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Ah, the big (or maybe not so big) Apple iPod event everyone’s been waiting for is almost here. MobileCrunch editor Greg Kumparak is already waiting in line and snapping pics so you don’t have to. He’ll be liveblogging the event here (after the jump). MG Siegler is also there. He predicts Apple will announce “iPods with cameras, iPod storage increases with price cuts, iTunes 9, and the ‘Cocktail’ albums.”

But will there be a surprise? Stay tuned right here and find out.

More and more companies these days are trying to measure their environmental impact, and that is good business for startups like Hara, which provides Web-based environmental impact and energy monitoring software. Hara raised $14 million in a Series B funding today. The round was led by Jafco Ventures, with Nth Power and Kleiner participating.

Hara was founded a year ago with a $6 million investment from Kleiner Perkins. Its software provides a way to measure a company’s carbon footprint and energy usage. The software-as-a-service then produces reports which can be audited. As more and more companies and governments introduce carbon emission policies and regulations, the need for such software will grow.

Customers include Coca-Cola, the City of Palo Alto, and various multinational corporations. The new funds will be partly used to expand into Asia, which makes sense since environmental monitoring only works if you do it on a global basis.

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After stirring up their own country’s commentators, the German blogger elite has launched an international version of their Internet Manifesto in English. Fifteen authors of Germany’s most popular blogs have signed a declaration about How journalism works today. The 17 articles run down from statements like “the Internet is different” and “the Internet improves journalism” to sideswipes against the old media, such as “tradition is not a business model”.

The manifesto is causing a lot of interest and briefly took the site out at one stage. It’s pretty much an onslaught on old-school media and a reaction to German publishing heavyweights like Burda which is demanding a share of advertising revenues that search engines like Google make from trawling their content. Good luck with that.

Let us know what you think of the Manifesto’s arguments in the comments.

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Live Webcast on 9/9/2009 - The next Generation of Leica Cameras from leica camera on Vimeo .

Original post:
Breaking: Leica event to be forgotten on September 9

Live Webcast on 9/9/2009 - The next Generation of Leica Cameras from leica camera on Vimeo . While Biggs is at the iPod event in San Francisco , I’ll be here in NYC live blogging the Leica event. Oh, there’s going to be a live webcast of the event?

See the original post here:
Breaking: Leica event to be forgotten on September 9

The “anybody but iPod” crowd has another portable media player to choose from, and it’s from Samsung. It’s called the R1 , and it’s your standard issue touchscreen PMP. It does play Divx-encoded video, which should be a benefit to those of you who haven’t moved onto Blu-ray rips, or who enjoy watching standard-def rips of TV shows on the subway

See the rest here:
The Samsung R1 is a PMP, all right

I don’t want any of you to think that tomorrow’s NYC T-Mobile event has anything to do with anything other than the new 3G Sidekick LX . So, here are two variations of the event invite, which coincidentally were not sent to me by T-Mobile

Go here to see the original: 
Just in case: Tomorrow’s T-Mobile event is all about the Sidekick LX