Clinton calls for energy revolution
New York Democratic senator calls for "strategic energy fund" to boost investment in alternatives to oil.
New York Democratic senator calls for "strategic energy fund" to boost investment in alternatives to oil.
NASA sets a rocket in motion toward a comet, hoping to gain knowledge of the comet's makeup.
Several Silicon Valley pioneers spoke at an event marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of Shockley Laboratories in Mountain View, Calif. Starting in the 1950s, physicist Hans Queisser worked in Germany and the U.S. While at Shockley Labs, Queisser spearheaded research on using silicon to convert solar energy.
Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back onto OLPC's government customers, probably the worst possible candidates for an IT support organization.
Slightly off-topic but call it proof that YouTube still has a role to play in politics. Always ready to ride a publicity wave, Paris Hilton has responded to John McCain's famous ad juxtaposing Barack Obama with Hilton and Britney Spears with an "ad" of her own, posted on the Funny or Die video site.
Green panel discusses the state of the silicon industry
Autodesk tools aim to help designers conceptualize projects on a computer before starting the costly (and energy-intense) production process. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes a tour of Autodesk's new design gallery in San Francisco, where exhibits ranging from church models to chair designs illustrate how its customers are reducing their carbon footprint.
A huge opportunity to provide large scale business innovation with smart strategies and effective execution is tempered by strong competition, legacy perceptions and a ticking clock to successfully demonstrate relevance and effectiveness.
It's not hard to see that there are people addicted to Google -- in fact, my first blog's name was Google Addiction, and it didn't take long for it to take off. In fact, only three months passed before ZDNet snapped it up and named it "Googling Google".
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