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  At PDC, Microsoft
  (r)evolution on display

  A key developer conference this week will reveal just how much progress Ray Ozzie has made in his efforts to remake Redmond for the cloud computing era.

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  Hackers create tools
  for disaster relief

  At the first-ever Random Hacks of Kindness event, developers work on technology tools that emergency relief workers can use in disasters.
  • Photos: Hackers with a heart

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• CEOs endorse 'foothold strategy' for electric cars

  The Electrification Coalition of different companies pushes for policies to promote electric vehicles in six to eight regions in the U.S. as a way to build critical mass.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Oxford's word of the year? 'Unfriend'

  The ubiquitous Digital Age insult, brought into the mainstream with the rise of Facebook, is the dictionary's top term of 2009.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• iPhone app developer quits over approval process

  Frustration over the App Store approval process led one developer to call it quits and go back to developing only Mac applications.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• AT&T debuts new Windows 7 mobile Netbooks

  New for the holidays, the Samsung Go and Acer Aspire One--equipped with Windows 7 and a data plan--will sell for $199 after a mail-in rebate.

  (Posted in Crave by Lance Whitney)

• Microsoft testing Excel for supercomputers

  At the SC09 conference, Microsoft releases an updated version of Windows Server for high-performance computers as well as a compute cluster version of its Excel spreadsheet.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Solar-power start-up Ausra looks to sell itself

  Discussions are at a "very aggressive level" with global conglomerates, source tells Reuters. Sale would add to a string of recent deals and growing consolidation in the solar-power industry.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Reuters)

• Cisco boosts bid for Tandberg to $3.41 billion

  After its initial bid got the cold shoulder, Cisco has upped its buyout offer for the video conferencing equipment maker.

  (Posted in Wireless by Lance Whitney)

• AT&T expands its cloud service

  Company's latest cloud-based service lets businesses alter their computing capacity as their needs expand and contract.

  (Posted in Wireless by Lance Whitney)

• 'Jaguar' supercomputer races past 'Roadrunner'

  The Cray XT5 known as "Jaguar" finally bests IBM after three tries for the No. 1 spot in the Top500 supercomputer list.

  (Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg)

• Amir Pnueli, pioneer of temporal logic, dies

  Pnueli turned a philosopher's explorations of time, logic, and free will, called temporal logic, into a critical technique for verifying the reliability of computers.
  (From The New York Times)

• VeriSign expects major security update by '11

  New protocol will guarantee the origin and integrity of Domain Name System data for .com and .net, company says.

  (Posted in Security by Tom Espiner)

• IBM launches private business analytics cloud

  Blue Insight--Big Blue's massive business analytics cloud--is will hold more than a petabyte of data.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Larry Dignan)

• Nvidia calls Intel's tactics 'aggressive'

  Company is complaining loudly about Intel's bundling strategies in the graphics chip market.

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