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Nokia’s Intranet Encourages Employee Rants
Jun 14th, 2009 by Administrator

From Business Week
Nokia’s Blog-Hub encourages employees to express their opinions about management, the company, and whatever else might be on their minds. This is in an effort to foster innovation and move more quickly with implementing change in the organization.
Read more here

MIT Demonstrates 90 MPH Solar Race Car
Mar 1st, 2009 by Administrator

Excerpted from WIRED magazine:

The university’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the oldest such team in the country, unveiled the $243,000 carbon-fiber racer dubbed Eleanor on Friday and is shaking the car down to prepare for its inaugural race later this year.

"It drives beautifully," said George Hansel, a freshman physics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the team. "It’s fun to drive and quite a spectacle."

Eleanor is slated to compete in the tenth World Solar Challenge, a seven-day race across nearly 2,000 miles of Australian outback.

See full article… (and check out the cool photos of the car!)

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