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Wind Pole Ventures Tackles Faulty Wind Data

For wind power to take a firmer hold, a missing ingredient must materialize: data. Wind Pole Ventures is building a business as an information broker, gathering more accurate wind speed information for sale to wind farm developers. Last month, the ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, Voices | All Things Digital,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Calculator runs cost numbers for plug-in vehicles

Automakers this week are showing off all manner of fuel-efficient concept cars at the Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany. But, in general, the majority of people are reluctant to pay a big premium for the last green auto technology. Think tank the Rocky ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, Webware,  14 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Energy Corp.

General Motors to start selling cars on eBay

General Motors and eBay will start a trial program Tuesday to let Californians buy cars online. Dealers at 225 locations in California will participate in the program, which will run from Tuesday until 8 September. It will be available at the ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, Silicon.com,  11 Aug 2009
Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  General Motors

Intel seeds five energy start-ups with $10m

Intel on Wednesday said its venture-capital arm has invested a total of $10m in five energy-related companies, giving a glimpse into the product areas the chip giant considers promising. In a first-time investment, Intel Capital backed CPower, a New ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, ZDNet UK,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: General Electric

Cisco braced for torrent of smart-meter data

Cisco is betting that utilities are more likely to invest in new datacentres than new power plants in the coming years. The tech giant is developing a suite of smart-grid products designed to add networking smarts to the existing grid, including ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, ZDNet UK,  29 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Duke Energy,  IBM,  Microsoft Corporation,  Oracle

Images: Fly to the moon with Google Earth

Besides enabling users to see the surface of the moon in close detail, the application allows people to gather lots of information about the history of travel to the moon. Here is a picture of the Apollo 11 spacecraft as seen by astronauts. Behind the ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, ZDNet UK,  23 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

British Gas customers can turn up the heat using their mobile

UK start-up AlertMe.com on Monday announced an agreement to test a service that will allow British Gas New Energy consumers to control their home heating systems from the web or mobile phone. AlertMe makes a home energy-monitoring system built around a ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, Silicon.com,  21 Jul 2009

Photos: Do the moonwalk, Google-style

Besides enabling users to see the surface of the moon in close detail, the application allows people to gather lots of information about the history of travel to the moon. Here is a picture of the Apollo 11 spacecraft as seen by astronauts. Behind the ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, Silicon.com,  21 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

British Gas trials home-energy management

UK start-up AlertMe.com on Monday announced an agreement to test a service that will allow British Gas New Energy consumers to control their home-heating systems from the web or a mobile phone. AlertMe.com makes a home-energy monitoring system built ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, ZDNet UK,  21 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Evan Williams,  Microsoft Corporation

Google flies you to the moon

Google Earth can now take you to the moon. Timed with the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, the Internet giant on Monday released an addition to its Google Earth mapping software to provide images of the landscape of the moon and traces of ...

From MARTIN LAMONICA, Webware,  20 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  NASA,  Buzz Aldrin,  Neil Armstrong

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