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A California man accused of sexual molestation of his stepdaughter says her AOL “away” message calls her credibility into question and should clear him of the charges.

Storage revenue slipped in the fourth quarter–the first quarterly slide in more than five years, according to IDC. The culprit: Weak server sales that reduced demand for storage systems.  IDC’s report indicates that weak IT spending is even hitting the storage industry, which has enjoyed torrid growth of late as enterprise store more information.  Total disk [...]

The story of solar company, 1366 Technologies, shows how green-tech start-ups need a combination of technology, entrepreneurial smarts, and capital to make a big impact.

A San Francisco sex worker says Craigslist is vital to her industry. Cook County says Craigslist’s erotic services section is a nuisance to the community.

Start-up 1366 Technologies wants to transform the energy business one solar cell at a time. Can it make renewable energy cheaper than fossil fuels?

(I’m taking a weird or, to make that more polite, unusual step and publishing this at both PGreenblog and ZDNET because it impacts both audiences. Honestly, I’m not being lazy. I swear….okay, maybe a little) For the last several weeks, I’ve been thinking over what CRM 2.0 looks like - Really (thank you Seth Meyers [...]

A short while ago, VMware and Neverfail inked an agreement in which VMware would deliver Neverfail’s availablilty and application server management framework software as part of the new vCenter Server Heartbeat software. VMware’s vCenter is a single point of control of many of the capabilities VMware offers that extend their virtual server environment.  Some would [...]

This time it’s Google Australia that brings us a nice roundup of tools, lesson plans, and ideas for using cloud-based tools in the classroom. Their blog highlights several activities at schools in New Zealand and Australia where teachers take advantage of Google’s applications to create an e-portfolio, allowing students to record, archive and share their [...]

We had three new students start in our high school today. They’re Chinese and speak very little English. This being rural Massachusetts, people fluent in Mandarin are extremely hard to come by. We have plenty of bilingual services for Spanish-speaking kids, but this is a new one for our sleepy little town. The principal of [...]

Here’s a close look at what Silicon Valley hopes to gain from the Recovery Bill and its promise to increase spending on green tech. The San Jose mahyor sounds disturbed that he encoungtered Neanderthals in Congress. He expectedc someting else? OK, I apologize. Neanderthals really were fine, humane and inventive creatures. And none of them [...]