Cassandra Sweet and Mark Peters of CNN Money write:
"A handful of electric utilities are rolling out software made by Internet giant Google Inc. (GOOG) as part of their "smart- meter" programs in hopes it will help customers conserve energy.
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The application, called Google PowerMeter, reads information coming from a smart meter, and displays it in real-time on a Web site. As utilities increasingly embrace smart meters as a way to cut energy use, in part by charging customers for the power they use at real-time prices, they've been searching for ways to display the information in a user-friendly manner that allows customers to adjust their power use. Smart meters and their potential to help cut U.S. energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions, have been embraced by President Barack Obama and Congress, in part through billions of dollars in grants made available for smart-meter programs as part of the Recovery Act."
With the end of the Big Spring Sale and the lead-up to Easter, Amazon has axed the price of this stunning, high-performance Alienware display.
Workers at Sega of America, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., have became the first employees at a major North American video-game company to ratify a union contract, a move that may accelerate a burgeoning labor movement in an industry known for widespread instability among its work force.
The contract, ratified Tuesday, covers around 150 people across marketing and other departments at the division’s offices in Southern California. Workers will receive minimum yearly pay increases of 4% in 2024, 3% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026 as well as a number of other benefits, Catalina Brennan-Gatica, a representative for the Communications Workers of America, said in an interview.
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This should bypass pay wall
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Worst thing that will happen is it will have a lower stock price and ceos won't get extra millions they don't really need. Other than that the company will continue on and ppl will be treated better.
This is AWESOME - Sega seems to be progressive in their new ways - big props to Sega !!!
Alekaha writes: "We've gone hands on with the MSI Claw and while it offers powerful performance, its price point and lack of a USP hold it back."