The world’s largest lighter than air ship, 240 ft long zeppelin, is now taking tourists over Silicon Valley. The company taking the challenge to bring back zeppelins in the US, is Airship Ventures, founded by Alexandra and Brian Hall. The airship carries the name Eureka. She was baptised at Moffett Airfield, Mountain View, this morning [...]
There is a cellphone in every kid’s pocket these days and it has the capability for multiple purposes. Schools in northern Finland are testing a NFC based system to see how it would serve the teenager, school, family and friends. MSG Software has developed the system and has been in Silicon Valley this week looking [...]
Normally this time of year we prepare for Black Friday queues to find bargains for Christmas presents. Shops have traditionally dropped the prices for the day after Thanksgiving to kick off holiday shopping season. I’ve been there only once, at six o’clock in the morning to enter Best Buy store at 7:30 just to be [...]
Now we have found the explanation to daylight savings time puzzle. It came out of nowhere when it was close to 5 pm and we needed to switch on the lights. This is a building which enjoy sunlight during the day = it has windows. We are told that we are saving daylight in summer. [...]
Dow Jones index is not all the world, says Silicon Valley hi-tech guru, ex-Apple executive, entrepreneur, angel investor, the guy who has done and seen it all. We agree with him, no more crying but action! Kawasaki is sharing his provocative insights and common sense practices for succeeding during the Commonwealth Club event Nov 17 [...]
And if you don’t know what is Oulu, maybe it’s time to google it. Icemen cometh and Tomorrow’s Wireless World (hopefully) expands. Craig Barrett is also coming. This cooperation between two (mobile) technology centers might bear beaux fruits in the future.
Half of engineering students are now foreigners, who don’t get automatically a work permit in the US. Many go reluctantly, others happily back home. But they might be needed here as the new president-elect Barack Obama would like this country to double basic research, and might be willing to keep the door open for those [...]
I almost lost hope this country would prove to be worth all the cliches, like the land of promise or the place where everything good is possible. Now we have at least hope.
Rimes nicely but this is not for fun or joke but for real. The fuel cell technology which has been developed during several decades is finally producing electricity in large installations, like Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Manhattan. Geothermal energy is another often overlooked source of renewal energy with its pros and cons on what [...]
Does this help to decide to whom cast the vote? Synovate has analyzed how the two candidates in this year’s US presidential election have built their personal brands. You can agree or disagree with this kind of analysis – when you choose domestic and foreign company you know which one will be chosen – but [...]