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Apparently, you can buy a decent external iPhone battery solution for $15 — or less. Fellow geek, Josh Bancroft, was leery of the MonoPrice offer, but decided to take the low-cost risk. And after reading his thoughts as well as some other reviews, I’m ready to […] Read more »

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Solar thermal power company Solel Solar Systems has found an exit. Less than a year after Solel raised a gigantic $105 million investment from London-based firm Ecofin to help finance a plant in California’s Mojave Desert, Siemens has announced today that it is buying the Israeli […] Read more »

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Here’s another reason to like energy-harvesting — technology that can capture and store energy from external sources like the sun and movement — it can help with utility demand response programs. This week Germany-based EnOcean said utility PG&E completed a successful study using EnOcean’s energy-harvesting technology […] Read more »

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I am constantly analyzing the way I use mobile technology, and as a result, I often change the way I do things. I am in the fortunate position where I get exposed to lots of technology and that exposure keeps me looking at how I use […] Read more »

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Cell phone companies are by no means racing to use renewable sources of energy, such as solar and wind, to power the infrastructure that runs their wireless networks. Of the more than 4 million cellular base stations deployed world wide, less than 2,000 run on clean […] Read more »

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Ever since the news came out about Desertec, a $555 billion project to build solar thermal plants in Northern Africa’s Sahara desert to funnel solar power to Europe, we’ve been scratching our heads about what to make of it. The sheer size (supposedly large enough to […] Read more »

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IBM’s “smarter planet initiative” seeks to connect everything from railways to the power grid to buildings with sensors, software and communications gear. And to accomplish such a feat (to basically act as a platform to connect various infrastructure), the computing company needs friends — a whole […] Read more »

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Offshore wind can be an expensive undertaking, so the more partners a development can have, the better. Norway’s StatoilHydro said yesterday that it’s decided to share the burden of its Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm project in the UK with another Norwegian firm, energy utility Statkraft, […] Read more »

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Greenbox Technology, a startup with a web-based platform that monitors home energy use, told us recently it hopes to close its first round of funding by June. Matthew Smith, the company’s vice president of marketing, said the company is talking to potential investors now. The round […] Read more »

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BrightSource Energy has contracted Siemens to build a 123-megawatt solar-powered turbine generator for its massive Mojave Desert solar-thermal projects, the Oakland, Calif.-based startup announced today. Having raised more than $160 million (including$115 million from Google.org, BP, and other big investors in Series C financing last May) […] Read more »

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Smart energy has become a household term, but smart energy technology still has a long road ahead before it actually reaches most U.S. households. However, the residential market is ripe with opportunities (and challenges) for both established and new technology innovators to revolutionize the ways in which we use energy. Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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[qi:___3g] Coming soon in India – world’s fastest growing mobile market – 3G services by the dozen. And what that means is a looming free-for-all in a market where competition is already fierce, prices super low, profits even lower and consumer is the ultimate winner. Read more »

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Success in the mobile handset business is akin to a minor league player making it to the big leagues — a long shot. Over the past few years, I have seen many a big player capitulate and get out of the market. Alcatel, Siemens and Sendo […] Read more »

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Verizon Wireless, a division of Verizon, is picking LTE — Long-Term Evolution — as the 4G technology for wireless broadband, and will start trials sometime in 2008. LTE allows download rates of 100 Mbps and upload speeds of 50 Mbps for every 20 MHz of spectrum. […] Read more »

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