Khosla Ventures run by uber venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, the Founders Fund from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Innovation Endeavors from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt contributed to the round.

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Options run the gamut from sun dried tomatoes and roasted garlic to spinach to kalamata olive to mushroom and onion.

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The solar arrays would no longer be correctly pointed at the sun, and the storage batteries would run down.

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The devices will run on Sun's Java-based operating system and will boost demand for the company's big servers, which already power some of the most popular websites.

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Now the company is seeking to get back on track and commercialize a power generator with the potential to run either on the sun or biogas.

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We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

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The four systems run on Solaris 8 OS and extend the server line whose genesis in September was the Sun Fire 280R.

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Yet Intel and Sun face a potential threat from the upstart Transmeta, whose chips run only 75% as fast but suck only 20% of the power.

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The importance of the Web browser is that, combined with Java, a software language which can run on any platform and which was developed by another of Microsoft's rivals, Sun Microsystems, it may become a rival to the Windows operating system.

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All over Africa every day children walk or run for miles to reach decrepit buildings, which often do little more than keep off the sun and rain.

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Then there is one of the oldest ways of getting power out from the sun: solar "thermal" installations, which absorb the sun's energy, transforming it into heat so it can boil water and run a turbine.

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They also must be able to run over a number of different operating systems, such as Qualcomm 's Brew, Sun Microsystems' Java and Microsoft 's Windows Mobile.

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This maker of big servers doesn't run on "Internet time" and hasn't tagged itself to the Web boom, even as such rivals as Sun Microsystems zip by.

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