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The cable channel, co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, has partnered with both
Twitter and social news site Digg for the evening of November 4, during which it will feature a “multimedia dashboard” with live messages from Twitter, headlines from Digg, and video from both Current and “video status update” start-up 12seconds.tv. In keeping with the network’s young target audience, electronica act Diplo will be performing DJ sets throughout the night, too.

“The new pa

Apple considers the MacBook Air a sort of halo product for the
Mac lineup, a demonstration of its engineering prowess that it knows won’t be adopted by the mass market. Given the weight-loss formula could increase the production costs of the system, any future carbon-fiber MacBook Air would likely stay in that category.

A new carbon-fiber cover for the underside of the MacBook Air could help the notebook lose some weight.

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But AppleInsider thinks

“Our goal, when the T-Mobile G1 becomes available in October, is to provide affordable, high-speed data service allowing customers to experience the full data capabilities of the device and our 3G network. At the same time, we have a responsibility to provide the best network experience for all of our customers so we reserve the right to temporarily reduce data throughput for a small fraction of our customers who have excessive or disproportionate usage that interferes with our network perfo

A sampling of
green-tech news with quick commentary.

Light Cycle: Recycling PV Materials - Renewable Energy World
The European solar industry is taking steps to recycle the materials–some of it highly valuable metals–inside solar panels to avoid future e-waste problems.
Enbridge gears up for green gas era - The Toronto Star
Snapshot of efforts in Canada to put biogas from landfills, manure, and sewage into the natural gas pipeline to make electricity.
Does carbon-eating cement

I realize that I probably shouldn’t use “BRB” when talking to someone, but it just comes out. I’ll be talking to a friend and out of nowhere I realize that I left the
car running in neutral and it’s gliding down the driveway on a collision course with the neighbor’s mailbox. Is that really a time when I can get through all three words in “be right back?” I don’t think so.

Maybe I should start to realize that as popular as Twitter is, it only has a few million active a

Last time we checked in with Auditude, the company had inked a deal with News Corp.’s MySpace and Viacom’s MTV Networks to detect both official and user-uploaded MTV content on the social network’s MySpaceTV platform. It was seen by many as a savvy antipiracy measure. Since then, Auditude has started powering a broader variety of video ads on MySpace and its MySpace Music product, as well as partnered with Warner Bros. Entertainment. More content deals are on the way, CEO Adam Cahan told CNET

Not all of the 6,000 developers at the show will be able to get the newly-available software developer kit, Carpenter said. Microsoft is capping things at about 1,200, but that should cover at least all those who attend one of the sessions, he said.

The developer paths will converge more with Windows Presentation Foundation version 4, “which will be a little after Windows 7,” Carpenter said.

Microsoft also will talk at the show about the overlap between devel

What I really like about this system is that it’s collaborative. Say, for instance, you’re involving a few people in your company with a hiring process, you can give each one of them access, and they can rate each applicant respectively. I had helped out with this in a previous job, and Resumator’s system would have been a whole lot better than wading through paperwork, adding sticky notes, and marking up each person’s printed resume.

Of all the features, I find th

“The company is reportedly exiting the TV business rather than continuing to incur losses in that division,” Ogg wrote. “This latest report comes a few months after Pioneer announced that it anticipated huge losses at the end of its fiscal year in March and plans to lay off 2,000 workers.”

I’m not a video guy, but I do know that while Pioneer made some of the best displays, the market wasn’t willing to pay for its quality. The race-to-the-bottom environment is certainly in full

That news sent RIM’s stock down around 20 percent in after-hours trading as investors digested the news. RIM’s gross margins are pretty solid, at around 50 percent, but they are heading down into the mid-40s as the company starts building the more expensive handsets in large volumes.

RIM has been trying to expand its footprint beyond the enterprise to consumers, the target for devices like Apple’s
iPhone. Right now, consumers make up 42 percent of RIM’s subscriber base, but more t