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Who Will Spark the Future of US Energy?
Posted by Ed Valdez
Tue, Sep 27
Japan's wealthiest man (Forbes), Masayoshi Son, recently announced a visionary plan to target 60% of Japan's energy to be from renewable sources by 2030. So who will help spark the future of U.S. Energy? Son's net worth of 8.1B is just s...
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(Video) The Power of One to Help One Million…or More
Posted by Ed Valdez
Tue, Sep 20
Nearly 1.6 Billion people around the world are without electricity. The "power of one" invention, a Solar Bottle Bulb developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students, is making a difference in bringing light to thousands o...
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WWSJD? The Future of the iAppliance
Posted by Ed Valdez
Fri, Sep 16
WWSJD (What Would Steve Jobs Do?) if he were to develop an iAppliance? It has been the ingenuity of Jobs that has driven Apple stock to appreciate over 60X from the time he was named interim CEO to the time he retired in August. Apple's si...
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Are Smart Appliances Dumbing Down America?
Posted by Ed Valdez
Tue, Sep 13
In the movie Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd (Jim Carrey) trades in his van for a moped and Harry(Jeff Daniels) remarks, "Just when I thought you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this...and totally redeem yourself!" Afte...
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LG Out-ThinQ’s Samsung in Smart Appliances
Posted by Ed Valdez
Fri, Sep 09
Samsung's appliances may be Smart, yet LG's are Smarter. With both presenting their Smart Appliance strategies among 235,000 attendees at IFA's Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin, LG's Smart ThinQTM outperformed Samsung's "Smart Innovation...
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Top 10 Features Smart Energy Apps Must Have
Posted by Ed Valdez
Tue, Sep 06
With the Smartphone market share now reaching 40% in the U.S., this article explores what's possible to improve mobile Smart Energy Applications for the home. This article is a sequel to How to Win in Smart Energy: Study Maslow's Hierarchy....
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How to Win in Smart Energy: Study Maslow’s Hierarchy
Posted by Ed Valdez
Thu, Aug 25
With the Smart Grid/Energy market expected to exceed $100 billion in sales by 2015, the stakes are huge for those who take a market leadership position. And it's likely that smartphone companies want to have a big piece of the pie. Apple l...
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Samsung's Green Chips Use Half the Energy
Posted by Ed Valdez
Tue, Aug 23
With energy costs being higher than computing costs in corporate data centers, Samsung has developed a new green memory solution that will allow corporate data centers to cut their energy usage in half. By combining Samsung's green DDR3 (do...
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Will Samsung Miss the Next Big Thing?
Posted by Ed Valdez
Fri, Aug 19
According to a recent article in a Korean daily news site, Chosun Ilbo, Samsung missed the first chance to use Android Inc. software which has the largest smartphone OS market share worldwide (Strike 1). In 2004, Android Founder Andy Rubin...
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Green Habits Add 3 Years to Your Life
Posted by Ed Valdez
Tue, Aug 16
Nearly 70% of U.S. oil consumption comes from the transportation sector - mainly in the form of gasoline. If everyone chose a few Green Habits: to walk (or bike) for part of our transportation needs, there would be a tremendous savings on h...
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