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bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/10/2009
Googling Your Home Electricity Usage
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Google hopes the early announcement of its PowerMeter will help its product and advocacy efforts around energy reform.
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Google Mobile - Sync
— google.com — Features Synchronize your contacts. Get your Google contacts quickly and easily to your phone. With Sync, you... can have access to your address book at anytime and place that you need it. Get calendar alerts. Using your phone's native calendar, you can ... (more) Google Mobile - Sync

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Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sync Beta for iPhone, WinMo and SyncML Phones
— googlemobile.blogspot.com — One of the hardest parts about switching phones is getting your address book and calendar to your... new device. We're making that process a little easier by releasing a beta version of Google Sync for the iPhone and Windows Mobile phones as well as a ... (more) Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sync Beta for ...

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Official Google Blog: Calendar and contact syncing for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices
— googleblog.blogspot.com — One advantage of storing information online is being able to access it from anywhere, on any device.... Last year we released a tool for Blackberry devices to sync Google Calendar and Gmail contacts with the pre-installed calendar and contacts ... (more) Official Google Blog: Calendar and contact syncing for ...

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GMSV:  Google test drives an energy-saving plug-in

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Google test drives an energy-saving plug-in
GMSV — ... that can, in connection with the right equipment and a cooperative utility, display near-real-time information on your household’s electricity consumption . The software is designed to tap into the next-gen electricity meters now being rolled out by power companies, an upgrade effort slated to get a multimillion-dollar boost under the federal stimulus bill. Pacific Gas & Electric, for instance, has installed about 440,000 smart meters, aiming to hit 10 million by the end of 2011. Initially, Google’s widget would display overall household use, allowing comparison by hour and ...

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