Solar Cells May Supplement Smartphone Batteries

Solar cells under development by a Silicon Valley start-up, Alta Devices, could give smartphone batteries a boost of as much as 80 percent of a batterys power. The company uses hybrid gallium arsenide solar cells, which are better at capturing energy than silicon solar cells.

 Read the full story at The New York Times

Apple's iWatch Could Be Super Profitable

Help End Child Hunger in America

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Macs dig in as standard business PCs

Enterprise backup of Macs is the latest in a string of products that show OS X is becoming part of the IT landscape By Galen Gruman

In the last year, I've witnessed a sea change in Macs' acceptance in business. To be sure, Macs have been the standard PCs for designers, layout artists, and the like since the mid-1980s, and Silicon Valley developers adopted the Mac as the preferred dev platform years ago (because it runs Unix, Linux, and Windows, too). MacBook Airs became senior execs' preferred status-symbol PCs a couple years ago as well.

But for bread-and-butter computing, it has been a Windows-only world. Those creative, dev, and exec Macs were the "other" handled outside the normal IT processes. That's changing -- fast. Gartner says IT will consider Macs to be as valid as Windows PCs next year. The tools to enable that are already coming.

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16 Year-Old 'Desperate Housewives' Actress Is Giving Out Stock Trading Advice

ixteen year-old actress Rachel Fox, who is known for playing Kayla Scavo on the hit series Desperate Housewives, has taken up day trading when she's not on the big screen (HT: Josh Brown).

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She says that she's really good at it, too.

Fox, who has a blog and video episodes called "Fox On Stocks", says that she earns more than 64% on her investments per year.  

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rachel-fox-on-stocks-2013-2#ixzz2KALrYxsQ

Apple's Java sabotage is bad IT business

Apple's Java sabotage is bad IT business

Apple's handling of the Java vulnerability provides a textbook example of what not to do in a production environment

In case you weren't paying attention, last week Apple decided to disable all but the most recent Java browser plug-ins on just about every Macintosh everywhere, without telling anyone. The Java vulnerability that led to the decision is very real. It was coupled, though, with the assumption that its customers -- forgive me, its licensees -- lack the judgment necessary to make this decision for themselves.

To be fair, many of Apple's consumer licensees probably lack the expertise needed to make an informed decision. For many, that's why they bought Macs instead of some form of Windows PC in the first place.

But its enterprise licensees? That's a different matter altogether.

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1.6 Billion People In The World Don't Have Electricity — So Here's A Cool Solar-Powered Light Called 'Luci'

"1.6 billion people in the world don't have access to electricity, says the founder of a company called "MPOWERD."

These folks and another 1.5 billion people on lousy electrical grids often use kerosene-powered lamps to see at night.

The problem with kerosene lamps is that kerosene is expensive, and the lamps pollute the air that these folks breathe. So kids grow up with clogged lungs, etc.

So a company called MPOWERD has invented a cool little solar-powered lantern called "Luci."

The lanterns charge 6 hours of sunlight and then provides 6-12 hours of light.

They're light and flexible.

You can buy them for $15.95 apiece."

Read more at the Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/mpowerd-luci-solar-powered-light-2013-1#ixzz2IecHGwep

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