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November 5, 2009
After the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, the former East Germany's society and economy had to be reimagined. All told, about 14,000 companies in East Germany were...
October 27, 2009
Following its sale by parent company Ford (F) last year, car maker Jaguar Land Rover has had to face the thorny problem of cutting itself loose from Ford's web of ...
October 23, 2009
The wireless world is a mountain of confounding complexities. Consider the bewildering, frenetic, and financially stressful situation gripping mobile handset ...
October 16, 2009
The power grid of the future is one of humanity's boldest visions. Gigantic wind farms in the sea and enormous solar fields in the desert are to generate the bulk of ...
October 13, 2009
For once James Dyson has invented something without cutting-edge technology – a fan without blades. With an eye on the lucrative US market for air conditioning, ...
October 1, 2009
Any athlete will tell you that the time to train is in dismal weather, not on perfect, sun-drenched days. If you want to excel at the best of times, it seems, you need...
September 17, 2009
At the Frankfurt Auto Show this month, electric cars are the new black. Everyone from BMW (BMWG.DE) to an Atlanta startup called Wheego Electric Cars is trotting out ...
September 9, 2009
Chief executives of Germany's major energy suppliers usually don't have much time for their junior counterpart, Lichtblick. The Hamburg-based green-electricity ...
August 7, 2009
Could the City of Lights soon become the City of Electric Cars? Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, building on the success of the city's popular Vélib curbside bike rental ...
July 17, 2009
Serious mountain climbers know the problem all too well: Packing chocolate in your rucksack only ends in frustration when you reach the summit. If you're walking in ...
July 15, 2009
On July 14 in Paris, a detachment of 400 Indian soldiers proudly led the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Elysées. The chief guest of honor was Indian Prime Minister ...
July 2, 2009
At the beginning of the Harry Potter series, the wizard Albus Dumbledore uses a magical "put-outer" to extinguish the streetlights in young Harry's neighborhood. Now ...
June 29, 2009
Fifty billion connected devices are coming to cellular networks in the next decade, according to Ericsson—as everyday objects go mobile. Ericsson's VP of systems...
June 8, 2009
On the streets of Amsterdam last week, major changes were afoot. The first of 1,200 households were gearing up to install an energy-saving system aimed at cutting ...
March 13, 2009
Among Amsterdam's 17th century town houses and meandering canals, big changes are afoot. On Utrechtsestraat, a major shopping avenue in the center of the Dutch ...
February 24, 2009
If you thought the rise of open OS platforms would herald a new era of peace and harmony in the mobile industry you'd be sadly mistaken, as rival players in the space ...
December 17, 2008
If the recent five-year boom in solar energy marked the birth of a global industry, the next half-decade should be its coming of age. But like most adolescents, solar ...
December 16, 2008
Virgin Media has finally launched its long-anticipated '50Mbps' cable broadband service but analysts have warned the headline speed may not be attainable for very ...
December 15, 2008
European industry and the power generation sector in eastern Europe are the big winners coming out of deliberations between EU premiers and presidents on the bloc's ...
December 10, 2008
Global car sales have plummeted in the past year and there appears little hope for improvement any time soon. General Motors (GM) and Ford (F) are teetering on the ...
December 4, 2008
Talk about an image problem. For weeks, newspapers around the world have carried stories about dairy-poisoned babies—at least six have died, and 300,000 have ...
December 3, 2008
The group of 20 young, fresh-faced computer programmers in jeans and polo shirts embossed with the company logo could have been with any Silicon Valley startup. But ...
December 3, 2008
"Being digital" is about to take on a whole new meaning. The phrase was popularized by a prescient book of the same name written by computer guru Nicholas Negroponte, ...
December 3, 2008
A decade has passed since telecom operators and handset makers first tried to get Europeans excited about mobile-phone commerce by demonstrating it was possible to buy...
November 24, 2008
Times are tough for small and midsize businesses. Around the world, consumer spending is down, loans are expensive, raw materials cost more than they did a few years ...
