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Money, money, money--green tech firms get long green

Money, money, money--green tech firms get long greenRich get richerAll this stimulous money for large companies for green research and development is fine, but what if your like me, struggling for cash to keep my doors open long enough for some one to notice that I've got new automotive technology,...

Tags: green tech firm, green technology

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

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Midwest tech firm now wind driven

Other World Computing OWC is in McHenry County, Illinois, and now their power comes from the wind. OWC claims the title of "first 100 percent on-site wind powered technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S." It's using Vestas-made wind turbines for all its daily electricity needs. ...

Tags: Turbine, Other World Computing, Other World Computing HQ, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Could you green the world brick by brick?

It's a brick."Well, the mainstream bricks boys do not like CalStar and want to prevent from the use of the very word 'brick.'"Oh, puh-lease. Even when people in third world countries put mud in molds on the ground and use sunlight to bake it, we still call them bricks.Yes, it's...

Tags: CalStar, Oak Creek, ash, fly ash, Oak

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Investors won't venture to gamble

The quarter recently ended was not a happy one for venture capital firms. Investments were down by 80% in Q3, compared to a year earlier. Apparently the lowest level since the nasty days of 2003 when the tech bubbled had burst in investors' faces. Investment was so...

Tags: Green Technology, Investor, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-13

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

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. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave

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. Andrew Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Ohio, what are you drinking?

That stuff in your drinking water could be detected if we applied a little green tech. Sensors, digitally linked, could alert water drinkers in Ohio, Texas, Florida, Maryland and other atrazine-rich habitat. "Atrazine alert," it could say, "drink something else for a while." Real-time monitoring of public...

Tags: Beverage, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Ohio, ATRAZINE Atrazine, Syngenta, Food & Beverage, Wiki, Manufacturing, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-23

News to know: Bing; Windows; HP; RIM; ZuiTUbe; CD sales; Wimax

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. Larry Dignan: Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google Ed Bott: XP, Vista, or Windows 7: Which OS is...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., CD, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, E-mail, WiMAX, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Online Communications, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Most Americans support energy infrastructure overhaul

OK, we've established that pretty much every high-tech vendor is IN LOVE with the Smart Grid, because of the billions of potential spending associated with it. So, what does the average energy consumer think? Aka, you and me. A new survey that was conducted jointly by PR...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Survey, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-16

Greentech may not escsape the town hall screamers

What a befoon!Anti-government? I didn't see MSNBC on your resume. Hey....wait a minute...Chris Matthews? Is that you...you kidder you. Hey, great job on cloning yourself. Too bad they haven't worked out the whole personality missing thing yet.RE: Greentech may not escsape the town hall screamersAhh! People might want to see...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Minute Maid Park, Minute Maid, Astros, lunatic

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Foundation of our green future

I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...

Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Are we falling out of love with the Dell Adamo?

Next Friday marks the four-month anniversary of the proper debut of Dell's Adamo luxury ultraportable laptop, and it occurred to me recently that Dell hasn't done much since then to promote or reposition the ultra-premium notebook. What happened? ...

Tags: Apple MacBook Air, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Adamo, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-08

News to know: Windows 7, HD-DVD, Twitter, iPhone, SOA

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. Christopher Dawson: Windows 7: Good enough to pay for? Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, HD-DVD, Jason Perlow, SOA, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Repubs say the Waxman-Markey bill is DOA in Senate

There was not a kind word to heard be from the Republican Party today about the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill. Obama calls the bill "bold and necessary." The Republicans called it names. Waxman-Markey would change many aspects of federal law on energy, air pollution and global warming. Amazingly...

Tags: Green Technology, U.S. Senate, Obama, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-28

Green technology design: Easier said than done?

Was just sorting through one of several Forrester Research studies about sustainable business considerations, and this one sort of struck me: According to the research firm's latest survey of 17 tech companies and 72 other consumer product specialists an admittedly modest basis, roughly 58 percent currently sell sort of “environmentally...

Tags: Green Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Where are you on the green tech belief scale?

Here are some stats collected by market research firm IDC at its recent Green IT Forum.The survey base is inherently biased because I'm betting mostly environmentally minded people attend green conferences, but they are worth sharing nonetheless. 68 percent of attendees said "energy efficiency" was the think...

Tags: Green Technology, Green IT, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-27

News to know: Palm; Google; Apple; Yahoo's Bartz; Hacking Safari

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. Larry Dignan: Palm: Demand tanks ahead of Pre launch; Pre needs to save the day Andrew Nusca: Google CEO Schmidt: China 'obvious prize,' Twitter 'poor...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Hacking, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Always On and evergreen

Always On has just announced their picks for the top fifty, privately-held, green tech companies based in the eastern U.S. Their overall winner: GreatPoint Energy. Always on concluded about the firm: "GreatPoint is commercializing a technology that converts raw coal into natural gas. This technology can yield...

Tags: Coal, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Got waste? Feed it to the algae. Presto chango it's valuable.

Helix bioreactor. Courtesy Origin Oil. For a healthier environment today, tomorrow and in the distant future: algae. That's the belief of Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of OriginOil, in Los Angeles. Sound like just another bodiesel start-up? No way, this is a company that...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Politics of energy and autos

Two more leaked cabinet choices from the incoming Obama Administration. Both will have influence on energy, land use and green tech subsidies. Interior Secretary nominee: Sen. Ken Salazar (Colorado-D). Here's what his official website says about his enviornmental credo: "He...

Tags: Nominee, Iowa, Federal Government, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-16