Coming Soon: A Corn-Based BPA Replacement

Tagged with:

email

Published Aug. 17, 2010 at 9:50 a.m.
799260-coming-soon--a-corn-based-bpa-replacement

BPA, a toxic compound found in everything from store receipts to water bottles, has been a hot topic as of late. That's because most industries have been slow to adopt alternatives to the petroleum-based estrogenic compound, which is used in the plastic manufacturing process, among other things. Enter isosorbide, a corn-based industrial ingredient that the Archer Daniels Midland Company is touting as a safe, renewable alternative to BPA ... Archer Daniels explains: ... Isosorbide is a versatile

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

BlackBerry Panics, Cuts Price of the Torch, Its Supposed Savior

Tagged with:

email

Published Aug. 17, 2010 at 8:44 a.m.
799263-blackberry-panics--cuts-price-of-the-torch--its-supposed-savior

Bad news for BlackBerry fans (and, I suppose, BlackBerry's parent company, RIM): Sales of the company's newest, best, and most optimistic phone are so lousy that RIM has been forced to slash the price only a week after launch ... RIM may have the biggest smartphone market share in North America, but the Canadian company hasn't had a bonafide hit in some time--and that becomes a real problem when you consider the legions of huge-selling competitors, including the iPhone 4, HTC Evo 4G, HTC Droid

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Droolworthy Possibilities for Verizon's 1 Gigabit Network

Tagged with:

email

Published Aug. 17, 2010 at 2:47 a.m.
799264-droolworthy-possibilities-for-verizon-s-1-gigabit-network

Verizon announced yesterday that during a trial, one of its customers was able to hit vey near to a gigabit in speed on the FiOS network. The customer, a business subscriber in Taunton (unrelated to Star Wars, I'm pretty sure), Massachusetts, remains unnamed, and the trial is certainly not indicative of any kind of nationwide ability on Verizon's part. But this outlier is far more important than just a bigger number that nobody but a nerd would care about ... Let's dial back a little bit.

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Microsoft Finally Launches a Portable Xbox--Inside Windows Phone 7

Tagged with:

development, email, leadership

Published Aug. 17, 2010 at 12:34 a.m.
799244-microsoft-finally-launches-a-portable-xbox--inside-windows-phone-7

Microsoft may be late to the new world of smartphones begun by the Apple iPhone back in 2007, but the company has some interesting advantages over competitors like Apple and Google. Chief among those is that Microsoft is, lest we forget, a gaming powerhouse ... Far from the half-hearted (albeit underrated) efforts of Zune, Microsoft's Xbox experiment is innovative, critically acclaimed, and, most importantly, incredibly successful. Xbox Live, when it launched way back in 2002, was a ballsy move

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Tata Motors to Debut Two Electric Vehicles in Europe by Next Year

Tagged with:

email

Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:37 p.m.
799262-tata-motors-to-debut-two-electric-vehicles-in-europe-by-next-year

Tata Motors is a lot of things--India's largest car manufacturer, producer of the $2,000 car (the Nano), and designer of the world's cheapest high-rise apartments. Now it appears that Tata can add another title to its ever-growing list: mainstream manufacturer of electric vehicles. Edmunds reports that Tata is planning to launch two electric vehicles in Europe by March of 2011 ... The vehicles, set to launch first in the U.K. and Scandinavia, will reportedly include a variation of the Indica

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Actor Kevin Pollak Reinvents Himself With Web Video

Tagged with:

career, development, email, interview, performance

Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:29 p.m.
799250-actor-kevin-pollak-reinvents-himself-with-web-video

In his 30-year career, Kevin Pollak has appeared in more than 60 films and created indelible roles in such modern classics as A Few Good Men and The Usual Suspects. His Internet awakening occurred in 2009, when he started his Streamy Award winning weekly talk show Kevin Pollak Chat Show backed by Jason Calacanis (Mahalo). He ventured into the world of Web video with his acclaimed original Web series Vamped Out (it was his directorial debut and he wrote and starred in it as well). Vamped Out

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Nuclear Waste Management Problem Remains

Tagged with:

email, management

Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 4:53 p.m.
799245-nuclear-waste-management-problem-remains

Americans have good reason to be scared of nuclear power. After being pummeled for decades with images of nuclear war, nuclear winter, and now nuclear terrorism, it's hard to stay calm about the subject. But according to a report published in Science, Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future spent so much time on fixing the country's nuclear waste program that it completely neglected to deal with the public's fears ... It's a big problem--there are over 50 reactors currently

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Brings Fashion to New York's Lincoln Center

Tagged with:

career, email

Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 9:05 a.m.
796521-stephanie-winston-wolkoff-brings-fashion-to-new-york-s-lincoln-center

Photograph by Peter Hapak ... Director of Fashion, Lincoln Center ... Photograph by Hulton Archive/Getty Images ... Big Idea: Create a fashion hub at New York's Lincoln Center, which Stephanie Winston Wolkoff calls a "blank white canvas that hadn't been filled." "We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution," she says, "whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between artists and designers." Wolkoff is starting with

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Work Smart 2: Get a Personal Skype Consultation with Gina Trapani and Friends

Tagged with:

email, meetings

Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 5:29 p.m.
794894-work-smart-2--get-a-personal-skype-consultation-with-gina-trapani-and-friends

Have you got a nagging question about technology and productivity? If my experience is any guide, you do. That's why my next batch of Work Smart videos is going be a Q&A series based on your questions ... Here's how it works: Email me at worksmart@fastcompany.com with your productivity questions. I'll sort through the submissions, and then set up a personal video chat consultation with you--and I'll call in some of my best tech-savvy friends to offer their advice too. The clip will appear

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback

Investors to Oil Companies: Prove That You're Prepared for Disaster

Tagged with:

email, management

Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 5:27 p.m.
794873-investors-to-oil-companies--prove-that-you-re-prepared-for-disaster

The oil industry has gone through the full grieving process for the Gulf oil disaster--from denial (this is something that could only happen to BP) to acceptance (creation of an industry-wide deepwater rapid response plan). But shareholders are still concerned for the overall safety of the sector, which is why 58 investors representing $2.5 trillion in assets banded together recently to demand improved disclosure of oil disaster response plans ... The investors, led by Ceres and the Investor

Read Article Read    Post Talkback Post Talkback


Featured Advertiser: