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  Cisco buys Flip Video maker for $590 million

  The networking giant takes its biggest plunge yet into the consumer electronics market with the purchase of Flip camcorder parent Pure Digital.
  • Cisco's virtualization push could benefit consumers

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  Microsoft launches
  IE 8 with a smile

  At its Mix 09 event, Microsoft begins its campaign to convince Web surfers to give its browser another chance.
  • Microsoft: IE 8 ready to go
  • Roundup: Mix 09
  • Google project promotes Chrome, JavaScript
  • Firefox's mobile precursor gets extension support

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• Coming soon: Highway-legal plug-in hybrid scooter

  Vespa maker Piaggio could beat Chevy Volt to U.S. highways with a plug-in hybrid version of its MP3 500.

  (Posted in Planetary Gear by Candace Lombardi)

• Manmade biomass coal offers storage and fuel

  New Zealand start-up invention makes biochar from captured carbon that can also be used as fuel.

  (Posted in Planetary Gear by Candace Lombardi)

• Nielsen: Twitter's growing really fast

  New numbers about "community destination" sites in the U.S. reveal that Twitter grew well over a thousand percent between February 2008 and February 2009.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Gmail previews links to Yelp, Flickr, YouTube

  Content previews for Yelp, Flickr, Picasa, and YouTube links are in attachment form. When sent a link to one of the sites, you'll be able to see what it is without clicking on it.

  (Posted in Webware by Josh Lowensohn)

• Silver Spring Networks fills coffers, eyes IPO

  Silver Spring Networks CEO Scott Lang raises more money to "shore up its balance sheet" as it accelerates the roll-out of a smart-grid trial with Pacific Gas & Electric.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Google offers first looks at GeoEye-1 imagery

  Google, which is buying GeoEye's high-resolution imagery for online maps, is starting to offer a taste of images from the company's newest satellite.
  • Google Street View arrives in U.K., Netherlands

  (Posted in Webware by Stephen Shankland)

• Intel elects board members, Bartz resigns

  Chipmaker adds eBay CEO and vice chancellor of UC Berkeley to its board. The company also announces Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo, is retiring as a member.

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

• Cloud computing comes to D.C. in .gov 'war game'

  Government employees take part in a simulation designed to introduce the concept of cloud computing. But even after the game, there was still some uncertainty about what exactly that is.
  • Sun: Call us the 'cloud company'
  • FTC questions cloud security

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Work begins on iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak

  iPhone Dev-Team says the new mobile OS can be jailbroken but warns some 3G users against updating to Tuesday's beta release.
  • iPhone OS 3.0 hands-on screenshots

  (Posted in Apple by Jennifer Guevin)

• Cadillac rolls out in-car Internet access

  Autonet Mobile technology can be dealer-installed on the Cadillac CTS as of April. The transportable device itself will have an MSRP of $499, and the service will cost $29 per month.

  (Posted in The Car Tech blog by Brian Cooley)

• Google deal brings classic books to Sony Reader

  Sony says Google is making a half-million free books available for Sony's e-reader, in a deal it hopes will help its e-book reader better compete with Amazon's Kindle.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Jennifer Guevin)

• Look through Microsoft's Telescope on the Web

  Microsoft makes its answer to Google Sky available via any Web browser, though it is limited to a geocentric perspective. Just make sure that you've got Silverlight installed.

  (Posted in The Download Blog by Seth Rosenblatt)

• Ballmer speaks, Yahoo shares rise, again

  Yahoo's stock rises nearly 5 percent in morning trading following remarks by Microsoft's CEO on whether he might talk search deal someday with Yahoo's new CEO.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Dawn Kawamoto)
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