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- Open source patents: Four companies offer green tech to public domain
- So it turns out that the Eco-Patent Commons, which I wrote about back in January, isn't just another empty-handed cooperative industry effort. Three new companies, Bosch, DuPont and Xerox, have joined the effort and another, Sony, has contributed an additional patent to the community. ...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Xerox Corp., Public Domain, Patent, Green Technology, Open Source, DuPont Co., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- SAP Customer Success Story Chemicals - Diversified Products: DuPont
- Any large company that uses a comprehensive enterprise resource planning ERP suite faces a difficult decision when readying new business applications for deployment. The applications must be tested against business transactional data, but real databases are too large and mock databases do not faithfully represent the real thing. Lacking a...
- Tags: Chemicals, SAP AG, ERP, DuPont Co., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2006-07-24
- Risk Analysis Using the DuPont Model: Talking the Language of the Business Using Financial Models for Risk Analysis
- This whitepaper outlines the importance of understanding the financial impact of information security risks. The DuPont model is used to describe this because it gives an understanding of the relationship between incidents and how it has an impact on profitability. To use the model knowledge about accounting and financial reporting...
- Tags: Information Security, Financial, Risk Analysis, DuPont Co., Strategy, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance
- White papers 2006-03-01
- DuPont Projects Moving to Intel Architecture-Based Systems Would Provide an 8x Improvement in Price/Performance
- In 2005, DuPont CR&D's Information & Computing Technologies initiated a project to understand and standardize database deployments. Improved price/performance and standardization were the goals when DuPont Central Research & Development (CR&D) chose Intel Solution Services to help validate a proposed move from RISC servers to Intel architecture-based servers as the...
- Tags: DuPont Co., Intel Corp., Intel Architecture, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software
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- Photos: Furnishings with a future
- The International Contemporary Furniture Fair, a showcase for modern design, attracted its fair share of tech-oriented, futuristic, and energy-saving devices.The International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which took place last week in New York, is a showcase for modern design. More than 600 exhibitors displayed contemporary furniture, flooring, lighting, and wall coverings....
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Showcase, Lamp, Photograph, Seat, LED Light, That', Engineering, Construction, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-27
- Google: Rewriting the book on data centers
- Om Malik had an interesting post about Google's super-sized datacenters. He posited that Google's massive infrastructure, customized for its processes, represents a the big barrier to entry for its rivals, and it will continue to give the company an edge as long as it keeps spending the billions on its...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Neat picture: Computer running in a fish tank
- Neat picture: Computer running in a fish tankAs long as the liquid doesnt get...contaminated it will work. Example distilled water does not conduct electricity, it is the containments in the water that conduct.RE: Neat picture: Computer running in a fish tankThis is nothing particularly new. Back in...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- D-Wave's quantum computer ready for latest demo
- D-Wave's quantum computer ready for latest demore: or maybe..."Maybe they are just trying to be a little more gentle in saying that this is proprietary technology so back off."Yeah - when's the last time that worked? How many people are really going to "back off" because some company wants a...
- Tags: quantum computer, D-Wave
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Military kicks the tires of green technology
- Writing at the GigaOM blog, Katie Fehrenbacher points to seven green technologies the military is pursuing. Powerfilm is working with the Army's Natick Soldier Center to develop solar tents using the company's thin amorphous silicon technology. DARPA has launched a BioFuels program to design bio-aviation fuel...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Green Technology, DARPA, Military, Powerfilm, Army, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- Flaw counting comparisons useful but falls short of true picture
- Flaw counting comparisons useful but falls short of true pictureIt simply doesn't matter. Better securityin all the OSs is a very good thing for all users. Anyway you cut it, Microsoft has really stepped up their game in this area and as the dominant OS thats good for...
- Tags: Patches, source code, flaw, Microsoft Corp., security, security industry
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- (Photos: Green rules at gadget expo)
- (Photos: Green rules at gadget expo)Electric VehiclesI want the Blue Electric Sports Vehicle!!!! Please sell this one to me!!!a tester testing a battery powred skateboard ?How in the world is this either new or green ?!!! I bought one of these nearly 10 years ago for my son Eric...http://www.exkatemania.com/index.html- the...
- Tags: Engineering, Manufacturing, Leadership, photograph, battery, transportation
- Discussion threads 2007-05-04
- Consulting and SI 2.0: Mining the Sea Change in Software
- Fellow blogger Phil Wainewright attended the SIIA Software Industry Information Assocation conference this month. Phil writes:Speaking on a panel at todays SIIA OnDemand Summit in San Jose, Abhijit Dubey of McKinsey revealed that a new survey by his organization has found that the proportion of CIOs considering adopting SaaS...
- Tags: consulting, Saas, Bluewolf Consulting, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- Good Advice
- In an article at SearchCIO, Linda Tucci describes a massive, $1.9B IT outsourcing deal between DuPont and CSC. The article includes great lessons for any CIO:First was having a capable, dedicated integration team that "was comfortable with ambiguity," [according to Maryann Holloway, DuPont director of global alliance management and IT...
- Tags: Project success
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- Nathan Myhrvold: Invention capitalist
- Former head of Microsoft Research and now head of patent foundry Intellectual Ventures Nathan Myhrvold doesn't mind being called a patent troll video here and here. He wants to be the first "invention capitalist." His company is built around monetizing inventions and patents (Intellectual Ventures Myhrvold has 18 patents to...
- Tags: patent system, Nathan Myhrvold
- Blog posts 2006-04-19
- Design, Modeling and Characterization of Embedded Capacitors for Decoupling Applications
- Surface Mount Discrete SMD decoupling capacitors fail to provide decoupling above 100MHz. This paper presents the use of embedded thin film capacitors to provide decoupling in the mid frequency range from 100MHz to 2GHz. On-chip capacitance provides decoupling above 2GHz. The effect of chip, package and board capacitors on the...
- Tags: Capacitor, Modeling, Telecom & Utilities
- White papers 2006-01-13
- Photomask market will grow 4.7% in 2005
- Strong semiconductor sales and a weak dollar combined to generate an 18.7% growth in merchant photomask revenues, according to The Information Network. In 2004, DNP led the worldwide market with a 30.5% share of the merchant market, up from a 29.5% share in 2004, followed by Toppan with a 20.0%...
- Tags: DNP, Toppan
- Blog posts 2005-04-06
- Photomask market will grow 4.7% in 2005
- Strong semiconductor sales and a weak dollar combined to generate an 18.7% growth in merchant photomask revenues, according to The Information Network. In 2004, DNP led the worldwide market with a 30.5% share of the merchant market, up from a 29.5% share in 2004, followed by Toppan with a 20.0%...
- Tags: Toppan, DNP
- Blog posts 2005-04-06
- H-1B visa limit reached
- H-1B visa limit reachedIf a company needs a H1BIf a company says they need a H1B....Get them to send their job spec to Immigration, Immigration can send it round the US job agencies and see if they can fill it with US staff.If they can fill it, then the company...
- Tags: Group Inc., H1B, H-1B visa, H-1B
- Discussion threads 2004-02-18
- On the outsourcing hot seat
- On the outsourcing hot seatLet's see, how can I put this..."Q: Who wins and who loses from offshore relocations? A: The Indian companies and Indian employees win, and so do the American companies that outsource. For the American companies, this clearly is an instrument for them to improve their productivity,...
- Tags: Government, Benefits, Strategy, outsourcing, outsource
- Discussion threads 2004-01-20
- Membrane could rev up fuel cell industry
- Membrane could rev up fuel cell industryDuPont also make Fuel Cell Membraneshttp://www.dupont.com/fuelcells/products1.htmlNot sure whats special about this companies products?fuel cells maybe at long last40 years ago i worked at GE at the unit supplying the fuel cells for the gemini spacecraft, and i synthesized a new perfluro monomer for a...
- Tags: Fuel cells, industry, fuel cell
- Discussion threads 2004-01-19
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