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Going green may grow more jobs. A 'green' economy could provide new, improved opportunities for 14 million workers, according to a report by progressive environmental and labor groups.
Revamped professions, from agricultural inspecting to welding, would cover 9 percent of the U.S. workforce, according to the authors. They determined six major areas of job growth: retrofitting buildings, mass transit, efficient cars, wind power, solar power, and cellulosic biomass fuels.
Smoke cigars, do a partial load of laundry, drink bottled water, and feel no shame. That's what a campaign against a carbon trading bill is urging. The latest parody of the proliferation of "green" social-networking sites and eco-friendly events comes via "Carbon Belch Day," a campaign from the conservative Grassfire.org alliance that encourages people to pollute as much as possible on June 12.
The effort is strong on shock value, yet weak on social networking and Web 2.0 tools, other than its "belch" calculator. There are no real-world events planned, so expect no sea of SUVs clogging freeways, other than the usual weekday bottlenecks.
PCs go ultraportable
After months as the subject of speculation in the media, Acer introduced its own low-cost mini-notebook PC at the Computex trade show in Taipei. The device will be called the Acer Aspire One, as expected. It will come with an Intel Atom processor, and run Linpus Linux Lite, with Acer's own user interface. Other specs include: an 8GB solid-state drive, 512MB of RAM, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, an 8.9-inch screen, and a standard 3-hour battery.
The Aspire One will be available beginning July 2 for $379. Later that month, a version running Windows XP Home Edition with an 80GB hard drive, and 1GB of RAM will be available, though the pricing details on that have yet to be ironed out.
Intel is adding to its Atom processor family, this time going after the emerging market for low-cost subnotebooks. The N270 and N230 are processors designed for what Intel calls "netbooks" and "nettops." The company unveiled them this week at Computex in Taiwan. The new chips are basically the same chips as the earlier Atom processors released for mobile Internet devices, but they have been tweaked slightly for use with bigger Internet access devices
Notebook makers of all stripes are launching systems based on AMD's Puma notebook technology, which consists of a new processor, a mobile chipset, and wireless chips from AMD's partners. Notebooks with the chips will be arriving over the next several weeks from companies like Acer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Toshiba, said Bahr Mahony, director of AMD's mobile business. AMD's new Turion X2 Ultra processor is the first designed-for-mobile processor that AMD has ever produced; the earlier versions of its Turion processor were essentially the same design as its Opteron design with a more power-friendly implementation.
Also of note
South Korea's antitrust regulators plan to fine Intel $25.4 million for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the local chip market...Intel's business practices will come under the scrutiny of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which has opened a formal antitrust investigation of the chipmaker...Verizon Wireless to buy Alltel in a deal valued at $28.1 billion...McAfee released a study that indicates the domains that tend to be the most dangerous or malware-prone on the Web, and at the top of the list is the .hk domain.
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- I repeat: it is just a matter of time until Microsoft buys Yahoo! and mounts some serious competition to Internet-leader Google.
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- I guess my comment would be so plan; "Hey people it is just software, is there not enough of a mess online now, why the greed?
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- When yahoo's gone, what's left? Is the internet doomed to end up controlled by two companies? mmm.... 3 is better than two. Let yahoo free.
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- Wouldn't it be nice if Carl iCon just went away. A true vulture capitalist.
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