GOOGLE PLANS SMART GRID
ELECTRICITY SOFTWARE

Google is to release electricity monitoring software that will allow uses to receive usage data from compatible “smart meters” and optimize their energy use. The program, called Power Meter, will only work on homes and offices that are equipped with “smart-meters” that detail the time and level of electricity consumption.

The internet company at San Francisco efforts to encourage a “smart grid” – a next generation transmission system that will allow consumers to feed power into the system and monitor their consumption so that they can use power when demand is low and rates are cheaper. In addition, the designed to position Google to take advantage of a huge government investment in a smart grid as part of its stimulus package aimed at increasing US energy efficient.






NOKIA TO CONCENTRATE RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT SITES

Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones. It planned to concentrate its mobile research and development to fewer sites in Finland and introduce temporary layoffs to counter lower demand.

At Helsinki area, research and development sites were to remain in Tampere, Oulu, and Solo. To adjust production with market demand, Nokia reduce production at its Solo plant by introducing temporary lay-offs on a rotational basis. So the temporary lay-offs would affect about 20-30 per cent of the some 2500 employees in Solo during each phase.



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