A new piece of software by Pointui launched this afternoon that makes Windows Mobile devices a little bit more iPhone-like.
The CrunchGear team isn’t answering emails or phone calls (It’s their job to test this stuff, but I imagine they are all drinking heavily somewhere celebrating the New Year), and I don’t have a Windows [...]
From TechCrunch UK:
Israeli search technology start-up Hooja has raised $1.5 million from some well known-investors, including Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, and an early investor in Facebook. Hooja, currently in stealth mode, is said to be developing a technology that enables content providers to access personal and social information about users, and [...]
If there is one thing I noticed this past year, it is that companies seem to be tripping over themselves more than ever before to claim the mantle of openness. Openness is now a marketing mantra. Facebook kicked things off in May by opening up its social network to outside developers through a [...]
OK, personal resolutions don’t always work, but what about some national ones? Now that even France bans smoking inside, when are we going to do something about the butt problem outside?
According to Torontoist: “An American study showed that, worldwide, smokers toss at least 4.5 trillion butts on the ground every year, and that’s not only revolting to look at, but causes significant environmental damage. Cigarette filters are made of non-biodegradable polymer acetate (read: plastic), and discarded butts start fires, kill small animals, and are the most comm…
If you’ve ever been to Israel and visited Tel Aviv, you might have noticed our country’s “national sport,” known by the locals as matcot. It’s a high-pace game, played-fast-and-furious-like, usually by middle-aged men in their underwear. On weekends the pok-pok-pok sound of the back and forth of the ball, drown out the surf, and frighten passers-by trying to dodge getting hit.
Making matcot a little more modern, is Groovy – a pair of Tel Aviv industrial designers, who like to rethink and repurpose everyday objects and designs. Take the above chair, its sawed out matcot paddles, and tiny ball holder in the top left-hand corner.
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What a way to end up the year: a petrol stain four kilometers long arrived last Thursday to the coast of Caleta Cordova City at Chubut province, about 1860 kilometers south from Buenos Aires and is now moving open seas.
The origin? Still unknown, but when it arrived to the coast, it had been on the Ocean for a few days. In the area there is a port terminal that operates 5,5 million cubic meters of petrol a year, so many units could have caused the spill. The most possible speculation, according to El Chubut newspaper, points in the direction of the Presidente Arturo Illia tanker, which used to belong to YPF and suffered a huge accident of the same sort ten years …
It’s New Year’s eve and once more we are reading articles about making those pesty resolutions. The latest one says that we are out of luck already: “Most important, say the psychologists, is not to leave the decision until New Year’s Eve. In addition, for men, the secret of success lies in setting specific goals and focusing on the rewards you will get if you achieve them; for women, the best way to keep a resolution is to tell the world about it.” Hmmm….
In any case, this little book has 50 tasks that you can do at work to affect change. You can do some alone, others r…
Climate change may not have played a major role in the presidential campaigns so far, but it certainly was a hot-button issue in 2007. However, as the NY Times points out, while public opinion “had been shifting for some time” and finally “gelled with the surprise success of ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’” the decisions in 2007 that mattered most to green transportation “may have been those made inside courtrooms and government agencies.” Her…
So here it is, the zeitgeist of the year 2007- what were the most viewed stories of the year? What kept bringing ‘em back? Sex.
1) How to Green Your Sex Life :Our how-to manual for green sex continues to arouse,? ?month in and month out.? ?Its statement?
“According to The Earth Policy Institute production of photovoltaics (PV) jumped to 3,800 megawatts worldwide in 2007, up an estimated 50 percent over 2006. At the end of the year, according to preliminary data, cumulative global production stood at 12,400 megawatts, enough to power 2.4 million U.S. homes. Growing by an impressive average of 48 percent each year since 2002, PV production has been doubling every two years, making it the world