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Texas oil billionaire and alternative-energy promoter T. Boone Pickens stopped by San Francisco last night during a tour to promote his plan for U.S. energy independence. The plan gets political support in the stimulus package, but Pickens' own wind project has hit some snags when it comes to transmission lines from his wind park to the Texas grid.dylan ratigan

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Today's stories:

IBM job cuts hit applications services unit, says union

Dell: Global PC demand 'steady'

Google Docs gets collaborative-drawing feature

iGoogle gets video game makers in on the action

What Windows 7 might have looked like
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