Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNET's Green Tech blog. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Before that, he was executive editor at IT publication InfoWorld. E-mail Martin.
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2 engineers sentenced for espionageCase goes back to 2001 when the men, who had worked at Sun Microsystems, Transmeta, NEC, and Trident, were trying to smuggle chip design documents out of the U.S. and into China.
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Photos: Gadgets we're thankful for, Part 1
Apple
iPhone Dev Team releases 2.2 jailbreakTeam posts downloads and instructions for unlocking the firmware update, and also includes a word of caution about Apple's baseband technology.
Outside the Lines
Lifestreaming in ObamalandThe technologies that helped Obama reach the White House are going to make the president-elect's life more transparent and scrutinized than any previous White House occupant.
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The BlackBerry Storm touches down
Digital Media
YouTube lives it upVideo-sharing site offers its first live stream of an event--one designed to celebrate itself and many of the most popular performers on the site.
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SF Bay Area plugs in
Politics and Law
The key to innovation: Privately owned fiber?A paper released by the New America Foundation proposes encouraging consumers to purchase their own fiber lines.
Cutting Edge
Water ice glaciers spotted on MarsNASA scientists find what they believe are huge water ice glaciers sitting just beneath the Martian surface.
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Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week
Webware
Visualizing Facebook from outer spaceSome Facebook engineers came up with a visualization of user activity by the social network's 120 million users across the planet.
Green Tech
Google crunches numbers on clean-energy policySearch giant pressures policy makers with an analysis arguing that government and business can clean the U.S. energy supply while stimulating the economy.
