After 14 Years Suffering From an Unknown Illness, Discovers EHS

How many times do people go to the doctor only to be told they don't know what's going on? Sarah Dacre was 39 years old when she first became ill. It first began with debilitating migraines and digestive problems....

10th graders give up electronics for an entire week

   In this age of all things digital, most people consider technology to be indispensable to their everyday lives. However, Shannon Meyer's 10th grade advisory class at the California Academy for Liberal...

China aims to create 1.5 mln jobs in electronics and IT industry

China is announcing one after another stimulus packages to boost the economy and gain its previous momentum of double digit growth rate.In its latest announcement , authorities says that they are planning to create 1.5 million job in electronic and IT industry.How China will...

Where Gadgets Go to Die: Facility Strips, Rips and Recycles

" Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency came under fire for allowing U.S. tech companies to export millions of pounds of hazardous, used electronics to Asian countries where they are recycling with a lot less environmental oversight. Negative press, new e-waste...

Can Human Blood energize iPods and Cellphones?

this story intrigued meas how a body reaction and movement can generate electricity." This can be a possibility as the this body movement, beating of a human heart or simply the blood flow can be converted into electricity using nanowires made up of zinc oxide. Zinc-oxide...

Report: Israel second in the world in technological exports

Israel is smaller in size then the State of New Jersey in the USA and yet it is now second in the world in export of Hi-Tech and Industrial products. "Israel is the world's no. 2 high-tech and industrial exports manufacturer, second only to Ireland, a Bank of Israel report...

Panasonic set to cut 15,000 jobs

One more story of recession hit company, and related job cut.This time it is from the electronic giant of Japan,pannasonic.The story is bit interesting because it is going ti close 27 plants world wide.Well it will be too early to predict the fall of pannasonic, but certainly...

Circuit City to Close All Stores

Circuit City has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, meaning that it will close all of its stores and dispose of all of its assets.  In a recent press release, Circuit City stated that it would be unlikely that any assets would remain for their common stockholders. ...

Greenpeace says gadgets at CES 2009 could be greener

Greenpeace has declared that while gadgets are getting greener, there is still a long way to go in order to make them environmentally friendly. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Greenpeace urged companies to...

Intel Launches Fresh Mobile Quad-Core Chip

This sounds good. "Intel (NSDQ: INTC) over the weekend introduced a new mobile quad-core chip, which Acer started offering Monday in its latest Aspire laptop for multimedia and gaming enthusiasts. In addition,...

3D Printing: The future is NOW!

Yes, you can!  Okay, maybe you and i can't afford it but I can see it, in ten years, mattel introduces the "print your own toys" all-in-one household object printer!  "Easy software anyone can use with...

Sony to cut plants and 8,000 jobs

" Sony has announced plans to cut 8,000 electronics jobs - 5% of its global workforce - as well as shutting 10% of its manufacturing sites. The company said the jobs would be cut by April 2010 but did not say...

Best Buy cites 'seismic changes' in consumer behavior

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the predictions of a worst case scenario are now ever more likely.  Following an unprecedented financial crisis we are now seeing an unprecedented crisis in retail.""Since mid-September, rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior...

Mars Lander Succumbs to Winter

"Mission managers said Monday that they had not heard from the NASA spacecraft for a week and that they thought it had probably fallen quiet for good.“At this time, we’re pretty convinced that the vehicle is...

Nigerian Scammers are Still Scamming

I really think people think other people are stupid. Last night, I was the attempted "victim" of a internet scam. I wouldn't have fallen for it, but it is the first time someone has tried to pull one of these on...

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