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Shell is eager to highlight the vital role played by innovation and technology in delivering energy to power people's lives via a free iPad application called Inside Energy.
The app itself has been around since November 2011, but Shell has kicked off a campaign to promote the app this week. Inside Energy will b... |
9 February 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Shell's name is currently associated with an oil leak located 120 kilometers off the Nigeria cost. As a result, the company announced it would abandon its operations at the Bonga deepwater facility and focus on effective cleanup operations.
This decision is very important, since the company manages to obtain 2... |
21 December 2011
08:36 GMT |
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Royal Dutch Shell could start its controversial oil drilling operations in Point Hope, Alaska, in 2002. Greenpeace and other eco-friendly organizations have manifested their disapproval, stating that such an action would affect the balance of a unique ecosystem.
Oil drilling is currently one of the hottest topics. ... |
16 December 2011
08:09 GMT |
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With monetary support from the Royal Dutch Shell company , the X Prize Foundation announced the creation of a new competition, this one focused on fostering innovation through exploration to improve life on Earth.
The effort will go on for three years, and will be supported by a $9-million grant from Shell. The X ... |
10 October 2011
19:41 GMT |
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People familiar with investigations into a recently disclosed industrial cyber espionage operation, claim that Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc were among the targeted companies.Two weeks ago, McAfee published a white paper describing hacker attacks that siphoned sensitive data from the computers o... |
26 February 2011
04:58 GMT |
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The Western North Pacific gray whale population could be severely endangered in the near future, if plans announced by the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company come to fruition. The corporation, which is partially owned by Shell, wants to construct a new drilling rig off Sakhalin Island.
But conservationists sa... |
18 January 2011
02:54 GMT |
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According to a document published in the Monday issue of Financial Times, the oil giant Shell will scale back on its involvement in Canadian tar sands in the near future, and favor exploration instead. These tar fields keep their supplies of oil locked inside sand, so exploitations need to separate the two. This is a... |
25 January 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Although Goldman Sachs Group analyst Robert Chen did not identify who provided him with this information, he reportedly said in an interview that Apple’s upcoming iPhone model (rumored as the iPhone 4G) would employ a touch-sensitive casing, similar to that of the Magic Mouse. A Bloomberg report citing the ana... |
14 January 2010
02:28 GMT |
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In tandem with the release of new iMacs, a new Mouse and other upgrade announcements, Apple also introduced yet another beefed-up version of its most popular Mac, the white, polycarbonate MacBook. Coming close to a Pro configuration but retaining the same $999 price tag, Apple’s new, 13-inch notebook now featur... |
21 October 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Officials from the large oil company Shell have announced recently that the enterprise believes the best way of getting rid of excess carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is to capture it and store it underground. According to the numbers the representatives have supplied, this step in the technological process, ap... |
8 May 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Ships have evolved a great deal throughout history: they are faster, sturdier and more reliable, but there is one thing that hasn't changed from the early ages of the ship concept, and that's the anchor, the rudimentary system that holds a ship in one place. But the very heavy metal piece which has been aro... |
3 December 2008
04:19 GMT |
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An alien-like squid was spotted 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) underneath the waves of the Gulf of Mexico on November 11th, as Shell's remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) caught glimpses of the gigantic squid hovering peacefully above the ocean floor. The creature had long legs, which it dragged over the ocean floor &nd... |
25 November 2008
06:53 GMT |
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A recent decision, made on Thursday by a federal court, banned the Royal Dutch Shell company from installing even more drill platforms in the Arctic, amidst concerns about the effect that new installations may have on bowhead whale populations living in the area. Environmental organizations and Inupiat representative... |
21 November 2008
02:28 GMT |
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It's times like these that you could drop a needle and the whole Mac-focused blogosphere would put an ear to the ground. Not surprisingly, more alleged pictures of what looks like the shell of a Mac laptop have emerged. Although this shell resembles the case revealed earlier today, it has been confirmed as diffe... |
9 October 2008
08:52 GMT |
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Nowadays it becomes harder and harder to keep track of the files you have stored on your computer for the sole reason that the HDD capacity has increased considerably. It is obvious that you not only need time to find what you are looking for but also a lot of patience. In this type of situations, ShellLess comes to... |
31 July 2008
11:40 GMT |
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The Foraminifera ("Hole Bearers") represent a group of amoeba-related protozoa that produce a test (shell) which can have either one or multiple chambers, and in some cases can be extremely complex. The shells are perforated by holes through which the unicellular animal extends its "tentacles", called "pseudopodia", ... |
18 April 2008
09:59 GMT |
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Do you like your iPhone? Do you like spoiling your iPhone? If so, why don't you save 25 bucks on whatever you usually do and give your handset some personality, the Griffin way? iPod nano owners already have it their way this week, so why wouldn't you?"Wave cases protect your iPhone without hiding its featu... |
9 April 2008
09:31 GMT |
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Tired of looking for the best customization method for your MacBook Air? That's because every company specialized in "alterations" wants you to ship it to them/bring it over, paint it, probably even hang it out to dry and stuff (literally), which takes up valuable time and money. You can get almost the same resu... |
7 April 2008
07:05 GMT |
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Cairo is a Windows Shell alternative designed to run on both Windows Vista and Windows XP. The project is currently in the pre-alpha stage, and scheduled to go public next week. At this point in time, Cairo is served only to the users that sign up in the Milestone 1 testing phase of the project. The brainchild of Mic... |
8 February 2008
13:12 GMT |
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With the MacBook Air on its way to everyone who's pre-ordered it, laptop bag/case manufacturers have their hands full. Everyone is offering one or more bags trying to fit the taste of a (future) wide Air userbase. This week, we're introduced to the Mac bag, crafted by Michael Leung (designer). It is probabl... |
31 January 2008
04:00 GMT |
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1.World's largest snail is the Australian trumpet (Syrinx aruanus), a sea species from the shores of northern and western Australia which can grow up to 77.2 cm (30 inches) in shell length, while the flesh weighs up to 18 kg (40lbs). The longest snail is Parenteroxenos doglieli, a parasite in the body cavity of ... |
5 January 2008
06:23 GMT |
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Living trapped in a bony shell must be tough. But what if you fall on your back? For a turtle, this is impossible not to happen, as males fighting for females often flip their adversaries on their back. Still, this may not kill the animal, as it will get on its feet on its own. A new research solved the mystery: it&#... |
29 October 2007
05:16 GMT |
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Science fiction materials have turned real. Steel strong plastic has been created by a team at the University of Michigan by imitating the brick-and-mortar molecular structure of the seashells. But unlike steel, the new material is lighter and transparent, even if not stretchy enough. The new plastic is built of lay... |
5 October 2007
04:23 GMT |
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Garbage could be the solution for the future's fuel crisis. A team at Ohio State University has tried to figure out how to transform discarded chicken eggshells into an alternative energy source. The new technique employs eggshells to absorb carbon dioxide while delivering hydrogen fuel and could also lead to a ... |
3 October 2007
02:54 GMT |
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These are more than simple Amoebas: the single-celled animals called Foraminifera, floating in the plankton, are amongst the most abundant organisms in the ocean's organic mass. Many produce bioluminescence seen in the ocean during the night and the largest species, even if they do not oversize a fingernail (whi... |
19 September 2007
07:03 GMT |
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Africa is the cradle of humanity. Our species appeared in Africa and the evolution of its ancestors took place in Africa. But now, researchers have found traces of one of the earliest Homo sapiens not in eastern or southern Africa, traditionally seen as the starting point of our evolution, but in the northwestern par... |
7 June 2007
03:22 GMT |
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An entombed human skeleton believed to be of an elite member of the ancient Maya Empire found in Honduras could explain more about the "Apocalypto" civilization. The upright located body, surrounded by shells, pottery, vessels and jade adornments was dated around 650 A.D. and comes with many surprises about the comp... |
19 May 2007
03:56 GMT |
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We all know that the Earth's day is made of roughly 24 hours (there is an error of few seconds, corrected in the leap year) and it is due to the Earth's rotation movement around its own axis, that exposes different longitudes to the sunlight during this cycle. But some old fossils came with a very puzzling ... |
7 May 2007
19:06 GMT |
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That's right, in Windows Vista, with the help of an extension, users will be able to manage the registry through Windows Explorer. Through the Windows Registry Shell Namespace Extension, Vista users will be enabled to view, search and interact with the Windows Registry data through their average Explorer window,... |
28 March 2007
03:53 GMT |
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Konsole is a free terminal emulator for the KDE desktop environment. It is a complete rewrite, not like other terminal emulators that are derivatives of rxvt or xterm. Konsole has many interesting and innovative features such as tabbed interface, history, color schemes and bookmarks. Konsole was originally written ... |
19 March 2007
17:00 GMT |
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It almost sounds too good to be true, somewhat similar to the commercials that promise you the heaven and the seas, or those never ending spam e-mails in which the king of who knows what country wants to give me a couple of millions of dollars, in exchange for a little, tiny detail, THE NUMBER OF MY BANK ACCOUNT. Wel... |
14 March 2007
10:02 GMT |
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Nature has found complex models long before humans discovered them and most of them are more effective than the human ones. The three-dimensional shells of tiny ocean algae, called diatoms, could offer the foundation for novel electronics, like gas sensor devices that could be faster and more efficient than conventio... |
12 March 2007
07:33 GMT |
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