Author name: Lynne Kiesling

Apple’s New Itunes Pricing and Drm-free Songs: the Results of Competition

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Lynne Kiesling Yesterday Apple announced two changes to its iTunes policies: they are introducing price discrimination, and they are removing DRM copy protection from the songs sold through iTunes. Resulting from extensive negotiations between Apple and record companies, these are two long-anticipated and welcome changes, and they are the consequence of competition in two different …

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Couple of “Food Miles” Items

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Lynne Kiesling One topic that has gotten some attention in 2008 is “food miles”, or the estimate of the environmental impact of the total resource use and transportation required to get food from grower to consumer. One argument for eating more locally-produced food is that it reduces the transportation impact; however, in making that argument …

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The Blagojevich Saga: the Psychology of Power, and Rent-seeking

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Lynne Kiesling Two items have kept my attention over the holidays with respect to the Blagojevich fiasco. First, back when the story first broke, our local NPR station interviewed my colleague Adam Galinsky on the psychology of power. Adam’s research is fascinating, and in this interview he communicates very effectively how positions of power affect …

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Merry Christmas, in Oleds!

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Lynne Kiesling GE has been making lots of research progress on OLEDs, and they are celebrating the holiday season with a green OLED roll Christmas tree! Sure, it’s a little dorky, but imagine how these low-energy-per-lumen lights can transform our lighting, and our energy use to provide valuable lighting functions and services. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqMXk3mntOQ] Merry happy …

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Another Potentially Price-Responsive Appliance: the Dynamic Fridge

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Lynne Kiesling We have another step toward the smart grid, the transactive electric power network prototyped in the GridWise Olympic Peninsula project: from the UK, pilot testing of 3,000 dynamic, intelligent refrigerators! The trial, run by energy company npower, will be the first trial of new technology to be approved under the government’s carbon emissions …

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