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From guilt trip to green trip: Rental car companies jump into carbon offset game: I think it was Delta that was the first U.S. airline to experiment with allowing customers to dabble in carbon offsets. Someone will certainly correct me if my memory is faulty. Well, now, three of the largest rental car names are working together on a program that lets renters...; Tags: Game, Carbon Offset, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-01-16

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What paper trail?: I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....; Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Ready for real Indian medicine?: Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game: Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research's darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green "maturity" assessments and modeling tools...; Tags: Game, Data Center, Accenture Ltd., Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-23
News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources; Blog posts 2008-07-23

Carbon management software maker snags $5 million: Carbonetworks, which sells software for providing better visibility into managing your company's carbon impact, has closed $5 million in Series A funding from NGEN Partners. The company, which is based in Victoria, B.C., will use the money to expand its operations. I blogged about Carbonetworks'...; Tags: Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Dear OEM: Ditch the crapware, you'll make up the revenue elsewhere: Ed Bott is the picture of PC bliss. He got a crapware free Sony laptop and you'd think the guy is in heaven. Ed writes: For the past two months, I've been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and loving every minute of...; Tags: Revenue, Sony Corp., PC, PC Company, Manufacturer, Ed, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Looking at single atoms of hydrogen: As you probably know, graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms packed in a dense two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. And it recently became very popular recently as a basis for ultra-fast transistors. Now, according to Science News, U.S. researchers are using graphene to image individual hydrogen atoms via a standard...; Tags: Atom, Researcher, Hydrogen, Carbon, Here, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-19
Bookmark this: Three Web sites to aid the green cause: "EcoSearch this" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Google this," but the non-profit is hoping to harness the power of the Google search engine to help raise money for environmental non-profits including the Sierra Club, TreePeople, RainForest Alliance, National Resource Defense Council, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child, Healthy World...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-19
(Photos: Solar players show off their wares): (Photos: Solar players show off their wares)electrolysis+solar powerI once saw a US company's ad for a set of palladium(why not use carbon?) electrodes that could be plugged into a cigarette lighter.This could be used to plunge into a beaker of outdoor sampled water.The electrolysis would create Chlorine in status nascendi(from...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, photograph; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...; Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, Gore, dependence, fossil fuel; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
ZT Affinity 7221Xa: The $600 ZT Affinity 7221Xa is the cheaper sibling of the recently reviewed ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35. Its fixed configuration includes most of what we expect to find in a system in this price range. Like the 7225Xi-35, the 7221Xa is geared toward those who need a simple desktop with basic...; Tags: Desktops, DVD, Flash memory, Memory, Consumer electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), ZT Affinity 7221Xa, ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35; Product reviews 2008-07-17
Techie's green pet: IDC develops new report card for tech asset recyclers: Does your IT services company make the grade when it comes to retiring and disposing of technology assets in the greenest way possible? Researcher IDC has come up with a new certification and weighting system for IT assess disposal functions that it is calling the Green Recycling...; Tags: Asset, Card, International Data Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-17
Optimus Maximus: Despite its innovative approach to keyboard design, the OLED-based Optimus Maximus keyboard is best considered an expensive novelty. Its $1,600 price tag keeps it out of the hands of the average consumer, and we also question the practical benefit of using 113 customizable OLED screens as an input device. There...; Tags: Keyboards, Lebedev Studio, default layout, Optimus Maximus, Optimus Corp., keyboard; Product reviews 2008-07-17
Carbon Copy Cloner (txt): Have you ever wanted a simple, complete, bootable backup of your hard drive? Have you ever wanted to upgrade to a larger hard drive with minimal hassle and without reinstalling your OS and all of your applications? Have you ever wanted to move your entire Mac OS X installation to...; Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Mike Bombich, CCC, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-07-17
Sony's Centrino 2 laptop lineup: Details of Sony's new laptops have been trickling out for several weeks, but Sony held off on an official announcement to coincide with Intel's Centrino 2 launch this week. Sony introduced four new VAIO lines ranging from the 3-pound Z-series ultraportable with a 13.1-inch display to the...; Tags: Sony Corp., IBM zSeries, Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Intel Centrino, Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., SP1, SR Series, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Rhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gaps: We hear that the state of Rhode Island has signed a five-year deal with demand response technology company EnerNOC to manage electricity demand across city, town and government-related buildings. The idea is that government agencies will be encouraged to reduce their consumption during peak demand periods. Those...; Tags: Rhode Island, Taxes, Free Trade, Government, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-15
News to know Monday: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic' WSJ: New Rejection from Yahoo Sets The Stage for Ugly Fight Dana Blankenhorn: We don't want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, sdiaz; Blog posts 2008-07-14
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Aoork DVDRipper Home (EXE): Aoork DVDRipper Home is a straightforward DVD ripping tool, which offers an quick and simple method to rip dvd to rm/rmvb/wmv/AVI/MP4/3GP/MOV/ASF/FLV/MPG/MP3/WMA/RA/AAC/AC2/OGG/MP2/AMR/WAV files. It supports Image or Text watermark, Subtitle offset, Clip DVD, Subtitle selection or Audio Rrack selection and ID3 tags. For ripping entire DVD video or audio. You only...; Tags: Aoork Soft, Aoork DVDRipper Home, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2008-07-14