News tagged with economic stimulus package

Barack Obama Announces Another $1.2 billion for Energy R&D

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting areas of technological development in the coming years is likely to be energy development -- specifically green energy development. With new advances in physics ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3 weblog

Japan stimulus plan to focus on green tech: report

Japan is planning subsidies to boost corporate investment in factories making environment-friendly products, in a fresh economic stimulus package expected next month, a report said Friday.

Technology / Business

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Japan mulls high-tech economic stimulus

Japan may invest two billion dollars or more in new information and communication systems under an economic stimulus package with the aim of creating 400,000 jobs by 2011, an official said Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US to pump $1.2 bln to expand broadband access

The US administration unveiled plans Wednesday to spend 1.2 billion dollars to expand broadband or high-speed Internet access to dozens of under-served rural communities.

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace

(AP) -- On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chain saws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Toshiba, Sharp mull 'solar power tie-up'

Japanese consumer electronics giants Toshiba and Sharp are in talks on a possible tie-up in the solar power generation field, the companies said Friday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Billions spent on health IT stimulus could lead to major boom... or bust

The more than $19 billion dollars of funding provided for health care information technology (IT) in President Obama's economic stimulus package offers a unique opportunity to deliver on the promise of computerized health ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stimulus package 'Making Work Pay' credit may lead to bigger tax bills this year

The small increase in take-home pay that began in April 2009 through the Making Work Pay Credit (MWPC) could mean an unexpected bump in your tax bill, says Cheryl Block, J.D., tax law expert and professor ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Go for gigabit speeds: America should expect nothing less

As federal officials begin reviewing 2,200 detailed proposals requesting more than seven times the $4 billion in broadband investment in this round of stimulus funding, it's a good time to revisit the big-picture and ask ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Paperless health care? One hospital's long journey

(AP) -- Baby Riley Matthews wheezed noisily on the exam table. "He's belly-breathing," the emergency-room doctor said worriedly - Riley's little abdomen was markedly rising and falling with each breath, a sign of respiratory ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Which treatment works best? Top study needs listed

(AP) -- The government is about to start a huge research effort to prove which are the best treatments for scores of ailments. Irregular heartbeat, prostate cancer, back pain and hearing loss lead the list of medical problems ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0