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Thinner, better, already sold outthe new new thing in solar?: Solar energy can seem like a green tech fantasy. Energy free for the collection. Found in some of the emptiest spots on earth: deserts, parking lots, urban rooftops, open ocean, airplace wings, at 50,000 feet above the earth. Think about all that sunshine. And a company down...; Tags: Dr., Polymer, Global Solar Energy, CIGS, BUSINESS Global Solar, I-sol, Indium, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-03-26

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A brief summary: This is not an excerpt from Brief - those ended last week, and next week we'll start the long and boring slog through the second volume in the series: Business Information Technology: Foundations and Culture. Its purpose, where Brief is addressed to top level executives and Defen is intended for...; Tags: Information Technology, MySQL, Jonathan Schwartz, Open Source, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Micron claims low-power server memory lead with two new modules: I think I've reported this number before, but I keep forgetting it. Anyway, there is a statistic suggesting that memory components eat up something like 15 percent of the power consumed in data centers. Not an insignificant amount, which is one reason Micron continues to focus on lower voltage as...; Tags: Micron Technology Inc., Module, Memory, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Images: A visit to 'negawatt' central: Take a tour of EnerNoc's operations center, where it uses the Internet to dial down customers' energy usage during peak times. by CNET News.com; Tags: Internet, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-08
NASA's lunar breathing system: When six astronauts share a 15 cubic meters spacecraft for weeks, how is it possible to avoid to be bothered by your fellows sweating and breathing? I've already written about staying clean in space, but NASA is going further this time. Its scientists are testing a lunar breathing system. The...; Tags: NASA, Carbon Dioxide, CAMRAS, Sorbent, Flows, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-08

MySpace partners with Yahoo, Twitter and eBay in "data portability" initiative: Having previously talked the talk when it comes to data portability, MySpace is beginning to walk the walk: announcing its own 'data portability' initiative, supported by partners Yahoo, Twitter and eBay. Dubbed MySpace ‘Data Availability', users will be able to optionally share their public profile data with...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Data, eBay Inc., Twitter, MySpace, MySpace Data Availability Initiative, Internet, Instant Messaging, Corporate Communications, BIOS, Online Communications, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company: Thermal testing. Courtesy Industrial Nanotech. Energy costs are now serious business for industries, office managers, and home owners across the world. Buildings account for over half of the energy use in the U.S. and a fair portion of that is for heating and...; Tags: Insulation, Clean Technology, European Union, Nansulate, Energy Cost, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-08
How long can AMD continue to blame Intel for its failures?: How long can AMD continue to blame Intel for its failures?Could not agree moreI think AMD relied upon "evil Intel" marketing far too much and as you suggest, even AMD fans have switched back to Intel because thats where the bang for the buck is at.Buying ATI seems to have...; Tags: Processors, Marketing research, Games, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., marketing, ATI Technologies Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-05-07
Free software great and small: They envision a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between. It's only a matter of time before even desktop Linux becomes the mass market. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those...; Tags: Samba, Conference, Jeremy, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jeremy Allison, free software, open source; News items 2008-05-07
UAVs will study Californian smog: The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs) to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as...; Tags: Southern California, Researcher, Pollution, Aircraft, Global Warming, UAV, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-07
The Green Enterprise: The Green EnterpriseGreen Enterprise can get greener with Virtual EventsWith a massive contingent of IT managers and vendors who serve them out at Interop last week-- it occured to me that there has to be a more energy efficient way to run a conference.Worthy of note: The Virtual Energy Forum,...; Tags: Channel management, Green Enterprise; Discussion threads 2008-05-07
Sun's continuing open source problem: Despite its best efforts Sun Microsystems still has a big open source problem. Commitment. (Affordable Wedding Bands sells rings in both gold and platinum.) Any salesman is expecting a commitment from a buyer. But an open source salesman is expecting a deeper commitment. A...; Tags: Commitment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-07
I can take costly energy, rice shortages, pricier platinum, but not my beer!!!!: I can take costly energy, rice shortages, pricier platinum, but not my beer!!!!why........ not the beer, its the end of the worldits the end of the society as we know it man ....ill died from dehydration's.....WHY WHY WHY well i could turn toward red wine or...; Tags: American Ale, hop, American beer; Discussion threads 2008-05-07
Celestia (5): Celestia is a space simulation that allows you to travel within the solar system, out to the stars, and beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Possible destinations include over 100,000 stars, nearly one hundred solar system destinations, and sixty recently-discovered extrasolar planets. Celestia uses OpenGL to render realistic real-time animations of...; Tags: Star, Shatters Software, Celestia; Software downloads 2008-05-07
I can take costly energy, rice shortages, pricier platinum, but not my beer!!!!: If this be a harbinger of things to come, life is gonna get bleak here pretty soon. I'm not talking about recession or no recession, health care or not health care, not even worried about food prices going up 50% in a year. I eat too much anyway....; Tags: Hop, Food & Beverage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Apotheker goes for theatrics; Kagermann the details: SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker had a simple message in his keynote Tuesday: It's all about the business network, which consists of companies, suppliers, customers and all the data that flows between them. And to be in that network you need SAP. Sound...; Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Apotheker, Coca-Cola Enterprise, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Sales, Web Services, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Why I didn't like "Microhoo": Why I didn't like "Microhoo"Two essays jostling.Microsoft has made an investment in MSN, and that investment has not been paying well. Search is a related source of income, and that component of the business could also be improved on the balance sheet.The purchase of Yahoo would add the #2...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, Development tools, Microsoft Corp., content company, advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., software; Discussion threads 2008-05-06
A new robotic tasting device: According to the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) Weekly PressPac, French researchers have developed an artificial mouth that chews apples like you and me. Here is a link to this PressPac, from which you'll be able to read a very short note titled 'Munch-o-matic: Scientists develop the artificial mouth.' The...; Tags: Food, Compound, Hre, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance: Leading up the the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...; Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...: Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...Here's a better ideaBurn the freaking methanol in an internal combustion engine. Catalyst requirement gone.Sheesh.Just another example that global warming really isn't about global warming. Making and burning methanol is carbon-neutral, but note how the idea of simply manufacturing methanol to...; Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, methanol, global warming, internal combustion engine, combustion engine; Discussion threads 2008-05-06