Lynne Kiesling I found a couple of interesting climate change articles over the weekend. First, this Foreign Affairs article discusses the geopolitical implications of Arctic ice cap melting; it creates and destroys territory in ways that various Arctic (and non-Arctic) nation-states are responding to by trying to stake property claims to the territory. Hmmm … …
Lynne Kiesling If you’re looking for a nice overview and an update on the smart grid ideas, technologies, and business strategies we’ve been discussing here at KP for a few years, check out this Currents podcast from PennWell: We’re actually seeing real-world implementation of smart grid technologies and starting to realize some of the benefits …
Lynne Kiesling At Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow Nine Inch Nails made $750,000 in the first two days of its new album’s online distribution. This is an interesting follow up to my earlier post on the release. Gee, did RIAA get the memo that giving away an album’s worth of songs for free still managed to …
Lynne Kiesling The palpable buzz around the release of the iPhone last year was exciting, and indicated some of the great design and functionality we can expect from mobile phones in the future (even if I won’t get one yet because I won’t give AT&T my business, and I haven’t seen a local vendor selling …
Ip Rights and Complementary Products: the Economics of Apple’s Iphone Sdk Read More »
Michael Giberson If you, like me, were looking forward to the FCC’s auction of prime 700 MHz wireless spectrum — and frankly who wouldn’t be interested in seeing how the FCC’s new hierarchical package bidding rules worked out in the C-block auction — you may have noticed the distinct lack of news on the topic …
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Michael Giberson So, I’ve been thinking more about Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano’s goal of turning the state into “the Persian Gulf of solar energy.” Last week I concluded that devoting about 236 square miles of Arizona desert to solar generators — like the recently announced state-of-the-art Solana Generating Station — would be enough to make …
Lynne Kiesling I haven’t heard as much discussion as there was over Radiohead of Trent Reznor announcing the new Nine Inch Nails album on his website, and offering a variety of versions of it at a variety of price points: The album itself is 36 songs, nearly two and a half hours of music — …
Lynne Kiesling There is no economic model that can support the state buying Wrigley Field. The sports economists have to pay some attention to this one. It all stinks to me of political gambit. Heck, Wrigley sells out most games, and that’s even when the team’s having a crappy year. I am not persuaded by …
Lynne Kiesling While at Wired I noticed their features of some of the technologies from the CleanTech Forum, including this mention of Nanoexa’s nanotechnology battery technology. Nanoexa is using nanotechnology and computational modeling to develop a new lithium energy storage technology. From what I can understand, the computational modeling will enable them to figure out …
Lynne Kiesling I like Wired’s “This Day in Tech” feature. Today’s feature is this day in bridge history: March 4, 1890, the opening of the Forth Bridge across the Firth of Forth, north of Edinburgh in Scotland. Three 330-foot towers went up, each atop four separate foundations. The towers cantilevered out toward one another, not …
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