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Jeff Soyer, who sells Toyota cars BTW, points out that Toyota owns a 60% stake in Panasonic’s battery division. A smart move, since it is that Panasonic division that makes the batteries that Toyota uses in its hybrid electric cars. Now Toyota is about to aquire Sanyo. Sanyo is the other major producer of batteries used [...]
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I’ve posted before about my opinion of cell phone text messaging the prices the carriers charge for it. Here’s the short form, it’s a major profit center for the carriers. They are charging a lot for a very low cost feature. It seems that the Senate antitrust subcommittee has figured this out and is demanding a [...]
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Palm has been working on a new OS for the past four years, code named Nova. The rumor is that it will be released at the Consumer Electronics Show in early 2009. A Palm executive makes an interesting observation in BusinessWeek, ”The next 10 years is all about the transition from notebooks to mobile computing.” Palm’s [...]
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Palm, the PDA inovator, now considered a “smarphone” company, has received $100 Million investment. It’s from the venture-capital firm Elevation Partners. Palm’s Centro smart phone has done well, but they need something to compete with the iPhone and the upcoming gPhones.
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One of the hot items this Christmas is digital picture frames. I’ve been looking at various models, bought several and returned a couple. First, what not to buy. Omnitech digital picture frames. Omnitech is a Staples brand name. Don’t let the low price suck you in like it did me. The quality is absolute [...]
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Amazing stuff coffee. In addtion to it’s other amazing properties, including being good for the roses, the grounds can be used to produce biofuel. The estimates are the coffee ground biodiesel industry could generate as much as $8,000,000 in profits annually using waste from Starbucks stores here in the United States alone. Ok, probably less given falling crude [...]
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One of the big advantages of Lithium Batteries over nickel metal hydride is that there is more room for improvement with the Lithium models. A team in South Korea has “developed a nanoporous silicon electrode that could at least double the charge capacity of a lithium battery–essentially doubling the range of an electric vehicle. And unlike [...]
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The MIT Tech Journal has the story of a new wind turbine design that could generate electricity at half the cost of conventional turbines. The Wilbraham, MA based company is still in the VC funding development phase.
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