Cellulosic Ethanol Ready for Prime Time (Really): Cellulosic ethanol has been “five years from commercialization” for so long that even ethanol company POET’s research director admits it has become a joke. Now he and a crew of scientists say it’s for real. — Christian Science… Read More »
Archive for February 2009
It’s hard to know what you’re going to need of your office when you’re first starting out, so I asked some fellow WWD bloggers and my Twitter followers what tips they might give to people setting up a home office. Here’s what I learned. Read More »
Taking charge of your own retail distribution is a questionable move even in the best of times, but it looks like Microsoft is bent on opening up another battleground between themselves and Apple, and that’s where they want to do it. It’s a gutsy move on Microsoft’s… Read More »
There’s been a bunch of news out of YouTube over the last 24 hours, and since I’m felled by a cold, typing with one hand while blowing my nose with the other, I’m combining all you need to know into one handy dandy post. (sniffle) Sony Music… Read More »
Good times or bad, the trash still needs to be picked up. But as Waste Management Inc.’s earnings report showed this week, the business of managing waste and recycling isn’t exactly recession-proof. The slowdown is hitting its recycling business particularly hard. Waste Management said its revenue in… Read More »
Not too long ago, I posted about BookGlutton, a service which allowed for online collaborative reading. You could also upload your own work, but that wasn’t the main focus of the site. Smashwords, on the other hand, is a web site devoted… Read More »
When the Sony Vaio P started shipping to customers it became clear that the U.S. version of the little notebook wasn’t using its technology fully. Sony has put the Gobi technology into the Vaio P, which makes it theoretically capable of working with just about… Read More »
The House and Senate held a pre-Valentine’s Day love fest last night and produced a compromise stimulus package; the two houses must now approve the conference bill, after which it would be sent to the president. For details on the full $789 billion plan, you can… Read More »
I was recently introduced to the Drobo box. If you’re not familiar with it, simply put, it’s the ultimate home backup server. For $400, you get a BeyondRAID array that can support up to 4 simultaneous drives, and caps at 16TB. Even cooler is the… Read More »
Well I am finally home from all the traveling over the last month and should be here for a while. I have so much ground to cover since I missed some of these columns and I’ll try my best to catch up. I had a good… Read More »
Carbon capture and storage technology has barely left the trial stage — let alone be proven as safe or effective at commercial scale. But according to a new report from Emerging Energy Research, the industry could be “well-positioned” for commercialization by 2016 if demonstration projects… Read More »
I was digging around for some eBook sales numbers when I found two interesting tidbits. Stanza for the iPhone and iPod Touch has over 1.3 million users, which is far more than I previously thought. It fits in with a GigaOM post I wrote… Read More »
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