CORONADO, Calif.–Looming energy problems present noteworthy challenges for the world, but big thinkers in science, business, and technology know they have to compete with the status quo without a helping hand.
The Future in Review conference has always been about sketching a picture of the technology and business landscape five years into the future. But this [...]

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If SmartSynch gets its way, your utility meter will have its own address on the Internet.
The smart-grid company on Thursday announced that it has raised $20 million, led by Credit Suisse, to invest in development and sales of its networked utility meter technology. To date, the 8-year-old company, based on Jackson, Miss., has raised $80 [...]

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Google has rolled out a new service for web developers looking to get a better understanding of open web tools like HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Doctype, as the new service is known, is one part reference encyclopedia and one part tutorial collection drawing on documentation from Google’s own developers.
Doctype is a wiki, open to edits [...]

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The rollout of fiber connections to the internet is creating a new digital divide between “haves” and “have-nots.” Fiber is something like 10 times faster — and can easily be 100 times faster — than plain vanilla broadband. But the only major carrier swapping out the copper is Verizon, whose FIOS service is or will [...]

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Here’s a shocker for you: Facebook doesn’t want to give up its tight-knit control of your personal information. The company has officially banned Google’s recently-launched Friend Connect service, which would allow you to pull your personal data out of Facebook and use it elsewhere.
Considering that the only value Facebook actually has is all the data [...]

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