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To improve accessibility for the hearing impaired, YouTube on Thursday rolled out auto-captioning for all users. The video site initiated the project in 2008 and opened it up to a small group of users last November.

Sony Ericsson is giving consumers a way to talk and bee-bop to their favorite song. The handset maker has developed motion-detecting earphones that allow mobile-phone users to listen to music and take mobile calls by placing and removing earbuds.

The London-based company has created marketing materials to promote its MH907 earphones, including a cartoon step-by-step demonstration of a barefoot boy sitting on a bus listening to music, receiving and ending a call, then popping the earbuds in again to resume listening to music.

When the Palm Pre first hit store shelves on June 6, it took no time for analysts to take the device apart.

Among them was Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal analyst for teardown services at iSuppli, a market research firm based in El Segundo, Calif. His mission: to find out which suppliers made the smartphone's innards and come up with an estimate of how much it cost Palm to build it.

Apple is relying on iPhone developers to test one of the features in iPhone OS 3.0. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company asked developers in an e-mail to test its push-notification technology, which allows apps to receive updates.

Apple will use an Associated Press application to test the push process. "We have selected a prerelease version of the Associated Press app for iPhone OS 3.0 to create a high-volume test environment for our servers," the e-mail said.

Apple is relying on iPhone developers to test one of the features in iPhone OS 3.0. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company asked developers in an e-mail to test its push-notification technology, which allows apps to receive updates.

Apple will use an Associated Press application to test the push process. "We have selected a prerelease version of the Associated Press app for iPhone OS 3.0 to create a high-volume test environment for our servers," the e-mail said.

Exxon is not known for being a friend to the environment, but for the past couple of decades they have been researching and implementing carbon capture and storage technology. Now, they're investing $170 million towards furthering what they've already accomplished.

Exxon is not known for being a friend to the environment, but for the past couple of decades they have been researching and implementing carbon capture and storage technology. Now, they're investing $170 million towards furthering what they've already accomplished.

I love go-go-gadget thinking and multimillionaire vacuum cleaner king James Dyson has it coming out his ears with his hopes to use his vacuum cleaner engine technology to run a solar powered car.
Skreeeeeech.....no he isn't. I like talking about what is happening, rather than what isn't. But this is too good to pass up.

In the last few weeks it's become obvious that the demand for wind power is skyrocketing. Manufacturers can't build enough turbines to fill orders, and waiting lists are already years long. So something's going right in Wind. But the CEO of FloDesign Wind, Stanely Kowalski thinks things could be going even better. Using FloDesign's expertise in aircraft engines, he hopes to completely re-invent the wind turbine...and make them three times more efficient while he's at it.