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• Verenium Commissions Ethanol Plant

  Cambridge, MA-based Verenium will hold a dedication ceremony tomorrow in Jennings, LA, for the nation’s first demonstration-scale cellulosic bioethanol plant, the company announced today. The plant will use Verenium’s specialty enzymes... Read more »

• Why Isn’t Lionbridge King of the Globalization Jungle?

  Being the leader of the pride, it seems, doesn’t guarantee you a nice meal everyday. Waltham, MA-based Lionbridge Technologies (NASDAQ: LIOX) may be the world’s largest provider of localization services,... Read more »

• Science Below the Surface

  When I took my dog out for a walk yesterday morning, the sidewalk was strewn with old EKG readouts, as if we had just missed a macabre ticker-tape parade. I picked... Read more »

• Brightcove Opens Japanese Subsidiary

  It’s International Week for the local Internet video cluster. Yesterday we reported on ExtendMedia’s deal with Bell Canada enabling Canadian Internet users to download movies on same day the films are... Read more »

• ExtendMedia Extends Movie Downloads to Canada

  U.S. residents have access to a growing number of online video portals, such as Movielink, Cinemanow, and Apple’s iTunes store, where they can buy or rent movies for download on the... Read more »

• The Executive Bloggers of Boston

  The Cluetrain Manifesto, the classic book on how the Internet has changed the way consumers relate to corporations, was published in 1999. The word “blog” appears nowhere in it. (While... Read more »

• Vlingo Survey Finds Epidemic of “DWT”—Driving While Texting

  Text messaging, a longstanding habit among many Asian and European mobile phone users, is finally catching on with Americans. A major survey commissioned by Cambridge, MA-based speech-to-text software company Vlingo shows... Read more »

• Negroponte Unveils 2nd Generation OLPC Laptop: It’s an E-Book

  I’m “live blogging” from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation’s day-long media event at the MIT Media Lab. The big news is that OLPC founder Nicholas Negrponte has just unveiled the... Read more »

• Beth Israel Deaconess Is First Boston Hospital to Integrate with Google Health

  Boston isn’t just home to a bevy of top-rated hospitals—it’s also the birthplace of medical informatics, or the storage and retrieval of health data. (The MUMPS programming language—for Massachusetts General Hospital... Read more »

• World Energy Prepares for Nation’s First Carbon-Allowance Auctions

  A Massachusetts energy-trading startup is gearing up to host the nation’s first auction for greenhouse gas emissions allowances. The details are still being worked out, but if all goes according to... Read more »

• Commenting on: CBS Buys CNET—A Nice Spark for Spark

  Wade said: @Tom — I think you’re right. That was my mistake. Correction made!... Read more »

• The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Screens

  Liquid-crystal displays are getting bigger by the minute. These days, you can buy a huge 58-inch wide-screen LCD HDTV for under $3,000. Heck, at that price, you could buy 64 of... Read more »

• Bender Creates Sugar Labs—New Foundation to Adapt OLPC’s Laptop Interface for Other Machines

  Walter Bender, the former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, contacted Xconomy this morning to alert us to the creation of Sugar Labs, a... Read more »

• XO Laptop Goes Windows

  Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation have reached an official agreement to produce versions of the foundation’s XO Laptop that run Windows XP.

  The move is intended in part... Read more »

• Greenfuel Extends Funding Round, Collects $13.9 Million

  Greenfuel Technologies, the Cambridge, MA-based algae farming company temporarily headed by Polaris Venture Partners general partner Bob Metcalfe, said today that it has collected an additional $13.9 million in venture... Read more »

• Google’s Open House: Of Ping-Pong, the Gov, and Four Local Projects

  It wouldn’t be a visit to Google if it didn’t include a game of some sort.

  In the elevator on the way up to Google’s new Kendall Square digs, Massachusetts Governor... Read more »

• Polaris Backs Widget-Maker Sprout

  Waltham, MA-based Polaris Venture Partners is the lead funder in a $5 million Series B financing found for Sprout, a San Francisco- and Honolulu-based company that makes software for creating Web... Read more »

• In Defense of the Drivable Airplane—Terrafugia CEO Responds to Legions of Doubters

  We know our readers love to hear about radical new technologies and the business opportunities they create. So we weren’t shocked when our article last week about the Transition, the drivable... Read more »

• On EveryScape, Your Memo Marks the Spot

  The folks at EveryScape in Waltham, MA, have been busy trying to live up to their company’s ambitious tag line, “The Real World Online.” At the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame,... Read more »

• Iron Mountain Buys DocuVault

  Iron Mountain, the Boston-based information protection and storage company, said today that it has purchased Denver, CO-based DocuVault for an undisclosed sum. Iron Mountain execs said the acquisition of DocuVault, which... Read more »