Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center »

By innovation2 on Aug 3, 2008 in Innovation, TechCrunch | Comments

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For almost ten years now, we have been witnessing a decisive shift from client-server software to software as a service. Google, eBay, and Amazon.com established the value of multi-tenant internet applications in the consumer market, and salesforce.com, Google, and others have been proving that this same multi-tenant model is winning in [...]

Bugs in the tank »

By innovation2 on May 3, 2008 in Economist, Project Energy | Comments

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Fuel’s future is in designing, not refining
LAST month, your columnist raved about the new generation of lean, clean diesel cars arriving belatedly in America (“Diesel’s second coming”, April 4th 2008), but wondered where they might find their fuel. With oil pushing $120 a barrel, the diesel’s fuel-sipping charms—it delivers about [...]

Nano-breakthrough: Dramatic Increase In Thermoelectric Efficiency Heralds New Era In Heating, Cooling And Power Generation »

By ron on Mar 24, 2008 in Project Energy, Science Digest / Science Daily | Comments

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ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2008) — Researchers at Boston College and MIT have used nanotechnology to achieve a major increase in thermoelectric efficiency, a milestone that paves the way for a new generation of products — from semiconductors and air conditioners to car exhaust systems and solar power technology — that run [...]