The first tablet to run Intel’s open-source MeeGo operating system will hit the stores in Germany next week. The tablet was first presented on the Intel Developer Forum this week in San Francisco. The new tablet called WeTab is powered by a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, has 1Gb RAM, an 11.6″ multi-touch screen [...]
Census Bureau Projects India to Become Most Populous Country in 2025 China’s population is projected to peak at slightly less than 1.4 billion in 2026, both earlier and at a lower level than previously projected. Meanwhile, India’s population is projected to surpass China’s population in 2025, according to new data being released by the U.S. [...]
World’s Largest and Most Revolutionary Cruise Ship Sets Sail for Home Port of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. After nearly six years in the making, Royal Caribbean International proudly took delivery of its newest and most revolutionary cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, from STX Europe in Turku, Finland. Kicking off the 12-day countdown until her U.S. [...]
U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman announced the winners of the 2009 Department of Energy Solar Competition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Team Germany, the student team from Darmstadt, Germany won top honors by designing, building, and operating the most attractive and efficient solar-powered home. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [...]
Molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 60, of the University of California, San Francisco, was named to receive the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Blackburn shares the award with Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack W. Szostak of Harvard Medical School. The scientists discovered an enzyme that [...]
The first astronaut to tweet from space has passed another social media milestone. NASA’s Mike Massimino, known as @Astro_Mike on Twitter, now shares his daily experiences with more than a million followers on the micro-blogging service. Massimino flew in May aboard the final space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. He began a [...]
CO2PENHAGEN is the world’s first CO2-neutral culture, art and music festival. At the festival, which takes place 5th-6th September at the Technical University of Denmark, we open the doors to a fantastic universe of music, art, film and technology, and demonstrate how the latest green technology can be used to create a sustainable platform filled [...]
Questions over Imbalances in Early Stages of Recovery Investor optimism about the global economy has soared to its highest level in nearly six years, with portfolio managers putting their cash back into equity markets, according to the Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for August. A net 75 percent of survey respondents believe the world [...]
For those travellers who wish to heighten their holiday experience and ‘Wake Up Happy’, Hotels.com(R) highlights some record-breaking hotels around the world, whether they are the biggest, tallest, oldest, greenest or most expensive. The hotels featured on the Hotels.com list of ‘est’ factor hotels offer extraordinary accommodation which defies the norm and offers travellers a [...]
Responsible development of forest lands reduces emissions, offers economic returns up to 8-times greater than CO2 farming The NGO World Growth International released a new report, cautioning U.N. officials and World leaders that efforts to tackle climate change will fail unless they create rather than destroy wealth — a critical fact ostensibly disregarded by some [...]