A run-of-the-mill 150 cc scooter can put out more carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide compounds than a high-end car, says Kevin Klein, the automotive microcontroller manager at Freescale. That’s one of the reasons the chipmaker has high hopes for a cheap fuel injection system that just started being delivered to emerging nations.
The injection system–devised by [...]
Twenty.
That’s the number of major utilities that are experimenting with the TREE (Tendril Residential Energy Ecosystem) from smart metering start-up Tendril. Fifteen of the utilities are engaged in lab tests with the Boulder-based company, four are preparing field pilots and another will kick off a commercial rollout to consumers in the next few weeks. Collectively, [...]
Back in 1997, BigFix started marketing a tool that helped users diagnose problems with their PC. Later, the company sold essentially the same piece of software to help desks to analyze trends in customer complaints. After that, BigFix sold it as a tool to let large corporate customers download patches.
And now, the company’s products are [...]
Several companies–Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Sony, 3Com, OQO, Samsung–have tried to market simplified Internet computers as alternatives to PCs.
And to date, most of them have failed miserably. The public has just not bought into the vision.
CherryPal, the brainchild of longtime software exec Max Seybold, hopes to break the pattern, although it won’t be easy. The company [...]
The leaders of the world’s large industrialized nations today emerged from a mountaintop resort in Japan and announced that they want to start tackling that climate problem any day now.
The leaders of the Group of Eight nations–the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy–announced after a meeting that they have agreed to [...]
What does a company really need to pull off a successful IPO in the greentech market?
Time.
Think of it. SunPower, the solar panel maker that had one of the first successful IPOs in the green market in 2005, was founded by Dick Swanson in 1985. First Solar, the sizzling maker of cadmium telluride solar panels, went [...]
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The possibility of Congress granting oil companies rights to develop offshore reserves in previously protected areas is one of the hottest topics going these days. ...
British Energy, the UK's nuclear power monopoly, will likely be sold to Electricité de France this week in a deal valuing the company at close ...
The new home of Other World Computing, a large computer dealer in Woodstock Illinois, is about as green as you can get. The building, which will ...
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