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Get your free tickets for the P2P financing conference here
Trilliant , one of several companies providing the wireless networks that carry energy use data from smart meters back to utilities, announced today that it can now seamlessly connect wide area networks and local (neighborhood) area networks . The new service gives utilities total — and more secure — control over where data and energy flow, and at a lower cost. Redwood City, Calif.-based Trilliant acquired SkyPilot Networks , a provider of mesh broadband coverage, last June.

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Trilliant combines local and wide area networks to build an even smarter grid
During his keynote interview at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin today, Twitter chief executive Evan Williams talked about why Twitter has chosen to make itself open to search engines, third-party developers, and other services.

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Twitter’s Evan Williams: Openness is a survival strategy
A number of humorous yet undocumented features are hiding beneath the surface of some of the most popular open source software applications.

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Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs
Earlier this week, we noted that the major parties in the European Parliament had all agreed on a resolution trashing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and the secret process that has been hashing it out. That resolution has passed Parliament by a huge margin —633 yes votes, 13 no votes, and 16 abstentions.

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Europe trashes ACTA as Obama praises it
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: True Crime looks good . The game was demoed for me in a private suite, played live, and talked up by the developer

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Marketing games: the art of the pole dance
Well, that’s one way to get a balanced diet: We all know that carnivorous plants have evolved in regions where the soil isn’t very nutrient-rich, and they use their prey to supplement what they don’t get via roots.

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The Weird Science of toilet plants and rhythmless reindeer
The audience paid close attention to things onstage. The audience attended GamesBeat 2010 in large numbers

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GamesBeat 2010 in pictures – Part 2