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INTERNET THINK TANK

FLASH NEWS

April 3, 2008

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Business


*Motorola to Split Itself in Two
Motorola said that it would split itself into two publicly traded
companies as it struggles to boost its stock price and faces pressure
from activist investor Carl C. Icahn. Motorola said in a statement
that it would separate its flagging cellphone unit from its broadband
and mobility operations, which encompasses the servicing of wireless
networks and the building of television set-top boxes. Motorola
shareholders would receive stock in both companies. "Creating two
industry-leading companies will provide improved flexibility, more
tailored capital structures, and increased management focus - as well
as more targeted investment opportunities for our shareholders,"
Gregory Q. Brown, Motorola's chief executive, said in a statement.
Motorola said in January that it was considering a break-up as its
stock has plunged 45 percent over the past year. Despite the success
of its Razr cellphone, Motorola has lost market share to rivals like
Nokia, Samsung and Apple.
(Source: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com )


*IBM Temporarily Barred from Seeking U.S. Government Contracts
IBM has announced that it is under investigation by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency over an $80 million bid it made in
2006 to modernize the agency's financial systems and has been
suspended from seeking new federal government contracts.
IBM, which made the announcement on Monday, also said the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia had served IBM
and certain employees with grand jury subpoenas requesting testimony
and documents on interactions between the environmental agency and IBM
employees. International Business Machines, the world's largest
provider of computer services, said that on Friday it learned about
the temporary suspension, which is tied to possible violations of
ethical bidding provisions on an EPA contract IBM submitted in March 2006.
(Source: http://iht.com )


*GPS-Chip Boom as Mobiles Enter the Frame
The popularity of consumer sat-nav devices is fuelling the market for
GPS receiver chips, with one billion chips now forecast to ship
annually by 2013, says analyst house ABI Research. As more chips are
shipped, average selling prices will continue to fall, the analyst
predicts. But the cost of chips is already dropping as manufacturers
look towards mobile location-based services - a market set to be worth
$8bn by 2011, according to a recent Gartner forecast. ABI Research
analyst, Jamie Moss, said in a statement: "Handset-based GPS will be
critical to strong market penetration [of GPS chips]." Cheaper chips
are needed for this as mobiles are "lower-margin devices", said Moss.
He predicted: "The average price of the [GPS] chipset will fall to
$3.50 or below by the end of 2008, permitting a true mass market
adoption." As well as being as inexpensive as possible, GPS chips will
need to be as easy as possible for device manufacturers to integrate
with Bluetooth, wi-fi, FM radio and cellular technology, Moss added.
(Source: http://networks.silicon.com )


*Worldwide PC Sales Could Still Grow by Double-Digits
A new report from Gartner, the market research firm, predicts
year-over-year PC sales to grow 10.9 percent worldwide. That's down
from a December forecast of 11.6 percent, and the reduction is due to
the worsening world economy. While a further downturn could slow
growth to single digits, the industry is showing strength across all
segments from laptops to desktop replacements, the company said.
In the United States, Gartner lowered its 2008 forecast from 5.2
percent unit growth to 4 percent. The decline "will be more
concentrated in the professional sector rather than the home," the
Gartner research director, George Shiffler, said. "There is more hope
for home replacements. The professional market is more saturated." Mr.
Shiffler does not think the reduced forecast is much cause for worry.
"A lot of people think the sky is falling. No it's not. We will see a
deceleration from last year, but we are not seeing a 2001-like
worldwide contraction nor a double-digit decline in the U.S." Mr.
Shiffler expects "robust" growth in emerging markets with low PC
penetration, including parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
China's PC penetration is just 111 computers per 1,000 people,
compared with penetration in the United States of 850 PCs per 1,000
people. Shipments in emerging markets increased by 22 percent in the
last quarter of 2007, as economies there strengthened.
(Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com )


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Early Adaptor Blog

In the blog this week: a video of Eric Schmidt circa 1986, the new
"Instinct" iPhone clone, 5 reasons why PCs are better than Macs and
how a company called 6N Silicon can shake up the chip industry. All in
the EA Blog.
http://earlyadaptor.tumblr.com/

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Portals


*Report Shows Decline In Google Paid-Search-Ad Clicks In U.S.
A new report presents new evidence that even Internet darling Google
might be feeling the effects of a slowing economy. The number of times
U.S. Internet users clicked on Google search ads in February fell
compared with January, says market tracker comScore. This isn't the
first time the number of Google paid clicks in the U.S. fell month to
month, but it appears to be the first time that has happened three
months in a row. Paid clicks on Google Web sites in the U.S. last
month did rise 3.1% compared with February 2007, after they fell 0.3%
in January vs. January 2007. But U.S. paid clicks on Google ads rose
24% in the fourth quarter vs. the year-earlier period, according to
comScore. The report hurt Google shares, which fell 3.1% to 444.08 on
Thursday. With search ads, Google and its Web site partners are paid
per click. The stock is down 41% since hitting a high of 747 on Nov. 7.
(Source: http://money.cnn.com )


*Yahoo Launches Site Focused on Women
Yahoo Inc. on Monday launched a site for women between ages 25 and 54,
calling it a key demographic underserved by current Yahoo properties.
The site, Shine, is aimed largely at giving the struggling Internet
company additional opportunities to sell advertising targeted to the
key decision-maker in many households. Yahoo said advertisers in
consumer-packaged goods, retail and pharmaceuticals have requested
more ways to reach those consumers. Amy Iorio, vice president for
Yahoo Lifestyles, said internal research also shows women are looking
for a site to combine various content and communications tools.
''These women were sort of caretakers for everybody in their lives,''
she said. ''They didn't feel like there was a place that was looking
at the whole them -- as a parent, as a spouse, as a daughter. They
were looking for one place that gave them everything.''
(Source: http://www.nytimes.com )

Shine
http://shine.yahoo.com/


*LightPole's Software Mobilizes Web Sites and Adds Geo-Context
Putting "geo-context" into information is a hot topic these days on
the mobile web. The phrase means making data more useful by putting
geographic context behind it, like listing all of the wireless
Internet hot spots nearest you on a map on the phone. Adding
geo-context to the mobile web is what LightPole, a start-up that
recently ;aunched, is banking its business on. LightPole says it can
take just about any web site and turn it into a mobile service with
geo-context. For instance, it can make Yelp's restaurant listings
viewable on the map view of a cell phone. But it goes a step further
than mobile map or search services because it lets someone comment on
results, share it with a bunch of friends and have it viewable on a
wide variety of phones. On the consumer side, it lets phone users
discover what's around them, said Doug Klein, CEO of LightPole in San
Francisco. "A GPS navigator gets you to a certain point, but we let
you discover what's around you when you reach that point," he said.
(Source: http://venturebeat.com )
Lightpole
http://lightpole.net/user/login


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Internet


*Breaking Down The Social Networking Walls
In the two-horse race of social networking in the United States, it
doesn't have to be an either-or proposition. A recent study of
Americans between the ages of 13 and 42 found that 62 percent have
accounts on both Facebook and MySpace, and most don't plan on giving
up one site for the other any time soon. The study was commissioned by
Fuser, the Web communications aggregator that launched to the public
last June, with the stated mission to simplify people's digital lives.
With a new social networking widget, Fuser believes it's doing just
that. In February, Fuser made a splash when it released a Facebook
application that allows people to send and receive MySpace messages
within their Facebook profile. Last week, MySpace moved its developer
platform into the public testing phase, and Fuser's application to
communicate with Facebook friends was one of the first 200 released.
So now, through Fuser, the elemental social applications of MySpace
and Facebook work together.
(Source: http://www.internetnews.com )

Fuser
http://fuser.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1


*TorrentSpy Voluntarily Closes
The content industry can scratch another notch into its legal gun this
week, after BitTorrent tracker TorrentSpy announced that it has
voluntarily shut down as of last Monday. "We have decided on our own,
not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the TorrentSpy.com
search engine to an end," reads a message that is all that remains of
the beleaguered tracker. "The legal climate in the USA for copyright,
privacy of search requests, and links to torrent files in search
results is simply too hostile." "We spent the last two years, and
hundreds of thousands of dollars, defending the rights of our users
and ourselves � Ultimately the Court demanded actions that in our view
were inconsistent with our privacy policy, traditional court rules,
and International law; therefore, we now feel compelled to provide the
ultimate method of privacy protection for our users - permanent shutdown."
(Source: http://www.dailytech.com )


*Facebook IM to Rival AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft
Facebook members can soon quit poking, quizzing, and sending useless
application requests to one another and begin chatting via instant
message. The social-networking site made the announcement Tuesday,
saying the feature would be available in two weeks to the community's
estimated 67 million members. Facebook's move to unleash messaging
within its vast audience poses a new challenge to AOL, Microsoft, and
other makers of instant- messaging services. The startup's new chat is
not a standalone IM client and requires people to be logged on to
Facebook, unlike its competitors. Also, it doesn't allow for
conference-style chats. Facebook's chat, an imbedded feature within
the web site, will likely benefit from its ease of use because it
doesn't require a download. This could allow it to better challenge
the instant-messaging services offered by AOL, Microsoft, or Yahoo,
which require a download.
(Source: http://www.redherring.com )


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Weekly Quote


"I think we are at a major turning point in the history of computing.
The change we're starting with today is even broader than the PC
revolution."

--Journalist and author Nicholas Carr. In a keynote address at the
Search Engine Strategies conference, Mr. Carr outlined a vision of an
IT economy that stands on the cusp of a transformation more sweeping
than the introduction of the mainframe or even the personal computer.
That change, Carr said, is the fundamental redefinition of computing
power as a utility, rather than as an asset that companies produce and
manage internally. Utility, or cloud, computing is about much more
than technological capabilities. Technology is the mechanism, but, as
in any shift in business, the driver is economics.
(Source: http://www.internetnews.com )


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Wireless


*XM-Sirius Merger Approved by DOJ
The U.S. Justice Department approved the merger between satellite
radio companies Sirius and XM last week, more than a year after the
two companies first announced their deal. But for fans of Howard
Stern, Opie & Anthony and other Sirius and XM on-air personalities,
there are still many questions about how much a combined Sirius-XM
service will cost and what programs they'll be able to hear. Plus,
Sirius and XM face one more regulatory hurdle before the deal can
officially be completed. Despite cries from some politicians and
traditional broadcast companies calling the pending deal harmful to
consumers, the Department of Justice determined that an XM-Sirius
merger was not anti-competitive. The Justice Department argued that
other media companies such as Clear Channel, CBS, or even Apple with
its iTunes software and iPod music player served as alternate options
for music and media customers. Many other considerations factored into
the Justice Department's decision, including data that suggested the
companies were not even competitive with one another.
(Source: http://money.cnn.com )


*'Phone' Driving = Drink Driving
Listening to a mobile phone, even with a headset and free hands, can
make a driver as dangerous as a drunken one, a new study confirms.
Researchers have previously explored this territory, but Carnegie
Mellon University scientists tried a new tack: they looked at the
brain. Researchers used brain imaging to show that listening to a
mobile phone significantly reduced the brain activity that occurs
during undistracted driving. This drop in brain function increases
driving mistakes - such as weaving out of the lane or hitting a kerb.
Scores of studies have shown that performing a mental task such as
having a conversation impairs driving performance, but the new
research is the first to look at what is going on in the brain.
(Source: http://www.smh.com.au )


*Cable Giants Talk WiMAX
Cable TV giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable are in talks with Sprint
Nextel and Clearwire about a joint venture that would finally give the
cable firms their elusive quadruple play service package, according to
a published report. The report in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal said
that Sprint and Clearwire, which have been in talks for months about a
joint venture based on WiMAX, are trying to raise at least $3 billion
to build a single, nationwide network. Comcast would invest about $1
billion, the paper said, while Time Warner Cable would contribute $500
million. Cable operator Bright House Networks would invest between
$100 million and $200 million in the deal. Intel and Google are also
involved in the talks, the report said. A WiMAX venture involving the
two mobile carriers and three cable firms could fill service and
coverage holes for both groups, but in the rapidly changing mobile
market both the success of WiMAX and the joint venture are iffy
propositions.
Source: http://www.redherring.com )


*Music-Enabled Cellphone Shipments Tower over the iPod
Are you using an iPod to listen to music while on the go? Well, you
may be in the minority now. A new study by MultiMedia Intelligence
reports that over a half-billion music-enabled cellphones shipped in
2007. This outpaces the numbers of iPods sold last year by just about
300 million. That conclusion may be somewhat misleading because
presumably the purpose of a music-enabled cellphone is still to be a
phone first, and some purchasers may not use the music capabilities at
all. If you buy an iPod, on the other, you are almost certainly using
it to listen to music. Still, if the data is to be believed, by 2011
the number of music-enabled mobile phones will be approaching one
billion units shipped, likely further outpacing the iPod. It is almost
a certainty that Steve Jobs foresaw this trend when he put in motions
his plans for the iPhone. Consumers simply do not want to carry around
multiple devices on a daily basis when one will do the same thing.
(Source: http://venturebeat.com )


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Technology


*AMD Comes Out Swinging with 2 Quad Chips and a Triple Core
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which took a lot of heat for falling off
its game last year, looks to be back in the fray with today's
unveiling of three desktop processors. AMD announced that it's
releasing Phenom X49000 processors for high-end desktop systems, along
with the 65-watt quad-core Phenom X4 9100e and the Phenom X3 8000
triple-core processors. Today's announcements came just a few weeks
after AMD released a new graphics chip set that's designed to pair up
with the company's new high-end quad-core chips to boost performance
for gamers, serious multi-taskers and multimedia users, according to
Patrick Moorhead, a spokesman for AMD. "The CPUs by themselves are
good to see, but the most important part is that AMD just came out
with their 700-series graphics," said Jim McGregor, an analyst at
In-Stat in Scottsdale, Ariz. "Now you're talking about the ability to
have integrated graphics and hybrid graphics. Suddenly, it's
attractive again. AMD has got a more competitive and compelling
solution now than they've had."
(Source: http://www.computerworld.com )


*VCs Like SpinVox Message: $100M in Funding
SpinVox, which has developed software to turn voice mail into text
messages, has raised more than $100 million in a new round of funding.
"SpinVox is transforming core messaging for carriers worldwide and
delivering new, recurring revenues from existing user behavior,"
SpinVox CEO Christina Domecq said in a statement. The London company
said the funds will be used to expand its business, which now operates
on four continents and has signed deals with 12 telecommunications
carriers including Vodafone in Spain, Telstra in Australia, and
broadband telephony provider Skype. Besides its voice mail service,
SpinVox allows bloggers to speak their entries, and users of
social-networking sites like Facebook can update their profiles over
the phone.
(Source: http://www.redherring.com )

SpinVox
http://www.spinvox.com/


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You Tube


*YouTube Feature Tells Video Creators When and Where a Clip Is Being
Watched. In a move to provide better data to its users, YouTube
formally announced that it had added a free feature that will show
video creators when and where viewers are watching their videos. With
this, the company hopes to turn YouTube from an online video site into
a place where marketers can test their messages, Tracy Chan, YouTube
product manager, said. This program, called YouTube Insight, provides
a detailed view of a video's popularity, both over time and
geographically, broken down by state. (Internationally, YouTube
Insight is not as insightful, providing only popularity by country.)
With the Insight information, video creators can dig into the
specifics of a video's performance and find, for example, that it
peaks on Fridays in winter months, or it has taken several weeks to
get traction - information that can help better promote their work.
The information, presented as a color-coded map and a graph of a
video's popularity, is accessible through a link from a video
creator's account page on YouTube. The company will update the data
once a day.
(Source: http://www.nytimes.com

YouTube Blog Post
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=IRJjhiDz6RU


*YouTube Yobs Chase Top Video Off the Charts
The Italian blogger who uploaded what became the most watched YouTube
video of all time says he decided to kill off his mega hit after he
was subjected to a torrent of abuse from viewers on the Google-owned
video sharing site. The year-old video, which had been viewed over 100
million times, was deleted from the YouTube servers last weekend by
the Italian, who calls himself Clarus Bartel. "I was fed up [with the
abuse and accusations of statistical manipulation]," Bartel said in an
email. "I am not interested in the first place if this is the price I
have to pay." The three minute clip was a home made video remix
featuring the Brazilian band Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) and their song
Music is My Hot Hot Sex. According to the last published YouTube tally
before it was deleted, the video had been watched 114, 281, 553 times
since being uploaded last April. Unusually, over 70 million of the
views came this year in the month between February 17 and March 15,
the day it was zapped.
(Source: http://www.smh.com.au )


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Security


*Malware Cited in Supermarket Data Breach
Unauthorized software that was secretly installed on servers in
Hannaford Bros. Co.'s supermarkets across the Northeast and in Florida
enabled the massive data breach that compromised up to 4.2 million
credit and debit cards, the company said Friday. The Scarborough,
Maine-based grocer confirmed a report in The Boston Globe that it told
Massachusetts regulators this week about the link between the breach
and the illicit programs, known as "malware." The company doesn't know
how the malware - short for malicious software - got onto nearly all
its 271 stores' servers, Hannaford spokeswoman Carol Eleazer said.
"Virtually everything is possible," she said. "There are still many,
many aspects that we don't totally understand." At least 1,800 cases
of fraud have been linked to the data breach, with unauthorized
charges showing up as far afield as Mexico, Italy and Bulgaria. The
breach has prompted concern in the industry because it appeared to be
the first large-scale theft of credit and debit card numbers while the
information was in transit.
(Source: http://www.myway.com )


*MacBook Air Hacked After 2 Minutes
A team of security researchers has won $10,000 for hacking a MacBook
Air in two minutes using an undisclosed Safari vulnerability. IDG News
Service is camped out at CanSecWest in lovely Vancouver, Canada, and
has chronicled the exploits of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark
Daniel of Independent Security Evaluators during the Pwn to Own
contest sponsored by TippingPoint. The team was able to gain control
of a MacBook Air on the second day of the hacking competition, which
pitted the Air against Windows Vista and Ubuntu machines. No one was
able to execute code on any of the systems on Wednesday, the first day
of the contest, when hacks were limited to over-the-network techniques
on the operating systems themselves. But on the second day, the rules
changed to allow attacks delivered by tricking someone to visit a
maliciously crafted Web site, or open an e-mail. Hackers were also
allowed to target "default installed client-side applications," such
as browsers. The team had attack code already set up on a Web site,
and was able to gain access to the MacBook Air and retrieve a file
after judges were "tricked" into visiting the site. According to the
TippingPoint DVLabs blog, a newly discovered vulnerability in Safari
was used to gain control of the Air. The contest rules stipulated that
winners immediately sign a nondisclosure agreement relating to their
technique, so that the vulnerability could be disclosed to the vendor,
and TippingPoint said Apple has been informed of the vulnerability.
(Source: http://www.news.com )


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*Expert: White House Can Recover E-mail on The Cheap
A group suing to force the White House to preserve current e-mails --
and restore allegedly missing ones -- is firing back at claims that
archival and recovery work would be too costly. In a court filing
Tuesday, the National Security Archive blasted claims by the U.S.
Executive Office of the President (EOP) that complying with an earlier
order to preserve data would prove overly expensive, labor-intensive
and ultimately futile in preserving e-mail from its current and
retired workstations. "The costs associated with copying or imaging
... sources of missing e-mails is not only quantifiable, but is also
nominal," wrote attorneys for the National Security Archive, an
independent, non-governmental research institute at Washington, D.C.'s
George Washington University. "EOP's bald assertions that costs cannot
be quantified and are not presently knowable are disingenuous," they
added in the filing.
(Source: http://www.internetnews.com )


*Rambus Wins Latest Legal Round, Beats Back Fraud Claims
The latest round in everyone's favorite ongoing legal saga, Rambus
versus the world, has tipped in Rambus' favor. A jury ruled Wednesday
in San Francisco that Rambus did not obtain patents for memory
technology through fraud or anti-competitive means, in a blow to
memory makers Hynix, Micron, and Nanya. Rambus has spent years trying
to enforce its patents on memory used in just about every PC and
server in the world, while fighting off claims that it obtained those
patents through shady means. At one point in the mid-1990s, Rambus and
the memory industry sat down to work on setting standards for what
would become the SDRAM memory technology. Rambus wound up breaking
from the group and trying to get traction with its own technology,
called RDRAM, but was stymied by a combination of problems at Intel
and price-fixing inside the memory industry. But after RDRAM failed to
gain momentum, Rambus began suing the memory industry, claiming that
the SDRAM standard used technology that Rambus had patented. The
memory industry immediately cried foul, noting that since Rambus was a
participant in the SDRAM standards-setting discussions as part of a
group called JEDEC, it should have disclosed the fact that it held
patents on technology the group was discussing.
(Source: http://www.news.com )


*New York City Subpoenas Creator of Text Messaging Code
When delegates to the Republican National Convention assembled in New
York in August 2004, the streets and sidewalks near Union Square and
Madison Square Garden filled with demonstrators. Police officers in
helmets formed barriers by stretching orange netting across
intersections. These tableaus and others were described as they
happened in text messages that spread from mobile phone to mobile
phone in New York City and beyond. The people sending and receiving
the messages were using technology, developed by an anonymous group of
artists and activists called the Institute for Applied Autonomy, that
allowed users to form networks and transmit messages to hundreds or
thousands of telephones. Although the service, called TXTmob, was
widely used by demonstrators, reporters and possibly even police
officers, little was known about its inventors. Last month, however,
the New York City Law Department issued a subpoena to Tad Hirsch, a
doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who
wrote the code that created TXTmob. Lawyers representing the city in
lawsuits filed by hundreds of people arrested during the convention
asked Mr. Hirsch to hand over voluminous records revealing the content
of messages exchanged on his service and identifying people who sent
and received messages. Mr. Hirsch says that some of the subpoenaed
material no longer exists and that he believes he has the right to
keep other information secret.
(Source: http://www.nytimes.com )


*Man Loses Everything in Craigslist Hoax
A Craigslist-related scam has left an Oregon man without most of his
belongings. According to an Associated Press report, Saturday a pair
of ads popped up on Craigslist advertising that the owner of the home
had been forced to leave the area and that all of his belongings were
free for the taking. The second of the two ads was more specific
stating that a horse that had been abandoned by the sheriff's
department was free to anyone willing to give it a good home. Here's
the kicker: Robert Salisbury, the owner of the home and horse, was out
of town and completely unaware of the Craigslist ads and that his
house was being cleaned out. When a woman tracked Salisbury down and
called him to claim his horse Salisbury rushed home. He even stopped a
truck full of his possessions on the way home. "I informed them I was
the owner, but they refused to give the stuff back," Salisbury to the
Associated Press. "They showed me the Craigslist printout and told me
they had the right to do what they did."
(Source: http://www.pcworld.com )


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Gadget of the Week


*Greenpeace: Sony TZ Is Greenest Laptop
Sony's TZ series of 11.1" subnotebooks are singled out for praise in
Greenpeace's latest guide to greener electronics, but the company
itself was edged out by Samsung, Toshiba and Nokia in the overall
runnings. The TZ, newly garbage-free when it comes to pre-installed
applications, is also free of another kind of garbage - beryllium -
which landed it the top spot in the advocacy group's roundup of green
machines. Sony, Dell and Lenovo shared second place in the company
rankings, however, scoring 7.3. Samsung, Toshiba and Nokia are in
joint first place as the greenest manufacturers, scoring 7.7 out of
10. Nokia would have won handily had it not, according to Greenpeace,
been penalized a point "for corporate misbehavior as a result of
Greenpeace testing of the companies' take-back practice in the
Philippines, Thailand, Russia, Argentina and India." Apple, called out
by Greenpeace in the past, scores a respectable 6.7, along with HP,
Sony-Ericsson, Fujitsu and LG. Faring poorly are Panasonic, Microsoft
and Philips, scoring close to 4, but this round's Object of Hatred is
Nintendo, which gets only 0.3 on the hippyometer.
(Source: http://www.wired.com )

Review: Sony VAIO TZ Notebook
http://www.geek.com/review-sony-vaio-tz-notebook/


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Tech Terms


iPhone effect

The 'iPhone effect' is filtering through the rest of the handset
market as other manufacturers add new features to remain competitive
in the face of Apple's touchscreen device. Among the features likely
to proliferate in terms of enhancing user interface experiences
include touchscreens, touchpads and accelerometers allowing tilt and
shock sensing, as well as haptics for providing tactile feedback,
according to analyst house ABI Research.


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On the Web


Data from the use of cell phones and other mobile devices yield
patterns of movement that can help public agencies and businesses.
"There's Gold in 'Reality Mining'"
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc20080323_387127.htm

Google's rise to the top was fuelled by free beer, barbecues and rum,
its first chef says.
"Google's free beer and 'big-ass' barbies"
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/googles-bigass-barbies/2008/03/23/12062069\
79578.html

The problem with the modern Web is that it's insecure and fixes may be
a long time coming.
"Can We Fix The Web?"
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3735341/Can+We+Fix+The+Web.htm

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