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  • Japan wants 32,000 schools to go solar by 2020

    Japan wants 32,000 schools to go solar by 2020

    Posted on July 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Solar energy remains a hot topic (no pun intended) in Japan. As part of a huge economic stimulus plan, the government plans to convert all of the country's 32,000 public elementary and middle schools to solar power by 2020. The aim: reduction of CO2 emissions and cutting long-term energy costs.

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  • eBuddy releases iPhone application with support for push notification

    eBuddy releases iPhone application with support for push notification

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    eBuddy, the Dutch startup behind the eponymous mobile communication tool I dubbed the swiss army knife for instant messaging when it debuted an application for the Android platform last May, is announcing one hell of an iPhone application today. For context: eBuddy is a free mobile app that enables users to communicate with others using AIM, Facebook Chat, ICQ, Gtalk, Windows Live Messenger etc. in one, aggregated interface. The application for the iPhone and iPod Touch the company is announcing today has quietly gone live in the App Store last week, but hasn't been promoted in any way since until today. It brings a very strong competitor to the likes of Nimbuzz and fring, both of which have had native iPhone applications for a while now. Where eBuddy differentiates is in its support for Apple's Push Notification Service, which allows a third-party server to ping the service in order to push out notifications to your device over a persistent IP connection.

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  • Gadget Lab Podcast #78: iPhone 3GS

    Gadget Lab Podcast #78: iPhone 3GS

    Posted on June 12, 2009 | No Comments
    In this week’s edition of the Gadget Lab podcast, Priya Ganapati and I discuss the climactic outcome of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. The company’s major announcement was the iPhone 3GS — the highly anticipated third-generation iPhone, whose performance is reportedly two times faster than the iPhone 3G. We also highlight substantial price cuts for the [...]

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  • Gadget Lab Podcast #77: What to Expect From Apple’s WWDC 2009

    Gadget Lab Podcast #77: What to Expect From Apple’s WWDC 2009

    Posted on June 5, 2009 | No Comments
    In this week’s edition of the Gadget Lab podcast, Danny Dumas and I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Palm Pre, as well as the challenges that lie ahead (cough, the App Store). It’s a solid, beautiful smartphone indeed, but will developers wish to code for it? Looking ahead, I lay out my analysis on [...]

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  • LG launches DTXTR Tool to help parents understand what their kids are TXTING

    LG launches DTXTR Tool to help parents understand what their kids are TXTING

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments
    LG has launched an amusing (and for some, useful) application that enables you to translate over 2000 words teens tend to use when they're sending text messages to regular English, and the other way around. The tool is called DTXTR and the aim is to let is keep you in the know of what these kids are txting bout these days, xactli. Frankly, there are a lot of basic words that can't be converted to 'teen text' with the tool yet, but you can always submit a term for inclusion in the glossary. And if you want to test your own mad txt skills, you can do a little quiz on the site to see if you're up with the times or not.

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