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John Doerr, the prominent cleantech venture capitalist for Kleiner Perkins, gave his standard earnest speech before a Senate Committee hearing on how greentech investing can spur the economy on Wednesday morning. As per usual, he first chided the U.S. for not doing enough to cut carbon […] Read more »

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Sports car maker Lotus plans to enter the electric vehicle race, CEO Michael Kimberley told the Financial Times last week. “Don’t be surprised to see an electric Lotus shortly,” he said, adding that a concept version could debut as early as March, at Geneva’s International Motor […] Read more »

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Any time business goes bad, you can expect lawsuits to follow; the cleantech industry is no exception, and the last year saw plenty of court action. While we’re all ready to embrace 2009, we couldn’t help but take one more look back at 2008 and draw […] Read more »

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The North American International Auto Show will go light on the glitz and gas guzzlers this year, as exhibitors (two of them fresh from a bailout) seek to demonstrate efficiency, innovation and frugality. Even SUVs — most notably the 30-mpg-highway 2010 Chevy Equinox — are sporting […] Read more »

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Fisker Automotive announced plans today to use a four-cylinder General Motors engine in its Fisker Karma, a four-door plug-in hybrid shown in prototype at the Detroit auto show back in January. The gas-powered engine would kick in on trips exceeding the electric battery’s 50-mile range, according to […] Read more »

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Tesla may have announced lay offs and was unable to raise a planned $100 million financing, but the electric car startup is still facing hurdles. Today Fisker Automotive issued a release saying that an independent arbitration between the two competing Silicon Valley-backed electric car makers has […] Read more »

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Fisker Automotive is moving full-steam ahead to get its $80,000 plug-in hybrid Karma on the road by the end of 2009 and today announced it will be using $65 million in Series C funding to do so. The company says the round closed on Sept. 4 […] Read more »

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If your car’s sunroof lived up to its name it could be doing a whole lot more for you. That’s the idea Sunrise Solar has with its new Solar Roof, a set of photovoltaic cells integrated into a car’s sunroof. By swapping out the boring tinted […] Read more »

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The brawl between Telsa and Fisker Automotive, the two electric-car startups backed by Silicon Valley’s most well-known cleantech VCs, is heading to arbitration, according to San Mateo court records (hat tip CNET). The court records say that Fisker’s request to take the issue to arbitration has […] Read more »

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Back when broadband Internet access was made available to homes in the late 1990′s, teleworking took off.  In businesses, employees were allowed to work from home part time (in some cases, full time) and many home based businesses took off, allowing small time entrepreneurs to have […] Read more »

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Silicon Valley’s green car fisticuffs is going into round two this week. According to CNET, electric vehicle company Fisker Automotive, maker of the Karma, plans to file for arbitration today in an attempt to derail the suit filed by competitor Tesla, which accuses Fisker of stealing […] Read more »

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Electric vehicle startup Fisker Automotive has officially responded to the lawsuit that competitor Tesla Motors has filed against it for allegedly stealing its design ideas and trade secrets. Kleiner Perkins partner and Fisker investor Ray Lane already called the lawsuit “ridiculous” at a conference this week, […] Read more »

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An online experiment is taking place titled Shut Down Day.  The intent behind the web site is to have you shutdown and not use your computer for an entire day.  I was skeptical, because like many web workers, I depend on my computer daily to make […] Read more »

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A while back, I did a post on free services that can make a web worker’s travels easier, cheaper and more convenient. I travel a fair amount, and I find it good to keep on top of what emerging online services can offer me. In this […] Read more »

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Sorry, I just never got into the Crocs craze. Maybe it’s because I’ve mangled my feet with one too many a marathon, who knows. I do however, like to protect my precious cell phone, so these phone cases made by Crocs caught my eye. I’m sure […] Read more »

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I have now been playing with Netfront 3.5 from Access for a day and want to share my impressions of how well it works on the HTC Advantage.  The Advantage has a 5 inch VGA screen that screams for a good browser and so far Netfront […] Read more »

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One of the first places we stopped last night was the Celio booth to see the Redfly device. We showed you a quick pic right from the booth in near real-time, and based on reader comments, it sounds like there’s some interest in the unit. We […] Read more »

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The entire suite of NBC Universal’s (GE) media properties is going on a green offensive this week with the tagline “Green is Universal.” The campaign is designed to raise environmental awareness and will highlight things viewers can do to live greener. Green will be seen all […] Read more »

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I’m not the biggest fan of Apple’s ear buds, or headphones of any kind for that matter, so when I received JLab’s MiniBlaster to review, I was pretty stoked, but, I was pretty sure I’d be disappointed. These speakers are small (about the size of 4 […] Read more »

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Saturday Night Live online video star Andy Samberg had one of his famous digital shorts run during the show’s season opener this weekend, a ditty referencing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to New York in which the leader made a public remark attesting to the […] Read more »

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Time Warner Investments has joined the Series A round of video advertising startup ScanScout. The amount of the investment was not disclosed, though the round had originally netted $7 million in May from General Catalyst Parters, Ron Conway, and First Round Capital. We spoke with ScanScout […] Read more »

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Google is having quite a bit of trouble on the business side figuring out how to monetize YouTube and make it legit. Now it appears to be following up on the technology side, sending Shashi Seth, formerly product lead on search, to YouTube. His assignment? Monetization […] Read more »

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The Daily Deal has a piece on the recent trend of venture capital investments in the blogs and they look at Huffington Post, Paid Content and us. That is a nice surprise to get early on Monday morning. I did not get a chance to chat […] Read more »

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A new photographic tool calculates various optical equations such as depth of field or hyperfocal distance to let photographers make more effective use of photographic equipment Hampshire, United Kingdom. – April 24, 2006: Douglas Software announces today the release of version 1.1.0 of Camera module for […] Read more »

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Last month when we talked about Microsoft and Symbian were in the future of Treo, many dismissed it as speculation. No No…. Now the Wall Street geniuses at Needham & Company have put a report out saying pretty much the same. C/Net reports that the analysts […] Read more »

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So my statement that the “axis of technology has shifted to somewhere in the South China Sea” is finally coming true. Couple of days ago, Cisco Systems announced that it was setting up a $32 million R&D labs in China. Today there is news that Cisco […] Read more »

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Not to beat up on Fast Company when they are down, but John Byrne is totally talking smack about Business 2.0. Byrne called us “ugly” and the Frankenstein monster of business magazines, “composed of the body parts” of two business magazines (and the subscription list of […] Read more »

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