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Who will rescue us from Obamacare?	16.10.2010	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Robert Goldberg is the vice president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest . He has forwarded a column with his thoughts on "what the Chilean miners can teach us about Obamacare." in his message forwarding the piece, Goldberg provides a kind of executive summary: "Private-sector innovators from around the world contributed their expertise to the rescue effort in Chile, and the result was nothing short of miraculous. Yet when it comes to rescuing our health care system, President Obama and his allies are hellbent on limiting -- if not eliminating -- the role of private-sector innovation. America's leaders should take note of Chile's example -- and reverse their cynical, government-heavy course." Goldberg writes: Nearly a billion people watched as the 33 Chilean miners were rescued from their accidental prison below the earth. And millions more made their safe escape possible through innovations in medicine, telecommunications and engineering. Writing in the Wall Street ...
Obama: Republicans love outsourcers, I love small business	16.10.2010	Daily Kos
When more things are made in America, more families make it in America; more jobs are created in America; more businesses thrive in America. But Republicans in Washington have consistently fought to keep these corporate loopholes open. Over the last four years alone, Republicans in the House voted 11 times to continue rewarding corporations that create jobs and profits overseas – a policy that costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year. Talking tax breaks for small business and closing loopholes for corporations that outsource jobs, President Obama shifted into campaign mode in his weekly address this morning, blaming Republicans for obstructing changes in the tax code--11 times!--that would favor innovation and job creation on American soil instead of rewarding companies that ship jobs overseas. The president also directly addressed what he sees as the role of business and the role of government in the current economy: government creates the environment for ingenuity and ...
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Obama proposes more tax incentives for job-creating firms	16.10.2010	Raw Story
President Barack Obama said on Saturday he wants to create tax incentives for businesses that innovate and create new jobs. "I want to give every business in America a tax break so they can write off the cost of all new equipment they buy next year," the president said in his weekly radio address. "That's [...]
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Weekly Wrap-up: (Not) Free Public Wi-Fi, Windows Phone 7 Revealed, Jailbreak the iPhone 4, And More...	16.10.2010	ReadWriteWeb
You know those Wi-Fi networks called "Free Public WiFi"? Clearly that question has been bugging our readers, too, because they made our answer the top story of this week. In mobile news, TweetDeck arrived on Android . And as part of our continuing series on product innovation, we looked at how Instapaper was created and its plan to add social features . This week we also launched our newest report, The Age of Exabytes: Tools & Approaches for Managing Big Data , which explores everything from innovations in storage, to analytical tools that can glean insights from big data in near real-time. Download it for free here . Sponsor Top Stories of the Week More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb Download The Age of Exabytes: Tools & Approaches for Managing Big Data We are experiencing a big data explosion, a result not only of increasing Internet usage by people around the world, but also the connection of billions of devices to the Internet. Eight years ago, for example, there ...
Air Chief asks pvt sector to proactively participate in def prod (Cached)	16.10.2010	New Kerala: World News

Intel team among researchers honored with innovation medal	16.10.2010	San Jose Mercury News: Business
Researchers from three companies and a team from Intel are being awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the White House announced.
O'Brien: Asking the big questions at Singularity University	16.10.2010	San Jose Mercury News: Local News
Silicon Valley is all about the future. But of the stuff that we obsess about, like a new iPhone features or a Facebook upgrade, is really just baby steps. Spending a day at Singularity University, it was thrilling to hear people tackling the bigger issues presented by innovation. And a reminder just how quickly that things that sounded like science fiction just a few years ago are now reality.
Hillary Clinton set to speak in San Francisco	16.10.2010	Boston Globe: Latest
Hillary Clinton set to speak in San Francisco
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Fresh from NATO meeting, Secretary of State Clinton visits San Francisco for technology talk	16.10.2010	Star Tribune: Nation

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This week: Lord Browne, Chilean miners and Cliff Richard	16.10.2010	Guardian: Environment
Lucy Mangan on the people making the headlines, for better or worse, in the past seven days University challenged Lord Browne I feel so blessed to be living at a time of such splendid innovations. Take, for example, the recommendations of Lord B's report to scrap the cap on university tuition fees – so dull! So limiting! So altogether bourgeois! – and go for a more stylishly unlimited system instead. I'm so glad to be here, at the end of the long journey from conceptualising education as a broadening of the individual and national intellect and an investment in the country's future to the commercial transaction available only to the already highly advantaged it was surely always intended to be. As the good book says, to those that have shall be given more. So blessed. So glad. We all are. Chilean BSE Los 33 Best. Story. Ever. I know, it's been everywhere for far too long, thousands of journalists – 61 for each stuck miner – filling the unforgiving minutes with banalities, ...
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How Electric Cars Could Become a Giant Battery for Renewable Energy	16.10.2010	Mother Jones
This story was produced by Yale Environment 360 and is published here courtesy of the Guardian Environment Network . The United States now has more than 35GW of installed wind energy, enough to power close to 10 million homes. Close on the heels of this ongoing renewable energy revolution is another green technology: By next year tens of thousands of Nissan LEAFs, Chevy Volts, and other electric vehicles will start rolling off assembly lines. The electricity generation and transportation sectors may seem like two disparate pieces of a puzzle, but in fact they may end up being intimately related. The connection comes in the form of the vehicle-to-grid concept, in which a large electric vehicle (EV) fleet—essentially a group of rechargeable batteries that spend most of their time sitting in driveways and garages—might be used to store excess power when demand is low and feed it back to the grid when demand is high. Utilities and electricity wholesalers would pay the EV owners for ...
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Princeton Endowment Gains 14.7%	16.10.2010	NY Times: Business
Princeton University’s endowment grew to $14.4 billion, outpacing many of the nation’s other large endowments.
For Google, Capex Costs are Worth The Money	15.10.2010	GigaOM
Google’s recent push into tablets and mobile along with offering new search services such as Google Instant are pushing up company’s CapEx which is slotted to grow almost 184 percent in 2010. Next year will be even higher. And all this spending is a good thing
Climate change v capitalism: the feast is almost over	15.10.2010	Guardian: Environment
Our guest editor, Antony Hegarty, was inspired by Jerry Mander's 1991 book In the Absence of the Sacred. Here Jerry writes about the incompatibility of tackling climate change and prioritising economic growth Six weeks from now, in Cancun, Mexico, the world's nations will gather under the auspices of the United Nations (the UNFCCC) to again discuss how to alleviate climate change. They'll try to pick up the broken pieces from last December in Copenhagen, where we witnessed tortured dances by government leaders trying to avoid the realities of our time, and the profound conundrums we face as a society. They accomplished nothing, and may reprise that performance in Cancun. Take the case of President Obama. He generally signals a serious desire to address climate issues, but, like the leaders of all the developed industrial nations, has been caught in a terrible dilemma. He tries to argue for lower emissions limits, both globally and in the US. But he is simultaneously desperate to revive ...
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Endorsement \| Rochester School Board Seat 6: Deborah Seelinger vs. Anne Becker	15.10.2010	Post-Bulletin: Local Opinion
Deborah Seelinger will be willing to make the difficult choices that are necessary to balance the district's books, and we think she'll do so in a calm, professional, fact–driven manner.
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Seven ways to make a new thing	15.10.2010	New Scientist: Being Human
Seven ways to make a new thing
Crunch coming for broadband fibre	15.10.2010	BBC: Science
The next technological leap in broadband needs to be in the fibre optic cables that carry the data, according to a researcher.
Harvard to resume expansion plan	15.10.2010	Boston Globe: Business
Harvard to resume expansion plan
Weak venture funding shows 'capital shortage'	15.10.2010	Star Tribune: Business
Medical firms still get the lion's share of venture capital deals and dollars in Minnesota, but the bar has been set higher.
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Innovation award for 'bubble-maker' that boosts algae growth	15.10.2010	Guardian: Science
Royal Society gives £250,000 prize to fluidic oscillator that transforms the cost and effectiveness of growing algae for biofuels A bubble-maker that looks like the flux capacitor from the Back to the Future films last night won a £250,000 prize from the Royal Society for its ability to transform the cost and effectiveness of growing algae for biofuel, treating sewage and cooling computers. The Y-shaped device delivers tiny but perfectly formed bubbles by mimicking the way children blow bubbles. Its inventor, Prof Will Zimmerman , a chemical engineer at the University of Sheffield, explained: "If you blow slowly and steadily, you blow a big bubble, but we use our fluidic oscillator to blow short puffs and make small bubbles." The device has been used in field trials to produce algae from the exhaust gas from chimneys at the steel maker Corus. Zimmerman said that as well as efficiently delivering carbon dioxide bubbles to feed the algae, the small bubbles crucially - unlike larger ones - ...
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