Technology

Solar Power With Style

Paul Hochman — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Solar energy got hot in the 1980s. The economic sting of the oil embargo was still fresh and the air was thick with tax credits, so Innovation Nation put on its thinking cap and began harvesting the resources that were literally falling from the sky: the 1,366 watts of solar energy that constantly rain down on every sunny square meter of earth. Smelling opportunity in those free-flowing photons, huge companies jumped into the sun business.

Lost Dollars in Gene Research

Stephanie Schomer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Intel Inside ... More Than Computers

Ellen McGirt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Windmills

Energy-efficient Celeron or Pentium processors control turbines at large-scale wind farms.

Entertainment systems

Shenzhen Hangsheng Electronics relies on Intel chips for its in-vehicle system.

Video

The camera-mounted LiveEdge device uses Atom technology to transmit video wirelessly.

Kiosks

Blockbuster's self-service installations -- and 90% of bank ATMs -- operate with Intel processors.

Hulu: The Second Life of Network Shows

Dan Macsai — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Although this Terminator spin-off series premiered on Fox with strong numbers and plenty of buzz in January 2008, its second and last season averaged a dismal 4.6 million viewers per episode, according to Nielsen. Hulu users are more enthusiastic, ranking it No. 35 among the site's all-time favorites.

Can Hulu Save Traditional TV?

Chuck Salter — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Even for Hollywood, where long odds and high stakes are staples of storytelling, the plotline is a doozy: A couple of old business rivals facing the threat of a lifetime agree to put aside their differences and join forces on a half-baked experiment that makes them laughingstocks. (We're thinking Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty.) And who do they put in charge? A young guy, a newbie to the biz. He promptly cleans house and hires an even younger guy who's halfway around the globe. These renegades throw out the rule book -- and they pull it off. Their idea kills.

The Six "Wow" Features of Windows 7

Kate Rockwood — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

"We set out to ask: What's the Windows way to do something?" says Sam Moreau, Microsoft's head of user-experience design for Windows 7. "We had to make sure that we took care of Windows as having an authentic soul." He knows you may be snickering, especially if you use Vista. "Vista tried to do a lot of things, and the places where we didn't finish the job are the places people feel," he says.

Five AR Apps to Watch For

Fast Company Staff — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

1) Yelp's iPhone app

An iPhone AR pioneer, Yelp's Monocle feature lets viewers point their phone down a street and get Yelp star ratings for merchants.

2) Trulia for Android

The real-estate search site uses Layar's Reality Browser to overlay listings on top of a Google phone's camera view. Scan a neighborhood's available properties and even connect to the realtors.

3) TAT's Augmented ID

Social networking meets AR: Point your Android phone at a long-lost acquaintance for his Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube activity.

Raising the Woof: 13 Eye-Popping Pet Projects

Zachary Wilson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Infographic: New Tricks

Coda's All-Electric Sedan Revs Up U.S. Auto Market

Chris Dannen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Sliding into the driver's seat of Coda's electric sedan for the first time, I looked around for clues. Here's 100 years of automotive history, reinvented -- what's different? No gear-shift, just a knob that engages the car's two speeds, forward and reverse. A battery-life gauge. Not much else. Then I pull into midtown Manhattan traffic and hear the road noise, the thrum of passing air. They were always there, but now there's no engine roar to drown them out. The Coda's motor barely whimpers as it speeds into a new market for cars with no gas and no exhaust.

Augmented Reality Is Both a Fad and the Future -- Here's Why

Farhad Manjoo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

You wouldn't immediately suspect that Yelp's iPhone app might be a gift bestowed upon us by a benevolent superhero from the future. Load it up and the program's in its Clark Kent garb -- a useful-enough guide to local restaurants, bars, and merchants.

Intel Risks It All (Again)

Ellen McGirt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

When Paul Otellini, Intel's famously reserved CEO first heard the news, he got quiet. "The madder I get, the quieter I get," he says, an important footnote for any Otellini user manual. He was hushed via press conference by Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for competition. "Intel used illegal anticompetitive practices to exclude essentially its only competitor and thus reduce consumer choice in the worldwide market for x86 chips," Kroes read last May from the 542-page decision on an antitrust case charging Intel with unfair trade practices.

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Upgrade Your Business Management Through Quickbooks Pro 2010

Shelley Pollington — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:08:48 -0500

With Quickbooks Pro 2010 fully-flexible single-click reports, you should well be able to look at any portion of your small business at any instance. This should save you plenty of time, allowing you to make superior corporate judgements.

Twitter's New Retweet Feature Is Not the Apocalypse

Dan Macsai — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:05:30 -0500

Hey, have you heard? Twitter is changing its Retweet feature, and everyone is complaining about it. Hubspot's Dan Zarella says the feature "could completely eviscerate most of the value out of Retweets." PC Mag's Lance Ulanoff calls it "frightening dictatorial." And fired-up users are tweeting their frustrations en masse, tagging each missive with "SaveRetweets."

The Rise in Demand for Used Cars affects Sales in Miami Dealerships

Brickell Honda — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:55:55 -0500

Blackberry and Palm Apps Getting Better, but Not Fast Enough

Chris Dannen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:43:33 -0500

Even as Apple celebrates the release of its 100,000th app--and that cash machine it calls the app store--Palm and RIM are running fast to catch up, and woo developers to their platforms.

Privatizing Gains and Socializing Losses

Michael E. Douroux — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:22:42 -0500

"Repealing Glass-Steagall was 'obnoxious' and a bipartisan 'absurdity'...

The end result of the repeal was you have 'taxpayers subsidizing risk-taking' on Wall Street...

'It's the most anti-capitalist thing I've ever heard of in my life.'

...Glass-Steagall wasn't regulation, 'it was common sense'..."

Panama: The Future Hong Kong of Latin America?

Kaihan Krippendorff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:20:07 -0500

I just came back from conducting my program in Panama, and while I have been through the Panama City airport several times, I had never stepped outside its walls. This is a fascinating country. We had 150 attend the seminar including government leaders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs.

More Details of Mozilla's Wave-like Raindrop Leak

Addy Dugdale — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:14:56 -0500

Raindrop, Firefox creator Mozilla's version of Google Wave, has revealed a little more of her comely form. Images of the open-source messaging platform are there for everyone to see on Mozilla employee Andy Chung's Flickr page.

Joseph Goebbels Would Have Loved This Youtube Video!

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:29:18 -0500

The other night I saw a video that shocked me: A spliced-together out-of-context montage from Barack Obama's speeches and media appearances to create the illusion that he is a radical Muslim extremist (and disparaging Islam generally in terms that would be quite familiar to the Jews who were victimized by similar descriptions throughout history.

I will not dignify this filth with a link. But I'd like to analyze its impact.

Social Responsibility

Video-Conferencing Wars: Now Logitech Enters the Fray

Addy Dugdale — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:42:27 -0500

As video-conferencing becomes more and more popular (face it, business travel is just so last century) more and more companies are getting in on the act. Latest to join the battlefield is computer peripherals company Logitech, who has just bought LifeSize, an Austin-based company that specializes in video-conferencing systems.

Best Digital Practices in the Health Industry

David Capece — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:41:10 -0500

Healthcare insurance, reform, H1N1, food contamination and countless stories that pull on our heartstrings are daily discussion topics in newsrooms, blogs and dining room tables across the nation. It should come as no surprise that many of the top 50 digital social-cause influencers are related to health.

Environment and Animals Intersect as Nature’s Cause

David Capece — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:36:18 -0500

More and more people are becoming aware of the importance of the natural world and the human impact on our planet. This discussion is growing politically, economically and culturally. The emergence of planetary cause, inclusive of animals and the environment, is being fueled online.

Donald Seoane

Donald Seoane — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:51:52 -0500

Donald C Seoane

The group was formed by four
teenage friends from Aston, near Birmingham, England: Anthony "Tony" Iommi (b.
Feb 19, 1948), guitar; William "Bill" Ward (b. May 5, 1948), drums; John "Ozzy"
Osbourne (b. Dec 3, 1948), vocals; and Terence "Geezer" Butler (b. Jul 17,
1949), bass. They originally called their jazz-blues band Polka Tulk, later
renaming themselves Earth, and they played extensively in Europe. In early 1969,