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Archive for June, 2010

Green news harvest Climate bill scorecard, Bill G

30 Jun 2010

Biomass, baby. Click on the image for 'green buildings on the cheap' photo gallery.

Gates set to dump half his stake in Pacific Ethanol - The Sacramento Bee A reflection of investor discontent with the biofuels industry.
New Renewable Network Hopes to Make Greentech Connections - Greentech MediaSchmoozing leads to business. The Renewable Energy Business Network [...]

BlackBerry Bold debuts in North America

28 Jun 2010

That said, the real BlackBerry iPhone killer will likely be the BlackBerry Thunder, which is supposed to have a touch screen. The Thunder is expected to be released later this year.
The Bold has already been available in other countries including, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Chile and Ecuador. But Rogers is the first North American carrier to [...]

Acquia backs Drupal for enterprise adoption

23 Jun 2010

(We are) releasing Acquia Drupal today. Acquia Drupal (previously code-named Carbon) is our Drupal distribution that bundles some of the best, most essential Drupal modules for building social publishing sites. Acquia Drupal is available for free, and all our bug fixes and improvements go straight to the module maintainers on Drupal.org. Acquia Drupal defines the [...]

Did the R.E.M. Web campaign lead to higher sales

22 Jun 2010

It’s required reading if you’re spent more time thinking about In Rainbows pay-what-you-like download model than listening to the actual record.
• Sites devoted to meticulously tracking news about the album and the progress of the tour.

• Two dedicated URLs for the band’s first two
videos from the album.

The posts are written by Ethan Kaplan, the Warner [...]

Report Apple wants more mobile music

18 Jun 2010

In addition to beefing up ringtones, Apple is also looking for rights to deliver songs from iTunes to iPhones over the cell phone broadband network, according to the Times. The labels are asking for more money for this kind of delivery, the paper reported.

Citing several unnamed music industry executives, the Times said that negotiations are [...]

The fungus among us takes on depleted uranium

16 Jun 2010

“The fungal-produced minerals are capable of long-term uranium retention, so this may help prevent uptake of uranium by plants, animals, and microbes,” said Professor Geoffrey Gadd, leader of Dundee’s research team. “It might also prevent the spent uranium from leaching out from the soil,” he said.

The team found that free-living and plant symbiotic (mycorrhizal) [...]

Yudu Freedom hosts your PDFs, makes them SEO frien

15 Jun 2010

Yudu promises that any document you upload will be search engine optimized, making it show up in Google, and so on. There’s also a built in search tool, and a simple way to skip ahead to the page you’re looking for using a thumbnail viewer. My favorite feature, however, is that you don’t need to [...]

‘WoW’ launch Sleepy old grandpa geek comes out at

15 Jun 2010

I started noticing it last summer while standing in line for The Dark Knight’s midnight showing. For one, I took note that a good 70 percent of the participants were in the 18-22 age bracket, which as a mid-30s guy standing in line at 11 p.m. on a weekday night tends to make me feel [...]

Lexicon Meet Facebook’s answer to Google Zeitgeis

15 Jun 2010

Facebook used to have a detailed trend-tracking feature called Pulse, which it quietly axed early in 2007, though representatives said it wasn’t permanently gone and would see a revamp. That hasn’t happened yet; maybe, particularly considering Facebook’s tendency to roll out a limited version of a new feature before expanding, Lexicon is the first glimpse [...]

Yahoo fails to keep pay plan details secret

15 Jun 2010

In the first message, principal Michael Benkowitz describes Yahoo’s plans to cover all employees in an exchange with firm President Tim Sparks. “Their latest proposal is to provide 100 percent equity acceleration for everyone,” Benkowitz wrote.

For those who have been living in a cave, Microsoft went public with a $31-per-share bid for Yahoo on February [...]