Autodesk has announced the Autodesk Assistance Program which will offer free student software term licenses, free online training, reduced cost classroom training, and a path to certification for unemployed designers, engineers, and architects in all […]
Autodesk has announced AutoCAD Exchange, an online site for AutoCAD users. It is designed to allow AutoCAD users to connect with each other and with industry specialists. It provides access to CAD experts, AutoCAD tips, CAD […]
There are two reports on stimulus spending in the G-20 by Eswar Prasad and Isaac Sorkin of the Brookings Institution entitled Understanding the G-20 Economic Stimulus Plans and Assessing the G-20 Stimulus Plans: A Deeper Look . The reports include […]
The most widely known report on the economic effects of global climate change is the The Economics of Climate Change, The Stern Review by Nicolas Stern. Its conclusions were that If climate change continues unabated, […]
In 2007 IBM surveyed 1,900 households in six countries to “assess consumer behavior and trends in energy consumption and expectations for utility companies.” The survey found that a majority of consumers in these nations are […]
According to a recent US survey conducted by researchers at George Mason and Yale Universities of 2,164 Americans, a large majorities of respondents support climate change and renewable energy policies including “92 percent supported more […]
According to the EWEA the energy committee (ITRE) of the European Parliament has voted on the Energy Recovery Plan which includes €3.98 billion for energy projects through 2010, including a new power supergrid. €565 million is […]
There are new reports that IBM is closer to acquiring Sun Microsystems. An interesting thought is that this acquisition would give IBM MySQL, by far the most popular open source RDBMS, to add to […]