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New York adds 70 electric vehicles to city fleets

Some of New York City's finest will soon be driving some of New York City's cleanest vehicles.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday from a press conference in Queens that the city is adding 70 electric vehicles to its municipal fleets.

New York City departments participating include: Citywide Administrative Services, Correction, Environmental Protection, Parks and Recreation, Sanitation, Transportation, Fire, Police, and the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

The addition of the 70 electric vehicles--50 of them Chevy Volts--will bring the city's EV total up to 430 vehicles.

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Digital City 133: MacBook Air updates, Facebook games grow up, and explaining Google+

This week: The new MacBook Air, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini are coming soon, allegedly right alongside OSX Lion. We handicap the chances of seeing those this week or next.

Then it's time to show off some social media games. Scott demos Tiny Tower for iPad and Dan plays Civ World on Facebook. Finally, turntable.fm is the hottest invite-only ticket on the Web right now, so we throw it up on the screen to check it out live.

Bonus: Download the show's jaunty theme song as a free MP3 here.

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Digital City 132: MacBook Air shortages, video games and the Supreme Court, 3D phones

This week: We explain the legal thinking behind this week's Supreme Court case on video game sales, check out the latest rumors about a new MacBook Air, and watch Joe compare his new HTC Evo 3D to his original model.

Bonus: Download the show's jaunty theme song as a free MP3 here.

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Digital City 131: NY Post vs. the iPad, plus NYC's Apple cube gets a makeover

This week: David Carnoy sits in for Scott, and we discuss the New York Post's plan to block iPad traffic, the fate of NYC's Apple Cube store, and play another round of brain-draining tech trivia.

Bonus: Download the show's jaunty theme song as a free MP3 here.

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Digital City 130: Best and worst of E3, Chrome OS laptops

This week: Scott and Dan are back from E3 with a detailed report on the best and worst from the big video game trade show. Meanwhile, Julie and Joe talk about how they came up with a plan to benchmark Samsung's new Chrome OS laptop, which is no small feat, as the OS is basically just Google's Chrome Web browser and nothing else.

Bonus: Download the show's jaunty theme song as a free MP3 here.

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Digital City 128: Searching for Samsung's 11-inch Series 9 laptop, PSN is back, and ThinkPad history

This week: We search for the elusive 11-inch version of Samsung's Series 9 laptop, which is allegedly in-stock at a single online retailer, check in on the still-ailing PlayStation Network, hear a bit about NYC's plan to become a leading "digital city." Then it's quiz time, as we stump the gang with some ThinkPad trivia.

Bonus: Download the show's jaunty theme song as a free MP3 here.

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Digital City 127: Tablets vs. laptops, digital magazine subscriptions, and PSN problems

This week: We bemoan the unending PlayStation Network downtime, see who's winning the tablet vs. laptop fight, and debate business plans for digital magazine subscriptions. Guest @davidcarnoy joins in to win some prizes for the live chat room audience by answering e-book trivia questions.

Bonus: Download the show's jaunty theme song as a free MP3 here.

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Digital City 125: PSN still down, Nintendo's next big thing, and AMD's laptop hit

This week, we debate the ongoing PlayStation Network outage, guesstimate the arrival of new iMac desktops, and salute AMD for grabbing a solid share of the low-end laptop market.

If you're watching this episode a little later in the week than usual, note that we had a little problem with the magical render monkeys who typically lovingly encode each frame of our weekly videocast in a more timely fashion.

Bonus: Download the show's jaunty theme song as a free MP3 here.

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New York to curb dirty heat, use landfills for solar

New York City plans to restrict the use of dirty heating fuels, use its capped landfills for solar farms, and issue loans for green and energy efficiency upgrades to home owners.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the latest initiatives for PlaNYC, the city's sustainability plan, on Thursday at a press conference in Harlem.

It's part of the lead up to Earth Day, which is Friday, April 22, and also happens to be the anniversary of when PlaNYC was first announced, in 2007.

Over 132 initiatives grew out of "48 public meetings with 220 groups, yielding almost … Read more

Digital City 123: Verizon's iPad woes, PlayStation hackers, and more man cave updates

This week, we look at the problems the Verizon iPad is having, find out why Anonymous has been hacking Sony sites, and check out the latest addition to our man cave project.

Bonus: You can download the show's theme song as a free MP3 here for a limited time!

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