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- iTablet goes OLED,??bumped until late 2010
- $2000? I doubt it.Apple puts themselves in a "premium" price range, but $2000 for a 10" tablet? Even they're not THAT crazy.No ThanksDon't need or want either, waste of space...If I want real gaming, I'd rather play real games on my PS3 or Wii on my flat screen; or on...
- Tags: SunSHINE, iTablet, organic light-emitting diode, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans
- the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- 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
- How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply
- Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...
- Tags: oil, Bakken
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- The perfect computer?
- Do we have the technology to build a perfect computer? Would it be perfect for a specific purpose or is it possible to build a perfect general purpose computer? Small Business Computing's Mark Beckley has some answers. Do we have the technology to build a perfect...
- Tags: Motherboard, Computer, Machine, Chip, Small Business Computing, Watt Power Supply, Productivity, PCs, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-02
- Global warming promises more hunger, more innovation
- Hopefully not a repeatThe idea of GM foods is found most abhorrent in the nations with some of the worst food problems? Also, did anyone notice that the FPRI report indicates that more than 50% of the world's agricultural green house emissions are generated by the primitive natural agriculture...
- Tags: global warming, climate change, food
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- How much can UPS efficiency save you? Eaton has some answers.
- I am growing increasingly fascinated by power distribution and regulating equipment. I know, sick admission. Eaton, one of the big uninterruptible power supply UPS and power distribution equipment vendors, is starting to talk up its new Energy Saver System as a tool that data center operators can...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Eaton, NetRiver, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun
- Is there more wind power in our future? Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, says we can cut our greenhouse emissions 80% by 2020, if we use the wind that's just out there for the world to use. Brown says "Ask what can be done, NOT...
- Tags: China, Plant, Wind Energy, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- 'Mericans say: "Gimme a plug-in"
- Pay more, yes...Pay more than the gas price we would save over the life of the car, no. That's the issue now, you do not save more in the long run. Once we get to the point where we would merely break even, then I would seriously consider a plug-in.Electric...
- Tags: Plug-in car, car, plug-in, electric car, battery, commute, No.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- What a smart grid can do for you
- very idealistic, but...like all sunshine information projects...it depends on the accuracy of the data!electric companies make their money...their real money selling "ON PEAK" hours, in fact, in Northern MD/Pennsylvania there is a power plant that ONLY goes on to service ON PEAK hours! what most americans fail to realize...
- Tags: Wireless and Mobility, Smart Grid technology, Z-Wave, smart grid, wireless, grid
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- 10 bits of tech the back-to-school student should avoid
- As the countdown to the academic season starts about now, the race to get the best deals and offers at your local tech stores is on. You'll need to start working out what you didn't have before which could have made your life a lot easier at university, and what...
- Tags: Online Backup, Backup, Wireless, Home Server, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Does "oil" have a negative spin?
- Does "oil" have a negative spin?Add this to your clue bag.I know that in the green/liberal/socialist world there is a tendency to come up with a simple slogan and then repeat it as loudly as possible and as often as possible until you hammer it into people's heads. However...
- Tags: negative spin, natural gas
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- General Electric appliances strive for 'net-zero energy homes'
- General Electric has unveiled a research project that intends to help homeowners cut annual energy consumption to zero by 2015. GE plans to "combine on-site power generation through solar panels or wind turbines with energy-efficient appliances and on-site...
- Tags: Appliance, General Electric Co., Home Product, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Get ready for the Energy Star 5.0 barrage: Let the testing begin
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star 5.0 specification officially goes into effect on July 1, so steel yourselves for a flood of activity proclaiming support for the new standard. Some of the products you'll hear about, like a bunch of notebooks, desktops and monitors from Lenovo, have actually...
- Tags: Power Management, Specification, Power Supply, KWh, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .
- Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...
- Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-20
- Is there a green fossil fuel?
- The natural gas interests are interested in the being the first choice fuel in the American future. A report just issued from the Potential Gas Committee sure makes natural gas look like the best potential fuel for generating electricity in coming decades. The U.S. is actually adding to...
- Tags: Coal, Natural Gas, Fossil Fuel, Natural Gas Interest, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Cloud computing and open source face-off
- Cloud computing and open source face-offThanks for the shout outI think your piece adds a lot to the discussion as well.Master Joe Says...Just two questions. The word proprietary is mentioned. Last time I checked, one of the biggest reasons that the open-source idiots, also known as OSI, complained...
- Tags: cloud business, open source, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- Toshiba announces its first LED-backlit LCD HDTVs
- Toshiba announces its first LED-backlit LCD HDTVsIt costs $800 more...and is probably worth itFluorescent backlights suck energy and burn out, while LED's sip power and last virtually forever. If one LED fails you probably wouldn't even notice the faintly dimmer onscreen spot. Figure a service call and bulbs plus power...
- Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TVs, Toshiba Corp., LED-backlit LCD HDTV, first LED-backlit LCD HDTV, light-emitting diode, LCD, TV
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Want a smart meter? Try your electric bill first
- Want a smart meter? Try your electric bill firstMisses the value of real time dataWhile I wholeheartedly agree with the point that $2500+ smart meters are a costly approach to achieving efficiency, at least before they're networked to specific appliances, the value of energy use in real time is missed....
- Tags: smart meter
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
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