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How can you capitalize on the good will felt toward small business this holiday season? We've scoured the statistics and tapped experts for their best strategies

Three-dimensional television got a major marketing push nearly two years ago from the consumer electronics and entertainment industries, yet the technology has one major limitation: viewers need special eyeglasses to experience the 3-D effect. Now the marketing experts say that the technology will never catch on in a big way unless viewers can toss the glasses entirely

The knock on LED bulbs has always been their incredibly high price point. But the new Definity bulb has a price so low, it may get people to make the switch. They may cast a warmer glow than CFLs, but LED bulbs are still a long way from becoming energy-efficient incandescent bulb replacements.

Risk and fear of the unknown are the biggest obstacles companies face when trying to convince other organizations to adopt new technology. Even if you have a compelling value proposition, unless there is convincing evidence that the product or service works as promised, companies won’t change. One of my clients is a South American company called HiddenBed , the developer of a cleverly designed bed/desk combination.

A piece of lateral thinking by MIT boffins has turned a prototype robot fingertip "skin" into a hugely powerful, portable 3-D microscope that will have massive utility in biology, forensics, and other fields.

Commerce goes on at an evening market, thanks to a solar-lighting initiative that helps private companies do business in sub-Saharan Africa. | Photograph courtesy of Lighting Africa An innovative program aims to light up off-the-grid Africa by boosting supply and demand for portable solar lamps. FOR NEARLY 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, sundown means living, working, and studying by flickering candlelight or polluting kerosene lamps

New phone and tablet tech means you'll never have to get up from your couch again. (And you'll save energy in other ways, too.) Google has already made its intentions to dive bomb into the energy space clear , but so far, it has left out how this relates to its Android phones

This week, the lighting startup company vu1 is beginning to ship a new type of lightbulb that could displace compact fluorescents and LED lamps as the energy-saving bulb of choice. The technology, known as cathodoluminescence or electron-stimulated luminescence (ESL), offers similar energy savings, but provides a more natural quality of light. [break] [More]

By Marianna Parraga WILLEMSTAD (Reuters) - Lighting up the night sky with flames from its chimneys, Curacao's giant Isla refinery is at the center of an increasingly acrimonious dispute over the island's economic and environmental future. [More]