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Put Google Earth and Google’s cloud together, and what do you get? Google Earth Engine, the search giant’s latest pitch to help…
Read MoreA Holy Cause: Fighting Climate Change
God and global warming: A coalition of religious groups is lobbying against a federal bill that would delay an Environmental Protection Agency program to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. What would Jesus do?…
Read MoreCali’s Cap-and-Trade Moves Forward in Tough Economy
Today marks the first day of a 45-day period for the public to comment on a program to force polluters to cap their carbon emissions starting in 2012, and the proposed rules will give away lots of free permits rather than auctioning them.…
Read More5 Renewable Energy Issues at Stake in the Midterm Elections
Two weeks from now, voters will decide which federal and state politicians to keep and which to send packing. Here is a list of hot issues and challenges facing cleantech advocates as they lobby for their favorite causes in the coming year.…
Read MoreSponsor post: Your Killer App Could Win $100,000 From PayPal
PayPal is giving away $160,000 USD in prizes to the most innovative apps to use the PayPal X Platform, judging based on app innovation and business potential, with additional awards honoring innovation in use of the eBay Developer API, integration with Yahoo and cross-border payment systems.…
Read MoreMurkowski Resolution Fails: Humdingers from the Debate
A move to block the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, led by Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, failed Thursday afternoon. After hours of debate, the Senate rejected the resolution with a final tally of 47-53.…
Read MoreAnalyzing Apple’s Boilerplate
A boilerplate is a flexible term used to describe many different things, but Apple's boilerplate is those lines of text that you see at the bottom of each of all its press releases, and it has remained largely unchanged for the past few years.…
Read MorePhoto Gallery: WWDC Line Forms 12 Hours Before Event
Apple events tend to bring out the giddy-kid-on-Christmas-eve feeling in many of us, and the lines that start at these events reflect that. Here in San Francisco, the WWDC line started no earlier than 6:30PM last night...over 15 hours before the event starts.…
Read More4 Ways Not to Be a Doormat
When running a business, it can sometimes be hard to draw the line between being of service and being taken advantage of by customers, clients and other professionals. Here are a few ways to reinforce that line.…
Read MoreZencoder Excited About Open Source VP8
Cloud encoding service provider Zencoder wants to support VP8 as soon as absolutely possible, and the company is excited about Google's plans to open source the video codec at this week's Google i/O developer conference in San Francisco. However, don't count H.264 out just yet.…
Read MoreAre You Swimsuit-ready? How About Remote Access-ready?
Summer is just around the corner, but don’t worry, there is a way you can get out, enjoy the summer and stay productive. With LogMeIn Free, you can access your work computer from anywhere, at anytime, for (as the name implies) free.…
Read MoreRoku Adds UFC Channel to Sports Lineup
Roku is boosting the amount of sports content it carries through a multiyear deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) that adds live pay-per-view events and archived matches to its broadband set-top box. It's the third major sports deal for the set-top box maker.…
Read MoreAre Longer Hours Damaging Your Health?
People who regularly work overtime, putting in 10 or 11 hours a day, increase their risk of heart disease by nearly two-thirds, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal -- worrying news for web workers who tend to clock long hours.…
Read MoreiPad: Slayer of Netbook Sales
The iPad may be partially responsible for the slow demise of netbook sales, according to a Morgan Stanley market analyst. In a report for Morgan Stanley clients, the impact of the iPad is causally linked to the rapid decline of the netbook sales growth curve.…
Read MoreWhere to Watch Facebook’s f8 Live Online
Starting with Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT, Facebook will launch f8 Live, which will stream all sessions from the conference live on the Interwebz, along with a number of interactive features that are designed to let those who can't attend feel like they are a part of the action.…
Read MoreCali Puts Kibosh on "Cool Cars" to Save In-Car Electronics
In California, an effort to reduce carbon emissions came into conflict with the function of certain electronic devices -- and the state's Air Resources Board (ARB) has come down in favor of the electronics. ARB announced Thursday that the so-called Cool Cars rulemaking will now "cease."…
Read More3D TVs Are Coming, but Where’s the Content?
Panasonic (s PC) started to sell its new line of 3D TVs through a partnership with Best Buy (s BBY) today, offering…
Read MoreDOE Chief on Why We Don't Have a Manhattan Project for Energy
In times of national need, history has shown that countries can innovate fast — with enough funding. The government has been able…
Read MoreCan iTunes HD Replace Blu-ray?
I clearly remember the moment I knew I would never buy another physical CD and would buy all my music online. Since…
Read MoreDoes Blogger Outreach Still Work?
In early 2007, the Council of Public Relations Firms (CPRF) and APCO Worldwide partnered to learn more about interactions and relationships between…
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Duke Energy Jumps for Juwi’s 14MW Solar Project: “Power company Duke Energy said its commercial business unit, Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS),…
Read More4 Ways to Market Your Business With Content
Last week, I talked about three ingredients for business success, one being the need for systematic and consistent promotion and marketing. A reader…
Read MoreHow-To: Remotely Support Your Parents with Screen Sharing
We’ve all been in the situation. Your mother calls you with a computer problem and you know it’s going to take at…
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