Fuel continue to be the largest operating expenditure for airlines and is expected to cost them an extra $US40 billion this year. So, MIT’s developing a new style of aircraft that could run on as little as 30 per cent as today’s 737′s.
The question implicit here would have meant something completely different five years ago. But things are changing: computers are shrinking; tablets are knocking; the clouds are forming. The PC will thrive, says Ballmer, because PCs encompass all of this. [Bits]
Steve Ballmer took his turn in the hot seat today at D8, and anybody hoping for a few candid spitballs from Microsoft’s quotable CEO wasn’t disappointed. Ballmer had plenty to say about everyone’s faults – starting with his own company’s:
“No,” says El Jobso, when asked by Kara Swisher at D8 if Apple is going to pull Google off the iPhone, given the competition that’s erupted between them.
