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Inhabitat's Week in Green: sugar-covered lamps, IKEA's solar lamp, and the 30MPH all-wood racing bike
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Several breakthroughs sent shock waves through the field of renewable energy this week as Inhabitat reported on a new type of "invisibility cloak" that could supercharge solar cells and researchers at MIT harnessed viruses to improve the efficiency of dye-solar cells by a full third. We also cast (...)
2011-05-01 22:00:00 | EngadgetWorld's fair exposition celebrated by Google doodle
World's fair exposition in the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park in 1851 is celebrated by the search engine's latest doodleThe first world's fair exposition, the Great Exhibition, which happened 160 years ago, is celebrated in the latest Google doodle.It took place on 1 May 1851 in the Crystal Palace building at Hyde Park and was the idea of Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert.The graphic for the doodle incorporates the Google name, and online viewers (...)
2011-05-01 21:44:45 | Guardian.co.ukTwitter delivers news of bin Laden's death first
Sure, there was lots of erroneous speculation on Twitter, but posted to the micro-blogging site was a message from a former assistant to former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld that said: "they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn."
2011-05-01 21:44:44 | CnetGame Companies Choosing Android Over Apple (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork - Everyone knows the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch are taking over the mobile gaming world -- even Nintendo knows that. So who in the world would think of Android as a great gaming platform, let alone better than Apple's?
2011-05-01 21:38:55 | Yahoo News
Switched On: Honeycomb or the highway
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. During the holiday season of 2009 when netbooks were the hot commodity, Apple lost share in the PC market. It had nothing to compete with the sunken prices and shrunken sizes of those miniature laptops. PC vendors such as ASUS and Acer, on the other hand, did well in the netbook segment, as they could call on their expertise in building inexpensive Windows (...)
2011-05-01 20:30:00 | EngadgetTime Inc., Apple reach deal on iPad subscriptions
The agreement will make all of the publisher's iPad editions available to print edition subscribers at no additional charge.
2011-05-01 19:45:09 | Cnet
Group buying sites boost e-commerce in Asia (AFP)
AFP - Innovative "group buying" sites offering bargains on everything from meals to travel packages are catching on in Asia as companies harness the power of social media to influence consumer behaviour.
2011-05-01 19:20:34 | Yahoo NewsHP's Veer gets AT&T logo, two-tone exterior
We suspected HP's diminutive webOS 2.2 smartphone might be on its way to AT&T, and now a handful of leaked photographs rocking a panda-like color scheme have further confirmed our suspicions. As you can see from the image above, the little guy's working the carrier's logo in the upper left-hand corner of its 2.6-inch display. The photos of HP's smallest webOS smartphone first appeared over at Pocketnow on Friday, just days before the Veer's (...)
2011-05-01 19:14:00 | Engadget
Customers stay despite high-profile data breaches (AP)
AP - Week after week, thieves break into corporate computer systems to steal customer lists, email addresses and credit card numbers. Large data breaches get overshadowed by even larger ones.
2011-05-01 19:13:28 | Yahoo News
Rubik’s Cube + Lego = One Awesome Retro Toy Mod
When the Rubik’s cube was launched in 1980 it was awarded the Best Puzzle of the year. Till date it is still considered to be one of the top selling puzzles. Both youngsters and adults enjoy spending time with this wonder cube. While many only aim to solve the puzzle ...Continue Reading on Walyou
2011-05-01 19:05:07 | WalyouOh no, Yoko Ono – you need some Twitter assistance
Send some saucy messages, coax Heather Mills back online and please, start making senseYour relationship with the public has never been an easy one, Yoko Ono (@yokoono). The art's a bit weird, the music's not much cop and then there was that whole "splitting up the Beatles" thing. Joining Twitter was the perfect opportunity to reveal the real you.Unfortunately things have not worked out like that. Most of the time I don't have (...)
2011-05-01 19:00:02 | Guardian.co.uk
Youth-led Internet campaigns step up before Canadian poll (AFP)
AFP - Canada's election campaign has unleashed a flurry of online, youth-led political activity showing no signs of abating before national polls on Monday.
2011-05-01 18:57:18 | Yahoo NewsSpain website encouraging wives to have affairs angers husbands
Madrid advertisements prompt city's males to post angry comments on site's Facebook wallAn advertising campaign inviting married women to sign on to a website that will allow them to find men they can have affairs with has provoked an angry reaction in the Spanish capital Madrid.The posters from the victoriamilan.es company on street advertising boards in Madrid invite women to "Relive your passion. Have an affair!" They are accompanied by a photograph of a (...)
2011-05-01 18:54:56 | Guardian.co.ukJobs Escapes Carbonite iPhone Case (PC World)
PC World - Ever wondered what Steve Jobs would look like encased in carbonite? Stop wondering.
2011-05-01 18:52:00 | Yahoo NewsTop Hollywood directors protest over home downloads
Film-makers say studios' plan to allow video-on-demand while movies still on release could close cinemas and increase piracyMore than 20 leading film-makers, including James Cameron, Peter Jackson and Robert Zemeckis, have written a protest letter to Hollywood studios over their decision to allow films to be downloaded into people's homes while they are still being screened in cinemas, rather than once they have completed their theatrical run, will take its toll on the box-office (...)
2011-05-01 18:37:13 | Guardian.co.uk