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Shared work spaces new resource for solo worker
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3.6.2010 |
SFGate: Business & Technology |
| Shared work spaces new resource for solo worker |
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The Third Apple Founder
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3.6.2010 |
Inc |
| Wozniak, Jobs, . . . and Wayne? The Mercury News heads to the Nevada desert and catches up with Ron Wayne, " Apple's forgotten founder ." Wayne was recruited by Steve Jobs to mediate disputes with co-founder Steve Wozniak and, in exchange for his help, was given ten percent of Apple's stock, which, today would be worth a staggering $22 billion. But after 12 days with Jobs and Wozniak, who were unable to agree on strategy and had quickly gone into thousands of dollars in debt, Wayne had had enough. He quit Apple, selling back his shares for just $800. The Mercury News finds Wayne living off of social security checks and passing the time in casinos, declaring him "one of the most luckless men in the history of Silicon Valley." Let that be a lesson ... |
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Transistor merges man and machine
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3.6.2010 |
MSNBC |
| Scientists have embedded a nano-sized transistor inside a cell-like membrane and powered it using the cell's own fuel. ... |
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[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
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NASA seeks research proposals for green aircraft
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3.6.2010 |
New Kerala: World News |
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June 3, 1889: Power Flows Long-Distance
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3.6.2010 |
Wired Top Stories |
| Power flows 14 miles along transmission line from Willamette Falls to Portland, Oregon. it proves electricity is a reasonable way to get energy from one place to another.
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[demo :: Coal]
[subbutest :: All]
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Report: Utah has ability to create jobs
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3.6.2010 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| Utah is among the top U.S. states in a number of performance categories important to spurring job creation and economic development. A new U.S. Chamber of Commerce study, "Enterprising States," did not have Utah among the top 10 overall growth performers. |
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At SEC forum, experts clash over high-speed trading's role in 'flash crash'
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3.6.2010 |
LA Times: Business |
| At SEC forum, experts clash over high-speed trading's role in 'flash crash' |
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of AT&T’s New Pricing Plan
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3.6.2010 |
GigaOM |
AT&T changed its mobile data plans today-- ending the all-you-can-eat mobile broadband pricing for smartphones. AT&T's pricing isn't a great option for consumers over the long term, and can be punitive. It's also inconsistent with managing user demand for broadband and preventing network congestion.
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Another View: Punting Financial Reform
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2.6.2010 |
NY Times: Business |
Daniel Alpert, managing director of Westwood Capital, looks at what the nation's financial regulatory overhaul still needs to accomplish.
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Housing]
[newstrust :: Regulation]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
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First Came the Idea for a Tablet, Jobs Says
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2.6.2010 |
NY Times: Technology |
Steven P. Jobs said he planned to build a tablet computer before he decided to push Apple into the smart phone business.
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Focus on innovation to realise potential of India-US ties: Krishna
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2.6.2010 |
New Kerala: World News |
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[newstrust :: India and Global Economy]
[newstrust :: Trade]
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China Eyes Property Tax to Combat Speculation
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2.6.2010 |
The Atlantic - Matthew Ygblesias |
| By Matthew Yglesias
One element in China’s housing bubble is that there’s no property tax in China, so there’s no cost to buying an apartment and then just holding on to it, thus using the house as a store of value. Accord to Patrick Chovanec this “store of value” mode of acquisition—rather than speculative purchases with [...] |
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World's first procedure-based training software for robot-assisted surgery
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2.6.2010 |
New Kerala: World News |
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[TahirAmin :: everywhere]
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Cools Apps a Focus in U.S. Community Health Data Initiative
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2.6.2010 |
ReadWriteWeb |
| Springing into action, the United States Health and Human Services (HHS) takes the wrap off of a recent effort to move public data out in the open. Today at 9 am ET the community event will take place at the National Academy of Sciences Building and also web cast at http://www.hhs.gov/open . Leaders from the White House, Health and Human Services, and Institute of Medicine will be highlighting their support for the initiative in today's meeting.
The HHS is currently offering a collection of initial community data sets . They are available for download or as interfaces.
Sponsor
What is the Role of Community Health Data
In the briefing describing the project, Todd Park, CTO of HHS used the analogy of weather data.
He shared that the ... |
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SocialFlow Wants to Make Sense of the Real Time Web
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2.6.2010 |
GigaOM |
What makes Twitter so special is also what makes it so infuriating. There isn't enough context to the information that is flowing through Twitter. A New York-based start-up, SocialFlow wants to change all that with its technology that marries relevance, engagement and big brands.
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Redefining Education…in a Tree House
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2.6.2010 |
TechCrunch |
| Redefining Education…in a Tree House |
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[newstrust :: Solid Waste]
[newstrust :: Composting]
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O'Brien: HP increases its leading product: Ex-HP Employees
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2.6.2010 |
San Jose Mercury News: Business |
| The company has clawed its way back to the top through a ruthless strategy of acquisitions and churn. When all the latest cuts are made, the company will have jettisoned about 93,000 employees over the past decade while hiring back almost as many. |
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Investors expected to shy away from IPOs this week
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2.6.2010 |
San Jose Mercury News: News |
| NEW YORK — Only two companies appear daring enough to attempt initial public offerings this week as investors shy away from risky investments and buzz-worthy companies wait for the volatile market cloud to pass. |
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[newstrust :: Businesses]
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Investors expected to shy away from IPOs this week
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2.6.2010 |
Star Tribune: Local |
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[newstrust :: Green Power]
[newstrust :: Businesses]
[irge304 :: Green Power]
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Green-energy blues
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1.6.2010 |
The Economist |
| Investors wonder if the renewable-energy boom is over
IF ANY industry ought to be seeing silver iridescence in the dark slick of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, it is renewable energy. However, since what is perhaps the biggest environmental disaster America has yet seen erupted at BP’s Macondo prospect on April 20th the RENIXX index, which measures the world’s 30 largest publicly traded renewable-energy companies, has fallen by 15%. This is even worse than the 12% fall in the MSCI world stockmarkets index in that period. Moreover, it continues a longer-term decline of more than two-thirds from the index’s all-time high in December 2007.
The oil spill might have been expected to revive a sense of urgency that the world, ... |
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[demo :: Wind]
[demo :: Solar]
[flenvcenter :: Alternative Vehicles]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Solar]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[irge304 :: Green Power]
[irge304 :: Cars]
[flenvcenter :: Green Economies]
[flenvcenter :: Socially-Responsible Investing]
[flenvcenter :: Green Purchasing]
[demo :: Climate change]
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