Welcome to SmartPlanet!
A new brand from CBS Interactive — the folks behind CNET, CBSNews.com, BNET and ZDNet – SmartPlanet is set to bring you the best energy, science, technology, healthcare, design and business news, from urban planning to DNA sequencing.
Our coverage will equally focus on cleantech, IT-driven “smart” systems and scientific discoveries, with topics such as:
- Cities and infrastructure
- Corporate sustainability
- Transportation (such as high-speed rail)
- Energy and the smart grid
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Automotive and aerospace (such as NASA and DARPA)
- Genetics and nanotechnology
- Health tech (such as electronic patient records)
We’ll also be covering the people and companies behind the innovations, as both Q&As and video features.
If our name sounds familiar, that’s because Ziff Davis first launched SmartPlanet.com in 1999 (November 2, to be exact) as an online e-learning community focused on the technology industry.
After CNET Networks acquired Ziff Davis in 2000, it relaunched SmartPlanet.com in 2001 as a paid learning service for IT professionals.
In 2008, CNET UK transformed the site into an eco-friendly, green lifestyle website led by Adam Vaughan that featured reviews of sustainable and ethical products.
Starting today, we’re turning over a new leaf. With business as our foundation, our crack team of journalists and experts will offer daily insight and ideas on how to make our world…smarter.
Stay tuned. –The Editors
