Kleiner Perkins backs smart-grid firm Silver Spring

Google promises reliability for Docs, Calendar
Overall, Gmail has been available 99.9 percent of the time. Now Premier customers get a promise of that level of reliability for all of Google Apps.

Amazon's Linux cloud computing out of beta, joined by Windows
Amazon Web Services now offers online access to Windows servers, and Linux gets a reliability commitment. Also: new features coming in 2009.

Trusteer raises $6 million in VC funding
Web security firm that serves financial community gets $6 million from venture capital firm.

Former CIA head Woolsley is now clean-tech investor
James Woolsey, a clean-energy enthusiast with a strong energy security agenda, joins clean-tech venture capital firm VantagePoint Venture Partners.

Steve Jurvetson: The constant search for disruption
Few people have played as big a role in recent tech booms and busts as Steve Jurvetson, managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher...