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Microsoft is gaming us — that’s apparent with a peek at some tweets posted on the Office 2010 Twitter account. They keep denying they are working on their own phone and ducking rumors about a Zune phone, but these tweets are obviously designed to get the rumor […] Read more »

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Some of the largest unresolved questions within today’s nascent smart grid market are to what degree consumers would prefer to actively monitor and control energy usage in their homes, which user interfaces will be preferred for those purposes, and which business models and product capabilities will entice consumers to engage in home energy management while simultaneously assuaging their concerns about privacy, security and control. To investigate these questions and establish a framework for understanding demand dynamics within the EID and DR markets, Pike Research conducted a survey of 1,041 U.S. consumers in April 2009. The results of this survey are analyzed in this report. Read more at GigaOM Pro »

Earlier today, Kara Swisher reported that Satish Dharmraj, co-founder of Zimbra, an open-source email service that was acquired by Yahoo for $350 million, was joining Menlo Park, Calif.-based RedPoint Ventures as a partner. He isn’t the only one. We’ve also learned that that Dr. Nety Krishna […] Read more »

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Who needs font management? If you have ever installed additional fonts on your Mac, then you do. Because of the Mac’s wide adoption in the desktop publishing and design world, managing fonts in OS X has long been an important, if unpleasant, task. The Apple tools […] Read more »

Intel is using an indirect, green-tinged strategy to sell more chips these days, attempting to convince governments that are spending billions in stimulus funds to include provisions for using more computing tools in designing infrastructure projects. According to Intel’s chief sales and marketing officer, Sean Maloney, […] Read more »

The Conservative Party in the UK is ringing in the new year with a call to boost funding for clean technology startups, create cleantech incubators across the country and establish a Low Carbon Index for publicly-traded companies on the London Stock Exchange and the LSE’s Alternative […] Read more »

[qi:_earth2tech] Two of the biggest challenges facing our society — economy and climate change — are so intertwined that it is virtually impossible to solve one problem without fixing the other. To eternal optimists, these challenges also offer opportunity and we are seeing that with major […] Read more »

[qi:_earth2tech] Google has taken such an enthusiastic role in investing and promoting clean energy that, in terms of number of deals, the search engine giant was the second most-active cleantech venture investor during the third quarter. Google invested in five cleantech startups during the three-month period […] Read more »

No wonder cleantech investors are standing behind Obama in droves. In his monumental speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama pledged that the U.S. will end its dependence on oil from the Middle East within the next 10 years. […] Read more »

The smoggy skies of Beijing might not clear up, but plenty of clean technologies have been deployed in preparation for the Olympic games. And that has meant good business for green firms all over the world. China invested $12 billion in renewable energy last year, through […] Read more »

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Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama laid out a vision of America’s energy future yesterday in a speech from Lansing, Mich., in the automotive heartland. Speaking at Michigan State University, Obama presented his New Energy for America Plan in which he added several new concrete goals for […] Read more »

While Tesla Motors v. Fisker Automotive is a juicy story of alleged automotive espionage, we came across another lawsuit involving the Roadster maker as we were digging through the online records of the San Mateo Superior Court: Magna Powertrain Inc. USA v. Tesla Motors. And in […] Read more »

Reader Melvyn emailed me today that he just ordered a Lenovo x61 notebook PC from the Lenovo outlet store and his deal was so good I want to pass it on.  Melvyn’s x61 is loaded to the gills: Core 2 Duo- 2.2 GHzXP Pro3 GB of […] Read more »

According to the Wall Street Journal, workers who have larger monitors complete tasks much faster.  We’ve debated this in the past, and now researchers at the University of Utah tested how quickly computer users completed tasks and found that for users on 24-inch monitors vs. those […] Read more »

[qi:_earth2tech] Virtualization and on-demand computing are giving companies new reasons to worry about code efficiency. Once upon a time, lousy coding didn’t matter. Computing costs didn’t grow linearly with the amount of processing consumed by badly written code. But that has changed now. Three big changes […] Read more »

[qi:013] Telecom investors are seeing green. First we had telecom uber investor Vinod Khosla with his burgeoning clean tech portfolio. Then father of the Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe joined the party. Now we have FON founder Martin Varvasky getting interested in Solar farms. I guess with telecom […] Read more »

Daily Show Vids Licensed to Yahoo; first time Comedy Central is agreeing to show them off-site. (Broadcasting & Cable) AP to Show Olympics Video; broadcaster NBC will give news agency exclusive clips from Beijing. Boo exclusivity. (Associated Press) Obama’s Weak Sauce; candidate whines about Obama Girl […] Read more »

I’m a baseball fan, a Mac fan, and an iTunes fan. So it’s no surprise when all three of these glorious things intersected, I was one of the first in line to partake in their combined offering. For the same $1.99 price iTunes charges you for […] Read more »

I’m on the fence with the new D.A.V.E. device that Seagate announced on a recent PodTech video. I want to like the device, which is a small portable hard-drive with integrated wireless capability. You’ll see it in May for under $200 in both a 10 GB […] Read more »

Akihabara News reports today of a new mystery convertible Tablet PC-like device, the SA1F00A from Japan-based Kohjinsha.  They haven’t uncovered much yet in the way of details but they have some photos of the device that are very interesting.  Judging from those photos this mystery device […] Read more »

Who says video-sharing sites can’t go public? GoFish (which has reshaped itself as destination instead of a search engine these days) said today it had taken sold $12 million worth of stock as part of a reverse takeover by the publicly traded Unibio. Look for it […] Read more »

ThinkPad manufacturer Lenovo is reportedly developing a Windows Mobile smarphone. PhoneDaily (Chinese site) reports that the Lenovo ET980 will support GPRS, play MP3 files and be equipped with a MiniSD slot. They also report the Lenovo smartphone will sport a 4 megapixel camera. The device will […] Read more »

The Smoking Gun says Robert McCormick, 40, and three guests ran up the tab during a visit to the Scores nightclub in October 2003, and are now refusing to pay the tabs. McCormick is the CEO of Savvis, a data-center company. The credit card company has […] Read more »

All of you know I have been going through hard drives like nobody’s business. With nearly a terabyte of storage floating around my apartment, I was surprised that I would need more. Anyway I got hold of IOGEAR’s new 320 GB ION TriSelect external drive, which […] Read more »

With all the phones coming out every second day, I am delighted to point you to a special report compiled by my pal Jon Gales who runs MobileTracker.net, (and incidentally designed GigaOM). This is a one stop read on the very latest in cell phones – […] Read more »

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