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Clean Energy and the Future

by Erik on July 6, 2009

in Alternative Energy,Asia,Economy,Green Tech,IBM,Sustainability,Technology

photo credit: Ennor (computer problems) Thomas Friedman is an interesting man. For one, his book on globalization: The World Is Flat was mandatory reading at Lehigh in an intro course to Information Systems, and caused a great deal of debate on the topic during many a class session. But, his current op-ed in the New [...]

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Weekly Round Up

by Erik on July 3, 2009

in Alternative Energy,Asia,Business Logic,Economy,Green Tech,IBM,Jobs,Markets,New Tech,Obama,Recession,Technology,Unemployment,Weekly Roundup

For Modest Earners, Relief Repaying Student Loans – Repaying a student loan could soon be a little less painful. Starting this week, anyone with a federal student loan can apply for a program, run by the Department of Education, that caps monthly payments based on income, and forgives remaining balances after 25 years. Those choosing [...]

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U.S. Firm Says China Stole Software for Web-Filter

by Erik on June 15, 2009

in Censorship,Net Neutrality

A California company alleged that an Internet-filtering program being pushed by the Chinese government contains stolen portions of the company’s software. The company, Solid Oak Software Inc., said it will try to stop PC makers from shipping computers with the software. Solid Oak said Friday that it found pieces of its CyberSitter filtering software in [...]

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China Requires Censoring Software on New PCs

by Erik on June 8, 2009

in Asia,Censorship,Markets

BEIJING — China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy information” from the Internet. Called “Green Dam” — green being a foil to the yellow smut of pornography — the software is designed to filter out sexually [...]

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