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- More evidence of the coming collision between home broadband and the smart grid
- Collision?Not the word I would have used.In any event, I think this is a positive and necessary direction to go. In order to manage more diversified, less dependable/consistent sources of energy, the demand side HAS TO be managed. Without it, we are just setting ourselves up for a lot of...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, collision, home broadband, grid, smart grid
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- 60 Minutes: We're not ready for a cyber war
- Just like 9/11 thousands will have to die Before we give a damn. It's really a shame.and everything workshow's that possible?Unfortuantely, it will take a disasterIn the US, until disater strikes no one will do anything. Once it does happen then there will be screaming for heads to role....
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Regulations, FERC, Obama, hacker, Bush
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Smart grid grants
- Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S. today. President Obama has chosen a Florida solar power plant as the location for making his announcement. He'll be in Arcadia, Florida, at Florida Power and Light Co.’s...
- Tags: Grant, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)
- Now here's a ringing endorsement of cloud computing......"HP "wouldn?t put anything material in nature outside the firewall." "Sure gives one confidence, doesn't it? And this company is trying sell people on the cloud...but its CEO doesn't trust it? Nice. :-(Translation: We make a lot of money selling overpriced, under utilizedservers...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., server
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' data
- I lost my contacts for a few days. Give me ONE HUNRED BILLION DOLLARS!!!Says with pinky raised to mouth.RE: Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' dataI don't feel sorry for anyone who owns a Sidekick and lost their data. It is moronic to purchase a device that...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Gartner research suggests data center energy metrics still mystery to many businesses
- The industry can provide more useful toolsWe encourage the IT, electrical & mechanical infrastructure, construction, and data center management industries to continue to work through The Green Grid, the US EPA, and other internationally recognized organizations to develop metrics and reporting standards for data center efficiency and productivity. In addition...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Gartner Inc., data center, industry
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Windmills stir up opposition
- Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind energy
- Discussion threads 2009-09-13
- Most Americans support energy infrastructure overhaul
- Energy overhaul is not the issueThe issue is ENERGY EFFICIENCY.Products from 30 years ago specially cars were more energy efficient than todays.What is the point of changing technologies, if that technology is less efficient that what we have today.One example: Biofuels. Not only are we destroying organic material to burn...
- Tags: smart grid, energy usage, grid
- Discussion threads 2009-08-16
- Most Americans support energy infrastructure overhaul
- OK, we've established that pretty much every high-tech vendor is IN LOVE with the Smart Grid, because of the billions of potential spending associated with it. So, what does the average energy consumer think? Aka, you and me. A new survey that was conducted jointly by PR...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Survey, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- Foundation of our green future
- I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...
- Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- IBM: re-training for our future
- IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...
- Tags: China, Beijing, Rail, IBM Corp., Dierkx, Government, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- Are we being smart about the smart grid?
- A recent conference sponsored by "Fortune" magazine featured a panel discussion on the smart grid. How? Why? What? The panel was led by members of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.). Here are three of their suggestions: 1)...
- Tags: Grid, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- News to know: Windows 7 RTM review; Microsoft-Yahoo; SAP; Sprint
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Windows 7 first look: More than just "Vista, fixed" Gallery: Windows 7 RTM...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Don't underestimate the power of the electrical power plug in the smart grid
- Don't underestimate the power of the electrical power plug in the smart gridPlease read...(Broadband over Power Lines- BPL)Take a look at the following. While net communication over power lines might be useful in high density areas (like a large Apt. Building in a major city) it is not without...
- Tags: electrical power plug, smart grid, power plug, grid, powerline
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- Don't underestimate the power of the electrical power plug in the smart grid
- Lots of attention is paid to the role of wireless communications devices in the smart grid and smart energy systems build-out, but the dark horse of this movement could be technology that uses the electrical wires living inside your walls to communicate relevant usage metrics. That's the...
- Tags: HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Grid, Powerline, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- (Images: The many faces of the smart grid)
- (Images: The many faces of the smart grid)This the same grid the Chinese compromised?Is this the same electrical grid that has been so thoroughly interpenetrated by Chinese and other hackers that the system is loaded with logic bombs and other little time-release surprises ready to be commanded to work...
- Tags: grid
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- AMD Istanbul: Field Upgrade Only If Your Hands are Nimble
- The newly-launched AMD Opteron 24xx and 84xx server CPUs have six processor cores. Unlike Intel's Nehalem, which requires entirely new and unproven mainboards, systems, chipsets and sockets, the "Istanbul" is based on existing, mature AMD chipsets and uses the existing 1207-pin Socket F, allowing current Quad-Core...
- Tags: Istanbul, Quad-core, Server, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Chip, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Should broadband connectivity be a right?
- Is it possible to achieve 100% broadband availability and penetration? Should it be a right? Vermonter, inventor, author and Fractals of Change blogger Tom Evslin recently wrote about the real-life challenge to bring broadband to the masses in the state of Vermont and the implications of such...
- Tags: Broadband, Vermont, Tom Evslin, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-31
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