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In the car color popularity contest, silver continues its reign.

Nearly 20 percent of all 2006 vehicles (the latest year for which figures are available) were silver — the seventh consecutive year that the color has taken the top spot.

There’s good reason for that, says Chris Webb, the exterior color and trend designer for GM North America. “There’s no question that silver on a vehicle looks incredible,” he says. “When the light hits it and refracts, it shows off the vehicle’s architectural form beautifully.”

The color has other advantages, too: It hides dirt, it’s an enduring favorite and it’s easier to resell than other colors. (In the United Kingdom, many police agencies have switched from white to silver, because the silver cars fetch a higher resale price — up to 10 percent higher than white cars — after they’ve been pulled from the fleet.

Silver got a bump in the late 1990s as a result of a growing interest in technology, the future and Y2K, says Karen Surcina, color marketing and technology manager at DuPont. “Metallic finishes — whether on cars, cell phones or stainless steel kitchens — really took off,” she says. “And now that it’s stayed a top color for so long, it’s become a safe color.”

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Intel plans to launch an effort called LessWatts.org on Thursday, a combination of open-source software and helpful hints to reduce power consumption of Linux servers, PCs and gadgets.

LessWatts, to be detailed during a Intel Developer Forum speech by Renee James, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group, is geared toward technically sophisticated folks from programmers to system administrators. It gathers together a number of Intel projects, such as the PowerTop utility for finding which software is pestering the processor and preventing it from dozing in low-power states.

Taking Intel’s advice and fixes can trim about 10 watts of power consumption off a modern dual-processor server, said Dirk Hohndel, chief technologist of Intel open-source technology center. That’s not a gargantuan amount–until you consider that if done correctly it’s free power savings, that each watt of server energy saved cuts another 1.3 watts from air conditioning (according to Intel figures), and of course that 10 watts per server is a lot when multiplied by the thousands of servers that populate larger data centers.

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Firefox users had a recent rude awakening about a vulnerability in the way Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple QuickTime Latest News about QuickTime plug-in interacts with their Web browser. Far from grumbling, however, Mozilla Latest News about Mozilla Foundation supporters say their patch for the vulnerability says more about Mozilla’s strengths than its browser’s weakness.

“It seems that QuickTime media formats can hack into Firefox,” wrote security Webroot AntiSpyware 30-Day Free Trial. Click here. investigator Petko Petkov, a post that sent Mozilla’s community developers into action to come up with a solution.

The bug presented risks of data theft and malware. Mozilla’s spokesperson publicly recognized that the issue was serious.

Empathy at Opera

Opera, a second-row contender to diva browsers Internet Over 800,000 High Quality Domains Available For Your Business. Click Here. Explorer and Firefox, is not gloating over Mozilla’s bug flap, however.

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San Francisco—The next big thing for Intel is little. The company has used its Developer Forum, here, to extol the virtues of its forthcoming handheld device platforms for allowing consumers to connect to the Internet. Intel calls this “Internet in your pocket.”

Intel has been chasing the handheld space for some time without much success. It started with the Xscale processor, recently sold to Marvell, and is now taking aim with its own Intel Architecture or x86 processor technology. The first generations of its IA-based handheld platform, which use its low-power notebook processors and chipsets, haven’t done much to wow thus far. That’s partially because they have been wrapped in Ultramobile PC hardware, which costs around $1,000 and does not have a straightforward method to gain access to wide area wireless. For that price, you might as well just buy an inexpensive notebook. And that’s what most people do.

But Intel is touting significant improvements in device size, battery life and connectivity for its forthcoming handheld platforms, including one dubbed Menlow that is due in the first half of next year. It appears as if the Menlow has begun to win over some. The company listed companies including Samsung and Fujitsu as designing MID devices here at IDF.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has made new higher-resolution images and maps of the moon as well as multimedia content available on Google Inc.’s Moon Web site.

The updated information includes new material from the Apollo space missions, including embedded panoramic images, links to videos and audio clips, and information about the astronauts’ tasks on those missions, said NASA in a statement.

NASA also added detailed charts of various regions of the moon that can be used by anyone simulating a lunar mission, particularly scientists and amateur astronomers.

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