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By now you’ve heard plenty about smarter cities and even a “ decade of smart ,” but what about a smarter courthouse? Or a smarter federal building? Despite the flurry of deals signed by cities and even non-profits with the likes of IBM and Cisco (which announced a new pilot project around Akron, Ohio this week), the biggest score…

The white iPhone 4, which was expected to go on sale at the end of this month, has become a pink elephant: Apple now says it won’t arrive until “later this year.” The manufacturing process turns out to be trickier than even Steve Jobs imagined. Apple’s fresh-out-of-the-box PR statement, titled “Statement by Apple on White iPhone 4″ couldn’t be…

This week, Alaska Airlines demonstrated a set of next-generation flight procedures that dramatically reduced fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Under the banner of its “Greener Skies” project, AA used satellite-based guidance technology that enabled aircraft to fly more efficient landing patterns, which are shorter and more direct. The Seattle-based airline estimates that such improved descent approaches would burn 2.1…

Want to generate innovation? Build a hub to make it happen. The U.S. Department of Energy is embarking on an ambitious plan to speed up energy innovation with a $122 million cash injection for an Energy Innovation Hub in California. Dubbed the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, the research center will do exactly as its name suggests–develop a solar…

Nokia’s business may not be circling the drain hole, but it is in the toilet despite positive spin around its recent finances. How can the company be saved? A former exec knows: by flushing its middle management. Juhani Risku wrote a book– Uusi Nokia (New Nokia)–that has been a sensation in Finland, but is only now hitting the English-speaking…

Raytheon is a name you may associate with turgid-sounding defense tech, but rarely anything that may rank as cool. This may change: It’s just unveiled its Scorpion helmet digital info tech, which may sound familiar to fans of Blue Thunder. Scorpion isn’t a helmet by itself–it’s an insert to existing helmets that injects a huge chunk of 21st century…

Judging by the recent actions of companies like Walmart and Samsung , sustainability indexes (aka green supply chain rating systems) are the next big thing in corporate social responsibility. So it isn’t all that surprising that a group of 100 retailers and apparel brands are joining together to form an industry-wide Eco Index–a software-based tool that allows companies to…

Some things were just meant to be As a rule I’m a ‘never-before-noon’ man. But one morning recently there it was, on top of the spread of magazines laid out for me on my desk. Cover story of The Atlantic Monthly, the magazine founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and some cronies over a few drinks at the Parker House…

Working with the media is a powerful way to promote your business. Some business owners are missing big opportunities to promote their business because they believe some common myths about the media. Recognize and dispel these three media myths. Media Myth 1: The job of the media is to report the facts The former editor in chief of a…