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President-elect Barack Obama wants the nation to derive 10 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2012, up from 2 percent today. That comes on top of the global push for green power, making wind and solar power companies a good bet.

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Japan’s Sharp Corp, Italy’s Enel
SpA and a third partner are likely to invest more than $2.6
billion in Italian solar power ventures to tap growing demand for
cleaner energy despite a global economic slowdown.

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Bill Gates wiped the tears from his face, bowed his head to the applause — and ended an era. Microsoft’s 52-year-old icon worked his final day as a full-time executive Friday, remembering the successes and controversies of the company. Full Story

A version of Intel’s Atom processor is already designed into the generation of the Apple iPhone set to follow on from the imminent 3G iPhone, according to Eric Savitz, the west coast editor for Barron’s Magazine, who cited JoAnne Feeney, an analyst with FTN Midwest Securities Corp. (Cleveland Ohio), as his source.
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This summer marks a milestone for Civilization — or, at least, a computer game going by that name. The local game studio Firaxis is taking aim at a new market with its venerable PC game franchise, called Civ for short: the Xbox and PlayStation crowd.

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To establish new, low-cost methods for bringing next generation solar energy products to market that are more affordable and easier to install than those available today, Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co Ltd and researchers at IBM’s Yorktown Heights, NY-based lab are collaborating to jointly develop processes, materials, and equipment suitable for the production of copper-indium-gallium-selenide solar [...]

In order to stimulate demand and development for renewable energy sources, Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant Intel Corp is entering the solar cell industry by spinning off key assets of a start-up business effort inside its new business initiatives group to form an independent company, SpectraWatt Inc. As part of this, Intel’s investment organization, Intel [...]

PV Crystalox Solar plc (Abingdon, England) has said it has signed a contract with newly-formed Intel spin-off, SpectraWatt Inc. (Hillsboro, Ore.), for the supply of multi-crystalline wafers with a total output of 125 mega watts from 2009 till 2013.

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Since joining Facebook and MySpace two years ago, Luke Mitchell has amassed 476 friends, mostly buddies from high school and college. It was a great way to keep in touch, until his boss showed up on the sites and saw the embarrassing party pictures a friend posted.

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The university will mobilize 200 of its IT staffers on Monday to build a supercomputer that has 6,496 cores and can perform 60 trillion operations per second.

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Three of the world’s top recording companies are entering a joint venture with MySpace, the nation’s largest social Web site, to create a service offering free music streams and paid downloads for the millions of members of the online hangout.

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Federal judge issues stay in ‘Vista Capable’ lawsuit … Cell Therapeutics’ VP of clinical development quits … Senate adds tax breaks for Rust Belt, Katrina survivors … also, new top officers and shipping news. Full Story

Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s Wii game console outsold Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 by 3-to-1 in Japan in March, but
its DS handheld machine fell behind the PlayStation Portable for the first time in six months, a game magazine publisher said.

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Supply should catch up with the demand, offering sunnier prospects for the solar-energy industry.

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Europe’s top semiconductor maker, STMicroelectronics, said it has developed a portable chip to detect influenza viruses including bird flu in humans.
The device, which functions as a mini laboratory on a chip, can screen and identify multiple classes of pathogens and genes in a single diagnostic test within two hours.

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University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and students not to upgrade to the new service pack for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system.

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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates paid a visit to Capitol Hill yesterday with a familiar wish list: more money for math and science education, more funds for research and more visas for skilled foreign workers. Full Story

Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc and EPIR Technologies Inc reported today the completion of the first phase of the expansion of their electro-optic manufacturing facilities at EPIR in Bolingbrook, Ill., near Chicago, for the manufacture of advanced solar modules, infrared detectors and components and biosensor-decontamination devices.

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Global shipment revenue for leading touch-screen technologies will rise to $4.4 billion by 2012, up from $2.4 billion in 2006, according to iSuppli, which credits the catalyst in part to Apple’s iPhone.

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Bill Gates reminds members of Congress of the “critical shortfall of skilled scientists and engineers,” as he urges H-1B visa, immigration, and education reform. Without such action, he believes the US will not remain a global leader in technology innovation.

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WASHINGTON — Bill Gates is coming back to Capitol Hill with the same wish list he’s had for years: more visas for highly skilled workers, more math, science and engineering in schools and more money for technology investment. Full Story

Already a leading supplier of inspection and metrology systems, the $465.8 million acquisition of Belgium-based ICOS Vision Systems signals an expansion for KLA-Tencor into the strong emerging markets of photovoltaic solar technologies and LED lighting products. The deal also gives the San Jose-based company a significant presence in inspection equipment for semiconductor packaging and interconnect [...]

Microsoft founder Bill Gates apparently believes the company shouldn’t raise its offer price for Yahoo Inc. Full Story

A judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft unjustly enriched itself by promoting PCs as “Windows Vista Capable” even when they could only run a bare-bones version of the operating system. Full Story

A judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft unjustly enriched itself by promoting PCs as “Windows Vista Capable” even when they could only run a bare-bones version of the operating system. Full Story

Microsoft founder Bill Gates apparently believes the company shouldn’t raise its offer price for Yahoo Inc. Full Story

Already a leading supplier of inspection and metrology systems, the $465.8 million acquisition of Belgium-based ICOS Vision Systems signals an expansion for KLA-Tencor into the strong emerging markets of photovoltaic solar technologies and LED lighting products. The deal also gives the San Jose-based company a significant presence in inspection equipment for semiconductor packaging and interconnect [...]

Microsoft founder Bill Gates apparently believes the company shouldn’t raise its offer price for Yahoo Inc. Full Story

Solar cell manufacturer Q-Cells (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany) has decided to erect a new production line in Malaysia and to expand the thin film module production in its Calyxo subsidiary. The move widens Q-Cells head start in the solar cell business. Full Story

After years of shortages in the solar-cell sector, polysilicon supply should catch up with the demand this year, according to Frost & Sullivan. Full Story

The Nintendo Wii is expected to overcome Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 to become the new-generation video-game console with the world’s largest installed base in 2008, thanks to interest from casual gamers, iSuppli reports. Still, hard-core users aren’t going away, and the market research company estimates that in 2011, the installed base of [...]

Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game console topped Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in U.S. unit sales for the first time in January, but the Redmond company said its sales were hurt by supply shortages. Full Story

If Nintendo succeeds, then it would be the first time that the Wii has taken the lead among new-generation home video game consoles. Full Story

Innoventions Dream Home in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland will exhibit everything from mobile phones and PCs to digital music and gaming. Full Story

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc., a developer of thin-film photovoltaic modules, has purchased a large-scale manufacturing facility. Full Story

There are many reasons why a semiconductor component might be branded with markings that differ from those of its actual manufacturer. A case in point is the Apple iPhone, which includes multiple devices from large companies (such as Broadcom, Philips, Samsung and Texas Instruments); all the devices carry Apple package markings. Full Story

A Seattle money manager thinks Alan Greenspan’s reputation is undeserved … Why Microsoft won’t open-source Windows … How much soda Microsofties consume in a year … Dave Ross cracks up techies … When YouTube’s video demo didn’t work … Full Story

Quoting extensively from Microsoft e-mails, plaintiffs’ lawyers argued that the company knowingly misled consumers by allowing PC makers to emblazon “Windows Vista Capable” stickers on PCs that could run only the most bare-bones version. Full Story

Clearing land to produce biofuels such as ethanol will do more to exacerbate global warming than using gasoline or other fossil fuels, two scientific studies show. Full Story

The U500 can be deployed in phones or other devices to offer features such as a camcorder, camera, 3-D gaming, CD quality audio, and high-res video for mobile TV. Full Story