Group says deal pending in refuge drilling suit Christine Canaly of the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council said Wednesday that Toronto-based Lexam Explorations Inc. has agreed to sell its natural gas rights if a $9.7 million deal can be reached by May 17. The agreement would settle a lawsuit over Lexam's plans to drill on the Baca National Wildlife Refuge in the San Luis Valley, about 200 miles southwest of Denver. The ecosystem council and Citizens for San Luis Valley-Water Protection Coalition sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for approving drilling on the wildlife refuge next to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Lexam intervened on the government's behalf. Lexam Vice President Stefan Spears confirmed that an in... Advent Of 4G Will Drive New Mobile Ecosystem Fourth generation wireless (4G) will change the business opportunities in the mobile sector for solution providers, ... Nexus One great, but consider the ecosystem before you buy You're buying into an entire ecosystem. That ecosystem consists of the carrier network and all the accessories and applications that go with your phone. ... Home of MediaDailyNews, MEDIA and OMMA Magazines Built on accelerating the development of an ecosystem, Google's mobile strategy supported by open-source technology will let developers create products at a ... Hollywood's content ecosystem moves a few steps closer to launch The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, an inter-industry effort to set open technical standards for selling movies and TV shows online, announced yet ... VMware Expands VMware vCloud Developer Ecosystem With Open-Source Java and Python SDKs for VMware vCloud API "We are working aggressively to expand the VMware vCloud ecosystem and accelerate market availability of open-source client libraries for the VMware vCloud API," said Dan Chu, vice president, cloud infrastructure and services, VMware. "Our ISV community has embraced our investment in the VMware vCloud Initiative and is integrating key solutions as part of innovative services from VMware vCloud Express providers such as Terremark." Key open-source client libraries and tools for the VMware vCloud API are now available from standard cloud software resources including Dasein, jclouds and libcloud, underscoring the strong interest from the open-source community in supporting the VMware v... Teachers of the Year bond, expand learning "I also learned about the fragile ecosystem of the bay and how strongly the local families rely on this ecosystem. We were completely immersed in the life ... Ecosystem Marketplace The tourism industry could fund payments for ecosystem services to underwrite and insure its investments. And by harnessing private-sector investment, ...

New Calif. water policy aims to save state's key estuary, but critics say it falls short The perilously low populations of salmon and native fish are symptoms, according to numerous scientists, of a crashing ecosystem in the West Coast's largest estuary. Numerous theories abound for the decline, from too much water being pumped from the delta for drinking and irrigation to the use of agricultural chemicals. Whatever the cause, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers believe they took a step to restoring the delta when they passed policy reforms last November and approved an $11 billion water bond to go on the November ballot. Schwarzenegger said it would launch the nation's largest environmental restoration project since the federal effort to save the...

Motorola Announces ‘SHOP4APPS- Store and Ecosystem Motorola has formally announced their new SHOP4APPS store for Android-based Motorola phones in China. Aside from being "just another store", SHOP4APPS is ...