While a tenth of America’s work force struggled to find employment, Mark Hurd, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard who was caught fudging expense accounts and accused of harassing a 1980s Playboy bunny, found a job as director and co-president of Oracle. Now, after giving Hurd a severance package in the $50 million range, his former employer is slapping him with a lawsuit
In the middle of revamping its entire iPod lineup, Apple released the newly redesigned iPod Nano. It’s a totally different beast, packing a multitouch interface onto its diminutive 3-cm screen
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New Multitouch Apple Nano Is the Dick Tracy Watch for a New Generation
Apple TV received a major overhaul today, and has been turned into a serious contender in the Web TV market. It’s tiny, easy to use, and aimed directly at yours, and your Granny’s TV set-top
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Apple TV Transformed, Given Market-Killing Price of $99
The fruit giant innovates for a better planet. Chiquita has announced the release of an innovative biodigester in Costa Rica that will improve fertilizer, reduce energy consumption, and provide a sustainable energy source for its operations. The company behind the famous blue and yellow sticker found on your bananas and pineapples (along with their newly introduced green Rainforest Alliance sticker ) is at work on a wide-sweeping sustainability plan.
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Chiquita Goes Carbon Neutral, Harnesses Fruit Power With New Biodigester
The explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon was caused by a BP engineering error, says the firm’s official report into the catastrophe . Although it is not due to be released for another ten days, the report says that an employee misread pressure data, giving the go-ahead to replace the drilling fluid with seawater
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BP Report Points Finger at Own Engineers for Deepwater Blowout
New research indicates that drastic approaches to the problem are too risky. The challenge of climate change and its warrior activists have asked many things of us — changing to energy-efficient lightbulbs, biking to work, flying less, turning off the lights more often, and more — but even with the most severe treatment for the global threat, a new report from the Proceedings from the National Acadmey of Sciences of the United States of America says that repairing the damage will prove extremely difficult and non-cost-effective. Severe treatment would mean injecting “sulphur dioxode particles equivalent to a major volcanic eruption, such as that of Mt Pinatubo, every 18 months to reduce temperatures and delay ice-cap melt and sea-level rises,” The Ecologist reports
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Climate Change is Worse Than We Thought
When you’re innovation, Friday is just another day While you were sleeping, innovation was wondering which look works best when you’re bad to the bone: gothic tattoos , or carmine pajamas .
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iFive: Confirmation of Oil Residue, Tablet News, Secret Net Neutrality Meeting, Google Maps, Adopt-a-Word
A group of U.S. senators are requesting a block on sale of crucial telecoms gear from China’s Huawei to America’s Sprint network, out of fear for our national security. But is this a real fear, or a piece of jingoistic fiction?
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Sprint Supplier Spying, Senators Suspect
DETROIT (AutoNews.com) — General Motors Co.
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GM to Hire Hyundai’s Chris Perry to Head Chevy Sales, Marketing
Earlier today, we revealed the future of security and advertising — and how it will all fall under the watchful beam of an iris scanner. The company behind the technology, Global Rainmakers Inc., has big plans for the system, which is launching in the city of Leon, Mexico
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The Eyes Have It: Why Iris Scanning Rules