Cisco, Silver Spring Back Smart Grids

The project aims to help businesses and homeowners reduce their energy consumption and costs through smart metering programs that let them monitor their power use and adjust their behavior accordingly

Wolfram Alpha Gets Early Day Overhaul

The search engine's structured results are suggestive of a way that search could evolve in the future, and other search companies such as Google have been rolling out similar products for presenting search results

New Economy, New Confusion?

There's a big buzz around the "new economy" of sustainable development. But is anyone actually sure that that means, asks Peter Judge:  Growth,  or no growth?

China Demands PCs Block Websites

The Chinese government is requiring that all personal PCs shipped into the country must have software that blocks access to certain types of Websites, according to the Wall Street Journal

Jobs Misses Apple’s WDC Conference

The number of iPhone and iTouch users continues to spiral up despite the recession: from 1 million active users in 2002 to 25m in 2007 to an estimated 75m in 2009