From Charged: The city of Milton Keynes will replace the diesel buses on one route with eight electric buses that will use wireless charging. The route currently transports more than 775,000 passengers a year over a total of 450,000 miles. Electrification is expected to remove about 500 tons of tailpipe CO2 emissions per year, and cut …
Tag Archives: wireless
R&D spending by the big three in smartphones – Nokia, Google, Apple
A fascinating graphic and the article it is pulled from. Nokia led the wireless revolution in the 1990s and set its sights on ushering the world into the era of smartphones. Now that the smartphone era has arrived, the company is racing to roll out competitive products as its stock price collapses and …
Continue reading “R&D spending by the big three in smartphones – Nokia, Google, Apple”
Photos from inside Apple Headquarters
It’s the Chocolate Factory for tech nerds. Search the web for “Apple HQ,” and most of the results you get will be pictures of Apple’s Cupertino headquarters — from the outside. Usually with some fanboy standing next to the “1 Infinite Loop” sign. But what we really want to see is what’s inside the ultra-top-secret place …
Best Buy to close 50 stores in the U.S. and 11 in the U.K.
Selling consumer electronics isn’t as easy as it used to be for Best Buy. The big-box retailer is closing 50 stores and compensating employees based on customer service after its fiscal fourth-quarter sales fell short of expectations. The company today reported a fiscal fourth-quarter net loss of $1.7 billion, on revenue of $16.63 billion, up …
Continue reading “Best Buy to close 50 stores in the U.S. and 11 in the U.K.”
Favorite Commercials: what would you choose a smart phone or R2-D2?
Why would you not choose R2-D2?? …oh yeah, because smart phones are pretty powerful…times, they are a changing.
Next Generation Energy
I recently attended a fascinating seminar on emerging technology in energy. Here are some of my notes and thoughts on the next generation of energy: Energy Harvesting My favorite new term. It refers to using existing energy sources (solar, wind, geothermal, thermo) and turning them into electricity to feed the grid. Pretty much covers all …