Echelon makes smart meter networks and building automation systems. Could it bring the two businesses together? On Wednesday, Echelon shipped its 2 millionth smart meter, adding recent contracts with a host of Danish utilities and partners to its big list of European clients — and, on the other side of the Atlantic, its contract with [...]
Will Echelon Link Smart Meters & Smart Building Controls?
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MOSS and NextGate Collaborate to Enable Health Information Exchange
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Misys Open Source Solutions, LLC (MOSS), a provider of standards-based, open source health information exchange technology, has partnered with NextGate to help healthcare organizations achieve true interoperability more completely and at a significantly lower cost by accurately combining and cross-referencing patient data from a variety of community sources.
Waterpebble gets water-wasters out of the shower
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Water-saving device uses the length of your first shower as a benchmark, indicating via a series of gently flashing "traffic lights" when you need to get out of the shower already! Originally posted at Crave
New Charging Method Could Mean Exponentially Faster Battery Recharge Times
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Photo of batteries via Moria, molecules via Technology ReviewChemists have figured out a new way to charge up electronics that drastically speeds up how long it takes to fill up to full. Ibrahim Abou Hamad at Mississippi State University show off a new way to recharge lithium ion batteries that could be a huge boon for electronics across the board, but while we immediately think of how much faste
1366 Tech leaps from pure silcon to solar wafer
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Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing.
Report Shows Laptops & Smartphones Most Common Mobile Computing Products in Europe
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Laptops and smart phones are the most commonly used mobile computing products by European CEOs, says a report by Frost & Sullivan.
Pet Microchips Could Be Mandatory In Britain's Canine Crackdown
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LONDON — A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can bring prison time, some...
MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growth (Reuters)
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Reuters - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year.
Xtreme Power: A Super-Battery For Hawaiian Wind Farms
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Xtreme Power has been pulling the veil away from its decades-old energy storage technology over the past six months or so, getting attention for claims of a “chemical capacitor” that can beat lithium ion batteries in terms of energy storage, efficiency, cycle life and cost. Now the Kyle, Texas-based startup has a big contract to [...]
New Cisco Router Boasts Breakneck Speeds
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Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System, a new Internet networking architecture that is designed with the huge growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services in mind. The Cisco CRS-3 provides more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system, according to John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems.
Polycom Event Intros Classroom Video Collaboration to Students
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Polycom has said that through its sponsored "Read around the Planet" - a free, annual video conferencing event - hundreds of schools each year get their first experience of video conferencing for classroom-to-classroom collaboration.
LED Light Bulb Maker Lemnis Gets $37.5 Million More
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LEDs will be a $1.6 billion market by 2012.
Businesses offer best path to money in smart grid
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Dozens of companies are developing tools to get consumers involved in home energy management, but businesses are easier customers to serve, say smart-grid execs.
Book Review: Story Of Stuff Goes Into Detail About The Problems with Possessions
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Image via AmazonThe viral video phenomenon The Story of Stuff has made a big impact on audiences worldwide. Since its release in 2007, it's been viewed over 10 million times, showing we're as fascinated by learning about our Stuff as we are with the items themselves. The short movie with its fun and idea-clarifying animations lays out how stuff is made, distributed and discarded - the take-make-w
First Solar Signs on PG&E for 300MW of Desert Sunlight Project
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First Solar, the thin film solar darling, has lined up another customer for the power generated at its planned Desert Sunlight project in Riverside County, Calif: Pacific Gas & Electric. Under a power purchasing agreement announced this morning, the California utility plans buy more than half of the electricity from the 550-megawatt project, set to [...]
Unity Technologies Releases New Platform, Expands Supported Platforms
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Gaming has become so realistic visually that is becoming difficult to ascertain the animated images on the screens from those in real life. Thanks to Unity Technologies the perceived distinction is about to become blurrier still with a new release and additional platforms that it supports.
Two Can Play at the Wired War Game
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As the United States military increases the use of robots like unmanned drones in battle, it increases the danger that our enemies will take and adapt the technology to use against us, according to Peter Warren Singer, senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution.
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