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VentureBeat:
Steve Westly, former California State Controller and current operator of the venture firm Westly Group, says he got interested in the smart grid and clean tech in order to save the world and make massive amounts of money in the process. Greeting the assembled crowd warmly and expressing a great deal of excitement to be pres (Read More)
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Timely information is essential when you’re operating in a competitive marketplace. Information enables better, more informed decisions — whether you’re trading stocks, bonds, precious metals or soybeans.It’s no different when it comes to consumers and the services they use in their homes. Energy is by far the most expensiv (Read More)
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Huffington Post:
WASHINGTON — With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.A ruling that sides with the Patent Office could bar patents on processes and methods of doing bus (Read More)
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Valleywag:
You may not have known you wanted it, but now you're going to get it. 3D redux is here with its biggest tentpole to date, Disney's $180 million Christmas Carol, followed shortly after by the release of James Cameron's Avatar. The alleged benefits to the entertainment industry of 3D's latest incarnation are many, if they pan (Read More)
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
November 4th marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama's election. The international community paid particularly close attention to Obama's presidential campaign and the election of 2008. During his first year in office, he has grappled with pressing global issues. He has given a major address to the Muslim world in (Read More)
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New York Times:
Several major corporations are taking a hint from the open-source software movement and pooling their green innovations.
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VentureBeat:
On Nov. 18 and 19, VentureBeat will be hosting its inaugural GreenBeat conference, the premier executive summit on the Smart Grid this season. One of its major goals: To spotlight the brilliant technology only now emerging to mold a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid on the global level. And that’s what GreenBeat 2009’ (Read More)
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VentureBeat:
I spoke recently with Laura Ipsen, the senior vice president and general manager in charge of the Smart Grid for Cisco.The Smart Grid is the more efficient electrical grid that the nation is moving toward, one that relies on more renewable energy and emits less carbon into the atmosphere. Ipsen will be speaking at our Green (Read More)
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators took an important step Thursday toward prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain kinds of Internet traffic.Despite the concerns of telecommunications companies and the agency's two Republicans, the Federal Communications Commission voted to begin writing (Read More)
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Oct 21, 2009
VentureBeat:
It was a very different Carly Fiorina who took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit dinner tonight to discuss her potential run for the U.S. Senate.Just as it was typical when she was the first female chief executive of Hewlett Packard, part of the conversation with Web 2.0 co-host John Battelle covered her appearance. But in th (Read More)
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Oct 20, 2009
VentureBeat:
As the United States and world consider new policies and legislation to help stop climate change, verifying whether they actually work is going to be a big deal.And it’s really encouraging to see a bunch of companies already trying to help. Picarro is one of them. It helps monitor the atmosphere’s gases to determine whether (Read More)
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Most VentureBeat readers are probably familiar with Back to the Future 2’s vision of home automation — appliances that hydrate pizzas at voice command, and thumbprint activated door locks. Now Intellipowered, a Texas-based home automation startup — is making even more modern versions of this home a reality (with five years (Read More)
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Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.As Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools have changed the way companies reach out to customers, some are using it internally to upend the way rank-and-file employees relate to each other and management.They’re harnessing (Read More)
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Gizmodo:
You saw the ten-tongue Sqweel sexual toy yesterday (NSFW). While Fleshbot has its own review, Dr. Debby Herbenick has been trying it all weekend for us. Here is her review, non-explicit video included: This weekend, I scored big time. First, I found a red Gone-with-the-Wind-ish petticoat in a vintage shop. Then, I arrive (Read More)
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VentureBeat:
The Health 2.0 conference is probably the only “2.0″ conference that doesn’t belong to the O’Reilly empire (it was founded by healthcare visionaries Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya in 2007). However, like many of the other “2.0″ conferences, it also has a little identity crisis — exactly what does “Health 2.0″ mean? Well, tha (Read More)
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