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There have been a string of similar "deals" announced recently (though we do wonder about the details), but Microsoft has announced that Qanta is the latest company to "license" its usage of Android and Chrome.
The world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport opened today in New Mexico, marking another milestone in the public-private transition of space-based efforts in the U.S.
FairPoint Communications, which took control of Verizon landlines in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont in 2009 and then promptly went bankrupt is now appealing to New Hampshire’s regulators and legislature for deregulation.
Police vehicles with 5 live cameras, iPad-wielding cops, and mobile command centers with hundreds of thousands of dollars in mobile broadband gear, manned by network engineers are impressive — if wildly optimistic.
In an effort to combat energy waste nationwide, the National Science Foundation gave a team of four Cornell faculty members a four-year, $1.9 million grant to research how to improve energy allocation through a “smart” electrical grid.
Solar panel giant SunPower has decided to embrace microinverters, which are a new emerging form of solar inverter that are embedded on each panel and are used to convert direct current generated by solar panels into alternating current for the grid.
Calico Energy is using SOA, cloud services, and data and analytics to quickly build a smart grid solution portfolio. Plus, a bold analyst prediction about who will win the soft grid.
The first 100 per cent electric Nissan Leaf arrived in Burnaby on Wednesday afternoon. Kelly Carmichael, a BCIT researcher, took possession of his new Nissan Leaf at Morrey Nissan, and he couldn't be happier. "I'm so excited," he said. "Becoming the owner of a Nissan Leaf is of significant importance to me . (because) for the past four years, BCIT and B.C. Hydro have worked together to establish Canada's very first Smart Microgrid on the main campus of BCIT
Adam Vaughan: With public and private charging networks shifting out of first gear, it is still early days for electric car take-up in the UK. After the launches of a Boris-backed recharging network in London (216 points) and a so-called national network from Ecotricity (12) this year, Chargemaster on Wednesday opened what it described as the "UK's first privately funded nationwide electric vehicle" network (around 150).
Now that Japan, Germany and other European countries have started to move away from nuclear plans, large fuel cell makers like FuelCell Energy are seeing an uptick in interest in those countries.
But the new graduation requirements raise concerns about the equity of access to online learning tools and the technological costs of supporting such measures.
What does ubiquitous broadband coverage mean for the education environment and what challenges and opportunities do schools face in adapting to this?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the Commodity Futures Trading Commission should adopt a rule with real teeth to limit oil speculators, not a watered-down measure set for a vote on Tuesday.
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IBM's signing on as a member of EcoGrid EU, a consortium of companies that's planning a demo renewable power-smart grid system on the Danish island of Borholm.
UPDATED: China has been the epicenter of its own solar manufacturing industry for years but the country has more recently become a destination for U.S. startups setting up their first manufacturing bases in the country as well.
$850000 federal grant to support Bassett Healthcare upgradeWKTVThe HRSA grant will be administered over the next three years and will be used to purchase equipment, install broadband networks and provide training for staff.
Two years ago, Longmont, CO decided it wanted to take back via a referendum its right to determine its own broadband future, only to have Comcast and its allies go ballistic and kill the measure. This year, Longmont is back for round 2.
You probably heard a few weeks ago about how an astrology software company, Astrolabe, claimed it now controlled the copyright for the historical time zone database that nearly every Linux and Unix system uses to set clocks to local time...
For a few years now, we've been joking about how email is for old people.
The Brookings Institution in the U.S. recently reported on data from the Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey which highlighted changing immigrant demographics in metropolitan American city regions over the past ten years.
Germany’s federally-owned KfW banking group is facilitating renewable energy and energy efficiency investments in Germany with EUR 100 billion (over US$130 billion) over the next five years.
About two and a half years ago (soon after I did my first presentation about CwF+RtB), I was asked to stop by the YouTube offices, to talk about what things they might do to help artists earn more money.
In December 2007, the Wisconsin State Legislature passed the Video Competition Act, one of a dozen or so ALEC inspired pieces of legislation that deregulated the cable television field and wrested control from cities. The bill increased expenses and decreased income for community television. The law abrogated all existing local franchise agreements, and created a weak one size fits all state level license for video providers
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday said he will put a pending “bill shock” regulation on hold after the wireless industry promised to create its own program to alert consumers when they are about to be charged overage...
Free flowing news and information is essential to the health of democratic communities, but not all information environments are equally effective at meeting...
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