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$1/watt solar energy - cheaper than coal

Nanosolar, a valley startup has started shipping solar panels priced at $1/watt. That means nothing to me, but apparently it’s pretty darn cheap as far as watt prices go. I don’t know anything about this market, but it even sounds good to me. Especially when you consider IBM’s top manufacturing exec has joined them, they have [...]

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Croud-Sourced QA from uTest

uTest has reaised $1.7m for it’s croud-sourced QA service, which is expected to launch in early 2008. It’s very oDesk’y, and if they pull it off, with the right testers, I can see it becoming popular within it’s niche market, which will likely mostly be web and software firms. QA is something that is better done [...]

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Mozilla’s world

Google pays the Mozilla Foundation commision to have it’s search box the default in the Firefox web browser, which this year amounted to a cool $57 million. Considering Firefox is used by 120 million people, that’s not a bad deal for Google. I know I don’t type google.com in very often - pretty much exclusively [...]

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Apple: 250,000 iphones sold to unlockers

Interesting earnings report from Apple today. One of the interesting points was that of the 1.4 million iphones sold to date, apple estimates 250,000 of them were sold with the intention of being unlocked. I’ve seen quite a few cellphone shops around Europe selling unlocked iphones, mostly for around 950 EUR ($1350 USD, £660 GBP), [...]

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