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The CEO of electric vehicle charging company Better Place, Shai Agassi, will step down as CEO and is being replaced with Evan Thornley, formerly the CEO of Better Place Australia. The company needs to make money and the initial roll out has been slow. Read more »

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Electric car infrastructure startup Better Place has spent the past three years talking about its vision of selling electric car miles like cell phone minutes, accompanied by a network of chargers and battery swap stations. Now it’s getting ready to deliver in Israel. Read more »

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On the cusp of a new generation of electric vehicles and the buildout of a smart grid, connected cars — vehicles linked to the power grid and communication networks — could mean a transportation system for the digital age. Here are the key players involved. Read more »

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The United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop15) kicks off Monday in Copenhagen, and promises to be a hugely influential event. Entrepeneur Shai Agassi has weighed in on its importance for governments and public awareness. Read more »

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Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: Verizon Hanging up on iPhone? (Computerworld) — That’s the sentiment now that Google and Verizon are buddy-buddy after this week’s announcement. The thought is that it […] Read more »

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What happens when you take the cost of the battery — generally the most expensive part of an electric car — out of the sticker price for electric vehicles? That’s the question explored in a new study released this morning from UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship […] Read more »

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VMware has dubbed the major refresh of its server virtualization product line, vSphere, the “mainframe of the 21st century.” While I’m impressed by the product announcement, with which VMware will further expand its already considerable lead over Microsoft and Citrix, I suspect the company will face […] Read more »

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UPDATED: As automakers hash out electric vehicle charging standards, startups like Coulomb Technologies and Better Place are starting to install the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in forward-thinking cities. But when it comes to something a little more, well, not standard, like Better Place’s planned battery […] Read more »

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As automakers struggle to reinvent themselves amid falling demand, shifting regulations and, in the case of Detroit’s Big Three, decades of accumulated overhead, we’re seeing old lines between industries redrawn. In fact, it’s a web of alliances among automakers, utilities, insurers and nimble technology companies that ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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In addition to the new Aptera specs and the debut of the new Mission One electric motorcycle, the 2009 TED Conference has had plenty of cleantech entrepreneurs up on stage this week. Shai Agassi, CEO of Better Place, spoke yesterday, throwing out the audacious claim that […] Read more »

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On the heels of announcing its first U.S. electric-vehicle charging network planned for California’s Bay Area, Better Place says this afternoon that Hawaii has signed on for the second U.S. network. The governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, and Better Place CEO Shai Agassi plan to make […] Read more »

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Could Detroit be the first region in the U.S. to sign on with Shai Agassi’s electric vehicle infrastructure startup Better Place? Michigan’s governor Jennifer Granholm is certainly giving appearances that she’s looking into the idea of how the electric charging and battery swap stations would work […] Read more »

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Better Place announced this afternoon that it is heading Down Under to deploy its electric car infrastructure in Australia. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup is working with Australian utility AGL Energy to build an electric car charging grid powered by renewable energy. Macquarie Capital Group will finance the AUD$1 billion ($671 million) undertaking. Read more »

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The office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said today that it has received 19 responses to its request for information to electrify the city’s fleet. The responders include electric car players, like Better Place and ZAP, huge consultancies, like Booz Allen Hamilton, and a number of unknowns. Read more »

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GigaOM readers are well-versed in both the wireless broadband networks that carriers are building and the Wi-Fi gear that we use in our homes, but what about the wireless technology that is starting to manage energy for the power grid as well as energy use within […] Read more »

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Although most of us on the web working front have been out of school for at least a few years, this is the time of year that it can pay off to pay attention to the student world. That’s because all of the big retailers are […] Read more »

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Shapes and CSS? Cuil – can it tackle Google? Trouble getting the iPhone 3G How to clean un-used downloaded items Yet another Macbook vs. Macbook Pro thread… Read more »

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Tom Friedman’s column in this Sunday’s New York Times advocates a meeting of the minds between two of the green energy revolution’s most well-known entrepreneurial leaders: Shai Agassi and T. Boone Pickens. As Earth2Tech readers likely know through our endless coverage of these two innovators, Agassi […] Read more »

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Shai Agassi’s worldwide whirlwind tour pushing his Project Better Place electric car infrastructure startup shows no signs of stopping, now the Independent reports that the entrepreneur has even pitched his startup’s plan to British Primer Minister Gordon Brown. The PM is expected to ask auto manufacturers […] Read more »

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First it was “Shalom,” then “Goddag,” and perhaps very soon “Olá” for Shai Agassi’s electric vehicle infrastructure startup, Project Better Place, which is reported to have a deal with the Portuguese government. Prime Minister Jose Socrates signed an agreement today with Better Place partners Renault-Nissan to […] Read more »

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With many software applications as bloated as they are these days, I still favor many tiny applications that I can get in and out of quickly for specific tasks. I’ve written before about you can stock up on many interesting mini applications to keep on a […] Read more »

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While we just spoke to Shai Agassi inside the beltway, the Project Better Place founder and CEO was back on Capitol Hill yesterday to testify before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming. The hearing’s topic was “$4 Gasoline and Fuel Economy: Auto […] Read more »

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Working on the web is great – except when it’s not. One of the areas where our way of work is a two-edged sword is in accountability. When you do something great, it’s easy to get the credit, because you aren’t just one of an anonymous herd in an office. But when you mess something up, it’s equally easy to get the blame. And given the nature of the tools we use, opportunities to make mistakes are always around. Read more »

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Can Shai Agassi’s electric vehicle infrastructure startup Project Better Place tackle the U.S.? The well-funded startup has only done deals with small countries, but Agassi certainly thinks so (as does San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom). In this video interview that we shot at a plug-in vehicle […] Read more »

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Most of us are web workers because we enjoy it. Whether it’s the feel of being on the cutting edge of technology, the joy of working anywhere, or the contribution to saving the planet by not commuting physically, there are a lot of good things to […] Read more »

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Paris Hilton never met a camera lens she didn’t like. But this time the lens isn’t for a reality television show, the paparazzi, or even a jail mugshot — it’s that of New York-based startup For Your Imagination, which is debuting a new, branded web series […] Read more »

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Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire joined me (subbing for Om) and co-host Joyce Kim on the GigaOM Show this week. Hear him talk about Brightcove’s traffic spikes from TMZ, politics, and National Geographic; Yahoo’s Maven Networks acquisition; his company’s decision to drop its own ad sales team; […] Read more »

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We gave you a very blurry look at the interesting MIDs that Intel was showing off last night at Digital Experience and I wanted to give some additional impressions we had of the various devices.  We will be getting a more extensive look at the Intel […] Read more »

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UPDATE: the Fujitsu has been sold.  Thanks for all the offers. You are no doubt familiar with my coverage of the Fujitsu P1610 Tablet PC, aptly named Miyagi.  The Fujitsu has served me well as you can follow here on jkOnTheRun but due to some circumstances […] Read more »

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Earlier this year, the managers of popular MMO Gaia Online tried an experiment: they streamed George Romero’s horror classic (and public domain) Night of the Living Dead in one of Gaia‘s virtual theaters, to see if anyone would watch. Within two weeks, CEO Craig Sherman told […] Read more »

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Well, well, well… isn’t it interesting that following the “Any Devices, Any Apps” announcement, Verizon has chosen LTE for their 4G network platform? These two announcements in combination could have a tremendous impact on the U.S. cellular market in a few ways.First off, Verizon and Vodafone […] Read more »

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Many of us traveled this weekend for the holiday, and some of us probably brought along our laptops. Unfortunately, the odds are that a few of us dropped our laptop bags, or worse yet, dropped our laptop directly on the ground. For those owning a MacBook […] Read more »

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Where high profiles and high profits exist, so do the scum of the earth. First, Dongmei Li sues Apple for $1 million for chopping $200 off the iPhone. Apparently the $200 she “lost” when Apple dropped the price is now worth 5,000 times what it was […] Read more »

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Google Maps Mobile (GMM) is an extremely popular program.  Absolutely everyone uses GMM at one point or another because it’s so easy and looks pretty.  But is there another game in town?  Dwight Silverman of TechBlog put Google Maps Mobile head-to-head against Windows Live Search (WLS) […] Read more »

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