China is now the largest emitter of CO 2 on the planet, as it powers a large industrial base primarily through the use of coal-fired power plants. However, many of those goods are immediately shipped overseas, often to the US and EU, which generate and use power far more efficiently.
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Europe outsourcing CO2 emissions to developing economies
Filed under: Apple Corporate , Apple Financial , iPhone At long last, Apple and China Unicom Ltd. are working to introduce Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones to China. The iPhone has failed to thrive in China , due in part to an active black market and the Golden Shield Project (GSP), which censors certain Internet content
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Apple prepping Wi-Fi iPhone for China
Prudent Energy , a Beijing-based maker of large-capacity flow batteries, has raised a $22 million third round of venture funding . Its products may be too heavy for use in plug-in vehicles, but the company could very likely become a key player in grid storage, both in China and the U.S. A truly international affair, its batteries were actually designed by a Canadian startup VRB Power Systems, which Prudent acquired in 2009 .
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Prudent scores $22M to rival EnerVault in grid-scale storage
Filed under: Apple Corporate , Apple When a lot of people get their news electronically, skimming over headlines through news aggregators, RSS feeds, and retweets on Twitter, sometimes the majority of information people will get from an article comes from the headline.
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TUAW Fact Check: Apple using underage labor? No.
Apple’s retail plan for China, its massive stockpile of cash, and the environment were all topics of discussion during the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. Though it was a fairly average shareholder meeting, these tidbits helped reassure investors that China’s plan for Asia is as serious as the company says and that Apple’s plan for its money is to keep investing in talent. One of the biggest tidbits of news out of the meeting was that Apple plans to open “up to” 25 retail stores in China in the near future
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Apple talks China retail plan, cash hoard with investors
The Bad Company 2 beta on the PC has been one of the larger time sinks for shooter fans in recent years.
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Bad Company 2 PC: the MW2 question and the server details
Botnets—large networks of malware-infected PCs remotely controlled by criminals—are a serious problem on the Internet.
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Judge’s restraining order takes botnet C&C system offline
Google’s threat to pull out of China may have been met with a shrug in some circles, but there’s a population of Chineses citizens who appear to be genuinely worried about the prospect: scientists. Nature conducted an informal survey of Chinese researchers, and got nearly 800 responses
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Chinese scientists worry about Google pullout
