Visions of China with its smog-filled skylines may soon change. Some green experts are betting that China will leap ahead in renewable energy in the form of technologies such as wind turbines.
For the Shaw brothers, who converted the downtown arts building and community center into a miniature solar power plant two years ago, each reverse rotation subtracts from their monthly electric bill.
This is somewhat akin to those experiments where people try to run over iPhones or iPods with a car, just because they can do it. One would have to ask, are you that dissatisfied with your Palm Pre that you want to drop it in beer?
It's good to keep your LinkedIn profile updated, especially in this recession, but you probably want to make sure you redact anything sensitive if you do so. The LinkedIn profile of a Microsoft employee named Robert Morgan has now been removed from the site, but is still viewable in Google's search cache. In it, he reveals Microsoft's plans for 128-bit Windows 8 and 9 support.
Those of you who think the Large Hadron Collider might just bring the world to an end might just have something there. A nuclear physicist working on the LHC was arrested in France on suspicion of advising Al-Qaida of possible terrorist targets
For the Shaw brothers, who converted the downtown arts building and community center into a miniature solar power plant two years ago, each reverse rotation subtracts from their monthly electric bill.
Canadian space tourist and circus billionaire Guy Laliberte mixed star power, science lectures, music and poetry with water, hosting a TV/Internet show from the International Space Station.
Officials plan to install a wind turbine at the Governor's Mansion and make Oklahoma the first state to partially power its governor's residence with wind power.
A new report by the Yankee Group focuses on the subsidies wireless carriers pay to device manufacturers. In particular, as C|Net found, despite the fact that AT&T's bottom line has been heavily boosted by the iPhone, it takes a long time for the company to make back it's money from the bandwidth-sucking Apple device.
Some have asked why Verizon has the most boring phones. With their new Android phones, that may be a complaint that's about the be corrected. What Verizon does have, however, is a network with less complaints than AT&T, and they made sure to mock AT&T's iPhone-related network issues with their latest ad.
A Thursday Wall Street Journal report cited unnamed sources as Barnes & Noble Inc. plans to announce its own brand of e-book reader, possibly as early as next month. The device would compete with pre-existing e-book readers from Sony and Amazon.com, as well as with software that allows e-books to be read on smartphones, including the iPhone.
Three months of planning comes down to two hours today when Cirque du soleil founder Guy Laliberte orchestrates an elaborate poetic spectacle from space.
