Around the Web 2.5.09: Green jobs, tech czars and free mosquitoes

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-- Chipmaker finds success in green technology, green jobs. LAT

-- Bill Gates unleashes a dozen or so mosquitoes at the TED conference in Long Beach. CNet

-- President Obama appoints Vivek Kundra as national tech czar. Slashdot

-- India’s $10 laptop was too good to be true. Fast Company

-- Exclusive iPhone deal in France? Mais non! AppleInsider

-- The Woz has landed. NYT

-- Love is in the sky. EchoStar buys Sirius XM debt. Twice

-- Xbox Live boasts more than 1 million Netflix users. PCMag

-- Video game is retooled to boost literacy. Neatorama

-- Average viewer saw 96 online videos in December. ComScore

-- Many of them saw this one, in which a 7-year-old hits on deep existential mysteries, including, ‘Is this real life?’ ‘Why is this happening to me?’ and ‘When will this end?’ YouTube

-- Alex Pham