By JustCool on Jan 31, 2008 in Cool Companies | 0 Comments
TEMPE, Ariz.– Insight Enterprises has partnered with the nonprofit organization FreedomIsNotFree.com to donate two Super Bowl XLII tickets to U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Mel Greer and his wife, Donna, in honor and recognition of his dedication and service to our country.
Insight learned about Gunnery Sgt. Greer through FreedomIsNotFree.com, whose mission is to aid wounded troops, [...]
By JustCool on Nov 21, 2007 in Cool Companies, Cool Environment | 1 Comment
Marriott Heads for Zero Net Waste in Five Years
Marriott International, Inc. headquarters will begin lessening the load on area landfills by eliminating 2.5 million pieces, or 20 tons, of Styrofoam and plastic utensils annually. The old products will be replaced with those made of potato ("SpudWare(TM)"), sugar cane and cornstarch, all fully biodegradable within an average [...]
By JustCool on Sep 21, 2007 in Cool Companies, Cool Websites | 0 Comments
This is for all you geeks out there. An article about a pretty cool search engine called ixquick. Now all of us know Google is the king of search engines. Heck a lot of people think it is the only search engine. But there are actually lots of companies working hard to dethrone the king.
Ixquick.com search [...]
By JustCool on Sep 16, 2007 in Cool Cars, Cool Companies | 0 Comments
In a bid to add more prestige to what it already has, the Italian maker of super luxury sports car unveiled the Reventon at Frankfurt’s international autoshow, a very limited edition car that looks more like an arrow than anything on four wheels.
With the $1.4 million price tag, it is the most expensive car [...]
By JustCool on Sep 13, 2007 in Cool Companies, Cool Science | 0 Comments
Google is bankrolling a $30 million contest that could significantly boost the commercial space industry and spur the first non-governmental flight to the moon. It’s called Google Lunar X Prize.
The bulk of the prize will go to the first private company that can land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte [...]
By JustCool on Sep 8, 2007 in Cool Companies, Cool Environment | 1 Comment
Tired of opening letters and bills? There’s a new service, Earth Class Mail, that will receive your postal mail for you, send you scans of the unopened letters and parcels, and then let you figure out what to do with your mail. The options include physically forwarding the mail to you, recycling or shredding the [...]
