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Do biofuels compete with food for land resources? The debate rages on. University of Arizona biologist Robert Glenn, though, has a great compromise – grow the biofuels under the sea, where they won’t get in the way of food production.

Do biofuels compete with food for land resources?  The debate rages on.  University of Arizona biologist Robert Glenn, though, has a great compromise – grow the biofuels under the sea, where they won’t get in the way of food production.

Do biofuels compete with food for land resources? The debate rages on. University of Arizona biologist Robert Glenn, though, has a great compromise – grow the biofuels under the sea, where they won’t get in the way of food production.

When Debra and Lee Sherbeyn first moved to rural Virginia 14 years ago, they didn't own a computer, much less fret over access to the Web. It wasn't long before they had a machine and were logging onto the Internet using a dial-up modem. The arrangement suited them fine until family members started sending pictures by e-mail. It became downright untenable in 2004 when Lee entered the real estate business in their home in Bealeton, Va., about 58 miles southwest of Washington. "You can't wait all day for a picture of a house to download," Debra says.

Google is painting its own portrait by adding canvas views to its iGoogle platform. The search giant rolled out the new design feature for U.S. users.

iGoogle, formerly Google Personalized Web Page and Google IG, is an AJAX-based service which brings together several Web feeds and Google Gadgets for users, including news, traffic and weather on one page designed and arranged by the users.

While the canvas feature is not available for all gadgets, it is for most, including Google Finance, Gmail and GasBuddy. Others include Soduku, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

San Francisco was the site of the second Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Local & Mobile conference July 24-25. The nearly 300 attendees were more seasoned than those at most search conferences, and they were heavily grounded in the realities of using web technologies to drive offline transactions in a multitude of fields, from travel to real estate to buying and selling cars.

The conference was designed to give search marketers, organic search specialists, CMOs, and media planners a competitive edge by discovering new tactics for promoting brick-and-mortar businesses online.

In one more shock to a stunned Wall Street, Hewlett-Packard on Monday said it will cut more than 24,000 jobs over the next three years. Once completed, the restructuring is expected to mean an annual cost savings of about $1.8 billion.

The announcement came at a securities analyst meeting where HP unveiled new plans to gain market share in a changing enterprise market.

"Location, location, location" is the mantra for real estate agents. And extra real estate is essential for high-volume video editors and post studios. So what if you want to take your real estate on the road? Some high-capacity portable storage systems for digital media assets -- including graphics, photos, and digital audio and video -- have been announced or released recently, bringing the ability to move large amounts of digital data easily, reliably, and conveniently.

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House hunting? Forget the listing agents and classified ads. Now you can find homes for sale with a few taps on a smartphone.

Trulia, one of the Web's most visited home listing sites, on Aug. 25 is introducing a tool available on Apple's iPhone that can locate all the listings and open houses in a user's vicinity.