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Our friends at GigaOm’s Earth2Tech blog are putting on their next Green:Net conference. Today they’re announcing that Bill Gross, the CEO and founder of Idealab, will join their list of speakers at Green:Net 2010 . Green:Net 2010 will see top green entrepreneurs, technologists and market-leading companies convene on April 29 in San Francisco. The intersection of the internet and ..Read More

Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and is @obilon on Twitter. He’s also the Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY . This post was co-authored by Steve Cohen, who is the Founder of Baywood Consulting Group and the former CIO of M&T Bank. He can be contacted at baywoodconsultinggroup@gmail.com .

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The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA), North America’s leading arbiter of Islamic law, has issued a statement saying that full body scanners violate Islamic modesty laws. “The FCNA emphasizes that a general and public use of such scanners is against the teachings of Islam, natural law and all religions and cultures that stand for decency and modesty,” the ..Read More

Filed under: Ford , Lincoln , Mercury Lincoln Concept C – Click for high-res image gallery At the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Orlando, FL on Sunday, Ford’s President of the Americas Mark Fields announced the first new product for Mercury in several years. The fate of Ford’s middle brand has been in doubt for over a decade ..Read More

Remember back in December when Vice President Joe Biden hosted a one-sided “piracy summit” , ridiculously declaring that “all of the stakeholders” were present (despite there not being a single representative from the technology industry, nor anyone representing consumer interests or ISPs). The “stakeholders” were entirely the entertainment industry. And, even better, despite promises of openness and transparency, the press ..Read More

BlueKiwi , a French startup that helps companies manage customer conversations, says it’s starting a big push into the US market. As part of that effort, it’s announcing new pricing that could be hard to resist — companies can build a BlueKiwi-powered community for free. The company’s tools center around managing customer forums, and finding ideas within them. That ..Read More

Late last week, tech biz bloggers were shocked — and a few were cruelly happy — to read that TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington had fired 17-year-old intern, entrepreneur and Internet fameball Daniel Brusilovsky . Arrington said the teenage overachiever had accepted a computer from a company in exchange for coverage on TechCrunch. Brusilovsky also admitted, Arrington said, to asking ..Read More

Filed under: Recalls , Safety , Videos , Toyota Toyota’s Jim Lentz explains the sticky pedal situation – Click above to watch the video after the break Toyota President and COO Jim Lentz decided to go ahead and visit one of the automaker’s own dealerships to see one of its recalled gas pedals go through the shim-fix for himself, ..Read More

You may already be familiar with Via Technologies through its motherboards or especially as the producer of the NANO 3000 series CPUs challenging Intel’s Atom CPU. This time Via offers us a Pico-ITXe Expansion module, code-named VIA EPIA-P710-D. Working together with the World’s First Pico-ITX-e Board,  measuring merely 10cm x 7.2cm, it claims to offer an ideal, flexible platform ..Read More

Yesterday afternoon, just before President Obama’s first State of the Union address, the websites of the House of Representatives and those of multiple congressional members were defaced with anti-Obama messages. Among the defaced sites were those of Charles Gonzalez (20th District of Texas), Spencer Bachus (Alabama’s 8th District) and Joe Wilson (South Carolina’s 2nd District). These sites are currently ..Read More