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Increasingly these days you hear the words “Google” and “monopoly” in the same sentence. There is no shortage of fears that the search giant is getting too powerful in the search and online…

Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long. It has GPS and the ability to wirelessly upload…

So all the “Gs” gathered in Italy this week appear to be floundering in their efforts to craft some sort of meaningful deal on climate change.

The little engine that couldn’t

Rich…

In 1996, Microsoft bought the domain Slate.com from a guy named John Slate. Back in the early days of the Web, it paid to have a snazzy dot-com name to call your own. In conversation, the proper noun…

Wow. So you know all those whispers about a Google desktop operating system that never seem to go away? You thought they might with the launch of Android, Google’s mobile OS. But they…

Is China planning not just the world’s biggest wind farm—but also the cheapest?

No zoning problems at least (AP)

Xinhua news service reported yesterday that China will break ground…

Facebook’s privacy conference call just ended, and it’s clear some major changes are going to be coming to the social network soon. Some of these, like a totally revamped privacy control page,…

Pelosi’s victory came from whipping, cajoling, begging and browbeating undecided Democrats.

The House of Representatives is likely to vote today on the Waxman-Markey climate bill, which has as its centerpiece a cap-and-trade program for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The bill,…

As Noah noted earlier, the House of Representatives is at long last scheduled to vote on the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill today.

Bloomberg News/Landov

Take a deep breath,…

The Walton family of Wal-Mart fame owns about 39% of First Solar stock – and the retailer’s legendary penchant for driving down costs is rubbing off on the renewable-energy company.

First…

In the full-throttled U.S. push for fuel efficiency, electric cars aren’t an after-thought. They’ve been given a seat at the grown-up table.

Associated Press

Fast cars, no gas.

On…

Flashy billboards are usually not my thing, but it’s hard not to be grabbed by the 67-by-32-foot billboard unveiled yesterday outside New York City’s Penn Station.

Deutsche Bank…

Leveraging the company’s prime location in the PV market, Suntech Power has been tapped by Petra Solar to form a collaborative marketing alliance to market utility-grade, pole-mounted solar AC…

Suntech Power Holdings could be a key winner in the bids for business with China’s Qinghai provincial government, which has plans for a 500MW solar plant over the next 2-3 years. Although Suntech was…