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TXU Energy, a large Texas utility company, will lease rooftop solar power systems to their customers in the Dallas area.

From MSNBC:

Ever make a personal call on your company cell phone? Did you record the value of that call as taxable income, as required by law?

Join the club, but don't worry. President Barack Obama will propose repealing the widely ignored requirement as part of his 2011 budget plan, a Treasury Department official said Saturday.

The administration made a similar proposal in June, and it was well received in Congress. Lawmakers, however, became preoccupied by the health care debate for much of the year and a lot of their work on tax law was delayed.

Qualcomm was the chipmaker of choice for some of the highest-profile tech gadgets unveiled the week of the Consumer Electronics Show -- in Las Vegas and elsewhere. Not only do Qualcomm chips run the Google Nexus One smartphone introduced in Mountain View, Calif., on Jan. 5, but they're also under the hood of computers shown off at CES by Hewlett-Packard. HP and Lenovo are working on smartbooks, scaled-down personal computers, based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor.

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From Nature:

Los países y las industrias comunican a la ONU su reducción en la emisión de gases de efecto invernadero (el CO2 pero también otras sustancias) pero la atmósfera no siempre se entera. Ray Weiss, de la Universidad de San Diego, ha presentado en la Cumbre del Clima de Copenhague datos medidos en la atmósfera de estos gases. Y su conclusión es que, al comparar lo que realmente hay con lo que declara la industria, algo no encaja. Hay mucho más alrededor del planeta de lo que oficialmente debería existir. "El Protocolo de Kioto es como poner al planeta a dieta pero sin poder pesarlo.