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Kite power for progressive freight transport
At first glance the freighter belonging to the Beluga shipping company moored in Bremen harbor looks just like any other vessel. The next stop for the "MV Beluga SkySails" is Venezuela. To help get it there it has special equipment on board. The ships' bow conceals a clever new propulsion system ...
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FIDEUS - Urban delivery switches to stealth mode
In the European FIDEUS Project, DHL tested how to relieve urban traffic and improve logistics processes - City centers tend to have two things in common: very few parking spaces and strictly regulated delivery times. As a result, delivery drivers often have to double park in order to unload ...
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Fear of more terror attacks could hurt business in India
Mumbai is trying to limp back to normalcy after terrorist attacks last week left about 195 people dead and close to 300 injured. But there are questions about whether foreigners will continue to take the risk of doing business in the city and the rest of the country, which have faced repeated ...
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IE share slips under 70%; Firefox surges past 20%
Rival browsers from Mozilla Corp., Apple Inc. and Google Inc., meanwhile, cashed in on IE's slide and posted gains for the month, according to Net Applications' data, which is culled from visitors to the thousands of Web sites the company monitors for clients. Mozilla's Firefox, which briefly ...
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Windows market share dives below 90% for first time
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows OS last month took its biggest market share dive in the past two years, erasing gains made in two of the past three months and sending the operating system's share under 90% for the first time, an Internet measurement company reported today. In November, 89.6% of users ...
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Is RPX’s “Defensive Patent Aggregation” Simply Patent Extortion By Another Name?
Comment added by JDP on 11/24/2008When a society turns from truly inventing and building things to such subsidiary and questionable "innovation" (especially like this one), it's probably on its down-hill slope (going fast into a large tree). Here again, one might blame the government (patent office, courts, oversight or rather ... -
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Foldable phone opens into large OLED screen
Comment added by JDP on 11/24/2008Display improvements like this are one advance that could be turning cell phones into one's computer of choice. That along with moving applications "into the cloud". However, given possible memory and chip advances, one might only need cloud computing for sharing rather than primary processing. -
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Political Radar: House Panel Backs Waxman Over Dingell As Energy Chair
Comment added by JDP on 11/19/2008This is a BIG CHANGE and could be a significant DIFFERENCE for the world as well as the US - Kyoto, alternate energy / clean power initiatives and funding, energy independence, real and meaningful auto mileage and emissions standards, etc. -
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Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push | Tech News on ZDNet
Comment added by JDP on 11/19/2008Given how "secure" RFID passports and cell phones (tapping and location snooping WITHOUT requiring telco provider cooperation!) have been shown to be (not at all), how will any individual be able to be "responsible" for any breaches associated with mobile payments ... or indeed, be able to ...
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