Micro-blogs in China: Tweeting through the ‘Great Firewall’

By Lara Farra
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Beijing, China – A handful of homegrown micro-blogging sites emerged about the same time Twitter started to gain a small, yet steadily growing, share of Chinese Internet users, beginning about 2007, around a year after Twitter was launched in the U.S. in 2006.

Audi A3 TDI named Green Car of the Year

By Martin Zimmerman
LOS ANGELES — The 2010 Audi A3 TDI was named Green Car of the Year at the L.A. Auto Show on Thursday, giving the Germans and clean diesel technology back-to-back wins.

8 Extreme Solutions to Global Warming

By John R. Quain

Desperate times call for desperate measures.
While the politicians fiddle in Copenhagen, many believe the only way to solve the global warming problem is to take radical, creative new steps, deploying new technologies to tweak the temperature.
Over the past few years scientists have offered up some extreme measures — from carbon-capturing rocks to [...]

Creationist students take field trip to hotbed of evolution: The Smithsonian

By Steve Hendrix, WashingtonPost.com
Every winter, David DeWitt takes his biology class to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, but for a purpose far different from that of other professors.

The case against enterprise microblogging

by Dave Rosenberg
As a consistent Twitter user, I’ve found the [...]

Ticketmaster to change online sales system

By Samantha Henry, Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Ticketmaster agreed Monday to change its online sales process after it directed people seeking Bruce Springsteen tickets to a subsidiary that charged up to 50 times the face value.

Data Deduplication Offers a Growing Storage Solution

By Matthew Sarrel
Tech Analysis: Under pressure because of the growing mountain of data that needs to be stored, enterprises are taking a look at data deduplication as a way of reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Vendors such as IBM, EMC, Data Domain and NetApp are offering some form of data deduplication capabilities. But there are [...]

iPhone apps round-up: Business tools for the New Year

by Philip Michaels, Macworld.com
As people get ready to return to work after two weeks of holiday festivities, it seems fitting to turn our attention to a pair of business and productivity iPhone and iPod touch apps that have debuted in the App Store recently.