News from Portfolio.comAlso on PortfolioIf Content Is King, AOL Is a Handsome PrinceFrank Quattrone Pines for the Old DaysNBCOlympics.com: OK Traffic, but Not GreatSubscribe to Portfolio magazineFrom wind turbines to water purification systems, from solar panels to CO2 capture, suddenly, if you're an investor with money to burn, environmental technology has become the biggest game in town. The pr
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Here's how the air, ground, data, landline, cellphone, and sea ship traffic looks from space in Great Britain, one of the busiest countries on Earth. The BBC's Britain from Above documentary took satellite and air images and mixed it with 3D GPS data to create these breathtaking high resolution pictures and videos: galleryPost('trafficsky', 5, ''); Air traffic in Great Britain. newVideoP
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Researchers at Penn State have cooked up a new plastic that can be cooled by simply running a current through it. It uses the electrocaloric effect to rearrange its individual atoms when charged, allowing for heat to more easily come and go. By wrapping up a chip in the stuff and zapping it with current, researchers hope they've found a way to make more efficient heatsinks for laptops and other g
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GigaOm quotes Richard Windsor, an analyst with Nomura Securities, in saying that the sluggish 3G performance of the iPhone 3G seen globally (not just with AT&T) could be a result of a lousy chipset. He says, "we believe that these issues are typical of an immature chipset and radio protocol stack where we are almost certain Infineon is the 3G supplier." Is this true? AT&T has stated that problems
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While AT&T terms of service don't allow customers to use their 3G internet to provide voice over IP, iPhone users could still save minutes utilizing VOIP over Wi-Fi. And a company named Global IP Solutions plans to release a VOIP software development kit for the iPhone that will not only allow developers to more easily create simple VOIP programs, but add VOIP functionality to the programs we alr
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Digital content makes a lot money—over $130 billion in sales a year—but most of that actually isn't taxed. Yet! Realizing they're leaving vast streams of green untapped, states are getting wise—nine this year have considered digital download taxes, and five of those passed them, for a total of 17 states that tax digital purchases. And don't worry, they're totally coming to a state near you, it's
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The Blu-ray edition of the biggest let down in movie history, also known as Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Whatever Crystal Something will be released on October 14, just in time not to buy it for this holiday season. The two-disc Blu-ray comes in the obligatory 1080p and comes loaded with extras that don't make the movie any less crappy: The Special Edition Blu-ray is presented in 1080p Hi
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While a huge chunk of the world is getting carried away with Olympic fever, American teens are remarkably uninterested in the whole thing. Is this a one-time glitch or has the Olympics lost these viewers for life?
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Pligg is a Web 2.0 open source content management system
