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  How to finance
  a green-tech revolution

  Venture-backed tech companies create lots of buzz, but many companies that create green jobs rely on different--and troubled--funding sources.

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  Modern power moms flock to smartphones

  Busy, multitasking mothers are turning to sophisticated devices to keep organized and stay connected.

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• Final chapter coming in HP spying scandal

  Was Bryan Wagner just a patsy? The low-level investigator who helped HP spy on journalists is due to be sentenced for identity theft, but the planners of the espionage will apparently get off.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Huffington Post, Facebook sync up on social news

  In a rare official partnership for the social network, Facebook Connect comes to the Huffington Post to fuel its new "HuffPost Social News" site.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Qtrax faces more financial, legal problems

  First Oracle and now two other vendors are suing the online music start-up, charging it with unpaid bills. Qtrax also appears to be behind payments to at least one label.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• What would be inside an Apple tablet

  It's, at the very least, an interesting exercise to speculate on what would be inside an Apple tablet.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Borders survey presumes a future 'iPAD' e-reader

  Question in survey asks customers about e-readers and whether they plan to buy one of Apple's mystery "iPAD" large-screen reading devices.

  (Posted in Apple by Michelle Meyers)

• Nortel sale to Ericsson stirs protest in Canada

  The sale of research and patents to Ericsson of Sweden could endanger Canada's national security, opponents of the deal argue.
  (From The New York Times)

• The rise of the $299 Wal-Mart laptop

  First Acer, then Hewlett-Packard, now Toshiba. The $299 laptop is a force to be reckoned with.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Evoking the romance of space travel, 1940s style

  The Raygun Gothic Rocketship is a retro space ship "built" in 1944. In reality, it is one of the biggest art projects for the forthcoming Burning Man festival.
  • Photos: Raygun Gothic Rocketship

  (Posted in Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman)

• Researchers prove kernel is secure

  An Australian research organization says it has absolute mathematical proof of the security of an operating system core.

  (Posted in Security by Tom Espiner)

• iLike's download store debuts

  Famous for its popular Facebook app, iLike is making a foray into music downloads and will offer tunes from all four big record companies.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Verizon completes initial 4G wireless test

  The wireless provider has successfully completed the first test of its 4G wireless service in the first two markets: Boston and Seattle.

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

• Study: Twitter is 40 percent 'pointless babble'

  Also notable in data firm Pear Analytics' breakdown of tweet species is that there's less spam than expected.
  • Twitter needs to die for micro-blogging to live

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• The corporate lab as ringmaster

  Big research and development laboratories are reaching out to smaller, more varied groups of researchers.
  (From The New York Times)

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