Intel Seeks Visibility in Cloud Service Market

Intel is making a concerted effort to get traction among cloud customers -- an area where the company already dominates, but is seeking to further entrench itself. Intel on Wednesday announced a new initiative aimed at the cloud space. The new   “Powered by Intel Cloud Technology” program purportedly aims to improve customer experience and value as well as the company’s...

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Rokit Boosts Technology Blog Reports Latest News on iPhone 5, Apple Product Developments, Bluetooth Accessories, and More

Rokit Boost offers customers the newest, most state-of-the-art mobile accessories, so it comes as no surprise that they also publish a blog relaying the most recent Apple and technology news. The blog provides details about...

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The air bag: Self-driving cars at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Las Vegas’s annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is all about razzle and dazzle. Every January for the past 35 years, the crème de la crème of the geek world has descended upon the Nevada desert to turn Sin City into Nerd Heaven. Geeky though it may be, however, CES is really the harbinger of all that is new in the digital world. And electronics are seemingly important enough...

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UK solar homes hit half a million milestone

Wrexham Council installed 3000 solar systems on social housing units.   The number of solar installations in the UK registered for the government’s feed-in tariff has topped half a million for the first time, according to official statistics. The latest data released by the Department for Energy and Climate Change shows that the total number of registered installs...

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Solar energy firms are getting creative in raising funds

SolarCity employees install solar panels on a West Los Angeles home in 2009. Solar firms have a difficult time persuading banks to fund their projects. Solar installer SolarCity Corp. has figured out a way to tap retail investors willing to earn green by going green. The San Mateo company on...

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Toshiba Flash Marries Q'comm SoCs in Vegas

Toshiba America Electronic Components announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that its universal flash storage (UFS) implementation will be added to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 802 chipset. UFS version 2.0 products will go into production for smartphones and tablets in the second quarter. "You'll see some initial systems at end of 2014, but basically 2015 is when the primary ramp is,"...

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FCC's Wheeler Stresses 'Values' in CES Debut

The annual onstage chat at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) between Consumer Electronics Association president Gary Shapiro and the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission -- this year the newly confirmed Tom Wheeler -- always features a little subtle political sparring. This is muted, of course, by Shapiro's hospitality and his pride in the mass cordiality of...

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Intel Surfs Millimeter Waves to 5G

 After leading a successful charge to bring 60 GHz to wireless LANs, an Intel executive is driving research to define a proposal for using millimeter wave wireless in next-generation cellular systems. The technology "will play a very serious role as an augmentation of the cellular infrastructure, but it won't replace it in the same way that WiGig augments WiFi," Ali Sadri,...

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System overload slows Hawaii's solar energy boom

Some 10 percent of households in Hawaii have installed solar panels like this one. For more than four decades, sunny Hawaii has led the way in clean, renewable energy. Today, 10 percent of all households in the Aloha state have rooftop solar systems to generate electricity, compared with no more than 3 percent in California. But now, Hawaii is facing a problem —...

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Power play: Utilities want solar users to pay up

With solar power use expanding in the U.S., utilities are pushing back at what they call unfair rate advantages for solar users. The explosive growth of solar power -- a new rooftop system was installed every four minutes in 2013 -- has utility companies pushing in several states to scale back what they call unfair rate advantages that solar users have long received. The...

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Solar storm will make for spectacular northern lights across Canada

The Aurora Borealis is shown over a lake in Greenland on Sept. 2, 2007 An intense burst of energy from the sun headed towards Earth on Thursday and was expected to make for spectacular conditions to see the northern lights across Canada. Ruth Ann Chicoine, the Canadian Space Agency’s national project...

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Wall Street Suddenly Loves Solar, Just In Time For New Solar Cell Efficiency Breakthrough

Over the weekend, the New York Times noted that the solar power “craze” is partly responsible for Wall Street’s recent good times. The Times used the example of solar giant SolarCity, which has seen a sevenfold increase in its share price to $59.27 since it went public, but this could just be starters for the US solar industry. An international research team based at North...

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A year later, Citizens Energy Solar Homes Project participants see monetary benefits

For the more than 50 years Maria Martinez has been living in her home on the east side of El Centro, the summer months have been met with dread, knowing that the high temperatures came with high electricity bills as...

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Portland Boat Show 2014 steps into the future with solar panels and electric motors

The Portland Boat Show offers a host of boating innovations, including fully-electric motors and attachable solar panels. Have you ever seen an all-electric motor boat? What about solar panels you can use to charge your boat while you're out fishing? Renewable energy for boaters, as well as used boats and beautifully-crafted behemoths will...

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 802 Powers Smart TVs

Qualcomm announced its latest processor at 2014 International CES -- the  Snapdragon 802, a fully integrated SoC designed for next-generation smart TVs, set-top boxes, and digital media adapters. Qualcomm claims Snapdragon will provide for ultra HD content, rich user interfaces, seamless decoding, and console-quality gaming as well as concurrent use cases. The Snapdragon...

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Knight’s Landing Leaks Reveal Strong Performance, Memory Hierarchy

Rumors regarding Intel's Knight's Landing high-performance compute solution are swirling, based on leaked presentations and specifications that indicate high memory bandwidth and on-die capacity. The 14 nm Silvermont-based processor is expected to ship in 2015. Knight's Landing is a 14 nm process node, compared with Intel’s 22 nm Knight's Corner, Haswell, and Ivy Bridge server...

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