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While there are a lot easier ways to make solar cells, there’s not as many as bizarre as this one: squishing up jelly fish. Out of Sweden, researchers have discovered a way to use a protein from a common jellyfish to create a solar cell. Read more »

Ocean power is managing to float forward during the recession, thanks in large part to government programs and to a lesser extent, private funding. The latest example is 10-year-old wave power company Wavebob, with CEO Andrew Parish telling us this week that it’s raised €3 million […] Read more »

As we all know, cell phones no longer just make calls — many act as web devices, navigators, cameras, music players, game consoles, and in weirder circumstances carpenter’s levels and whoopee cushions. But as consumers have called on their phones to do more than ever before, […] Read more »

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Solar cells that act more like photosynthesizing plants than standard silicon solar sounds like a good bet, right? The investors at Morgan Stanley seem to think so. This week, Morgan Stanley Principal Investments said it has invested $20 million in British startup G24 Innovations, which is […] Read more »

Lenovo has been all over the CES demonstrating their new consumer notebooks and we’ve covered them a bit here on jkOnTheRun.  One of the coolest technologies that these IdeaPads come with is the facial recognition technology that is used to securely log users into the systems.  […] Read more »

Another day, another step closer to a Writers Guild of America strike. Yesterday the existing contract between writers and producers expired, and tonight the WGA will meet to decide whether to keep threatening to strike or to actually walk out. We’ve been covering the escalating tensions […] Read more »

So there’s two new fantasy MMOs with high name recongition launching now. Only three years ago, gamers and the industry would greet that announcement with at least a modicum of enthusiasm. Now the general reaction is more likely to be, “But… why bother?” Sony Online’s Vanguard: […] Read more »

Jeffrey Citron, when I had a chance to catch up with him at the Web 2.0 has said that the growth at Vonage was so fast, that he was having a hard time hiring enough people. He pointed out that AT&T was firing people, and he […] Read more »

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