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        <title><![CDATA[The Spanish SOPA stumbles]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[MADRID -- Spain's anti-downloading law, which silently passed, is now reaching legal hurtles before it takes effect on March 1.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Riggins]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Morning Briefing: Privacy concerns]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The Morning Briefing&quot; is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about privacy concerns for businesses and consumers.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA['App Economy' has already generated 466,000 jobs: study]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Apps are much more than lightweight applications running on smartphones -- they now form the basis of multi-billion-dollar job-creating economy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe McKendrick]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Flexible batteries spark up in smart textiles]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A team of researchers have created flexible batteries that can be woven into smart textiles.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[A dose of intelligence for lab medicine]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Bostech CEO Brad Bostic wants to bring cloud computing and CRM software to the healthcare business. It could be a matter of life or death.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Nusca]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T18:52:54Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Devices worth millions discarded by Britons each year]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tonnes of gadgets are discarded every year - but are we missing out on some extra cash by being too lazy to recycle?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pesticide-free flowers for Valentine's Day]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Picking the perfect bunch of roses is no easy task.  Pink or red?  Organic or conventional?  Sumi Das explains why many of the bouquets sent this February 14th may be coated with chemicals.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin User]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T16:50:00Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Changing elephant poo to green paper]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[JAIPUR/DELHI -- An Indian entreprenur's journey to make eco friendly paper from elephant poo.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Betwa Sharma]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T14:48:59Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Spy drones track European farms]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[European farmland may soon be under the surveillance of drones - is the U.S. next?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T14:35:29Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Pre-loved Melbourne bicycles find a new home in Africa]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[MELBOURNE -- Bicycles for Humanity (B4H) is a worldwide organization focused on changing communities through the re-distribution of disused bikes.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lieu Thi Pham]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T12:43:44Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Bookseller inspires store feedback with social business software]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Indigo Books &amp; Musics is enabling close to 250 different store locations to share best practices, find operational savings and document customer testimonials.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Clancy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T11:59:14Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Heathrow facial recognition technology stalled]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[London Heathrow's e-gate technology installation now faces yet another setback ahead of the Olympics.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T11:57:43Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Robots learn 'sockification']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Robots developed at UC Berkeley shed light on how models can learn to complete complex tasks with 'perception mechanisms'.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T11:23:33Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[The Morning Briefing: Market matters]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The Morning Briefing&quot; is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about updates in international markets.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T09:19:04Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Luxembourg cultivating young innovative minds]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[PARIS -- Annual competition seeks to find the most innovative and inventive young minds in Luxembourg.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Pirolli]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T08:06:57Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Hong Kong to get its first retirement communities]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[HONG KONG -- A new housing plan lets retirees pay a one-time rent on a sliding scale based on age. The average rent: $400,000.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vanessa Ko]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-08T06:58:16Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[IBM, Tulip partner on India's largest datacenter]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, IBM revealed a partnership with Indian Internet service provider Tulip Telecom to design and build the largest datacenter in India.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Nusca]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-07T17:46:40Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[UK's Labour party accuses chancellor of 'contempt' for green policy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint has accused the chancellor of the exchequer of 'reviling in contempt' for environmental policy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-07T13:45:58Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Barcelona start-up delivers zero-emission on two wheels]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[BARCELONA -- Start-up 'Gogentle' vies to cut pollution and costs on center-city deliveries, using electric-powered 'cargo-cycles.']]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Riggins]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-02-07T11:22:09Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Natural food manufacturer develops system to boost recycling rate]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Custom-designed technology cleans, crushes and prepares packaging for the recycling process.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Clancy]]></dc:creator>
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