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From InformationWeek In a move to connect the emerging smart energy grid with the Internet,Google on Wednesday announced partnerships with eight national and international energy companies to allow consumers to access data about their energy usage through Google’s PowerMeter… [read more] Tweet This Post

From ArsTechnica According to a new well-founded rumor, Microsoft will be debuting Kumo, an upgrade to Live Search that the software giant’s own employees have been testing internally for at least two months, at D: All Things Digital. Unsurprisingly, the rumor comes straight from the horse’s mouth. I guess they just couldn’t keep it to themselves any longer: [...]

From Gmail Blog Ever since we launched Google Calendar, people in our forum have been pretty vocal about a missing piece — an integrated task list. “To-do would be tooo-rific,” “I really, really, really need to use a to-do list,” and my favorite: “I’ll join your team to help you get it done!” The rumble turned [...]

From Reuters AT&T Inc (T.N) is considering offering cheaper data service plans with limited Web surfing for advanced cellphones including Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhone. Ralph de la Vega, the head of AT&T’s mobility and consumer business, also… [read more] Tweet This Post

From TechCrunch Larry Page and Eric Schmidt from Google did a double header interview from the Google Zeitgeist conference just outside of London today. But the real question on our lips was what is Google going to do about the astounding buzz around realtime search and Twitter? During a press conference… [read more] Tweet This Post

From AppleInsider While all eyes are on Apple’s annual developers conference as a likely forum for new iPhone hardware announcements, one Wall Street analyst is advising clients that better bets may be placed on an event a few weeks later that may also mark the return of Steve Jobs… [read more] Tweet This Post

By Boston.com Have you ever been lying on your leather couch, gobbling a pizza in front of your flat screen TV, and found yourself watching one of those ads asking you to help starving children in Africa who live on less than $2 day? The message is clear: a person can’t possibly survive on that, [...]

From WSJ It’s one of the great mysteries of the business world: How much is Donald Trump really worth? The world famous real-estate developer and television personality has consistently said it’s in the billions. A 2005 book citing anonymous sources said it was between $150 million and $250 million. Mr. Trump sued the writer for [...]

From PCWorld Google is mapping the world one street at a time. However, some of those locations are not conducive to cars, let alone the Google Street Views van or even a smal car. Locations like Europe pose an extra challenge — how to navigate all of those tightly packed, tourist-clogged cobblestone street in historic city centers? [...]

From Reuters AT&T Inc, the biggest U.S. telephone company, plans to offer Web-based data storage services for corporations using “cloud computing” technologies developed by data storage equipment maker EMC Corp. The telecommunications giant will join International Business Machines… [read more] Tweet This Post