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Hara: Software for a carbon-constrained economy
[ Date: 06.01.09 ]
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Backed by Kleiner Perkins, start-up Hara is fielding software to help businesses track use of energy and other resources. Will it take hold without national carbon regulations?
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Boston Power plans battery plant for cars, laptops
[ Date: 06.01.09 ]
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With growing concern over the lack of U.S. car battery manufacturing, Boston Power says a proposed auto and laptop battery plant in Massachusetts is "shovel ready."
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Qualcomm adds 'Snapdragon' chip and shows devices
[ Date: 05.31.09 ]
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Qualcomm says it is adding new Snapdragon silicon to its series of chips for Netbooks and other small devices.
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The making of a PostSecret book
[ Date: 05.31.09 ]
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Working late into the night on the floor of a Manhattan hotel, the founder of the hugely popular online secret-sharing project assembled dozens of new secrets for a new manuscript.
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Nvidia Netbooks: Windows now, Android later
[ Date: 05.31.09 ]
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Nvidia's Tegra chip will appear in Windows devices at Computex and phone companies will be in tow. Nvidia is also aiming at Google's Android operating environment for future Netbooks.
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Next gen iPhone auto-focus, compass revealed?
[ Date: 05.30.09 ]
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Chinese language blog UMPCFever releases photos purported to be of the next-generation iPhone running iPhone OS 3.0 and demoing new camera and compass features.
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Time Warner and AOL: When Harry met Sullied
[ Date: 05.30.09 ]
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The history of the Time Warner-AOL merger is one of extraordinary hype, hope, and ho-ho-ho.
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Entrepreneur makes fire dance to the beat
[ Date: 05.30.09 ]
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A Bay Area fire artist has created a $15,000 fire pit designed to make flames react to the beat of music. Las Vegas hot spots are lining up to buy it.
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New 16GB 'PSP Go' revealed early
[ Date: 05.30.09 ]
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Ahead of E3, leaked video reveals Sony executive touting Mylo-style sliding screen handheld--with no second thumbstick--and built-in flash memory.
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Poll: Are concert ticket prices too high?
[ Date: 05.30.09 ]
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Going to concerts, in small clubs and large venues can be an expensive night out. Do you still see live music? Or is it priced out of range?
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Behind the scenes as Maker Faire gets ready
[ Date: 05.30.09 ]
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On Maker Day, the day before the gates open to the public at Maker Faire, there is still plenty to see, and you can watch it being put together. Plus the crowds are manageable.
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Google won't run all the Wave servers
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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The new real-time communications platform will be federated, so anyone will be able to run their own Wave server.
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Facebook makes exception to nudity policy?
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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A woman posts her topless picture, post-mastectomy, on Facebook, to raise awareness of breast cancer. Facebook removes it as 'sexual and abusive,' only to apologize and re-instate it after protests.
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Data backup service leads to recovery of stolen laptop
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Thief steals laptop, uses it to take photos of himself and then gets caught when the owner sees those on the Internet-based data backup service.
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Report: Google public policy head to join Obama
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Andrew McLaughlin, Google's director of global public policy, is reportedly leaving the search giant to be the deputy chief technology officer for the Obama administration.
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Federated Media Publisher Chas Edwards to join Digg
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Digg hires Federated Media publisher two years after dropping FM for display ad sales and switching to Microsoft.
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Microsoft removes key limit for Windows 7 Starter
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Those running the lowest-cost version of Windows 7 will not be limited to running three simultaneous programs at a time.
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Yahoo 360 to close on July 13
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Yahoo has decided to shut down its long-abandoned Yahoo 360 Degrees blogging Web site completely on July 13.
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Where to go for fried chicken in North Korea
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Google Earth interactive site provides detailed look into North Korea.
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Mozilla testing near-final Firefox 3.5
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Release Candidate 1 for Firefox 3.5 still could be weeks away, though a widespread testing day to debug the updated browser was held Friday anyway.
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Report: Turkish hackers breached U.S. Army servers
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Investigators believe hackers used an SQL injection attack to break into U.S. Army servers and redirect visitors to other sites, according to InformationWeek.
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Apple stores demo Sims 3 ahead of release
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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The company is running the highly anticipated game on every Mac in the store before its official release next week.
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Booksfree spells relief for audiobook addicts
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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CNET's Donald Bell gives the Booksfree mail-order audiobook rental service a test drive.
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Behind the scenes on SourceForge's acquisition of Ohloh
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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SourceForge has been on a roll lately, improving services and now acquiring Ohloh, which promises to make the company more relevant to software developers their employers.
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A cybersecurity quiz: Can you tell Obama from Bush?
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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President Obama has announced a new cybersecurity strategy. Can you tell which excerpts came from a current White House document, and which came from Bush in 2003.
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Waiting for a U.S. cyberczar
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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CNET News chief political correspondent Declan McCullagh talks about a review just out on the nation's cybersecurity and how the search for a U.S. cyberczar.
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Google releases Google Wave demonstration video
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Google Wave is a lofty concept that can be hard to put into words, so Google has released the video from Thursday's Google I/O keynote to help explain the project.
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Weekend project: Build your own online game
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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A rainy-weekend project for the adventurous gamer: make your own game. With the help of these online tools, you can do just that.
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Yahoo adds Google Suggest developer to labs
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Yoelle Maarek, who led the team that developed Google Suggest inside a Google lab in Israel, has joined Yahoo in a similar leadership role inside Yahoo's labs in the city of Haifa.
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Week in review: Microsoft making moves
[ Date: 05.29.09 ]
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Tech titan unveils new Zune and revamped search strategy. Also, CNET visits Google's I/O conference and the D7: All Things D conference.
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