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'60 Minutes': Powered by coal

Coal is America's most abundant and cheapest fossil fuel but, as Scott Pelley reports, burning it happens to be the biggest contributor to global warming.

Tags: Coal, CBS

Videos 2009-04-27

'60 Minutes': Crew comes under attack (Part 4)

Scott Pelley and his crew are attacked and threatened with violence by area gangsters who don't want the e-waste story told.

Tags: Crew, E-waste, Attack, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste, Scott Pelley, gangsters

Videos 2008-11-10

'60 Minutes': Toxins inside your computer (Part 3)

Scientists discuss e-waste, the fastest-growing component of the municipal waste stream worldwide, and the impact it has on those whose lives depend on it.

Tags: Toxin, E-waste, Computer, Productivity, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste, Scott Pelley, lead

Videos 2008-11-10

'60 Minutes': Walking through a toxic village (Part 2)

Piles of electronics blanket the Chinese countryside waiting to be recycled.

Tags: Minute, Electronics, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste, Scott Pelley

Videos 2008-11-10

'60 Minutes': Cleaning up recycling (Part 1)

Scott Pelley takes a tour of GRX, a Denver electronic waste recycling company, that is a member of 'E-Stewards.' That's a stringent program run by a watchdog group, The Basel Action Network, to certify ethical recyclers who do not ship their toxic materials overseas.

Tags: Recycling, Scott Pelley, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste

Videos 2008-11-10

CBS video: 3D in the operating room

To a surgeon, precision is everything. As CBS News medical correspondent Jon LaPook explains, new fiber optic technology is providing a three-dimensional, lifelike image to aid in operations that include brain surgery.

Tags: 3D, Fiber-optics, CBS Corp., Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, News, cbs, imaging, surgery, medicine, doctors, brain, video, graphics

Videos 2008-08-13

Additional Resources

Elections 1.1 (Mobile)

Elections features candidate listings, polls, news, debates, electoral map resource, watchdog tools, my votes list, candidate news, and search engine results. Monitor election news feeds from CNN, Fox, ABC, USATODAY, CBS, and AP. View up-to-the-minute Poll feeds from Pollster.com, Gallup, and Rasmussen. Use watchdog tools to inform yourself on candidate's...

Tags: Search Engine, Mobile, Magnificent Library, Search

Software downloads 2009-07-01

Flv Recorder 3.61 (Windows)

Flv Recorder - the Flv video recorder that can save/download/capture/grab/record flv video and audio streaming through HTTP and RTMP protocol. FlvRecorder has an excellent build-in Free Flv Player that helps you watch flv videos. You can record from lots of popular places, including: Yahoo's Music Videos, MTV's Music Videos, CBS...

Tags: FLV, Microsoft Windows, StreamingStar Technology, FlvRecorder

Software downloads 2009-06-27

LG LX370 - silver (Sprint)

Recent LG phones for Sprint like the LG Rumor 2 and the LG Lotus have been very messaging-centric, but that doesn't mean LG doesn't have other form factors up its Sprint sleeve. The LG LX370 has a far more traditional slider style, and not in an unattractive way either. We...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Instant messaging, slider mechanism, LG LX370, LG Electronics Inc., Sprint Communications, phone

Product reviews 2009-06-26

Is Twitter stealing CNN's crown for delivering real time headlines?

Interestingly enough, CNN was once considered  to be the provider of the most instantaneous, real-time news. If something was happening in the world, you could tune into CNN to get the latest details. Today, that comes from Twitter. Yesterday, as the news of Michael...

Tags: Twitter, Michael Jackson, CNN, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not GoogleBuy Buy Buy"The short answer is no. It?s not necessary to buy newspapers. Newspapers, like many other industries, need to rethink their business models. For now, Yahoo is happy to partner with them on advertising and content-sharing."I'd be looking to go...

Tags: Financial accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bartz, Yahoo shareholder, shareholder

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Tech giants deny helping Iran eavesdrop

A joint venture of Siemens AG and Nokia is denying reports that Iran uses its Web-monitoring technology to censor and spy on its citizens' online activities. A joint venture of Siemens AG and Nokia Corp., two large European technology firms, is denying reports that Iran uses its Web-monitoring technology...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Iran, Internet, Government, spying, Nokia, Siemens AG, Declan McCullagh CBSNews.com

News items 2009-06-23

New York Times embraces Linked Data

New York Times embraces Linked DataGrowing MomentumThis announcement is somewhat vague. I'm surprised that the NY Times let CBS steal their thunder earlier this month with http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/linked/data which announced the partnership between CNet and Open Calais.Interesting! NYTimes brand will live on.The NYTimes seems to be more cutting edge than most...

Tags: New York Times Co., Linked Data

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

'Quality Scores' For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A 'Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All'

Patrick Keane spent four years at Google, before becoming chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive which owns CNet and ZDNet. Now he’s in his third month as chief executive officer at Associated Content, the “people’s media” company. And...

Tags: Keane Inc., Web, Quality, Content, Associated Content, Channel Management, Engineering, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-17

AP, Meet AC. And, BTW, News is Not Really 'Monetizable,' on the Web.

The Associated Press was created in 1846 as a news cooperative. The idea was to allow member newspapers (and later, radio and TV stations) to combine costs in covering, reporting on and distributing news of import to its members. Its 21st Century counterpart, Associated Content, goes it...

Tags: Keane Inc., Web, Associated Press, News, AC, Associated Content, Channel Management, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Iran protests meet the social Web: What we've learned

The aftermath of the Iranian election has provided quite a case study of the intersection between social media, the increasing difficulty of censorship and government affairs. As most folks know Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been reelected and the opposition has been protesting. Now there's talk about...

Tags: Social Media, Social Web, Twitter, Iran, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Iranian protesters take to the tweets

With Iranian authorities essentially locking foreign journalists in their hotels, shutting down websites and blocking text messaging, Iranian protesters have taken to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook with a passion -- both to get the word out about what's happening in the country and to communicate logistics, says a CBS/AP report....

Tags: Twitter, Iran, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Supply Chain, Internet, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transition

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transitionHas the ATSC glitch affected you?If you?re a Media Center user, has this issue affected you? Leave a comment as a reply here. (If you have another coment to make, please start a new thread) I?ll be following up with Microsoft to see if I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, digital television, digital TV transition, TV, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Heading to the Intel Classmate PC Eco System Alliance Summit

By the time this post goes live, I'll be driving to Logan Airport to fly down to the "Intel-powered Classmate PC Eco System Alliance Summit 2009." I know that's a mouthful, but it gets to the heart of why Classmate has been and has the potential to be so...

Tags: Intel Classmate PC, Alliance, Intel Corp., Classmate, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-15

InfoPrint printers make it easier to control eco-features

InfoPrint printers make it easier to control eco-featuresEnvironment peopleI guess CBS is the environmentalist hangout.Attention all sheeple stop using anything from oil and do not pass gas.

Tags: Printers, Infoprint, printer

Discussion threads 2009-06-12