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Cars Could Power Homes Due to Vehicle-to-Grid Technology

Launching  electric vehicles having a minimum impact on air quality is definitely not enough for famous automakers. The main target seems to be a new generation of vehicles that could power households, and provide some extra power to the energy grid. Major companies say that a vehicle-to-grid system would be t...

16 December 2011
09:49 GMT

Video Game Exposes Major Industrial Polluters

Scientists are fully aware that climate lectures are often boring and their message is not always understood or remembered by the public. Therefore, developers have thought about including games in the learning process. 'The Climate Trail', one of the finalists in 'Gaming for Good' contest, was de...

8 December 2011
03:34 GMT

Analyst: 2011 Sees Decline of Game Retail Numbers

2011 will be yet another year of overall decline for the retail video games market in the United States, despite the strong performance seen during the Black Friday period and the good prospects for the pre-Christmas shopping period.Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the industry for Wedbush Morgan, stated, ...

2 December 2011
22:11 GMT

Italian Tuna Industry Keeps Unsustainable Secrets

Currently, Italy has one of the most prosper canned tuna markets in Europe. The entire industry flourishes, bringing a more than decent profit to major brands operating in this line of business. A recent report indicates that 140.000 tons of tuna are sold every year. Greenpeace notes the manufacturing companies that ...

1 December 2011
11:20 GMT

99 Cent Games Are Killing the Industry, Epic Games Says

Epic Games President Mike Capps has recently weighed in on the state of the gaming industry and how the advent of small, lightweight games that cost just 99 cents for mobile platforms like the iOS or Android, are killing regular $60 games. The gaming industry is changing dramatically, and will continue to do so in...

22 April 2011
02:40 GMT

Short List of AMD CEO Candidates Might Include 'Founding Father' Too

The outing of Dirk Meyer from AMD's CEO position was, without a doubt, one of the most shocking moves of early 2011, leaving the whole world wondering just who'll have the skills to take the world's second most important chip manufacturer to a whole new level, as the company's board demands. Ho...

21 January 2011
08:35 GMT

Iron Furnaces Left Behind Manganese-Contaminated Soils

According to a new scientific investigation published this week, it would appear that operating iron furnaces for decades at single locations left its marks on the soils of central Pennsylvania, which now exhibit higher-than-normal manganese concentrations. The findings may apply elsewhere too. In a paper appearin...

11 December 2010
05:57 GMT

Pickle Bacteria Helps the Environment

Pickle spoilage bacteria that turns pickles red during fermentation may help environment by cleaning up dyes in textile industry wastewater, according to info from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).This new discovery was made by accident, as Agricultural Research Service (ARS) microbiologist Ilenys Pérez...

18 September 2010
07:15 GMT

Chip Sales Grow Even Further in June

With the global economy on the mend, even despite the continued troubles in Europe, the IT industry seems to have recovered somewhat after the difficult years of 2008 and 2009. Last month, it was shown that even the global semiconductor industry performed especially well, amounting to $24.7 Billion in May. Now, with...

2 August 2010
08:30 GMT

LED Industry Won't Keep Up with Demand in 2010

Adoption of LED backlighting has been on a rapid rise over the past few years and iSupply predicts a very high chance that the LED industry won't be able to keep up with demand in 2010. In 2009, LED consumption reached 63 billion, up from the 57 million in 2008. This is very close to the actual current maximum c...

6 March 2010
06:48 GMT

Ottawa Aims at Driving Wireless Investments Upwards

Anticipating the expansion of international wireless companies to North America, Ottawa, Canada's capital city, has invited them to join its 200-company, 18.000-employee wireless sector adding an endorsement from Richard Florida, the author of the "Who's Your City?" international bestseller. Florida rated O...

18 February 2010
08:39 GMT

Top Web Trends for 2010 - Part I - Industry Trends

We resisted the temptation of putting together a “Top of 2009...” article, but the excitement of what 2010 has started to bring made us take a look at the most anticipated events and trends about to descend upon us this year. Important things will happen on the web this year too, and some of them will cha...

21 January 2010
03:30 GMT

The US Risk a 'Green Trade War,' Industry Warns

A “green trade war” between the United States and some of its key economic partners could become an imminent possibility, a leading group of industrialists told the Congress in a recent letter. The confrontation could be triggered by the fact that the new climate bill, which is scheduled to go into voting...

23 July 2009
15:41 GMT

Used Game Sales Are Big, but Don't Really Affect New Titles

The gaming industry is constantly evolving, especially in the sales business, where large retail and online stores make shifts in their strategy from time to time. One of the most infamous practices is GameStop's policy on used games and how it allows players to exchange titles for store credits, which can be u...

30 June 2009
11:11 GMT

How Water Has Shaped Human Societies Through History

A crucial element is responsible for the many achievements, social structuring or other factors of historical importance related to humankind's evolution, although it is constantly and unfairly neglected. It is the same element that also helped life emerge – water. Scientists all over the world and from a ...

27 November 2008
05:52 GMT

Science Meets Hollywood

Normally, the links between the vast fields of science and visual entertainment are restricted to casual depictions or to the fact that the former helps enhancing the possibilities of the latter, but it's very rarely that this goes both ways. That is why the National Academy of Sciences tried to address the matt...

21 November 2008
05:31 GMT

New Technology Transmutes CO2 into Fuel

A company from California, Carbon Sciences, has managed to effectively turn CO2 emissions into chemical compounds that could be reused in fuels or other such useful industrial products. It seems that the recent successful technological discovery concerning the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is not...

13 October 2008
08:33 GMT

Fujitsu-Siemens Adds ServerView PAN Manager to PRIMERGY Servers

Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, one of the largest manufacturers of computer systems for both consumer and business users, has recently announced that it will start delivering ServerView PAN Manager. This move comes as a means by which the company intends to extend its innovative FlexFrame Infrastructure to its PRIMERGY S...

19 May 2008
06:46 GMT

Wonderware SuiteLink's Denial of Reported Service Vulnerability

Security researchers at Core Security Technologies have issued a warning statement on Monday according to which they found a rare vulnerability in Wonderware subsidiary's InTouch SuiteLink application. Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, is a software manufacturer that offers solutions to business users in ...

8 May 2008
09:07 GMT

Security Expert: "No One Wants to Buy Security!"

Bruce Schneier, one of the most appreciated security experts in the world, predicted some time ago the death of the security industry and these days, along with the RSA Conference and its security events, it seems he was right. Although the exhibitors came with all sorts of applications able to provide all kinds of s...

24 April 2008
16:06 GMT

What's Light Industry?

All that is not heavy industry is called light industry, producing a wide array of manufactured goods, from porcelains to foods and beverages, or luxury items, like jewels. Some types of light industries, like textile, printing, or plastic materials require numerous workforce. Smaller companies have hundreds to less ...

25 January 2008
08:14 GMT

This Is Yo' Boy, 50 Cent on File Sharing

I would never have thought it possible or even conceived thinking about it, but faced with the reality that's in my face I just have to admit it. 50 Cent is a thinker and a visionary. No, don't give me that smirk like you know something that I don't, I used to agree that he was shot once too many in th...

10 December 2007
08:58 GMT

Extended Program Hard Disk Drive

Fujitsu announced today that a new line of hard disk drives in small form factor (2.5 inch) is now available. Nothing really interesting until now. The good part comes now, as the hardware producer said that the mini 2.5 inch hard drive is intended for industrial equipment, enterprise and medical application and it i...

25 July 2007
09:03 GMT

Hot from AMD's Headquarters

According to AMD's chairman and CEO, Hector Ruiz, all important computer manufacturers are now using his company's chips in their products. He considers this to be a sign that the system integrators and the customers want that the small semiconductor supplier to succeed in its battle with rival Intel."The s...

23 July 2007
04:15 GMT

Future Bags of Chips May Have the Potatoes on the Outside, Too!

Everybody knows potatoes, some people love them, some people don't. But for the junk food addicts, there are some good news: future bags of chips may actually be made of potatoes, thus bringing the potato out of the bag and into the bag. A new study by the University of Maine's Margaret Chase Smith Policy ...

7 June 2007
16:26 GMT

3-D Laser Structuring Gives Materials Strange Properties

A new fabrication technique has a big impact on small structures. 3-D laser structuring of microscopic patterns in surfaces can imbue ordinary materials with extraordinary properties, resulting in extraordinary combinations between natural materials and artificial ones, displaying the best combined properties.For in...

30 May 2007
08:12 GMT

When Will Robots Start Claiming Their Rights?

Robots are already growing in complexity and their use in industry is becoming more widespread. The main use of robots has so far been in the automation applications of mass production industries, where the same definable tasks must be performed repeatedly in exactly the same fashion. Car production is the primary e...

26 April 2007
10:05 GMT

McAfee Fires President, CEO Retires

CEO and Chairman George Samenuk (picture) is out of job. And it's not like he was flipping burgers in a fast-food. He was the head of the world's second biggest maker of anti-virus software. At least he didn't go alone as President Kevin Weiss joined him, but this fact is bound to have offered him li...

11 October 2006
11:01 GMT


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