News tagged with global technology


Journalists take their place at a press conference

Journalism evolving, not dying: science author

Technology / Internet

created Mar 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Newspapers are dying but journalism is evolving, an acclaimed science writer told a gathering of the techno-hip at South By South West Interactive Festival on Friday.





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Security ID cards with built-in holograms

Security ID cards with built-in holograms (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic cards with security features are ubiquitous these days, having a wide variety of uses such as credit cards, employee cards, licenses, and so on. Many have holographic images, but they ...


Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

Global crisis hitting IT spending: Microsoft chief

Technology / Business

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Companies worldwide are slashing spending on information technology because of the global downturn and will have to learn to do more with less, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Monday.


Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 6

Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation ...


Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display (AP)

Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday.


Rich countries 'should pay' to transfer low carbon technology

Rich countries 'should pay' to transfer low carbon technology, researchers says

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rich countries need to pay the full incremental cost of low carbon technology for developing countries to avoid dangerous climate change, say Oxford University researchers.


Solar pannels whose energy helps pump water into a water tower in the village of Safo Nassarawa near Maradi in Niger

World Bank musters $5.5 billion for solar projects

Technology / Energy

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The World Bank announced Wednesday 5.5 billion dollars would be invested in solar energy projects in five countries of the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to combat climate change.


LLNL licenses carbon nanotube technology to local company

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water and can be applied to other liquid based separations.


ACS podcast: Grow a garden on your roof to battle climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan report in the latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning podcast ...


Premier Lee Myung-Bak has offered support to aid South Korean firms gain 10 percent of the global electric car market

SKorea targets world electric car market

Technology / Energy

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

President Lee Myung-Bak Thursday offered full government support to help South Korean firms secure about 10 percent of the global electric car market by 2015.


New research provides blueprint for molecular basis of global warming

New research provides blueprint for molecular basis of global warming

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

A new study indicates that major chemicals most often cited as leading causes of climate change, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are outclassed in their warming potential by compounds receiving less attention.



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