The National Payments Corporation of India has finalized the commercial launch of the proposed India card which would be a domestic alternative to the global payment processing firms.

FORBES: Indian 'Rupay' Card Causes Trouble In Asia For MasterCard, Visa

The FDA is at the beginning of a ten-year campaign to eliminate salmonella in eggs, and while experts acknowledge pasteurization is one way to do it, they also suggest cleaner processing as an alternative.

FORBES: The Yolk's On Him

Now for the downside, at least for Davidson's company: The FDA is at the beginning of a ten-year campaign to eliminate salmonella in eggs, and though experts acknowledge that pasteurization is one way to do it, they suggest cleaner processing as an alternative.

FORBES: The Yolk's On Him

According to TechEye, Intel may also announce a new chip aimed at the data centre processing market and an alternative to Xeon.

FORBES: Morning Tech Wrap: Apple, Intel, Google

Britain, meanwhile, has started taxing landfills so heavily that local officials, desperate to find an alternative, are investing in all manner of unproven waste-processing technologies.

ECONOMIST: Talking rubbish

While the pipeline project is a better alternative from a carbon pollution standpoint than shipping the oil by rail, the emissions created by harvesting tar sands, processing them into oil and eventually burning it in automobiles in the U.S. and abroad will contribute to global warming.

NPR: PROMISES, PROMISES: Climate Change