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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[RIM buys calendar specialist Tungle]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=rim-buys-calendar-specialist-tungle</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>barrytaytr</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=rim-buys-calendar-specialist-tungle</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Screenshot by Jonathan Skillings/CNET)BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has bought Tungle, a start-up with a scheduling app that synchronizes across various calendar systems.The deal was revealed yesterday in a Tungle blog post, in which company chief Marc Gingras said his team was &quot;excited&quot; about the takeover. The financial terms of the deal between the two Canadian companies have not been revealed.&quot;This is exciting for you too as we expect the Tungle service to only get better,&quot; Gingras wrote. &quot;Our plan today is what it has always been--for Tungle to become integrated with your daily activities and be ubiquitous within the applications you're already using...As of today, the entire team is joining the ranks of RIM. It's playoff season and the Tungle team is focusing on putting the puck in the net for you, our customers.&quot;The Tungle.me service allows schedules to be synchronized across a variety of calendar platforms, including Google, Outlook, Apple iCal, Entourage forMac, Lotus Notes, Windows Live, and Yahoo. It also plugs into social networks such as Facebook, Plancast, TripIt, LinkedIn, and Twitter. The story &quot;RIM buys cross-calendar scheduling firm Tungle&quot; was originally posted at ZDNet UK. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HBO streaming content comes to Dish Online]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=hbo-streaming-content-comes-to-dish-online</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lilialey</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=hbo-streaming-content-comes-to-dish-online</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dish Online&amp;39's HBO promotion.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)Dish Online viewers can now watch HBO and Cinemax content.More than 1,800 pieces of HBO's and Cinemax's programming, including movies, television shows, and other content, are now available on the satellite provider's online-streaming service. However, only Dish subscribers who pay for access to those movie channels will be able to watch the content on Dish Online, the company said in its announcement yesterday.&quot;Dish Network customers with an HBO or Cinemax subscription can also get new series titles after their premiere--plus bonus content including interviews, recaps and behind-the-scenes extras--none of which are available through Netflix's online service,&quot; Dave Shull, senior vice president of programming for Dish Network, said in a statement.Dish Network's dig against Netflix is telling. HBO has been saying it wants full control of its programming ever since it launched the HBO Go streaming service last year. HBO is apparently willing to break its own rule for Dish--but not for Netflix.A &quot;high-placed Time Warner executive&quot; told The Hollywood Reporter in January that in order for Netflix to even have a shot at getting HBO content, Netflix would need to start charging subscribers $20 per month, rather than the $7.99 per month they currently pay for streaming only.In addition to Dish Online, HBO hinted earlier this week that its programming will soon be coming to theApple iPad andiPhone and to Android-based devices. A video promoting the new option flashed &quot;05.02.11,&quot; indicating that an app would be launching on those platforms early next month.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nokia Ovi Store reaches 5 million daily downloads]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=nokia-ovi-store-reaches-5-million-daily-downloads</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>postapartment</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=nokia-ovi-store-reaches-5-million-daily-downloads</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nokia&amp;39's Ovi Store from the Web.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)After announcing two new smartphones today, Nokia has released stats about its Ovi Store.According to the company, its app store is marking 5 million downloads each day. Owners of some of its latest phones, including the Nokia N8, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7, and the Nokia E7, account for 15 percent of all the daily downloads in the Ovi Store.Nokia launched the Ovi Store in May 2009. Although it got off to a rough start--it was criticized for poor navigation and an overall subpar user experience--Nokia has done a fine job of making it more user-friendly by improving navigation.In addition, Nokia and AT&amp;T announced a $10 million contest last fall to promote the Ovi Store. The contest, which ran through the end of March, required developers to create applications and register. The companies are offering more than $4 million to 51 developers who create high-quality and popular applications. The four top winners will receive $5.8 million in prizes, including being featured in Nokia's 2011 marketing campaigns.All that effort at improving the appeal of its Ovi Store is seemingly paying off. Back in October, Nokia announced that its marketplace had hit 2.3 million daily downloads. Just over a month later, it reached the 3 million mark. At that time, just 92 developers had more than 1 million downloads for their apps. Nokia said today that that figure has grown to 158 developers.Nokia's store now has more than 40,000 applications, measuring an &quot;eight-fold&quot; increase year-over-year, the company said. About 1,000 applications are being added to its store each week.Even so, the Ovi Store is still easily overshadowed by the competition. According to Apple's Web site, its App Store has over 350,000 available applications. Google told CNET last month that its Android Market offers over 150,000 applications.Moreover, Apple's App Store has easily overshadowed Nokia's mobile marketplace in downloads. Apple announced earlier this year that less than three years after its App Store's launch, 10 billion apps had been downloaded. At the time, approximately 1,000 apps were being downloaded from Apple's store every three seconds.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Woz: iPad is for normal people, not engineers]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=woz-ipad-is-for-normal-people-not-engineers</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>xuangxguaa</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=woz-ipad-is-for-normal-people-not-engineers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Do you think you're normal You know, vaguely normal--somewhat not entirely composed of wiring from another world.Well, then aniPad is for you.This is not merely my ultra-scientific research. This is the opinion of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.Computerworld reports that in a keynote session at Storage Networking World in Santa Clara, Calif., Woz explained that Steve Jobs had always wanted to create a computer that everyone in the world would find simple and magical to use.&quot;It was just hard to get there,&quot; Wozniak said, according to Computerworld. &quot;Because we had to go through a lot of steps where you connected to things, and (eventually) computers grew up to where they could do...normal consumer appliance things.&quot;(Credit:CC CampusPartyMexico/Flickr)So for all the engineers who debate as to whether the iPad is wonderful or merely a barely computable frippery, he explained: &quot;Thetablet is not necessarily for the people in this room. It's for the normal people in the world.&quot;Of course, there are many engineers who, in the privacy of their lives, are staggeringly normal. They enjoy their iPads just like their equally normal neighbors. However, will these normal people ever warm in vast numbers to Android productsWozniak, sorely missed on this season's &quot;Dancing With The Stars,&quot; offered this interesting and Apple-loyal wish: &quot;On the subject of tablets, I read today that Android tablets are expected to surpass iPads, and I hope that never happens.&quot;Many believe that Android's sheer numbers will inevitably overtake Apple's iPad. However, the Android attempts in the tablet world seem so far to have been met with indifference--by normal people.It almost seems as if the iPad's success has taken competitors by surprise, so that any new tablet that has emerged has resembled a rather imperfect (and, perhaps, hurried) rendering of the iPad.In the &quot;normal people&quot; space, customers will surely have to feel they are being offered something either significantly more inspiring--or significantly cheaper--to seriously consider Android products.How soon might that happen Perhaps not as soon as some think (or fear).<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Agilyx attracts cash for turning plastics to oil]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=agilyx-attracts-cash-for-turning-plastics-to-oil</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>MexPooselob</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=agilyx-attracts-cash-for-turning-plastics-to-oil</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You've heard of turning recycled plastic bottles into floor carpeting or clothing. How about back into oil Digging through a high-tech recycling center (photos) View the full galleryTigar, Oregon-based Agilyx said that it has raised $22 million in a series B round to further develop a process for converting plastics into a synthetic oil, which can be refined for transportation fuel or used to make plastic or other oil-based goods. The round was led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield &amp; Byers which joined venture capital firm Chrystalix and corporate investors Waste Management and Total Energy Ventures International. The company has developed a multi-step process which it says can convert about ten pounds of mixed plastics into one gallon of crude oil. To make oil, it heats plastics to the point where they turn into a gas. There is then a condensing stage, which converts the gas back into a liquid and removes impurities. Agilyx is now operating a demonstration plant, which is selling oil to a refiner, and intends to sell its equipment to plastic handlers and recyclers which deal with large volumes. The synthetic crude oil can be refined on site or shipped to standard refiners and the net carbon footprint from its technology is favorable, according to the company. Related links&amp;149' Machines eyeball trash for single-stream recycling&amp;149' Next wave of recycling Check your dinner plate&amp;149' E-waste recycler goes high-tech to boost volumeThe technology can produce oil at about $45 a barrel, Brian Wawro from Chrysalix told the Portland Business Journal.The investment from high-profile investor Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Buyers could be a sign that technologies to recycle or reduce waste will gain favor with investors and entrepreneurs. One of the limits to making fuel from biomass is the cost and availability of feedstock.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg CEO: All's well, wait til you see what's next]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=digg-ceo-alls-well-wait-til-you-see-whats-next</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Matthewu</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=digg-ceo-alls-well-wait-til-you-see-whats-next</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When the news broke late last week that Digg founder Kevin Rose had &quot;resigned&quot; from his post at the company to go after something new, things did not seem well for the start-up. But fear not, current CEO Matt Williams says--all the good changes coming from the company over the past six months were done by a group of people, not just the Digg founder.In a blog entry on Digg's blog posted this afternoon entitled &quot;the Digg goes on,&quot; Williams once again addresses Rose's departure, while sharing some insights about the company's recent gains in traffic, and its product plans over the next few months. But the gist is that Rose's scaled-back role is nothing new. &quot;Kevin continues to be committed to Digg's success' his role as founder, board member, and Diggnation host remains unchanged,&quot; Williams said, echoing the company's statement from last week. &quot;When I took over as CEO last September, Kevin stepped back from the day-to-day decisions. I'm proud of the great team we've got at Digg, and they're the ones to credit for the changes you've seen and the new direction we're pursuing.&quot;A frame from a February video of &amp;34'Digg Dialog&amp;34' in which Leo Laporte asks Matt Williams about response to recent site changes.(Credit:Digg Dialog/Screenshot by CNET)As for where that leaves Digg with a company figurehead, Williams told CNET in a phone interview that the job had long ago landed on him. &quot;That has been my role since taking over,&quot; Williams said. &quot;Kevin has purposely been the face of Diggnation and continues to do a series of interviews, but most of them have been around investing and start-up investments, more so than on Digg. In fact, just last week I was (at) South by Southwest speaking on the topic of the future of news, and so all the speaking engagements and PR and press activity, and frankly all activity around Digg, I'm handling.&quot;So what about that &quot;future of news&quot; Williams touted to CNET a yet-to-be-released version of the site, due in the next few months, that he says should make Digg more of a target for people to find the &quot;best of&quot; content on any particular interest. &quot;Without going into the depth of how the product will work, what I can say is we naturally want to take any type of interest you have and find the 20, 30, 50, or 100 people that really care about that topic--that community--and pull together them and the news and discussion around it,&quot; Williams said. &quot;I think many Web sites have built some around news and categories, and some around comments and discussion around topics, but what we're going to do is pretty different from what's out there.&quot; Unlike the personalized news feature, however, Digg expects users to be in charge of making the decisions.&quot;Digg made a name for itself in being able to have a community that could curate and build the best of. And if you could imagine a day where there's a best of for many different interests that you have, and then you get to meet new people and have conversations with them around those interests, that's where Digg can play a big part,&quot; Williams explained.That grand vision plays into two other areas the company is focusing on this year, Williams said: personalizing the news to have it feed into these communities, and the company's social ad platform, which lets advertisers publish ads to Digg's home page that look and function in a similar fashion to user-submitted stories. On the topic of the company's health, Williams said traffic is going in the right direction. The site now has more than 6 million registered users, which Williams said is growing by &quot;hundreds of thousands each month.&quot; That traffic accounts for 20 million monthly unique visitors worldwide, with some 1 million uniques a day, he said. Other numbers that have increased are the time on the site and the number of Digg votes on stories, both of which are up 20 percent since the company's &quot;low point&quot; in 2010.He said the company itself is growing once again as well, with new hires' that includes some recovery from layoffs, along with spots that had been left vacated like the VP of engineering, which earlier this month was filled by Ben Folk-Williams. &quot;We had a pretty hefty cash burn when I joined, we've really had to cut back the team pretty significantly about 35 percent of the staff at that point,&quot; Williams lamented. &quot;Since then we've lost a couple people, but we are definitely growing the team, especially in engineering.&quot;So will all these things add up to a comeback success for the beleaguered company Williams seems to think so. &quot;A lot of people still love content on Digg,&quot; he said. &quot;In fact they have a hard time finding the kind of content that we've got on Digg today.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Skyfire 3.0 for iPhone gets cozier with Facebook]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=skyfire-3-0-for-iphone-gets-cozier-with-facebook</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wilburgaal</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=skyfire-3-0-for-iphone-gets-cozier-with-facebook</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Skyfire for iPhone ($2.99) gets deeper Facebook hooks.(Credit:Skyfire)If you enjoy watching Flash video on youriPhone browser, you'll want to check out Skyfire 3.0 for iPhone, updated today. Skyfire is a WebKit-based alternative to the iPhone's defaultSafari browser that uses Skyfire Labs' servers to render pages more speedily by first compressing data before delivering it--up to 85 percent, the company claims.However, the app's most significant draw, and the reason the company is charging $3 per download, is its ability to work around Apple's blocking of Flash video content.Version 3.0 remains largely the same as Skyfire's inaugural iPhone app, which had a shaky launch last November. Yet, response was so positive that Skyfire also expanded to the iPad.The new version does get a visual refresh with some reworked graphics, and it adds more social content, like Facebook Connect and &quot;liking.&quot; You can also view Facebook and Twitter feeds.On the more technical side, Skyfire now has a user agent switch that's easy to access in the Settings menu--this lets you tell the browser if you want to see iPhone-optimized Web sites or the full desktop experience.Keep in mind that Skyfire won't yet support every Flash-enabled Web site, but this release does represent an expansion of the sites it will support. There are more new and improved features in Skyfire's video below. In the meantime, if you like or don't like the browser, tell us why.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For BMW, i is the new e]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=for-bmw-i-is-the-new-e</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>BroocaCaf</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=for-bmw-i-is-the-new-e</guid>
<description><![CDATA[BMW will produce a line of lightweight, fuel-efficient cars under the new BMW i brand(Credit:BMW)Get ready for a new kind of BMW. The German carmaker announced that it will develop a new line of fuel-efficient vehicles under the &quot;i&quot; sub-brand. BMW i will manufacture and market the yet-to-be-unveiled electric Megacity Vehicle, which will officially be called the i3. The i8, which is the Vision EfficientDynamics plug-in that debuted at the 2009 Frankfurt auto show, will also be produced by BMW i. These futurecars appear to be on opposite ends of the electric spectrum, with the i3 being a small commuter vehicle intended for densely populated cities and the i8 being something of an exotic sports car, with the brains of Tesla matching the brawn of a Viper. Both cars will make generous use of carbon-reinforced plastics to keep the weight down and improve fuel efficiency. Although no official explanation for the naming convention was given, it's probably safe to assume that the i3 could be the starter line of BMW i, while the i8 is the fuel-efficient stepsibling to the Z8. Purpose-built, fuel-efficient cars that use technology to take the pain out of commuting will be the focus of BMW i. The company also announced the start of BMW i Ventures, a $100 million venture fund based in New York to assist start-ups focusing on urban mobility solutions and technology, such as intermodal travel, smart parking, and communication. The fund's first investment is the New York-based MyCityWay, which develops local mobile apps providing information on public transportation, parking availability, and local entertainment for over 40 cities in the U.S. BMW i Ventures is currently accepting business plans on its Web site.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Study: Facebook replacing Craigslist for prostitutes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riaremapong</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=study-facebook-replacing-craigslist-for-prostitutes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When Craigslist withdrew from the adult services business last year, some wondered whether the prostitution business would be driven to less obvious and, perhaps, more dangerous places.However, a Columbia University professor is suggesting that the business might have gravitated to somewhere even more obvious: Facebook.Sociology professor Sudhir Venkatesh published the results of his work among New York prostitutes on Wired. And it makes for a stimulating insight into how technology is influencing the prostitution business.Technology seems to have made men's behavior suddenly sophisticated.&quot;No self-respecting cosmopolitan man looking for an evening of companionship is going to lean out hiscar window and call out to a woman at a traffic light,&quot; Venkatesh said.Is Facebook a new, discreet red light district(Credit:CC Pink Moose/Flickr)Instead, Venkatesh estimates that 83 percent of prostitutes have a Facebook page. Moreover, he believes that by the end of 2011, Facebook &quot;will be the leading online recruitment space.&quot; Indeed, he says, even before Craigslist beat its retreat, Facebook was becoming a happy home for many prostitutes.With more discreet and personal access offered through cell phones, the web and Facebook in particular, he believes that prostitutes &quot;can control their image, set their prices, and sidestep some of the pimps, madams, and other intermediaries who once took a share of the revenue.&quot;Even in 2008, he estimates that 25 percent of prostitutes' regular clients came through Facebook (compared with only 3 percent through Craigslist).Perhaps it seems obvious. If every other form of relationship is made through Facebook, why wouldn't the more professional kindWhile the professor doesn't go into details about how connections are made with prostitutes on Facebook, some might assume that they might follow the same pattern as any other friending. But perhaps it might be more complicated, with a little more inside code employed to keep things discreet.Still, if everything is becoming more personalized, as well as more social, why should anyone be surprised that Facebook might be the obvious place for a chance encounter or an adult serviceOne can only imagine that prostitutes are, unlike some, very well versed in the Facebook privacy settings.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Apple retail stores to nix boxed software]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-apple-retail-stores-to-nix-boxed-software</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>carecraige889</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-apple-retail-stores-to-nix-boxed-software</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple has a long history of happily killing off a feature, plug, or technology in the name or progress, and next on that extinction list could be boxed software from the company's retail stores.MacRumors is reporting that Apple plans to do just that sometime in the future. The move, the report says, would be made to direct users to Apple's digital software distribution system, theMac App Store. The company made the store available to users just last month in the latest version of the Mac OS, 10.6 &quot;Snow Leopard,&quot; and will be making a it center point of 10.7 &quot;Lion.&quot;As MacRumors notes, the extra space taken up by boxed software within Apple's more than 300 retail stores could be replaced with room for goods the company makes more money on, like accessories. The move also has the potential to encourage end users to purchase software through the Mac App Store, where Apple gets a 30 percent cut of the sales. One other thing that gives this rumor extra credence are the reports from November that Apple was developing models of its MacBook Pro line that removed the optical drive. Apple offers the same thing in its MacBook Air line in favor of a weight and size reduction, as well as in the server variant of the Mac Mini. If that same design ethos were to make it into the rest of Apple's portable lineup, it would certainly seem out of place to sell software in a format that would require additional hardware for installation. As for optical discs and Apple's own software, in the latest iteration of the MacBook Air, the company began shipping out the computers with a recovery version of the system software and bundled applications on a USB thumbdrive. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon's iPhone 4 packs 'world mode' chip]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=verizons-iphone-4-packs-world-mode-chip</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bimpnorejbillty</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=verizons-iphone-4-packs-world-mode-chip</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Teardowns of Apple'sVerizoniPhone 4 reveal a Qualcomm &quot;world mode&quot; chip and redesigned antenna, among other modifications to the heretofore AT&amp;T-only phone. Both iFixit and UBM TechInsights have taken apart the phone exposing more than a few non-trivial changes. Foremost of these changes is the Qualcomm MDM6600 chip--a first for an Apple phone. That is the same chip that's being used in the Droid Pro world phone, which enables the Droid to support both CDMA and GSM. But, for now, that capability in the iPhone remains a latent, untapped potential.Other Verizon iPhone 4 iFixit teardown highlights: Battery: the battery can be removed &quot;fairly easily once you circumvent Apple's pesky Pentalobe screws,&quot; iFixit said. Antenna: an additional notch in the antenna enclosure on the right side of the phone is a result of the switch from GSM to CDMA. &quot;Only time will tell if this new antenna design helps combat the reception problems plaguing the GSM iPhone 4,&quot; iFixit said. Display: the display assembly is different from the GSM iPhone 4. The mounting tabs are in different locations for the two display assemblies. Upshot: the two assemblies are not interchangeable.Rubber pads: Apple used custom-molded rubber pads between the chips and the EMI shields. &quot;Presumably to conduct heat and quell any interference between analog and digital circuitry.&quot;Chips: Other high-profile silicon, in addition to the Qualcomm MDM6600, include Apple's A4 chip (of course) and Texas Instruments touchscreen controller (343S0499).Verizon iPhone 4: in the upper circuit board, the chip with the red outline is the Qualcomm MDM6600, the orange outlined chip is the Toshiba 16GB NAND Flash.(Credit:iFixit)The Verizon iPhone 4 earned a Repairability Score of 6 out of 10, iFixit said. Aside from the battery's annoying Pentalobe screws, &quot;other components are connected mostly with regular screws, with limited use of tabs and adhesives.&quot; iFixit also notes that the SIM card and SIM tray were the only user-serviceable parts in the AT&amp;T iPhone 4. &quot;Sadly, now the Verizon iPhone does not contain any user-serviceable parts.&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Study finds iAds twice as effective as TV ads]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-study-finds-iads-twice-as-effective-as-tv-ads</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>healthmedicine</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-study-finds-iads-twice-as-effective-as-tv-ads</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:James Martin/CNET)The first study results on the effectiveness of Apple's iAds are reportedly in and they appear favorable for Apple and its advertisers.The study, obtained by Advertising Age but not publicly released, was reportedly funded by Apple and one of iAds early advertisers, Campbell's, but conducted by research firm Nielsen. The results of the study are noteworthy, especially when comparing iAds to television ads, according to AdAge. (We asked Nielsen for our look at the results but Nielsen says it's proprietary information for Apple and Campbell's.)According to AdAge, Nielsen claims that people exposed to iAds in the study were twice as likely to remember the ad than people who watched a television ad. In addition, five times as many people reportedly remembered the Campbell's brand from the iAd.In what is surely an important factor for advertisers, the rate that iAd viewers reported intent to purchase the advertised products was four times that of television viewers.Nielsen didn't say how many people were involved in the survey, only that the TV and mobile surveys were conducted separately and it was a five-week analysis.It's also important to note that Campbell's iAds were &quot;weighted to reflect theiPhone andiPod Touch universe in terms of age, gender, and income, while TV survey results were weighted for a general TV audience,&quot; reported AdAge.Apple launched iAds in April 2010 to provide a more interactive look and feel to mobile advertising.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google shows off Web-based fractal explorer]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-shows-off-web-based-fractal-explorer</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>josie21</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-shows-off-web-based-fractal-explorer</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There was a day when exploring that famed fractal, the Mandelbrot set, took a supercomputer. Now Google has created a Web application that--while not the highest-performing or most subtly-shaded rendering of this surreal mathematical landscape--shows the browser can now outdo the supercomputers of yore.The Julia Map project uses a newer Web standard called Web Workers that lets the browser perform background processing tasks in parallel with the more ordinary user-interface chore in the forefront of a browser's thoughts, so to speak.The Mandelbrot set is a close relative of another fractal called the Julia set' Google's application will show various incarnations of either. The application uses the Web programming language of JavaScript to do the actual number crunching.The application also uses HTML5's Canvas for 2D drawing and the Google Maps interface to control zooming and panning, programmer Daniel Wolf said in a blog post this week.&quot;Each pixel requires the computation of a series of numbers and a measurement of the convergence or divergence of the series. Each image usually consists of millions of numbers. Modern browsers have optimized JavaScript execution up to a point where it is now possible to render fractals like the Julia sets in a few seconds,&quot; the site's HTML code says. Web applications are all the rage as programmers seek to advance what browsers can do--Microsoft's IE9 Test Drive site, for example. But many advanced Web apps are demos more than actual useful apps. Mozilla's Web game contest, though, provides some examples of apps the average person might find more compelling.Corrected 10:07 a.m. PTto detail the relationship between the Julia and Mandelbrot sets.A view of the Mandelbrot set through Google&amp;39's Web application.(Credit:screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: China-U.S. transport race hinges on resources]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-china-u-s--transport-race-hinges-on-resources</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paultupppu</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-china-u-s--transport-race-hinges-on-resources</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Accenture)The Chinese government has committed $15 billion over the next 10 years to the electric vehicle (EV) industry alone, while the U.S. Department of Energy spends $4 billion a year on research and development for a wide variety of energy-related tech.The figures paint a portrait of two countries with vastly different approaches to growing industries and jobs, according to an Accenture report released today, &quot;The US and China: The Race to Disruptive Transport Technologies,&quot; (PDF) which parses out the advantages and disadvantages each country has right now in the realm of alternative vehicles and fuels.China has been keen on taking proven innovative technology, then backing it financially and with government mandates to turn it into an industry. It's that money and governmental control which may give the country an advantage in building a global EV industry.China also has rich deposits of lithium, a key ingredient in many EV batteries. Because of this, the country is already a leading global manufacturer of lithium ion batteries for electric and hybrid-electriccars.Sixty percent of the United States' rechargeable battery imports already come from China, Japan, and Korea. The U.S., as its EV industry grows, will have to import almost all lithium ion batteries, or the lithium needed to make those batteries, from Asia and Latin America, according to Accenture.So what does the U.S. have to compete against China's lithium, money, and government control To put it succinctly: brainpower, strong intellectual property laws, and agricultural expertise.The Accenture report predicts that rather than one alternative fuel reigning supreme, the world will see an increase in transport fuel diversity.Unlike China, the U.S. has strong intellectual property laws and a record of upholding and protecting intellectual property rights, which encourages private investment in research and development, something the report says has a direct effect on innovation.Biofuels are a good illustration of that point. The U.S. currently has a strong biotechnology industry that is improving biomass and biofuels technology and is developing a proven track record of success. It's leading to lucrative licensing of the technology, expansion of U.S. biotech companies, and international investment from foreign companies, according to Accenture.The U.S. also happens to be the largest producer of corn in the world with an estimated 30 percent of its yield going into ethanol production. Yield improvements and domestic surpluses are even expected to rise in coming years due to recent agricultural innovations. And yet, for various reasons, the U.S. will likely not hang its hat on ethanol. Instead, it's leveraging that agricultural expertise and capability to invent and produce yet more alternative fuel options.Companies, for example, are experimenting with algae for biofuels and butanol or sugar for biodiesel. China, in contrast, seems to have focused solely on using cellulosic ethanol to replace gasoline, and has no real plan for an alternative to diesel, according to the report.Of course, the two countries also have vastly different situations when it comes to supply and demand.U.S. car ownership is at a plateau, so an increase in the purchase of EVs coupled with greater use of biofuels could lead to a 30 percent reduction in gasoline and diesel use in the U.S. by 2030, if the VMT (vehicle miles traveled) stays the same, according to the report. That change will be an adjustment for the U.S. economy as oil-related industries like oil refineries may find themselves displaced.China by contrast will not have to adjust to a large displacement, because it is in the infancy stage of personal car ownership, and, therefore, has no real legacy structure in terms of fuels. Accenture predicts that the amount of cars on China's roads will more than double to 200 million between now and 2020, causing growth in all areas of transport fuel. Because of this car boom, China's massive addition of alternative fuels and EVs will merely serve to compliment its growing domestic need for more oil, according to Accenture.&quot;This is a significant difference for the players in the markets--in the United States, there will be clear winners and losers' in China, in the context of high growth, there are only winners and bigger winners,&quot; said the report.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report finds smart-grid security lacking]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-finds-smart-grid-security-lacking</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vacationspot1</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-finds-smart-grid-security-lacking</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This illustration from the GAO report shows the topography of a smart grid.(Credit:GAO)Echoing concerns of security experts, a new report from the Government Accountability Office warns that smart-grid systems are being deployed without built-in security features. Certain smart meters have not been designed with a strong security architecture and lack important security features like event logging and forensics capabilities used to detect and analyze cyberattacks, while smart-grid home area networks that manage electricity usage of appliances also lack adequate built-in security, according to the report (PDF) released last week by the GAO, the auditing and investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. &quot;Without securely designed smart-grid systems, utilities will be at risk of not having the capacity to detect and analyze attacks, which increases the risk that attacks will succeed and utilities will be unable to prevent them from recurring,&quot; said the report.  The report also took aim at the self-regulatory nature of the industry, saying utilities are focusing on complying with minimum regulatory requirements rather than having adequate security to prevent cyberattacks. The National Institute of Standards and Technology &quot;does not have a definitive plan and schedule, including specific milestones, for updating and maintaining its cybersecurity guidelines to address key missing elements,&quot; the report concluded. One of the important elements NIST has failed to address is the risk of attacks that use both cyber and physical means, the report said.  &quot;Furthermore, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has not established an approach coordinated with other regulators to monitor the extent to which industry is following the smart-grid standards it adopts,&quot; the report said. &quot;The voluntary standards and guidelines developed through the NIST and FERC processes offer promise. However, a voluntary approach poses some risks when applied to smart-grid investments, particularly given the fragmented nature of regulatory authority over the electricity industry.&quot;  In comments on the report that were included as an appendix, the Department of Commerce--which oversees NIST--says NIST &quot;agrees that the risk of combined cyber-physical attacks on the smart grid is an area that needs to be more fully explored in the future.&quot;  Meanwhile, FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff said in comments included in an appendix to the report that he will ask his staff to evaluate ways to improve coordination among regulators and assess whether challenges identified in the report should be addressed in FERC's cybersecurity efforts, but will need to work within the commission's statutory authority.  The goal of the smart grid is to improve reliability and efficiency by incorporating information technology systems into power lines and customer meters for monitoring power distribution and usage without having to send operators into the field. (Via Threatpost) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Antipiracy lawyers from porn, indie-film sectors unite]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=antipiracy-lawyers-from-porn-indie-film-sectors-unite</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riariariasidjenhgsw</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=antipiracy-lawyers-from-porn-indie-film-sectors-unite</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lawyers representing Axel Braun Productions, makers of 'Batman XXX, A Porn Parody,' will team with lawyers known for representing indie film studios. (Credit:Axel Braun)The two camps that have waged copyright war this year on accused movie pirates --adult and independent filmmakers--are teaming up to fight illegal file sharing. Kenneth Ford, one of the attorneys that made news this year by filing copyright lawsuits against tens of thousands of people, told CNET on Monday that he is now working with Dunlap, Grubb &amp; Weaver. DGW is the Washington, D.C., law firm that sometimes operates as U.S. Copyright Group and represents nearly a dozen indie film studios, including the makers of the Academy Award winning war film, &quot;The Hurt Locker.&quot; &quot;[DGW] has initiated new lawsuits today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of our clients against nearly 15,000 Doe defendants,&quot; Ford wrote CNET in an e-mail. Among the porn producers DGW and Ford represent are Axel Braun, the maker of &quot;Batman XXX, A Porn Parody.&quot;We now have a legal tag-team grudge match. In one corner is DGW and Ford and in the other are some of the lawyers representing the accused and attorneys from watchdog groups as well as Internet service providers. Among the groups that have opposed the indie and porn studios on their antipiracy campaign are the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Time Warner Cable. This was bound to happen. Both Ford and DGW in earlier cases ran up against federal courts that didn't appear friendly to the idea of naming thousands of defendants, who live all across the country, in a single district court far from their homes. Thomas Dunlap, co-founder of DGW, told CNET last week that the plan now is to band a group of attorneys who practice in various parts of the country to file complaints in numerous federal districts. This apparently designed to make the issue of jurisdiction moot. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google gets halt of Microsoft contract with Interior Dept.]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-gets-halt-of-microsoft-contract-with-interior-dept-</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cedrikceek</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-gets-halt-of-microsoft-contract-with-interior-dept-</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A judge has granted Google's request for a temporary court order that puts a freeze on a contract the U.S. Interior Department planned to award to Microsoft for an e-mail system.  U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Susan Braden cited deficiencies in the procurement process for the $49.3 million contract, according to the 27-page court decision unsealed yesterday and reported on by Bloomberg today.  &quot;Without a preliminary injunction, the award will put into motion the final migration of Interior's e-mail system, achieve 'organizational lock-in' for Microsoft, and cost Google the opportunity to compete,&quot; the judge wrote. The Interior Department intended to give the contract to Microsoft later this month, she said.  Google sued the Interior Department in October claiming that it was essentially barred from competing for the project because the agency's proposal request specified that only the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite-Federal could be proposed.  The company has made the same complaint about a contract the USDA awarded to Microsoft.  Google executives said they are pleased with the court's decision, according to a statement provided to Bloomberg. Microsoft provided CNET this statement: &quot;The Department of the Interior determined that the dedicated, U.S.-based cloud solution offered by Microsoft met its minimum security and other requirements after a careful and thorough evaluation, and that Google's solution did not. The judge's decision does not address this fundamental determination. We believe the full record will demonstrate that this award is in the best interest of the government and taxpayers. Microsoft can't publicly comment further due to its ongoing relationship with DOI.&quot;  A spokeswoman for the Interior Department said she could not comment on ongoing litigation.  Google and Microsoft are in a heated battle over government and other contracts for tech services as agencies and businesses increasingly move to cloud-based systems to save money and create efficiencies. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Analyst: Flash may hog PlayBook battery life]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=analyst-flash-may-hog-playbook-battery-life</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rasbugabvasicu</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=analyst-flash-may-hog-playbook-battery-life</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Despite Research In Motion's best efforts to silence them, questions about the battery life of its forthcoming PlayBook tablet have followed the company into the new year.In a sequel to his original research note suggesting the PlayBook's battery life is &quot;relatively poor&quot; compared to rivals, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu reiterates that claim, saying he would be &quot;very surprised if PlayBook matches anywhere near the battery life of theiPad at 10 hours unless it uses a larger battery.&quot;The reasons for this are threefold:RIM&amp;39's PlayBook(Credit:RIM) 1. The PlayBook supports Flash, and Flash is a resource hog. Says Wu, &quot;As seen in recent tests for the new MacBook Air, use of Flash can cut battery life in half....From our understanding, the poor battery life of early PlayBook units may be due to its incorporation of Adobe Flash.&quot; 2. QNX, the operating system on which PlayBook is to run, wasn't designed for it. It was intended for devices drawing power from a wall socket orcar battery, not mobile platforms whose power sources are necessarily limited by their own mobility. 3. RIM's implementation of power management is not as well-integrated as that of its rivals--particularly Apple, whose homegrown A4 system-on-chip enables the company to deliver superior battery life. Obviously further work is needed to optimize the device's battery life' RIM admitted as much in its rebuttal to Wu's first note and, to be fair, this is a prerelease device--a work in progress. RIM still has a few months left yet to optimize the PlayBook's battery and get it to that &quot;comparable&quot; level it claims. But even fully optimized, Wu doesn't see it matching the iPad.&quot;Our sources indicate that the best that PlayBook can probably deliver is six hours as offered by the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which is nearly half of that offered by iPad,&quot; he concludes. &quot;And that is with significant re-engineering.&quot;Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.              h4 a{            text-decoration: underline !important'        }        addStories{            margin-bottom: 15px'        }        addStories li{            line-height: 1.8em'        }                            Additional stories from AllThingsD                                                        Making the Case for E-Commerce (i.e., Amazon) in 2011                                                                        Retailers Expected to Report Best December Since 2006                                                                        Apparently Two Motorolas Are Better Than One                                                                        Australia&amp;039's Scoopon Won&amp;039't Sell URL for $286,000, So Groupon Sues                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CES: Seagate revives Zip drive concept with GoFlex storage system]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-seagate-revives-zip-drive-concept-with-goflex-storage-system</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ballmurderer</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=ces-seagate-revives-zip-drive-concept-with-goflex-storage-system</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the flexible design, the Seagate&amp;39's GoFlex portable drive can be easily turned into a storage module to be used in a more standard, slot-based application.(Credit:Dong Ngo/CNET)LAS VEGAS--You might not remember it, but the Zip drive was arguably the most popular external storage solution during the second half of the 90s. With the initial storage capacity of 100MB (which later increased to up to 750MB) it was a perfect replacement for the floppy drive. The Zip drive is similar to a floppy drive, with the slot just slightly larger to accommodate the thicker Zip disks.With the rapid increase of internal hard drives' capacity, though, the Zip drive couldn't keep up, and its popularity started to wane at the turn of the century. By 2005 it was obsolete. It was the time that the portable storage market fell into the hands of external portable drives that came in many different physical shapes, sizes, and types of connectivity, including USB, Firewire, and eSATA. While external portable drives offer basically the same amount of storage that internal hard drives do, they are a little inconvenient to use, as oftentimes users need to fumble to find the cable or the port on the computer. Also, the external drives require a computer to support its type of connectivity to work. For example a Firewire external hard drive is useless with computer that only has USB ports.For this reason, Seagate, the maker of hard drives and many portable storage solutions, including the superflexible GoFlex family wants to revive the concept of the Zip drive with its GoFlex storage system.The company announced today its new program to allow third-party companies to incorporate slots on their products to support removable GoFlex external hard drives. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EPA warns of PCB-laden school lights]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=epa-warns-of-pcb-laden-school-lights</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>onlinemarket9</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=epa-warns-of-pcb-laden-school-lights</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What a typical intact fluorescent light ballast made before 1979 looks like, according to the EPA.(Credit:EPA)The Environmental Protection Agency issued an official guidance document yesterday recommending that all U.S. schools remove fluorescent lighting made before 1979 from their buildings.It's been determined that florescent light fixtures made before 1979 contain polychlorinated biphenyl insulation in their ballasts, and that as the insulation breaks down, it releases PCBs into the air of a building.Until the late 1970s polychlorinated biphenyls were among the chemicals frequently used in electronics and construction materials. PCBs are now known to be cancer-causing as well as irritating to the immune, reproductive, nervous, and endocrine systems in humans who are exposed to it over a period of time. Because of the danger, the EPA banned the use of PCBs in 1978.But old technology containing PCBs is still hanging around, literally, in the form of light fixtures.&quot;The EPA believes many schools built in the U.S. before 1979 have light ballasts containing PCBs. A recent pilot study of three schools in New York City found that many light ballasts in the schools contained PCBs and had also failed, causing the PCBs to leak and contributing to increased levels in the air that school children breathe,&quot; the EPA said in a statement.An old ballast after it sparked and started a fire at a school in California in 1999.(Credit:EPA)The EPA directive recognizes that schools may not have the money in their budgets to make the change. It advises schools to look into federal and state funding programs for removing PCBs, as well as federal, state, Energy Star, and public utility programs that promote installing more energy-efficient lighting, as a way to defray the replacement costs for the old fluorescent fixtures. Schools might also qualify for funds in the Department of Energy's Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE).The environmental agency also offered instructions on how to properly dispose of technology containing PCBs.Keep in mind that the pre-emptive guidance is only a recommendation, and not a mandate. If a lighting fixture, however, is found to be broken and leaking PCBs, schools are already required by federal law to immediately remove and properly dispose of the fixture, as well as anything that was contaminated as a result of the leak, according to the EPA.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[TV on the fritz You may need a firmware upgrade]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=tv-on-the-fritz-you-may-need-a-firmware-upgrade</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wanjujukksab</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=tv-on-the-fritz-you-may-need-a-firmware-upgrade</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Manual firmware upgrades are done via the USB port on the back of your TV.(Credit:David Carnoy/CNET)About a year ago I picked up a fairly entry-level 52-inch Sony LCD TV, the KDL-52V5100, as a second TV for a playroom. For a year, the set worked fine, then a few days ago a babysitter asked me to please fix it because it wasn't working.At first, I figured someone had simply set the cable box to the wrong input. But a quick input assessment ruled that out as the possible culprit. I moved onto the next likely source of the problem: the cable box, which I unplugged, then waited for it to cycle through its painfully long rebooting process.Still, nothing. No picture. Not even a menu. Conclusion: the cable box had crapped out. It had happened before, it would happen again. I packed the thing up and the next day set off for a Time Warner Cable service center that happened to be about six blocks away from the CNET offices in Manhattan. My old cable box, a Samsung non-DVR model, was promptly chucked in a bin and I was handed a newer model Samsung box that was black instead of silver. I was happy. It matched the TV. But upon returning home and hooking it up, the same thing happened. Nothing. Actually, for a brief second, a message flashed on the screen that said something about how the HDMI connection wasn't working and that I should switch to component video. Troubleshooting, I switched to HDMI 2 and fired up myPS3. Still nothing. So I plugged my PS3's HDMI cable into HDMI 3. Nada. I figured, That's it, Carnoy, your HDMI connectivity is shot. You're about to enter a world of pain.I had visions of dumping the TV, selling it cheap. I'd thrown the box out, I was probably a month out of the warranty period, and I was stuck with no HDMI. Component That was like going back to the Stone Age. My TV was almost worthless. So I did what any CNET editor would do. I called Sony PR and said I was David Pogue of the New York Times and told them I was mad as hell.OK, I didn't. But I thought about it. Kind of as a joke. But before I got too worked up I keyed the words &quot;KDL-52V5100 HDMI issue&quot; into Google. And the first search result at the top of the page had a link to this:Sony eSupport - KDL-52V5100 - Software Updates &amp; DriversLoading available downloads for the KDL-52V5100, please be patient. ... Resolves an issue that may intermittently cause the TV to freeze and stop ... issue where the audio may infrequently be lost while connected via an HDMI connection...Sony eSupport - KDL-52V5100 - Software Updates &amp; Drivers Loading available downloads for the KDL-52V5100, please be patient. ... Resolves an issue that may intermittently cause the TV to freeze and stop ... issue where the audio may infrequently be lost while connected via an HDMI connection...My problem didn't quite seem to fit the bill, but it was close enough. The magic words were &quot;lost&quot; and &quot;HDMI.&quot; So what if it just said audio. I knew I was on to something. And sure enough, clicking through on the link I learned that there was a firmware upgrade available for my TV. While I'd never upgraded a TV's firmware before, I'd manually upgraded the firmware on plenty of other devices, including a Blu-ray player or two.Truth be told, it's not all that difficult for someone who knows what they're doing, but I could certainly see how it might baffle the average consumer. Here's how it went:I downloaded a ZIP file, which unpacked itself on myMac. I then had to copy the files out of the folder onto a USB thumbdrive, which I stuck into the USB port on the back of my TV. About 7 tension-filled minutes later, my TV's firmware was upgraded and lo and behold, I had picture and sound again from my cable box. Why had the HDMI given out suddenly I had no idea, but I was sure happy that my TV woes had been resolved via a software patch, not something much more tedious and time-consuming.After the whole episode, I spoke with our resident video guru David Katzmaier about the TV firmware upgrade situation because I'd heard him discuss it before. Here are a few observations and tips we came up with:Check to see whether your TV has a firmware upgrade available by simply keying in your model number and &quot;firmware&quot; into Google.Some higher-end TVs offer Internet connections via an Ethernet port or Wi-Fi. You can upgrade your firmware over the Internet. However...Unlike a PS3,XBox, or PC, which automatically let you know when it's time to upgrade your system software, many Internet-connected TVs don't notify you when there's a firmware upgrade available' you have to manually check.Most firmware upgrades are designed to fix glitches like the one that happened to me or to tweak performance (usually for the better). Here's something you may not know: sometimes after David Katzmaier posts a review of a TV, the company will post a firmware upgrade that corrects (or attempts to correct) a problem he described in his review. Sometimes posters at AVS Forum also point out flaws that lead to firmware upgrades.Rarely do firmware upgrades add additional features. As noted, they tend to be about bug fixes and slight performance improvementsUpgrading your firmware is different from upgrading an Internet service that's built into your TV, such as Samsung Apps, Panasonic's VieraCast, or LG's Netcast (see a full round-up of services here). Those services notify you when upgrades are available that add new features or apps.You need to be very careful when you are upgrading your TV's firmware. This means following instructions to a T and making sure your TV doesn't lose power while it's being upgraded. Perhaps you've heard about someone messing up and &quot;bricking&quot; their PSP or iPhone while adding custom firmware. Well, you can brick your TV, too.Sometimes manufacturers have a couple of options for downloading firmware. Katzmaier says he's run into situations where he compares the &quot;Download via the Internet&quot; to the &quot;Download manually&quot; (to thumbdrive) option and the two firmware versions will be different (usually the manual download is more current). So check the firmware versions if more than one is available.Alas, sometimes firmware upgrades fix one problem but cause another. If this happens, report the problem, and wait for the company to issue another firmware upgrade.If you're happy with your TV and don't have an issue, think twice before upgrading your firmware. Most experts tend to argue that if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. Finally, before you upgrade, write down your customized picture settings. They will get erased when you upgrade your firmware. The person who wrote this article forgot to do that. If you have any suggestions or anecdotes, as always, feel free to comment. In the end, the bottom line is that TVs are a lot more advanced than they once used to be and have chips and software inside that isn't always perfect. Luckily, in some cases, companies issue fixes. You just may have to do a little digging to find them.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FDA approves 60-second HIV test]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chdresource</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=fda-approves-60-second-hiv-test</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Canadian firm BioLytical received FDA approval this week for the sale of its Insti HIV Rapid Antibody Test in the United States.The test, which, at 60 seconds, will be the fastest-working on the U.S. market (others tend to take between 10 minutes and 20 minutes) is already available in more than 50 countries. In Canada's Ontario province, the kits have been available since they were first commercialized in 2006, and in British Columbia, where BioLytical is based, health authorities plan to use them for the new $48 million pilot project called Seek and Treat for the prevention of HIV and AIDS.The Insti kit requires pricking a finger to draw a blood sample, then mixing the sample with a reagent and color developer. One blue &quot;control spot&quot; reveals the absence of HIV antibodies (nonreactive results), two spots reveal the presence of such antibodies (reactive), and the absence of a spot indicates that the results are invalid.Because this is a first-line test, all reactive (HIV-positive) results must be confirmed by a second testing system, the company advises, and all invalid tests should be conducted again with a new blood sample.&quot;Insti represents a significant improvement for point-of-care rapid HIV testing,&quot; Julie Scofield, executive director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, said in a statement. &quot;By eliminating the 15- to 30-minute wait for results, Insti streamlines the testing process. It allows for increased flexibility, as providers can conduct the test in whatever manner best suits their work flow.&quot;Breaking into the U.S. market wasn't easy' Rick Galli, chief technical officer at BioLytical, told the Vancouver Sun that &quot;we affectionately call [market approval in the U.S.] the holy grail for this particular product.&quot;He added that the Insti device has been endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and that the timing is ideal, as U.S. medical officials have recently been shifting from lab tests to rapid point-of-care tests.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five surprising things about the Sprint ZTE Peel]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Amihan</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=five-surprising-things-about-the-sprint-zte-peel</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Before you buy the ZTE Peel for your iPod Touch, keep in mind some of its limitations.(Credit:Sprint)A couple weeks back I told you about the Sprint ZTE Peel, aniPod Touch accessory that sounded almost too good to be true. For a mere $79.99, plus a no-contract monthly service fee of $29.99, you could add 3G connectivity to your Touch.Goodbye, priceyiPhone! Hello, much more affordable iPod Touch-Phone! Well, not quite. Now that I've had a chance to test-drive one, I must admit it's not what I expected. Here are five reasons why:1. It's not actually a dock.I mistakenly assumed that the Peel plugged into the Touch's dock connector, much like an external battery/case hybrid. But it doesn't: the Peel is actually a kind of specialized MiFi 2200, one that's been molded to function as an iPod Touch (second- or third-gen) case. Just pop in your device--or don't. Makes no difference.2. Only two devices can access the Peel's connection.Either the preliminary information was incorrect, or I made a mistake, but I originally wrote that two other devices could tap the Peel's 3G goodness at the same time as your Touch. In reality, it's two devices total. Again, it doesn't matter if your Touch is snapped into the enclosure or not--two devices, period. I wouldn't call that a deal breaker, but it's a little disappointing given that the MiFi supports up to five. On the other hand...3. Performance bites.Maybe the two-device limitation is due to the Peel's sub-3G connectivity. I tested it in several locales around my neck of the woods (metro Detroit), and according to Speed Test, the best download speed it could manage was 0.87 Mbps. Contrast that with my AT&amp;amp'T-powered iPhone 4, which pulled 2.6 Mbps--in my basement. Your mileage will almost certainly vary, but the Peel proved pretty pokey. Is it better than nothing for the Wi-Fi-strapped iPod user Absolutely. But I'm discouraged that it doesn't come anywhere near Sprint's advertised 3G performance.4. It relies on Micro-USB charging.Yep, another power cord to bring along. Although Micro-USB is an increasingly popular standard, a dock connector would have made the Peel much easier to travel with. It also would have enabled you to sync your Touch without having to pop it out of the case.5. It requires a headset adapterThe Peel's audio-jack pass-through is just a hair too deep and narrow to accommodate a stock pair of Apple earbuds, so you have to plug in a tiny adapter cord. Another thing to bring along, another thing to potentially lose. That's a pretty annoying design flaw.Another annoyance: the included &quot;Getting Started&quot; guide doesn't tell you how do to things like set up a password so other users can't tap your mobile hot spot. You can find instructions on Sprint's Web site, but they're buried in the poorly titled &quot;Admin Guide.&quot;Furthermore, the Peel is bulky, making your otherwise slender device feel a lot more brick-like in your pocket. The good news is that it's reasonably light, adding just 2.6 ounces to an iPod Touch's travel weight.I could forgive a lot of these issues--maybe even all of them--if Sprint didn't cap your monthly data at a paltry 1GB. If you go over, it'll cost you 5 cents per megabyte. To me that just seems stingy. A 2GB cap would make this whole enchilada a lot more appealing.Even so, I think the Peel might just find its way into a few stockings this holiday season. Would you like to see one turn up in yours<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[South Korea fights DDoS attacks with digital 'bunkers']]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>andplot56</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=south-korea-fights-ddos-attacks-with-digital-bunkers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Cho&amp;39's rough sketch of the DDoS bunkers, drawn at the APT conference.(Credit:Credit:Darren Pauli/ZDNet Australia)South Korea has installed digital &quot;bunkers&quot; to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts of the country last year. The nation was floored after huge streams of junk Internet data poured across its networks last year, targeting the infrastructure of government and businesses. &quot;We were caught off-guard,&quot; Jinhyun Cho of the Korea Computer Emergency Response Team (KrCERT) told ZDNet Australia. &quot;The whole country knows what a DDoS attack is.&quot;A &quot;bunker&quot; in this case is a new IP address served to a business that is under persistent DDoS attack but lacks the funds or resources to protect itself. Traffic from the DDoS attack continues to hit the original IP address while the business remains in operation under a new address.South Korea is continuously under DDoS attack, Cho said, and the bunkers are hoped to help mitigate part of the problem.Read more of &quot;Korea attacks force DDoS bunker creation&quot; at ZDNet Australia.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vudu coming to PS3 with updated interface]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=vudu-coming-to-ps3-with-updated-interface</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Vudu is coming to the PS3, and bringing an updated user interface.(Credit:Vudu)PlayStation 3 owners are about to get yet another option when it comes to online entertainment.As of November 23, the Vudu pay-per-view movie service will arrive on Sony's gaming console with an updated user interface. (Vudu says the new interface is more friendly for navigating with input devices like mice and thePlayStation Move.) The same &quot;Vudu 2.0&quot; UI will be rolled out on other Vudu-supported devices--including many Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players, the D-Link Boxee Box, Windows PCs and Macs--before the end the year. Vudu offers more than 4,000 HD movies for rental and purchase, and the PS3 will offer Vudu's optimal 1080p HD resolution and 5.1 surround sound on supported titles.For PS3 owners, the announcement constitutes more great news on the home entertainment front. Vudu will join the Netflix, Hulu Plus, MLB.TV, and NHL Gamecenter services on the console, in addition to the native PlayStation Store (which also supports the purchase of movies and TV shows). For Wal-Mart's Vudu service, meanwhile, the new PS3 partnership provides millions of potential new customers in the U.S.To sweeten the deal, Vudu will be offering new customers a $5.99 credit--effectively giving users a free movie to try out the service.Related: Quick guide to Internet TV<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Intel Sandy Bridge chip coming January 5]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=intel-sandy-bridge-chip-coming-january-5</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Intel will launch its next-generation Sandy Bridge chip line on January 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show, the chipmaker confirmed today. The launch will take place at Venetion Hotel in Las Vegas. Mooly Eden, Intel vice president and general manager for PC Client Group, along with &quot;surprise guests, will showcase the world's fastest processor with many new technologies Intel has built into our chips to enhance the 'visual life,'&quot; Intel said in a statement. Sandy Bridge will--for the first time in mainstream laptops--put Intel graphics technology directly onto the central processing unit (CPU). Sandy Bridge is expected to be a significant step up for Intel in the graphics chip department.(Credit:Intel)With Intel's current Core i series of processors, the graphics function is a separate piece of silicon inside the chip package--and is one manufacturing-process generation behind the main processor. In other words, a Core i7 chip, for example, has a 32-nanometer processor and separate 45-nanometer graphics silicon housed in a chip package. In Sandy Bridge, the CPU and graphics processing unit (GPU) will be combined in one 32-nanometer piece of silicon. Intel, already the largest graphics chip supplier in the world, will be competing against Nvidia's higher-performance stand-alone GPUs and Advanced Micro Devices' integrated CPU-GPU products and higher-performance standalone GPUs. Virtually every computer maker in the world is expected to come out with systems based on Sandy Bridge, including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Apple, Sony, Acer, Lenovo, and Toshiba. See The next, big thing for Intel: Sandy Bridge and Intel discloses new Sandy Bridge technical details for more background on the new processor. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Place Search gets a promotion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Trish01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-place-search-gets-a-promotion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google is putting its Place Page listings in a more prominent spot, highlighting within regular search results and adding &amp;34'Places&amp;34' as a search refinement on the left-hand navigation bar.(Credit:Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)Google will take another swing at the Yellow Pages today, integrating local business listings directly into search results. The company is set to launch Google Place Search as a standalone search option, much the same way Google users can search for images, news, or products. It will bring the Google Places listings that business owners can claim into the main search results pages, rather than confining them to searches done within Google Maps as was the case prior to today.Google has been encouraging local restaurants, hardware stores, and dry cleaners to &quot;claim&quot; their business within Google by adding their Web site, telephone number, hours, and other relevant information to a form. That generates a listing for the place within Google Maps, and allows searchers and patrons of that business to leave reviews. Now for regular Google searches like &quot;sushi restaurants san francisco&quot; (I know I use this example every time, but there are some really good ones) users will start to see a new search result that is sort of a combination of a traditional Google search result and a Google Maps search result, with a link to that location on Google Maps, reviews aggregated from around the Web, and a 1- to 5-star rating of that business. In addition, Google will put a direct link to that business' &quot;Place page,&quot; which could be previously found by clicking &quot;more information&quot; on a Google Maps search. The move highlights the Place pages much more prominently, which Google hopes will encourage more and more businesses to list their wares on Google before the company's massive search audience. The special search results will appear when Google thinks it can predict your search query has local intent, but searchers can also force a results pages of just Places listings by selecting &quot;Places&quot; from the left-hand navigation panel on a Google search results page. The change should start rolling out over the course of the next few days around the world.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nokia CEO Stephen Elop vows to beat Android]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>suflabugx</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[On  stage at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona yesterday,  Nokia CEO Stephen Elop (pictured right) announced that the companya4a4s first priority now,  after partnering with Microsoft to use Windows Phone 7 on its devices, is to beat Android.The company also hinted that wea4a4ll see its Windows Phone 7 devices this year, and it confirmed the concept designs that were floating around the web a few days ago.Elop,  who hails from Microsoft, discussed the nature of Nokiaa4a4s relationship  with the software company. He said Nokia was considering becoming  yet another Android phone manufacturer but that the  prospect of being a premiere WP7 partner was more enticing. &amp;''A decision  to go with Windows Phone creates a very different dynamic. Windows Phone  is a challenger. It becomes a three-horse race,a4 he said. The companya4a4s  decision may have also been swayed by European cellular carriers, who feared the worst if Nokia adopted Android.Elop  said Nokia will be paying Microsoft royalties to use Windows Phone  7 but that it will also save money by reducing its operating expense  since it will no longer need to develop an entire OS on its own. Nokia  will also contribute services to Windows Phone 7 that other  manufacturers will be able to take advantage of, and he went on to say,  a4AWe&amp;'re contributing the fact that we&amp;'re making Windows Phone a  challenger.&amp;''Microsoft  will also add a4Asubstantial monetary valuea4 to Nokia because of  its contributions to WP7, which Elop specifically said is measured in  the billions, not millions. That could mean that Microsoft effectively  outbid Google to convince Nokia to use its software. Elop also mentioned  that Nokia will see a new source of revenue through advertising.Together with Nokiaa4a4s Jo Harlow, Elop also confronted some tough questions about Nokiaa4a4s new partnership. When asked about the widely reported employee walkout on Friday,  Harlow seemed understanding of the emotional journey for Nokia  engineers, especially with word that Elop plans to make thousands of job  cuts. But optimistically, she points out that the  deal is also exciting the US market, which hasna4a4t had much reason to  care about Nokia products for the last few years.When asked if he was indeed the seventh largest Microsoft shareholder (a rumor sparked by his appearance on a shareholder chart with around $3 million worth of stock),  Elop said those claims were not true. a4AThat would be a substantial  amount of money that I dona4a4t have,a4 he said. Elop pointed out that he  was legally prohibited from selling his shares when he first joined  Nokia, but once that was lifted he began selling. Once talks began with  Microsoft about partnering with Nokia, he was forced to stop selling  once again.One  brave audience member shouted out, a4AAre you a Trojan Horsea4 &amp;8212' a  reference to the fact that Microsoft was reportedly trying to buy Nokia  last year, but with Elop in charge, he can now run the company to  Microsofta4a4s benefit. Elop pointed out that the entire management team at  Nokia was involved in the decision to move to Windows Phone 7 and  that the final decision wasna4a4t made until last Thursday night.Via EngadgetCalling all developers: We want to write up your app for VentureBeata4a4s Mobile App Spotlight! If you have an innovative mobile app that hasna4a4t been featured on VentureBeat yet, submit it for consideration right away. The Mobile App Spotlight is sponsored by The Intel AppUp developer program.Next Story: Windows Phone 7 multitasking interface rips off WebOS Previous Story: Anti sleep pilot keeps you awake at the wheelPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, mobile world congress, MWC 2011, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: Google, Microsoft, nokiaPeople: Jo Harlow, Stephen Elop          Tags: Android, mobile world congress, MWC 2011, smartphones, Windows Phone 7Companies: Google, Microsoft, nokiaPeople: Jo Harlow, Stephen ElopDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Electric Composters Don&'t Say &''Holiday,&'' Where To Buy Green Tech Gifts&nbsp'Online]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Celina01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ Reasonable people understand this by now: environmentalists aren&amp;'t all tree hugging vegetarians with unwashed hair a4&quot; not that there&amp;'s anything wrong with that a4&quot; and tech enthusiasts aren&amp;'t all oblivious to the burgeoning problems of energy consumption and e-waste. Still, it&amp;'s tough to shop online for geeks who want to be environmentally responsible, and nouveau hippies who covet gadgets. Why It&amp;'s easy to find green gifts in the beauty, fashion, home or kids category. Many retail websites,  however, bury their great green electronics pages rather than highlighting them, and making them easy to find from the homepage. We&amp;'re looking at you, Target, Walmart, Sears and BestBuy, sites that don&amp;'t have green tech or eco-friendly sections or search filters that make it easy to find the water-saving, solar, LED and more earth friendly tech items they carry.Maybe big retailers don&amp;'t want to come off too specialized, or maybe they&amp;'re worried about implying other products they sell, outside of a special &amp;''eco&amp;'' section, are somehow environmentally wasteful.  Let&amp;'s admit it. Some of those electronics are wasteful. A wino, or possibly an arthritic sommelier could make the electric corkscrew worth its weight in rare earth metals. But who really needs a portable watermelon cooler Gift shoppers can&amp;'t rely on the media&amp;'s picks entirely, either. Several guides have recommended stuff this season that&amp;'s either utilitarian, or expensive enough to wilt mistletoe.Treehugger suggested a $670 eMeter that measures a users&amp;' energy consumption at home. Inhabitat suggested a water clock that duplicates time-keeping features of a basic mobile phonea4&quot; but hey, it runs on lemon water so it&amp;'s &amp;''eco.&amp;'' The biggest stinker was NetworkWorld&amp;'s recommendation to give the automatic, electric composter as a gift. Who&amp;'s naughty enough to get that  one (It&amp;'s not even solar-powered!)The most environmentally friendly gifts one can give are probably not things a4&quot; shipped from far away, delivered by diesel trucks, destined for the landfill a4&quot; but digital goods, like a must-read e-book or a membership to a streaming video site. We know.Digital goods lack that whole je ne sais quoi of handing a loved one something they can tear open. Hopefully, it&amp;'s wrapped in 100% recycled and recyclable paper. We suggest using the comics sectiona4&quot; save a tree and a little piece of the print news business.Here at TechCrunch, we found a six-pack of sites that either specialize in, or have designated sections and great search filters for what we call green tech. These should help you find sustainable gifts for tech heads that are actually worth coveting, and should arrive in time for Christmas if ordered on or before December 15th. 1. Think Geek&amp;'s Power &amp;amp' Eco-Friendly section features a boat load of solar chargers, and LED lighting. The refillable, chemicals free air horn could delight a sports fan who&amp;'s into green tech, too. 2. GoGreenSolar.com is a specialty store with products to please home improvement and gardening enthusiasts, from a solar power generating system that doubles as a back yard cabana (about $10,000) to efficient LED grow lights for budding botanists ($30 and up). 3. Amazon.com has a special Amazon Green section. It&amp;'s not featured in home page navigation, but a quick search on the word &amp;''green&amp;'' leads users there. The special section&amp;'s Green Electronics category features everything from energy-efficient laptops and netbooks to information on recycling the old to make way for the new. 4. The Overstock.com electronics section includes quick links to &amp;''Made in the U.S.A.&amp;'' gadgets, and &amp;''Refurbished&amp;'' items. Refurbishing is recycling, which makes it automatically green. Buying locally produced anything tends to eliminate emissions generated in shipping from far away. The United States also has stricter environmental regulations than China and other exporters. 5. 21st Century Goods, a specialty retailer focused on &amp;''off-the-grid&amp;'' lifestyles, offers plenty of cute eco-friendly gadgets, from hand-cranked mini-USB device chargers ($14) to solar-powered flag pole lights that would make a good present for a proud patriot ($60-$130).6. Dont&amp;' let the yoga mats scare you at Gaiam. The sustainable web store also sells: recyclable water filters for home chefs and health nuts who crave pure hydration' energy-efficient hair dryers for the style addicted, and for the outdoor adventurer, a hand-operated, snake bite and insect poison extractor (a weird and inspiring stocking stuffer). Also worth noting: If you have a giftee with a guilty conscience but a steady jones for Apple products Belgrave Trust sells a $10 sticker that represents carbon offsets to counter the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists estimate are produced by the manufacture and use of one of Apple&amp;'s laptops or iPads over its lifetime. (image above)For gift givers across the pond, this site delivers eco-gadgets to the Euro-paying market: EthicalSuperStore.com. For a guide to what&amp;'s hot in tech in general this season, visit Crunchgear&amp;'s 2010 holiday gift guide. Beer can wreath image via KruppCharlie Brown-style Christmas Tree image via Listen2ds CrunchBase InformationBelgrave TrustAmazonInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fox News High Why Rupert Murdoch is bullish on digital education]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sharabano</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch is media&amp;'s ultimate contrarian, with a reputation for plunging into new businesses well before others agree on their promise. So could his newfound enthusiasm for education startups give the sector a boostLast week, New York was abuzz with Joel Kleina4a4s move to step down as chancellor of the country&amp;'s biggest public-school system to join Murdocha4a4s News Corp. empire. While some ideologues may grouse about the notion of Fox News High, the move could signal good things for technology-infused education startups.According to New York magazine, Klein a4Amakes clear that he believes the a4huge transformation in the field of educationa4a4 that is coming is a4going to be driven by private marketsa4a4a4&quot;by a wave of digital-learning start-ups now swelling around the country. And that, whether through investments or acquisitions, Murdoch intends to ride this wave.a4To date, investors have been skittish about education technology. Some money has gone into test-prep services like Knewton and Grockit, and a few teaching platforms like EduFire and Udemy. EduPath, an online-education startup designed around tablets, won the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition. But VC portfolios are for the most part education-free.Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association, says the problem is that few big companies are willing to buy startups. &amp;''In K-12  education the buyer is predominately state and local governments, as well  asschool districts,&amp;'' Heesen wrote in an email. &amp;''None of these entities are awash in money to  spend on new educational technology, no matter how forward thinkingthey  are.&amp;''Murdoch&amp;'s move may help, but Heesen doesn&amp;'t think it counts as a tipping point. &amp;''Potential acquirers certainly  help a venture capitalist decide to invest in one space over another, but there  has to be several major potential acquirers to really get their  attention.&amp;''That guarded optimism is the same reaction I got from Elizabeth Corcoran, former technology editor at Forbes and founder of e-learning startup Lucere. Corcoran, who&amp;'s been studying the sector in depth for the past two years, says Klein&amp;'s move may be more a sign of his personal goals than a sign of a coming windfall for edutech startups. Corcoran said:The number of education-technology startups percolating is clearly on the rise. [a4] Ia4a4d agree that Kleina4a4s decision to move to Murdocha4a4s camp amounts to him voting with his feet. Whether or not investing in these companies will benefit Murdocha4a4s a4Abottom linea4 seems like a declaration of faith at this point. The number of education-tech ventures which have hit the classic VC gold standard of a a4A10xa4 return are shockingly small.When I asked Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital about  the sector a few months back, he said therea4a4s a market for education  technology in places like Korea, where online tutors are treated like rock stars and take out billboard ads to boost their following. But  there, parents are willing to spend their own money on supplementary  education' not so in the U.S., Gurley said. Earlier this year, SoftTech VC&amp;'s Jeff Clavier likewise told me he just didna4a4t see the market to justify the early-stage investments his firm makes.Still, Murdoch&amp;'s move his hard to ignore. He has an eye for undertapped revenue streams, like the underserved audience that religiously watches Fox News and the opportunity for satellite television overseas. It can&amp;'t have been lost on Murdoch, who famously watches the competition, that the Washington Post Co., whose flagship newspaper rarely sides with Fox News and with whom the News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal is increasingly competing with in national political coverage, is minting money in the education market through its Kaplan subsidiary.Jumping into education is a gamble, but one that could pay off, Corcoran says: &amp;''You can argue that education is one of the last huge  sectors of the economy to take advantage of digital technology, and so  there will be fortunes to made a4&quot; but history suggests this is difficult  ground to harvest.&amp;''And News Corp. has a mixed record when it comes to harvesting difficult ground. Take its MySpace subsidiary. When Murdoch bought it for $580 million in 2005, it was hailed as a visionary purchase &amp;8212' and a bargain. Now it&amp;'s losing money and News Corp. executives are talking about dumping it. Klein should take a lesson: Whatever he does had better make money fast.Next Story: PC-design guru Rahul Sood takes his leave from HP Previous Story: How Facebook plans to reinvent email and online messagingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: education, education startups, education technology, online educationCompanies: News Corp, Washington Post Co.People: Joel Klein, Rupert Murdoch          Tags: education, education startups, education technology, online educationCompanies: News Corp, Washington Post Co.People: Joel Klein, Rupert MurdochMatt Bowman is the program director for VentureBeat's events. He is a freelance event producer and writer covering the global Silicon Valley and formerly served in the Teach For America Corp.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[&8216'Printing Facebook&' Now &8216'Social Printshop&' After Legal Pressure From&nbsp'Facebook]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last month we covered a service called Printing Facebook which turned all your Facebook friends&amp;' profile pictures into a giant 20X40 inch &amp;''real life Facebook wall&amp;'' poster.a4sAt the time we hoped that Facebook wouldn&amp;'t &amp;''throw a hissy fit&amp;'' over artist Benjamin Lotan&amp;'s use of its trademark and design aesthetic.Well it might have not been a hissy fit exactly, but Facebook lawyers did end up approaching Lotan, who has since changed his site&amp;'s name to Social Printshop.Lotan emphasizes the Facebook legal team&amp;'s courteousness:&amp;''Despite past reports which have cited Facebook&amp;'s bullying tactics, I actually found them to be quite cordial and polite. They even mentioned they were &amp;8216'excited about the project&amp;'.Perhaps they learned from the bad press they had gotten out of a few incidents (Placebook for example)&amp;''Lotan asserts that Facebook gave him enough time to think of and buy a new domain name and helped him formulate a timeline for changing over everything about the Printing Facebook site including its design.Lotan says that other than the Facebook legal intervention, business has been going well and that he is selling hundreds of posters. To continue with the transition from Printing Facebook to Social Printshop, Lotan today launched his Tumblr poster product and plans are in the works for &amp;''Printing&amp;'' Twitter, Foursquare and Flickr posters as well as other non-poster products related to social sites.These products include a physical Facebook, which Lotan hopes &amp;''will return one&amp;'s social graph back into the physical form which Zuckerburg originally chose to name the site after.&amp;'' Uh, okay.Social Printshop is currently bootstrapped but Lotan hints that he&amp;'s gotten an offer from investors and will be seeking funding soon, as the service has now become more than full time job. CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lenovo tries to escape boring designs with new ThinkPad laptops]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lenovo is unveiling its latest computers bit by bit at the Consumer Electronics Show. The first to be unveiled are its new line of ThinkPad laptops, which are aimed at business users.These machines reflect the attempt by computer makers to create machines that crossover between business and consumer uses. Lenovo wants you to use its machines all of the time. Lenovo is striving to get away from boring designs, but I wouldn&amp;'t say that this design stands apart from the pack. Compare it, for instance, to Apple&amp;'s lust-inducing MacBook Air.The new line-up includes the ThinkPad Edge E220s and E420s laptops, which are thin, curvy machines that cater to business professionals who don&amp;'t want to carry a boring laptop.They feature Lenovo&amp;'s &amp;''infinity screen&amp;'' displays, a matte black finish that is soft to the touch, and &amp;''metal accents,&amp;'' or strips of metal along the sides of the machine.The machines also feature the latest Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors. They also have Lenovo&amp;'s Enhanced Experience 2.0 for fast booting and a range of wireless connectivity options. And they feature Dolby Home Theater audio (for serious play, as opposed to serious business) and high-definition video conferencing. Lenovo says the Enhanced Experience 2.0 lets you boot your machine 30 percent faster than normal.The E220s has a 12.5-inch screen while the E420s has a 14-inch screen. The E220s is less than an inch thick and weighs 3.5 pounds. The E420s is an inch thick and weighs four pounds. The keyboard is spill-resistant, and the E420s has a slot-loading DVD player/burner. The E420s will sell for $749 and the E220s will sell for $899. Both will be available in April, and a stripped-down E520 model will be available in April for $599.Previous Story: Toshiba unveils glasses-free 3D on a laptopPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: ThinkpadCompanies: Lenovo          Tags: ThinkpadCompanies: LenovoDean 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[Keen On&8230' Exposed &8211' The Unholy Alliance Opposed to Solving the Network Neutrality Problem&nbsp'(TCTV)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The political paralysis over network neutrality might be a microcosm of the broader political paralysis in America. Last week, after FCC chairman Julius Genachowksi laid out his Title I compromise strategy to finally resolve this seemingly never-ending debate, radical left and right wing groups conspired to destroy any possibility of consensus. On the left, activist groups like Free Press called Genachowkia4a4s initiative a a4Afake net neutrality proposal,a4 while many of the radical right questioned the FCCa4a4s legitimacy and called for a complete retreat from any kind of government involvement in technology policy. So can the center fight back against this unholy alliance of radical netizens and Tea Party libertarians that seem intent on crushing any kind of network neutrality compromiseOne of the feistiest voices of this broad center a4&quot; which now incorporates most of Silicon Valley, many of the larger ISPs and media companies, the Obama administration and prominent technology investors like Ron Conway &amp;8211'  is Gigi Sohn, cofounder and CEO of Public Knowledge. While she is certainly closer to the radicals of Free Press than to the radicals in the Tea Party, what distinguishes Sohn a4&quot; as I found when I skyped her on Monday &amp;8211' is her willingness to try to work with Genachowski to sculpt a compromise to this hideously complex issue. But, according to author and legal scholar Larry Downes, whom I also skyped on Monday, this center probably wona4a4t hold. Downes believes it&amp;'s a4Aalmost a certaintya4 that the dispute is now headed to the law courts for two to three years, where the only real beneficiaries will be hardline conservatives and radicals, and, surprise surprise, the high priced lawyers hired by either side to drag out this critically important issue forever.  If you missed the part one of this special two part series about the latest twists and turns in the ongoing network neutrality saga, you can view interviews with Andy Kessler and Richard Bennett here.Sohn on compromiseDownes on why compromise won&amp;'t workCrunchBase InformationGigi SohnLarry DownesInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10gen gets $6.5M from Sequoia for its web database software]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[10gen, developer of the open-source software for databases called MongoDB, announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in its third round of funding from Sequoia Capital.MongoDB is billed as a software set for managing large-scale databases for web sites. The software allows companies to manage their content and events, and also includes an analytics suite that tracks site usage.Its users include a number of prominent startups like check-in service Foursquare and Bit.ly, which allows web surfers to shorten long links into more manageable lengths for micro-blogging.The New York, N.Y.-based company launched MongoDB in 2007 and makes its money by providing commercial support for bigger businesses that employ the database software. It also manages the open-source community for the MongoDB software set that sees around 90,000 downloads each day.Prior investors Flybridge Capital Partners and Union Square Ventures also participated in the most recent round of funding. That brings its total funding up to $11.4 million. Flybridge Capital Partners led an earlier round worth $3.4 million, and Union Square Ventures led 10gen&amp;'s first round with $1.5 million in funding.Next Story: Gawkera4a4s Nick Denton says serious journalism has a future &amp;8230' but not for free Previous Story: Media mogul Barry Diller checks out of IAC (though he&amp;'s still on staff)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: database, mongoDB, Open sourceCompanies: 10gen, Bit.ly, Flybridge Capital Partners, Foursquare, Union Square Ventures          Tags: database, mongoDB, Open sourceCompanies: 10gen, Bit.ly, Flybridge Capital Partners, Foursquare, Union Square VenturesMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[Five smart brands and innovations from 'emerging' markets - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Our sister-site trendwatching.com''s latest briefing focuses on the EXCEPTIONALL, highlighting the fact that exceptional B2C innovations will increasingly come from all corners of the globe, with brands and talent from emerging markets getting ready to shine. The briefing is full of fun examples, here are five to get you started:CHINA | Forever is a Shanghai based bicycle brand founded in the 1940s. Having fallen out of favor in the 1990s, the brand was relaunched under the leadership of 23-year-old Chen Shan, offering a range of bikes in bright colors, appealing to younger consumers. The company now sells 1.3 million bikes a year.INDONESIA | The Magno AM/FM radio is handcrafted using sustainable materials in an Indonesian village. Profits from sales go back to initiatives supporting the producers such as the education in handicraft and work skills and the growth of plantations for wood used to make the products. TURKEY | Istanbul-based graphic designer Beste Miray came up with the idea of selecting a location in Google Maps and using a print-out of the map as the inside of an envelope to send to a friend via old-fashioned snail mail. Later, a New York designer took that concept and launched a web application for it: Mapenvelope. BRAZIL | Cosmetics brand Kapeh uses coffee from the Brazilian state Minas Gerais in all of its formulations. The products, which include moisturizers, soap and bath oils, are now exported to the Netherlands and Portugal, as well as being available online.INDIA | An innovation by Indian mega-national Tata, the Swach is a water filter and purifier that produces clean drinking water through the use of common ash. The portable purifier doesn''t require running water or electricity.For many more examples, check out trendwatching.com''s briefing. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ask a VC: Nic Brisbourne Defends London&'s Entrepreneurial&nbsp'Honor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oh, poor Nic Brisbourne. Unlike most VCs who come on Ask a VC who are used to my rude, outspoken American ways, Brisbourne is British and therefore incredibly polite. As this interview goes on he gets more visibly uncomfortable until the end when he brings up Spotify, and I just go a little pit-bull on him.But social graces aside, we have a fascinating chat about the investing scene in London and Europe generally. We discuss when an entrepreneur should stay in London, when they should move to the Valley, whether funding activity is picking up as it is in much of the rest of the world and the beauty of lifestyle businesses. Enjoy.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ustream Cuts 4.5% Of Its&nbsp'Staff]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We&amp;'ve gotten word this morning that online streaming video service Ustream has laid off 9 people from its 200 person staff. With social news site Digg having other notable layoffs this week, it&amp;'s crucial to remember that startups often shed staff when going through product and business goal realignments. This is also the case here according to Ustream VP of Communications Lynn Fox.&amp;''This is about us looking forward, we are totally pumped about our future and this is a way to get ourselves conditioned to meet our goals.&amp;'' said FoxUstream, which has $87.8 million in funding, just launched its own Open Pay Per View and Ad Free Broadcasting services. The startup also recently made some key hires, including Fox, in order to better adapt to the changing landscape of online video.While Ustream wouldn&amp;'t reveal what exact positions were laid off, if any former Ustreamers are looking for a job, there are plenty to be had here.CrunchBase InformationUstreamInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LinkedIn CEO: &''Keg stands&'' will protect us from Facebook invasion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner said today that two words &amp;8212' keg stands &amp;8212' will protect his company&amp;'s professional social network from any possible encroachment by bernetwork Facebook.For those who don&amp;'t know, Weiner explained that keg stands are the fraternity-like drinking gags where someone holds you upside down and you proceed to drink from a beer keg. These are not the kind of photos you want your potential employer to see and they are littered across sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The need to separate your networks of family, personal friends, and work acquaintances is why LinkedIn works so well, Weiner said.This prompted me to search for any pictures of Weiner doing a keg stand. I couldn&amp;'t find any.LinkedIn has more than 85 million users now and a market valuation in excess of $2 billion. The company is private, but sites such as SharesPost calculate valuations based on what employees sell their shares for on the secondary market.While Facebook has more than 500 million users, Weiner sees potential for more growth on a worldwide basis. He&amp;'s not scared that Facebook will create its own professional network because of the keg stands issue.&amp;''I cite the keg stands as a cautionary tale,&amp;'' Weiner said, speaking with John Battelle on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.LinkedIn makes money from advertising, subscriptions for premium privileges, and hiring solutions. The latter has become the biggest revenue source in the last year and they enable company recruiters to use LinkedIn in a targeted, very successful way.The growth is accelerating as users find that LinkedIn is useful beyond keeping contacts updated. It took 477 days for the company to hit its first million users. The last million users, in the move from 84 million users to 85 million, took just nine days, Weiner said.Weiner said he isn&amp;'t tempted to invade Facebook&amp;'s space. Adding pictures, for instance, would only happen if there was a way to use them to make people more productive.Weiner said instead that the company is very interested in mining its data in different ways. Improving the ability to search within the context of a professional network, for instance, could turn out to be a lot more useful for people looking for answers on professional questions. In contrast to a general search engine like Google, a professional search engine could yield much better answers for people needing a particular kind of result, he said.LinkedIn is very interested in servicing what Weiner called the emerging &amp;''talent economy.&amp;'' That means that the thing that will be important for professionals in the future is not to know everything there is to know. Rather, it will be important for people to surround themselves with people who have the right knowledge. LinkedIn wants to connect those people and fuel the talent economy, Weiner said.Weiner said he was focused not on doing a successful initial public offering, as is so often rumored in news stories about LinkedIn. Rather, he says he wants to focus on getting critical mass on a global basis, where size really matters.Next Story: Twitter confirms analytics test, says there&amp;'s no release date Previous Story: AT&amp;038'T finally gets a MiFi wireless hotspot of its own for $50PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Web 2.0 SummitCompanies: Facebook, Google, linkedinPeople: Jeff Weiner, John Battelle          Tags: Web 2.0 SummitCompanies: Facebook, Google, linkedinPeople: Jeff Weiner, John BattelleDean 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[Is Skype about to release video-calling for mobile devices]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Skype, a provider of voice and video calling services over the Internet, might be poised to release video calling for mobile devices equipped with a front-facing camera and running Skype at the Consumer Electronics Show next year, according to a number of reports.The service already has video conferencing built into its PC and Mac applications. The application uses webcams and can connect to other Skype users. But video calling isn&amp;'t available on Skype&amp;'s mobile app. Mobile users instead have to use applications like Tango and Apple&amp;'s Facetime for video calling. That&amp;'s largely because mobile video calling wasn&amp;'t that big of a deal a few years ago when front-facing cameras weren&amp;'t standard.But most mobile phones have front-facing cameras for video calling today. The next generation of tablets will include them as well. The Samsung Galaxy S and Research in Motion&amp;'s upcoming BlackBerry Playbook tablet feature front-facing cameras, and the new iPad probably will as well.The software to execute video calling today is rather fragmented, and right now it seems like little more than a novelty application. Having a single application that works across multiple devices would do wonders to take video calling on mobile devices mainstream.That is, if Skype can keep its network up and running. Skype recently suffered a widespread and lengthy outage with its Internet calling service that affected tens of millions of people.The company said in apost that problems with the Skype networka4a4s a4Asupernodesa4 are responsible and could take hours more to fix. Skype apologized to users, particularly some businesses that began to rely on Skype for their calling needs.Based on that reaction, it&amp;'s clear that Skype has widespread placement in the voice-over-Internet market.If Skype decides to release video calling for all of its existing applications, it could significantly stretch its market share. But, as usual, this is the Internet a4&quot; so take all these rumors with a grain of salt.Previous Story: Viacom ditches Rock Band, Dance Central after selling off music game developer HarmonixPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: front-facing camera, mobile video, video calling, video conferencing, voipCompanies: Apple, Google, nokia, Skype          Tags: front-facing camera, mobile video, video calling, video conferencing, voipCompanies: Apple, Google, nokia, SkypeMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.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[Groupon: clueless as Kenneth Cole]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The scene: a conference room at Groupon HQ, last Thursday.Marketing Guy One: &amp;''Hmm. Kenneth Cole tweeted something jokey today about Egyptians going crazy for his spring collection and he&amp;'s being pummeled mercilessly online for being &amp;''extraordinarily tin-eared&amp;'' &amp;8212' whatever that means.Marketing Guy Two: &amp;''Uh-oh. Do you think maybe our Super Bowl Tibet ad will be similarly pilloried by people for what they call &amp;''bad taste&amp;'' and what we call &amp;''advertising&amp;''Marketing Guy One: &amp;''Well, the $3 million is already spent, so the point is moot. Better have PR prepare an apology statement for Monday, just in case. But don&amp;'t worry, dude: buzz is buzz, bro!. High five!http://www.youtube.com/watchv=vVkFT2yjk0A&amp;amp'feature=player_embeddedNext Story: Aircell raises $35M to fuel its in-flight Internet Previous Story: Violin Memory raises $35M for cloud storage usersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: advertisingCompanies: Groupon, kenneth colePeople: kenneth cole          Tags: advertisingCompanies: Groupon, kenneth colePeople: kenneth coleDan Mitchell covers media and technology for VentureBeat,  Fortune.com, and anyone else who will pay him. He previously covered the rise of the Internet for Wired, Cnet News.com, Red Herring, the Industry Standard, Business 2.0 and other  publications and was a Web producer for National Public  Radio. For three years he wrote the column &quot;What's Online&quot; for The New  York Times' Business Day. His popular blog &quot;Daily Bread,&quot; about the  business and political economics of food, ran for two years on Slate's  business site, The Big Money. 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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