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Category Archives: Chill Services

Affordable cost reducing efforts in the US, Japan, Canada and abroad take on a new form

This video provides a demonstration of how the motorcycle manages to tow a car. It’s ‘efficient and sophisticated manner’ of the patented brake and steering system work together to ‘eliminate the transfer of forces’. As the rider turns or brakes the system ensures that the steering and/or brake forces are, in largest possible extent, managed by the towing unit. The systems are operated fully with hydraulic and mechanical components and are independent of the motorcycle allowing the Retriever to be ridden like any other motorcycle even though it is actually recovering a car.

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In a down economy, are people still traveling?

A demographic analysis of visitors to Travel sites this year revealed that 25-44 year olds account for 53.5 percent of visitors to these destinations. They are also the groups screaming the loudest about this countries carbon footprint. That definitely gives one that ah ha moment.

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Entrepreneurship in the Changing Economy: From Survival to Sustainability

Entrepreneurship in the Changing Economy: From Survival to Sustainability

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Turning Waste into Bio Fuel

I love the quote “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, especially in today’s economy. Take for example Fats, Oils, and Grease, known as brown grease found in grease traps. This trash has a value greater than the $90 – $120 expense it takes it to be hauled off to a dump, by some 3rd [...]

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New FDIC Study Shows One in Four U.S. Households Currently Unbanked or Underbanked

Press Release New FDIC Study Shows One in Four U.S. Households Currently Unbanked or Underbanked Low-income and Minority Households Disproportionately Represented FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2009 Media Contact: Andrew Gray (202-898-7192) AnGray@fdic.gov The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today released the findings of its FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households, breaking new [...]

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Develop the next killer app and someone will abuse it

Develop the next killer application and it’s almost a 100% certainty that someone will find a way to hack, spam, scam, spoof, or phish your user base. This is nothing new for most of us that have been in the technology space for more than a decade; we’ve seen you are a winner scam, online [...]

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The Innovation that Henry Ford Started Breeds Evolution

Henry Ford’s concept and creation of the assembly lines focused on breaking apart complex processes into individual tasks, which moved invocation forward into today’s mainstream of technological advances. From the inception to the Model T to the Tesla Roadster and the ECOS Harbinger $89,000 Lamborghini style doors and super cars; innovation has been adopted by the Hollywood elite and wannabe’s.

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Collin County SBDC Inaugural Funding 2010 Conference

On Tuesday November 3, 2009 Collin SBDC hosted Funding 2010 Outlooks, Options, and Opportunities conference to provide an Outlook of the economy and availability of funding a new or existing business, Options available to a new business with regards to funding, and Opportunities, that partners for the SBDC and SBA can provide a new business. [...]

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Linde and Waste Management Commission World’s Largest Landfill to Liquefied Natural Gas Facility

Linde and Waste Management Commission World’s Largest Landfill to Liquefied Natural Gas Facility to produce millions of gallons of clean, renewable biofuel for collection trucks in California

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Saving Money with Software as a Service (SaaS)

Angel investing was down for the first half of the year Small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) face similar challenges as larger enterprises in this uncertain economy. Yesterday, two gloomy reports were released that may have some startups questioning their fundraising chances over the near term. The National Venture Capital Association issued data showing less than [...]

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