Month August 2009

Search engine wars heat up

Battle lines are drawn for the war of web search dominance Facebook buys Friendfeed. Their real target is Google, not Twitter. Twitter vs. Facebook: Who will win in real-time search? Comparison of their search engine features. Because it’s all about…

More big solar farms for California

First Solar will be building two solar farms for Southern California Edison in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. They will be capable of powering 170,000 homes (550 megawatts totals) with a planned completion date of 2015. Now we’re starting to…

Regulators were told of Stanford fraud, ignored it

Not only did the SEC and other regulatory agencies ignore warnings as early as 2003 that Allen Stanford was running a Ponzi scheme, their primary reason why they couldn’t investigate him was bogus. They said the money was offshore and…