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Will the Next Big Thing Be Green?
Earlier this week, much of the world witnessed an amazing human and technological feat when Felix Baumgartner – an Austrian Skydiver, daredevil and Base jumper – broke the sound barrier at Mach 1.24 (834 m.p.h) during his skydiving freefall from an altitude of over 128,000 feet (~24 miles) [see video]. Sixty-five years earlier on the […]
Time for Green Consumers to DWYSYWD
April 10, 2012
U.S. consumers may talk the green talk, but do they walk the green walk? Not yet. Although nearly two-thirds of Americans want to protect the environment, less than one-third actually do. According to the latest Survey of the American Consumers, less than half as many American adults (31%) purchase green products than those who say […]
Eco Marathon: Can You Get 3,000 MPG?
March 27, 2012
If you thought that getting 50+ MPG in a gasoline-powered car is a stellar result, there’s one annual event in the U.S. that would demonstrate otherwise: the Shell Eco-Marathon in Houston, Texas. From March 29 through April 1, more than 1000 high school and university students will be competing to break the 2,565 MPG record that was achieved […]
WWSJD? The Future of the iAppliance
September 13, 2011
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 simplicity of design and ease of use have led to […]
LG Out-ThinQ’s Samsung in Smart Appliances
September 6, 2011
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 ThinQ™ outperformed Samsung’s “Smart Innovation in the Home.” Each company also demonstrated their newest Smart Refrigerators and Smart Washing Machines in their ongoing race toward market share […]
How to Win in Smart Energy: Study Maslow’s Hierarchy
August 25, 2011
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 leads the smartphone market with its flagship iPhone. Google enables the leading platform for […]
Samsung’s Green Chips Use Half the Energy
August 23, 2011
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 (double data rate-3) chip and SSD (solid state drive) chip in server solutions, CIOs can double server […]
Will Samsung Miss the Next Big Thing?
August 18, 2011
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 visited Samsung (prior to Google) to explore potential interest in adopting the operating system. Samsung […]
Green Habits Add 3 Years to Your Life
August 16, 2011
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 – walk (or bike) for part of our transportation needs – there would be a tremendous savings on energy and health care costs … and you would live longer. A […]
Apple’s Future: From iPhone to gPhone
August 5, 2011
With the iPhone 5 launch expected in the future, we need to ask what’s next for Apple which captures 66% of the world’s mobile phone profits (source: Asymco). Here are three trends that will play into Apple’s roadmap for the future from an iPhone to a gPhone. 1) gPhone for green: Apple’s R&D is exploring how […]
October 19, 2012
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