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  Obama's stimulus plan:
  The energy debate

  The goal is to double U.S. renewable energy in three years, but there's still much to be sorted out about clean-tech incentives from Washington.
  • The White House reboots

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  Gadget extravaganza
  in Las Vegas

  roundup CES 2009 is in full swing. Highlights so far include Palm's WebOS and Pre device, Microsoft's Windows 7 beta, and much more.
  • CNET's complete coverage
  • CES Day 1: Webware wrapup
  • AT&T CruiseCast for rental cars
  • Gracenote puts a star in your car
  • Touch-screen digital receiver
  • Wireless, ultra-slim speakers

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• Apple at CES? Unlikely

  A report that Apple wants to head down to CES just doesn't make any sense, given the company just backed out of one early January trade show.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Dell officially unveils Adamo, Mini 10

  The PC maker continues expanding Netbook lineup, but goes high-end with luxury notebook lineup. Details on Adamo are thin, like the device itself.

  (Posted in Crave by Erica Ogg)

• Web site problems as Windows 7 beta hits

  Users are reporting getting a variety of issues while trying to get to Microsoft's Windows Web site. The beta of Windows 7 is due to hit Friday.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Week in review: Two tech shows, minus icons

  Macworld and CES were most notable for who wasn't there, while the search market heated up. Also: Obama to postpone digital TV switchover?

  (Posted in Business Tech by Steven Musil)

• Daily Tidbits: Hacker gets 30 years in Turkish jail

  Maksym Yastremski, the alleged mastermind behind the T.J. Maxx credit card hack, gets 30 years in jail in connection with charges of his involvement in attacks on Turkish banks.

  (Posted in Webware by Don Reisinger)

• Google tunes up Chrome development

  Open-source browser gets some updates, including a new version of WebKit, and early adopters can now pick from three levels of stability.

  (Posted in Webware by Jonathan Skillings)

• Dell acquires Allin for $12 million

  Acquisition of the Microsoft IT consulting company is designed to bolster Dell's consulting work in such areas as collaboration and business applications.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Goldman Sachs: IT-spending growth to halt

  Investment bank is projecting zero percent growth for the industry in 2009, which should portend more money for the dominant software vendors--and less for the smaller ones.

  (Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay)

• Would video games get you to join the Army?

  The U.S. Army is using a video game center to inform people about Army life. But would video games be enough to get you to join the Armed Forces?

  (Posted in The Digital Home by Don Reisinger)

• Red Hat: JBoss growing twice as fast as Linux

  The company's JBoss business is booming, it says, paving the way for it to compete well beyond its roots in the operating system--perhaps tackling the application business in earnest.

  (Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay)

• Police Blotter: Judge rejects touch-tone snooping

  The Justice Department says it doesn't need to a wiretap order to extract touch tones from telephone calls in progress. A federal judge says otherwise.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

• Ballmer: Google, Google, the economy, Google

  In an interview with CNET News, Microsoft CEO talks about Windows, taking software to the Web, and competing with the search king. But there's no escaping the bad economy.
  • Q&A: Windows boss on version 7

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Green news harvest: Exxon CEO calls for carbon tax

  In a first, the CEO of the oil giant calls for a carbon tax, rather than a cap and trade. Meanwhile, small solar start-ups HelioVolt and Spectrawatt hit hurdles.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)
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