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Video: China’s Horrific E-Waste Recycling Practices 10 November 2008 at 6:10 pm by admin

In September, the Government Accountability Office issued a 67-page report claiming U.S. companies are cutting corners on recycling efforts by shipping their e-waste to
foreign countries. Current made a documentary to illustrate the problem in China, where we can see workers in the country’s informal recycling sectors disassembling old gadgets on top of piles of e-waste. Pretty horrendous, isn’t it?

See also:

DTV Transition Will ‘Puke’ on Environment, Says Recycling Group
Report: U.S. E-Waste Ends Up in Asia for Recycling

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+ Google Fixes Embarrassing Android Bug By admin 10 November 2008 at 6:07 pm and have No Comments

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Google has fixed an a potentially devastating bug in its newly released Android operating system.

Some users of T-Mobile’s G1 phone found that typing any word on the phone’s keyboard — in any application — sent whatever they typed to the phone’s command line shell.

Those commands were then executed with root
user privileges, meaning there were no limitations on what the commands could do to the phone. For instance, texting the word ‘reboot’ would actually cause the phone to do so.

"We fixed the bug on Oct. 31 and are currently rolling out the fix to G1
devices," a Google spokesperson told Wired.com. Not all G1 phones may have been fixed though as T-Mobile is rolling out the patch in stages and there could be some phones still to be updated.

The bug affected almost all G1 phones and not just phones that had been "jailbroken" (hacked to work with unauthorized applications).

"This bug does
affect users of G1 running RC29 and earlier," says the Google spokesperson. "RC30 fixes this issue and it is not present in the emulator." RC29 and RC30 refer to updates to the Android firmware.

A test this morning at the Wired.com office did not show the
behavior on a G1 phone running the RC19 version of the firmware.

The latest update has been rolled out to all G1 phones but users have to click "update" directly on their device
for Google to consider the process complete, says the Google spokesperson. "We’re in the midst of that."

Despite the publicity around the latest Android flaw, it could not have caused much of a security problem, says Charlie Miller, a mobile-security specialist at Independent Security Evaluators

"It is such a basic problem that it is just embarrassing," says Miller. "It’s not really a security problem since you can’t do anything with the phone remotely." Miller discovered one of the earliest bugs in Android and says Google fixed that flaw within two weeks of being alerted.

Miller says Android developers were probably rushing to meet a deadline and didn’t test the code in detail, leading to the bug. "It was something they were using and may have forgotten to turn off," he says. "It’s just sloppy work."

Going forward, Google says it has created an online group to announce security updates and fixes. 

Photo: T-Mobile G1 (vveneziani/Flickr)

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+ The week we prepared to fall back [Recap] By admin 31 October 2008 at 7:00 pm and have No Comments

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/fallback.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ width=”497″ height=”378″ style=”display:block;float:none;” /In theory, Fondue’s two BlackBerrys will reset from Daylight Savings Time back to PST automatically this Sunday. In practice, she’ll be sorry she ate the manual. Ah, if only we, too, were Jason Calacanis’s bitch. The CEO of Mahalo, a bluster-powered search engine, treats his dogs better than his employees. Will Facebook join a href=”http://valleywag.com/5070144/the-facebook-layoffs”Mahalo in laying people off/a?/p pNot if CFO Gideon Yu a href=”http://valleywag.com/5072509/facebook-cfos-excellent-middle-east-adventure”returns from the Middle East with a fistful of petrodollars/a. In New York, Googlers’ a href=”http://valleywag.com/5070227/google-new-york-hit-by-cost-cuts”stomachs now rumble as snacks get cut back/a. Tesla Motors, the electric carmaker, is feeling starved, too mdash; of cash. It’s a href=”http://valleywag.com/5071621/tesla-motors-has-9-million-in-the-bank-may-not-deliver-cars”down to its last $9 million/a, with only vague promises that investors will pony up more. Scary! a href=”http://valleywag.com/5071482/the-5-scariest-people-in-silicon-valley”Don a mask/a and put a fright in someone else for a change.em(Photo by a href=”http://flickr.com/photos/jasoncalacanis/2987755732/in/set-72157608518044741/”Jason Calacanis/a)/em/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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+ America’s CTO does infomercial for Obama [Eric Schmidt] By admin 31 October 2008 at 5:40 pm and have No Comments

pscript type=”text/javascript” newVideoPlayer(”/googbama.flv”, 506, 423,”"); /scriptimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/stills/googbama.flv.jpg” style=”display:block;display: none;” /In exchange for his late-to-the-party endorsement of Barack Obama, Google CEO Eric Schmidt got a spot on Obama’s prime-time infomercial last night. Note how Schmidt explains his decision, made only after Obama took a substantial lead in the polls: “When I read his economic plan strongand saw the people endorsing it/strong, Warren Buffett, I thought, ‘This is the right plan for America.’” In other words, Schmidt didn’t endorse Obama until he saw it was popular with the right people, and might help Google get its search deal with Yahoo passed under an Obama administration. Brave! We still don’t think you’ll get that government job, Eric./p br style=”clear: both;”/
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+ 3 reasons why Google’s bookstore will be a disaster [Bad Ideas] By admin 31 October 2008 at 4:40 pm and have No Comments

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/10/custom_1225488540107_jumble_of_books_at_shakespeare_co.jpg” width=”340″ height=”255″ align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ /The a href=”a href=”http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2007/04/antiquarian_boo.html”"lovingly jumbled piles of books/a at Shakespeare Co., the famous Paris bookstore, must madden Googlers. All that information, unorganized! In the wake of its $125 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by book publishers, Google is now thinking about turning its money-burning Book Search product into an a href=”http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/google-to-open-an-itunes-for-books”online store/a. This will end badly./p/a pRemember the Google Video Marketplace? Exactly. a href=”http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/video_marketplace.html”Launched months before Google bought YouTube/a, the video store required cumbersome copyright protections and was a nonstarter with consumers. Google closed the store last year, enraging the dozen or so people who’d actually bothered to buy videos./p pAnd Google’s Book Search operations are a disaster, overseen by Ramsey Allington, an unqualified IPO lottery winner who joined Google at the right time to get valuable stock options and social connections. He has a href=”http://valleywag.com/5069973/the-rotten-manager-behind-google-book-search”made a mess of his department/a, driving out qualified female employees by being a sexist boor. Publishers would do well to steer clear of Google until he’s gone./p pEven if Google Book Search is placed under competent management, I doubt it will succeed. Google lacks a merchant’s sensibility, trusting algorithms over salesmanship. But most people do not walk into a bookstore knowing what they are looking for. They seek serendipity mdash; a quality that Googlers, with their overplanned vision of the world, hope to eliminate. There is beauty in an untidy stack of books. But a Stanford MBA’s spreadsheets will never capture that./p pem(Photo via a href=”http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2007/04/antiquarian_boo.html”Paris Parfait/a)/em/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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+ Why Jimmy Wales got booted from Wikia’s top job [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge] By admin 31 October 2008 at 4:00 pm and have No Comments

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/10/custom_1225485041012_jimbobling.jpg” width=”158″ height=”211″ align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ /Why did Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia, an online compendium which includes the world’s a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick”most detailed article on flim-flams/a, step down as CEO of Wikia, the for-profit website host which recently laid off some of its employees? The way Wales a href=”http://business.asiaone.com/Business/SME2BHub/Story/A1Story20081029-97003.html”likes to tell the story/a, years later, he realized he was a free-flying entrepreneur, not an earthbound bureaucrat. So he hired Gil Penchina, a former eBay executive, to mind the shop. That’s not what really happened. Wales was fired from his job as CEO by the company’s investors./p pThe cause? The same kind of expense-account hijinks that landed him in trouble at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit parent of Wikipedia./p pIn 2006, Wales was courting Marc Bodnick, a cofounder of Silicon Valley private-equity firm Elevation Partners, in an effort to find a way to profit from Wikipedia, despite its nonprofit status and volunteer contributors. Bodnick and an assistant had traveled to St. Petersburg, Fla., where Wikimedia was then based. The talks went nowhere, but Wales, his wife, Bodnick, and Bodnick’s assistant had a $1,300 meal at one of the city’s finest restaurants. ($600 of the bill was spent on wine.)/p pAt that point, the Wikimedia Foundation had confiscated Wales’s corporate card, so he paid for the meal himself. But he then sought to have it reimbursed by Wikia. Michael Davis, Wikia’s chief operating officer, became enraged and reported the expense to Jeremy Levine, a Wikia board member and partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, which had invested $4 million into the company only a month before. /p pLevine then told Wales he was fired as CEO, and found Penchina, who had already made a fortune at eBay. Wales must hate that: Every time he sees Penchina, he must ask himself, “Why is this guy rich and I’m not?” Penchina, meanwhile, must be asking why Wikia is still paying Wales a salary./p br style=”clear: both;”/
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+ Google founder’s journalist mother-in-law writes blimp infomercial [Esther Wojcicki] By admin 31 October 2008 at 2:00 pm and have No Comments

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/Wojcicki-Esther.jpg” width=”172″ height=”228″ align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ /Esther Wojcicki, known as “Woj” at Palo Alto High School, where she a href=”http://www.paly.net/~ewojcick/”teaches journalism/a, is a a href=”http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/news/1998_Apr_29.PEOPLE29.html”beloved figure on campus/a. She’s also quite welcome at the Googleplex, as the mother of Anne Wojcicki, who’s married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin, and Google executive Susan Wojcicki. I wonder if proximity to power and wealth has dulled Woj’s reportorial instincts./p pShe recently wrote a a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-wojcicki/the-return-of-the-zeppeli_b_138961.html”wide-eyed travelogue/a for the Huffington Post about the first flight of the Zeppelin NT, a blimp launched by startup Airship Ventures. Airship is backed by Esther Dyson, who is also an investor in her daughter Anne’s startup, 23andMe. That, at the least, Woj ought to have disclosed. (I’ve asked Mario Ruiz, an executive at Huffington Post, if she violated any of the online publication’s disclosure rules for writers; he has yet to reply./p pBut if she really wanted to impress her students with her journalism chops, Woj might have asked questions about Amphitheatre LLC, the shadowy entity which has also invested in Airship Ventures. Amphitheatre shares a name with the street address of Google’s headquarters mdash; and a href=”http://valleywag.com/5069502/google-secretly-investing-in-zeppelins”possibly more/a. I would love to have known what Woj would have discovered, had she been less interested in promoting her daughter’s investor’s new startup./p br style=”clear: both;”/
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+ Facebook’s ad targeting badly misses the mark [Breakdowns] By admin 31 October 2008 at 1:40 pm and have No Comments

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/facebookmissed.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ width=”501″ height=”285″ style=”display:block;float:none;” /Google and Yahoo target search ads based on mere keywords. How passé! Facebook’s targeted ads, which draw on the personal information users enter into their profiles, are clearly the future, right? If only the company’s engineers could competently write the code that targets those ads. A Facebook advertiser who has spent thousands of dollars on campaigns targeted by age and country says that the site’s new reporting tools for advertisers have exposed a serious problem: Either the targeting routines are broken, or the reporting is completely off. An ad meant for U.K. teens went mostly to the U.S. and other European countries instead. A campaign meant to be placed in front of Irish users saw 1 in 14 ads go elsewhere. It’s a poor reflection on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, whose expertise in running Google’s automated ad systems was touted as her main qualification for the job. Here are screenshots of some of the advertisers’ reports:/p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/facebookchart1.png” class=”center” width=”477″ height=”194″ style=”display:block;float:none;” //p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/facebookchart2.png” class=”center” width=”472″ height=”286″ style=”display:block;float:none;” //p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/facebookchart3.png” class=”center” width=”472″ height=”195″ style=”display:block;float:none;” //p br style=”clear: both;”/
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+ Facebook CFO’s excellent Middle East adventure [Gideon Yu] By admin 31 October 2008 at 12:20 pm and have No Comments

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/10/custom_1225473281004_n_1207596237_Gideon_Yu_001_1_.jpg” width=”340″ height=”510″ align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ /Gideon Yu is flying back from Dubai today, we hear. His coworkers at Facebook are surely anxious to know what gifts he’s bringing back mdash; and we don’t mean the duty-free kind. TechCrunch a href=”http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/31/facebooks-growing-problem/”reports/a he was there on a fundraising mission. The Persian Gulf’s sovereign wealth funds are swollen with petrodollars. But Yu’s assignment was tough. Maintaining the $15 billion valuation Facebook obtained from Microsoft and Hong Kong investor Li Ka-Shing in the face of a declining advertising market will require a lot of a href=”http://valleywag.com/389540/why-facebook-borrowed-100-million-for-servers”Yu’s demonstrated slickness/a. But if Yu can squeeze cash out of Bill Gates, surely he can navigate a Middle Eastern bazaar./p pThe bad news: The company needs the cash. TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington has a detailed estimate of Facebook’s expenses:br / blockquoteThe company is likely spending well over a $1 million per month on electricity alone, say experts we’ve spoken with. Bandwidth is likely another $500,000 or more per month on top of that. The company has earmarked $100 million to buy 50,000 servers this year and next…. we’ve heard estimates that they may have spent as much as $30 million this year alone with [storage systems company NetApp]. And the icing on the cake mdash; earmark another $15 million per year in office and datacenter rent payments./p pAnd don’t forget those human assets. With 750 employees and growing, Facebook is spending at least another $10 million per month on payroll./p pIt costs a couple of hundred million dollars a year just to keep the lights on at Facebook. But the real problem is keeping up with growth, particularly storage needs. Add another $100 million or more per year for capital expenditures, and you’ve got a company that’s doing exactly the opposite of printing money./p/blockquote pThis estimate, I freely admit, is much better than a href=”http://valleywag.com/5070144/the-facebook-layoffs”my back-of-the-envelope math/a. Arrington may overstate the direness of Facebook’s cash position; a $100 million computer-lease deal Yu negotiated has preserved some of its capital, though that will need to be paid off down the road. The company’s rosy projections for advertising, certainly, must need to be revised downward. /p pIf Yu has come back from Dubai empty-handed, then Facebook will soon be cutting costs just like the rest of the Valley./p br style=”clear: both;”/
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+ Valley blowhards gush forth advice [Meltdowns] By admin 31 October 2008 at 12:00 pm and have No Comments

pembed src=”http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/452319854″ bgcolor=”#FFFFFF” flashVars=”videoId=1886218460playerId=452319854viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgatewayservicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/servicescdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.comdomain=embedautoStart=false” base=”http://admin.brightcove.com” name=”flashObj” width=”486″ height=”412″ align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ seamlesstabbing=”false” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” swLiveConnect=”true” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash”/embedProfessional annoyance Kara Swisher, the BoomTown blogger, went to a a href=”http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081030/they-will-survive-silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-talk-downturn/”how-to-survive-the-downturn gabfest/a, and all she got was this lousy video. Captured on her Flip camera: Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who didn’t predict the downturn; Nirav Tolia, the Epinions cofounder mdash; an entrepreneur mdash; who hasn’t laid anyone off since the last bubble burst and is surely rusty; Google investor Ram Shriram, who has way too much money to care about such mundane affairs as a recession; and emFast Company/em videoblogger Robert Scoble, who is cheerfully clueless as ever. The bright side: If Scoble is saying companies need to conserve cash, perhaps we’ve hit a market bottom./p br style=”clear: both;”/
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