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- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...
- Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- GridBuster (zip)
- GridBuster is a casual puzzle game. The object of the game is to guide the ball from the top left corner of the grid to the goal in the bottom right corner of the grid, however, the path is blocked by an array of tiles. You begin with a certain...
- Tags: Tile, Motron Software, GridBuster, Corporate Governance, Games, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?
- Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...
- Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.
- More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supplyWho cares?particle colliders and whatnot- how about: let's try living our own lives and find out something useful once they've RUN an experiment! It's difficult enough dealing with the paramount necessities and the trivialities of our own lives- why bother to focus on others'?There's...
- Tags: Large Hadron Collider, power supply, Hadron Collider
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?
- Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international finance organizations is decidely gloomy. It follows that if spending's down, industrial output from China and elsewhere will...
- Tags: Capitalist, Stock, Global Warming, Fossil Fuel, Oil-rich Russia, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M
- Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...
- Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
- Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. ...
- Tags: CERN, Power Supply, Grid, Computer, Hadron Collider, Productivity, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-08
- The invisible frontier of our solar system
- The invisible frontier of our solar systemIsn't this phenomenom explained by the Electric star theory ?Well, it seems to me that the Electric stars theory give an excellent explanation for this phenomenom.Off course as the official theory discard any possibilities of electric current acting on a large scale in...
- Tags: phenomenom, theory, solar system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification
- The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...
- Tags: Device, Credit Card, built-In, SMS, Scammer, ATM, Network Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- AMD to spin off manufacturing
- Advanced Micro Devices will reveal a broad cost-cutting plan this morning that includes spinning off its manufacturing operations to a new joint venture largely funded by Abu Dhabi investment companies. It's a bold move for the chipmaker as it tries to maintain its position as the only real rival to...
- Tags: Abu Dhabi, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Semiconductors, Network Technology, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Hardware, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments
- I realize Advanced Micro Devices has some news in the offing this week that likely will supersede the urgency of this blog's content, but I wanted to recount some high points from a conversation I had about two weeks ago with Larry Vertal, the company's senior strategist when it comes...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Vertal, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"
- News flash. In a recent report called "Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?," market research house Forrester is advising IT managers to forget about the notion that there's any such thing as TRULY green technology. Yes, folks, it's part of that green tech backlash that we've all been...
- Tags: Asset, Green Technology, Information Technology, Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Energy Consumption, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
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