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<title><![CDATA[On the hunt for green-tech game changers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[To borrow a line from science fiction writer William Gibson, the future ofgreen tech is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed.Today is Earth Day, a good time to consider how the technology meant to preserve our environment and natural resources is progressing. If you consider individual green products, whether it's plug-in cars or home solar panel leasing, the impact on the giant scale of the energy industry is quite small. Hybrids, never mind plug-in hybrids, are less than 2 percent of total sales, and renewable energy is about 10 percent of electricity generation, with most of that from hydropower. But viewed in aggregate, there's clearly momentum. What's still up for grabs is where the innovations will come from and how quickly they will be deployed at scale, a question with big economic, environmental, and national security implications. Cool ways tech is helping the Earth (images) The debate over the pace and scale of green technology played out in front of me a few weeks ago at the Yale Climate and Energy Institute's annual conference. I walked away thinking that, even though there are big hurdles to making the economy cleaner, we'll look back five years from now and be impressed with the amount of change.In a keynote speech, David Lawrence, the executive vice president of Exploration and Commercial at Shell, gave a big-picture view of world energy, where he said fossil fuels will remain dominant for the next 40 to 50 years. Biofuels and wind are poised to play a more significant role, but the big winner in the future will be natural gas because it's abundant in the U.S. and burns cleaner than coal. The next day, I moderated a panel on advanced biofuels to discuss the potential of genetically manipulating microorganisms to make fuels directly or improve existing processes. One of the panelists, Flagship Ventures CEO Noubar Afeyan, challenged the notion of a slow, multidecade transition espoused by Lawrence.A veteran biotech venture capitalist and entrepreneur, Afeyan had seen the pharmaceutical companies 20 years ago say that they would lead the industry in pursuit of novel drugs because they had the means--both the R&amp;D and the sales networks. The reality turned out to be very different, as a number of biotech start-ups entered the market and grew to become public companies.There's no reason that the same kind of dynamic won't play out in energy, he argued. One example is Joule Unlimited, which projects it can make diesel fuel in bioreactors at competitive prices within a few years. Rather than count on the incumbents to lead on alternative energy, challengers with low-cost products will set the pace, he said. This will take a whileIs it realistic to expect that a lab full of scientists and eager start-up entrepreneurs will upend the hulking energy industry that's developed over decades Well, overnight success is unlikely, but with the right business models and technology, new technologies can make a dent in a slow and steady kind of way.Certainly, many clean-tech companies have run into a wall trying to scale up their products, for purely business reasons, such as the high costs of building factories or the difficulty of selling to conservative utilities. But by picking their niches, some promising green-tech companies have made real progress, even if the field of venture investors may be narrowing.Related links&amp;149' Chasing home efficiency, nudged by the sun&amp;149' Can green tech save the Earth It won't be easy&amp;149' Electronics recycling: Dealing with skeletons in the closetA few examples: BrightSource Energy has started construction of a huge solar power plant in Southern California, making it one of the few solar companies started in the past decade to cross over into large-scale operations.EnerNoc built a demand-response service by applying IT to the power grid, and has helped make efficiency a resource that grid operators increasingly rely on during peak times. Another company to go public is Gevo, which expects to be making by the end of next year specialty chemicals (an easier market to crack into than fuels) from sugar at the same cost as petroleum.ARPA-E researchers dig deep for energy innovation (photos) In the realm of scientific discoveries, dozens of companies and academics funded by the ARPA-E program are researching a dizzying array of approaches around cheap storage, biofuels, and repurposing carbon dioxide emissions. A high-profile one is Sun Catalytix, which is designing an &quot;artificial leaf&quot; to make hydrogen fuel from a solar cell soaked in a solution with its special catalyst. Its first market may be community energy systems in India.In many cases, the successful green-tech companies appear to be going after a relatively narrow market niche. But that's how many technologies will likely first take hold, showing where they work best before more people are willing to try them and banks are willing to invest in them.Reality check It's not just the energy business, either. Increasingly, corporations in all fields have &quot;green business&quot; efforts, which range from purchasing fleets of electric vehicles to making more eco-friendly packaging. Big companies are not only important customers but they also investing in, and sometimes acquiring, smaller green-tech outfits, bringing capital and distribution. Consumers, obviously, can live a more eco-friendly lifestyle and create demand for eco-friendly products as well.Even with all the advances on green technology, one has to recognize that it's a long-term transition off of fossil fuels. Energy moves slowly, unlike the IT industry, which has been ruled by Moore's Law.Battery technology, for example, can be improved, but energy storage and many other fields simply don't benefit from the exponential pace of change that the semiconductor industry has seen over the past 40 years. (Academic Vaclav Smil refers to this overly optimistic thinking as &quot;Moore's Curse.&quot;)Photos: Getting your green on for Earth Day Still, one can feel optimistic about green technologies, because so many people have been captured by this idea of making a cleaner economy. It's what's leading university students to start energy clubs and scientists and some businesses to take environmental sustainability seriously.The other reason we've seen more activity in green technology is government policies. U.S. clean energy industries got a boost from the stimulus, and countries with aggressive clean-energy policies, such as China, Germany, and South Korea, are galloping ahead. In the U.S., some people seem like they're automatically turned off by anything labeled &quot;green,&quot; &quot;clean,&quot; or &quot;sustainable,&quot; including many politicians. But even while there's a debate over clean-energy policies, you'd think that a commitment to innovating around energy and preserving natural resources would be something many could agree on. That matters on Earth Day, because clean air and water are not something anyone can take for granted.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft boosts cash compensation for employees]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft took another step toward middle age, shifting a significant piece of its employee compensation from stock to cash, implicitly acknowledging that its stock performance isn't enough to retain top talent. CEO Steve Ballmer sent an e-mail to the company's 90,000 employees this morning, outlining a new compensation and review process. The company is significantly scaling back its stock awards for employees, replacing that with cash. And it's revising the complex review system in an effort to create a much clearer link between performance, rating, and compensation.Microsoft&amp;39's Steve Ballmer(Credit:Microsoft)&quot;Our ability to deliver great value to our billions of customers is driven by the ideas and passions of our employees,&quot; Ballmer wrote. &quot;Through our history, we have been THE place people came when they wanted to make a difference in the world through software, hardware and services.&quot; The changes seem to recognize the lure of younger tech companies that draw the kinds of employees Microsoft once did. While Microsoft remains a top spot for college grads, recruiting tables for Google and, more recently, Facebook often draw larger crowds. Through the late 1990s, Microsoft was minting millionaires with its stock-option program. But as Microsoft has matured, compensation has been a core gripe for employees. The legend of the &quot;Microsoft millionaire&quot; is the stuff of corporate history books these days. Microsoft's shares have traded sideways for most of the last decade. Employees have been working for a paycheck and little else. The company tried to address the issue in 2003, shifting for offering big stock options, which weren't paying off, to more modest stock grants, which had real value even if the stock didn't climb. More over, those grants, which vested over time, guaranteed that employees would benefit if Microsoft's stock climbed. But with the S&amp;P 500 index outperforming Microsoft's shares in that time, even those stock awards had dubious value. Employees privately grumbled that they could do better investing the money put toward stock awards on their own. It's a sentiment that Mini-Microsoft, an anonymous employee blogger, noted in a post about the new compensation plan today. &quot;Forget that Microsoft stock because it's dead in the water and today's Microsoft employee is all about the paycheck,&quot; Mini wrote. In his note, Ballmer included a few specifics. The company will boost compensation significantly in &quot;early and mid-level R&amp;D,&quot; in hopes of retaining and luring employees key to new product development. It will also boost compensation for &quot;certain geographies,&quot; mostly likely places such as China and India, where Microsoft is in fierce competition for tech talent. And while Microsoft is shifting from stock awards to cash, the most senior leaders at the company will continue to have a large portion of their overall compensation in stock so that they're vested the financial performance of the company. Microsoft is also boosting funding for bonus and stock awards. The goal is to give 80 percent of eligible workers 100 percent or more of their target bonus and stock awards. That's up from 50 percent in previous years.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[War in the Pacific: A coffee-table book for your iPad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[                                A must-have for anyone interested in World War II, War in the Pacific turns a print book into an interactive dazzler.(Credit:Screenshot by Rick Broida)I'm a closet World War II junkie. I sat rapt through Ken Burns' &quot;The War&quot; and HBO's &quot;Band of Brothers.&quot; And I just finished &quot;Unbroken,&quot; the mesmerizing, jaw-dropping tale of WWII POW Louis Zamperini. (Seriously, if you read no other book this year...)So I was very keen to thumb through War in the Pacific, an iPad application based on an eponymous coffee-table book published early last year. And that's the best way I can describe it: a coffee-table book for your iPad.But you've never seen a print edition like this. The e-book's 20 chapters fill five main sections spanning the years between 1941 and 1945. Each gorgeously illustrated page includes supplemental materials such as photos, secret documents, archival videos, and profiles of historical figures.In other words, imagine a typical historical tome, but with photos you can zoom in on, a timeline you can view and hide at will, the occasional video corresponding to a passage in the text, a search function, and so on. It reminds me of the multimedia-enhanced &quot;interactive&quot; CD-ROMs of the '80s, but formatted to take advantage of the iPad.War in the Pacific ($9.99) has two other noteworthy features: animated, narrated maps of each of the five sections, and a three-dimensional scrolling wall of all the photos contained in the book. The latter is pretty cool, though the photos themselves don't zoom to fill the screen--perhaps because many of them are a bit soft to begin with.My key gripe about the app is that whenever you return to the main menu or open a new chapter, its dramatic musical score kicks in. Much as I like the music, I'd like the option to turn it off--but there isn't one.Thankfully, the iPad's own volume controls can remedy that. If you have even a passing interest in World War II, I highly recommend this beautifully designed, richly detailed app. It's so good, you might decide to leave your iPad on your coffee table.                 <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA: New rocket not feasible with current budget]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Even using shuttle-derived hardware, established contractors, and long-standing engineering expertise, NASA's projected budget will not cover the costs of developing a congressionally mandated heavy-lift booster and a manned capsule for deep space exploration by 2016 as ordered, agency officials informed lawmakers this week.NASA managers promised to continue studying alternative approaches and designs for a new Space Launch System heavy-lift booster and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, but insisted any such program must be &quot;affordable, sustainable and realistic.&quot;&quot;To date, trade studies performed by the Agency have yet to identify heavy-lift and capsule architectures that would both meet all SLS requirements and these goals,&quot; NASA said in its report to Congress. &quot;For example, a 2016 first flight of the SLS does not appear to be possible within projected FY 2011 and out-year funding levels.&quot;An early concept for a possible heavy-lift rocket intended for deep space exploration compared to a space shuttle.(Credit:NASA)As directed in its 2011 appropriations language, NASA focused on a rocket that would utilize extended shuttle boosters, main engines, and an advanced Saturn 5 upper-stage engine. The Orion capsule initially designed for the Bush administration's now-canceled Constellation moon program, was selected as the basis for a new Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.&quot;However, to be clear, neither reference vehicle design currently fits the projected budget profiles nor the schedule goals outlined in the Authorization Act,&quot; NASA's report concluded. &quot;Additionally, it remains to be determined what level of appropriations NASA will receive in FY 2011 or beyond -- a factor that will impact schedule as well.&quot;Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who flew aboard the shuttle in 1986 and who played a major role in adding the near-term requirement to build the new launch systems, said in a statement late Wednesday that NASA's answer was not good enough.&quot;I talked to (NASA Administrator) Charlie Bolden yesterday and told him he has to follow the law, which requires a new rocket by 2016,&quot; Nelson said late Wednesday. &quot;And, NASA has to do it within the budget the law requires.&quot;In a letter to Bolden that was released late Thursday, Nelson and Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas Republican, said &quot;the report contains no specific justification or analysis to validate the claim that 'none of the design options studied thus far appeared to be affordable in our present fiscal conditions.' We expect NASA to work with Congress to identify the basis for the claims made in the report, how existing contracts and technologies will be utilized, and where any additional congressional action may be needed to ensure successful implementation of the law.&quot;Nelson also plans to introduce legislation eliminating a requirement for NASA to continue spending money on Constellation. Due to a provision in the continuing resolution currently funding the space agency, NASA must follow a House directive in its 2010 budget that blocks the program's termination.The continuing resolution expires March 4. But NASA's inspector general said today that unless Congress acts, NASA could end up spending $215 million on the program by the end of February.&quot;Without congressional intervention, by the end of February 2011 NASA anticipates spending up to $215 million on Constellation projects that, absent the restrictive appropriations language, it would have considered canceling or significantly scaling back,&quot; the inspector general's report said. &quot;Moreover, by the end of FY 2011 that figure could grow to more than $575 million if NASA is required to continue operating under the current constraints and is unable to move beyond the planning stages for its new Space Exploration program.&quot;John Logsdon, a space policy analyst who serves on the NASA's Advisory Council, said the near-term issue facing the agency's plans for deep space exploration is more a matter of schedule than budget and that NASA already had indicated its belief that a new heavy lifter could not be deployed by 2016.&quot;This should not come as a surprise to Mr. Nelson and his compatriots,&quot; he told CBS News today. &quot;Charlie Bolden told him the same thing last year when they first passed the authorization bill. So there is a small, or maybe not so small, element of posturing here. It seems to me that more than the budget...NASA is saying that there's no way they can do a development this large and have the thing flying by the end of 2016.&quot;This doesn't mean there's not going to be an HLV (heavy-lift vehicle),&quot; he said. &quot;There will be an HLV, and there will be work at the Cape to do it, among other places. Going back to the authorization bill and now this report, they are steps in a dialogue between NASA and the White House and the Congress on what makes sense...If the country is serious about having a good space program, Congress has to do its part.&quot;&quot;So there is a small, or maybe not so small, element of posturing here. It seems to me that more than the budget...NASA is saying that there's no way they can do a development this large and have the thing flying by the end of 2016.&quot;--John Logsdon, space policy analystThe Obama administration's fiscal 2011 budget charts a controversial new course for NASA. The agency has been told to rely on private industry for future manned and unmanned rockets and capsules to service the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.The administration ruled out an immediate return to the moon, concluding the Bush administration's Constellation program was not affordable, and instead ordered a &quot;flexible path&quot; approach to a variety of deep space targets. But development of heavy-lift rockets to facilitate deep space exploration was deferred and no timetables were specified.Space advocates immediately protested this approach and the president eventually agreed to begin development of a new heavy lifter in the 2015 time frame. Nelson and others then campaigned to begin development immediately and to have a system ready for first flight in 2016. Along with providing access to deep space for U.S. astronauts, the new system would serve as a backup in case untried commercial rockets run into problems or delays.Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat who was severely injured during a shooting spree in Tucson, on Saturday, strongly disagreed with the Senate's requirement during budget discussions late last year, favoring instead the continued development of the Constellation program's Ares rockets.Married to shuttle commander Mark Kelly and as chairman of the House space and aeronautics subcommittee, Giffords urged her colleagues not to go along with plans for a new rocket that was designed &quot;not by our best engineers, but by our colleagues over on the Senate side. By NASA's own internal analysis, they estimate this rocket will cost billions more than the Senate provides.&quot;&quot;In short, the Senate bill forces NASA to build a rocket that doesn't meet its needs, with a budget that's not adequate to do the job and on a schedule that NASA's own analysis says is unrealistic,&quot; Giffords said. &quot;That is not my idea of an executable and sustainable human spaceflight program.&quot;In a report ordered by Congress in NASA's funding authorization, the agency said it &quot;recognizes it has a responsibility to be clear with the Congress and the American taxpayers about our true estimated costs and schedules for developing the SLS and MPCV, and we intend to do so.&quot;&quot;Currently, our SLS studies have shown that while cost is not a major discriminator among the design options studied, none of the design options studied thus far appeared to be affordable in our present fiscal condition.&quot;Operational costs are another factor, the agency said, along with funds needed to pay for development of other exploration systems, including habitats and landers.&quot;A feature of the Shuttle/Ares-derived reference vehicle is that it enables leveraging of current systems, current knowledge base, existing hardware and potentially current contracts, thereby providing schedule and early-year cost advantages,&quot; the report said. &quot;However, a 2016 first flight does not appear to be possible within projected FY 2011 and out-year funding levels, although NASA is continuing to explore more innovative procurement and development approaches to determine whether it can come closer to this goal.&quot;In the meantime, NASA said, &quot;it is clear that successful development of SLS and MPCV will be dependent on sufficiently stable funding over the long term, coupled with a successful effort on the part of NASA and the eventual industry team to reduce costs and to establish stable, tightly managed requirements.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook placenta pose gets student expelled]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kids do the sweetest things. And sometimes, well, it gets them into a little trouble.Take Doyle Byrnes, a nursing student at Johnson County Community College in Kansas. Or, should I say, former nursing student.According to the Kansas City Star, Byrnes was due to graduate in May and, perhaps because she was feeling sentimental, she was part of a group that allegedly asked their nursing instructor, Amber Delphia, whether they could pose for a picture with a human placenta.Oh, is it really so different than the Winkelvoss twins posing with their oars Some think it might be. For Byrnes then posted her placenta pic on her Facebook page. And, though she claims Delphia didn't forbid the placenta picture-taking (Byrnes claims Delphia merely said: &quot;Oh, you girls&quot;), Byrnes found herself in critical condition a few hours later.For, she says, Delphia called her and told her to take the placenta pose down.(Credit:Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)You may temporarily lose sensations in your upper extremities when I tell you that Byrnes was then kicked out of school, together with the three other students who had posed with the maroon-colored organ. (No one is sure whether they posted their pictures anywhere that might be deemed public.)Your heart will, now, not even emit a flicker when I tell you that Byrnes (who has now closed her Facebook account) is taking the school to court, asking to be immediately reinstated.Her attorney, Clifford Cohen, told the Star: &quot;They're not giggly teenagers. They are mature, I would say serious, professionals. I've interviewed the other women. They all impress me as serious, career-minded women who are utterly stunned at what's happened to them.&quot;Byrnes wrote a letter to Jeanne Walsh, the school's director of nursing, in which she said: &quot;In my excitement to be able to share with my loved ones the phenomenal learning experience in which I had been blessed enough to take part, I did not consider that others might view this photograph as unprofessional, offensive to the school I was representing and more importantly the sanctity of human life.&quot;One should say at this point that the placenta in the picture was not identifiable. There is also no evidence that the students were doing this for the sake of amusement. This does seem more an act of (perhaps peculiar) pride, rather than, say, anything an NFL quarterback might think of photographing.The school, though, seems insistent on its disciplinary diagnosis.So now a court will have to decide whether the three hours that Byrnes' placenta picture was up on Facebook demeaned the school more than the decision to expel a committed student.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Modu expected to close its doors after raising $123M]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A few years back, Modu was considered a hot Israeli company. Headed by Dov Moran (pictured), the company created what it called the world&amp;'s lightest phone and made modular designs that could change the phone&amp;'s functions by replacing its outer shell, or jacket.If there&amp;'s a lesson here, it&amp;'s probably that there are consequences to being ahead of your time. But the idea may not be dead forever. If someone picks it up and executes it when the technology is ready and the cost is lower, it could very well work.The plan was for Modu to mix and match modules, or Modu jackets, to create phones with different features. You could, for instance, use modules to create a music player, a phone, or a navigation device. But now that plan is in big trouble. Modu is likely to shut down, according to Israeli news site Ynet. Employees have filed requests with Israeli courts to recover back pay that they are allegedly owed.In November, the press reported that the Kfar-Saba, Israel-based company had canceled its initial public offering and had begun laying off most of its staff. A skeleton crew will remain in place to sell off inventory. Modu reportedly owes $21 million to the Israel Discount Bank in addition to the money owned to employees.Founded in 2007, Modu announced its tiny cell phone and jackets in 2008. Back in 2009, Modu looked promising as it targeted $100 million in revenues. The company announced two phones, the Modu T phone and the Modu W phone, which was Wi-Fi only. I recall that the phones Modu showed me &amp;8212' very early production prototypes &amp;8212' were among the ugliest I had ever seen. But as you can see, Modu eventually got the hang of creating cool-looking phones.The company could close its doors by February.Previous Story: 2010: the year in internet statsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: modular phoneCompanies: ModuPeople: Dov Moran          Tags: modular phoneCompanies: ModuPeople: Dov MoranDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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