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Distributing movies on the Internet isn’t the only game in town. Flash is better, says a new Irish start-up. GALWAY, Ireland–PortoMedia is probably the only start-up in the world inspired by the movie Carlito’s Way. Company founder Chris Armstrong explains: Four years ago, he set out to…
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You may not love coal, but you use a lot of it. Peabody Energy’s Greg Boyce says the company will even participate in cleaning the stuff up. Talking to Greg Boyce at a clean-tech conference is sort of like hanging out with George Steinbrenner at a Red Sox…
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MetaRam has a chip that lets you put more memory into your server. And it’s got a cavalcade of server celebrities behind it. Disk drives have only recently begun to be measured in terabytes. MetaRam CEO Fred Weber is talking about putting terabytes of memory into servers. …
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IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms. Next, it will try to build things with those atoms. Seventeen piconewtons: that’s the force required to move a cobalt atom over a copper surface. It takes 210 piconewtons to move a cobalt atom over a…
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The research uses DNA molecules to arrange carbon nanotubes into a grid that might function as a data storage device or to perform calculations. Will the building block of life become the building block of the semiconductor industry? It’s possible. Scientists at IBM are conducting research into…
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Yes, the entrepreneur and technologist admits, he does have a lot of balls in the air–and rockets too. There is definitely something unusual about Elon Musk. After dropping out of a graduate program in physics at Stanford University after two days, he formed Zip2, which Compaq…
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Montalvo Systems has a multi-core chip, but not all of the cores are the same. That in part explains why investors have put money into it. It works like an Intel chip, but looks like the Cell processor. That’s one way of describing the energy-efficient multiple…
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Montalvo Systems has a multiple-core chip, but not all of the cores are the same. That in part explains why investors have put money into it. It works like an Intel chip, but looks like the Cell processor. That’s one way of describing the energy-efficient multiple…
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The rarefied world of achievement is awash in metaphors, so News.com’s Michael Kanellos lists some that can be applied to the heroes, villains, and principles of ordinary life. At the Clean-Tech Investor Summit, venture capitalist Ira Ehrenpreis introduced SpaceX founder and Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk as a…
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Montalvo has some cash and a lot of execs with deep backgrounds in the chip industry. But will it have the staying power to survive against Intel? It’s a drama we’ve all seen play out before: a small, secretive start-up lays plans to come out with a chip…
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There’s a chance green products will save the world, so why are they so boring compared to a cell phone with a built-in TV? Clear your mind. Now, create a mental picture around the words “energy executive.” Then do the same around “Internet employee.” In the first…
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It doesn’t go far, but the new vehicle from Zenn Motor doesn’t use gas either.Photo: Zenn’s new low-speed electric car Zenn Motor plans to release a new line of cars in a few weeks that will run on more powerful AC motors–but consumers will have to wait for…
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Three-wheeled cars may make a comeback with the craze over electric cars coming to a boil. Zap, the electric car company based in Santa Rosa, Calif., is adding another electric car to its lineup. Credit: Zap An artist’s rendering of the…
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Nuclear is better for us than coal, says Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore. What’s holding it back are environmentalists. Patrick Moore seems to court controversy. Decades ago, he helped found Greenpeace, which fought nuclear proliferation and promoted environmental causes. But for the last several years, he has been…
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Nuclear is better for us than coal, says Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore. What’s holding it back are environmentalists. Patrick Moore seems to court controversy. Decades ago, he helped found Greenpeace, which fought nuclear proliferation and promoted environmental causes. But for the last several years, he has been…
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Global Solar says it’s number one in solar cells made from copper indium gallium selenide, but so does Nanosolar. Solar cells made from copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS, are relatively new, but there’s already a nice rivalry brewing in the industry. Tucson’s Global Solar has…
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perspective More people should follow the lead of Microsoft’s co-founder in freeing up innovative thinkers to help the developing world, and not just cause it feels good. Editor’s note: CNET News.com editor at large Michael Kanellos and chief political correspondent Declan McCullagh are facing off over Bill Gates’…
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Solazyme already converts algae into transportation fuel. Coming up next: Food oils that are healthier than canola oil. In the future, french fries might be infused with all the brimming, healthy flavor of oil produced by algae. Biotechnology company Solazyme, which is developing techniques for converting…
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Chipmaker’s Isaiah processor architecture is expected to double performance but consume same amount of energy.Images: Isaiah architecture up close Via Technologies is making processors based on a new architecture this year that may help the tiny company inch up the chipmaking pecking order. The chips, which utilize…
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The mini-fridge maker wants to make it big in TVs and lifestyle products, and why not? It’s got friends in the NBA and at Macy’s and RealNetworks.Photos: From fridges to upscale phones It was a sales call saved by leftovers. An executive at an electronics…
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