The green technology and clean power industries are currently employing more workers than their dirty fossil fuel peers. That’s according to a report released from the Brookings Institution, which has crunched the numbers of jobs created in the U.S. by sectors like solar, wind, waste water recycling, public transportation and energy efficiency retrofits. At...
Foursquare this morning announced distribution partnerships with daily deal providers LivingSocial, Gilt City, zozi, BuyWithMe and ATT. Missing from the list are Groupon, Yelp and Google Offers. With these deals, Foursquare is attempting to solve two problems: liquidity in deals and its own lack of a revenue model. Foursquare already has a reasonable number of...
Twitter finally announced in a blog post its official support for Japanese hashtags. Hashtags are used to mark keywords or topics in a tweet. By adding the # symbol before a word, it automatically creates a link to search results for that keyword to help users find tweets about the same topic. According to Asiajin, Japanese...
China Telecom, China’s state-owned telecommunications company, plans to offer Apple’s popular iPhone in China before the year ends, reports Reuters. An anonymous source close to the company told Reuters: “It’s expected to happen this year. China Telecom already has the required technology and it all hinges on content of the agreement. As we all know,...
In 1993 Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto decided to a create a new programming language, one inspired by languages like Perl, Python, Smalltalk and Lisp but tuned towards Matsumoto’s own needs and preferences. Matsumoto’s preferences resonated with a lot of developers and today Ruby is one of the most popular development languages around. Today Heroku, a...
Penn-Olson reports that Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, has just released a web-based Android app store, accessible via the Baidu Mobile homepage on Android smartphones. No app required. According to the report, the search company is not hosting the apps on its own servers; instead, it utilizes its powerful search engine to display an...
I’ve spent the day watching the finalists’ presentations, and I’m impressed by their ideas and implementations – not to mention their ability to pitch and answer judges’ questions in what for many of them is a foreign language. The awards will be given out tomorrow evening, but here are some of my favorites from...
Research at Columbia Engineering School has yielded a material that is literally unlike any other known. Everything in the universe (that we can see) affects light one way or another. Slows it down, speeds it up, spreads it out, diffuses it in a certain way, whatever. Even man-made materials with “negative refractive indexes,” themselves...
Subscribers have been up in arms since Netflix announced a changed pricing structure earlier today that will raise the price for a combined DVD and streaming subscription from $10 to $16 a month. The company is also offering DVD-only and streaming-only subscriptions for $8 a month each, but most people don’t seem to like...
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