NY Times: A Grudging Accord in Climate Talks

December 20, 2009 A Grudging Accord in Climate Talks By ANDREW C. REVKIN and JOHN M. BRODER http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/science/ear...

UNFCCC PRESS RELEASE: Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference ends with political agreement to cap temperature rise, reduce emissions and raise finance

UNFCCC PRESS RELEASE: Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference ends with political agreement to cap temperature rise, reduce emis...

Center for Biological Diversity Statement on President Obama’s Copenhagen Speech

For Immediate Release, December 18, 2009 COPENHAGEN— Just hours after touching down in Copenhagen, President Obama delivered a speech indica...

Smart Grid Infrastructure to Generate $11.4 Billion Revenue for Sensors: Report

The regulation of video on demand services - Statement | Ofcom

The regulation of video on demand services - Statement | Ofcom Ofcom has published the framework for the regulation of Video on Demand (VOD)...

A Three-digit Number for Non-Emergency Healthcare Services - Designating number “111” | Ofcom

A Three-digit Number for Non-Emergency Healthcare Services - Designating number “111” | Ofcom Ofcom has introduced a new 3 digit non-emergen...

John Kerry's Copenhagen Speech

The Video is here. *The full text of the speech is below:* Thank you also for the privilege of allowing me to share some thoughts at this h...

SMART 2020: PATHWAYS TO SCALE

Copenhagen Video: Al Gore Exhorts Leaders To Preserve The ‘Glories Of This Beautiful Earth’ For The Next Generation

The Video is here . Transcript: I wish that I had the words to transfer directly from my heart to yours the passion that I feel for this iss...

Total Hotspots gets Rummbled

Rummble has acquired Total Hotspots (THS). THS already used Rummble's technology to power the THS service whereby users could find and...

Deloitte White Paper: “Greening and Sustainability in Health Care and Life Sciences: Implementing a Strategic Response”

USCAP Study: U.S. Action on Climate Compatible with Strong Economic Growth

WiGIG Alliance beams 7Gb/s at 60GHz

The WiGIG alliance (made up of around 30 companies including Intel and Broadcom etc) have announced that WiGIG will transmit at speeds of ar...

Kodak Zi8 review

Kodak have been making video cameras for a while and the Zi8 is the newest of their video devices. It's a great little video camera with...

Video: Tuvalu at Copenhagen: 'The Fate Of My Country Rests In Your Hands'

12/12/09: Ian Fry, Tuvalu delegate to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, makes a plea for a legally bindin...

EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Public Health and the Environment / Science overwhelmingly shows greenhouse gas concentrations at unprecedented levels due to human activity

Release of the 59 – 64 GHz band | Ofcom

Release of the 59 – 64 GHz band | Ofcom Ofcom has published a statement regarding its intent to make the 60GHz band license exempt. This wil...

Consultation on a new specimen performance bond for the purposes of Regulation 16 of the Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 2003 | Ofcom

Consultation on a new specimen performance bond for the purposes of Regulation 16 of the Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Rest...

Blackberry adds themes to Blackberry World

RIM the company behind the Blackberry has added themes to Blackberry World (their app store). Themes can be free or paid for and must be sui...

Apple goes La La

Apple has acquired music service LaLa but no details of the deal were specified. LaLa allows users to stream tracks or buy DRM free MP3. An...

Windows Mobile now Rummbles too

Rummble have announced the availability of the Rummble application for Windows Mobile which is being launch at the Heroes of the Mobile Scre...

45% off Ebook Purchases from O'Reilly

Thanks for reading Clean Tech and Green Business News. Here's an O'Reilly Offer to thank you! Mary Vincent If you would like to view...

Android now Rummbles

Rummble has just been released for Android phones. Rummble is an application that allows people to rate and locate venues etc. It also has ...

Google release Update Engine for MacOS X

Google have released an application and framework that developers can include in their code allowing MacOS X programs to auto-update. The co...

Foursquare release Blackberry version

300 lucky (?) Blackberry users have been selected to beta test a Foursquare client that works on Blackberry devices. The beta is private, bu...

Eco-Patents Database (WBCSD)

TomTom support not so supportive

Recently my TomTom GO910 computer voice stopped working even though upgrades etc had taken place using the supplied TomTom Home software. Th...

TRaC opens new testing facility - in Hull

TRaC who are Testing Regulatory and Compliance a body that performs interoperability testing etc have set-up shop in Hull. This will allow v...

The Lancet: Public Health Benefits of Strategies To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By  Mary Vincent  - Twitter  @MaryVincent A just-released Study by The Lancet and other notable international organizations says "Clim...

GreenBeat: Pics, Videos, Slides

U.S. To Support Small Businesses to Deploy Clean Energy Technologies

Drive Clean Website from CA Air Resources Board

The California Air Resources Board has just unveiled its revamped Drive Clean website. Please view: DriveClean.ca.gov . The site ranks cars ...

Solar investors will see stronger 2010, say analysts

Ericsson buys Nortel's GSM assets

Ericsson has acquired the North American GSM assets of bankrupt Nortel for $70m, this follows their successful purchase of the North America...

UN-Backed Report: Invest in nature today, save trillions tomorrow

NY Times: Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash

You may remember my interview with David de Rothschild on his Plastiki Expedition and the serious increase of plastic in our oceans. Here i...

Economists Concur on Threat of Warming

A New York University School of Law survey found near unanimity among 144 top economists that global warming threatens the United States ec...

Final Report on an Economic Study of Greenhouse Gas Targets and Policies for Canada

Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity is the first Canadian study to comprehensively examine how Canada can succeed economically while me...

The Whales and Dolphins in the Faroe Islands Need Your Help

By  Mary Vincent  - Follow on Twitter  @MaryVincent As you know, I have mainly focused on Green Business and Clean Tech News on this Blog. H...

Water Use by Solar Projects Intensifies

Gizmo5 sells out to Google

The rumours have been flying and it was thought that Gizmo5 would be the sensible acquisition for the new Skype as a basis for replacing the...

JoltID settles with Skype

Rather than spend millions on court cases it seems JoltID have made an agreement with Skype whereby Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis will jo...

Kilimanjaro's Ice May Disappear By 2033

HTC Touch HD2 is MiFi device

HTC's Touch HD2 will include a native WiFi router. This means the Windows Mobile 6.5 device can act as a MiFi system (i.e. personal WiFi...

Amazon drops Kindle (CDMA)

Amazon has stopped selling the US only CDMA Sprint/Nextel Kindle, though it will continue to support exiting units. Amazon is only going to ...

Skype re-engineering the world

Please note this is completely based on my own thoughts and I have not liaised with anybody else on the content. Skype is currently having ...

3 is 94% data

UK Mobile Network Operator 3's CEO Kevin Russell says 94% of all traffic across 3's network is data. This is a dramatic increase as ...

Windows 7 becomes a WiFI Hotspot

Nomadio has discovered some features in Windows 7 that allows it to be converted to a wireless hotspot. It seems Microsoft were developing f...

Nokia N-Gage RIP

Nokia has officially killed the N-Gage platform with the user community etc closing down by the end of the year. Software for N-Gage will be...

Nice Carbon Calculator

There are many Carbon Calculators out there. Jared Blumenfeld, Director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, wrote an opinion...

Study: Livestock Now Accounts for 51% GHG Emissions

Recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang finds that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon d...

Woods Institute for the Environment 5th Symposium Highlights

By  Mary Vincent  - Follow on Twitter  @MaryVincent The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment hosted a 5 Year Anniversary Symposium ...

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Barnes and Noble introduce eReader

Barnes and Noble have introduced an eReader based on Android (Google's mobile OS). It incorporates 3G and WiFi and has 2GB of memory and...

Apple updates products

Yesterday Apple updated various products. New iMacs (20.1" and 27") come with up to 3.06GHz dual core CPUs and in November a quad ...

New low power Bluetooth standard

A new Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard is due soon,it was initially based on the Wibree system developed by Nokia. BLE wil allow devices ...

Android turns 1 and increases market share

Oct 21st 2009 is the anniversary of the launch of Android and Admob have released some stats. Android now accounts for 7% global market shar...