David Erickson's Stuff

Over the life cycle of solar cells — from the mining of raw materials to the finished product — just how green are they?

Scientists are building the first worldwide portrait of human impacts on the oceans, which have left just 4 percent of the seas pristine.

But between my techie toys and all of my airline travel, I have become concerned about my carbon footprint. So I do what I can. My efforts won’t change the world, but maybe it will help my corner…

Nielsen last year ran tests to determine the willingness of its television-monitoring households to allow electronic tracking of a second behavior, Web usage. So many people said no because of…

A new type of rubber developed by researchers in Paris can. When a rubberband made from the material is cut and the two ends are pressed together, they quickly form a strong new bond without glue or…

Yahoo plans to introduce a service called Buzz that relies on users to help it compile the most popular articles from around the Web.

Adobe Systems will release the official version of AIR, a software development system that will power potentially tens of thousands of applications that merge the Internet and the PC, as well as blur…

A San Francisco start-up called Get Satisfaction is the latest online ombudsman to try to mediate customer service complaints.

The world’s biggest photo and video distributor agreed to sell itself to the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman.

Gorkana keeps tabs on job-hopping in the world of business journalism but it is put together by a group of people journalists generally consider suspicious: publicists.