A Silicon Valley-based startup known as Bloom Energy emerged after nine years of closely guarded research to unveil the Bloom Energy Server, a solid oxide fuel cell technology, which provides distributed power generation, allowing customers to create their own electricity onsite. The company introduced the technology at an event hosted at eBay headquarters along with several high-profile guests including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gen. Colin Powell; Social networking behemoth Facebook recently reported a glitch in a software update that caused users' private messages to land in the wrong in-boxes; This week Google tweeted that public status updates posted to Facebook Pages are now part of Google's real-time search results; SAP’s new BusinessObjects BI OnDemand software offers analytics and reporting tools to casual business users who otherwise might not have the experience or skills necessary to make use of business intelligence in their daily workflow; Palm is cutting its revenue forecast for the year after the smartphone maker reported slower than expected sales of handsets; Cisco, Juniper Networks and other top vendors saw double-digit revenue growth in their router businesses in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Dell'Oro Group.