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Tech Award winners include fortified rice and fuel cell

Crave Projects that turn slaughterhouse waste into energy and fertilizer, and zinc oxide from fuel cells into fertilizer, as well as programs to fortify rice with nutrients, feed Indian children, and boost ... Read story »

Malaysian students help meet United Nations Millennium Goals, win Microsoft Imagine Cup awards

Blogs The Imagine Cup is a global student technology competition sponsored by a name that everyone in the urban world knows well--Microsoft. This year, the participation was as high as 300,000 students ... Read story »

Land grab in East Malaysia

Blogs Recently, a United Nations human rights expert reported that international investors have been buying up or leasing large amounts of farmland in developing countries. This is hardly surprising. I am sure that ... Read story »

Popular Mechanics' breakthrough award

Crave On Thursday, Popular Mechanics magazine will unveil its 2009 Breakthrough awards. Included on the list is a series of innovators, as well as a number of products, including this lawn mower, ... Read story »

Toshiba to embrace Blu-ray finally officially

Crave We earlier reported about Toshiba's rumored interest in jumping on the Blu-ray bandwagon. This is now confirmed by the company's application for Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) membership in its latest announcement. ... Read story »

Malaysia's first nuclear power plant targeted for 2025

Blogs Remember the post that discussed whether Malaysia should build a nuclear power plant? After writing that, I received the following email (grammar and proper phrasing notwithstanding): Hi, I am a Malaysian ... Read story »

Chinese space program--boldly going where others have gone before

Blogs I understand that the Chinese space program is a stepping stone of pride and development for the country, and I really don't mean to trounce it. However, is it too much ... Read story »

India shuns OLPC

Blogs In April this year, Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Laboratory proposed to the Government of India to sell one million laptops, at the rate of US$100 per unit, under the One ... Read story »

VHS over and out in the US

Crave Panasonic DMP-BD70V Blu-ray/VHS player. While Panasonic recently announced a new Blu-ray/VHS combo player at CES 2009 last month, the antique tape media is definitely giving up the ghost in the US. ... Read story »

iPhone sales zoom at 123 percent--is recession helping it?

Blogs The economic slump seems to have no impact on Apple. It recently posted a quarterly profit of US$1.21 billion on revenue of US$8.16 billion on Wednesday. If anything, Apple is experiencing ... Read story »

Privacy in Bolehland means...

Blogs ... people can take naked pictures of you and get off scott-free (ABSOLUTELY no pun intended there). Originally, my post today was going to be on the subject of my Week ... Read story »

For now, Honda will skip electric vehicles

Crave TOKYO--One name is conspicuously absent from the electric vehicle hoopla: Honda. And R&D chief Masaaki Kato says that is for good reason. Honda Motor Co. has no plans to produce electric ... Read story »

Mobile payment in Japan

Blogs I was introduced to this popular and ubiquitous mobile payment service in Japan called "Edy", so I snapped away with the Canon PowerShot S5 IS that I had on loan to test ... Read story »

COMDDAP 2008--Live IT! Love IT!

Blogs If the crowd who attended the recent COMDDAP 2008 event is any indication of where the IT industry is heading to, I would say it's heading to a right and good ... Read story »

Windows Starter gets new market: Netbooks

Crave For many years now, Microsoft has offered a "starter edition" of Windows aimed at first-time PC buyers in emerging markets. Though low-cost, the starter version has limitations such as only working ... Read story »

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