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MIT: Dirty coal to blame for China pollution--In a rare independent study of China's energy sector, researchers have found that the problem with China's coal power generation is not that its power plants lack cleaner technology.

Twitter drops support for IM--Twitter is stable but missing the key feature of IM interaction. Can they get it back and make some money from this beast?

What is a Netbook computer?--An introduction to Netbook computers, a new class of low-end laptops.

Navy charters kite-powered cargo ship to deliver equipment--The use of this new breed of sailing ship could reduce fuel costs by 20 to 30 percent, according to the ship's owners.

Called "MyAds," it allows small advertisers to use MySpace's targeted ad program, opening up a big opportunity for local ads on the social network.

People who listen to "personal music players" for only five hours a week at a high volume may be doing permanent damage to their hearing, according to a team of EU experts.

Online-communication utility is stable but missing key feature of instant-messaging interaction, downgraded from Things That are Broken list to our Things We Want to Build list.

Internet advocacy group accuses Motion Picture Association of America of being less concerned about stopping piracy than it is about controlling innovation.

The Broadband Data Act encourages wider collection of information regarding nationwide access to broadband.

YouTube gets Beverly Hills 90210, MacGyver, and Star Trek in a test of longer-form video that's theatrically presented and interrupted by ads.

Two notable technology stocks swam against the tide Friday, with shares rising in the positive territory for most of the day.

Q&A The Web portal's Edwin Aoki talks about the impact Web applications have had in the enterprise and what trends are emerging.

Far from Wall Street, attendees of London's Future of Web Apps conference aren't panicking about the economy. Is it entrepreneur's pluck or old-fashioned naivete?

By updating two mobile applications, more people can now search Yahoo's databases by speaking search terms into their phones.

Consumers made a ruckus when MSN, Yahoo, and Walmart.com threatened to stop issuing DRM keys for their music. Each reversed itself. Take a bow.

The young Facebook founder concludes the Future of Web Apps conference by telling developers that his company will gradually continue to edge toward the "open" model that so many of them embrace.

At the Future of Web Apps conference in London, Facebook's platform manager encourages developers in the audience to sign onto a new data-portability project.

Reports out say the retail heavyweight will maintain digital rights management servers for the near future.

With Wall Street under siege, venture capitalists are telling the companies they've invested in that now would be a good time to keep their money under lock and key.

The social-network builder now has a directory of about 30 applications built with the open-source technology.

The National Security Agency's electronic ear is supposed to listen in on terrorists. But whistleblowers say they were tuning in to unrelated conversations including phone sex.

Dot-com rock star talks about the company road map, how he sees Digg fitting into the future of the media, and offers advice for young entrepreneurs in a tough economy.

Mithras Capital, which owns a small percentage of Yahoo, proposes selling the company to Redmond for a 74 percent premium on Yahoo's current stock price, according to a report.

Just how do you best monetize the strikingly popular social network? The CEO reckons they'll have that problem licked in about three years.