John Doerr On Bloom Energy Launch: “This Is Like The Google IPO”

After eight years of operating in quasi-stealth, Bloom Energy came out with a bang today at an event in Silicon Valley attended by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Colin Powell, Larry Page, John Doerr, and executives from eBay, Walmart, Coca-Cola, and FedEx. All of the big-name companies, including Google, are beta customers of Bloom’s distributed energy fuel cell technology (which was the subject of a 60 Minutes profile on Sunday and various other stories since then).
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1/3 of Americans don’t use fast Internet

The Federal Communications Commission’s October- November 2009 analysis finds that about two-thirds (65 percent) of American adults use accelerated Internet con- nections to go online from home.

The FCC conducted a analysis of 5,005 Americans in October and November 2009 in an accomplishment to accept the accompaniment of broadband acceptance and use, as able-bodied as barriers adverse those who do not accept broadband at home. The capital allegation are:

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Walmart Shutting Down Vudu’s Adult Section

When it was arise that banker Walmart would shop for alive cine startup Vudu a brace canicule ago, a cardinal of sites wondered what it would beggarly for Vudu’s developed content. Here’s what it means: bye bye.

An email is currently actuality beatific out by Vudu absolution its After Dark (the developed allocation of its account run with developed advertisement AVN) ally that the breadth will be discontinued in the “coming days.” Accretion the abounding email at the basal of this post. 

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Microsoft offers three fresh BlueTrack mice on the cheap

Microsoft's BlueTrack technology may accept led to some appealing absorbing mice, but they so far haven't biconcave abundant beneath the $50 mark. That's now afflicted with the company's fresh Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500, Wireless Mouse 2000 and Comfort Mouse 4500, however,

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Nintendo DSi XL Set for launch on march in the U.S

The Nintendo DSi XL, the most recent chapter in the Japanese gaming company’s handheld range, has assuredly been accepted a U.S. on-sale date and amount tag, some four months afterwards it went on auction in Japan beneath the name DSi LL.

Those acquisitive to grab the fresh accessory — which bucks the trend in the customer electronics bazaar with its larger-than-previous-model’s-dimensions — should agenda that it will barrage on March 28 for $189.99, about $20 added than its accepted stablemate.

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Augmented Reality App Identifies Strangers With Camera

Augmented absoluteness enthusiasts dream of a approaching area accepting admission to abstracts everywhere will accord us the eyes of the Terminator. Imagine donning basic glasses that affectation agenda captions anecdotic aggregate you attending at. Stare at a building, and a explanation spits out aback it was built; attending at a drifter on a bus and a agenda balloon appears in the bend of your eye, announcement his name and age.

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