On Wednesday, May 25, U.K.’s most influential news resource, the Guardian, has named the winners of this year’s Guardian Sustainable Business Awards, aimed at recognizing and awarding the companies who conduct their business in accordance with sustainability principles and are not afraid of innovations.
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Google plans to launch a new mobile payment system based on Near Field Technology as soon as today, dailytech.com reports with a reference to Bloomberg. According to the anonymous sources, familiar with the matter, the payment system will initially be launched in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
While an ITC support cane capable of measuring pulse and blood pressure that won the first prize of the Fujitsu Design Award 2011 is still a futuristic device that is unlikely to enter mass market in the near future, the latest enhancements to Ford’s Sync technology designed to report health-related information may become reality in a year or two, Ford assures. The automaker is currently in the process of development of mobile gadgets to allow measuring the health metrics that are vital for the drivers diagnosed with diabetes and other chronic diseases.
YouTube has included about 3,000 new movie titles into its video rental database amid the growing popularity of mobile devices and Internet-connected TVs, Los Angeles Times reports. The newly-added movies were produced by major Hollywood studios. Though no information has been provided on the names of the studios, according to LA reporter, this list may include Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros.,Universal Pictures and many more.