Intel Capital is no stranger to the clean technology space, but today, it took its participation to the next level with five investments in green companies, amounting to $10 million in all. In the mix, it brought one new portfolio company, demand response firm CPower, into its fold.

While Intel declined to say how much it was giving each startup, it said it was providing follow-on investments to Irish company Powervation, and U.S.-based Convey Computer, Grid Net and iControl. VentureBeat reported on iControl’s fresh $23 million round of funding last week. Intel’s contribution is an extension to that round. The company makes home security and energy control systems that are sold and installed by home protection companies such as ADT Security Services.

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  How awesome is this? All credit goes to MeetTheBoss for creating this visualization (better quality image available when you click through), but it was too good not to share it with you.
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  We’re fans of This Week in Tech here at MashableMashable. The long-running weekly podcast features tech personality Leo Laporte and others as they discuss the biggest news of the week in the technology space…
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  It’s no surprise that Intel is appealing the over €1 billion antitrust fine from the European Commission. One of the grounds for appeal is a bit unusual, however.
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Sprint Nextel’s much-vaunted launch of the Palm Pre smartphone hasn’t turned around losses in the company’s subscriber base yet, according to second-quarter earnings results. The company said today that it lost $384 million, or 13 cents a share, last quarter, compared to a $344 million loss in the same time a year ago. Losses were deeper than the average 2 cents a share prediction from analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters. Sprint Nextel fell 11.8 percent to $4.05. Sprint Nextel lost 991,000 post-paid customers, while gaining 770,000 contract-free lines.

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  Despite “record” sales of its Palm Pre, Sprint Nextel (S) is still losing more customers than it’s bringing in.
  Sprint, the no. 3 U.S. wireless carrier, lost 257,000 subscribers last quarter, including 991,000 contract (”postpaid”) customers…
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  Twitter homepage redesign is all about search, streaming trends [NYT]
  Sprint Nextel posts Q2 loss of $384 million [WSJ]
  3 in 5 social network users still use MySpace…

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  Sprint Nextel’s (S) acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA (VM) marks the near-end of the “virtual” wireless network boom. Once Sprint swallows Virgin Mobile, America Movil’s (AMX) super-budget-focused TracFone will be the only huge MVNO…
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  In its latest attempt to show some smartphone muscle, Verizon Wireless says it will offer the Palm Pre in early 2010.
  The words came from COO Dennis Strigl, and they echo earlier comments from company sources…

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I’ve never been a car person, or an audiophile, but I understand that for some people, their car is their baby and the place where they most often listen to the music they love. Sure, I’m okay with crackly FM in an 18-year-old Plymouth Voyager, but if you’re rocking a soft-top XKR or something similar, not only should you have higher expectations but the audio qualities are totally different.

If you really care about your music and are willing to pay for it (because it’s difficult to do any other way), this is a really great guide to get you the sound you deserve.

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  This is probably a bit of overkill for my bicycle, but on a motorcycle the EXO 900 is the king of versatility. It can quickly flip from a full face helmet to a flip front modular to a 3/4 helmet.
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  Here you have the man, the one, the only, el señor jefe Steve Jobs leaving Apple’s headquarters, today at 3:00pm. This is the first time he has been spotted—with an iPhone…
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  I don’t know about you all, but I love me some home theater pr0n. I could stare at the pictures and read equipment lists all day long – sometimes I do, but don’t tell Biggs.

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• A great photoset of high-end home theaters
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We didn’t have a problem playing 30fps 1080p video on the Kodak Theatre HD Player when we tested it back in January, but apparently we were living on the edge — the box just got an update officially supporting 1080p playback. There’s also now YouTube HD support, some basic web browsing ability, and a few other features in the mix, so all in all it’s a nice little update for the $200 box with solid codec support and that nifty gyroscopic Pointer Remote. Current owners should see an option to update to 1.4 shortly, we’d imagine.

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  Pico projector fans, the wait is over. WowWee — the company with the wackiest name in the business (or at least the most fun to type) has just announced that the Cinemin…
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  The App Store approval process has always been mysterious, slightly ridiculous and mildly infuriating. But with the summary execution of Google Latitude as well as every Google Voice app…
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  Had enough Kodak this fine morning? No? Good. Just hours after showcasing its newest 1080p pocket camcorder, the aforesaid firm is hitting us up with a few more new pieces to digest…
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  The “greatest single phone call” Microsoft COO Kevin Turner’s ever received apparently worked. Sort of. After Apple asked Microsoft to stop running the Laptop Hunters ads because they’ve dropped prices…

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Here you have the man, the one, the only, el señor jefe Steve Jobs leaving Apple’s headquarters, today at 3:00pm. This is the first time he has been spotted—with an iPhone, of course—at the Cupertino campus.

He appears to be walking with Jon Ive. Looking thin, but great. After all the ruckus with his health and his recent liver transplant, I’m glad to see him back in action outside of a Coldplay concert. [TMZ]

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  Apparently, there’s a security flaw on the iPhone that allows it to be hijacked via SMS. And when, hijacked, your phone can then hijack all other iPhones in your contacts list…
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  Google Voice might have just been unceremoniously thrown out of the iPhone App Store, but that doesn’t mean development isn’t racing forward on other platforms — say hello to dkGoogleVoice, an unofficial client for the Palm Pre…

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• Is the iPhone causing Apple to lose the plot?
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• App Roundup: 5.2 million more iPhones? Wonder why the developers keep flocking?
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Why the rumored Apple tablet could be a flop – Apple products get more than their share of pre-release hype from … well, from just about everyone but Bill Gates. PC World writer Michael Scalisi explains why he thinks the rumored device, best described as an oversize iPod Touch, isn’t something that will sell. Specifically, he thinks the iPhone’s touch-to-type interface won’t work comfortably on a larger device, and that Mac fans will feel thwarted by iPhone OS on a computer, as opposed to Mac OS X.

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  Video apps that cater to Twitter users are all the rage at the moment, but this particular bandwagon is filled to overflowing with apps that rock jostling for mindshare with apps that barely function.
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  More Mac 101, our series of tips for new and novice Mac OS X users. Here’s a tip that I was recently reminded of while choosing photos from a web browser for upload. Mac OS X Leopard’s Finder has a handy media browser built into the open dialog box…

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• Week in Apple: earnings, flaming iPods, legal threats, and more!
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• Roundup: Video funding dries up, iPhone encryption fails the test, augmented reality apps delayed until September
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Google sold its 5 percent stake in AOL to Time Warner Inc. for $283 million, down from the $1 billion it paid in 2005. This puts AOL’s overall value at about $5.7 billion, less than 30 percent of the company’s $20 billion valuation based on what Google paid four years ago, according to Bloomberg News.

AOL’s slump isn’t new, however: Google already wrote down its investment last year by more than 70 percent as global equity markets plummeted. It’s not a total loss either for the search giant. Google’s original purchase was motivated partly by a need to defend its search and advertising deals with AOL against Microsoft. Since 2006, the company has provided its search technology but under AOL’s brand.

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  When Google (GOOG) took a 5 percent stake in AOL for $1 billion in 2005, it valued the company at about $20 billion. Last year it wrote down $726 million of that investment…
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  Google finally sold back its 5 percent stake in AOL to Time Warner. Originally valued at $1 billion in 2005, Google ended up getting back only $283 million, including some cash distributions…
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  In preparation for the pending spin off, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) filed a form 10 with the SEC today for AOL Inc., the name the company will be known by as a Delaware corporation…
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  As Time Warner (TWX) prepares to spin AOL off as a separate company, it’s bought back the 5% stake in AOL that Google (GOOG) bought in 2006 — for almost a quarter of what Google paid for it.

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