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Global investment in sustainable energy amounted to 8 billion in 2007, a 60 percent gain over 2006, according to a United Nations report (PDF) Tuesday.
That will grow to 0 billion past 2020, reported New Energy Finance, a consultant to the U.N. Environment Programme.

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Companies seeking to install utility-scale solar plants on federal land in the sunny Southwest found one barrier removed on Wednesday.
The federal Bureau of Land Management reversed an earlier decision to turn away new applications for solar energy projects on public lands until May 2010.
The agency is scrutinizing the …
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Next-generation super-phones won’t just be slimmer versions of today’s devices; they will be entirely different machines. Chipmakers are reinventing every processor that powers your portable. From PS3-quality videogames to built-in cameras that can fill in for your current point-and-shoot, a chip for it is in the works. And thanks to shrinking transistors, the new phones [...]

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Researchers have confirmed the unfortunate karaoke phenomenon whereupon terrible singers either do not know they sing poorly—or do, yet still hog the stage with little regard for the audience’s ears or glassware.
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Early Wednesday, antivirus vendor Sophos reported that some visitors to the Sony PlayStation site may have been prompted to download an antivirus scanner.

Pages promoting the PlayStation games SingStar Pop and God of War contained SQL-injected code. Visitors to those specific game pages would see a fake antivirus scan , then
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What makes a disease deadly in the twenty-first century? Medicine has never been more advanced; our understanding of spread and infection, never more sophisticated. And yet, we may be poised for the largest and most devastating pandemic the human race has ever encountered.
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If you’re trying to impress people with your carbon footprint, you may not want to flaunt your phone unless it’s made by Sony or Sony Ericsson. Those are the only electronics makers that scored above 5/10 in the latest edition of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics….
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Those who are familiar with Japan’s Strapya will undoubtedly remember any number of its
bizarre products, which usually come in the form of some
misguided cell phone accessory. But there’s actually a more serious side to the company, believe it or not, one that involves …
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On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new security features within the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. The features are designed to combat the rising tide of drive-by downloads and malicious scripts contained within carefully crafted links embedded in e-mail and Web pages. Most of the new features require systems
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A sampling of green-tech news with quick commentary.

Free Swap Meet Sites Booming - Christian Science Monitor
As more people stop buying new things, they’re turning to Web sites like Freecycle, ReUseIt, and FreeSharing to exchange used goods.

Why Are Solar Stocks So Low? - Earth2TechRecent “manic depressive”

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