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by Michael Edwards At Green Products, we have come across a product from Cool Earth: Solar Balloons. Cool Earth was created with the mandate of producing electricity using solar power, specifically solar cells. Solar power is not a new concept, but how the sunlight is collected and concentrated is truly unique. The current installed solar plants use flat-panels. Each panel is heavy, large, easily damaged, and costly to repair. This means the cost to produce a watt of electricity is 5-7 times

China’s Ministry of Industry and I.T. reportedly said it “will definitely carry on the directive on Green Dam.” And while Apple has so far been on the sidelines of the Windows-based filtering software mandate, Green Dam maker Jinhui is said to ...

Chinese authorities today delayed implementation of the much-disparaged Green Dam-Youth Escort filtering mandate, just one day before the July 1 implementation deadline. Since the Green Dam directive was made public , we have learned that the filtering software does not work as proposed or publicized, may create serious security vulnerabilities, may contain stolen code , and likely violates China’s WTO obligations . The filter targets far more than sexually explicit material and is c

Eine kleine Nachtlektüre : The Chinese government may be backing down from its plan to install new "filtering" software, Green Dam, on all Chinese computers. But it would be naïve to think that scrapping the Green Dam mandate means the end of headaches for computer- and device-makers world-wide. More and more governments — including democracies like Britain, Australia and Germany — are trying to control public behavior online, especially by exerting pressure on Internet service providers. Gre

If one is lucky enough to be a newspaper columnist with a broad mandate, and I count myself among the luckiest, there is a built-in opportunity to focus on subjects of personal interest and, in doing so, perhaps influence, even in a small way, issues that are important to us. My beat — which is loosely defined as pop culture, television, social issues, housing and architecture and, well, pretty much anything that interests me, from the serious to the silly — is unlike many columnists who beat