The energy sector has never looked more interesting - can the staid utility industry embrace the digital transformation strategic models required to stay relevant or will they be crushed in the emerging battle between tech and energy companies?
So, today marks the start of the judging in the second GE ECOimagination Challenge -- an innovation competition intended to identify and fund ideas and technologies focused on residential energy conservation and renewable energy. There were more than 800 submissions, which will make the judging challenge tough: there are five $100,000 prizes at stake.
Ready for battle, the Motorola Titanium is stronger than strong and push-to-talk-ready.
One of the true benefits of the past two weeks is that I have not received my usual 50 or so e-mails in my three different e-mail accounts, which means that I have had time to do some reading and recalibrating of the themes for my 2011 coverage. I've already blabbed on about my hopes for the solar industry.
Your message hereThe image you see above is created with reflective technology from magink, which makes what it calls high-resolution digital posters. The technology is being tested by digital billboard technology company Lamar Outdoor Advertising, which operates more than 1,000 billboards using LED technology to display its images.
Aside from green tech, I regularly write about practical business applications for Web 2.0 technologies and services.
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:Mary Jo Foley: Does the Windows 7 team have too much Apple envy?
According to UK and U.S. researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to spray salt water into the air. This project would require the deployment of a worldwide fleet of 1,500 unmanned ships to cool the Earth even if the level of carbon dioxide doubled. These 300-tonne ships 'would be powered by the wind, but would not use conventional sails. Instead they would be fitted with a number of 20 m-high, 2.5 m-diameter cylinders known as Flettner rotors. The researchers estimate that such ships would cost between £1m and £2m each. This translates to a US$2.65 to 5.3 billion total cost for the ships only. Even if this project has its merits, who will finance it? The scientists don't answer this question. But read more...
I go on and on sometimes about the importance of measurement and monitoring AND YET the one thing I don't have in my own house is a scale. I'm sort of perpetually the same weight, it just sort of moves around to different places depending on whether I'm exercising.
Notable headlines:Robin Harris: Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer.IBM aims to salvage silicon for solar industry.
Google finally launches its Find My Device network. Here are the Android models that support it
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Inside a fake $20 '16TB external M.2 SSD'