Konarka’s flexible solar cells are well suited for charging portable electronics or building-integrated photovoltaics (Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET) Konarka said today that it has achieved a record in organic solar cell efficiency but its products are still seeking a viable commercial niche. The Lowell, Mass.-based company said the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has certified that Konarka’s [...]
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Of all the approaches to cutting carbon emissions, making charcoal and putting it in the ground as fertilizer would seem one of the least controversial. But a report published today offers words of caution around expecting too much from biochar. Biochar, also called man-made charcoal, is made by decomposing plants and other organic materials into [...]
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu today warned that “time is running out” for the U.S. to be the global leader in clean-energy technologies because China and other countries are racing ahead. Chu gave a speech at the National Press Club where he suggested that the U.S. is reaching a “Sputnik moment” where political leaders and the [...]
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This is the first time in the 47-year history of the annual competition that the award has gone to an electric vehicle, in this case the Nissan Leaf. (Credit: Nissan) Well, the Nissan Leaf has done it again. It’s garnered another award. This time, the Leaf has been named 2011 European Car of the Year. [...]
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San Leandro, Calif.–Think of the Pressure Exchanger from Energy Recovery as an industrial Super Soaker. The company’s energy-efficient desalination system revolves around applying pressure to “slugs” of water. Seawater has to be pressurized to a high level before a desalination membrane can filter out the salt and other impurities. Seawater fills up a chamber inside [...]
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Earlier this month, Motor Trend named the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt its 2011 car of the year. The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Angus MacKenzie, said, “The more we think about the Volt, the more convinced we are this vehicle represents a real breakthrough.” However, radio personality Rush Limbaugh does not like the Volt one bit. On an [...]
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Kurion, a startup that wants to make vitrification a major prong in the nuclear waste disposal strategy of the U.S., came out of stealth today by providing some information about its technology and announcing news of a testing contract with CH2MHill. Vitrification involves sealing nuclear waste into a glass matrix to prevent it from leaching [...]
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You know and I know it: thin-film PV modules have to be cheaper than crystalline silicon, and it’s the efficiency, stupid. With regard to efficiency, thin-film module prices require a downwards adjustment relative to c-Si to overcome the efficiency-induced BOS cost differential; the exact penalty depends on the BOS price (in dollars or euros per [...]
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Sipco LLC (Sipco) is an Atlanta, Georgia-based developer of wireless mesh technology. In a previous post, I wrote about Sipco’s patent infringement suit targeting Florida Power Light and its smart grid rollout in Miami-Dade County. Last month Sipco sued various companies that offer smart meters, lighting products, home and building automation systems and energy management solutions [...]
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Controversial BlackLight Power says it will show off how it can generate power with water and the equivalent of pocket change next year. The company claims–amid harsh criticism that its claims are the kookiest thing to come along since cold fusion–to have discovered a way to produce energy from converting a hydrogen atom into a [...]
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OPower is the home energy efficiency startup that could and unlike many startups, they seem to have cracked the nut of home energy efficiency. The now growth-stage startup just closed on their round C with $50 million led by two of Silicon Valley’s premier VC firms — Kleiner Perkins and Accel Partners along with New [...]
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Now Trending: Google’s Secret Social Initiative Delayed Until Spring 2011 [EXCLUSIVE] Online Game For Kids Bible Islands is a safe and protected online virtual world fora kids. It is a series of fun adventures and games that is ever expanding and developing, filled with exciting learning experiences that allows kids to interact with Bible stories, [...]
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Now Trending: Google’s Secret Social Initiative Delayed Until Spring 2011 [EXCLUSIVE] Online Game For Kids Bible Islands is a safe and protected online virtual world fora kids. It is a series of fun adventures and games that is ever expanding and developing, filled with exciting learning experiences that allows kids to interact with Bible stories, [...]
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Now Trending: Google’s Secret Social Initiative Delayed Until Spring 2011 [EXCLUSIVE] Online Game For Kids Bible Islands is a safe and protected online virtual world fora kids. It is a series of fun adventures and games that is ever expanding and developing, filled with exciting learning experiences that allows kids to interact with Bible stories, [...]
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As Mashable continues to grow, so do the number of topics we cover and the ways readers access our content. Many visit the website directly, or subscribe to our RSS feed, daily e-mails or Twitter and Facebook pages. Now that we’re even more connected across social spaces, we thought we’d let you know how to [...]
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Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership. For more upcoming listings, check out Mashable’s Events section. In [...]
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Thanks to the success of projects like Diaspora, Designing Obama and The Glif, more and more creatives are looking towards Kickstarter as a way to fund their projects. The site makes it possible for individuals or groups to fund an album, finance a documentary film or publish a quarterly magazine by soliciting backers online. The [...]
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Google’s big social initiative, once thought to be a full-fledged social network named “Google Me,” is experiencing delays that have pushed back the launch until spring 2011. Mashable has learned that Google’s big social play could debut in March or April, a far cry from earlier rumors that pegged a 2010 launch date. The project [...]
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Project magazine cover video from Project on Vimeo. Project magazine issue 1 – cover video. Project magazine issue 1 – cover video. Virgin Digital Publishing’s Project magazine is ready to rock or so it seems. Project will be run by veteran magazine editor Anthony Noguera and Branson’s daughter Holly. I did what any Digerati does [...]
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Wednesday in a blog post, Facebook announced “New Targeted Publishing Capabilities,” stating: “We’ve added location and language targeting for Page publishing using the Graph API. This enables developers to send more relevant posts to users and brings these APIs to parity with the targeting options accessible from the Pages publisher.” One prominent brand, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is set [...]
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Wednesday in a blog post, Facebook announced “New Targeted Publishing Capabilities,” stating: “We’ve added location and language targeting for Page publishing using the Graph API. This enables developers to send more relevant posts to users and brings these APIs to parity with the targeting options accessible from the Pages publisher.” One prominent brand, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is set [...]
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To All Facebook Market Participants: Thank you for your feedback and participation in last week’s Facebook auction. As we had hoped, there was robust seller and buyer participation — the auction fully cleared at a per share price of $20.76. In addition, there was overwhelmingly positive feedback on the auction process. As a result, we [...]
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This post is part of our ReadWriteEnterprise channel, which is a resource and guide for IT managers and technologists in the Enterprise. As you’re exploring solutions for your enterprise, check out this helpful ReadWriteWeb report provided for FREE courtesy of HP: The Age of Exabytes We frequently write about enterprise mobility and how it’s enabling [...]
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For some years now, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with PowerPoint. On the “love” side I am a PowerUser. I know every nook and cranny of that app, to the point where people at the agency come to me when they need tech support (a mixed blessing indeed.) But the fact that I’ve used most [...]
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Howard Harte is so eager to begin porting his apps to Google TV that he’s offering a $1,000 bounty to the first person that can show him how to root it. Google TV has been on the market for just over a month in a handful of hardware formats, but Harte is looking for the [...]
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Well, well, well, what do we have here? A mysterious LG device called the LU-3000 has appeared on camera blowing Apple’s iPhone 4 and Samsung’s Galaxy S out of the water in a speed test. Here have a look for yourself: Is your jaw on the floor? Thought so. There’s more too. Here are some [...]
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Author, speaker, teacher, Internet rogue. Author of Create Your Own Blog, Using WordPress, Teach Yourself Foursquare in 10 Minutes. Online Game For Kids Bible Islands is a safe and protected online virtual world fora kids. It is a series of fun adventures and games that is ever expanding and developing, filled with exciting learning experiences [...]
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(click image for larger view) NASA managers have delayed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery to Dec. 17, saying more repair work is needed before the spacecraft can make its final trip to the International Space Station. More Government Insights White Papers Visual Privacy: A Critical Area of Data Protection in State and Local [...]
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The first sheet from Rapiscan’s patent 7,796,733, entitled “Personnel security screening system with enhanced privacy” is shown. According to the patent document, the invention “relates to image processing techniques that employ maximum threat detection performance and minimal information loss. More particularly, the invention relates to the field of radiant energy imaging systems and methods and [...]
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(click image for larger view) Are the airport body scanners, which have provoked a raging controversy, “porn machines,” as they’ve been dubbed by Atlantic blogger Jeffrey Goldberg? Or are they the most effective means going of identifying terrorists carrying explosives? More Government Insights White Papers Visual Privacy: A Critical Area of Data Protection in State [...]
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(click image for larger view) As if online phishing scams aren’t enough to worry about, people also should be wary of criminal efforts targeting their cell phones, the FBI is warning. More Government Insights White Papers Visual Privacy: A Critical Area of Data Protection in State and Local Government Visual Privacy: A Critical Protection Area [...]
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(click image for larger view) NASA welcomed home two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) and continued a much-delayed plan to send others to it as another year of its space program draws to a close. More Government Insights White Papers Visual Privacy: A Critical Area of Data Protection in State and Local Government [...]
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The Obama administration on Monday ordered all federal agencies that deal with sensitive information to review and enhance their internal security programs in an effort to staunch the flow of unauthorized documents to WikiLeaks and other rogue Web sites. Among other things, the administration is ordering agency heads to develop stricter criteria for determining which [...]
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(click image for larger view) The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must better clarify its expenditure plan for an ambitious IT modernization effort to justify the funds appropriated for it, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). More Government Insights White Papers Visual Privacy: A Critical Area of Data Protection in State and [...]
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Slideshow: Who’s Who In U.S. Intelligence(click for larger image and for full slideshow) The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency picked the busiest online shopping day of the year to shut down 82 websites — including the domain of a BitTorrent meta-search engine — the federal government said are offering counterfeit or pirated goods. [...]
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The White House on Monday announced plans to institute a two-year pay freeze for federal civilian workers as part of a deficit cutting initiative, but the move comes in the middle of efforts to shore up expertise in critical areas of federal IT such as cybersecurity and IT acquisition. The announcement cancels a planned 1.4% [...]
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Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, wants software makers to adhere to established principles of notice and consent when it comes to installing software on users’ computers. Dotzler charges that Apple, Google, and Microsoft are abusing their positions as trusted software providers to sneak software onto computers without explicit user permission. More Software Insights [...]
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MHT’s Galen Moore: Mass. companies building to be sold MHT’s Emerging Technologies Forum: Health IT and the Cloud Related News Excelitas launches from remains of PerkinElmer IDS [November 29, 2010] CloudBees raises $4M financing for Java platform [November 29, 2010] Amarin treatment for high triglycerides shows progress in trials [November 29, 2010] Joule appoints d’Esparbes, [...]
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MHT’s Galen Moore: Mass. companies building to be sold How Massachusetts is landing stimulus funding Related News New VC firm spins out of Provident Healthcare Partners [November 1, 2010] The List: Investment banks with the top 20 MA deals [September 1, 2010] Leerink Swann names Schimmer as biotech analyst [June 18, 2009] Raymond James buys [...]
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MHT’s Galen Moore: Mass. companies building to be sold Tracelytics demos at Betaspring Related News Excelitas launches from remains of PerkinElmer IDS [November 29, 2010] CloudBees raises $4M financing for Java platform [November 29, 2010] Joule appoints d’Esparbes, Madden to senior roles [November 29, 2010] Qteros vet McLaughlin named Acceleron CFO [November 29, 2010] Voltaire [...]
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MHT’s Julie Donnelly: Biotechs lag in social media use MHT’s Julie Donnelly: Pharmaceuticals find drug development partners in colleges Related News Excelitas launches from remains of PerkinElmer IDS [November 29, 2010] CloudBees raises $4M financing for Java platform [November 29, 2010] Amarin treatment for high triglycerides shows progress in trials [November 29, 2010] MHT Startup [...]
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MHT’s Julie Donnelly: Biotechs lag in social media use Funding drugs for rare diseases Related News AMAG avoids FDA ‘black box’ warning [November 29, 2010] Helix Therapeutics handed $2.5M in new funding [November 23, 2010] Mass. unveils list of drug maker payments to doctors, hospitals [November 22, 2010] AVEO releases data on cancer drugs [November [...]
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MHT’s Galen Moore: Mass. companies building to be sold Regenerative medicine firms make business of creating skin Related News Joule appoints d’Esparbes, Madden to senior roles [November 29, 2010] Qteros vet McLaughlin named Acceleron CFO [November 29, 2010] Genzyme meets FDA milestone for Allston plant [November 24, 2010] Aushon BioSystems appoints Beushausen as CSO [November [...]
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Related News First Wind to file final IPO-killing SEC papers [November 24, 2010] Mass. DPU approves Cape Wind power rate [November 22, 2010] Cape Wind awaits power rate decision [November 19, 2010] AMSC plans $155M stock offering [November 11, 2010] Wind developers seek predictable permitting [November 10, 2010] Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray has put [...]
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Private investors eye online education opportunities UMass President Jack Wilson on Entrepreneurship Related News Excelitas launches from remains of PerkinElmer IDS [November 29, 2010] Joule appoints d’Esparbes, Madden to senior roles [November 29, 2010] MHT Startup Adviser: From outsourcing to acquisition finance [November 29, 2010] Qteros vet McLaughlin named Acceleron CFO [November 29, 2010] Voltaire [...]
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MHT’s Julie Donnelly: Biotechs lag in social media use MHT’s Julie Donnelly: Pharmaceuticals find drug development partners in colleges Related News EMD Serono MS drug review extended [November 29, 2010] Helix Therapeutics handed $2.5M in new funding [November 23, 2010] Mass. unveils list of drug maker payments to doctors, hospitals [November 22, 2010] AVEO releases [...]
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