News tagged with utility bills

Company makes power bills more understandable, suggests how to save energy

It's often said that knowledge is power. Knowledge about power is what drives Opower, a 5-year-old online customer engagement platform.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Energy mythbusting: The truth about those energy-saving tips

You've read the energy-saving tips. You've armed yourself with caulk. You're ready to do some serious damage to your gas and electric bills. Not so fast.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Free-to-pay? No way! Professor explores negative billing

During the festive season, online shoppers may think they're getting a bargain when they click on promotional discount boxes or sign up for free trials for such things as Christmas cards, exercise tips or even e-dating. But ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

For migrant workers, community cooperation builds on individual strengths

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fostering community cooperation, building on skills and strengths, and getting strangers to work together - these are fundamentals of community development. Now, a pilot study of six families living in a ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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New release of Web-based resource resolves confusion over plant names

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet -- but it might confound scientists interested in understanding the chemical components of its fragrance or discovering where its ancestors grew in the wild.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review: Facebook snapshot doesn't capture dynamics

(AP) -- In my five years on Facebook, I've shared a lot of photos, links and other tidbits about my life. I've commented on what my friends share, and I've endorsed plenty of their posts by hitting the "like" button. I've ...

Technology / Internet

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New Vermont law: Researchers to measure 'genuine progress'

"What you measure is what you get," said Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. Soon Vermont may measure its economic well-being somewhat differently.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Monthly smartphone bills down at AT&T

(AP) -- Hidden in AT&T Inc.'s financial statements is a story that runs counter to its optimistic profit projections: The company is making less and less from each new smartphone subscriber.

Technology / Business

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taking an innovative approach to battery design

You have to give Donald Sadoway points for style: Not many professors come to the last class of a semester dressed in black tie, decorate the table with linen and a vase of fresh roses, and toast their students ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In '72, EPA battled pollution; now it's politics

(AP) -- A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Doubts linger about space station's science potential

After more than 12 years and at least $100 billion in construction costs, NASA leaders say the International Space Station finally is ready to bloom into the robust orbiting laboratory that agency leaders envisioned more ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 11

Amazon, Apple, Twitter score low on clean energy: study

Amazon, Apple and Twitter were graded poorly Tuesday in a Greenpeace study of technology titans' use of clean energy to power the mushrooming Internet cloud, but Facebook, Google and Yahoo! won praise.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Best marketing for renewable energies

Transmission system operators must assess precisely the supply of electricity from renewable energies for the next day in order to market this electricity on the European Power Exchange as effectively as possible. The sharply ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

App makes saving energy social at Facebook

An application released on Tuesday plugs into the power of Facebook to make saving energy an online community affair.

Technology / Software

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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