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Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company: Thermal testing. Courtesy Industrial Nanotech. Energy costs are now serious business for industries, office managers, and home owners across the world. Buildings account for over half of the energy use in the U.S. and a fair portion of that is for heating and...; Tags: Insulation, Clean Technology, European Union, Nansulate, Energy Cost, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Smart meters to cut energy costs: Smart meters to cut energy costsSmart?Please don't call them smart meters. There is nothing smart in multiplying the kW used by a factor.The thing is that they start calling them smart meters and they'll start charging us more for pretty much nothing.RE: Smart meters to cut energy costsPlease! Time-of-day-use metering...; Tags: Public relations, Smart Meter, energy cost; Discussion threads 2007-10-05
IT giants hope to save $5.5 billion in energy costs: IT giants hope to save $5.5 billion in energy costsblah, blah, blahYet again people making decisions base on hysteria and the asinine position that the current global climate is the absolute best possible climate in the history of the universe.Catch 22 ?«Meanwhile, tech vendors would just love another hardware replacement...; Tags: energy cost, information technology; Discussion threads 2007-06-12
Sponsored whiteboard - LCDs cut energy costs: LCDs cut energy costsLCDs cut energy costsLCDs liquid crystal displays are more cool-looking than traditional CRTs cathode ray tubes, but they cost twice the price. However, when you add energy costs into your TCO calculation, the difference in cost shrinks significantly.; Tags: Monitors & displays, LCD, energy cost; Sponsored whiteboards 2007-04-26
Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center energy costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency: As electricity prices and IT power consumption continue to rise, IT-related energy costs are getting increased scrutiny. Cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent of electricity usage within a well-designed data center and, in many cases, represents a significant opportunity to reduce IT energy costs. This paper presents five strategies for...; Tags: Data Center, Energy Cost, Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management; White papers 2007-04-17

Digital Learning Center: LCDs cut energy costsLCDs liquid crystal displays are more cool-looking than traditional CRTs cathode ray tubes, but they cost twice the price. However, when you add energy costs into your TCO calculation, the difference in cost shrinks significantly.; Tags: Monitors & displays, LCD, energy cost; Whiteboards 2005-09-15
LCD's cut energy costs: LCDs liquid crystal displays are more cool-looking than traditional CRTs cathode ray tubes, but they cost twice the price. However, when you add energy costs into your TCO calculation, the difference in cost shrinks significantly.; Tags: LCD, CRT, Hardware, Components, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Best Practices, Monitors & displays, energy cost; Whiteboards 2005-09-15

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Buying from the enemy: Last week zdnet bloggers Richard Koman and Michael Krigsman independently responded to the news that the FBI has been pursuing a major criminal investigation into the sale of counterfeit IT components - particularly Cisco routers. As part of his report Krigsman...; Tags: FBI, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-17
Disaster averted: But (sob) my next notebook might not be an Apple one: I'm thinking I owe GreenTech Pastures readers an update on the state of my Apple PowerBook G4, which now is resting comfortably on the desk behind me, although it's in a bit of rehab with some applications that have disappeared. (Yes, I have two computers, so shoot me.) One of...; Tags: Toshiba Tecra, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-17
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week: Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including a fashionable Bluetooth headset, Bose on-ear headphones, and the BlackBerry Curve 8330 for Sprint.Here''s our weekly roundup of the new products CNET reviewers liked best. 1. Aliph Jawbone 2 black Editors'' rating: 8.7 The...; Tags: Headphone, Bose, RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Bottom Line, CNET', Price, It', FireWire, Bluetooth, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Wireless, Hardware, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-17
Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?: Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma; Blog posts 2008-05-16
The power of you: Siemens recognizes green efforts of three U.S. communities: I've been remiss in following up some admirable community sustainability awards that are being sponsored by Siemens in conjunction with the Business Civic Leadership Center and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. While these projects aren't strictly green technology initiatives, they ARE being pushed forward by advances in alternative energy and...; Tags: Community, Green Technology, Siemens AG, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-16
XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings: At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me â€” and not just me â€” that learning was never part of the mission....; Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-16
McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker": Updated 05/16/2008 2:00 p.m. CST:Â I officially have my first customer for the "Nate McFeters Safe" certification and Jeremiah Grossman and I have signed up another member forÂ Scanless PCI, asÂ noted security researcher Russ McRee has purchased our certifications, see http://holisticinfosec.blogspot.com.Â God is good and created YouTube for laughs...; Tags: Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Putting the XP into the OLPC: So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the children's education, or it is about recruiting more Windows users. What's important to note is that Microsoft...; Tags: Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200: The high-end graphics card market isn't the straightforward, mano-a-mano battle it used to be. Graphics cards with dual GPUs, systems with multiple cards in CrossFire or SLI implementations, and most recently hybrid graphics have all muddied the picture. Meanwhile, Intel has improved its integrated graphics and has long-term plans in...; Tags: Card, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-05-16
WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too: Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...; Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Open Source in 2013: <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...; Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-16
News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...; Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature: There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...; Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-15