Here’s a sampling of the latest
green-tech news, along with quick commentary.

Gates set to dump half his stake in Pacific Ethanol – The Sacramento Bee A reflection of investor discontent with the biofuels industry.
New Renewable Network Hopes to Make Greentech Connections – Greentech MediaSchmoozing leads to business. The Renewable Energy Business Network expands chapters and [...]

A few Web geeks weren’t convinced that Pandora’s situation is as dire as Westergren says it is. “I love Pandora like my old baseball glove, but they can only pull this Chicken Little move so many times,” marketing consultant Brian Oberkirch posted to Twitter on Monday morning.
The problem, he explained, is last year’s royalty hike [...]

Icahn, who had proposed his own slate of board members, was agitating for the company to reach a deal to sell all or part of the company to Microsoft. Icahn and Microsoft officials had previously stated that they could not work with the existing Yahoo board.
The board will expand to 11 members, adding Icahn and [...]

After infuriating investors by walking away from the sure payday that Ballmer put on the table, Yahoo doesn’t have any options (And no, neither Google nor Time Warner is going to play white knight with a surprise buyout bid.) Yang may be true to his word about having a long-term rescue plan, but that’s [...]

The two largest U.S. operators, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, have already announced they plan to use LTE to build their 4G wireless networks. Vodafone, the largest worldwide wireless operator, also plans to use LTE for its next generation network.
Instead of sinking a lot of research and development into WiMax, Nortel plans to address this market [...]

Messer said NCCS has developed a very strong working relationship with Cray over the years and that there are some advantages to buying a machine like Jaguar, which has 7,832 AMD Barcelona Quad-Core Opteron processors.

I had that experience last week when, as the last major stop on Road Trip 2008, I visited the National Center [...]

Although Microsoft competes with RIM for business phone customers, it has also worked to get some of its products onto its rival’s devices. In one case, Microsoft even debuted a service first for BlackBerry–that being Tellme’s voice-to-screen search feature on the BlackBerry.

Microsoft and Research In Motion are expected to announce on Thursday a partnership that [...]

I’m going to try to briefly accomplish in a few paragraphs what it seems to me our government has completely failed to do in this financial crisis.

If even banks are having a hard time getting money, what does that say for the small and midsize business? The Wall Street Journal had a story on Monday [...]

That’s right. With a little help from Frengo, the company behind the popular Facebook app, Flirtable, I Can Has Cheezburger will be pushing daily updates of the newest LOLcat via text and the mobile Web, transcoded from Frengo’s servers. The functionality is simple, but sensibly actionable. Users can view past images and share image links [...]

When Azmi joined the FBI as the acting CIO, the bureau was scheduled to roll out Virtual Case File, a software program meant to replace its archaic, paper-based criminal tracking system. Instead, the system was scrapped–and Azmi got to break the news to FBI Director Robert Mueller that the $170 million system, designed by Science [...]