Solar energy company SunPower Corporation has landed a sweet array of installation contracts for U.S. government entities, amounting to about 20 megawatt’s worth of new solar projects for groups such as the Navy. The company declined to release how much these contracts are worth financially, but to give some idea of their impact, SunPower is saying the new business will generate 1,000 local jobs during their construction. One of the plums SunPower scored was being one of five solar companies awarded what’s called an “indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract” by the Navy, which has five years to disperse $200 million
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SunPower lands sweet array of government contracts
Maven Research , a San Francisco-based consulting firm, just announced an alliance with Chinese consulting provider Business Connect China (BCC). The deal gives Maven’s clients access to more than 10,000 industry experts in China. Unlike traditional consulting firms McKinsey and Bain, Maven sets up short telephone conversations between industry professionals, called members, and clients. Forty percent of business comes from venture capital and private equity clients. Accel Partners , one early client, led the company’s $1 million round of seed funding earlier this year. Shanghai-based BCC is backed by Floodgate
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Maven teams up with Business Connect China to make VCs even smarter
Paul Allen lost his nerve in the high stakes game of technology investments in 2000, when he shut down Interval Research, a respected Silicon Valley think tank. Now he has the gall to say that what his researchers created and patented was really valuable, and so all of the successful companies who weathered the storm and stuck it out should pay him. If it’s not clear already, my opinion is that Allen has just shredded his good name. On Friday, Allen’s licensing arm, Interval Licensing, filed patent infringement lawsuits against Google, Apple, Facebook, AOL, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, eBay, and Netflix
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Paul Allen’s patent suits: Enough is enough
Mendeley – Reference Manager (Lite) 1.1 Category: Productivity Price: Free, Version: 1.0 -> 1.1 ( iTunes ) Description: Mendeley library. Now you can have all of your papers in your pocket! Mendeley is academic software that indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital library. It gathers document details from your PDFs allowing you to effortlessly search, organize and cite. It also looks up PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs and other related document details automatically, importing papers quickly and easily from resources such as Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE and many more at the click of a button. SYNC WITH MENDELEY Mendeley (Lite) for iPhone syncs seamlessly with your Mendeley research collection. This means that you can now carry your personal digital library with you wherever you go
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Mobile Phones Currently available in Canada through Bell and Rogers mobile operator. RIM has just announced new BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 smartphone will soon available in Malaysia and Australia. The handset will be replace the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Curve 8520 . The BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 smartphone will be offers in Australia via Vodafone and Optus in early September 2010, while 3 Australia in October 2010
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IT service provider 6fusion raised $3 million in its first round of venture capital funding led by Intersouth Partners. The funding is pegged to help develop 6fusion’s senior executive team, currently led by CEO John Cowan, a graduate of Queen’s University at Kingston and a Canadian citizen. Katrin Burt and Mitch Mumma of Intersouth will join 6fusion’s board of directors as part of the deal. Intersouth is also a partner of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, a mentoring program of sorts for entrepreneurs in the Research Triangle. The company said it will work out of Intersouth’s office as it finalizes the location of its new headquarters, which will be somewhere in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. 6fusion offers a tool called the Work Allocation Cube — or WAC — which tracks various elements of cloud-computing usage, like bandwidth and memory usage, and combiunes them into a single value that companies can use to simplify pricing models
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Cloud computing startup 6fusion raises $3M
Quattro Wireless, the ad network acquired by Apple earlier this year, announced today that it’s winding down its existence as an independent network to focus on Apple’s iAd program. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has said he doesn’t see advertising as a big moneymaker for Apple on its own, but rather as a way to support the iPhone and iPad: We want to help our developers make some money so that they can keep providing free or really low-cost apps to customers. That’s why we’re doing it. We’re not going to make much money in the ad business. So from that perspective, the move isn’t too surprising. Quattro’s value to Apple is as an enabler for iAds, not as a standalone network. Business Insider broke the news after receiving a copy of a letter that Quattro sent to network participants
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Lyric Semiconductor hopes to find a gold mine in checking memory errors. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company has created a new kind of computer circuit that calculates probabilities much faster than traditional computer chips. And its first real application is in error correction chips for flash memory devices, which have become ubiquitous in everything from cameras to servers. If the technology works properly, Lyric could create processors that are a thousand times more efficient in cost, power and size. Specifically, the company’s first chip, the Lyric Error Correction, is 30 times smaller than today’s flash memory error correction chips. It is 12 times better in terms of power consumption, and it can operate faster than traditional chips. Error correction may not be that sexy
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The odds are good that Lyric Semiconductor will change computing
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Graphics chip maker Nvidia posted a worse-than-expected loss of $141 million for its second fiscal quarter and warned of weakening business conditions in the overall PC market. The GAAP loss of 25 cents a share compared with a net loss of $105.3 million, or 19 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue for the three months ended Aug
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Nvidia posts loss as sales weaken and faulty graphics chips lead to one-time charge
Mobile Phones LG Canada has published full specifications of new slider phone in its website, namely the LG Neon2 (GT350) . The handset will available at Rogers mobile operator. The LG Neon2 (GT350) phone has features a 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen display with a resolution of 240×400 pixel, a full QWERTY keyboard, 5 hotkeys, a microSD card slot (up to 8GB), 2 megapixel camera with video capabilities and 2x zoom, MP3 player, FM radio, and Bluetooth.
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