IBM and researchers from Harvard University launched a joint effort today to identify more efficient and lower-cost solar cell materials using distributed computing. Leveraging small amounts of computing power from potentially hundreds of thousands of personal computers, this latest addition to the company’s… Read More »
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Computing giant IBM and French electric utility EDF will together research ways to boost the efficiency of power plants and modernize electricity infrastructure, IBM announced today. The collaboration puts them in the thick of what’s known as the smart grid industry, a potentially $65 billion… Read More »
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a shorter-term solution, with cheaper start-up costs, could help spread the use of carbon capture and storage at coal plants and still clean up a large amount of carbon dioxide. Read More »
Callpod is a company that has some unusual products and their newly announced Drone is no exception. It looks like a simple USB Bluetooth adapter but it’s what it adds that makes… Read More »
Yesterday’s news of AT&T purchasing the Wayport WiFi hotspot network has many folks wondering what other WiFi networks think of the deal. With over 100,000 worldwide locations, Boingo is one of the largest WiFi networks and their CEO, Dave Hagan, chimed in with… Read More »
First things first: Windows 7 is definitely running faster on my MSI Wind netbook than Vista did. And that’s after removing the extra Gigabyte of RAM I had in there prior to installing Vista. As I said last week, this test build is "leaner… Read More »
The Dell Mini 9 is the Texas-based firm’s first foray into the world of netbooks and it’s pretty solid. Like any purchase decision though the ability of the company to deal with problems you encounter is an important part of the purchase decision, at least it… Read More »
While we’re still waiting for wider validation of BlackLight Power’s purportedly physics-defying fuel cell, in the mean time we’ll have to settle for a video of the independent validation that BlackLight has already announced. BlackLight has created a video of the Rowan University… Read More »
I’ve lost track of how many times it’s been reported that iPhones have free WiFi access at AT&T hotspots. However, I think this time it’s pretty official based on… Read More »
Although I haven’t used a Dash Express Navigator yet, I like the concept. Not only do you get standard GPS functions, but the unit itself connects to the web for location… Read More »
The Firefox 3 “awesome bar” generally does a good job of finding the web page you want when you start typing into it. With its ability to look into your history, go to a URL, or trigger a search of the web, it offers multiple avenues… Read More »
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