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Facebook for Seniors: Battling Social Isolation and Loneliness Among the Elderly With a Tablet

Senior citizens are increasingly lonely, and it’s a serious problem. According to a study by the Public Library of Science Medicine–loneliness as a health risk factor is twice as detrimental as being obese, and equal to the risk of smoking cigarettes and alcoholism.
That’s why Intel-GE Care Innovations recently launched Care [...]

Building smart washers/dryers in KY to create 430 jobs

Louisville, Kentucky has scored another jobs win with today’s announcement that GE’s Consumer & Industrial business will make its new “smart” washer and dryers at its Appliance Park plant starting in 2012. Making the high-end machines will create 430 new manufacturing and engineering jobs. When combined with GE’s decision earlier [...]

GE helps the preservation experts preserve their HQ

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) has been fighting to protect historic structures since it was founded in 1877 to fight the highly destructive ‘restoration’ of medieval buildings being practiced by many Victorian architects of that era. So when it came time to [...]

25 random things about GE

Is Facebook’s “25 Random Things About Me” a dazzling web phenomenon or the internet’s version of nails on a chalkboard? Depends on whom you talk to, but according to Facebook, last week alone another 5 million people jumped on the viral idea that exploded online, seemingly from out of nowhere. [...]

In Italy, GE helps reduce GHG emissions

John Bartle, Business Segment Leader, Dry Low NOx Systems
As the world looks toward more energy efficient technologies, the Energy Services team at GE has been focused on helping our customers make their existing power-generation equipment as efficient and as environmentally friendly as possible. As part of our Environmental Services team, [...]

Building a smarter grid, one customer at a time

In Oklahoma City, 6,600 people are plugged into a “smarter grid” made possible by Oklahoma Gas & Electric and GE. The technology project involves a whole new way of distributing and managing electricity that puts consumers in the driver’s seat. In addition to the two-way GE digital SmartMeters [...]

Making hybrid technologies possible

With the Detroit Auto Show firing on all cylinders (pardon the pun), everyone seems to be enamored with hybrid vehicle technology. At GE we’ve been in with hybrids for quite some time now, and we thought this would be a great chance to share some of our cool hybrid technology [...]