from the third quarter and now accounts for 18.83 percent of all junk e-mails.That percentage is almost three times higher than second-place India, which is responsible for deploying 6.88 percent of all spam across the globe, according to Sophos. Other countries named on the Dirty Dozen list include Brazil, Russia, the U.K., and France.(Credit:Sophos)Beyond producing the sheer volume of spam per country, the bad guys are finding more malicious ways to spread their payloads.Though junk mail still relies on typical subjects, such as ads for pharmaceuticals, more spam is being geared toward sending malware and stealing user names, passwords, and other personal information, says Sophos. Another form of attack on the rise is spear-phishing, which sends out e-mails targeted to specific organizations or people, usually in an attempt to gain confidential information.Following the takedown of the Bredolab network late last year, spam levels started to take a dip. Spam also has been in a slump since Christmas as the Rustock spambot, responsible for generating a lot of the world's junk mail, seemed to take some time off for the holidays.But Sophos believes the malware writers have actually turned their attention to using Rustock for other tasks, such as installing pop-up ads and trying to get people to buy phony antivirus software. And as of yesterday, the security vendor reports seeing spam levels spiking up yet again. As always, Sophos cautions people to be wary of e-mail attachments and unknown links, especially ones associated with social networks.&quot;As long as spammers continue to make money from these schemes, Internet users can be sure that they'll continue to receive unsolicited emails and social networking scams,&quot; Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said in a statement. &quot;To combat this, it's essential that computer users remain wary of clicking on unknown links, regardless of whether they appear to be on a trusted contact's social networking page.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Tazzle IT sends content from BlackBerry to PC]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-tazzle-it-sends-content-from-blackberry-to-pc</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bimsufwan23434sfsdfedf</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-tazzle-it-sends-content-from-blackberry-to-pc</guid>
<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS--BlackBerry owners now have a way to send content directly from their phones to their PCs.(Credit:Tazzle)Introduced this week atCES, the new Tazzle IT device connects a BlackBerry to any Windows PC via a Bluetooth connection, allowing people to send e-mails, file attachments, documents, photos and other files to their computers for easier access.BlackBerry owners install the Tazzle app on their phones and computers and then plug the Tazzle USB stick into the PC for instant BlueTooth pairing. Once the connection is established, people can not only send content from their phones but also directly view and print that content on the PC.The demo at CES worked smoothly. The pairing was fast, and the files selected on the BlackBerry transferred to the PC fairly quickly. With security a key concern for many BlackBerry users, the Tazzle rep told me the device uses a built-in hardware firewall and secure software. By default, the files sent from the phone to the PC aren't physically downloaded onto the computer. So once the document is closed on the PC, all traces of it are gone. However, people can save a copy of the file on the PC if they wish.The company is targeting the Tazzle both for BlackBerry users who want to be able to quickly work with content from their phones and IT administrators worried about BlackBerry devices directly accessing their networks. Right now, Tazzle works only on the BlackBerry, but support for Android devices is being targeted for the second quarter. Apple iDevice owners are out of luck, though. The Tazzle rep said that the closed nature of theiPhone leaves it out of the running for now.The Tazzle IT device sells for $79.99 at the company's Web site, while the app itself is available for free at the site or on BlackBerry App World.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LCD TV shipments expected to slow in 2011]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=lcd-tv-shipments-expected-to-slow-in-2011</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>juwanparmic</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=lcd-tv-shipments-expected-to-slow-in-2011</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Vizio)LCD TV shipments will rise this year, but that growth won't be as high as it has been over the past few years, market research firm DisplaySearch predicts.Global LCD TV shipments are expected to rise 13 percent in 2011 to 215 million units, DisplaySearch said Monday. In 2010, LCD TV shipments were up 31 percent compared to 2009, with 190 million units shipped for the year.Even with more shipments, the LCD TV market's continuing price erosion will cause it to see its &quot;first ever revenue decline,&quot; DisplaySearch claims. The researchers didn't say how much lower revenue will be in 2011--there's no way to know how prices will change--but it speaks to the issues vendors and retailers are having at coaxing some consumers into buying televisions because of the lingering effects of the recession.&quot;North America continues to be a tough market for TV sales,&quot; Paul Gagnon, DisplaySearch's director of North America TV Research, said in a statement. &quot;As unemployment remains high and consumers remain sensitive to price, budget-conscious consumers have been surprised by limited price declines, partially influenced by a much stronger mix of advanced TV technologies introduced this year like LED backlights, 3D, and Internet connectivity which offset any price declines.&quot;DisplaySearch noted that television prices in North America fell by 6 percent in 2010. Prices declined by 22 percent in 2009.All told, 247 million televisions--led by LCD and plasma--were shipped to retail stores in 2010, up 17 percent compared to 2009 figures.Further reading:Best 5 HDTVs<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LUMI: The sleep mask enters the 21st century]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=lumi-the-sleep-mask-enters-the-21st-century</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>parwinrestalk</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=lumi-the-sleep-mask-enters-the-21st-century</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Taylor Franklin Hide looks tired. Cute, but tired. (See video.) So it's hardly surprising that the Alabama-based inventor has been so focused on maximizing the quality of his sleep.Enter the LUMImask, which he has recently unveiled on the creative funding Web site KickStarter. The plain, black mask with an almost-invisible little alarm on one side looks like a Trekkie's dream accoutrement (pun!), and it comes with an appropriately dramatic slogan: Light. Dark. Both. (Some things you just can't make up.)You see, Hide faced a conundrum: he required darkness to sleep, but he loved it when light woke him, so the old-fashioned sleeping mask just wasn't cutting it. With LUMI, he gets to not only block out the light when he wants to sleep but experience the gradual simulation of sunrise over a half hour when he needs to wake.It's that simple. If you set your LUMI alarm for 6, the light begins at 5:30, gradually brightening, and ultimately climaxing in a full crescendo of light and audible alarm at the appointed time.An alarm controller allows for the adjustment of both wake-up time and intensity of light. In the winter months, for instance, one may prefer a soft hue reminiscent of northern latitudes, and in the summer a chirpy penetration of equatorial lumination.Studies have suggested that light at night can increase one's risk for depression and even for cancer, but the jury is out on whether LUMI provides sufficient blockage or even improves quality of sleep. And yet the mask is already raising the sleepy eyelids of a number of backers on KickStarter.When Slash Gear reported on Hide's KickStarter campaign yesterday, the inventor had 56 backers with some $2,560 in total investment (his goal being $10,000 by January 24, 2011). He's got to be onto something, because at the time of this post's publication just one day later, 147 backers have kicked $12,369 his way.If you like his idea, an even $50 will secure you a LUMImask with a supporter tag available only for, well, supporters (there are 121 $50 backers so far). Even for himself, Hide has named a price: a $5,000 pledge will get you one full day with Hide, to &quot;discuss life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in slightly sunny Birmingham, Ala. (travel and accommodations not included).&quot;According to KickStarter, one person has already signed on for that pledge. One is left to consider the logical outcome of said rendezvous, which must surely involve putting on their LUMIs and sleeping together.Shoot, they wouldn't even have to wait for the sun to go down.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel solar spin-off SpectraWatt to close plant]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=intel-solar-spin-off-spectrawatt-to-close-plant</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Khristinajane</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=intel-solar-spin-off-spectrawatt-to-close-plant</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Solar panel manufacturer SpectraWatt, which was spun out of chip giant Intel, will close its newly opened New York plant and expects to lay off workers, according to reports.SpectraWatt was created in 2008 and funded with a reported $91 million to create silicon cells for solar panels. Earlier this year, it moved it headquarters from Oregon to upstate New York where the state offered tax breaks to open a manufacturing plant.SpectraWatt was spun out of Intel two years ago to manufacture silicon solar cells. (Credit:SpectraWatt)On Tuesday, the company said that it will shut down the plant, which started operating in May this year, and it plans to start laying off at least 100 workers in March, the Associated Press reported. The company said that winter weather in Europe caused a slowdown in solar projects, cutting demand for its solar cells.The Poughkeepsie Journal reported that the company, which was praised by local officials for creating jobs, had been offered $8 million in subsidies by a New York economic development fund but most of that money had not yet been disbursed. Local officials told the paper they were shocked and surprised by the closing.In a statement provided to the Poughkeepsie Journal, SpectraWatt said it &quot;continues to pursue alternatives aimed at improving its current situation and hopes to reverse this action.&quot;SpectaWatt blamed soft European demand for its shut down, but it and all solar cell and panel providers face intense price pressure from global competitors. In the past few years, prices for traditional silicon solar panels have dropped steadily, driven in part by a number of Chinese manufacturers that are scaling up manufacturing to bring costs down. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Mobile handsets of CES 2010: Where are they now]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>feadseteoma</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-mobile-handsets-of-ces-2010-where-are-they-now</guid>
<description><![CDATA[CES 2010 was a lightweight show when it came to cell phones and smartphones. That's often the case with CES, as mobile devices have to share the stage with bigger products like 3D televisions and futuristic robots. That's set to change at CES 2011 of course, but we wanted to take some time and take a look back at the phones of CES 2010.Mobile handsets of CES 2010: Where are they now (photos) We awarded the Best of CES 2010 in the mobile category to the LG Lotus Elite, because that was the most innovative handset we saw at the show. Even though it was really a sequel to the LG Lotus of the previous year, the Lotus Elite had a great wow factor with its fashion-forward looks, innovative external touch screen, and overall features. Even if it's &quot;just&quot; a simple messaging phone, it was one we liked. This is true even when we ended up reviewing it later on.Other Best of CES nominees included the Motorola Backflip and the Sonim XP3.2 Quest Pro. We thought the Backflip had an interesting design, but we had questions about the usability of the back touch pad and the durability of the oddly placed keyboard. We ended up liking it a bit more than we anticipated when we reviewed it later on, but we still weren't too pleased with its sluggish performance. The Sonim XP3.2 Quest Pro, while newly updated with Gorilla Glass and GPS features, was really an update of a previous product. A couple of other products that debuted at CES 2010 were the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus, both of which were sequels of the previous year's Palm products. One thing we should note is that even though we saw Google'sNexus One in Las Vegas, it didn't technically debut at CES, which is why it didn't get nominated. Otherwise, I think we can agree it would have been a shoo-in.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple, Shutterfly, others set holiday shipping deadlines]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-shutterfly-others-set-holiday-shipping-deadlines</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Riya01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-shutterfly-others-set-holiday-shipping-deadlines</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Apple)If you still need that perfect gift this Christmas, you can always make something special, like a book, calendar, or other personalized item. But if you're going to do it, you should hurry.Many of the services on the Internet that handle making personalized gifts have begun to announce shipping deadlines for customers to create the product and still have them in time for Christmas.There are a number of places, including Apple, Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Blurb.com, that allow you to create a gift that is more creative--and certainly more focused and individual--than buying something off the shelf at a big box store. But people who want to take advantage of these service should get a move on.Mac users who want to order one of Apple's iPhoto books, cards, or calendars must have their orders in by December 18 to be delivered with standard shipping by December 24. If you want express shipping, you have an extra day--until December 19--to place your order.Apple is offering its new iPhoto letterpress cards this year for the first time. The cards are available in 12 holiday themes.Shutterfly says its customers have until December 21 at 4:00 p.m. to order photo books and calendars and still receive their products by December 24. Shutterfly has quite a few other products available, and deadlines vary depending on what you order. Check out the company's shipping page for details on specific products.Snapfish has also set its order deadlines. With more than 130 products available, including different size calendars and books, order deadlines range from December 17 to December 21, depending on the product. You can visit Snapfish's shipping page for shipping details on each product.And DIY book-publisher Blurb.com says its customers need to order their custom books by Sunday, December 19, and pay for next-day shipping in order to get them to their destinations in time for Christmas.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chewsy iPhone app tells you which burger to get]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=chewsy-iphone-app-tells-you-which-burger-to-get</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=chewsy-iphone-app-tells-you-which-burger-to-get</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is the best food near me right now.(Credit:Screenshot by Matt Hickey/CNET)I have a weird love/hate relationship with Yelp. On the one hand, when I'm traveling, it helps me find a good burger joint or girls-who-love-balding-nerds fetish club. But some users can be unfair, rating a good restaurant just one star because another diner brought along a crying baby.  I, however, usually just want to know how good the food is, and that's where an ambitious newiPhone app called Chewsy comes in.Launching today, Chewsy is something of a micro-Yelp. Chewsy lets users rate food. And not just in general terms. What makes Chewsy awesome is that it lets diners rate individual menu items.The app asks the question, &quot;What's good here&quot; But it also answers it by presenting dish reviews from other users. Menu items can be ranked from highest rated to lowest rated at a restaurant, give a rating and review for each individual dish, and show you the highest-rated items within a certain distance. Like everything else coming to the iPhone these days, it has some game elements. There are achievements that can be unlocked by doing certain things, like trying five different burgers a week, or eating in three different cities in a month. The beta doesn't say what unlocks them, but it should be interesting. Right now, Chewsy has data for 11 cities (including Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle) where people took part in the beta program, but anyone can download and add their own items. Since the restaurant locations are pulled from Google, and it uses the integrated GPS to locate you, it's just a matter of adding dishes and reviews.The app is free and available in the app store right now. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and have found it useful, especially in neighborhoods I don't visit much. I found a great plate of chow mein in Seattle's International District, and I will next use it to find a great burger in Portland. I hear they don't exist. The point is that food is a great way to get people to crowdsource.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to plug critical IE, final Stuxnet Windows holes]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-to-plug-critical-ie-final-stuxnet-windows-holes</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>octavio4ga</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-to-plug-critical-ie-final-stuxnet-windows-holes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft said today that next week's Patch Tuesday will bring 17 updates plugging 40 holes and featuring two rated &quot;critical,&quot; including one in Internet Explorer that was targeted in attacks last month. The critical IE vulnerability was written for IE 6 and 7 butIE 8 is also vulnerable, Microsoft said when it issued a warning about it in November.  Also fixed on Tuesday will be the final of four holes in Windows that the Stuxnet malware used.  &quot;This is a local Elevation of Privilege vulnerability and we've seen no evidence of its use in active exploits aside from the Stuxnet malware,&quot; Mike Reavey, director of the Microsoft Security Response Center, said in a blog post.  Windows (all supported versions), Office IE, SharePoint, and Exchange are affected by the bulletins, today's advisory says.  This brings Microsoft's total bulletin count for the year to a record 106, Reavey said. He attributed that to vulnerability reports in Microsoft products increasing slightly and older products &quot;meeting newer attack methods, coupled with overall growth in the vulnerability marketplace.&quot;  &quot;Meanwhile, the percentage of vulnerabilities reported to us cooperatively continues to remain high at around 80 percent' in other words, for most vulnerabilities we're able to release a comprehensive security update before the issue is broadly known,&quot; Reavey wrote.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robot's singular job: Cutting flesh from pig bone]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=robots-singular-job-cutting-flesh-from-pig-bone</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>minisa</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=robots-singular-job-cutting-flesh-from-pig-bone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Insert Sarah Connor joke here. (Credit:Video screenshot by Matt Hickey/CNET)Sure, we've got robots programmed to make cars, vacuum our floors, and even make sweet, sweet love, and on some level I'm frightened of all of them. But there's a new beasty that will haunt my dreams tonight: the multijoint pork de-boning robot.It's an articulated arm with a razor-sharp knife at the end. It's called the HAMDAS-R, and it's made by Japan's Mayekawa Electric. The thing is programmed with one purpose: separating pork flesh from thigh bone, a task that's supposed to be tough for humans.  It just won the top prize in the small business and venture category at the 4th Robot Awards sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry.  This HAMDAS-R system has achieved a higher yield of deboned pork than skilled workers do, according to Mayekawa. It's smart enough to change its instructions on-the-fly to account for different meat forms and bone sizes, which means it autonomously learns the best way to cut up formerly living things. That means it could very easily make work of a human, like me, even if it's never been programmed to. See why I'm so scaredAnd why yes, we do have a video of the monstrosity in action. You can view it below.(Source: Bot Junkie)         Matt Hickey    Full Profile E-mail Matt Hickey   E-mail Matt Hickey If you have a question or comment for Matt Hickey, 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       With more than 15 years experience testing hardware (and being obsessed with it), Crave freelance writer Matt Hickey can tell the good gadgets from the great. He also has a keen eye for future technology trends. Matt has blogged for publications including TechCrunch, CrunchGear, and most recently, Gizmodo. Matt is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CBS Interactive. E-mail Matt.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EnerNoc goes shopping to spread demand response]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=enernoc-goes-shopping-to-spread-demand-response</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pharmacykingmak</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=enernoc-goes-shopping-to-spread-demand-response</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Energy efficiency company EnerNoc said today it has acquired privately held Global Energy Partners, a move that gives EnerNoc a bigger national presence.Boston-based EnerNoc provides demand-response and energy management services to commercial and industrial businesses. EnerNoc&amp;39's demand-response services are run from a network operations center in Boston.(Credit:Martin LaMonica/CNET)Companies get paid a monthly fee for being ready to turn down energy consumption during peak times. Utilities contract with EnerNoc when they need to lower demand, an approach that is typically more cost effective than turning on more power generators.Global Energy Partners is in the same businesses as EnerNoc but it has or continues to work with utilities in the western U.S., including Pacific Gas &amp; Electric in California and the Bonneville Power Administration in the Northwest. Global Energy Partners also has technical expertise with OpenADR, a communications protocol for automatically handling demand response in commercial buildings. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Managing demand-side resources through demand-response programs is becoming more important for grid operators as they plan for the future. Rather than plan for construction of new power plants, grid operators PJM, for example, expect reductions in demand to account for about 7 percent of its planned capacity in next few years.EnerNoc, which is one of the fewgreen-tech start-ups to successfully go public, has acquired a few smaller companies over the past two years to expand.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pirate Bay appeal falls on deaf ears]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ramesh01</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=pirate-bay-appeal-falls-on-deaf-ears</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In another blow to online file-sharing, a Swedish appeals court upheld on Friday the copyright convictions of three of the four founders of The Pirate Bay--perhaps the world's most well-known and notorious file-sharing Web site.The court agreed with last year's ruling, which found Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom guilty of helping Pirate Bay users break Sweden's copyright law. However, it revised the ruling to decrease the defendants' jail sentences and increase the amount they must pay in damages.The lower court had sentenced the men to a year in prison and set damages at about 30 million Swedish kronor ($4.2 million). The new ruling raises the damages another 16 million kronor and cuts Neij's sentence to 10 months, Sunde's to 8 months, and Lundstrom's to 4 months, based on each man's individual activities with The Pirate Bay.A fourth Pirate Bay founder convicted by the lower court, Gottfrid Swartholm Warg, will get a separate ruling later, owing to the fact that illness prevented him from participating in the appeals trial.Still up and running, The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent search engine that helps online file sharers locate pirated copies of films, music, games, software, and other digital content. It's been celebrated by some as a heroic kick in the eye to corporate copyright owners who, these people believe, have priced content unfairly and whose policies have hampered the creative commons.Founders of The Pirate Bay (from left) are Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. Not pictured is Carl Lundstrom. A ruling on Warg is still to come.(Credit:Pontus Alexander/Fabian Landgren)The copyright owners see it differently and view such sites as nothing more than aids to outright theft. In the U.S., they claim illegal file-sharing has cost jobs and hurt the economy, an argument that may influence debate over a bill now before Congress that would let the government shut down sites accused of aiding piracy.That bill, and this latest ruling, are not the only threats to file-sharing. Last month, a U.S. judge ordered the company that operates the long popular file-sharing software LimeWire to disable the software's file-sharing and searching capabilities. The software, however, has reappeared much as it was before.On Friday, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry issued a statement about the Pirate Bay ruling.&quot;Today's judgment confirms the illegality of The Pirate Bay and the seriousness of the crimes of those involved,&quot; said Chief Executive Frances Moore. &quot;We now look to governments and [Internet service providers] to take note of this judgment, do the responsible thing, and take the necessary steps to get The Pirate Bay shut down.&quot;Some say The Pirate Bay's troubles signal the coming of the end of file-sharing piracy. &quot;In two years, this type of piracy will be over. After a ruling like this and all the pioneers start to get older and have children and families, piracy won't occur to this extent,&quot;Monique Wadsted, an attorney representing American record companies, told the Swedish news agency TT.Others, however, scoff at that notion.&quot;The judgment has no meaning for file sharing. It has continued to increase from year to year and the technical capabilities continue to develop,&quot; Christian Engstrom, a European Parliament member who represents the Pirate Party, told the TT agency. The Pirate Party is devoted to reforming laws regarding copyright and patents.As of this writing, lawyers for the Pirate Bay founders have not yet said whether they will appeal this latest ruling to the Swedish Supreme Court. The defendants' argument has been that The Pirate Bay doesn't engage in illegal activity' it's merely a search tool that can be used for legal or illegal actions, with that choice being left up to the users themselves.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell on the future of software (Q&A)]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=atari-co-founder-nolan-bushnell-on-the-future-of-software-qa</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nadia01</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=atari-co-founder-nolan-bushnell-on-the-future-of-software-qa</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell has rejoined the struggling video game company&amp;39's board, and has been speaking about his vision of the future of software.(Credit:Courtesy of Nolan Bushnell)Whether you know him by name, you almost certainly have firsthand experience with some of Nolan Bushnell's work. He's known by many as the father of video games, since he created Pong and co-founded Atari. And he may have played a role in one of your birthdays because he started the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain. Without question, Bushnell left an indelible mark on the 1970s and 1980s.But in later years he wasn't finished as an entrepreneur, though his more recent accomplishments haven't risen to the level of his earlier career. In 2005, he launched a new restaurant venture, known as uWink Media Bistro, which aimed to lure adults with good food and tabletop video gaming. That enterprise is still limping along, though its future isn't so bright. And he's no longer involved in some of his other recent ventures, such as casual game advertising business NeoEdge.But Bushnell is hardly finished. He recently rejoined the board of directors of Atari, which has gone through years of deep struggles, and likely exists today only because of its valuable brand name. Bushnell said he thinks that the company's existing intellectual property, as well as new, experienced, management has put it on a path to new success.And this week, he spoke at the Oredev conference in Malmo, Sweden, sharing his vision of the future of software and focusing on 10 areas that he thinks will shape the world of technology and culture in general: auto-cars, personal robots, health, bio implants, identity, government, swarm computing, augmented education, augmented reality, and power net.Yesterday, Bushnell sat down for a 45 Minutes on IM interview with CNET, sharing his view of that software future, as well as commenting on watching what he termed the &quot;drug addiction and jail&quot; years that the punch-drunk Atari has gone through.Q: Thanks so much for taking the time to do this interview. I understand that you've recently rejoined the Atari board of directors. Bushnell: I have been on the board for about 4 months Why did you want to get involved with them again Bushnell: There will always be a soft spot in my heart for my old company and I think that though it has been terribly abused in the last 20-plus years it still has a lot of great intellectual property, and I think it has a potential to become a significant player again. I'm sure you're hopeful that you can help turn things around there. But what's it been like to watch Atari struggle through so many twists and turns over the years It seems like it might be like watching a successful child go on to have a very tough life. Bushnell: Drug addiction and jail are the metaphors that come to mind. But, today, the company has a great management team that is quite new and which is doing many of the right things in my opinion. Jeff Lapin as CEO is excellent and Jim Wilson as president bring great knowledge of the markets, and Thom Kosik running online makes it a killer team. They would create magic even without the deep library of historical and good IP. It's interesting you mentioned drug addiction and jail. I was going to ask if this latest iteration was like rehab, but decided it might be too off-color. I guess not. Bushnell: I will usually push a topic too far. The test is, are the games fun I have seen some updates of games like Asteroids and Lunar Lander that are terrific. What's it going to take for Atari to once again be a major and respected brand name Bushnell: The most important thing in the games industry is innovation. We are pushing the envelope in several games that will be out next year but at the same time we have this great legacy of great games that we want to update and satisfy our fans with. I definitely want to talk about your speech in Sweden, but I want to cover a couple other things first. Foremost in my mind is, I'd love to know what it was like to help run an amusement park, which I understand you did when you were 19. That sounds like a lot of fun.Bushnell: It was actually a real nightmare. But fun also. When things were going well, it was summer nights in Utah and cute girls and youth. The business was like many, very rough and tumble. It was my MBA in some ways because we had in summer a $3 million business. I also wanted to ask about the game of Go. I understand you're a tournament-level player. How did you become expert at Go, and what does the game mean to you Bushnell: I learned Go in college from a chess-playing buddy from Korea, and continued playing at the Go club in San Francisco throughout the 1970s. Go was actually responsible for getting me on the Internet in the 1980s when I had a bootleg account from Stanford. That was before the browser, when you were on bare Unix. And what do you get out of the game What does it mean to you Or is that trying to attribute too much meaning to it Bushnell: It is a game of patience and influence. I think as a strategy game it is the best. Its strategy helps a player that is weaker take out a much stronger opponent, which Atari had to do with a big manufacturer in Chicago in the early coin-op arcade business. The biggest thing for the near future is auto-cars, which will change everything...The costs are there right now. The Google car actually was cost-effective. Think of no traffic congestion, highways that can hold 30 times as much traffic. Half the energy costs. It just goes on and on. The only issue is how powerful will be the Luddites.You're the second person I've interviewed in this series who's been a high-level Go player. So I have to ask you the same question I asked him: You remind me of the main character in Trevanian's novel &quot;Shibumi.&quot; So, you haven't also lived in the Basque region of Spain and been a world-class adventurer and assassin, have you Bushnell: Not yet. Let's talk about your Sweden speech. First, how did you decide to give a talk on your vision for the future of softwareBushnell: I have been speaking on the future for about 20 years and have gotten pretty good at it. The thing about trends is that if you watch them and matrix it with the economics it is possible to be pretty accurate. For example I was the only one of the game guys in the U.S. to predict the success of theNintendo Wii.What led you to focus on the 10 specific areas of software Bushnell: The 10 was an arbitrary number. My original list was 16 but there were some that could be folded. Some things that I am passionate about will take more time and are as much a chemistry and manufacturing problem as software. But the biggest thing for the near future is auto-cars, which will change everything. Tell me about that. Why do you think they'll change everything, and how so Bushnell: It'll be within five years, somewhere. The costs are there right now. The Google car actually was cost-effective. Think of no traffic congestion, highways that can hold 30 times as much traffic. Half the energy costs. It just goes on and on. The only issue is how powerful will be the Luddites. What do you imagine would be the chief objection of the Luddites Bushnell: The Schumpeterian creative destruction of entrenched interests. For example. every Teamster, cab driver, UPS driver, all these drivers will need to be retrained. Insurance will drop to a fraction of what it costs now. People don't understand how horrible the average driver is. The number of body shops will be 20 percent of today. It'll be disruptive, and they will not go away without a fight. Of course, bars will do a great business because drunk driving will be OK. Do you expect to play a role in the development of the auto-cars industry Bushnell: It is not my field, though I can see it. I have too many projects and I actually like my life as a pundit. But whencars start to resemble a drawing room I will create some games for them. How do you mean, &quot;resemble a drawing room&quot; Bushnell: The first phase will be to keep the seat belts and seats facing forward. After a while the passenger compartment will become a more communal experience, with a table, a desk, a video screen, etc. Think about being dropped off at a restaurant and the car parking itself a mile away for $3. In San Francisco, as I remember, it's currently over $20 for parking. That sounds pretty good. Bushnell: It will be. After auto-cars, what do you think is the second-most likely area of your 10 to change society Bushnell: The next three will happen at the same time. One is the elimination of credentials. People are not their credit cards or passports and those are subject to fraud that is costing us billions of dollars. The physical metrics are better and cheaper and will be deployed. You will walk into a restaurant and pay by looking into a camera or by using your thumbprint. No identity thief will be able to do that. You can access all your accounts and board a plane naked. Another will be the cloud containing all our medical information with layers of security. This will help solve the genome problem by sharing your DNA and medical condition but with identity stripped off. Another is personal robotics. It's a passion of mine and is now doable. All the obstacles I faced in the 1980s have been solved. It will be huge.Lastly, government downsizing will be a big software opportunity. As more states hit the wall, their only hope will be to build in new efficiencies. California, for instance, is on the far side of the tax elasticity curve. Higher taxes lead to more jobs leaving the state, and less revenue. About half the states are going to decrease workers and still provide services. We're almost out of time, so just a couple more questions. First, how would you summarize the message of your speech about the future of software Bushnell: The future is really terrific and software is a big part of it. I just wish our schools would produce more quality coders so that it could happen faster. I am very optimistic we are really at a tipping point of some great stuff. Last question. IM is a great way to do an interview, because it allows everyone to be a little more thoughtful, and a little more articulate, than they might be in a regular interview. But it also allows multitasking. So tell me, what else were you doing while we were chattingBushnell: I was listening to a really great Pink Floyd album, &quot;The Dark Side of the Moon.&quot; I know it is very retro now but I really love it.  I love that album, too. Well, thank you so much for taking the time for this. I really appreciate it.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Motorola countersues Microsoft in patent case]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=motorola-countersues-microsoft-in-patent-case</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On the heels of Microsoft's second patent-related suit against Motorola filed Tuesday, Motorola has fired back with lawsuits of its own.Yesterday, Motorola accused Microsoft of infringing 16 patents in itsXbox gaming console and in Windows for servers, PCs, and mobile devices, the company said. The accusations are in complaints filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the Western District of Wisconsin.The suit is one of a rash of patent cases that's broken out in the mobile-device market, with other combatants including Apple, Nokia, HTC, Google, and Oracle. Microsoft accused Motorola of infringing its patents in an October lawsuit' the second suit, filed Tuesday, accused Motorola of breaching its contract by overcharging for patents for wireless communication and video-decoding technology used in the Xbox.Motorola has requested Microsoft stop using its patented technology and pay compensation. Here's Motorola's description of the patents it alleges Microsoft violates:The Motorola patents directed to PC and server software relate to Windows OS, digital video coding, e-mail technology including Exchange, Messenger, and Outlook, Windows Live instant messaging, and object-oriented software architecture. The Motorola patents directed to Windows mobile software relate to Windows Marketplace, Bing maps, and object-oriented software architecture.In a statement, Motorola issued the customary words touting its own intellectual property and regretting that Microsoft chose to bring its complaint to the courts. &quot;Motorola's R&amp;D and intellectual property are of great importance to the Company and are renowned worldwide. We are committed to protecting the interests of our shareholders, customers and other stakeholders and are bringing this action against Microsoft in order to halt its infringement of key Motorola patents. Motorola has invested billions of dollars in R&amp;D to create a deep and broad intellectual property portfolio and we will continue to do what is necessary to protect our proprietary technology,&quot; said Kirk Dailey, corporate vice president of intellectual property at Motorola Mobility. &quot;It is unfortunate that Microsoft has chosen the litigation path rather than entering into comprehensive licensing negotiations, as Motorola has mutually beneficial licensing relationships with the great majority of technology companies industrywide.&quot;Update 9:55 a.m. PT: Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of intellectual property and licensing, had this response: &quot;We are still reviewing Motorola's filing, which we just received. This move is typical of the litigation process, and we are not surprised. We remain confident in our position and will continue to move forward with the complaints we initiated against Motorola in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and with the International Trade Commission (ITC).&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon: Kindle sales already surpass 2009 holiday sales]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bobmarley</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=amazon-kindle-sales-already-surpass-2009-holiday-sales</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In advance of Barnes &amp; Noble's Nook Color unveiling tomorrow, Amazon is trying to capture a bit of the e-reader news today with a short release about how sales of the Kindle are roaring ahead. &quot;It's still October and we've already sold more Kindle devices since launch than we did during the entire fourth quarter of last year--astonishing because the fourth quarter is the busiest time of year on Amazon,&quot; said Steve Kessel, senior vice president, Amazon Kindle.Amazon says Kindle best-sellers are outselling bestselling hardcovers and paperbacks.(Credit:Amazon)As is fairly typical Amazon didn't give any specific sales figures, but it did reiterate that Kindle book sales continue to overtake print on Amazon.com, &quot;even while print book sales continue to grow.&quot; The company says that during the past 30 days its customers purchased more Kindle books than print books--hardcover and paperback combined--for the best-selling books on Amazon.com.Kessel said that, &quot;For the top-10 bestselling books on Amazon.com, customers are choosing Kindle books over hardcover and paperback books combined at a rate of greater than 2 to 1. Kindle books are also outselling print books for the top 25, 100, and 1,000 best sellers--it's across the board.&quot;Tech analysts have been waiting for Amazon to say how many Kindle e-readers it's sold, but don't expect that any time soon. Amazon considers it a competitive advantage not to reveal specific numbers, and its Kindle business isn't large enough to be broken out in its annual report. We're not sure what to make of the &quot;even while print book sales continue to grow&quot; mention, but it suggests that Amazon is implying that it continues to gain market share across the board.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Samurai II: Decapitation and disembowelment]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tara01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=samurai-ii-decapitation-and-disembowelment</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti)Complicated at first but easy to grasp, Samurai II: Vengeance offers a balanced mix of slashing, bloody violence, and a puzzle-solving storyline. The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed Samurai: Way of the Warrior brings a retooled gameplay method, ultrasmooth manga-inspired graphics running at 60 frames per second, and, of course new, bloodier fight techniques.Daisuke seeks vengeance on his arch-rival, Orochi, and will stop at nothing to defeat him. The 3D levels are tracked by a dynamic camera that floats in and out of the action, revealing vicious adversaries and challenging obstacles in each level.The battle sequences are intense and extremely gory (decapitation, disembowelment, and skewering are just some of the ways to dispose of your enemies), but an array of moves (that you acquire throughout the game by leveling up) allow for continued variance in fighting. If the levels get too frustrating (those swinging spikes can be a real pain) there's Survival Mode, where you can build your skills as a sword-swinging samurai.You can watch the official Samurai II: Vengeance trailer here.Game Center compatibility allows users to track the global leaderboard and various achievements. Samurai II: Vengeance is available in Apple's App Store for $2.99 and is universal, playable oniPhone,iPad, andiPod Touch. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DEMO winner Dynamics scores another win for reinventing the credit card]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mariedelexz</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=demo-winner-dynamics-scores-another-win-for-reinventing-the-credit-card</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Score another win for Dynamics CEO Jeff Mullen, the entrepreneur whose team is rebooting that piece of plastic in your pocket. The Consumer Electronics Show has named his company&amp;'s programmable credit card, Card 2.0, the best innovation in the personal electronics category. He&amp;'ll receive the honor at the CES 2011 trade show, the industry&amp;'s highest-profile event, held in Las Vegas in January.Card 2.0 already won the $1 million People&amp;'s Choice award at DEMO Fall 2010, a launch event for startups and new products for which VentureBeat editor-in-chief Matt Marshall serves as executive producer. VentureBeat staff also picked it as one of the top 5 companies that launched at DEMO Fall 2010.As VentureBeat reported in its first profile of Dynamics in September, Card 2.0 technology fits 70 electronic components into the same size space as a standard magnetic-stripe credit card. Those electronic smarts allow credit cards to perform tricks like drawing on different lines of credit or offering enhanced security. Citi Cards, one of the largest issuers, is experimenting with Card 2.0 to let customers choose to spend normally or use reward points at the cash register.The Pittsburgh, Pa.-based company has raised $5.7 million from Adams Capital Management.Want to launch your product at DEMO Spring 2011 Apply now to be considered by VentureBeat staff for a future DEMO event.Next Story: 2010 Cleantech Open Awards Gala coming up Nov 17 Previous Story: Boxeea4a4s streaming video Boxee Box now shipping, Netflix, Hulu Plus promisedPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Card 2.0, CES, DEMO, DEMO Fall 2010Companies: Adams Capital Management, DynamicsPeople: Jeff Mullen          Tags: Card 2.0, CES, DEMO, DEMO Fall 2010Companies: Adams Capital Management, DynamicsPeople: Jeff MullenOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[In 7th deal in seven months, Zynga acquires mobile game company Newtoy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zuezqoel</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=in-7th-deal-in-seven-months-zynga-acquires-mobile-game-company-newtoy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Zynga said moments ago that it has acquired Texas-based mobile game company Newtoy, the maker of games such as Words with Friends on the iPhone.The price was not disclosed. The move shows that Zynga, which is big on Facebook, is serious about becoming a big presence in mobile games too. Five months ago, Zynga launched FarmVille on the iPhone, and the game has since been downloaded more than 7 million times. Overall, Zynga mobile games have been downloaded 10 million times. That&amp;'s small for Zynga, and the company wants its mobile side to grow faster.The San Francisco company has become the largest social game company, with more than 215 million monthly active users playing its games, mostly on Facebook. Earlier this week, it announced a groundbreaking deal with American Express, which will let its cardholders buy Zynga virtual goods with their frequent-purchase rewards.David Ko, senior vice president for mobile games at Zynga, said in a conference call that the company&amp;'s goal is to take its games to every platform so users can play anytime, anywhere. So far, the company has acquired seven companies in seven months, but none were as focused on mobile as Newtoy.McKinney, Texas-based Newtoy will become the Zynga With Friends studio, headed by co-founders of Newtoy, brothers Paul and David Bettner. Paul Bettner will become general manager of the studio while David Bettner will become director. Words with Friends, a Scrabble-like game for the mobile market, has been downloaded more than 12 million times to date. Other big titles are Chess with Friends and We Rule. Newtoy has 23 employees and was founded in 2008. The Bettner brothers had previously made big-budget PC and console games, including Age of Empires and Halo Wars.Ko said Zynga would try to increase downloads for Newtoy titles through cross promotion with other Zynga games.The acquisition has also set up an interesting competition. In October, Japan&amp;'s DeNA acquired iPhone game maker Ngmoco for $403 million. That price was something like 13 times revenues &amp;8212' a very high price. But DeNA is on a billion-dollar run rate with its business on mobile phones in Japan, and it is intent on expanding to Western markets for social mobile games.Zynga has made global expansion a big priority as it searches for ways to become less dependent on Facebook. The company has to diversify its risks and expand to new markets. A couple of weeks ago, the company announced that it would launch its newest game, CityVille, in five different languages. CityVille went live last night.Zynga is a privately held company with more than 1,300 employees. It has seen extremely fast growth in nearly four years. The company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from major investors such as DST, SoftBank, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers. Secondary trading on SharesPost (where employees sell their stock to cash out early) pegs Zyngaa4a4s value at $5.6 billion. Revenue for 2010 is expected to surpass $500 million, according to Inside Network. Roughly 10 million Americans play FarmVille every day.But the dependency on Facebook is a big risk for Zynga. In any given week, Zynga can lose 10 million users or gain that many. The company really took off in June, 2009, when it launched FarmVille, a casual farm simulation that users play for minutes a day. The players have been fickle' FarmVillea4a4s audience has shrunk from 83 million monthly unique visitors earlier this year to 53.7 million. Along the way, Zynga has been marketing its other games to FarmVille players. So even if those players stop playing FarmVille, they may move on to other Zynga games. The game is available for free, but users pay real money for virtual goods such as tractor fuel.The company has expanded to Japan, but it will be interesting to watch if it can come out on top there. There are a lot of big Japanese mobile social game companies, such as DeNA, which have entrenched positions. U.S. rivals such as CrowdStar are also moving into the Japanese market. To ensure success, Zynga raised money from SoftBank and created a joint venture, Zynga Japan, to accelerate its entry into the market.Next Story: On the GreenBeat: LEDs to become $1 billion market by 2014' one way to fight EV range anxiety Previous Story: Time Warner digital guru says Netflix will have to raise its pricesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: FarmvilleCompanies: Facebook, ZyngaPeople: Mark Pincus          Tags: FarmvilleCompanies: Facebook, ZyngaPeople: Mark PincusDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BioWare founders say corporate humility is key to success (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>yamirsarin</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the core values at Canadian game developer BioWare is corporate humility. Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, the founders of BioWare (a highly successful game division at Electronic Arts), believe that being humble is key to success.In an environment where corporate bluster is the norm, humility can be viewed as a weakness. But Muzyka (left) and Zeschuk (right), two medical doctors who quit their profession to make video games at BioWare, believe in it so much that they instilled it in their company&amp;'s corporate culture. They say it&amp;'s an acknowledgment that anything can change in business. Many industries are in a state of constant chaos and disruption. Being humble shows you are willing to change your ways, the founders said in their talk at an elite video game conference and in an interview.The two men are being honored today in gaming&amp;'s Hall of Fame for their contributions to the game industry over the past two decades. They are being inducted into the rarified group of gaming pioneers by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, which is staging the Dice Summit in Las Vegas this week.Muzyka says what the company means by humility is the ability to acknowledge mistakes, discuss them and learn from them.&amp;''Some of that comes from being in medicine,&amp;'' Zeschuk said. &amp;''The minute that you think you know everything you can get into trouble.&amp;''Muzyka and Zeschuk have a lot of old-fashioned values. They run their company as a meritocracy. They keep their promises. They communicate with a clear measure. They focus on quality. They are persistent in the face of adversity.Those values may seem bland. But executing them over the course of decades will earn a leader the trust that he or she needs from the rest of their team. The result is that BioWare is one of the unique companies in the video game business that has had hit after hit, from Neverwinter Nights to Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age Origins.Here&amp;'s a video interview with Muzyka and Zeschuk talking about corporate humility.Next Story: Groupon shakes up board with Starbucks CEO Previous Story: Is one million electric cars by 2015 too ambitiousPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 2, Neverwinter NightsCompanies: Bioware, Electronic ArtsPeople: Greg Zeschuk, Ray Muzyka          Tags: Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 2, Neverwinter NightsCompanies: Bioware, Electronic ArtsPeople: Greg Zeschuk, Ray MuzykaDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EcoFactor impresses judges with smarter thermostat]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>enochkeonc</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[EcoFactor wants to make your home climate system smarter. The company demonstrated its product at VentureBeat&amp;'s GreenBeat conference today, where it was one of the highest ranked among the 10 competing startups (although Redwood Systems beat EcoFactor for the grand prize).Scott Hublou, the company&amp;'s senior vice president of products, said EcoFactor&amp;'s software looks at many different data points that are relevant to your home climate system &amp;8212' the weather outside, the size of the home, energy pricing, and more. Then it makes many small adjustments to your thermostat during the day to keep the house at the desired temperature while keeping energy usage and costs low.By improving on the clunkiness of standard thermostats, homeowners with EcoFactor can just enter their desired temperature once, rather than having to adjust it throughout the day or set a timer. Over the course of a year, the company estimates it will make 14,000 adjustments in each home, leading to an energy cost reduction of 20 or 30 percentEcoFactor sells its software to businesses that can include it as part of their home climate system. The Redwood City, Calif. company has raised $5.9 million from Claremont Creek Ventures and RockPort Capital Partners.Next Story: Google takes a swing at Facebooka4a4s a4Adata dead enda4 Previous Story: Enbala taps big power users to make the grid more predictablePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010, home climate systems, thermostatsCompanies: Claremont Creek Ventures, ecofactor, Rockport Capital PartnersPeople: Scott Hublou          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010, home climate systems, thermostatsCompanies: Claremont Creek Ventures, ecofactor, Rockport Capital PartnersPeople: Scott HublouAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: LEDs to become $1 billion market by 2014' one way to fight EV range anxiety]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sophia003</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Herea4a4s a roundup of some of the daya4a4s most interesting cleantech activity:Rinspeed builds an electric car with a spare bike &amp;8212' The concept carmaker&amp;'s is calling its BamBoo car (pictured) a &amp;''grown-up golf cart.&amp;'' The car&amp;'s interior is made from bamboo fibers and includes an electric bike &amp;''for the last mile.&amp;'' So while some cars come with a spare tire, this one comes with a bike to ease your range anxiety. Take that, Chevy Volt!LED lights will become a $1 billion market by 2014 &amp;8211' The low-energy lights are set to surpass the Edison light bulb, according to a new report by Groom Energy and GTM Research. The report predicts the market, currently valued at $330 million, will grow next year by 30 percent. It also identifies the top LED enterprise leaders as Cree, Phillips, Lighting Science Group and BetaLED.General Motors looking to double or triple Volt production &amp;8212' GM CEO Dan Akerson says the company is studying how it could ramp up production of the range extender Chevrolet Volt should demand increase, AutoWeek reports. Most analysts say that demand for electric vehicles and even hybrids like the Volt will outstrip available supply for the time being. AutoWeek notes that about 240,000 potential buyers have expressed interest in the Volt, but Chevy will only make 10,000 in 2011, then expand to 45,000 Volts 2012.Motorola buys 4Home in home efficiency push &amp;8212' The company announced that it will purchase the home automation and energy efficiency startup 4Home for an undisclosed sum. Earth2Tech notes that the deal is interesting given that 4Home focuses on the home energy efficiency market, which has yet to prove itself as a runaway success.Sharp to invest $180M in new production line for solar cells -- The company is Japan&amp;'s top solar panel maker and will expand production to meet growing demand for solar cells, Bloomberg reports. The mass production of cells will start by March, with an energy efficiency of 17 percent, up from about 14 percent for the companya4a4s similar models.Approval for Tessera Solar&amp;'s Calico plant is back online &amp;8211'The California Energy Commission reinstated approval for the $2 billion, 664-megawatt solar power plant, Reuters reports. Tessera, like many other solar developers, is racing to start construction on the facility before the end of the year in order to be eligible for a federal grant program that expires this year that covers 30 percent of the cost of renewable energy projects. Opponents had said the plant was wrongly licensed, and some of plant&amp;'s protesters, like the Sierra Club, say they are considering filing a legal challenge to protect wildlife in the desert where Calico will be built.Next Story: The Wikileaks wake-up call: Lost or stolen laptops cost corporations $2.1 billion per year Previous Story: In 7th deal in seven months, Zynga acquires mobile game company NewtoyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: BamBoo, Calico, electric vehicles, home energy efficiency, LEDs, photovoltaic, Solar, solar panels, VoltCompanies: 4Home, Chevrolet, GM, motorola, Rinspeed, Sharp, Sierra Club, TesseraPeople: Dan Akerson          Tags: BamBoo, Calico, electric vehicles, home energy efficiency, LEDs, photovoltaic, Solar, solar panels, VoltCompanies: 4Home, Chevrolet, GM, motorola, Rinspeed, Sharp, Sierra Club, TesseraPeople: Dan AkersonIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Boxcar 4.0 Pushes iPhone Notifications To The Next&nbsp'Level]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zainab01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[People say that I never say anything bad about the iPhone. Here&amp;'s something: its notification system is awful. In particular, I&amp;'m talking about the way notifications are managed. They aren&amp;'t. Any Push Notification that comes in overrides another one. Apps can get badged with updates, but you&amp;'ll have no idea what&amp;'s new. That&amp;'s why Boxcar is a vital app.We&amp;'ve written about Boxcar a number of times over the past year or so. They&amp;'re now launching version 4.0 of the app, and it&amp;'s by far the best yet. The entire app has been overhauled from the ground up. The result is a killer management system for Push Notifications. Apple needs to buy this company.While previous versions of the app gave you a time-ordered stream of your notifications, it was somewhat daunting to look at. And you couldn&amp;'t do much from in the app itself. The new design makes everything much easier to manage and more visually appealing. For example, notifications from Twitter now show up complete with the user&amp;'s profile picture. And you can retweet or reply to any of those message right from within Boxcar.The app itself has taken a design cue from the excellent Facebook iPhone app and features a home screen with nice looking big buttons for each service you have activated. There is also now Retina Display support if you have the iPhone 4. All of this works on the iPod touch and iPad as well.And 4.0 brings Support for a host of new services. Google Buzz, Google Voice, Github, App Recommendations, and a few others are all now included and can be installed with a few easy steps. These App Recommendations are done by Boxcar themselves.Boxcar is now a team of 5 people based in New York City. To date, they&amp;'ve delivered over 500 million notifications to iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads.Boxcar is a free download in the App Store (though it&amp;'s $4.99 if you wish to disable in-app advertising). You can find it here. Version 4.0 should be live shortly.  CrunchBase InformationBoxcarInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The iPod Nano Watch Nears $1 Million In Crowdsourced Funding From&nbsp'Kickstarter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rasbugabvasicu</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, we wrote about how the TikTok and LunaTik multi-touch watch kits were about to become the all-time leader in funding through Kickstarter, the crowdsourced fundraising startup. The project needed over $345,000 to grab the title. Well, it got it a4&quot; and a whole lot more.With just about 2 hours to go before the funding closes, the project to turn iPod nanos into watches is closing in on a million dollars in funding. Yes, they&amp;'re now way more than double the next closest project in terms of funding through Kickstarter. In total, over 13,000 people have contributed just over $918,000 for the project.What&amp;'s especially insane is that the initial goal for the fundraising was $15,000. Clearly, the project&amp;'s creator,a4sScott Wilson, underestimated demand.So will it become the first $1 million Kickstarter company It should be close. More than 1,000 people have pushed the total up over $100,000 in just the past day. &amp;''We&amp;'ve seen numerous projects rally strongly in their final 24 hours. a4sWe&amp;'re unsure if it can make the $1M milestone, but we&amp;'re excited about the prospect and we&amp;'ll be watching!,&amp;'' Kickstarter&amp;'sa4sJustin Kazmarktells us.The first batch of watches are set to launch at the end of this month, with the rest coming early next year. You can watch it being manufactured in China here.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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