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Almost Half of U.S. Consumers Would Choose a Green Cell Phone

Andrew Williams — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:22:09 +0000

A major new survey has revealed that nearly 50% of all US consumers would consider buying a ‘green’ cell phone, but only if key factors such as the price, features, and performance were equivalent to other phones.

According to the poll of 1,000 American adults carried out by ABI Research, just 7% would be willing to pay a premium to go green, a figure that may cause cell phone companies to think deeply before investing heavily in environmentally friendlier models.

Speaking about the findings, industry analyst Michael Morgan said, “These survey results mean that almost half of those surveyed were at least committed in principle to use of a green handset. However the public is largely uninformed about their availability: only 4% said they were ‘very familiar’ with green handsets.”

Resourcefulness: how a little telco out-maneuvers the giants

Krates — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:53:39 +0000

Being small and focused helps us stay true to our mission in everything that we do. When a company called kajeet approached us via Miller Strategic Marketing we did our homework and checked out their site, did a search on reviews and looked into the bios of the executive team. We found out that kajeet is a mobile phone service that focuses on the needs of parents with young children. This is consistent with the trend that companies that work with mokugift are focused on creating nurturing experiences or have developed nurturing cultures in their company.

Parenting brings out the pragmatic and resourceful skills in everyone. kajeet approached us with the idea of

New Capacitor Could Lead to Ultra-Efficient Electric Cars

Andrew Williams — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:17:23 +0000

A team of US and Korean scientists have announced a major breakthrough in energy storage that could pave the way to a new generation of ultra-efficient electric cars, mobile phones and laptops.

The prototype capacitor, much more powerful than exisiting batteries, is capable of storing power at the same massive density as a supercapacitor (an incredible 10 billion tiny capacitors in every square centimetre), but releasing it as quickly as the fastest electrostatic capacitors.

Speaking about the invention, Gary Rubloff of the University of Maryland said, “Our primary target [for this technology] is as part of a hybrid battery-capacitor system for electric cars, but there are many [potential] small scale applications, [including] better electrical storage systems for cellphones or laptops.”