11 Oct 09 Commercial Fuel From Algae Still Years Away
chrnb sends along this quote from a report at Reuters: "Filling your vehicle's tank with fuel made from algae is still as much as a decade away, as the emerging industry faces a series of hurdles to find an economical way to make the biofuel commercially. Estimates on a timeline for a commercial product, and profits, vary from two to 10 years or more. Executives and industry players who gathered at the Algae Biomass Summit this week in San Diego said they need to push for breakthroughs along the entire chain — from identifying the best organisms to developing efficient harvesting methods. ... So far on the list: finding the right strain of algae among thousands of species that will produce high yields; designing systems where the desired algae can multiply and other species don't invade and disrupt the process; and extracting its oils without degrading other parts of the algae that can be made into side products and sold as well."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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23 Oct 09 AOL hard at work on Internet 'content platform'
As it braces to be spun off and struggles with revenue, Time Warner's AOL Internet unit is busy crafting a new strategy focused around content creation that represents a shift in its focus, AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong said Thursday.
"We're focused on growing a large platform around content and monetizing that content," Armstrong said on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
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07 Jan 10 AT&T to have first Dell Android phone exclusively
Dell will launch an Android smartphone later this year and AT&T will carry it exclusively, officials of both companies announced today at the 2010 AT&T Developer Summit.
AT&T will also sell two other Android smartphones exclusively later this year, one from Motorola Inc. that uses the Motoblur social networking service, and the other from HTC.
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