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</td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>World News 02 10 2010</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Headline News 02 10 2010</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="10" CELLSPACING="4" WIDTH="720" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#0000FF" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2513 WIDTH="330"><div> Culled from:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://news.cnet.com/greentech/?tag=hdr" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://news.cnet.com/greentech/?tag=hdr">Inside CNET News</A></div> <div> February 10, 2010 9:01 PM PST</div> <div> by <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Martin LaMonica</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Bulk solar, tell your friends</B></div> <bR> <div> Just like you need an accountant to navigate the tax code, you need an agent to get a good deal on solar panels, according to <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://1bog.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://1bog.org/">One Block Off the Grid</A></FONT>. </div> <bR> <div> The San Francisco-based start-up on Thursday announced that it has secured a series A funding round of $5 million from New Enterprise Associations to expand its operations. It follows angel funding it raised a little over one year ago.</div> <bR> <div> One Block Off the Grid seeks to make it cheaper and simpler for homeowners to buy solar electric panels by acting as an agent to solar installers. It is able to lower the cost of solar about 15 percent by aggregating hundreds of interested customers to get a group discount, explained CEO Dave LLorens.</div> <bR> <div> At the company Web site, consumers can evaluate how good their location is for solar and get an estimate of the cost, taking into account state and federal subsidies. Once a sizable number of people show interest, One Block Off the Grid will take bids from solar installers. At that point, homeowners can get bids for the work. One Block Off the Grid charges a fee to installers once a job is completed.</div> <bR> <div> The whole goal is to scale up the use of solar energy to power homes, said LLorens. The problem is that even when people show some interest, it's hard to get a good idea of what's entailed in installing panels or the cost.</div> <bR> <div> Installers, meanwhile, are reluctant to share pricing information, in part because the price for solar panels is high--anywhere from $25,000 to $40,000 before rebates, depending on the size.</div> <div>  </div> <div> The model has worked so far: there were 600 installations done in 2009 and the company was profitable, said Llorens. This year, its goal is to do another 5,000 to 10,000. The company is now in five cities around the U.S. and hopes to expand to another five this year.</div> <bR> <div> Key to the entire enterprise is the company's social marketing skills, which helps bring down the cost of sales. The company has 3,000 followers on Twitter and uses Facebook and its Web site to sign people up. </div> <div> One Block Off the Grid isn't just appealing to hard-core environmentalists.</div> <bR> <div> Depending on the state incentives, homeowners can get about half of a solar panel installation paid and then make money from renewable energy certificates. "Nobody seems to know it, but the economics of buying solar panels in New Jersey are ridiculous," said Llorens.</div> <bR> <div> The company hopes to offer similar bulk-buying services for solar hot water installations, too, he added.</div> <bR> <div> Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNET's Green Tech blog. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Before that, he was executive editor at IT publication InfoWorld</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="330"><div> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/"><IMG SRC="101498170.gif" border=0 width="152" height="23" ALT="CLICK HERE for full Story by NY TIMES" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Google Set to Showcase Fast Internet </B></div> <bR> <div> By <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >MIGUEL HELFT</FONT> </div> <div> Published: February 10, 2010</div> <bR> <div> SAN FRANCISCO — <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Google</FONT> said Wednesday that it would offer ultrahigh-speed Internet access in some communities in a test that could showcase the kinds of things that would be possible if the United States had faster broadband networks.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1015be780.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The company says it is planning to offer Internet access as an experiment</div> <bR> <div> In Google's vision of the future of the Internet, the live streaming of 3-D medical images from a rural health clinic to a specialized medical center or the downloading of a full-length movie in a matter of minutes would become commonplace.</div> <bR> <div> But Google's promise to build the demonstration network is also the latest example of the Internet search company using its money and industry clout to help shape the future of the Internet to its liking. </div> <bR> <div> Google has long been unhappy with the state of broadband in America, where speeds lag far behind those of other developed countries.</div> <bR> <div> It announced the plan for its high-speed network, which would be open to other companies wanting to offer Internet service, just as federal regulators were debating new rules for the Internet and preparing a national broadband plan commissioned by Congress that could call for higher-speed networks to be available nationwide. </div> <bR> <div> Google is showing the government "that we can have super-fast open broadband networks that break the duopoly of cable and telephone companies that we have today," said Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press, a public interest group that advocates for open Internet rules. </div> <bR> <div> Critics say that Google's move is little more than a public relations effort aimed at promoting its policy goals. They say that by spending relatively small sums, Google would be, in essence, pressuring the telecommunications companies that provide broadband access to millions of American homes to abide by Google's rules. </div> <bR> <div> "This is mainly a P.R. stunt," said Scott Cleland, chairman of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://Netcompetition.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://Netcompetition.org">Netcompetition.org</A></FONT>, an organization that represents many telecommunications companies and their industry associations and opposes new regulations on the Internet.</div> <bR> <div> "With one hand Google is urging regulations that stifle broadband deployment, and with the other hand, they are saying that telecom companies should spend hundreds of billions" to give ultrafast service to all Americans, Mr. Cleland said.</div> <bR> <div> Google has challenged the business models of established telecommunications companies before. In 2008, it bid more than $4 billion in a government auction of wireless spectrum merely to loosen the control that carriers would have over the use of the airwaves. </div> <bR> <div> "Google, indeed, appears to be playing a chess game," said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "If they can create an even mildly credible commitment to offer superfast broadband to the home, it could strike fear in the hearts of cable and telcos, stimulating an arms race of investment - just as they did in the auction for spectrum a few years ago."</div> <bR> <div> In a post on <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://googleblog.blogspot.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://googleblog.blogspot.com">its corporate blog</A></FONT>, Google said it planned to build and test a high-speed fiber optic broadband network capable of allowing people to surf the Web at a gigabit a second, or about 100 times the speed of many broadband connections. Thase trial could be offered in several communities and extend to as many as 500,000 people.</div> <bR> <div> In an interview, Richard S. Whitt, Google's Washington telecommunications and media counsel, said Google was not entering the broadband or Internet service provider business, but rather was using the test to push the industry into offering faster Internet access at lower cost. "This is a business model nudge and an innovation nudge."</div> <bR> <div> Mr. Whitt said that if the project was successful, Google would benefit because more people would use the Internet and, in turn, the company's own services.</div> <bR> <div> Google said that over the next six weeks it would solicit proposals from communities interested in the service. Mr. Whitt said he hoped that the service could be deployed by the end of the year in some areas, though he acknowledged it might take longer.</div> <div> Early this year, Google urged the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_communications_commission/index.html?inline=nyt-org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/">Federal Communications Commission</A></FONT>, which is slated to deliver a national broadband plan to Congress next month, to encourage similar kinds of test projects. Mr. Whitt said that Google decided to put its own money behind the idea, though he declined to say how much Google would invest.</div> <bR> <div> In a statement, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/julius_genachowski/index.html?inline=nyt-per" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/">Julius Genachowski</A></FONT>, the chairman of the F.C.C., welcomed Google's announcement. "This significant trial will provide an American test bed for the next generation of innovative, high-speed Internet apps, devices and services," Mr. Genachowski said. "The F.C.C.'s National Broadband Plan will build upon such private-sector initiatives and will include recommendations for facilitating and accelerating greater investment in broadband."</div> <bR> <div> Mr. Whitt said that Google would build the network and offer Internet service to consumers. But it will also open the network to other service providers, emulating a business model that was common during the days of dial-up Internet access. That model all but disappeared in the United States with advent of broadband, but remains common in other countries.</div> <bR> <div> Google has a history of pushing against what it sees as barriers to fast and unfettered Internet access. Since 2006, the company has operated its own free wireless network in Mountain View, Calif., where it is based. It later supported a plan to offer similar service in San Francisco, which was derailed because of opposition from some city officials.</div> <bR> <div> Brad Stone contributed reporting</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> This web site information was culled from several sources by RadioZX from around the World including The New York Times</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2010/02/10/todayspaper/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2010/02/1"><IMG SRC="101498170.gif" border=0 width="152" height="23" ALT="CLICK HERE for full Story by NY TIMES" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>