CherryPals are shipping, and shipping, and shipping ...

We are shipping Cherrypals since over a month now. Some media outlets still broadcast "scam" warnings and other misleading information about us. CherryPal is still considered "vaporware" by those who are ignoring facts, and probably not interested in inexpensive energy-conserving technologies at all.

We are not alone in this uphill battle. I am in touch with many greentech/cleantech companies, many of them complain about unfair media coverage, I wonder why.

Let's focus on the more important things though.

We are preparing the launch of a very broad open source initiative, called Green Maraschino. Objective of Green Maraschino is to involve users as well as open source developers all over the world to make inexpensive low-energy consuming technologies even more user friendly and powerful. Coming soon ...

A big thank you to our Brand Angels. They have been tough but fair with us. Their feedback is "priceless". It's fun and very rewarding working with them. Again, thank you very much.

One more thing. Supposedly the car industry bailout bill passed today - $14 Billion - WOW. Imagine, how many jobs could be created in the greentech industry for this amount of money, how much energy could be saved, how much pollution could be reduced if Washington would provide our industry with $14 Billion? By the way, I am talking to a little car company in the DC area. They have developed an electric city car, just $16,000 retail ... they can't get funding. You figure.

Drill baby drill is easy - preserving our planet for future generations is not that easy and requires teamwork, let's do it together. If you would like to get involved in Green Maraschino send me a mail (green@cherrypal.com)

The C114 is coming Election Day, November 4th

Finally, CherryPals are going to be shipped November 4th, 2008.

We have made some last minute changes, slimmer casing, more local memory (Solid State Drive 8GB), and all for the same low price of US$ 249. The lower memory C100 (4GB SSD) won't be offered anymore.

The very recent economic global crisis painfully reminded us that US politics have global reach, they impact every corner of our world. We also know by now that reducing the pace we pollute our environment takes a gobal effort, why not start with it now?

On Election Day 11/4 CherryPals will get shipped for the first time, we will know who is going to move into the White House and last but not least we will learn very soon thereafter whether or not the United States government will finally take environmental issues more seriously.

Ironically, embracing the green movement and creating new jobs are directly related to each other. Industry analysts have predicted that we here in the United States could create as much as 5 Million new jobs over the next 10 years if our government would provide more aggressive incentives and support to jump-start green technologies companies. Needless to say the global impact in terms of job creation as well as benefits for the environments would be mindboggling!!!

Well, in that regards I do have a questions? Is Obama or McCain more serious about boosting green technologies? Let me know what your thoughts are?