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Google, Cisco top the list of the greenest IT companies
How do the heavy weights of the Internet and telecom stack up in terms of how green their technology, energy footprint and political advocacy are? On Tuesday night Greenpeace released its latest Cool IT leaderboard report, which ranks the world's largest IT giants.
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Startup Soraa unveils game changing next-gen LED light
The inventor of the LED is now looking to revolutionize the industry he created. On Tuesday startup Soraa unveiled its first LED bulb that can replace a halogen lamp, and showed off the company's secret sauce. 
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Online music is hard: iLike shuts down
iLike was once the most popular music application of Facebook, with close to 10 million active users generating 1.5 billion page views per month. On Tuesday, it finally shut down. Its demise proves once again that online music is a tough business to be in.
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Sky News joins the anti-social media brigade
A new policy from Sky News bars reporters from posting anything other than work-related content on Twitter, and even forbids them from retweeting anything that doesn't come from a Sky account. As with so many other similar policies, this completely misses the point of social media.
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In a suspect move, LightSquared calls for GPS design standards
LightSquared has asked the FCC n to impose future standards on GPS device design, claiming such requirements would allow GPS and its LTE network to co-exist peacefully. While LightSquared would appear to be taking the middle path, the proposal smacks of a political stunt.
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App Economy has created almost half a million jobs
Could the app economy be the cure for United States' employment doldrums? A new report suggests that the nascent app economy spurred on by iOS, Android and Facebook apps has generated 466,000 jobs in the U.S. economy since 2007.
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Which companies will EMC?s Project Lightning strike?
With its Project Lightning server-side flash cache, aka VFcache, EMC hopes to show itself as a forward-looking storage provider. But until it loses its big box, scale-up mentality, it won't be much of a factor in webscale data centers that go for scale-out everything. 
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Cord Cutters: Lilyhammer, Battleground & Co.
Thought online video was just about short clips? Think again: Netflix and Hulu are both premiering online-exclusive TV shows this month, and Sony is airing the third episode of its reality TV show on the PlayStation Network. We are taking a first look at these shows.
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Apple?s iTV and the carrier question
Apple is reportedly looking to partner with TV operators for the launch of its upcoming iTV product. But why would it? Because doing so would give it more content, enable it to offer a better user interface and give it wider distribution.
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Samsung building buzz ahead of Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress is still three weeks and an ocean away, but Samsung is already threatening to steal the show. Analytics blog Anlytk has compiled Twitter data on the most referenced terms surrounding MWC and found that Samsung is already generating an enormous amount of buzz.
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Video: Chrome for Android is faster and feature full
Google merged its Chrome browser with Android today and I'm thrilled to see it. The Chrome beta is fast and it has a clean interface. If you're a Chrome user on the desktop, Chrome for Android can open whatever webpage you're browsing on the PC.
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Forget consumers, gigabit networks are ready for business!
Consumer applications have driven the rapid take up of faster broadband services in the U.S. in the last decade. But as Google and others build gigabit networks to see what can be done with them, it's time to bring businesses back into the innovation cycle.
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Hadoop startup WibiData raises $5M to power web analytics
WibiData, a Hadoop-based startup focused on making it easier to analyze user behavior, has raised $5 million from New Enterprise Associates. The company, formerly known as Odiago, launched in late 2011 already claiming Wikipedia and Atlassian among its early customers.
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Klout makes its first acquisition: Local-mobile app Blockboard
Klout, the San Francisco-based startup that measures people's "influence" across a variety of social networks, has made its first acquisition with the purchase of Blockboard, a Twitter-like mobile app that functions as a community bulletin board for posting messages viewable to your neighbors.
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Chrome browser finally comes to Android
Google's Chrome browser and Android mobile operating system went public in the same year but they haven't converged until now. Google is finally introducing Chrome for Android, a robust beta with a lot of slick features which is limited to Android 4.0 devices. 
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Do users really care whether the web is open or not?
Open-web advocates may long for a revolt against walled gardens, but in the end the success of a social network is determined by the willingness of users to put up with its restrictions. For Facebook, that is both its biggest strength and its biggest weakness.
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