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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Feature cut from Windows Home Server to return via add-in]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the crowning features of Windows Home Server, which Microsoft announced it was cutting as part of the next major version of the OS, is set to return with the help of some third-party software makers.Drive pooling, which lets users take multiple hard drives and turn them into one solid block of storage was made possible by a feature called Drive Extender. In November, Microsoft announced it would be removing the feature in the second major version of the Windows Home Server software, code-named Vail, citing higher-capacity commodity hard drives as making the feature obsolete.Users cried fowl, prompting Microsoft to say that the decision had been &quot;incredibly hard.&quot; And earlier this month, Microsoft followed through on its promise, cutting the feature in its first release candidate of the software.Not to worry though--as WeGotServed notes--developers DataCore software, Division M, and StableBit are all working on add-ins for Windows Home Server 2011 that will bring the feature back. The first of those, called Drive Bender from Division M, is slated to arrive early next week, with StableBit's DrivePool add-in, and DataCore's Storage Virtualization to arrive later on. All three solutions bring back the capability to pool together multiple drives, with DataCore's solution promising to add in new features like drive mirroring.The news should be welcomed by current Windows Home Server users who had wanted to update to the newer version of the software when it arrives, without losing their current configurations. As it stands, Microsoft's upgrade path had been to have users copy all of their home server data to external drives before making the switch to the newer version of the operating system.Windows Home Server was first introduced by Bill Gates at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2007 as a way for home users to store, share, and stream media and other files, attach networked printers, and save PC backups from multiple machines. The final version of the software is expected to arrive sometime in the first half of this year.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Canadian firm plans 78-satellite Net service]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resmaab24n</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
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<description><![CDATA[MSCI's CommStellation Microsat(Credit:MSCI)A Canadian satellite maker plans to launch a network of 78 small, relatively low-flying satellites designed to help relieve network congestion that's significantly dampening smartphone enthusiasm.MSCI, which stands for Microsat Systems Canada Inc., is trying to be a bit of a maverick with its project, called CommStellation. The company said today that its approach of using small, inexpensive satellites in low orbit--about 620 miles above the Earth--means better coverage of the world's population, quicker launch, and better network capacity.The company likes to spotlight its competition with the O3b, the Google-backed satellite project to improve Net access for the 3 billion people who live outside of wealthy, well-wired areas. But realistically, MSCI's greater competition probably is more down to Earth--fiber optic lines and perhaps femtocells built to ease network congestion.Still, MSCI argues that its use of rugged but relatively ordinary terrestrial electronics means it can move fast enough to make entry into new satellite communications markets a &quot;no-brainer.&quot;&quot;Until now, no one in the industry has been able to find the manufacturing cost and scheduling efficiencies and cost-effective microsatellite technology to enable an economically viable constellation of satellites to provide 100 percent global coverage,&quot; Justin Phillips, MSCI's vice president of marketing, said in a statement.Specifically, the company is able to use more ordinary electronics with its lower-elevation satellites. Medium orbit satellites--about 5,000 miles above Earth--such as rival O3b need components with higher reliability in order to withstand the temperature and radiation rigors of space. MSCI's satellites are also relatively small, meaning that 14 can be packed into a single launch rocket compared with O3b's 4 satellites. And much less power is required to transmit data to and from the MSCI's satellites since they're closer to Earth.MSCI plans to launch satellites starting in 2014 and reach full network capability in 2015.MSCI&amp;39's illustration of its network of CommStellation satellites above the Earth.(Credit:MSCI)This isn't the sort of thing that a person's phone will tie into directly. Rather, mobile phone base stations or other local network hubs will link to the satellites. The satellites in turn link to a network of 20 ground stations around Earth that link to the Internet, providing what's known as &quot;back-haul&quot; network capacity.Back-haul constraints are a big problem today for network operators trying to balance consumers' demand for profitable but data-hogging smartphones with their own needs to keep their networks from being crushed by the data traffic.Each MSCI satellite has a data-transfer capacity of 12 gigabits per second. The expected lifespan of each is 10 years, and they can be sent back into the atmosphere at the end of their lives to avoid more orbital clutter.MSCI plans to launch 84 satellites into six orbital planes, each 30 degrees apart. Each orbital plane gets 13 primary satellites and one spare.Each satellite will provide coverage to a circular area of about 7 million square miles, MSCI said. Because the satellites travel in a polar orbit, meaning that they orbit along a line of longitude crossing over the north and south poles, coverage improves in the higher latitude where the orbits draw closer.The company hasn't yet selected a launch partner or announced investors or customers.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Biotic' video games: Play with microorganisms]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=biotic-video-games-play-with-microorganisms</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>resmaab24n</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=biotic-video-games-play-with-microorganisms</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You may have heard of Fold-It, which involves different approaches to folding proteins, and EteRNA, which lets players propose new molecular structures for ribonucleic acids (RNA). While these are conceptual exercises that can influence future research, a new set of games out of Stanford takes these types of games one step further.Stanford researcher Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his lab group have developed such games as Biotic Pinball, POND PONG, and a soccer game called Ciliaball that involve players actually interacting with living microorganisms.&quot;We hope that by playing games involving biology of a scale too small to see with the naked eye, people will realize how amazing these processes are and they'll get curious and want to know more,&quot; says Riedel-Kruse, an assistant professor of bioengineering. &quot;The applications we can envision so far are on the one hand educational, for people to learn about biology, but we are also thinking perhaps we could have people running real experiments as they play these games.&quot;To determine whether they could design biotic games at all, the researchers stuck to more primitive, basic game concepts. They came up with eight games that fit into three categories: interaction with molecules, single cells, or colonies of single cells.The hardware is pretty straightforward. A small camera transmits live images of the paramecia as they swim about, responding to changes in the polarity of an electrical field applied to the fluid chamber by the player's laptop, with the &quot;game board&quot; superimposed on the image of the paramecia. A microprocessor tracks movement and keeps score.In some games, such as PAC-mecium, the player controls the polarity of a mild electrical field applied across the fluid chamber, which influences the direction the paramecia move. In Biotic Pinball, the player injects occasional whiffs of a chemical into the fluid, causing the paramecia to swim in certain directions.The molecular level game, called PolymerRace, involves the laboratory technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), an automated process by which researchers make millions of copies of an organism's DNA in as few as two hours. The player is linked to the output of a PCR machine that is running different reactions simultaneously, and can bet on which reactions will be run fastest.The third type of game involves colonies of yeast cells. Players literally smell the colonies to try to distinguish between them based on bread-vinegar-like scents.Riedel-Kruse acknowledges that for some players there have been ethical issues, but stresses that these organisms lack brains and the capacity to feel pain: &quot;We are talking about microbiology with these games, very primitive life forms...These games could be a good tool to stimulate discussions in schools on bioethical issues.&quot;The games are presented in a paper published this month in the 10th anniversary issue of Lab on a Chip.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NRG Solar to buy First Solar's 290-megawatt plant]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It seems the Agua Caliente solar project in Arizona is changing hands once again.NRG Energy announced today its subsidiary NRG Solar plans to acquire Agua Caliente, a 290-megawatt solar farm from First Solar, as long as an application for a federal loan guarantee gets granted.&quot;Closing of the acquisition is contingent on receiving the federal loan guarantee,&quot; NRG said in a statement. The purchase price was not disclosed. First Solar itself had acquired the Agua Caliente solar project from NextLight Renewable Power for $285 million in April.NRG Solar says it has plans to invest a combined total of $800 million in the project from its own funds, outside investors, and the federal loan guarantee between deal completion and 2014. At the time of the First Solar/NextLight deal it was clear that First Solar's deal was as much about the power purchase agreements it stood to gain, as it was about the actual projects. NextLight at the time had an agreement with Pacific Gas &amp; Electric for over 520 megawatts that First Solar inherited through the deal.NRG Solar will now gain a 25-year power purchase agreement with PG&amp;E with respect to the 290-megawatt Agua Caliente project.The solar farm as planned will be located on 2,400 acres of farmland spread across Yuma County, Ariz. When complete it's expected to generate enough electricity to power 225,000 homes, according to NRG Solar.NRG Energy and First Solar have made deals before. In November 2009, NRG Solar purchased a 21-megawatt solar plant in Blythe, Calif., from First Solar that came with a 20-year power purchase agreement with Southern California Edison.NRG Energy has been doing a lot of acquiring over the last two years, and Agua Caliente joins a list of high-profile projects that NRG has announced in recent months.In November, NRG Solar announced a deal to purchase the California Valley Solar Ranch, a 250-megawatt solar project from SunPower, for $450 million. The plant also came with a PG&amp;E power purchase agreement, and is estimated to provide enough electricity to power 50,000 homes. In October, NRG Solar announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding to partner with BrightSource Energy to build a 392-megawatt solar thermal project. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which NRG Solar plans to invest $300 million in, is expected to be the largest commercial solar thermal plant in the U.S.Earlier this year NRG Energy, through its eVgo Network (pronounced ee-vee-go), also partnered with Walgreens to implement over 100 commercial electric-vehicle charging stations in Texas.Correction, 9:32 a.m. PT December 16: The nature of the Blythe, Calif., sale was mistakenly transposed. In November 2009, NRG Energy purchased the 21-megawatt solar plant from First Solar.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What does Kleiner&'s drift from cleantech mean for green investing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It appears that titan venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is moving away from cleantech and going back to its roots in Internet investing, where it made famously good bets on companies like Amazon and Google.With the hire of &amp;''Queen of the Net&amp;'' Mary Meeker, Fortune speculates that Kleiner is moving back to its sweet spot after a big push into cleantech investing three years ago. Earth2Tech points out that Kleiner&amp;'s cleantech exits like Amyris have yielded only modest returns.It&amp;'s certainly a time of some soul-searching among green investors. Investing in the sector is down sharply. In the U.S., dollars flowing in have been cut by half since last year.And after struggles at capital-intensive companies like Solyndra, investors are saying they&amp;'re much more inclined to make capital-efficient, technology-focused (read: cheaper) investments in cleantech.And yes, some venture capitalists have gone so far as to say there&amp;'s been a cleantech bubble. So now we&amp;'re seeing a pullback. But many also argue that there are still opportunities out there, they just have to be more selective going forward.At VentureBeat&amp;'s GreenBeat 2010 conference earlier this month, a couple of attendees made a good point &amp;8212' cleantech investing has no poster child, no &amp;''Netscape moment,&amp;'' as John Doerr (pictured) put it (though he forecast that one is coming). Basically, cleantech needs a Facebook.The closest thing to that so far is perhaps Kleiner-backed Silver Spring Networks, a smart grid communications company. You could even go so far as to argue that they are, in fact, an Internet company, because they lay a network of wireless, IP-based communications for the smart grid. But as impressive as Silver Spring&amp;'s traction has been, there&amp;'s no IPO in sight yet (though rumors float around every once in a while). The company is about eight years old and has taken $218 million in funding. When there is an exit, it will not have been a quick or sexy one &amp;8212' which maybe says a lot about the nature of investing in cleantech to begin with.What&amp;'s unclear is whether Kleiner Perkins is significantly shifting its strategy away from cleantech or simply making up lost time by pushing forward with more Internet investments, like its recently announced $250 million sFund for social applications and services.At GreenBeat 2010, Doerr dryly remarked that he&amp;'d once invested in an electric vehicle &amp;8212' the Segway. &amp;''One of my more famous mistakes,&amp;'' Doerr concluded, to laughter. But he also pumped up the cleantech angle, saying, &amp;''There&amp;'s never been a better time to invest in green.We asked Kleiner Perkins for comment on whether or not it&amp;'s really de-emphasizing cleantech investments, but it hasn&amp;'t responded.Next Story: Microsoft developing a touchscreen that lets you feel objects Previous Story: Computer worm that hit Iran&amp;'s nuclear equipment is also taking out other industrial systemsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cleantech, cleantech investing, GreenBeat 2010Companies: Kleiner Perkins, Silver Spring Networks, SolyndraPeople: John Doerr          Tags: cleantech, cleantech investing, GreenBeat 2010Companies: Kleiner Perkins, Silver Spring Networks, SolyndraPeople: John DoerrIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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