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Second, the company has worked to adjust power settings while playing back movies to enable better battery life.
At WinHEC, Microsoft handed out 700 free sensor developer kits that included a light sensor, touch pad, and accelerometer. The kit was a big hit with the developers, prompting one of [...]
Nash, who joined Yahoo in January 2007 as its PR head, will assist in the transition once her replacement is found, said Brad Williams, a company spokesman, noting that she is not leaving to take another job.
Nash’s resignation announcement comes less than three weeks after Yahoo named its new CEO, Carol Bartz.
The [...]
Hudson Clean Energy Partners, a private equity firm focused on scaling up energy technology firms, led the funding, according to the report.
CaliSolar, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is seeking to commercialize a technology originally conceived at the University of California at Berkeley to process so-called metallurgical-grade silicon. By upgrading this “dirty” silicon, the company hopes [...]
In a letter to the Nevada Senate Judiciary Committee sent Thursday, Tien wrote that the bill in its current form does not protect information security research.
“Because the privacy risks of RFID include the likelihood that malevolent
entities will ’skim’ individuals’ RFID-enabled devices in public places without their
knowledge, it is important that security researchers be [...]
Last Wednesday, I stopped by the Building Energy Conference put on by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA). If there was one theme that jumped out, it was energy efficiency.
At this point, there isn’t a standardized way in the U.S. of reporting a building’s energy performance. In Germany, the Passivhaus standard for air-tight homes [...]
Freedom of Speech and Abortion
Earlier this year, a British anti-abortion organization sued Google, after the search engine refused to display an advertisement that the group had sought. The text of the ad was:
From June until December of this year, the ad ran without any complaints. However, on December 5, Google notified me that it had suspended my advertisement, based on a trademark complaint:
With Google’s domination of
