HOLYOKE – City officials are so excited about Holyoke’s economic development potential, they made a movie about it.

“Holyoke: Green Business Grows Here” is a 13-minute DVD produced to market the Paper City’s low-cost and environmentally-friendly hydroelectric power, its proximity to New York City, Boston, highways and airports and a comprehensive fiber-optic network.

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Where is “the cloud”? It’s everywhere and nowhere; it’s the power of algorithms distributed across entire networks but concentrated down to the screen of your wireless laptop; it’s the sum of all the world’s on-demand computing jobs, churning away in big data centers in secure, undisclosed locations, flinging their inputs and outputs across the electronic ether. But for one day, at least, the nucleus of the cloud will be in a definite place: Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, the venue for Xconomy’s December 10 Cloud³ Forum and its companion event, CloudCamp Boston.

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WASHINGTON — Hoping to win a big new chunk of federal stimulus money, Governor Deval Patrick pitched the Obama administration today on three proposals that would expand broadband access in pockets of Massachusetts that now lack adequate high-speed connections.

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