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Archive of Technology on Thursday November 05, 2009
NY: Cuomo targets Intel for global 'campaign of illegal conduct'
The Attorney General charges the world's largest chip-fab with engaging in broad-based bribery and coercion to maintain its market position in a new antitrust lawsuit. Read More
MD: Free phones, airtime offered to poor Marylanders
BALTIMORE, Md. -- One of the country's largest national prepaid cell phone carriers is making free phones and 64 minutes of monthly air time available to nearly 400,000 low-income Maryland residents under a new effort it brought to the state this week. Read More
DE: Bluewater's foes now on its side
It wasn't that long ago that Bluewater Wind's main opponents were Delmarva Power and NRG Energy. But if Bluewater's offshore wind farm gets built, it may have both to thank for keeping the project afloat. Read More
FL: Fla. GOP -- Steele a victim of bogus 'tweets'
Brevard Republican Party Chairman Jason Steele was targeted by a fictitious Twitter account set up by a fellow party official, the Republican Party of Florida announced. Read More
LA: LSU to aid 'genome zoo'
LSU is expected to provide much of the DNA and tissue specimens for a new international project to assemble a "genome zoo" of 10,000 vertebrate species. Read More
MA: Report -- State must step up fight against overdoses
Tamper-proof prescription pads, jail diversion programs and school-based drug counselors are some of the steps Massachusetts should adopt to stem OxyContin and heroin overdoses, according to a new report. Read More
ME: Company bids for biomass contract
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Brookfield Renewable Power has bid to supply electricity to the state's utilities from a biomass boiler it hopes to install at its local paper mill, a next step among several needed to restart the mill, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday. Read More
MN: Saving the ash tree, seed by seed
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Most of Minnesota's ash trees seem doomed, but the rush is on to preserve their seeds in hopes of saving the species. Read More
NE: Nebraskans eager to trim budget
Any Nebraskans worth their corn husks will tell you who needs to start at quarterback for the Husker football team. And they're full of ideas on how to wrest the state out of its sticky, $334 million budget problem, judging from e-mails sent to reporters and to a state senator's Web site. Read More
NH: Anthem warns of security breach
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is warning 10,000 New Hampshire physicians, dentists and other providers that their Social Security numbers may have been stolen. Read More
NY: Aqueduct-bid tribe in 'illegal casino' flap
NEW YORK -- The Florida Seminole tribe, which is part of a team making a play to run the potentially lucrative video lottery casino at Aqueduct, is enmeshed in a controversy in its own state, with some pols claiming they're illegally allowing gambling. Read More
NY: Cuomo files Intel antitrust suit
In 2005, Michael S. Dell's namesake company was getting pounded. His competitors were selling personal computers and servers built on cheap, popular and powerful chips from Advanced Micro Devices, while Mr. Dell had stuck loyally with slower chips from Intel. Read More
NY: Some N.Y. voters uncomfortable with new system
Change isn't always easy, and that came through this week in the comments of voters who marked paper ballots and scanned them into machines, rather than the old-fashioned way of pulling mechanical levers, election officials said. Read More
OK: Oklahoma defends its handling of $2.8B in stimulus funds
Oklahoma correctly accepted and spent its federal stimulus funds, an assistant attorney general said Wednesday in arguing against a lawsuit that claimed Oklahoma officials acted wrongly. Read More
SC: Details to be kept quiet
Politicians and other state officials privately crafted a $450 million incentive deal to land Boeing Co. on the promise of thousands of jobs and a multibillion-dollar economic impact, but the details of that deal could be kept from public view for the next year. Read More
TN: TN legislators may scrap $70M biofuels project
State lawmakers say they might pull the plug on a University of Tennessee effort to produce ethanol from switchgrass, after school officials said it has changed business partners, scaled down production and now plans to start out using corncobs, not switchgrass. Read More
TX: Senator -- No fed money for US-China wind project
WASHINGTON — A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project because he says it will generate Chinese, not American, jobs. Read More |
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