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- The Senate Dems' energy and climate bill debuts
- The official name is "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act." I though the American power act had to do with invading weak countries like Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Afghainistan. This must be some other kind of power? This has to do with fossil fuel, electricity and...
- Tags: Bill, U.S. Senate, Senate Dems, Transportation, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?
- Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?No.Govt. sponsored research is only a big edge for products where the government is the customer (nuclear bombs, stealth jets, tanks, etc.)When the market decides that green products and tech is desirable, then a market with less government baggage will produce...
- Tags: COMPANIES, green technology, government
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- News to know: Windows 7; Twitter; Satyam; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How hard will it be to move to the Windows 7 Release Candidate? ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Satyam, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Internet, Management
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- Tech that Gen Y will sweep away
- Tech that Gen Y will sweep awayYou are half rightI'm Gen Y, and I agree. Most of us are lazy and think we know a LOT more than we really do. But it's because we were corrupted by the baby boomers into a huge sense of entitlement...
- Tags: Generation Y
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- 356,800 green Linux workstations going to Brazil’s schools
- 356,800 green Linux workstations going to Brazil’s schoolsThanks for the link! That is very interesting. MS will have to figure out how to untangle the ridiculous licensing, or get left behind.A Belgian firm offers a multiseat PC based on UbuntuCheck this interesting link:http://www.multiseatcomputer.be/index.php/en/schoolcomputersUp to 12 users on one PC.I've seen...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Linux workstation, workstation
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Dan Lyons: Rotten reporting on Apple
- Dan Lyons: Rotten reporting on AppleLyons is correctseriouslly, do you honestly believe that ABC news would say [i]anything[/i] bad about Steve Jobs or an Apple product?Maybe this fellow was trying to impress someone at ABC, maybe for a job there later on?Apple has a spin machine, and because they are...
- Tags: Smart phones, Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Dan Lyons, Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2009-01-16
- News to know: Psystar vs. Apple; WGA; Linux under attack; FAA failure
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: News.com: Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue Sam Diaz: Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit? Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices...
- Tags: FAA, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Attack, Psystar, Linux, Bluetooth, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Another gas problem for the NEXT U.S. President
- Another gas problem for the NEXT U.S. PresidentMaybe the EPA doesn't act becauseCO2 is NOT a pollutant? Or maybe because somebody realizes that manmade global warming is the biggest hoax in history? I'm surprised that Mars has not threatened to sue the EPA. After all, there's...
- Tags: Man-made global warming, carbon dioxide, gas problem, NEXT U.S., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?
- I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...
- Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- News to know: iPhone; Mix; Patch day preview; Eee PC 900
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: iPhone goes corporate bigtime. David Morgenstern: Reporter's Notebook: $100 million to promote iPhone apps Mary Jo Foley: Apple finally acknowledges iPhone's Exchange support Russell Shaw: What one developer thinks about iPhone SDK How long til the iPhone...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, PC, Microsoft Corp., CeBit, Linux, Productivity, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Microsoft's $300 million 'consumer product blitz' inches closer
- Microsoft's $300 million 'consumer product blitz' inches closer2M camera2 megapixels is *WAY MORE* than enough for great photos. You're mistaking the megapixel count as a measure of quality. Better optics and electronics are needed, not more megapixels on the sensor.Windows MobileBut first, I would make Windows Mobile sexier......
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, consumer product, Microsoft Zune
- Discussion threads 2007-12-27
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world
- The One Laptop Per Child OLPC is the best-designed notebook computer in the world. It just isn't designed for you. Get over it. Criticism of the OLPC centers on the fact that it isn't like the notebooks adults use. As the ASUS Eee shows a low-cost conventional...
- Tags: Notebook, Connectivity, Expression, Industrial Design, Activity, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- More information from Microsoft on stealth update
- More information from Microsoft on stealth updateWow... you really got your questions answered. Well done and thanks for the update, what a wealth of information.Mike Cox......Thoughts?RE: More information from Microsoft on stealth update"We realize we weren’t as transparent as we should have been, and are working to do better in...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Patches, stealth update, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-15
- News to know: Volleying data; Office 2.0; iApology; Patch Tuesday preview
- Notable headlines: Images: Follow the bouncing data at the U.S. Open right. Larry Dignan: IBM: Volleying data at the U.S. Open. Office 2.0 coverage: Phil Wainewright: EditGrid's distinctive Office 2.0 business model. Wanted: Customer perspectives on SaaS. Dan Farber: Bringing...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Zoho
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- iTunes showdown brewing: Content owners vs Apple
- iTunes showdown brewing: Content owners vs AppleUniversal represents one entity woho ...... cancelled two agreements so they could justify opening their own on-line store. So what? They are not going to take those customers away from Apple unless they undercut Appleon price - and Apple's pricing seems to...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, NBC Universal Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- Cellulosic ethanol: A fuel for the future?
- Cellulosic ethanol: A fuel for the future?TypicalWe're sopping wet in oil in this country in Alaska, the gulf and the Atlantic Continental Shelf and instead we waste millions of dollars on stupid ethanol plants and run the risk of deforestation. There have already been food riots in mexico because of...
- Tags: Tembec, Cellulosic Ethanol, refinery
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- The future of virtual worlds
- The future of virtual worldsThe Future Looks Good Optimystical HeightsI am a huge long time resident of the Active Worlds virtual Universe, helping artisans establish a virtual presence on the internet through the building of virtual galleries and studios on the Artshighway.com Artshiway in AW. I also tour virtual worlds...
- Tags: virtual world, virtual reality
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- News to know: SF power outage; P2P and national security; Amazon shines
- Notable headlines:Techmeme: Power outage in San Francisco and why a bunch of sites including ZDNet for a time were down. Dan Farber: Pardon our interruption in programming.Congress: P2P networks harm national security.George Ou: Congress and the Feds should clean up their own act. Christopher Dawson: More anti-file-sharing rhetoric in Washington.Review:...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- National ID plan may have killed immigration bill
- National ID plan may have killed immigration billBill RejectionThe headline states The Senate rejected President Bush's immigration plan. It should read The Senate finally listened to the people. With 80% of the US citizenry opposed to the bill President Bush has nothing to do with it. It was...
- Tags: Ted Kennedy, National ID plan, National ID
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Don't Look Back
- How to innovate? That was both the spoken and unspoken question on everyone's minds at the Wall Street Journal's memorable D Conference last week in Carlsbad. How can we radically improve the experience and value of interacting with one's digital device? What is the next chapter in the...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
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