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In Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalists Turn Cautious - NYTimes.com

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Quoted from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/technology/start-ups/05venture.html?_r=2&ref=technology:

In Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalists Turn Cautious - NYTimes.com

CLEAN TECH GETS REALISTIC Venture capitalists are still chasing clean technology. Through September, $3 billion was invested in technologies that create alternative energy and conserve power, up from $1.9 billion the year before, according to the National Venture Capital Association. But big, expensive projects like building factories to manufacture solar panels or biofuels are falling out of favor.

“The economic arguments for those businesses literally went upside down in a year,” said Paul Holland, the general partner in charge of the clean tech practice at Foundation Capital.

Instead, some venture capitalists are looking at technologies that monitor energy demand, like software that tracks and regulates a building’s energy use.

FierceWireless Predictions for 2009

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Quoted from http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/prediction-1-motorolas-handset-division-will-cease-be-2009-predictions?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&cmp-id=EMC-NL-FW&dest=FW:

Prediction 1: Motorola's handset division will cease to be - 2009 Predictions - FierceWireless

Prediction 1: Motorola's handset division will cease to be - 2009 Predictions

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Motorola has decided not to spin off the handset division, and instead to place most of its chips on Android and Windows Mobile-based phones, but has said an Android phone won't be out on the market until late 2009. If LG, Samsung and Sony Ericsson beat Motorola to the punch on that front, as they likely will, Motorola's last-best-chance at reviving itself will come at the tail-end of the Android march in the United States. We think the odds are stacked too high against Motorola and that its handset division will meet its demise."

The top 9 wireless predictions for 2009

• Prediction 1: Motorola's handset division will cease to be - 2009 Predictions
• Prediction 2: The end of the clamshell phone's dominance - 2009 Predictions
• Prediction 3: Tier 2 and Tier 3 U.S. carriers will become scarce - 2009 Predictions
• Prediction 4: Low-cost carriers will experience a resurgence - 2009 Predictions
• Prediction 5: Palm will not survive the OS wars - 2009 Predictions
• Prediction 6: Cox will launch wireless but traction with consumers will be limited - 2009 Predictions
• Prediction 7: All-you-can-eat plans will drop in price - 2009 Predictions
• Prediction 8: Wireless broadband pricing will decline - 2009 Predictions
• Prediction 9: App stores will start to compete with each other for downloads and - 2009 Predictions

Read the full article at: FierceWireless Daily Monitor

 

2008: The Year of FiOS

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Most of the public feedback -- beyond the installation time and avialability of the new FiOS service across the country -- has been quite positive.

 

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New method for Stem Cells

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A Reuters article 2008-10-10 reported of a new method (from Japan's Kyoto University) of Stem Cell acquisition through "ordinary" cells which make the stem cells safe.

 

Shinya Yamanaka and his colleagues have discovered a cell transformation technique for "iPS" cells, which are created from genetic plasmid material.

 

It seems that many stem cells have powerful generating capability although the best source are those which come from embryos, hence the controversy (if the embryo is human).

 

 

Please read the Reuters article ...

 

So far, Kyoto is working with mice embryos.  However, their plan is to try their method using human cells which, if successful -- one day -- could provide new ways to treat disease.

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More on Stem Cells

"Chemists have tried making artificial blood from diverse molecules, ranging from perfluorocarbons to hemoglobin. But about a decade ago, researchers began wondering whether stem cells might be a way to make safe blood without the need for donors, says Luc Douay, a stem cell biologist from the Hemotological Laboratory at the University of Paris VI." -- from Sarah Everts 23 Feb 2009 article in Chemical & Engineering/Artificial Blood