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- The Green Enterprise: The City of Mill Valley, California
- On the next installment of The Green Enterprise, ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber takes a look at green practices in the City of Mill Valley, such as a solar-powered pizzeria, an eco-friendly water treatment plant and a lumber program that re-uses wood from the city's fallen trees for bridge projects around...
- Tags: City, Strategy, Management, The Green Enterprise, Mill Valley, Emerging Technology, Green, Solar, Water, lumber, eco
- Videos 2007-11-20
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- From iPhones to smart grid sensors
- When AT&T loses its iPhone exclusive, at least it will still represent some other wireless-enabled emerging technology: sensors for the smart grid. The telecommunications giant has struck an agreement with Cooper Power Systems under which it will be able to sell smart-grid sensor devices that have been certified to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sensor, AT&T Corp., Wireless, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: turkeys voting for Christmas?
- Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: turkeys voting for Christmas?Ready to sell them short?Dennis: Sure, Oracle's past performance as a company is no prologue to the future. Seeing as you see the future as distinctly different for Oracle than its history from here on in, I assume you'll be devoting half your...
- Tags: Strategy, ORCL, Oracle Corp., Dennis
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Are we too impatient with SOA?
- Jack Vaughan recently pondered the fate of major technology initiatives, and wondered if SOA is going down the same path as Grid and object-oriented computing. That is, it took some time for these initiatives to come to fruition, and benefits to be delivered. In the meantime, many grew too impatient...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Death of the Principle of Voluntarism?
- Much of the corporate sustainability and responsibility agenda has been propelled since the '90s by the idea that voluntary action on the part of corporations is more effective than regulation. It has been a celebration of market dynamism over moribund regulation, the latter of which would provide only for the lowest common denominator. At...
- Tags: Initiative, Diamond, Kimberly Process, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Britain hires hackers for intel squad
- The hackers are coming, the hackers are coming. Britain is hiring ex-hackers as a security cadre to protect the country's computer systems from cyber attacks, AP reports. [Anti-terrorism minister] Alan West said the technology-savvy staff will join efforts to trace the source of â€"...
- Tags: Britain, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Platform Computing Announces Infrastructure Sharing Services
- The folks at Platform Computing are at it again. This time, they've announced a product to support cloud computing in the form of infrastructure as a service IaaS. They're calling it Platform Infrastructure Sharing Service ISF. As often is the case with a new product from a...
- Tags: Platform Computing Inc., Platform Infrastructure Sharing Facility, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Snake surveillance: Israel's latest battlefield weapon
- The Israeli Army have developed a snake-like device which can cross terrains with ease. Not much is known about this device as it is not only from a foreign military but that it will be used in battlefield scenarios. What makes this device...
- Tags: Device, Military, Snake, Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- 10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity
- For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...
- Tags: Data Center, Paradox, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- IBM to invest $100 million in mobile research
- IBM on Wednesday announced plans for a $100 million investment over the next five years into a major mobile research effort to create technology to bring services to people who have bypassed PCs for mobile phones as their primary method of accessing the Internet. There are three...
- Tags: Mobile, IBM Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Windows 7 has a new default wallpaper and logo
- After my normal flick through of technology websites this morning, I came across the news of another leaked post-RC build of Windows 7, build 7232. With this comes a new wallpaper which appears to set the final flag-based logo which all Windows versions have had since Windows 95. ...
- Tags: Logo, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Peeling stickers inspire new path for stretchable electronics
- For some, there's inspiration to be found in unremarkable daily minutia. A team of researchers who studied stickers peeling from windows say that what they've observed could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics. [caption id="attachment_1595" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Delamination demonstration -...
- Tags: Surface, Team, Window, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Electronics, Team Management, Construction, Management, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Why did Citrix invest in Vyatta?
- A short while ago, Vyatta announced that it had completed its series C round of funding and that that the round was lead by Citrix Systems more information about this round can be found here. Since I've watched both companies for quite some time, I spent a bit of time...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Yvatta, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Cloud computing and open source face-off
- Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...
- Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- ARRA grants will have a focus on collaboration, meaningful PD
- I went to a seminar today on the technology-related No Child Left Behind and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA grants that were being administered by Massachusetts over the next two years. Although much of the seminar focused on details and procedures specific to the Commonwealth, a few themes...
- Tags: Collaboration, Professional Development, Grant, Teacher, PD, Details, Training And Certification, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Virtualization is not virtual machine software
- Virtualization is something that has been around for quite a long time. It has been a staple of the mainframe world for well over 30 years. It has been part of the midrange systems world for over 20 years. It has been emerging in the world of industry standard systems...
- Tags: Software, Environment, Server, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
- By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?It is too early to say, there are a lot of issues to solveA hydrogen economy is still just a dream on a sheet of paper. Making this a reality is probably 10 to 20 years away, given that we don't find a better...
- Tags: Hydrogen car, Obama, hydrogen economy, Hydrogen Production, Diesel Engine, hydrogen, hydrogen car, car
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Time to get bullish on SOA, IT, and the economy (2)
- We've seen it happen time and time again -- times of turmoil always equate to times of tremendous new opportunities. The great recession of 1980-82 gave rise to the PCs as technology converged with peoples' needs for quick, cheap computing solutions. The downturn of 1990-91 spawned the client/server movement, which...
- Tags: Staffing, Information Technology, SOA, Eldon, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Femtocells: your very own home cell network
- Besides the "femtocell" sounding like a robotic sex toy or an individually wrapped feminine hygiene product, in technological terms it is a router-like device which converts a portion of your broadband bandwidth to provide you with a compact cell network in your house. The concept is a...
- Tags: Phone, Router, Network, Broadband, Network Technology, Routers & Switches, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-05-17
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