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  The sunshine business in the Golden State

  photos In San Diego, the solar industry's annual confab shows the diversity of solar gear for power plants, commercial roofs, or homes.
  • Home energy monitors getting wise to solar

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  Adobe fends off rivals with Flash Player 10

  The incumbent power in rich Web app technology just got a little more powerful--but it also now has Silverlight 2 to reckon with.

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• Windows 7 equals some strange math

  Although Windows 7 was also the product's code name, the forthcoming version of Windows is not Microsoft's seventh iteration, and it won't carry the version number 7.0.
  • Hey, Microsoft: Keep Windows 7 simple

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Secunia exploits security suites flaws

  A nontraditional test using exploits instead of malware shows that traditional security suites fail.

  (Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi)

• Three things Apple won't do

  Buried at the end of Tuesday's notebook event, CEO Steve Jobs makes clear what direction he won't be going next time his company makes another Mac announcement.
  • Roundup: Apple polishes laptops
  • New MacBook Pro for games?
  • Photos: MacBooks go metallic

  (Posted in Apple by Erica Ogg)

• Intel buys network gear company

  Chipmaker announces the acquisition of NetEffect, a company specializing in Ethernet products and technologies for server compute clusters.

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

• Facebook announces 25 developer grant finalists

  They now have a chance to apply for $225,000 in grant money in the FBFund developer competition's final round--but only if they successfully build the apps first.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Election 2008: Final countdown

  special coverage YouTube rejects McCain's request for DMCA takedown fix; PBS, YouTube partner on Election Day project; and more.
  • CBS Webcast: McCain-Obama debate, round

• Who loves an economic crisis? Yahoo Finance

  Sites with financial news and data saw record numbers of visitors in September, according to ComScore. Just wait for the October tally.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Stephen Shankland)

• 'Popular Mechanics' honors tech innovators

  In its fourth-annual selection of the best and brightest from across science and technology, the magazine highlights innovations that make differences in people's lives.
  • Photos: Award winners

  (Posted in Gaming and Culture by Daniel Terdiman)

• Authorities shut down spam ring

  An international spam network was ordered to shut down, stopping what the authorities say was one of the most prolific spam gangs on the Internet.
  (From The New York Times)

• Dark times for Web ads: Analysts cut forecasts

  Online-advertising budgets are likely to be flat or decreasing, and companies such as Google and InterActiveCorp that on it can expect to feel the pain, financial analysts say.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Stephen Shankland)

• Facebook hosts 10 billion photos

  That's a heck of a lot of photos, requiring a heck of a lot of server space. Will revenue catch up with with server demands?

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Court lifts ban on phones with Qualcomm chips

  The decision on imports is the latest in a long-running stream of legal battles between Qualcomm and Broadcom.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Margaret Kane)

• Atom chip demand redefining Intel

  Chipmaker is seeing solid Atom results, possibly giving the first evidence of Intel's low-cost future.
  • Intel posts record revenue, but cautions

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