The UK could halve the carbon emissions from homes and buildings by the end of the next decade - and create thousands of "green" jobs in the process, the UK Green Building Council said today. The industry body said buildings were responsible for 44% of the country's carbon dioxide emissions - but it was possible to cost-effectively cut those emissions by 50% by 2020. According to ...

... an aging boxer who’s put on too many pounds, is hoping to shed some extra weight to better compete with the young up-and-comers. The Finnish handset manufacturer said today that it will halve its smartphone portfolio next year to “cut down unnecessary differentiation” and put more effort behind fewer products. The long overdue move to consolidate its lineup isn’t entirely ...

UberGizmo (blog) Nokia to Halve Its Smartphone Portfolio GigaOm (blog) ... of new models — but the degree to which it's reducing its portfolio is drastic given that it churned out some 20 smartphone models this year alone. ... UPDATE 2-Nokia says halving smartphone offeringReuters Nokia cutting smartphone portfolio by 50 percent for 2010Mobile Burn Nokia to reduce smartphone offering by half ...

Despite the N900 looking like a return to the days of quality Nokia phones, it's announced it will halve production of its smartphones in 2010, instead concentrating on dumbphones, or "mid to low end smartphones," as they see it. Our suspicions were raised three days ago when they stated they'd only be releasing one Maemo device in 2010, being a figurative bullet in the foot of ...

Freescale, the chip company formerly known at Motorola Semiconductor, wants to cut its carbon footprint by 50 percent by 2015 from a 2008 baseline and recycle 90 percent of its waste. It will also try to reduce water consumption by 50 percent – chip companies actually end up using a lot of water in their fabrication facilities. The goals come on top of an earlier goal to reduce the carbon ...

More primary schools are ditching the traditional one-hour lunch break in favour of shorter breaks to combat bad behaviour. Rowley Avenue School principal Glenn Bermingham said the Christchurch school had noticed the number of children misbehaving increased in the last 15 minutes of the lunch break. Teachers were reporting more incidences of conflict, and pupils not sharing and becoming irritable ...

In steeds meer Britse huisgezinnen wordt de 'gewone' hond als huisdier vervangen door een 'hybride wolf', die nauw verwant is met het wilde dier dat ooit zo gevreesd werd. Die dieren, waarvoor meer dan 5.000 euro moet worden neergeteld, lijken als ze volgroeid zijn sprekend op een echte wolf en maken zelfs hetzelfde jankende geluid, in plaats van het ons vertrouwde geblaf, ...

The automotive industry saw the rate of insolvencies drop by 53 per cent from October 2008 to October 2009, according to the latest Insolvency Index from Experian, the global information services company. With 43 automotive businesses going under in October, the insolvency rate for automotive businesses was 0.12 per cent in October, half of October

The economics of wind generation look set to be transformed, which could herald a new wave of wind-farm proposals across Scotland. The National Grid is working on a new formula which could cut by 50% the huge transmission charges facing developers of wind farms in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands and Islands. The prospect of the massive boost is precisely because of one of wind power’s ...

... the public resource of all internet identifiers ending in ".nyc", and all internet identifiers used by residential and business access network operators serving the Five Boroughs. From the deck of the "Halve Maen", whether flying a Dutch, or Swiss flag, both camps appear to be little more than a couple of Chiefs lacking Indians, unlikely to thrive in the demanding environment ...

Nokia might be in some troubles, having announced that they will cut back drastically on the number of different smartphone models it releases in 2010. that strategy will additionally see them push try to push smartphone prices down while increasing margins. After all, to release less products would mean being able to place even more effort in those that are meant to hit the market. Do you think ...

Nokia announced more than 15 smartphones this year, both touch and non-touch (E72, E75, E55, E52, N86 8MP, 5630 XpressMusic, 5530 XpressMusic, N97 Mini, X6 and so on), and it looks like this number will be halved in 2010. The reason for this is the continuously increasing competition coming from RIM, Apple, HTC and, more recently, Samsung. According to Reuters, Antti Vasara, Nokia’s head of ...

Nokia’s still the number one cell phone company in the world, but that’s because they own the low and middle end of the cellphone markets: dumbphones, in other words. In the luxury end of the spectrum, Nokia has virtually no penetration: they’ve never once managed to put out a smartphone with any of the allure

... this dizzying array of choices confuses consumers". When we get the details of which models will be launched in 2010, we'll be sure to let you know. Read Tags: Phones Mobile phones Nokia Biz Nokia to halve smartphone portfolio originally appeared on on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:32:28 +0000

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is likely to trim its borrowing plan, picking up debt to the tune of only Rs 600 crore in the next four months as compared to the Rs 1,200 crore approved by the authority’s board recently. AAI is also making another bid to win approval from the finance ministry for floating tax-free bonds to the tune of Rs 5,500 crore. According to highly-placed civil ...